Patents by Inventor Akira Sakamaki

Akira Sakamaki 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).

  • Publication number: 20040108662
    Abstract: To provide an excellent chuck assembly that is superior in assembling workability, may be produced in low cost and is superior in mass-production property, in which a rotary sleeve (2) provided on a body (1) is rotated, jaws (4) engaged with rotary nuts (3) are moved back and forth to be opened and closed by the rotation of the rotary nut (3) rotated together with the rotary sleeve (2) and a tool is clamped by the jaws (4), a ring member (8) is provided in the rotary nuts (3), a convex and concave engaging means is provided between the ring member (8) and the rotary sleeve (2), and the ring member (8 and the rotary sleeve 2 are retained and prevented from falling apart from each other by the convex and concave engaging means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Applicant: YUKIWA SEIKO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo Sakamaki, Akira Sakamaki, Chokichi Sato
  • Patent number: 6711950
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid level detecting apparatus capable of achieving miniaturization, which includes a float arm 2 provided with a float floating on a liquid surface, an arm holder 4 for holding the float arm 2 and provided with shaft portions 24 as rotation supporting points of the float arm 2, a main body frame 3 provided with two bearing portions 30 and 31 for axially supporting the shaft portions 24 of the arm holder 4, a circuit board 7 fixed to the main body frame 3, and a contact holding member 5 provided with a sliding contact 6 sliding on the circuit board 7 and fixed to the arm holder 4, and the arm holder 4 is positioned between the bearing portions 30 and 31 and holds the float arm 2 and the contact holding member 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Yamaura, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Akira Sakamaki
  • Publication number: 20040021275
    Abstract: A keyless chuck is provided, comprising a generally cylindrical body having a forward and rearward portion with respect to an axis, the forward portion including a radially outwardly projecting portion of the body. The body further includes a plurality of guides extending obliquely to the axis and converging toward the forward section, and a groove extending around the body. Each of a plurality of jaws is slidably disposed within a respective guide and includes a thread section along an outer surface thereof. A jaw-engaging mechanism is configured to operably engage the groove so as to be rotatable around the body, and includes a thread section configured to complementarily engage the thread sections of the jaws. A sleeve extends over the jaw-engaging mechanism. A retaining member is disposed substantially within the sleeve, and is operably engaged with and extends between the body and the sleeve, rearwardly of the radially outwardly projecting portion of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: Yukiwa Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Sakamaki, Akira Sakamaki, Chokichi Sato, Tadashi Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 6659474
    Abstract: A chuck device is provide with an annular ratchet tooth wheel in a body, an annular nut member that engages with claws nd rotates together with a rotary sleeve, and a retainer spring member for engaging the ratchet tooth wheel. The retainer spring member is rotated around the ratchet wheel in accordance with rotation of a retainer spring receiving sleeve within the retainer spring receiving sleeve t at rotates together with a nut member and that is fitted around the nut member and made of metal. The retainer spring member is mounted on the retainer spring receiving sleeve by a convex/concave engagement means. A retainer working portion is provided in a working sleeve, for rotating with the retainer spring receiving sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Yukiwa Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Sakamaki, Akira Sakamaki, Chokichi Sato, Tadashi Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 6651534
    Abstract: An NC machine tool includes an NC circular table and an NC circular table apparatus which dispense with the original restoration or calibration operation in an absolute type encoder using a backup battery. The NC circular table has an NC controller for performing a positional detection by an absolute type encoder and a backup battery for the encoder is provided in the NC circular table body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Yukiwa Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Sakamaki, Akira Sakamaki, Kiyohiro Kinefuchi
  • Publication number: 20030141676
    Abstract: To provide a chuck device for preventing the loosening of the fastening condition, a plurality of claws inserted into a hole provided at an end of a body are opened, closed and slid by the rotation of a rotary sleeve and a tool is clamped by means of the claws. A coating that is hard and has a low frictional coefficient as much as possible is applied to an inner surface of the hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Applicant: YUKIWA SEIKO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo Sakamaki, Akira Sakamaki, Chokichi Sato, Tadashi Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20030137113
    Abstract: A chuck device in which a plurality of claws provided at an end of a body are opened, closed and slid by the rotation of a rotary sleeve and a tool is clamped by means of the claws. An annular ratchet wheel is provided on the body. An annular nut member to be engaged with the claws and to be rotated together with the rotary sleeve is fitted in the body inside of the rotary sleeve. A retainer spring member detachably retained with a tooth of the ratchet wheel is arranged outside of the ratchet wheel, the retainer spring member is arranged to rotate around the ratchet wheel in accordance with the rotation of the nut member, the retainer spring member is mounted on the nut member by convex/concave engagement means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Applicant: YUKIWA SEIKO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo Sakamaki, Akira Sakamaki, Chokichi Sato, Tadashi Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 6584515
    Abstract: To provide an NC controlling system that is superior in practical use and workability and that may perform an administration of inputting, compiling and storing a control program of a NC machine tool and a control program of an appended equipment together as one program in a NC controlling apparatus, an NC controlling system having an NC machine tool provided with a control program and appended equipment used together with the machine tool to be numerically controlled, wherein a control program of the appended equipment is written in an annotation part of the control program of the NC machine tool, and a reading unit is provided for identifying and reading the control program of the appended equipment written in the annotation part of the control program of the NC machine tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Yukiwa Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Sakamaki, Akira Sakamaki, Kiyohiro Kinefuchi
