Patents by Inventor Akito Tai

Akito Tai 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).

  • Transferring apparatus
    Patent number: 5957653
    Abstract: A transferring apparatus which enables articles interlock-stacked on a pallet for a single-article to be bar-stacked on a shipping pallet includes lifters 4, 6 for shipping pallets (transferring pallets) B, C provided on the respective sides of a lifter 2 for a pallet for a single-article A, and a carriage 20 which picks up one layer of articles at a time from the pallet for a single-article A and alternatively transfers the layers of articles to the two transferring pallets B, C. According to this configuration, it is possible to load only odd- or only even-numbered layers of the pallet for a single-article A onto the transferring pallets B, C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yujiro Nishitani, Akito Tai