Patents by Inventor Eiichiro Kinoshita

Eiichiro Kinoshita 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: 5402740
    Abstract: A vehicular machine available for transplanting vegetal seedlings onto seedbed lines comprising; a planting unit which is furnished with a plurality of vegetal seedling mounting tables and planting levers for transplanting vegetal seedlings onto seedbed lines supplied from these mounting tables disposed on the back side of a working truck hauled by a tractive vehicle; and a working step which facilitates an operator to mount himself on the working truck in order to replenish vegetal seedlings to respective mounting tables of the planting unit. The working truck itself is held by a plurality of supporting wheels which are respectively aligned with the level line identical to that of those wheels of the tractive vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Assignee: Iseki & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichiro Kinoshita, Shin Watanabe, Yoshikatsu Aoki, Kazuyuki Suzuki, Masahiro Takemoto, Tamaki Kubo, Norihiro Yano
  • Patent number: 5215019
    Abstract: A transplanting machine or equipment for taking seedlings of vegetables or the like from a seedling table 13 and planting them in a field. The machine has a transmission mechanism including a transmission case, a first rotary case (32) driven by a driving device and a second rotary case (33) which rotates reversely to the first rotary case. The rotary cases are linearly extended in a vertical direction while they overlap in contracted form in a longitudinal or horizontal direction. A seedling transplanting tool is carried by the second rotary case. The seedlings are easily removed from a seedling table located at a high position on the machine and transplanted without extending the length of the transplanting equipment in the longitudinal or horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Assignee: Iseki & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichiro Kinoshita, Shiro Asano, Tamaki Kubo
  • Patent number: 4932338
    Abstract: An apparatus for transplanting seedlings from a nursery pan to vegetable beds or flower beds as the case may be. The apparatus automatically takes up seedlings from the nursery pan individually pot by pot, and prior to implanting them, levelling a soil around the bed, digging holes in the bed to implant the seedlings therein, and compacting the soil around the root portions of the implanted seedlings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Iseki & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Watanabe, Eiichiro Kinoshita, Tamaki Kubo