Patents by Inventor Akira Shimamura

Akira Shimamura 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: 4882178
    Abstract: A process for preparing a yeast raised doughnut comprising fermenting a dough, degassing the same, cutting and forming the dough and then frying the same in oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1989
    Assignee: Nisshin-DCA Foods, Inc.
    Inventor: Akira Shimamura
  • Patent number: 4648828
    Abstract: Disclosed is a machine for forming viscous fluid crude material such as dough or fish-paste into a ring shape or the like. The machine has a cutter device provided with a vertical passage and cutter means arranged at the lower opening of the passage. The crude material is forcely introduced into the passage through its upper opening and extruded from its lower opening. The extruded crude material is cut off by means of the cutter means. Moreover, the passage is partitioned at least in its upper portion into a plurality of sector-shaped sections by means of a separator. Accordingly, the formed crude material can be sectioned into a plurality of portions of different tastes and/or colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1987
    Assignee: Nisshin-Dca Foods Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuo Abe, Akira Shimamura
  • Patent number: 4619598
    Abstract: Disclosed is a dough forming device comprising a dough tank, an extrusion member, a cutting member and a separator. The tank has a dough guiding hole with a lower end opening. The extrusion member is moved from the interior of the tank into the guiding hole in order to extrude the dough from the tank through the lower end opening, the extruded dough being expanded radially along the upper surface of the cutting member positioned below the lower end opening. Thereafter, the cutting member is moved to a position in which it is engaged with the lower end opening, so that the expanded dough is cut into an annular body by means of the cutting member. The tank is divided into sector-shaped sections by means of the separator. In case of the sections being filled with doughs of different colors and/or tastes, the expanded and cut body is composed of zones of different colors and/or tastes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1986
    Assignee: Nisshin-DCA Foods Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuo Abe, Akira Shimamura
  • Patent number: 4614996
    Abstract: A wall of the ceiling has a large number of recessed wall portions formed it in a honeycombed manner, thereby forming projected wall portions between corners of the adjacent recessed wall portions; a plurality of illumination mechanisms for electrically illuminating corresponding recessed wall portions are provided through supporting mechanisms to the ceiling; and ceiling appliances including smoke sensors, and inlets and outlets of an air conditioner. Each supporting mechanism comprises a pipe being connected at one end thereof to a corresponding projected wall portion and at the other end thereof to a corresponding illumination mechanism so that the corresponding illumination mechanism is positioned just below a corresponding recessed wall portion. The ceiling appliances are mounted on the projected wall portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1986
    Assignees: Shimizu Construction Co., Ltd., Yamagiwa Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Enaka, Mitsuyoshi Terada, Yoshiro Hashimoto, Shinichi Imabeppu, Kuninori Kobayashi, Akira Shimamura