Patents by Inventor Kouichirou Ishibashi

Kouichirou Ishibashi 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: 10189093
    Abstract: A guide rail is provided on an outer surface of a chuck body. A pair of fingers is disposed on the guide rail. At least one of the pair of fingers is a movable finger that is movable along the guide rail. One or two cylinder apparatuses, each of which has a rod that advances and retracts in the direction of its axial line by the action of air pressure, are provided in the chuck body. The top end of the rod extends from an end of the chuck body to the outside. An end block is attached to the top end of the rod. The end block is linked to the movable finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Saito, Koji Hara, Kouichirou Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 9175699
    Abstract: A body-side cushion structural body attached to a body and a piston-side cushion structural body integrally moving with a piston are disposed outside the body, a cushion rod is disposed on either one of the cushion structural bodies, while a rod fitting hole is disposed in the other cushion structural body, a cushion packing is disposed at a spout portion of the rod fitting hole, and moreover, a throttle valve that discharges air in the rod fitting hole to the outside with flow-rate adjustment is disposed so as to configure an air cushion mechanism that stops the piston in a buffering manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichirou Ishibashi, Seiji Takanashi, Motohiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20150217382
    Abstract: A guide rail is provided on an outer surface of a chuck body. A pair of fingers is disposed on the guide rail. At least one of the pair of fingers is a movable finger that is movable along the guide rail. One or two cylinder apparatuses, each of which has a rod that advances and retracts in the direction of its axial line by the action of air pressure, are provided in the chuck body. The top end of the rod extends from an end of the chuck body to the outside. An end block is attached to the top end of the rod. The end block is linked to the movable finger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi SAITO, Koji Hara, Kouichirou Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 9080627
    Abstract: A damper hole having a large-diameter section is formed inside a body which is made of metal. A flange which fits in the large-diameter section is formed in a damper which is made of rubber and is received in the damper hole. The flange defines a cushion chamber in the large-diameter section. A gap for letting air restrictively discharge from the cushion chamber is formed between an outer periphery of the flange and an inner periphery of the large-diameter section. Motion energy of a moving object colliding with the damper is absorbed by both elasticity produced by the compressed damper and an air cushion effect produced by the flange and the cushion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichirou Ishibashi, Seiji Takanashi, Motohiro Sato
  • Patent number: 8801045
    Abstract: In a pipe joint, a release bush includes a cylindrical portion and a flange portion for pressing, provided along an outer edge of the cylindrical portion. A movable portion including a part of the flange portion and a part of the cylindrical portion is formed to move with respect to a main portion including the remaining part of the flange portion and the remaining part of the cylindrical portion, via an elastically deformable portion. The cylindrical portion of the movable portion can be moved to be aligned with the cylindrical portion of the main portion along the same circumference, by an external operating force exerted on the movable portion, while the movable portion remains in a position opposing a main body of the pipe joint when an operating force is not applied, thereby inhibiting the release bush from being pressed into a chuck despite the flange portion being pressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: SMC Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Muto, Hiroshi Hanne, Kouichirou Ishibashi
  • Publication number: 20110180979
    Abstract: A damper hole having a large-diameter section is formed inside a body which is made of metal. A flange which fits in the large-diameter section is formed in a damper which is made of rubber and is received in the damper hole. The flange defines a cushion chamber in the large-diameter section. A gap for letting air restrictively discharge from the cushion chamber is formed between an outer periphery of the flange and an inner periphery of the large-diameter section. Motion energy of a moving object colliding with the damper is absorbed by both elasticity produced by the compressed damper and an air cushion effect produced by the flange and the cushion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: SMC Corporation
    Inventors: Kouichirou ISHIBASHI, Seiji Takanashi, Motohiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20110068573
    Abstract: [Object] A pipe joint is to be provided that prevents a release bush from being accidentally pressed, and that inhibits the tube from being removed from the pipe joint unless a worker uses a predetermined tool with the intention of removing the tube from the pipe joint. [Solution] In a pipe joint including a chuck 21 with a latch claw to be engaged with an outer circumferential surface of a tube T inserted in the pipe joint thereby retaining the tube, a release bush 5 to be inwardly pressed along the tube inserted through the chuck so as to disengage the chuck from the tube is configured so as to inhibit direct manipulation thereof from outside of a main body 1 of the pipe joint, and a pressing tool 7 that can inwardly press the release bush into a position where the release bush disengages the chuck from the tube is provided as a separate member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Muto, Hiroshi Hanne, Kouichirou Ishibashi
  • Publication number: 20110062704
    Abstract: In a pipe joint, a release bush includes a cylindrical portion and a flange portion for pressing, provided along an outer edge of the cylindrical portion. A movable portion including a part of the flange portion and a part of the cylindrical portion is formed to move with respect to a main portion including the remaining part of the flange portion and the remaining part of the cylindrical portion, via an elastically deformable portion. The cylindrical portion of the movable portion can be moved to be aligned with the cylindrical portion of the main portion along the same circumference, by an external operating force exerted on the movable portion, while the movable portion remains in a position opposing a main body of the pipe joint when an operating force is not applied, thereby inhibiting the release bush from being pressed into a chuck despite the flange portion being pressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: SMC Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Muto, Hiroshi Hanne, Kouichirou Ishibashi
  • Publication number: 20100307876
    Abstract: A body-side cushion structural body attached to a body and a piston-side cushion structural body integrally moving with a piston are disposed outside the body, a cushion rod is disposed on either one of the cushion structural bodies, while a rod fitting hole is disposed in the other cushion structural body, a cushion packing is disposed at a spout portion of the rod fitting hole, and moreover, a throttle valve that discharges air in the rod fitting hole to the outside with flow-rate adjustment is disposed so as to configure an air cushion mechanism that stops the piston in a buffering manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: SMC Corporation
    Inventors: Kouichirou ISHIBASHI, Seiji Takanashi, Motohiro Sato
  • Patent number: 5363741
    Abstract: In a slide actuator, a central guide rail having V-shaped grooves defined therein and opened at 90 degree angles, is mounted on a cylinder body. A slide table is brought into engagement with the guide rail. Guide members having V-shaped grooves defined therein are provided inside the slide table so that they are opposed to the grooves defined in the guide rail. Cylindrical roller bearings are alternately fitted at inclinations of 90.degree. in their corresponding channels defined by the opposed grooves. Thus, when the roller bearings are rolled, the slide table is displaced with higher accuracy and a load supported by the slide table is transmitted to the guide rail from the roller bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: SMC Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Susumu Takada, Masayuki Hosono, Kouichirou Ishibashi, Koichiro Kanda
  • Patent number: 4892344
    Abstract: In this parallel gripper suitable for gripping a work for a robot or the like, in which a pair of fingers are opened and closed by keeping the parallel condition between them by the transmission of the driving force of a fluid pressure actuator to the fingers by means of a power transmission mechanism, use is made of a pair of pistons, that are relatively slidable in a single cylinder bore under the action of fluid pressure, as the fluid pressure actuator, thereby obtaining substantially twice as large gripping force as in the case of empolying a single piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1990
    Assignee: SMC Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Takada, Kouichirou Ishibashi
  • Patent number: D638730
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: SMC Corporation
    Inventors: Kouichirou Ishibashi, Seiji Takanashi, Motohiro Sato, Jiro Mandokoro, Koji Hara, Toshio Sato
  • Patent number: D742925
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Saito, Koji Hara, Kouichirou Ishibashi
  • Patent number: D742926
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Saito, Koji Hara, Kouichirou Ishibashi