Patents by Inventor Masuo Akimoto

Masuo Akimoto 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).

  • Film supplying apparatus
    Patent number: 4843412
    Abstract: A plurality of patrones accommodating films to be developed are housed in a magazine, and this magazine is connected to a developing system. A conveyor for consecutively feeding leaders connected to the tips of the films is provided in the magazine, and these leaders are fed one by one into the developing system, whereby all the films are automatically developed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Uchiyama, Haruo Takase, Kiichiro Sakamoto, Kazushige Uenaka, Masakazu Kokubu, Masuo Akimoto
  • Film supplying apparatus
    Patent number: 4831401
    Abstract: A plurality of patrones accommodating films to be developed are housed in a magazine, and this magazine is connected to a developing system. A conveyor for consecutively feeding leaders connected to the tips of the films is provided in the magazine, and these leaders are fed one by one into the developing system, whereby all the films are automatically developed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Uchiyama, Haruo Takase, Kiichiro Sakamoto, Kazushige Uenaka, Masakazu Kokubu, Masuo Akimoto
  • Film feeding apparatus
    Patent number: 4797698
    Abstract: A film feeding apparatus for automatically feeding a negative film accommodated in a patrone to a developing machine includes: means for accommodating a multiplicity of magazines piled one upon another, each magazine accommodating a patrone; driving means for feeding the lowermost magazine among those accommodated in the accommodating means to a film receiving port of the developing machine; and means for retracting the magazine from the film receiving port so as to be discharged after the feed of the film has been completed, whereby the magazines are successively moved, and the films are thereby automatically fed to the developing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushige Uenaka, Haruo Takase, Riuzi Otomo, Masuo Akimoto
  • Film feeding apparatus for a developing machine
    Patent number: 4731628
    Abstract: A film feeding apparatus for automatically feeding a negative film accommodated in a patrone to a developing machine includes: means for accommodating a multiplicity of magazines piled one upon another, each magazine accommodating a patrone; driving means for feeding the lowermost magazine among those accommodated in the accommodating means to a film receiving port of the developing machine; and means for retracting the magazine from the film receiving port so as to be discharged after the feed of the film has been completed, whereby the magazines are successively moved, and the films are thereby automatically fed to the developing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushige Uenaka, Haruo Takase, Riuzi Otomo, Masuo Akimoto