Patents by Inventor Koshi TANIMOTO
Koshi TANIMOTO 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: 11932506Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet stacking device, a counter-ejector, and a carton former and is provided with: a hopper unit that stacks cardboard boxes; feed rollers that feed a cardboard box to the hopper unit; a first blower device that blows air from above the hopper unit toward the cardboard box fed by the feed rollers; and a second blower device that blows air between the cardboard box stacked in the hopper unit and the cardboard box fed by the feed roller.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Yoshitomo Noda, Tomohiro Akaki, Koshi Tanimoto, Hideaki Nagai, Makoto Shimohatsubo
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Patent number: 11613094Abstract: A cardboard sheet manufacturing system includes an information editing unit storing production state information, operation state information, and warping state information as acquisition information in a storage unit, the information editing unit deleting, in a case where the stored acquisition information includes prescribed information to be deleted, the information to be deleted from the storage unit and outputting the acquisition information stored in the storage unit as editing information. The system also includes an editing information storage unit storing the editing information output from the information editing unit, a prediction model calculation unit calculating a prediction model of the warping state based on the editing information stored in the editing information storage unit; and a control table update unit updating a target value of a control value of a control element in the cardboard sheet manufacturing apparatus, based on the prediction model.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Takumi Fujita, Koki Tateishi, Hideki Mizutani, Akira Ogino, Koshi Tanimoto
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Patent number: 11535476Abstract: A sheet stacking device is provided with a hopper unit configured to stack a sheet, a feeding unit configured to feed out the sheet to the hopper unit, a distance detection unit configured to detect an inter-sheet distance, in the vertical direction, between a rear end portion of the sheet that is preceding and a tip end portion of the sheet that is subsequent, and an output unit configured to output a behavior stabilization command for the sheet based on the inter-sheet distance.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Nagai, Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Koshi Tanimoto, Kenta Nakao
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Publication number: 20220106146Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet stacking device, a counter-ejector, and a carton former and is provided with: a hopper unit that stacks cardboard boxes; feed rollers that feed a cardboard box to the hopper unit; a first blower device that blows air from above the hopper unit toward the cardboard box fed by the feed rollers; and a second blower device that blows air between the cardboard box stacked in the hopper unit and the cardboard box fed by the feed roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2019Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: Hiroyuki KANAZAWA, Yoshitomo NODA, Tomohiro AKAKI, Koshi TANIMOTO, Hideaki NAGAI, Makoto SHIMOHATSUBO
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Publication number: 20210300710Abstract: A sheet stacking device is provided with a hopper unit configured to stack a sheet, a feeding unit configured to feed out the sheet to the hopper unit, a distance detection unit configured to detect an inter-sheet distance, in the vertical direction, between a rear end portion of the sheet that is preceding and a tip end portion of the sheet that is subsequent, and an output unit configured to output a behavior stabilization command for the sheet based on the inter-sheet distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Hideaki NAGAI, Hiroyuki KANAZAWA, Koshi TANIMOTO, Kenta NAKAO
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Patent number: 11124242Abstract: A front end body structure (3) has a front wall portion (4) which forms a front surface (4b) in a front-rear direction (Da) and has edge portions which form an opening portion (4a) opened; and a ceiling wall portion (5) which is continuous with the front wall portion (4) and forms a ceiling surface (5a) facing an upper side. In t front wall portion (4), side edge portions (41, 42) on both sides in the width direction (Dw) and an upper edge portion (40) on the upper side among edge portions surrounding the opening portion (4a) have a multi-axial fiber-reinforced plastic material in which at least two directions along the outer surface are set as a fiber direction. At least a partial region of the ceiling wall part (5) including a central portion in the width direction (Dw) has a core material sandwiched between the multi-axial fiber-reinforced plastic materials.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTDInventors: Koshi Tanimoto, Ryoji Okabe, Kouji Esaki
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Patent number: 10994753Abstract: The rail vehicle has a guide device configured to guide traveling of a bogie on a traveling track by rolling guide wheels in a state of bringing the guide wheels into contact with guide rails installed on both sides of the traveling track in a vehicle width direction perpendicular to a traveling direction, wherein: the guide device has an arm and the guide wheels, the arm having a central portion fixed to a stationary member, extending to both sides in the vehicle width direction, and having both end portions elastically deformable in a direction in which the guide rails extend, the guide wheels being mounted on the arm at the both end portions of the arm in the vehicle width direction; and a center of each of the guide wheels is displaced from a center line of the arm, the center line extending in the vehicle width direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Toshifumi Kanno, Kouji Esaki, Koshi Tanimoto
