Patents by Inventor Masayuki Usami

Masayuki Usami 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).

  • Publication number: 20240140015
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a resin container having a flat cross-sectional shape includes a temperature adjusting step of preliminarily blowing a resin preform in a first mold to mold an intermediate molded body having a diameter larger than a diameter of a container short diameter side and adjusting a temperature of the intermediate molded body in the first mold, and a blow molding step of bringing the temperature-adjusted intermediate molded body into contact with a second mold to compress the intermediate molded body in a container short diameter direction, and then stretching and blow molding the intermediate molded body in the second mold to manufacture the resin container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo MINEMURA, Manabu OGIHARA, Masayuki USAMI, Junji TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11964793
    Abstract: This resin-made container is provided with: a neck portion having a content inlet-outlet portion; a lateral surface portion connected to the neck portion; and a bottom portion that is disposed on the side opposite to the neck portion and that is connected to the lateral surface portion. The resin-made container is produced by a stretch blow molding process. The bottom portion has formed therein a bulge section that protrudes downward in the vertical direction. The bulge section is disposed in an eccentric region, of the bottom portion, positioned outside a region demarcated by perpendicularly projecting an opening plane of the inlet-outlet portion of the neck portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Usami
  • Patent number: 11951670
    Abstract: A blow molding mold in which a holding mechanism is independently provided to a bottom mold and is configured to be capable of gripping a protruding portion provided to a bottom portion of a preform independently of a gate portion, and a rotation mechanism is configured to be capable of rotating the bottom mold, relative to a neck portion of the preform which is in a stationary state held by neck molds, in a state where the protruding portion is gripped by the holding mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Usami
  • Publication number: 20230049178
    Abstract: A mold includes a first mold for receiving a neck mold that holds a neck part of a resin preform having a bottom, and for enclosing the preform inside, and a second mold inserted into the neck mold. At least one of a first sliding surface between the neck mold and the first mold and a second sliding surface between the neck mold and the second mold includes a solid lubricant embedded therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki USAMI
  • Patent number: 11571847
    Abstract: A hollow article is molded in a state where an inner surface of a neck portion including an inner screw portion is held by an inner neck mold, and then, the hollow article is demolded from the inner neck mold by inserting an ejection rod into the hollow article to be engaged with an inner surface of the hollow article and rotating the hollow article together with the ejection rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soichiro Sato, Masayuki Usami
  • Publication number: 20220355519
    Abstract: A production apparatus of a two-layer preform including an inner layer preform and an outer layer preform includes: an outer layer cavity mold for injection-molding the outer layer preform. A bottom surface of the outer layer cavity mold is provided with a protrusion for separating the inner layer preform disposed in the outer layer cavity mold from the bottom surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo KAWAMURA, Masayuki USAMI
  • Patent number: 11472091
    Abstract: One purpose of the present invention is to provide a mold unit which is capable of achieving improvements in both energy efficiency and heat resistance performance; a blow molding apparatus; and a blow molding method. The present invention is provided with: a first mold part for performing a first step in which a preform is subjected to heat-set blowing at a first temperature; and a second metal mold part for performing a second step in which an intermediate molded body blow molded as a result of the heat-set blowing is blow molded at a second temperature lower than the first temperature, to produce a container. The first mold part and the second mold part are disposed adjacently to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Usami, Toshiteru Oike
  • Patent number: 11325297
    Abstract: An injection molding mold including a neck mold forming an outer surface of a neck portion of a hollow article, an injection cavity mold forming an outer surface of a body portion of the hollow article, and an injection core mold forming an inner surface of the hollow article, in which the injection core mold includes an outer core mold forming an inner surface of the neck portion including an inner screw portion and, while rotating along the inner screw portion, being movable along a rotation axis thereof, and an inner core mold forming an inner surface of the body portion of the hollow article having a smaller diameter than that of the neck portion and being linearly movable inside the outer core mold along the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Usami
  • Publication number: 20220048665
    Abstract: This resin-made container is provided with: a neck portion having a content inlet-outlet portion; a lateral surface portion connected to the neck portion; and a bottom portion that is disposed on the side opposite to the neck portion and that is connected to the lateral surface portion. The resin-made container is produced by a stretch blow molding process. The bottom portion has formed therein a bulge section that protrudes downward in the vertical direction. The bulge section is disposed in an eccentric region, of the bottom portion, positioned outside a region demarcated by perpendicularly projecting an opening plane of the inlet-outlet portion of the neck portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki USAMI
  • Publication number: 20210299936
    Abstract: A blow molding mold in which a holding mechanism is independently provided to a bottom mold and is configured to be capable of gripping a protruding portion provided to a bottom portion of a preform independently of a gate portion, and a rotation mechanism is configured to be capable of rotating the bottom mold, relative to a neck portion of the preform which is in a stationary state held by neck molds, in a state where the protruding portion is gripped by the holding mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki USAMI
  • Patent number: 10773445
    Abstract: A mold includes a link member including a protruding grip forming part configured to form a grip part to a portion of a container by pressurizing a portion of a preform that is expanded during blow molding; and a piston member configured to move forward toward a cavity to thus press and rotate the link member. The grip forming part has: a pressurizing surface configured to pressurize the portion of the preform; and a contact surface configured to come into contact with the piston member, wherein the piston member has a pressing surface that comes into contact with the contact surface and presses the grip forming part toward an inside of the cavity when moving the pressurizing surface, and wherein the pressurizing surface is arranged at an opposite side of the contact surface of the grip forming part with respect to a moving direction of the piston member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Usami
