Patents by Inventor Kimiaki Hayakawa

Kimiaki Hayakawa 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: 7766638
    Abstract: A tablet production apparatus comprising a gas generator G, a lubricant powder discharge means 51 for discharging a lubricant powder into a gas generated from the gas generator G, depending on the supply of the gas from the gas generator G, and mixing the lubricant powder with the gas in dispersed state, a lubricant application means 91 for spraying the lubricant powder discharged from the lubricant powder discharge means 51 and mixed with the gas generated from the gas generation means G in dispersed state, onto each material contacting surface of a die, an upper punch and a lower punch, and an oxygen concentration measuring means 131a for measuring the oxygen concentration of the gas existing near the lubricant application means 91. The apparatus is designed such that the amount of the gas supplied into the lubricant application means is adjusted based on the oxygen concentration measured by the oxygen concentration measuring means 131a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Watanabe, Kimiaki Hayakawa, Eiichiro Hirota, Kiyoshi Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20080031989
    Abstract: A tablet production apparatus comprising a gas generator G, a lubricant powder discharge means 51 for discharging a lubricant powder into a gas generated from the gas generator G, depending on the supply of the gas from the gas generator G, and mixing the lubricant powder with the gas in dispersed state, a lubricant application means 91 for spraying the lubricant powder discharged from the lubricant powder discharge means 51 and mixed with the gas generated from the gas generation means G in dispersed state, onto each material contacting surface of a die, an upper punch and a lower punch, and an oxygen concentration measuring means 131a for measuring the oxygen concentration of the gas existing near the lubricant application means 91. The apparatus is designed such that the amount of the gas supplied into the lubricant application means is adjusted based on the oxygen concentration measured by the oxygen concentration measuring means 131a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicant: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Watanabe, Kimiaki Hayakawa, Eiichiro Hirota, Kiyoshi Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20050173555
    Abstract: A powder concentration measuring apparatus comprising a pair of purge gas introducing paths being provided across a material measuring path which introduces a powder material pneumatically transported, a pair of transparent windows being provided so that said material measuring path is viewable through said pair of purge gas introducing paths at the one of the transparent windows, and the light receiving device being provided at the other of the transparent windows, and a powder concentration operation and control means, wherein the control means calculates a powder concentration depending on the light amount received by the light receiving device when a light beam is projected into the material measuring path from the light projecting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Applicant: KYOWA HAKKO KOGYO CO. LTD
    Inventors: Eiichiro Hirota, Kimiaki Hayakawa, Yuji Iwase, Hirokazu Yoshimoto, Kiyoshi Morimoto
  • Patent number: 6776361
    Abstract: A powdered material spraying device comprising a quantitative spraying device provided for a material discharge port of the powdered material storage hopper via a material feed valve, a cover being provided for the material feed port of the powdered material storage hopper. The spraying device includes a cylindrical body connected with the material discharge port of the powdered material storage hopper, an elastic membrane with a penetrating aperture provided so as to form a bottom of the cylindrical body at its lower opening end, and a dispersion chamber connected under the lower opening end of the cylindrical body via the elastic membrane. The dispersion chamber has a pulsating vibration air supply port for supplying a positive pulsating vibration air to the dispersion chamber and a discharge port. A bypass pipe is connected between the cylindrical body and the dispersion chamber and the powdered material is sprayed from a tip end of a conduit connected with the discharge port of the dispersion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Watanabe, Kimiaki Hayakawa, Kiyoshi Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20040096495
