Patents by Inventor Makoto Shimohatsubo
Makoto Shimohatsubo 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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Publication number: 20240100799Abstract: A printing device, a printing machine, and a box making machine are provided with printing cylinders on which printing plates can be mounted, ink supply rolls that are placed on the upstream or downstream sides of the printing cylinders in a sheet-conveying direction and that can be in contact with the printing cylinders, ink supply units that can supply ink to the ink supply rolls, first covers that cover the upper parts of the printing cylinders in the vertical direction and that can be opened and closed, and footholds that cover the vertically upper parts of the ink supply rolls and that can be operated by an operator.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Mitsuhiro NADACHI, Kazuya AKITA, Makoto SHIMOHATSUBO
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Publication number: 20240092048Abstract: A guide position adjustment device includes upstream side guide members and downstream side guide members arranged in order starting from the upstream side in the sheet traveling direction. Each of the upstream side guide members and each of the downstream side guide members are mounted in pairs on the right and left sides of a folder gluer. The guide position adjustment device includes an outlet side guide moving mechanism, which is mounted on a folding guide device provided with a frame moving mechanism for translating, by a first actuator, a supporting frame that supports the upstream side guide members and the downstream side guide members, in the device width direction perpendicular to the sheet traveling direction. The outlet side guide moving mechanism moves, by a second actuator, an outlet side tip end regulation part of the upstream side guide members relative to the supporting frame in the device width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Kunihiko YAMAMURO, Makoto SHIMOHATSUBO, Kazuhisa TAKEMOTO, Kazuya SUGIMOTO
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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: 11602915Abstract: A sheet folding device includes forming belts which are disposed on both sides in a transfer direction of a corrugated board and move to a center side in a width direction of the corrugated board toward a downstream side in the transfer direction to press both end portions in the width direction from an outside so as to bend both the end portions; and a gauge roller group including several gauge rollers which are disposed along the transfer direction and come into contact with outer sides of both bent portions in the width direction of the corrugated board bent by the forming belts. In the several gauge rollers, recessed portions are provided on outer peripheral surfaces of the gauge rollers in a circumferential direction. Positions of the recessed portions are disposed to be offset downward in a vertical direction toward a downstream side in the transfer direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kazuya Akita, Shinya Iori, Makoto Shimohatsubo
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Publication number: 20230075729Abstract: Provided are a slotter head, a slotter device and a box making machine comprising a cutter holder which is in a disk shape and is rotationally supported, a first cutting blade which is mounted to an outer peripheral portion of the cutter holder, a moving holder which is supported by the cutter holder movably along the circumferential direction, a second cutting blade which is mounted to an outer peripheral portion of the moving holder, a first drive device which rotationally drives the cutter holder, and a second drive device which rotationally drives the moving holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2021Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Mitsuhiro NADACHI, Yasunari SUZUKI, Masayoshi TANCHI, Kazushige KUROKAWA, Masaya FUJINO, Makoto SHIMOHATSUBO
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Publication number: 20220388793Abstract: Provided in a paper sheet feeding apparatus and a box making machine are: a plurality of wheels capable of supplying a sheet by coming into contact with a lower surface of the sheet; a grate liftable and lowerable to an ascending position positioned above upper edges of the plurality of wheels and a descending position positioned below the upper edges of the plurality of wheels; a drive motor; an elevating device capable of lifting the grate to the ascending position by rotating the drive motor in one direction and capable of lowering the grate to the descending position by rotating the drive motor in the other direction; and a control device capable of adjusting an amount by which the grate is lifted and lowered by the elevating device by controlling the drive motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Shinya IORI, Kazushige KUROKAWA, Makoto SHIMOHATSUBO, Yasunari SUZUKI
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Patent number: 11479038Abstract: A viscosity measurement device includes a measurement tool having a pump for feeding a printing liquid by pressure. The viscosity measurement device includes a passage part having a first passage part in which a flow path cross-sectional area for the printing liquid is set at a first area, and a second passage part in which a flow path cross-sectional area for the printing liquid is set at a second area smaller than the first area and which is arranged on an upstream side in a supply direction of the printing liquid with respect to the first passage part, the passage part being interposed in the supply path and arranged upward toward a downstream side in the supply direction of the printing liquid; and a sensor attached to the second passage part and measuring the fall time of the measurement tool in a prescribed vertical region in the second passage part.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nadachi, Makoto Shimohatsubo
