Patents by Inventor Kiyoaki Inoue
Kiyoaki Inoue 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).
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Patent number: 5356481Abstract: Inverted DI cans are fed by a conveyer having partitions in a plurality of rows such that they are spaced apart in each row, and treatment liquid is sprayed against the travelling cans from above and below the center of each row. The liquid is sprayed from above in a uniform and a full-cone pattern greater in area than the top surface of the can and from below also in a full-cone pattern or in a fan-shaped pattern narrow in the widthwise direction of the conveyer and greater in length than the can open end diameter. The liquid is further sprayed against the travelling cans from side nozzles on the opposite sides of and symmetric with respect to the center of each row. The side walls of the cans are thus washed without contact of adjacent cans in the direction of travel of the cans. The washing force is increased in the space between adjacent cans in the direction of travel to prevent washing irregularities and thus permit uniform surface treatment of the inner and outer surfaces of the cans.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1992Date of Patent: October 18, 1994Assignee: Daiwa Can CompanyInventors: Takayuki Yoshimura, Yoshiteru Kondo, Yoshimasa Matsumura, Kiyoaki Inoue
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Patent number: 5335682Abstract: Inverted DI cans are fed by a conveyer having partitions in a plurality of rows such that they are spaced apart in each row, and treatment liquid is sprayed against the travelling cans from above and below the center of each row. The liquid is sprayed from above in a uniform and a full-cone pattern greater in area than the top surface of the can and from below also in a full-cone pattern or in a fan-shaped pattern narrow in the widthwise direction of the conveyer and greater in length than the can open end diameter. The liquid is further sprayed against the travelling cans from side nozzles on the opposite sides of and symmetric with respect to the center of each row. The side walls of the cans are thus washed without contact of adjacent cans in the direction of travel of the cans. The washing force is increased in the space between adjacent cans in the direction of travel to prevent washing irregularities and thus permit uniform surface treatment of the inner and outer surfaces of the cans.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1993Date of Patent: August 9, 1994Assignee: Daiwa Can CompanyInventors: Takayuki Yoshimura, Yoshiteru Kondo, Yoshimasa Matsumura, Kiyoaki Inoue
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Patent number: 5271164Abstract: A drying arrangement includes transport device which uses suction or magnetism to produce an attractive force via which containers can be picked up by their bottom wall after they have come out of a washing station, and carried with an open end thereof oriented downwardly, over a nozzle arrangement which suctions off water in liquid form from the containers and over an arrangement which uses hot air to dry off the remaining water.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1992Date of Patent: December 21, 1993Assignee: Daiwa Can CompanyInventors: Takayuki Yoshimura, Yoshiteru Kondoh, Yoshimasa Matsumura, Kiyoaki Inoue
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Patent number: 5265715Abstract: A belt includes a plurality of rows of endless chains and can body conveying sections each defined between adjacent ones of the chains. Each of the endless chains are formed includes a plurality of U-shaped unit members each having a bottom fitted in an open end portion of a preceding one in the row, the engaged portions of the preceding and succeeding unit members being connected together by a plurality of rotatable connecting rods common to the chains. Intermediate rods having a length a little greater than the can body diameter are each provided between adjacent ones of the rods of the chains and also being opposed unit members of adjacent chains. The intermediate rods are disposed at a common elevation as the connecting rods beneath the top of the chains. Thus, the conveyer belt can convey can bodies in a plurality of rows in which the can bodies will not touch each other at the open ends of these can bodies.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1992Date of Patent: November 30, 1993Assignee: Daiwa Can CompanyInventors: Takayuki Yoshimura, Yoshiteru Kondo, Kiyoaki Inoue, Yoshimasa Matsumura
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Patent number: 5048070Abstract: An X-ray tube support apparatus includes: an X-ray tube support mechanism for supporting an X-ray tube to be vertically extendible/movable; a guide unit, having moving paths which allow movement in two-dimensional directions parallel to a ceiling surface, for supporting the X-ray tube support mechanism, and guiding the X-ray tube to a central position of one photographing table; a plurality of position sensors, arranged in a vertical moving path of the X-ray tube support mechanism, and two-dimensional moving paths to the central position of the photographing table, for detecting vertical and two-dimensional moving positions of the X-ray tube support mechanism; a plurality of fixing units, arranged in the two-dimensional moving paths of the guide unit and the vertical moving path of the X-ray tube support mechanism, for fixing the X-ray tube support mechanism at each moving position; and a determination unit for storing position data in accordance with the central position of the photographing table and a setType: GrantFiled: December 12, 1989Date of Patent: September 10, 1991Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tomio Maehama, Kiyoaki Inoue
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Patent number: 5037059Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic device with a suspension mechanism for suspending an object in a vertically movable manner, using two suspension wires, which can avoid the shortened durability of the suspension wires, and using windup type springs, which can eliminate possibility for the fall of the suspended object due to the breaking of the windup type springs. The suspension mechanism may includes two suspension wires for holding the suspended object; and single threaded corn pulleys, one for each one of the two suspension wires, for winding the respective suspension wires. The suspension mechanism may also includes a plurality of windup type springs for balancing against gravitational force acting on the suspended object; connection between the plurality of windup type springs such that this connection moves when the plurality of windup type springs are put to be not balanced with respect to each other; and mechanism for preventing the fall of the suspended object by detecting motion of the connection.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1989Date of Patent: August 6, 1991Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kiyoshi Asano, Kiyoaki Inoue, Shunichiro Nishigaki
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Patent number: D489987Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2003Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Assignee: Daiwa Can CompanyInventors: Taiji Ogata, Kiyoaki Inoue
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Patent number: D489988Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2003Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Assignee: Daiwa Can CompanyInventors: Taiji Ogata, Kiyoaki Inoue
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Patent number: D492601Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2003Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Daiwa Can CompanyInventors: Taiji Ogata, Kiyoaki Inoue