Patents by Inventor Akio Okamoto
Akio Okamoto 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).
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Patent number: 11883991Abstract: A control device of an injection molding machine, the injection molding machine including: a mold clamping device that advances and retracts a movable mold with respect to a fixed mold; and an injection device that injects and fills a molten material into a cavity formed between both the molds, the control device including: a display unit that displays a setting screen for setting molding conditions of the injection molding machine; and a setting unit that sets the molding conditions based on information displayed on the setting screen.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: UBE MACHINERY CORPORATION, LTD.Inventors: Akio Okamoto, Yuuichirou Arima, Kazuaki Miyamoto, Yuuichirou Fukuda, Fumihiko Shimizu
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Publication number: 20220250299Abstract: A control device of an injection molding machine, the injection molding machine including: a mold clamping device that advances and retracts a movable mold with respect to a fixed mold; and an injection device that injects and fills a molten material into a cavity formed between both the molds, the control device including: a display unit that displays a setting screen for setting molding conditions of the injection molding machine; and a setting unit that sets the molding conditions based on information displayed on the setting screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: UBE MACHINERY CORPORATION, LTD.Inventors: Akio OKAMOTO, Yuuichirou ARIMA, Kazuaki MIYAMOTO, Yuuichirou FUKUDA, Fumihiko SHIMIZU
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Patent number: 10981314Abstract: A mold clamp control method for an injection molding machine having a toggle-type mold clamping mechanism. The mold clamp control method includes: a low-pressure mold clamping step that performs position hold control by which a crosshead is held in a set holding position in a state where a toggle link has been bent, when injection-filling is started; and a compression-press step that performs speed and position control by which the crosshead is advanced toward a set advancement position from the set holding position in a state where a first output upper limit value has been provided to a driving section. Advancement of the crosshead is continued in at least part of the compression-press step in a state where a generated output of the driving section is maintained at the first output upper limit value.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: UBE MACHINERY CORPORATION, LTD.Inventors: Akio Okamoto, Kazuaki Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20200248975Abstract: A metal base plate material includes trip-shaped first regions each having a plurality of first ridges arranged substantially parallel to each other and at substantially equal intervals such that an angle of intersection with a longitudinal direction is greater than or equal to 10° and less than or equal to 25°. Strip-shaped second regions each have a plurality of second ridges arranged substantially parallel to each other and at substantially equal intervals and angled to face the plurality of the first ridges in a crosswise direction. The first regions and second regions are separated by a gap regions therebetween, at substantially equal intervals. First ends on a downstream side of the plurality of the first ridges and second ends on a downstream side of the plurality of the second ridges are positioned differently from each other in the longitudinal directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2018Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Keitaro TAMURA, Yoshio ITSUMI, Kazuhisa FUKUTANI, Akio OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20200026130Abstract: A method of producing a glass substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes a cleaning process of cleaning a substrate after performing a rubbing treatment on the substrate to align liquid crystal molecules. In the cleaning process, a position of a first cleaning material supply unit that supplies water-based cleaning material to the substrate on which a film of pretreatment material is disposed and that is transferred in a transferring direction is adjusted according to a film forming amount of the pretreatment material disposed on the substrate and transfer speed of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Akio OKAMOTO, Kohshiroh TANIIKE
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Patent number: 10427339Abstract: A mold for injection molding includes a design-surface-side mold which is capable of forming a design surface of a resin molded product and a non-design-surface-side mold which is capable of forming a mold cavity with the design-surface-side mold. A convex portion is provided in any one of the design-surface-side mold and the non-design-surface-side mold so as to protrude toward the other one. The mold for injection molding is configured to be capable of switching a first mold closing state in which the convex portion is present from any one of the design-surface-side mold and the non-design-surface-side mold over the other one and a second mold closing state in which the convex portion is not present from any one of the design-surface-side mold and the non-design-surface-side mold over the other one.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2015Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: UBE MACHINERY CORPORATION, LTD.Inventor: Akio Okamoto
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Publication number: 20190016032Abstract: A mold clamp control method for an injection molding machine having a toggle-type mold clamping mechanism. The mold clamp control method includes: a low-pressure mold clamping step that performs position hold control by which a crosshead is held in a set holding position in a state where a toggle link has been bent, when injection-filling is started; and a compression-press step that performs speed and position control by which the crosshead is advanced toward a set advancement position from the set holding position in a state where a first output upper limit value has been provided to a driving section. Advancement of the crosshead is continued in at least part of the compression-press step in a state where a generated output of the driving section is maintained at the first output upper limit value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2017Publication date: January 17, 2019Applicant: UBE MACHINERY CORPORATION, LTD.Inventors: Akio OKAMOTO, Kazuaki MIYAMOTO
