Patents by Inventor Izumi Matsushita

Izumi Matsushita 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: 6189302
    Abstract: Each of side grippers that function as a film gripper includes upper and lower openable clampers. These clampers are designed to hold an edge portion of a film, and are opened after film packaging is completed. At least one film contact member, out of two film contact members that are attached individually to the upper and lower clampers, is formed of a cowhide, a material having a property such that a frictional force between the contact member and the film increases to and stays at a certain level as the humidity around the film rises. With use of the film contact member made of the hide, the film gripping force can be restrained from decreasing and the film-releasability can be improved despite the increase of the humidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Kudo, Toru Nishiie, Izumi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 6017497
    Abstract: An atomization roasting furnace for producing ferrite raw material powder includes an elongated roasting furnace body with a center burner located at the top end thereof. At least three liquid spray nozzles are located in an expansion slope portion below the center burner circumferentially with respect to the center burner. A quencher, located below the elongated roasting furnace body, has a top end connected to a bottom end of the elongated roasting furnace body. Quencher nozzles are located adjacent the top end of the quencher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Katsushige Matsuzaki, Tatsunori Sunagawa, Kenji Kawahito, Junji Omori, Yoshitaka Yamana, Shoichi Osada, Kiyoshi Aritome, Yoshimasa Ikeda, Izumi Matsushita, Wataru Ohashi, Kaoru Ito, Fumihiko Hasegawa, Shinya Nariki, Michimasa Sasaki, Noritane Tsugane, Toshiaki Kurihara
  • Patent number: 5775820
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with a head pressing mechanism for pressing a thermal head against a platen, a paper feeding mechanism for feeding print paper between the thermal head and the platen in a secondary scanning direction, a ribbon transporting mechanism for transporting an ink ribbon between the thermal head and the platen in the secondary scanning direction, and a press releasing mechanism for causing the thermal head to move away from the platen against a pressing force of the head pressing mechanism. The press releasing mechanism slides a rod of a solenoid, elongated in the secondary scanning direction, at the position opposing to the rear surface of the thermal head in the secondary scanning direction. A lever link transforms this sliding action into the departing action of the thermal head from the platen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TEC
    Inventors: Kazuaki Sugimoto, Izumi Matsushita, Chiaki Yukawa
  • Patent number: 5688430
    Abstract: This invention provides an atomization roasting method which can easily obtain a soft ferrite sintered body, for example, a sintered body having a crystal particle size of not greater than 2 .mu.m, by using as a raw material an ultra-fine powder having a mean particle size of not greater than 0.1 .mu.m obtained by atomization roasting and which can obtain a soft ferrite raw material powder subjected to an oxidation reaction, having an extremely small residual chlorine content, and having and extremely small deviation of high vapor pressure components such as zinc between the atomized raw material solution and the oxide as the product and which can economically produce a soft ferrite core having an excellent power loss characteristic in a high frequency range, particularly in a MHz range, and is extremely effective for reducing the size of a high frequency transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Katsushige Matsuzaki, Tatsunori Sunagawa, Kenji Kawahito, Junji Omori, Yoshitaka Yamana, Shoichi Osada, Kiyoshi Aritome, Yoshimasa Ikeda, Izumi Matsushita, Wataru Ohashi, Kaoru Ito, Fumihiko Hasegawa, Shinya Nariki, Michimasa Sasaki, Noritane Tsugane, Toshiaki Kurihara
  • Patent number: 5401352
    Abstract: A label printer for printing an image on a plurality of labels attached to a base sheet and issuing the labels on which the image has been printed. The label printer includes a platen roller, a pinch roller adapted to separably contact the platen roller through the base sheet, a slide frame for supporting the pinch roller so that the pinch roller is movable between a contact position and a separate position with respect to the platen roller, and a frame stopper for releasably holding the slide frame in the contact position where the pinch roller is in contact with the platen roller. When the frame stopper is released from the slide frame, the slide frame is slid to reach the separate position to widely separate the pinch roller from the platen roller. Accordingly, the base sheet can be easily inserted through the space defined between the platen roller and the pinch roller separated therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Izumi Matsushita, Kazuhiro Fushimi
  • Patent number: 5201113