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Publication number: 20210039348Abstract: A cardboard sheet manufacturing system includes an information editing unit storing production state information, operation state information, and warping state information as acquisition information in a storage unit, the information editing unit deleting, in a case where the stored acquisition information includes prescribed information to be deleted, the information to be deleted from the storage unit and outputting the acquisition information stored in the storage unit as editing information. The system also includes an editing information storage unit storing the editing information output from the information editing unit, a prediction model calculation unit calculating a prediction model of the warping state based on the editing information stored in the editing information storage unit; and a control table update unit updating a target value of a control value of a control element in the cardboard sheet manufacturing apparatus, based on the prediction model.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2018Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Takumi FUJITA, Koki TATEISHI, Hideki MIZUTANI, Akira OGINO, Koshi TANIMOTO
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Publication number: 20200298913Abstract: A front end body structure (3) has a front wall portion (4) which forms a front surface (4b) in a front-rear direction (Da) and has edge portions which form an opening portion (4a) opened; and a ceiling wall portion (5) which is continuous with the front wall portion (4) and forms a ceiling surface (5a) facing an upper side. In t front wall portion (4), side edge portions (41, 42) on both sides in the width direction (Dw) and an upper edge portion (40) on the upper side among edge portions surrounding the opening portion (4a) have a multi-axial fiber-reinforced plastic material in which at least two directions along the outer surface are set as a fiber direction. At least a partial region of the ceiling wall part (5) including a central portion in the width direction (Dw) has a core material sandwiched between the multi-axial fiber-reinforced plastic materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Koshi TANIMOTO, Ryoji OKABE, Kouji ESAKI
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Publication number: 20200101988Abstract: An underfloor double skin structure includes a first upper plate including a pair of first thin portions disposed on both end portions thereof and a first thick portion disposed inwardly with respect to the pair of first thin portions, a first lower plate disposed to be spaced apart downward of the first upper plate and including a pair of second thin portions disposed on both end portions thereof and a second thick portion disposed inwardly with respect to the pair of second thin portions, a first rib group integrally formed with the first upper plate and the first lower plate and connects the first upper plate and the first lower plate, a reinforcing body is formed of the first thick portion, the second thick portion, and a pair of thick ribs, and the second thick portion is disposed downward of the pair of second thin portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Koshi TANIMOTO, Ichiro JOREN, Hiroyuki KONO, Yoshinori KATO
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Publication number: 20190351636Abstract: A sheet stacking device includes a hopper unit on which box making sheet material is stacked; an ejection unit that ejects the sheet material to the hopper unit; a first blowing device that is disposed above the downstream side of the hopper unit in the transfer direction of the sheet material and that presses the sheet material downward by blowing air; a pressing device that is disposed above an upstream side of the hopper unit in the transfer direction of the sheet material and that presses the sheet material downward; and a control device that controls an operation of the first blowing device pressing a front end of the sheet material downward, and controls an operation of the pressing device so as to press a rear end of the sheet material downward with a pressing force higher than that applied to the front end of the sheet material.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2018Publication date: November 21, 2019Inventors: Kazuya AKITA, Makoto SHIMOHATSUBO, Koshi TANIMOTO
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Publication number: 20190047596Abstract: The rail vehicle has a guide device configured to guide traveling of a bogie on a traveling track by rolling guide wheels in a state of bringing the guide wheels into contact with guide rails installed on both sides of the traveling track in a vehicle width direction perpendicular to a traveling direction, wherein: the guide device has an arm and the guide wheels, the arm having a central portion fixed to a stationary member, extending to both sides in the vehicle width direction, and having both end portions elastically deformable in a direction in which the guide rails extend, the guide wheels being mounted on the arm at the both end portions of the arm in the vehicle width direction; and a center of each of the guide wheels is displaced from a center line of the arm, the center line extending in the vehicle width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2017Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Toshifumi KANNO, Kouji ESAKI, Koshi TANIMOTO
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Publication number: 20180370176Abstract: A sheet heating apparatus include a first heating plate, a second heating plate, a joining member, a heating section, and a guide member. The first heating plate has a first heating surface curved in a convex shape. The second heating plate has a second heating surface curved in a convex shape. The joining member integrally joins the first heating plate and the second heating plate together such that the first heating surface and the second heating surface face outward. The heating section heats the first heating plate and the second heating plate. The guide member guides a sheet such that the sheet comes into contact with the first heating surface and the second heating surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2016Publication date: December 27, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Takashi NITTA, Koshi TANIMOTO, Hiroshi ISHIBUCHI