Patents by Inventor Atsuo Kamimura
Atsuo Kamimura 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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Publication number: 20040231507Abstract: A piston is axially and reciprocatably accommodated in a cylinder, and a piston rod, fixed to the piston, penetrates a rod cover to protrude to the outside. Negative pressure supply paths, connected between expansion-contraction chambers and operation ports, are provided with negative pressure check valves allowing flow of air toward the expansion-contraction chambers and blocking reverse flow thereto. Exhaust channels, communicating with the expansion-contraction chambers and the outside, are provided with exhaust check valves allowing flow from the expansion-contraction chambers to the outside and blocking reverse flow thereto. The respective negative pressure supply paths come to a vacuum state due to the reciprocating of the piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2004Publication date: November 25, 2004Applicant: Koganei CorporationInventors: Yukihiro Miyashita, Makoto Shinozaki, Koji Saito, Atsuo Kamimura
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Patent number: 6742675Abstract: An electronic component feeding apparatus comprises a feeding rotor having a recess for forming a parallel space with a plane orthogonal to the rotation axis. By oscillating a feeding rotor within a predetermined angular range, the apparatus takes the electronic components stored in bulk in a storeroom into the parallel space, and move the electronic components in the parallel space toward a feeding path each time the bottom of the parallel space tilts down toward the feeding path during an oscillation of the feeding rotor, and take the electronic components into the feeding path one by one, and allow the electronic component taken into the feeding path to move downward by gravity.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2003Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: Taiyo Yudan Co., LtdInventors: Koji Saito, Atsuo Kamimura
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Publication number: 20030178438Abstract: An electronic component feeding apparatus comprises a feeding rotor having a recess for forming a parallel space with a plane orthogonal to the rotation axis. By oscillating a feeding rotor within a predetermined angular range, the apparatus takes the electronic components stored in bulk in a storeroom into the parallel space, and move the electronic components in the parallel space toward a feeding path each time the bottom of the parallel space tilts down toward the feeding path during an oscillation of the feeding rotor, and take the electronic components into the feeding path one by one, and allow the electronic component taken into the feeding path to move downward by gravity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2003Publication date: September 25, 2003Applicant: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Saito, Atsuo Kamimura
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Patent number: 6568558Abstract: An electronic component feeding apparatus comprises a feeding rotor having a recess for forming a parallel space with a plane orthogonal to the rotation axis. By oscillating a feeding rotor within a predetermined angular range, the apparatus takes the electronic components stored in bulk in a storeroom into the parallel space, and move the electronic components in the parallel space toward a feeding path each time the bottom of the parallel space tilts down toward the feeding path during an oscillation of the feeding rotor, and take the electronic components into the feeding path one by one, and allow the electronic component taken into the feeding path to move downward by gravity.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2001Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Saito, Atsuo Kamimura
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Patent number: 6471094Abstract: An electronic component feeding apparatus which conveys electronic components in a ranging condition and feeds a foremost electronic component to a component taking-out position. This apparatus includes a component conveying passage, a shutter for opening and closing a component outlet port of the component passage, a component stopper including an air suction path which leads to the component outlet port, a shutter for opening and closing the component outlet port, an air suction unit having an air suction port, an air tube for communicating an air suction force from the air suction port to the air suction path, and a lever mechanism for operating the shutter and the air suction unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2001Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Saito, Atsuo Kamimura, Satoshi Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20020046922Abstract: An electronic component feeding apparatus which conveys electronic components in a ranging condition and feeds a foremost electronic component to a component taking-out position. This apparatus includes a component conveying passage, a shutter for opening and closing a component outlet port of the component passage, a component stopper including an air suction path which leads to the component outlet port, a shutter for opening and closing the component outlet port, an air suction unit having an air suction port, an air tube for communicating an air suction force from the air suction port to the air suction path, and a lever mechanism for operating the shutter and the air suction unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2001Publication date: April 25, 2002Inventors: Koji Saito, Atsuo Kamimura, Satoshi Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20020000360Abstract: An electronic component feeding apparatus comprises a feeding rotor having a recess for forming a parallel space with a plane orthogonal to the rotation axis. By oscillating a feeding rotor within a predetermined angular range, the apparatus takes the electronic components stored in bulk in a storeroom into the parallel space, and move the electronic components in the parallel space toward a feeding path each time the bottom of the parallel space tilts down toward the feeding path during an oscillation of the feeding rotor, and take the electronic components into the feeding path one by one, and allow the electronic component taken into the feeding path to move downward by gravity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2001Publication date: January 3, 2002Applicant: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Saito, Atsuo Kamimura
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Patent number: 6116840Abstract: A component supply apparatus includes a rectangular cross-sectional component passage which can house a plurality of chip components in a longitudinal direction, and at a first side surface of the tip of this component passage a rectangular-shaped component discharge opening is formed, and at a second side surface opposing the first side surface of the tip of the component passage a rectangular-shaped pusher insertion opening is formed. Inserting the pusher into the component passage through the pusher insertion opening enables a forefront electronic component to be pushed by the pusher and be discharged outside from the component discharge opening in a predetermined direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1999Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Saito, Taro Yasuda, Kazushige Koyama, Jinichi Ohkawara, Atsuo Kamimura