Patents by Inventor Izuru Shinohara

Izuru Shinohara 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: 6890241
    Abstract: The invention relates to management systems for unitarily managing and controlling information of a plurality of types of lens processing machines for manufacturing a glass lens of predetermined shape from a grass material. Its object is to construct production systems relying upon no experts, improve the reliability of quality management, make the products per worker the maximum, and make the stock in each process the minimum. To achieve this object, in a lens processing system comprising the plurality of types of processing machines for lens processing and an operation terminal connected with the processing machines through a network and capable of changing the settings of the processing machines, the operation terminal or a server unitarily manages various data every series unit and calculates the optimum settings for the processing machines every series unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Kozakai, Izuru Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20030017794
    Abstract: The invention relates to management systems for unitarily managing and controlling information of a plurality of types of lens processing machines for manufacturing a glass lens of predetermined shape from a grass material. Its object is to construct production systems relying upon no experts, improve the reliability of quality management, make the products per worker the maximum, and make the stock in each process the minimum. To achieve this object, in a lens processing system comprising the plurality of types of processing machines for lens processing and an operation terminal connected with the processing machines through a network and capable of changing the settings of the processing machines, the operation terminal or a server unitarily manages various data every series unit and calculates the optimum settings for the processing machines every series unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Inventors: Takashi Kozakai, Izuru Shinohara