Patents by Inventor Kazuhiko Sotoda

Kazuhiko Sotoda 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: 7681326
    Abstract: In application of a green-house effect, under such a concept as to collect solar energy passively into the house and to exhaust moist air passively from the house, an all weather passive-type solar Ogako drying house which is available for all day through a year was made up improving an agricultural vinyl-house in which Ogako is dried continuously during carriage on the belt conveyors due to solar energy and auxiliary heat, and then moist air yielded when drying Ogako is exhausted through an insulated cylinder. In this case, Ogako means sawdust or tipped small particles of wood which is raw material in order to produce a woody pellet fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Marusho-Giken Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyoshi Sugawara, Kimio Kanayama, Shoshichi Sotoda, Kazuhiko Sotoda, Hiromu Baba, Hidehiko Seto, Katsuhiko Shibuya, Toshiyuki Tachi, Shinya Koga, Masahiro Nakajima, Akira Yaegashi, Zenbei Komiyama
  • Patent number: 7637030
    Abstract: A fully passive-type solar lumber drying house classified into two models, one is an east-west model configured as a half Quonset hut that lumber's axis loaded is parallel to the east-west direction, and another is a north-south model configured as a Quonset hut that lumber's axis loaded is parallel to the north-south direction and the house is fully surrounded by a triple transparent film and a carbon fiber sheet and is available to be used through all year in which stacked lumber can be dried due to solar energy being assisted by auxiliary heat for one or two weeks under leaving the dry process controlled automatically, and besides moist air inside the house is exhausted through an insulated cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Marusho-Giken Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyoshi Sugawara, Kimio Kanayama, Shoshichi Sotoda, Kazuhiko Sotoda, Hiromu Baba, Hidehiko Seto, Shinya Koga, Masahiro Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20070294956
    Abstract: In application of a green-house effect, under such a concept as to collect solar energy passively into the house and to exhaust moist air passively from the house, an all weather passive-type solar Ogako drying house H which is available for all day through a year was made up improving an agricultural vinyl-house in which Ogako is dried continuously during carriage on the belt conveyors 4, 5 due to solar energy and auxiliary heat, and then moist air yielded when drying Ogako is exhausted through an insulated cylinder 13. In this case, Ogako means sawdust or tipped small particles of wood which is raw material in order to produce a woody pellet fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: MARUSHO-GIKEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyoshi SUGAWARA, Kimio KANAYAMA, Shoshichi SOTODA, Kazuhiko SOTODA, Hiromu BABA, Hidehiko SETO, Katsuhiko SHIBUYA, Toshiyuki TACHI, Shinya KOGA, Masahiro NAKAJIMA, Akira YAEGASHI, Zenbei KOMIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20070256318
    Abstract: In application of the green-house effect, under such a concept as to collect passively solar energy into the house and to exhaust passively moist air from the house H, this invention is related to a fully passive-type solar lumber drying house H which is fully surrounded by a triple transparent film 1 and a carbon fiber sheet 1? and is available to be used through all year in which the stacked lumber 15 can be dried due to solar energy being assisted by auxiliary heat for one or two weeks under leaving the dry process controlled automatically, and besides moist air inside the house H is exhausted through an insulated cylinder 10. The fully passive-type solar lumber drying house H in this invention is classified into two models, one of which is an east-west model (A) like a half Quonset hut that lumber's axis loaded is parallel to the east-west direction, and another is a north-south model (B) like a Quonset hut that lumber's axis loaded is parallel to the north-south direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: MARUSHO-GIKEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyoshi SUGAWARA, Kimio KANAYAMA, Shoshichi SOTODA, Kazuhiko SOTODA, Hiromu BABA, Hidehiko SETO, Shinya KOGA, Masahiro NAKAJIMA