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Patent number: 10137620Abstract: The present invention comprises: a base layer molding step that injection-fills a mold cavity with a base layer resin to mold a base layer; a first expansion step that causes the volume of the mold cavity to expand to a specified quantity such that a certain space is formed between an outer surface of the base layer molded by the base layer molding step and an inner surface of the mold; a first injection-filling step that injection-fills the space formed by the first expansion step with a first resin; a second expansion step that, after the start of the first injection-filling step, causes the mold cavity to expand to a specified quantity such that the space is expanded; and a second injection-filling step that, after completion of the first injection-filling step and after the start of the second expansion step, injection-fills a second resin into the first resin.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2013Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: UBE MACHINERY CORPORATION, LTD.Inventors: Akio Okamoto, Kazuaki Miyamoto, Yuichiro Fukuda
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Patent number: 10040225Abstract: An injection molding method comprising: a mold clamping step of clamping a first mold and a second mold to form a mold cavity; a first injection filling step of injecting a foamable molten resin into the mold cavity to fill an interior of the mold cavity with the foamable molten resin, after completion of the mold clamping step; a mold cavity expansion step of expanding the mold cavity by a specified quantity to cause the foamable molten resin to foam, after the start of the first injection filling step; and a second injection filling step of pouring a molten resin or gas into the foamable molten resin within the mold cavity, after the completion of the first injection filling step, and after the start of the mold cavity expansion step.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: UBE MACHINERY CORPORATION, LTD.Inventors: Akio Okamoto, Kazuaki Miyamoto, Toshikazu Iwamoto, Yuichiro Fukuda
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Publication number: 20170197345Abstract: A mold for injection molding includes a design-surface-side mold which is capable of forming a design surface of a resin molded product and a non-design-surface-side mold which is capable of forming a mold cavity with the design-surface-side mold. A convex portion is provided in any one of the design-surface-side mold and the non-design-surface-side mold so as to protrude toward the other one. The mold for injection molding is configured to be capable of switching a first mold closing state in which the convex portion is present from any one of the design-surface-side mold and the non-design-surface-side mold over the other one and a second mold closing state in which the convex portion is not present from any one of the design-surface-side mold and the non-design-surface-side mold over the other one.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2015Publication date: July 13, 2017Inventor: Akio OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 9656313Abstract: An original plate material for a heat-exchanging plate fabricated by press working and a method for fabricating the original plate material are provided. An original plate material for a heat-exchanging plate is a flat plate material made of titanium on the surface of which convex parts and concave parts are formed, and the heat-exchanging plate is fabricated by press working the original plate material. The convex parts and the concave parts are formed in a manner such that the shape parameter defined by (Rz×L/P) is 12 ?m or less, where Rz (?m) denotes the height of the convex parts, L (?m) denotes the width of the concave parts, and P (?m) denotes the pitch between neighboring convex parts.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2011Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuyuki Fujii, Akio Okamoto, Yoshio Itsumi, Akihisa Fujita
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Patent number: 9636852Abstract: An injection molding method comprising: a mold clamping step of clamping a first mold and a second mold to form a mold cavity; a first injection filling step of injecting a foamable molten resin into the mold cavity to fill an interior of the mold cavity with the foamable molten resin, after completion of the mold clamping step; a mold cavity expansion step of expanding the mold cavity by a specified quantity to cause the foamable molten resin to foam, after the start of the first injection filling step; and a second injection filling step of pouring a molten resin or gas into the foamable molten resin within the mold cavity, after the completion of the first injection filling step, and after the start of the mold cavity expansion step.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2012Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: UBE MACHINERY CORPORATION, LTD.Inventors: Akio Okamoto, Kazuaki Miyamoto, Toshikazu Iwamoto, Yuichiro Fukuda
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Publication number: 20160318219Abstract: An injection molding method comprising: a mold clamping step of clamping a first mold and a second mold to form a mold cavity; a first injection filling step of injecting a foamable molten resin into the mold cavity to fill an interior of the mold cavity with the foamable molten resin, after completion of the mold clamping step; a mold cavity expansion step of expanding the mold cavity by a specified quantity to cause the foamable molten resin to foam, after the start of the first injection filling step; and a second injection filling step of pouring a molten resin or gas into the foamable molten resin within the mold cavity, after the completion of the first injection filling step, and after the start of the mold cavity expansion step.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2016Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Akio OKAMOTO, Kazuaki MIYAMOTO, Toshikazu IWAMOTO, Yuichiro FUKUDA
