Patents by Inventor Akinori Yamagishi

Akinori Yamagishi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6192658
    Abstract: A case 6 is intermittently conveyed on a box transfer conveyor 8, and contains vessels 4 disposed in an array of four vessels in a longitudinal row and three vessels in a transverse row. A magazine introduction conveyor 18 is disposed to extend in a direction orthogonal to the conveyor 8, and a robot 24 is disposed adjacent to a crossing between the both conveyors. The robot has four grips 36 mounted thereon, each having suckers 66 and a retaining plate 68 which maintains a leaflet 12 declined downward. The leaflet includes a fixture 12b with an opening 12a therein and a display piece 12c which extends from the fixture. The grips hold attracted a leaflet around the opening in the fixture to remove it from a magazine 16.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignees: Shibuya Kogyo Co., Ltd., Suntory Limited
    Inventors: Akinori Yamagishi, Eizo Sasaki, Takanobu Yamamoto