    Abstract: A tablet production apparatus comprising a gas generator G, a lubricant powder discharge means 51 for discharging a lubricant powder into a gas generated from the gas generator G, depending on the supply of the gas from the gas generator G, and mixing the lubricant powder with the gas in dispersed state, a lubricant application means 91 for spraying the lubricant powder discharged from the lubricant powder discharge means 51 and mixed with the gas generated from the gas generation means G in dispersed state, onto each material contacting surface of a die, an upper punch and a lower punch, and an oxygen concentration measuring means 131a for measuring the oxygen concentration of the gas existing near the lubricant application means 91. The apparatus is designed such that the amount of the gas supplied into the lubricant application means is adjusted based on the oxygen concentration measured by the oxygen concentration measuring means 131a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Yasushi Watanabe, Kimiaki Hayakawa, Eiichiro Hirota, Kiyoshi Morimoto
  • Patent number: 5996902
    Abstract: A sprayer and method for spraying powdered material activated by pulsating vibration air. The sprayer comprises an elastic membrane, a storage tank for storing powdered material provided with the elastic membrane at the bottom opening, and a pulsating vibration air generator for supplying pulsating vibration air to the elastic membrane. The sprayer so constructed is designed to uniformly and diffusely spray the powdered material stored in the storage tank when the elastic membrane is forcedly vibrated up and down in compliance with the frequency of the pulsating vibration air by receiving pulsating vibration air from the pulsating vibration air generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Morimoto, Yasushi Watanabe, Kimiaki Hayakawa, Sanji Tokuno
  • Patent number: 5720479
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet sorting and containing apparatus for conveying thin sheets or thick sheets to a plurality of containing portions and for sorting such sheets into the containing portions. The apparatus includes a first path for distributing the thin sheet to the containing portion, and a second path for distributing the thick sheet to the containing portion. The first path or second path is selected in accordance with a thickness of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshimasu Yamaguchi, Yuji Takahashi, Kimiaki Hayakawa, Toshihiko Kusumoto, Hideaki Kosasa, Hiroshi Ohta, Yuji Yamanaka, Kozo Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 5569011
    Abstract: A book binding apparatus comprises a convey means for conveying a sheet on which an image was formed by an image forming means, a plurality of sheet supporting means for supporting a sheet bundle to align ends of the sheets, a switching means for selecting one of the sheet supporting means to send the sheet conveyed by the convey means to the selected sheet supporting means, a bind means for adhering a bind tape to an end of the sheet bundle, and a move means for moving the aligned end of the sheet bundle supported by the sheet supporting means to the bind means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshimasu Yamaguchi, Yuji Takahashi, Kimiaki Hayakawa, Toshihiko Kusumoto, Hideaki Kosasa, Hiroshi Ohta, Yuji Yamanaka, Kozo Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 5569012
    Abstract: A book binding apparatus comprises a sheet entrance portion for receiving a sheet, a sheet convey path for conveying the sheet from the first sheet entrance portion, a first discharge opening disposed downstream of the sheet convey path for discharging the sheet out of the apparatus, sheet storing means for temporarily storing the sheet branched from the sheet convey path by branching means, binding means for binding the stored sheets, transfer means for conveying the bound sheet bundle, and a second discharge opening for discharging the conveyed sheet bundle out of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideaki Kosasa, Yuji Takahashi, Kimiaki Hayakawa, Toshihiko Kusumoto, Yoshimasu Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Ohta, Yuji Yamanaka, Kozo Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 5540421
    Abstract: A book binding apparatus has a sheet storing device for temporarily storing a sheet, a binding device for binding sheets as a sheet bundle, a transfer device for conveying the bound sheet bundle, a discharge opening for discharging the sheet bundle conveyed by the transfer device out of the apparatus, and a stacker for storing the sheet and arranged in a confronting relation to the discharge opening with the interposition of the transfer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ohta, Yuji Takahashi, Kimiaki Hayakawa, Toshihiko Kusumoto, Yoshimasu Yamaguchi, Hideaki Kosasa, Yuji Yamanaka, Kozo Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 5526077
    Abstract: An original feeding device for feeding OHP originals to the display stage of an overhead projector is capable of transportation control suitable for OHP projection. The originals are transported by a conveying film onto the display stage. In order to stop the original at the center of the display stage, after the original is detected by the registration sensor, the conveying film is advanced by an amount equal to the sum of the distance from the registration sensor to the display stage, a half of the length of the display stage and a half of the length of the original.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Aptex Inc.
