Patents by Inventor Hirotoshi Tawara

Hirotoshi Tawara 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).

  • Publication number: 20020023666
    Abstract: In a cleaning device, the scraping up body and the rotating body rolling the adhesive roll are rotatably supported to the frame, and the adhesive roll is rotatably arranged on the scraping up body and the rotating body in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Tawara, Yukio Noda
  • Patent number: 5628613
    Abstract: Goods drop out device 14 having goods receptacle portions 27 defined in a drop out box 23 and shutter devices 21 for opening and closing the bottoms of the goods receptacle portions 27, comprises the shutter devices 21 each comprise a smaller opening and closing member 56 pivotable about a support shaft 58 extending substantially in parallel to the bottom of the goods receptacle portion 27 for opening and closing the bottom, a pushing rod 62 contacting with the lower surface of the smaller opening and closing member 56 and moving toward and away from the lower surface, and an opening and closing cylinder device 63 for driving the pushing rod 62 and operating to close the bottom of the goods receptacle portion 27 by pushing up the opening and closing member 56 by the pushing rod 62.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventor: Hirotoshi Tawara
  • Patent number: 5482423
    Abstract: Goods drop out device 14 having goods receptacle portions 27 defined in a drop out box 23 and shutter devices 21 for opening and closing the bottoms of the goods receptacle portions 27, comprises the shutter devices 21 each comprise a smaller opening and closing member 56 pivotable about a support shaft 58 extending substantially in parallel to the bottom of the goods receptacle portion 27 for opening and closing the bottom, a pushing rod 62 contacting with the lower surface of the smaller opening and closing member 56 and moving toward and away from the lower surface, and an opening and closing cylinder device 63 for driving the pushing rod 62 and operating to close the bottom of the goods receptacle portion 27 by pushing up the opening and closing member 56 by the pushing rod 62.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1996
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventor: Hirotoshi Tawara
  • Patent number: 5427492
    Abstract: A method for shifting goods in which goods arranged in a predetermined manner within a container having an opening portion are taken out of the container in such a manner as to correspond to the arrangement of the storing state of the goods. The method comprising the steps of superposing a goods take-out tool including partitions which are formed in such a manner as to correspond to the arrangement of the storing state of the goods on the opening portion of the container, and inverting the superposed container and goods take-out tool. The goods in the container can be taken into the goods take-out tool without changing the arrangement of the storing state of the goods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Tanaka, Hirotoshi Tawara, Eiji Hirata
  • Patent number: 5181818
    Abstract: A method for shifting goods in which goods arranged in a predetermined manner within a container having an opening portion are taken out of the container in such a manner as to correspond to the arrangement of the storing state of the goods. The method comprising the steps of superposing a goods take-out tool including partitions which are formed in such a manner as to correspond to the arrangement of the storing state of the goods on the opening portion of the container, and inverting the superposed container and goods take-out tool. The goods in the container can be taken into the goods take-out tool without changing the arrangement of the storing state of the goods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1993
    Assignee: KAO Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Tanaka, Hirotoshi Tawara, Eiji Hirata
  • Patent number: 5020965
    Abstract: A method for shifting goods in which goods arranged in a predetermined manner within a container having an opening portion are taken out of the container in such a manner as to correspond to the arrangement of the storing state of the goods. The method comprising the steps of superposing a goods take-out tool including partitions which are formed in such a manner as to correspond to the arrangement of the storing state of the goods on the opening portion of the container, and inverting the superposed container and goods take-out tool. The goods in the container can be taken into the goods take-out tool without changing the arrangement of the storing state of the goods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Tanaka, Hirotoshi Tawara, Eiji Hirata
  • Patent number: D459459
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yamada, Hirotoshi Tawara
  • Patent number: D462900
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yamada, Hirotoshi Tawara