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Patent number: 11338535Abstract: A sheet folding device and method, and a box-making machine, wherein are provided a molding belt for moving on a center side in the width direction of a cardboard sheet toward a downstream side in a transfer direction of the cardboard sheet and thereby pressing and folding both end parts in the width direction of the cardboard sheet from the outside, and a folding roller group formed by folding rollers for contacting insides of fold parts on both sides in the width direction of the cardboard sheet more toward the center in the width direction of the cardboard sheet than the molding belt, the folding rollers being arranged further upstream in the transfer direction of the cardboard sheet than a 90-degree folding position of the cardboard sheet.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kazuya Akita, Makoto Shimohatsubo
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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: 20220048269Abstract: A slotter apparatus includes a slotter knife rotatable in a same direction as a conveyance direction of a sheet that is conveyed on a conveyance path, the slotter knife having a cutting edge, for forming a notch groove in the sheet, on an outer periphery of the slotter knife. A protruding part protrudes outward from the cutting edge at one end of the slotter knife, the protruding part cutting an end part of the notch groove by piercing the sheet. A drive device that drives the slotter knife so as to rotate. A control device that, at least when the protruding part passes through from the upper surface of the sheet, controls the relative relationship between the circumferential velocity of the slotter knife and the conveyance velocity of the sheet so that the protruding part does not interfere with the end part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2019Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Kazuya AKITA, Makoto SHIMOHATSUBO
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Patent number: 11203173Abstract: A box making machinery and a corrugated board running register method, include a feeding unit, a processing apparatus which carries out processing on a corrugated board, a running register device which adjusts the processing position of the processing device in a carrying direction of the corrugated board, and a control device which controls the running register device, wherein the control device includes a carrying misalignment amount calculation unit which calculates the carrying misalignment amount of the corrugated board from the feeding unit to a preset predetermined carrying position, and a control unit which adjusts the processing position of the corrugated board to be processed next using the running register device on the basis of the carrying misalignment amount after processing of the corrugated board has finished.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Shinya Iori, Makoto Shimohatsubo, Yasunari Suzuki, Kazunori Hosoya
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Patent number: 11186058Abstract: An analysis device and an analysis method for a preparatory work time in a paper converting machine, includes an operator position detection device configured to detect a working position of an operator in the preparatory work time of a box making machine, an action diagram creation unit configured to create an action diagram of the operator based on the detection result of the operator position detection device, a work content item table creation unit configured to create a work content item table indicating a work content in the preparatory work time for each item based on operation processing data and operation data of the box making machine, and an operation process improvement item selection unit configured to select an improvement item of an operation process in the preparatory work time based on a creation result of the action diagram creation unit and the work content item table creation unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yasunari Suzuki, Masayoshi Tanchi, Makoto Shimohatsubo, Osamu Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20210178719Abstract: An analysis device and an analysis method for a preparatory work time in a paper converting machine, includes an operator position detection device configured to detect a working position of an operator in the preparatory work time of a box making machine, an action diagram creation unit configured to create an action diagram of the operator based on the detection result of the operator position detection device, a work content item table creation unit configured to create a work content item table indicating a work content in the preparatory work time for each item based on operation processing data and operation data of the box making machine, and an operation process improvement item selection unit configured to select an improvement item of an operation process in the preparatory work time based on a creation result of the action diagram creation unit and the work content item table creation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2017Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Yasunari SUZUKI, Masayoshi TANCHI, Makoto SHIMOHATSUBO, Osamu YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210178720Abstract: A box making machinery and a corrugated board running register method, include a feeding unit, a processing apparatus which carries out processing on a corrugated board, a running register device which adjusts the processing position of the processing device in a carrying direction of the corrugated board, and a control device which controls the running register device, wherein the control device includes a carrying misalignment amount calculation unit which calculates the carrying misalignment amount of the corrugated board from the feeding unit to a preset predetermined carrying position, and a control unit which adjusts the processing position of the corrugated board to be processed next using the running register device on the basis of the carrying misalignment amount after processing of the corrugated board has finished.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2017Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Shinya IORI, Makoto SHIMOHATSUBO, Yasunari SUZUKI, Kazunori HOSOYA
