Patents by Inventor Hisashi Onishi

Hisashi Onishi 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: 8632295
    Abstract: A transporting system includes: a track portion; a plurality of loading platforms, disposed along the track portion, whose positions differ from each other in at least one direction; a plurality of transporting vehicles, each having a travelling device travelling along the track portion and a loading device, for loading transported objects; a first detecting device for detecting a first reference position, of the loading device when a reference transporting vehicle loads the transported object; a second detecting device for detecting a second reference position, of the loading device when each of the other transporting vehicles other than the reference transporting vehicle loads the transported object; and a teaching device for providing information on the position of the loading device with respect to each of the other loading platforms when each of the other transporting vehicles loads the transported object, on the basis of the detected first and second reference positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Onishi, Taro Yamamoto, Shinji Fujioka, Nobuhiro Gunge
  • Patent number: 8104722
    Abstract: A transporting system is provided with: a track having a junction point; a plurality of transporting vehicles, each travelling on the track; and a transferring device which has (i) a left portion disposed on an edge on a left side of each of two track portions that are located at least before the junction point of the track with respect to a travelling direction of each transporting vehicle as a standard and (ii) a right portion disposed on an edge on a right side, and which can transfer a signal between the left portion in one of the two track portions and the right portion in another of the two track portions, and between the right portion in said one of the two track portions and the left portion in said another of the two track portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Muratec Automation Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Hisashi Onishi
  • Publication number: 20090063052
    Abstract: A transporting system is provided with: a track having a junction point; a plurality of transporting vehicles, each travelling on the track; and a transferring device which has (i) a left portion disposed on an edge on a left side of each of two track portions that are located at least before the junction point of the track with respect to a travelling direction of each transporting vehicle as a standard and (ii) a right portion disposed on an edge on a right side, and which can transfer a signal between the left portion in one of the two track portions and the right portion in another of the two track portions, and between the right portion in said one of the two track portions and the left portion in said another of the two track portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: ASYST TECHNOLOGIES JAPAN, INC.
    Inventor: Hisashi ONISHI
  • Publication number: 20090035104
    Abstract: A transporting system includes: a track portion; a plurality of loading platforms, disposed along the track portion, whose positions differ from each other in at least one direction; a plurality of transporting vehicles, each having a travelling device travelling along the track portion and a loading device, for loading transported objects; a first detecting device for detecting a first reference position, of the loading device when a reference transporting vehicle loads the transported object; a second detecting device for detecting a second reference position, of the loading device when each of the other transporting vehicles other than the reference transporting vehicle loads the transported object; and a teaching device for providing information on the position of the loading device with respect to each of the other loading platforms when each of the other transporting vehicles loads the transported object, on the basis of the detected first and second reference positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: ASYST TECHNOLOGIES JAPAN, INC.
    Inventors: Hisashi ONISHI, Taro YAMAMOTO, Shinji FUJIOKA, Nobuhiro GUNGE
  • Patent number: 6592080
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve the transportation efficiency of an automatic transport system for transporting an article. In order to attain the above object, the automatic transport system of the present invention comprises a front detecting device which detects an obstruction in a non-contact state in an area through which an automatic transport vehicle passes and a projection surface of said automatic transport vehicle, and when said front detecting device detects the obstruction in said area, the running speed of said automatic transport vehicle is reduced or said automatic transport vehicle is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Shinko Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Murata, Senzo Kyutoku, Hisashi Onishi
  • Publication number: 20020185572
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve the transportation efficiency of an automatic transport system for transporting an article. In order to attain the above object, the automatic transport system of the present invention comprises a front detecting device which detects an obstruction in a non-contact state in an area through which an automatic transport vehicle passes and a projection surface of said automatic transport vehicle, and when said front detecting device detects the obstruction in said area, the running speed of said automatic transport vehicle is reduced or said automatic transport vehicle is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventors: Masanao Murata, Senzo Kyutoku, Hisashi Onishi
  • Patent number: 6443400
    Abstract: The present invention improves the transportation efficiency of an automatic transport system for transporting and article to attain the above object, the automatic transport system includes a front detecting device which detects an obstruction in a non-contact state in an area through which an automatic transport vehicle passes and a projection surface of the automatic transport vehicle. When the front detecting device detects the obstruction in the area, the running speed of the automatic transport vehicle is reduced or the automatic transport vehicle is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Shinko Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Murata, Senzo Kyutoku, Hisashi Onishi
  • Patent number: 6357255
    Abstract: A regenerator for use in an ammonia absorption refrigerator comprises a heater for heating an ammonia aqueous solution and a rectifying column for enriching ammonia in an ammonia solution-vapor mixture obtained in and introduced from the heater, wherein the heater comprises a heater body having a heating chamber, a burner of lean pre-mixture combustion type disposed in a lower portion of the heating chamber, and a heat transfer tube bundle provided in a meandering arrangement above the burner within the heating chamber, the heat transfer tube bundle having an inlet and an outlet which are respectively connected to lower portions of the rectifying column via transfer pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignees: Osaka Gas Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd., Hitachi Zosen Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Onishi, Yukio Hiranaka, Noboru Tsubakihara, Katsuo Iwata, Tetsuro Furukawa, Masaharu Furutera, Mitsunobu Matsuda, Suguru Fujita, Takeshi Yano
  • Publication number: 20010003958
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve the transportation efficiency of an automatic transport system for transporting an article. In order to attain the above object, the automatic transport system of the present invention comprises a front detecting device which detects an obstruction in a non-contact state in an area through which an automatic transport vehicle passes and a projection surface of said automatic transport vehicle, and when said front detecting device detects the obstruction in said area, the running speed of said automatic transport vehicle is reduced or said automatic transport vehicle is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Masanao Murata, Senzo Kyutoku, Hisashi Onishi