Patents by Inventor Hidenobu Kado

Hidenobu Kado 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).

  • Illumination device for color sorter
    Patent number: 9863871
    Abstract: An illumination device for a color sorter includes an LED substrate placed on a longitudinal chassis for heat radiation and a light source in which many LED elements are linearly aligned in the longitudinal direction on the LED substrate, and the light source is an integration of at least two light sources provided together, one of the light sources illuminating a side on which items-to-be-sorted flow down and the other one of the light sources illuminating a side of a background arranged to face a camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: SATAKE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sumio Tagawa, Teruhiko Takeuchi, Hidenobu Kado
  • ILLUMINATION DEVICE FOR COLOR SORTER
    Publication number: 20160274021
    Abstract: An illumination device for a color sorter includes an LED substrate placed on a longitudinal chassis for heat radiation and a light source in which many LED elements are linearly aligned in the longitudinal direction on the LED substrate, and the light source is an integration of at least two light sources provided together, one of the light sources illuminating a side on which items-to-be-sorted flow down and the other one of the light sources illuminating a side of a background arranged to face a camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: Satake Corporation
    Inventors: Sumio Tagawa, Teruhiko Takeuchi, Hidenobu Kado