Patents by Inventor Kouichi Banno

Kouichi Banno 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: 9289824
    Abstract: The present invention provides pouring equipment of a tilting-type that can appropriately pour molten metal at a high speed corresponding to the speed of molding. It also provides a method of pouring the molten metal. The pouring equipment has a holding furnace supplying the molten metal by being tilted, a pouring ladle pouring the molten metal supplied from the holding furnace into molds that are intermittently transported, a device for measuring weight of the molten metal in the pouring ladle, and equipment for control that controls the tiltings of the holding furnace and the pouring ladle. The equipment for control has a device for storing results from measurements and devices for calculating the first and second flow rate. The equipment controls the tilting of the ladle so that the ladle pours the molten metal into the mold according to the flow pattern of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignees: SINTOKOGIO, LTD., FUJIWA DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi Banno, Toshiyuki Hyoudo, Tadashi Nishida, Hideto Terada
  • Patent number: 9008819
    Abstract: Provided herein is an automatic pouring method and equipment for the same that enable to inhibit the generation of residual molten metal in a ladle and thus the molten metal to be discharged therefrom can be eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignees: Sintokogio, Ltd., Fujiwa Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouichi Banno, Tadashi Nishida
  • Publication number: 20130140335
    Abstract: The present invention provides pouring equipment of a tilting-type that can appropriately pour molten metal at a high speed corresponding to the speed of molding. It also provides a method of pouring the molten metal. The pouring equipment has a holding furnace supplying the molten metal by being tilted, a pouring ladle pouring the molten metal supplied from the holding furnace into molds that are intermittently transported, a device for measuring weight of the molten metal in the pouring ladle, and equipment for control that controls the tiltings of the holding furnace and the pouring ladle. The equipment for control has a device for storing results from measurements and devices for calculating the first and second flow rate. The equipment controls the tilting of the ladle so that the ladle pours the molten metal into the mold according to the flow pattern of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Inventors: Kouichi Banno, Toshiyuki Hyoudo, Tadashi Nishida, HIdeto Terada
  • Patent number: 8408278
    Abstract: An automatic pouring method whereby a tilting automatic pouring device can pour at high speed, accommodating high-speed molding on a high-speed molding line. The method includes: a step wherein a pouring hopper, which can hold an amount of molten metal sufficient for multiple pours, is tilted forward, thereby pouring the molten metal from the hopper into a casting mold; a step wherein the pouring hopper is tilted backward, thereby stopping the aforementioned pouring into the casting mold; and a step wherein a set of casting molds, including the casting mold for which the aforementioned pouring has been completed, are moved at intervals. During the period from the beginning of the step in which molten metal is poured into the casting mold to the end of the step in which the set of casting molds is moved at intervals, whenever the weight of molten metal in the pouring hopper is less than a prescribed weight, molten metal is continually supplied to the pouring hopper by tilting a holding furnace forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignees: Sintokogio, Ltd., Fujiwa Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouichi Banno, Toshiyuki Hyoudo, Tadashi Nishida
  • Publication number: 20120173009
    Abstract: Provided herein is an automatic pouring method and equipment for the same that enable to inhibit the generation of residual molten metal in a ladle and thus the molten metal to be discharged therefrom can be eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Kouichi Banno, Tadashi Nishida
  • Publication number: 20120097359
    Abstract: Provided is an automatic pouring method whereby even a tilting automatic pouring device can pour at high speed, accommodating high-speed molding on a high-speed molding line. Said method includes: a process wherein a pouring tank, which can hold an amount of molten metal sufficient for multiple pours, is tilted forward, thereby pouring the molten metal from inside said tank into a casting mold; a process wherein the pouring tank is tilted backward, thereby halting the aforementioned pouring into the casting mold; and a process wherein a set of casting molds, including the casting mold for which the aforementioned pouring had completed, are moved at intervals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Inventors: Kouichi Banno, Toshiyuki Hyoudo, Tadashi Nishida
  • Patent number: 5758714
    Abstract: A ladle is rotationally tilted around its rotation shaft and the rotation center of the rotation shaft is moved along a locus deviating from the predetermined arc locus with its center at an imaginary initial pouring center which is set at or adjacent to a molten metal falling start point in the pouring spout of the ladle and, at the same time, the imaginary initial pouring center of the spout is moved while maintaining a fixed relationship with the rotation center of the rotation shaft, whereby the molten metal is poured to a fixed position in the pouring cup of the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Inventors: Jiro Sato, Kenitsu Yoshida, Kouichi Banno