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Publication number: 20150352761Abstract: The present invention comprises: a base layer molding step that injection-fills a mold cavity with a base layer resin to mold a base layer; a first expansion step that causes the volume of the mold cavity to expand to a specified quantity such that a certain space is formed between an outer surface of the base layer molded by the base layer molding step and an inner surface of the mold; a first injection-filling step that injection-fills the space formed by the first expansion step with a first resin; a second expansion step that, after the start of the first injection-filling step, causes the mold cavity to expand to a specified quantity such that the space is expanded; and a second injection-filling step that, after completion of the first injection-filling step and after the start of the second expansion step, injection-fills a second resin into the first resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2013Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventors: Akio Okamoto, Kazuaki Miyamoto, Yuichiro Fukuda
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Patent number: 8899966Abstract: A multilayer molded product is formed by a multilayer molding apparatus including: a plurality of injection units on the part of a fixed platen; a moving platen caused to open and close the molds by a mold clamping unit; and a rotary platen mounted with different mold cavities on its surfaces facing the fixed platen and the moving platen respectively and having a mechanism enabling to move between the fixed platen and the moving platen in a mold opening/closing direction in conjunction with a mold opening/closing operation, stop at an arbitrary position, and rotate. The multilayer molded product is formed according to a multilayer molding method of switching the cavity to be formed by a mold core mounted on the fixed platen and a mold cavity mounted on the rotary platen by rotating the rotary platen, and performing injection-filling into the respective cavities from the plurality of injection units in accordance with preset injection patterns.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2010Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Ube Machinery Corporation, Ltd.Inventor: Akio Okamoto
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Publication number: 20140202677Abstract: An original plate material for a heat exchanging plate includes a titanium flat plate material including a minute recess and projections on the surface thereof, and the flat plate material is press-worked to obtain the heat exchanging plate. The shape parameter, defined as [height (?m) of the projections]×[width (?m) of the recess/pitch (?m) of adjacent projections], is 85 ?m or less. Relating to this original plate material for a heat exchanging plate, the shape parameter, defined as [height (?m) of the projections]×[width (?m) of the recess/pitch (?m) of adjacent projections/angle (deg) of the projections], is 0.94 ?m/deg or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Yasuyuki Fujii, Akio Okamoto, Yoshio Itsumi, Akihisa Fujita
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Patent number: 8753752Abstract: The present invention provides a metal plate for heat exchange which facilitates nucleate boiling and is extremely excellent in heat conductivity. In the metal plate for heat exchange of the present invention, a recess part 2 having a depth of 5 ?m or more and 10% or less of a plate thickness of the metal plate is formed. A crevasse part 7 is formed at least at a bottom corner 6 of the recess part 2. The crevasse part 7 is formed by cutting away the bottom corner 6 of the recess part 2 in the thickness direction. An angle ? formed by one cut-away surface and the other cut-away surface is 90 degrees or less. In addition, the crevasse part 7 is formed by cutting away a crystal grain 9. The recess part 2 is formed on the surface of the metal plate 1 by pressing a working part 14 formed on a surface of a working roll 12 against the surface of the metal plate 1 being carried.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2010Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuyuki Fujii, Akio Okamoto
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Patent number: 8747094Abstract: A multilayer molding apparatus, comprising: a fixed platen; a movable platen; an intermediate platen positioned between the fixed platen and the movable platen to be movable in the direction to come close or be opened, and having a surface facing the fixed platen, a surface facing the movable platen, and a housing space that goes therethrough from the surface facing the fixed platen to the surface facing the movable platen; and a rotary platen rotatably supported by the intermediate platen inside the housing space of the intermediate platen, and having at least one pair of parallel surfaces facing the fixed platen and the movable platen, wherein at least one of the surfaces of the intermediate platen facing the fixed platen and the movable platen is a mold mounting surface on which a mold can be mounted directly or indirectly.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: UBE Machinery Corporation, Ltd.Inventors: Akio Okamoto, Kazuaki Miyamoto, Toshikazu Iwamoto, Atsushi Shinada, Etsuji Ota
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Patent number: D757662Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2014Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuyuki Fujii, Akio Okamoto, Yoshio Itsumi, Hideto Oyama, Keitaro Tamura, Kazuki Sakamoto
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Patent number: D763804Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuki Sakamoto, Akio Okamoto, Yoshio Itsumi, Hideto Oyama, Keitaro Tamura, Yasuyuki Fujii