  • Publication number: 20030042692
    Abstract: To provide a chuck device for avoiding loosening of the fastened condition, in which an annular ratchet tooth wheel is provided in a body, an annular nut member that engages with the claws and rotates together with the rotary sleeve is provided inside the rotary sleeve and behind the ratchet wheel within the body, a retainer spring member that is composed of a leaf spring made of metal and detached and attached for engaging the ratchet tooth wheel is disposed outside of the ratchet tooth wheel, the retainer spring member is provided under the condition the retainer spring member is rotated around the ratchet wheel in accordance with a rotation of a retainer spring receiving sleeve within the retainer spring receiving sleeve that rotates together with the nut member and that is fitted around the nut member and made of metal, the retainer spring member is mounted on the retainer spring receiving sleeve by a convex/concave engagement means, a holder spring member that is composed of a metal made leaf spring form
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Applicant: YUKIWA SEIKO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo Sakamaki, Akira Sakamaki, Chokichi Sato, Tadashi Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 6264208
    Abstract: To provide a chuck assembly which is superior in practical usability and workability in clamping and fixing a tool to a spindle without fail and with ease by lever-operation of a specialized operational jig, a taper portion is provided on at least one of an inner circumferential wall of the sleeve portion and an outer circumferential wall of the tool clamping portion, the tool clamping portion and the sleeve portion are brought into contact with each other at the taper portion, a retainer portion for retaining the operational jig is provided on the sleeve portion, a support portion is provided in a predetermined position of the chuck assembly body for supporting the operational jig retained at the retainer portion, the sleeve portion retained by the operational jig is slidingly moved relative to the tool clamping portion when the operational jig is lever-operated in a taper direction of the taper portion by using the support portion as a fulcrum, and the opening portion of the tool clamping portion is widened
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Ukiwa Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Sakamaki, Akira Sakamaki, Tetuo Seki, Hisashi Ikehara
  • Patent number: 6217033
    Abstract: A chuck device provided with a loosening prevention mechanism, in which claws threadedly engaged with a rotary nut are moved back and force to be opened and closed by the rotation of the rotary nut provided on a body so that a tool is clamped by the claws. A receiving portion is provided to face a rear surface of the rotary nut, rolling members are provided between the receiving portion and the rotary nut, the rear surface of the rotary nut and/or a front surface of the receiving portion is formed to be slanted surfaces expanding to the outside, and surfaces on which the rolling members are moved outwardly to contact when the tool is clamped by the claws and a fastening reactive force in a thrust direction is applied to the rolling members are formed into a movement suppressing surface for suppressing movement of the contacted rolling members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Yokiwa Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Sakamaki, Akira Sakamaki, Choukichi Sato
  • Patent number: 6022029
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a chuck assembly which may make better the axis vibration precision of the tool and the grip rigidity of the tool. The chuck assembly wherein a plurality of jaws (2) each of which has an axis L.sub.2 slanted relative to an axis L.sub.1 of a chuck body (1) are provided on the chuck body (1), a male screw portion (2a) provided on each jaw (2) is engaged with a female screw portion (4a) of a rotatable nut member (4) provided on the chuck body (1), and the nut member (4) is rotated to open/close and advance/retract the jaws (2) to grip a shank (5a) of a tool (5) is characterized in that a cross-sectional shape of the tool grip portion of each jaw (2) is defined so as to grip the shank (5a) of the tool (5) by either one of the two corner portions B and H located in a right and left symmetrical condition relative to an axis L.sub.3 of the tool (5) and/or two non-corner portions C and G located in a right and left symmetrical condition relative to the axis L.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Yukiwa Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Sakamaki
  • Patent number: 5615899
    Abstract: A chuck apparatus in which an internally provided nut member (2) is rotated by rotating a sleeve (1) so that claws (3) threadedly engaged with the nut member (2) by the rotation of the nut member (2) are advanced/retracted for narrowing/expanding a diameter defined therewith and pressingly fastening/releasing a tool (4). A rotary member (7) is provided to face the nut member (2). A set of an even number of rolling members are provided in a recess portion (7a) formed in the rotary member (7). The rolling members (5) are provided under the condition that the rolling members (5) are in contact with the nut member (2) and a rolling member receiving portion (6) between a predetermined surface of the nut member (2) and the rolling member receiving portion (6) provided to face the predetermined surface of the nut member (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignee: Yukiwa Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Sakamaki
  • Patent number: 5540453
    Abstract: To provide a chucking apparatus which may impart a sufficient cutting force and an axial holding force to a tool, concave/convex portions which are engaged with each other are formed in a proximal end of the tool and a contact portion with which the proximal end of said tool is brought into contact when said tool is mounted on said chucking apparatus, and an angle defined by rising walls and end faces of the concave/convex portions which face each other is set at an acute angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Yukiwa Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Sakamaki
  • Patent number: D409067
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Yukiwa Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Sakamaki
  • Patent number: D423527
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Yukiwa Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Sakamaki
  • Patent number: D423528
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Yukiwa Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Sakamaki
  • Patent number: D426840
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Yukiwa Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Sakamaki