Patents by Inventor Masao Funo

Masao Funo 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: 6253817
    Abstract: An apparatus for the processing and segmenting of a cover-forming laminate web or sheeting structure which is adapted to interconnect a plurality of containers, such as the base members of blister packages each of which is designed to contain a hydrophilic contact lens in a sterile aqueous solution. More specifically disclosed is an apparatus for the imprinting, perforating, slitting and cutting the laminated web structure such that the severed laminate segments constitute printed covering label for an array of such containers, and whereby the laminated web or sheeting segment may be severed along weakening or perforation lines so as to provide a separable packaging arrangement for individual of the containers which are subsequently adhered thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell James Edwards, Masao Funo, Richard Wayne Abrams, Kiyoshi Imai, Hirokazu Kitagawa, Borge Peter Gundersen, William Edward Holley, Thomas Christian Ravn, Mark Edward Schlagel, Daniel Tsu-Fang Wang
  • Patent number: 5848514
    Abstract: A packaging arrangement for packaging products such as contact lenses in packages such as blister packs. The packaging arrangement includes an intermittently indexed, linearly driven endless conveyor which includes a plurality of identical support pallets, equally spaced apart along the endless conveyor. Each support pallet is designed to support and align an array of individual package bases. The arrangement is such that each support pallet with an array of individual package bases thereon is sequentially stopped at a plurality of spaced work stations along the endless conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell James Edwards, Hirokazu Kitagawa, Kiyoshi Imai, Masao Funo, William Edward Holley, Charles R. Hood, Richard Wayne Abrams
  • Patent number: 5776297
    Abstract: An apparatus for the processing and segmenting of a cover-forming laminate web or sheeting structure which is adapted to interconnect a plurality of containers, such as the base members of blister packages each of which is designed to contain a hydrophilic contact lens in a sterile aqueous solution. More specifically disclosed is an apparatus for the imprinting, perforating, slitting and cutting the laminated web structure such that the severed laminate segments constitute printed covering label for an array of such containers, and whereby the laminated web or sheeting segment may be severed along weakening or perforation lines so as to provide a separable packaging arrangement for individual of the containers which are subsequently adhered thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell James Edwards, Masao Funo, Richard Wayne Abrams, Kiyoshi Imai, Hirokazu Kitagawa, Borge Peter Gundersen, William Edward Holley, Thomas Christian Ravn, Mark Edward Schlagel, Daniel Tsu-Fang Wang
  • Patent number: 5674347
    Abstract: An apparatus for the processing and segmenting of a cover-forming laminate web or sheeting structure which is adapted to interconnect a plurality of containers, such as the base members of blister packages each of which is designed to contain a hydrophilic contact lens in a sterile aqueous solution. More specifically disclosed is an apparatus for the imprinting, perforating, slitting and cutting the laminated web structure such that the severed laminate segments constitute printed covering label for an array of such containers, and whereby the laminated web or sheeting segment may be severed along weakening or perforation lines so as to provide a separable packaging arrangement for individual of the containers which are subsequently adhered thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell James Edwards, Masao Funo, Richard Wayne Abrams, Kiyoshi Imai, Hirokazu Kitagawa, Borge Peter Gundersen, William Edward Holley, Thomas Christian Ravn, Mark Edward Schlagel, Daniel Tsu-Fang Wang
  • Patent number: 5649410
    Abstract: The present invention, which relates to post hydration processing of contact lenses and the packages into which the lenses are placed, includes several assemblies which are ideally suited to performing the various steps which are associated with post hydration processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Wallace Anthony Martin, Ture Kindt-Larsen, Russell James Edwards, Borge Peter Gundersen, Darren Scott Keene, John Mark Lepper, Niels Jorgen Madsen, Thomas Christian Ravn, Daniel Tsu-Fang Wang, Masao Funo, William Edward Holley, Tomoichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5644895
    Abstract: A packaging arrangement for packaging products such as contact lenses in packages such as blister packs. The packaging arrangement includes an intermittently indexed, linearly driven endless conveyor which includes a plurality of identical support pallets, equally spaced apart along the endless conveyor. Each support pallet is designed to support and align an array of individual package bases. The arrangement is such that each support pallet with an array of individual package bases thereon is sequentially stopped at a plurality of spaced work stations along the endless conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell James Edwards, Hirokazu Kitagawa, Kiyoshi Imai, Masao Funo, William Edward Holley, Charles R. Hood, Richard Wayne Abrams
  • Patent number: 4756400
    Abstract: A product supply system for an accumulation packaging machine which may permit a high speed operation of a product discharge section and smoothly supply a product to the accumulation packaging device with a row arrangement of the product retained. The product supply system comprises a push conveyance line provided between the product discharge section and the accumulation packaging machine through an acceleration feeding device, and a product separating device and a product retaining device each provided in the push conveyance line and adapted to be interlocked with the accumulation packaging machine, wherein a product feed velocity of the acceleration feeding device is higher than that of the product discharge section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1988
    Assignee: The Japan Tobacco Salt Public Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Funo, Hayao Maeda