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an auxiliary equipment for removing parts including a cover feed turret, which has been vertically detachably installed by a screw member on a can end double-seaming machine for seaming a can end on a can body, from the double-seaming machine, or installing such parts on the double-seaming machine. The auxiliary equipment comprises a swinging member supported below the cover feed turret and horizontally swingable to under a screwing position of the screw member; the first pedestal replaceably positioned on the swinging member, on which the cover feed turret can be placed when the swinging member is swung to the screwing position of the screw member; and the second pedestal replaceably positioned on the connecting member, on which a cover guide can be placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1993
    Assignee: Hokkai Can Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Honma, Izumi Matsushita, Yoshiteru Kojika, Noboru Sasaki
  • Patent number: 5149239
    Abstract: A can end double-seaming machine has a housing in which a shaft is rotatably supported. The shaft with a seaming cam lever mounted is pressed downwardly by a presser against the bias of a spring until the lower surface of the seaming cam lever is held against the upper surface of the housing. Then, an annular spacer is fitted over the lower end portion of the shaft underneath, with the tubular support held against a neck of the shaft. A seaming roll lever is then mounted on the lower end portion of the shaft. The presser is deactivated to release the shaft, which is lifted together with the seaming cam lever, the annular spacer, and the seaming roll lever under the bias of the spring until the marginal portion of the annular spacer abuts against the lower surface of the housing. The tubular support enters the housing by a distance corresponding to a predetermined clearance. The seaming cam lever and the housing are now spaced from each other by the predetermined clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1992
    Assignee: Hokkai Can Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Honma, Izumi Matsushita, Yoshiteru Kojika, Noboru Sasaki
  • Patent number: 5139382
    Abstract: A can end double-seaming machine has a seaming head vertically movably mounted on a base and supporting a seaming chuck and a seaming roll. The seaming head is guided for its vertical movement by support posts on the base. Rotors are rotatably threaded on the support posts and rotatable by a motor for lifting and lowering the seaming head. A controller controls the motor to elevate the seaming head upwardly of a predetermined seaming position, then lower the seaming head downwardly of the seaming position, and thereafter elevate the seaming head to the seaming position, thereby positioning the seaming head in the seaming position. Since the seaming head is lowered downwardly of the seaming position and then lifted back to the seaming position, the seaming head is reliably and accurately be brought into the seaming position without a positional error which would otherwise be caused by the backlash between the rotors and the support posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: Hokkai Can Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Honma, Izumi Matsushita, Yoshiteru Kojika, Noboru Sasaki
  • Patent number: 5103725
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a printer with a sheet feeding apparatus having a printer body incorporating a printing mechanism for printing onto continuous forms. A cutter is provided close to a continuous forms discharging port on the printer case. Following the cutter downstream, there is provided a sheet feeding belt that rotates at a rate higher than the feed rate of the continuous forms. Along the belt, there are provided a sheet traversing section, a sheet direction changing section, a sheet pushing section and a sheet stacker, in that order from upstream to downstream. The sheet traversing section seizes and feeds horizontally each sheet cut by the cutter. The sheet direction changing section perpendicularly changes the feed direction of each cut sheet. The sheet pushing section pushes each sheet onto the sheet stacker where an orderly stack of sheets is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1992
    Assignee: Tokyo Electric Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Sugimoto, Tomio Nishijima, Teruhisa Inoue, Yoshihiko Sugimoto, Masashi Suzuki, Izumi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 5090318
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a printer with a sheet feeding apparatus having a printer body incorporating a printing mechanism for printing onto continuous forms. A cutter is provided close to a continuous forms discharging port on the printer case. Following the cutter downstream, there is provided a sheet feeding belt that rotates at a rate higher than the feed rate of the continuous forms. Along the belt, there are provided a sheet traversing section, a sheet direction changing section, a sheet pushing section and a sheet stacker, in that order from upstream to downstream. The sheet traversing section seizes and feeds horizontally each sheet cut by the cutter. The sheet direction changing section perpendicularly changes the feed direction of each cut sheet. The sheet pushing section pushes each sheet onto the sheet stacker where an orderly stack of sheets is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Assignee: Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Sugimoto, Tomio Nishijima, Teruhisa Inoue, Yoshihiko Sugimoto, Masashi Suzuki, Izumi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 5088405
