Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Okaizumi
Hiroyuki Okaizumi 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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Patent number: 8663726Abstract: An object is to provide a method and an apparatus for lapping strip-shaped food dough onto a transporting unit without repeatedly applying tension or relaxation. A method of lapping food dough in which strip-shaped food dough being continuously conveyed is lapped onto the transporting unit configured to transport the food dough in a direction intersecting a conveyance direction of the food dough.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Oderaotoshi, Tomokuni Akutsu, Hiroyuki Okaizumi, Norio Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8535038Abstract: A food dough forming apparatus for joining together a first end face of a rod-shaped food dough and a second end face of another rod-shaped food dough, the apparatus including: deforming and facing means for deforming the food doughs so as to cause the first end face and the second end face to face each other; and joining means for joining together the end faces caused to face each other by the deforming and facing means.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2008Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Okaizumi, Takao Takagi
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Patent number: 8393263Abstract: An object is to provide a food dough extending apparatus capable of adjusting a vertical position of an extending roller unit in an obliquely vertical direction in accordance with a thickness of food dough. A food dough apparatus includes an inclined transporting unit 7 inclined and configured to transport to-be-extended food dough 9 upward, a horizontal direction transporting unit 11 configured to transport the food dough 9 transported from the inclined transporting unit 7 in a horizontal direction, and an extending roller unit 13 provided above over an area from an upper end of the inclined transporting unit 7 to the horizontal direction transporting unit 11 and configured to extend the food dough 9. The extending roller unit 13 is vertically adjustable in a direction intersecting an inclination direction of the inclined transporting unit 7 and being upwardly inclined toward the inclined transporting unit 7.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Oderaotoshi, Tomokuni Akutsu, Hiroyuki Okaizumi, Norio Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7931923Abstract: A method for manufacturing a loaf of bread of this invention is comprised of a forming step to form a sheet from a block of bread dough that is kneaded from the raw materials for bread, a further forming step to form a bar-like dough by rolling or folding the sheet, a cutting step to cut the bar-like dough, and a placing step to place the bar-like pieces of dough that were cut at the cutting step into a baking mold so that at least one cutting plane faces upward. If there are air bubbles between layers of the bar-like pieces of dough, the air bubbles can escape from a cutting surface of the bar-like pieces of dough when they rise and expand at the fermenting and baking steps.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2007Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Keiji Hayashi, legal representative, Michio Morikawa, Sadao Ueno, Hiroyuki Okaizumi
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Publication number: 20100224082Abstract: An object is to provide a food dough extending apparatus capable of adjusting a vertical position of an extending roller unit in an obliquely vertical direction in accordance with a thickness of food dough. A food dough apparatus includes an inclined transporting unit 7 inclined and configured to transport to-be-extended food dough 9 upward, a horizontal direction transporting unit 11 configured to transport the food dough 9 transported from the inclined transporting unit 7 in a horizontal direction, and an extending roller unit 13 provided above over an area from an upper end of the inclined transporting unit 7 to the horizontal direction transporting unit 11 and configured to extend the food dough 9. The extending roller unit 13 is vertically adjustable in a direction intersecting an inclination direction of the inclined transporting unit 7 and being upwardly inclined toward the inclined transporting unit 7.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2010Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi ODERAOTOSHI, Tomokuni AKUTSU, Hiroyuki OKAIZUMI, Norio KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20100227037Abstract: An object is to provide a method and an apparatus for lapping strip-shaped food dough onto a transporting unit without repeatedly applying tension or relaxation. A method of lapping food dough in which strip-shaped food dough being continuously conveyed is lapped onto the transporting unit configured to transport the food dough in a direction intersecting a conveyance direction of the food dough.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2010Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi ODERAOTOSHI, Tomokuni AKUTSU, Hiroyuki OKAIZUMI, Norio KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20100104719Abstract: A food dough forming apparatus (1) for joining together a first end face (W1A) of a rod-shaped food dough (W1) and a second end face (W2A) of another rod-shaped food dough (W2), the apparatus including: deforming and facing means (3) for deforming the food doughs (W1, W2) so as to cause the first end face (W1A) and the second end face (W2A) to face each other; and joining means (5) for joining together the end faces (W1A, W2A) caused to face each other by the deforming and facing means (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Okaizumi, Takao Takagi