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Publication number: 20210046753Abstract: A viscosity measurement device includes a measurement tool having a pump for feeding a printing liquid by pressure. The viscosity measurement device includes a passage part having a first passage part in which a flow path cross-sectional area for the printing liquid is set at a first area, and a second passage part in which a flow path cross-sectional area for the printing liquid is set at a second area smaller than the first area and which is arranged on an upstream side in a supply direction of the printing liquid with respect to the first passage part, the passage part being interposed in the supply path and arranged upward toward a downstream side in the supply direction of the printing liquid; and a sensor attached to the second passage part and measuring the fall time of the measurement tool in a prescribed vertical region in the second passage part.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2018Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Mitsuhiro NADACHI, Makoto SHIMOHATSUBO
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Publication number: 20200282683Abstract: A sheet folding device and a box-making machine, wherein are provided folding guides disposed along a transfer direction on both sides in the transfer direction of a cardboard sheet, guide plates disposed downstream from the folding guides along the transfer direction on both sides in the transfer direction of the cardboard sheet, gauge roller groups disposed along the transfer direction further outside in the width direction of the cardboard sheet than the folding guides and the guide plates, folding guide adjustment devices for adjusting the width-direction position of the cardboard sheet in the folding guides, and a second gauge roller adjustment device for adjusting the width-direction position of at least gauge rollers disposed facing the second folding guide from among the gauge roller groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2017Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Kazuya AKITA, Makoto SHIMOHATSUBO
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Publication number: 20200171776Abstract: A sheet folding device includes forming belts which are disposed on both sides in a transfer direction of a corrugated board and move to a center side in a width direction of the corrugated board toward a downstream side in the transfer direction to press both end portions in the width direction from an outside so as to bend both the end portions; and a gauge roller group including several gauge rollers which are disposed along the transfer direction and come into contact with outer sides of both bent portions in the width direction of the corrugated board bent by the forming belts. In the several gauge rollers, recessed portions are provided on outer peripheral surfaces of the gauge rollers in a circumferential direction. Positions of the recessed portions are disposed to be offset downward in a vertical direction toward a downstream side in the transfer direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2017Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Kazuya AKITA, Shinya IORI, Makoto SHIMOHATSUBO
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Publication number: 20200023603Abstract: A corrugated cardboard sheet feeding apparatus, which comprises: an upstream-side conveying unit which conveys a corrugated cardboard sheet mounted on delivery rollers; and a downstream-side conveying unit which is adjacent to the downstream side of the upstream-side conveying unit and conveys, to a sheet processing unit, the corrugated cardboard sheet delivered from the upstream-side conveying unit. The downstream-side conveying unit has: a downstream-side suction unit which has openings facing a sheet conveyance path; and feed rollers with a portion of the outer peripheral surfaces thereof protruding towards the sheet conveyance path, which are accommodated in the downstream-side suction unit. The distance between the downstream ends of the openings and the axis of the most-downstream-side delivery rollers is set to be not larger than the maximum range of the distance between the conveyance rollers of the sheet processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2018Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Kazuya AKITA, Makoto SHIMOHATSUBO
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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: 20190291377Abstract: A sheet folding device and method, and a box-making machine, wherein are provided a molding belt for moving on a center side in the width direction of a cardboard sheet toward a downstream side in a transfer direction of the cardboard sheet and thereby pressing and folding both end parts in the width direction of the cardboard sheet from the outside, and a folding roller group formed by folding rollers for contacting insides of fold parts on both sides in the width direction of the cardboard sheet more toward the center in the width direction of the cardboard sheet than the molding belt, the folding rollers being arranged further upstream in the transfer direction of the cardboard sheet than a 90-degree folding position of the cardboard sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2017Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Kazuya AKITA, Makoto SHIMOHATSUBO