  • Publication number: 20200238594
    Abstract: A hollow article 10 is molded in a state where an inner surface of a neck portion 11 including an inner screw portion is held by an inner neck mold 52, and then, the hollow article 10 is demolded from the inner neck mold 52 by inserting an ejection rod 81 into the hollow article 10 to be engaged with an inner surface of the hollow article 10 and rotating the hollow article 10 together with the ejection rod 81.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soichiro SATO, Masayuki USAMI
  • Publication number: 20200156304
    Abstract: An injection molding mold including a neck mold forming an outer surface of a neck portion of a hollow article, an injection cavity mold forming an outer surface of a body portion of the hollow article, and an injection core mold forming an inner surface of the hollow article, in which the injection core mold includes an outer core mold forming an inner surface of the neck portion including an inner screw portion and, while rotating along the inner screw portion, being movable along a rotation axis thereof, and an inner core mold forming an inner surface of the body portion of the hollow article having a smaller diameter than that of the neck portion and being linearly movable inside the outer core mold along the rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki USAMI
  • Patent number: 10618694
    Abstract: A handle of the present invention is a handle configured to be attached on a side surface of a container body along an upward and downward direction of the container body, the handle including an elongated grip portion, an upper attachment arm provided on an upper side of the grip portion, and a lower attachment arm provided on a lower side of the grip portion, wherein on at least a part of a lower surface of a distal end side of the upper attachment arm, a first inclined surface is formed to be inclined toward A center portion of the grip portion, and on at least a part of an upper surface of a distal end side of the lower attachment arm, a second inclined surface is formed to be inclined toward the center portion of the grip portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Usami, Atsushi Nagasaki, Kazuhiro Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 10543635
    Abstract: An apparatus for molding a handle-equipped container is provided. The apparatus has a gripping mechanism section 160a which comprises a first gripping member 161 having a pair of first chuck members 163 for grasping a preform 200, and a second gripping member 162 having a pair of second chuck members 167 for grasping a container handle 20 in association with the action of the first gripping member 161. The apparatus can simultaneously grasp a plurality of the preforms 200 and a plurality of the container handles 20 and reliably transport them to a blow molding section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi Ogihara, Masayuki Usami, Atsushi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 10397982
    Abstract: A photographing device for a vehicle includes: an imaging element configured to receive a photographing beam passing through a beam transmission section of a window section; a heater constituted by a heating wire; a section to be heated to which the heater is fixed, the section to be heated being opposite to an inner side surface of the beam transmission section; a switch element configured to switch electrical connection state to the heater; and a current limiting element disposed at the section to be heated and being configured such that current flowing through the heater becomes zero or is reduced when the electric circuit is short-circuited such that power is supplied to the heater while bypassing the switch element and a temperature of the current limiting element become equal to or higher than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Usami, Kunihiko Toyofuku, Ryuichi Shinkai
  • Patent number: 10351073
    Abstract: The photographing apparatus for vehicle includes image pickup device which is disposed inside of a window part provided in a vehicle and receives photographing luminous flux passing through a light transmissive portion, a heater, composed of heated wire, generates heat when being supplied electrical power from electric power source, a heated portion, fixed to the heater, faces an inner surface of the light transmissive portion and gives radiant heat to the light transmissive portion when receiving heat from the heater. The heated portion is a plate having a polygonal shape. Both ends of the heater are positioned at two different corner portions of the heated portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Usami, Kunihiko Toyofuku, Ryuichi Shinkai
  • Publication number: 20190061222
    Abstract: One purpose of the present invention is to provide a mold unit which is capable of achieving improvements in both energy efficiency and heat resistance performance; a blow molding apparatus; and a blow molding method. The present invention is provided with: a first mold part for performing a first step in which a preform is subjected to heat-set blowing at a first temperature; and a second metal mold part for performing a second step in which an intermediate molded body blow molded as a result of the heat-set blowing is blow molded at a second temperature lower than the first temperature, to produce a container. The first mold part and the second mold part are disposed adjacently to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki USAMI, Toshiteru OIKE
  • Patent number: 10150242
    Abstract: A container with a handle, in which a handle is engaged with a portion of the container, is manufactured by arranging the handle in a handle arrangement part, inserting a bottomed tubular preform into a cavity of a mold and performing blow molding. The mold includes an inner wall surface that forms an external shape of the container and a pressurizing member that forms a handle engaging part engaging with the handle to a portion of the container, and the pressurizing member is capable of moving between a first position which is a position at an outer side of the inner wall surface and a second position at which a portion of the inner wall surface is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi Ogihara, Kazuyuki Yokobayashi, Masayuki Usami
  • Publication number: 20180304519
    Abstract: A mold includes a link member including a protruding grip forming part configured to form a grip part to a portion of a container by pressurizing a portion of a preform that is expanded during blow molding; and a piston member configured to move forward toward a cavity to thus press and rotate the link member. The grip forming part has: a pressurizing surface configured to pressurize the portion of the preform; and a contact surface configured to come into contact with the piston member, wherein the piston member has a pressing surface that comes into contact with the contact surface and presses the grip forming part toward an inside of the cavity when moving the pressurizing surface, and wherein the pressurizing surface is arranged at an opposite side of the contact surface of the grip forming part with respect to a moving direction of the piston member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki USAMI