    Inventors: Shunji Sato, Kimiaki Hayakawa, Yoshihiko Kitahara, Kenichi Iizumi, Noriaki Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 5499811
    Abstract: A sheet post-processing apparatus includes bin trays for stacking sheets; sheet discharger for discharging sheets to the bin trays; an aligner for aligning the sheets received by the bin trays by urging them; a controller for controlling the aligner: wherein the controller moves the aligner to a first position for a first alignment and to a second position for a second alignment to provide offset between succeeding sets of sheets received by the bin trays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichi Hayashi, Kimiaki Hayakawa, Yoshifumi Takehara
  • Patent number: 5446511
    Abstract: An original conveying apparatus includes an original stacker, a separator for separating the stacked originals from an upper side and for supplying the separated originals, a conveyor for conveying the separated originals to pass them through a reading portion and holding the originals in page sequence, a driver for rotating the conveyor normally or reversely, a discharger for returning the original to the original stacker and a controller for controlling the driver, the discharger and the separator so that an original is selected and set on the reading portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Kitahara, Kimiaki Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 5384634
    Abstract: A sheet post-processing apparatus includes at least one sheet receiving device for stacking sheets; an aligning device for aligning sheets on the sheet receiving device; and a sheet conveyer for conveying a set of aligning sheets in a direction crossing with a sheet receiving direction of the sheet receiving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Takehara, Kimiaki Hayakawa, Noriyoshi Ueda
  • Patent number: 5368677
    Abstract: A laminating apparatus includes a sheet transporter for transporting a sheet, a laminating film transporter for transporting at least one laminating film in such a manner that the film is superposed with at least one surface of the sheet transported by the sheet transporter, a pressing mechanism for pressing the sheet and the laminating film in a mutually superposed state, a sheet stacker for supporting the sheets in a stacked state, a sheet entrance for introducing the sheet, and a guide for selectively guiding the sheet, introduced from the sheet entrance, either to the laminating film transporter or to the sheet stacker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyoshi Ueda, Kimiaki Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 5252018
    Abstract: A sheet material binding apparatus for binding sheet materials with a cover material by a heat-adhesive bonding agent includes a heating plate on which the spine of the covering material having the bonding agent is placed, the heating plate being used for heating the bonding agent; a guide for supporting the covering material and the sheet materials vertically on the heating plate; a guide driver for moving the guide in a direction of a thickness of a set of the sheet materials to facilitate setting and removing of the covering material and the sheet materials; and a controller for controlling the guide driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1993
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Aptex Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Kitahara, Kimiaki Hayakawa, Shuichi Yabe
  • Patent number: 5219453
    Abstract: A sheet binder for binding sheets by adhering the sheets to a back of a cover member by a heat-fusible adhesive. The sheet binder includes a supporting member for supporting the cover member having the back, to an inner surface of which the heat-fusible adhesive is applied, a heat generating member disposed in the proximity of the supporting member, and an alternate magnetic field generating device for generating an alternate magnetic field to heat the heat generating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Aptex Inc.
    Inventors: Hideaki Furukawa, Naoki Fuei, Norio Hikake, Kimiaki Hayakawa, Shuichi Yabe
  • Patent number: 5217561
    Abstract: The present invention provides a laminating apparatus comprising a sheet transporter for transporting a sheet, a laminating film transporter for transporting at least one laminating film in such a manner that the laminating film is superposed with at least one surface of the sheet transported by the sheet transporter. A pressing mechanism means presses the sheet and the lamenting film or films in a mutually superposed state, a heater heats the laminating film, heat capacity detector detects the heat capacity of at least one of the laminating film or films and the sheet, and a controller controls at least one of the heater and the laminating film transporter, according to a detection signal from the heat capacity detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1993
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyoshi Ueda, Kimiaki Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 5160399
    Abstract: A laminating apparatus comprises a sheet transporter for transporting a sheet, a laminating film transporter for transporting at least one laminating film in such a manner that the laminating film is superposed with at least one surface of the sheet transported by the sheet transporter, a pressing mechanism for pressing the sheet and the laminating film in a mutually superposed state, a dryer for drying the sheet before it is superposed with the laminating film, a humidity detector for detecting the humidity of the sheet, and a controller for controlling the dryer according to a detection signal from the humidity detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1992
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyoshi Ueda, Kimiaki Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 5152653
    Abstract: A sheet binding apparatus includes a tray for supporting a set of sheet materials; a punch for punching the sheet materials on the supporting tray; a conveyor for conveying the sheet materials punched by the punch; a binder for binding the sheet materials conveyed and by the conveyer; a controller for sequentially controlling the punch, the conveyor and the binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Daiichi Seiki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Matsuo, Kimiaki Hayakawa, Koichi Murakami, Yoichi Tagawa, Kenichi Iizumi