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a printer with a sheet feeding apparatus having a printer body incorporating a printing mechanism for printing onto continuous forms. A cutter is provided close to a continuous forms discharging port on the printer case. Following the cutter downstream, there is provided a sheet feeding belt that rotates at a rate higher than the feed rate of the continuous forms. Along the belt, there are provided a sheet traversing section, a sheet direction changing section, a sheet pushing section and a sheet stacker, in that order from upstream to downstream. The sheet traversing section seizes and feeds horizontally each sheet cut by the cutter. The sheet direction changing section perpendicularly changes the feed direction of each cut sheet. The sheet pushing section pushes each sheet onto the sheet stacker where an orderly stack of sheets is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Sugimoto, Tomio Nishijima, Teruhisa Inoue, Yoshihiko Sugimoto, Masashi Suzuki, Izumi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 5056432
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a printer with a sheet feeding apparatus having a printer body incorporating a printing mechanism for printing onto continuous forms. A cutter is provided close to a continuous forms discharging port on the printer case. Following the cutter downstream, there is provided a sheet feeding belt that rotates at a rate higher than the feed rate of the continuous forms. Along the belt, there are provided a sheet traversing section, a sheet direction changing section, a sheet pushing section and a sheet stacker, in that order from upstream to downstream. The sheet traversing section seizes and feeds horizontally each sheet cut by the cutter. The sheet direction changing section perpendicularly changes the feed direction of each cut sheet. The sheet pushing section pushes each sheet onto the sheet stacker where an orderly stack of sheets is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Tokyo Electric Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Sugimoto, Tomio Nishijima, Teruhisa Inoue, Yoshihiko Sugimoto, Masashi Suzuki, Izumi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 5007340
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a printer with a sheet feeding apparatus having a printer body incorporating a printing mechanism for printing onto continuous forms. A cutter is provided close to a continuous forms discharging port on the printer case. Following the cutter downstream, there is provided a sheet feeding belt that rotates at a rate higher than the feed rate of the continuous forms. Along the belt, there are provided a sheet traversing section, a sheet direction changing section, a sheet pushing section and a sheet stacker, in that order from upstream to downstream. The sheet traversing section seizes and feeds horizontally each sheet cut by the cutter. The sheet direction changing section perpendicularly changes the feed direction of each cut sheet. The sheet pushing section pushes each sheet onto the sheet stacker where an orderly stack of sheets is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1991
    Assignee: Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Sugimoto, Tomio Nishijima, Teruhisa Inoue, Yoshihiko Sugimoto, Masashi Suzuki, Izumi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 4769103
    Abstract: A label printer for printing data on a label attached on a long ground paper by means of a thermal head opposed to a platen. The label printer includes a ground paper feeder constituted of a drive roller and a pinch roller for sandwiching the ground paper therebetween. The drive roller stretches the ground paper with slip generated between the drive roller and the ground paper to peel off the printed label from the ground paper by means of a peeling plate and to issue the same. The surface of the drive roller is provided with a wear resistance to prevent wear of the drive roller and thereby to prevent change in the outer circumference of the drive roller. Accordingly, the ground paper may be stretched by the paper feeder under always fixed conditions, and the label may be reliably peeled off by the peeling plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignees: Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Koike, Izumi Matsushita, Yasuo Inoue, Hideki Hama
  • Patent number: 3948691
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing cold rolled, nondirectional electrical steel sheets and strips having a high magnetic flux density wherein a molten steel is solidified to obtain a slab in a manner that columnar grains develop predominantly from the surface in the direction of thickness of the slab up to a depth of more than 50%; said slab is heated to a temperature above 1000.degree.C without cogging and rolling to form .gamma.-phase at least more than about 10% of said slab, and hot rolled strongly with a draft of more than 98% without reheating to obtain a hot rolled steel sheet; and said hot rolled steel sheet is cold rolled with a draft of 64 - 84%, heated with a heating velocity of more than 1.6.degree.C/sec., and annealed at a temperature of 600.degree. - 1200.degree.C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1976
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Izumi Matsushita, Takayasu Sugiyama, Masakatsu Sumimoto, Osamu Honjo