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Patent number: 7578232Abstract: A method according to this invention is comprised of a forming step to form a sheet from a block of bread dough that is kneaded from the raw materials for bread, a further forming step to form a bar-like dough by rolling or folding the sheet a cutting step to cut the bar-like dough, and a placing step to place the bar-like pieces of dough that were cut at the cutting step into a baking mold so that at least one cutting plane faces upward. If there are air bubbles between layers of the bar-like pieces of dough, the air bubbles can escape from a cutting surface of the bar-like pieces of dough when they rise and expand at the fermenting and baking steps.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2006Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Sadao Ueno, Hiroyuki Okaizumi
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Publication number: 20080095885Abstract: A method for manufacturing a loaf of bread of this invention is comprised of a forming step to form a sheet from a block of bread dough that is kneaded from the raw materials for bread, a further forming step to form a bar-like dough by rolling or folding the sheet, a cutting step to cut the bar-like dough, and a placing step to place the bar-like pieces of dough that were cut at the cutting step into a baking mold so that at least one cutting plane faces upward. If there are air bubbles between layers of the bar-like pieces of dough, the air bubbles can escape from a cutting surface of the bar-like pieces of dough when they rise and expand at the fermenting and baking steps.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Sadao Ueno, Hiroyuki Okaizumi, Keiji Hayashi
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Patent number: 7132120Abstract: A method for producing a food shaped as a continuous bar by placing a continuous inner material on a continuous strip of an outer layer material that is transferred on a former belt, comprising the steps of placing food material that includes the inner material placed on the strip of the outer layer material in a channel space defined by the former belt while it is running; and shaping part of the former belt that is located at the channel space as a sleeve by pushing and joining edges of the former belt by a pushing device to allow edges of the outer layer material to be joined.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Okaizumi, Hiroyuki Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20060137539Abstract: A method according to this invention is comprised of a forming step to form a sheet from a block of bread dough that is kneaded from the raw materials for bread, a further forming step to form a bar-like dough by rolling or folding the sheet a cutting step to cut the bar-like dough, and a placing step to place the bar-like pieces of dough that were cut at the cutting step into a baking mold so that at least one cutting plane faces upward. If there are air bubbles between layers of the bar-like pieces of dough, the air bubbles can escape from a cutting surface of the bar-like pieces of dough when they rise and expand at the fermenting and baking steps.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2006Publication date: June 29, 2006Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Sadao Ueno, Hiroyuki Okaizumi
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Publication number: 20040076725Abstract: A method according to this invention is comprised of a forming step to form a sheet from a block of bread dough that is kneaded from the raw materials for bread, a further forming step to form a bar-like dough by rolling or folding the sheet, a cutting step to cut the bar-like dough, and a placing step to place the bar-like pieces of dough that were cut at the cutting step into a baking mold so that at least one cutting plane faces upward.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Sadao Ueno, Hiroyuki Okaizumi
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Publication number: 20030228396Abstract: A method for producing a food shaped as a continuous bar by placing a continuous inner material on a continuous strip of an outer layer material that is transferred on a former belt, comprising the steps of placing food material that includes the inner material placed on the strip of the outer layer material in a channel space defined by the former belt while it is running; and shaping part of the former belt that is located at the channel space as a sleeve by pushing and joining edges of the former belt by a pushing device to allow edges of the outer layer material to be joined.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2003Publication date: December 11, 2003Inventors: Hiroyuki Okaizumi, Hiroyuki Yamanaka
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Patent number: 6010730Abstract: A sheet of dough is wound up by a roller and a pressing device. The roller is located above a conveyor that conveys a sheet of dough. The pressing device is located near the roller. When the roller is winding up the sheet of dough, the pressing device moves to the roll of the sheet, so that the pressing device presses the wound-up sheet. Then, the pressing device moves away from it. This is repeated, so that the sheet is repeatedly pressed and thus tightly wound up.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 1998Date of Patent: January 4, 2000Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Okaizumi, Nobuyoshi Kuroo, Takao Niibe