Patents by Inventor Hideyuki Kondou

Hideyuki Kondou 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).

  • Apparatus for counting and packing solid foods
    Patent number: 6708468
    Abstract: An apparatus for counting and packing solid foods comprising a table device for holding the solid foods to be counted and packed, plural vacuum nozzles, a flexible vacuum pad, and adsorption confirmation sensors. The apparatus also includes an arm holding the vacuum nozzles. The vacuum nozzles are displaceable in horizontally in a right and left direction and in a vertically up and down directions. The vacuum nozzles are configured to adsorb and convey the solid foods from the table to a packing device. A vacuum breaking channel is used to cease adsorption by compressed air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kondou, Kenichi Nagashima, Makoto Wakabayashi, Hiroshi Takahashi
  • Method and apparatus for counting and packing solid foods
    Publication number: 20020104291
    Abstract: Regarding the counting and packing process combining a vacuum nozzle and an adsorption confirmation sensor together, a method and apparatus for counting and packing the solid foods having characteristics of uncertainly shaped, with irregular surface, with wet surface, being adhesive, soft, and easy to be broken, without requiring pre-positioning and sort transportation of the solid foods, and enabling to speedily and precisely count and pack predetermined numbers of the solid foods within a settled time interval are proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2001
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., Inc.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kondou, Kenichi Nagashima, Makoto Wakabayashi, Hiroshi Takahashi
  • Method for producing frozen fried foods for microwave cooking
    Patent number: 6395322
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a frozen fried food for a microwave cooking comprising the step of a freezing of, particularly a very quick freezing (immediate quick freezing) of a deep-fat fried food, more particularly immediately after the oil-cooking thereof, at a moving speed of the freezing front exceeding 20 cm/h. A frozen product of deep-fat fried food capable of re-exhibiting a favorable crispness of a breading even after heating the frozen food by a microwave oven, and also capable of maintaining such favorable eating quality even after a prolonged storage thereof in a domestic freezer can be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kondou, Kenichi Nagashima, Masata Mitsuiki
  • Method for producing frozen fried foods for microwave cooking
    Publication number: 20010024672
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a frozen fried food for a microwave cooking comprising the step of a freezing of, particularly a very quick freezing (immediate quick freezing) of a deep-fat fried food, more particularly immediately after the oil-cooking thereof, at a moving speed of the freezing front exceeding 20 cm/h.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kondou, Kenichi Nagashima, Masata Mitsuiki