Patents by Inventor Michio Ueda
Michio Ueda 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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Patent number: 5396236Abstract: A converting method and circuit for converting horizontal M-bit data and vertical N-bit data into vertical M-bit data and horizontal N-bit data. A square matrix of M or N whichever the larger is considered, and a part of data are transposed with the diagonal axis as an axis of symmetry. The circuit may be constituted by flip-flops less than the number M.times.M (N.times.N) and selectors less than the same number.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 1993Date of Patent: March 7, 1995Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Michio Ueda
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Patent number: 5377727Abstract: An apparatus for measuring out and filling a particulate or granular material comprises an intermittently drivable container conveyor extending through a filling station for a plurality of containers as arranged in a feed direction to be fed to and stopped at the filling station at a time by the operation of the conveyor, a horizontal feed roller disposed at the filling station and extending across the path of transport by the conveyor thereabove, the feed roller being formed in its outer surface with measuring pockets spaced axially of the roller and equal in number to the number of containers stopped at the filling station, a particulate or granular material hopper disposed above the feed roller, and a filling chute disposed between the conveyor and the feed roller.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1993Date of Patent: January 3, 1995Assignee: Shikoku Kakoki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michio Ueda, Tetsuya Iuchi, Takao Miki, Hisanori Hamada
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Patent number: 5371996Abstract: A container sealing apparatus wherein a strip of closure material can be transported intermittently a desired distance at a time, and this distance is variable in accordance with the size of containers to be sealed to achieve savings in the material without wasting. The closure material is affixed to the opening edge portions of containers at a sealing station, and a closure is blanked out from the material affixed to each container, along the opening edge portion by a cutter before the container is delivered from the sealing station. The closure material is transported by means operable independently of the container transport operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 1993Date of Patent: December 13, 1994Assignee: Shikoku Kakoki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michio Ueda, Tetsuya Iuchi, Masao Nobuta, Tadashi Mifune, Seiji Hashimoto
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Patent number: 5363753Abstract: A machine for producing soybean curd comprises a conveyor having coagulating buckets, a device for filling a mixture of soybean milk and a coagulant into the buckets, means for heating the mixture in the buckets to coagulate the mixture into soybean curd, and a device for withdrawing the soybean curd from the buckets. A preheater for preheating the buckets to a temperature higher than the temperature of the mixture to be filled is disposed for a path of travel of the buckets at a position upstream from the filling device.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1993Date of Patent: November 15, 1994Assignee: Shikoku Kakoki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michio Ueda, Yoshihito Kondo, Hiroaki Umazume
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Patent number: 5353850Abstract: An apparatus for distributedly filling a particulate or granular material into containers has an intermittently driven container conveyor, and a continuously driven particulate or granular material conveyor extending across and positioned above the container conveyor. First chutes and second chutes are arranged between the container conveyor and material conveyor. The container conveyor comprises first holders and second holders arranged alternately in the direction of transport thereof and each adapted to hold containers C equal in number to the number of container transport paths, and is so driven as to feed one first holder to a first filling station and one second holder to a second filling station and stop the two fed holders at the respective stations at a time. A first particulate or granular material feeder and a second particulate or granular material feeder are arranged at opposite sides of the intersection of the two conveyors.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1993Date of Patent: October 11, 1994Assignee: Shikoku Kakoki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michio Ueda, Tetsuya Iuchi, Takao Miki, Hisanori Hamada
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Patent number: 5309958Abstract: A filling apparatus for viscous foods comprising a vertical tubular filling nozzle having a flow inlet formed in a tubular wall close to the lower end thereof and a piston-incorporating metering cylinder in communication with the flow inlet, and a plunger accommodated in the filling nozzle so as to open or close the flow inlet. The plunger has an air discharge annular opening defined by a lower-end peripheral portion thereof for blowing off adhering food and a recess formed inside the air discharge opening and providing an air reservoir for preventing adhesion of the food.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1992Date of Patent: May 10, 1994Assignee: Shikoku Kakoki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michio Ueda, Takahiro Sawabuchi, Masakatsu Kondo
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Patent number: 5302035Abstract: To suppress a secondary bound of a print wire of a dot matrix printer which may occur after a single dot or continuous dots are printed and also to prevent both density variation of printed characters and printing ghost from occurring, a braking pulse is applied after application of a printing pulse in the case of printing the single dot and after a printing pulse of the trailing print cycle in the case of printing the continuous dots. The duration of the braking pulse to be applied after the application of the printing pulse in the trailing print cycle of the continuous dot printing is set to be shorter than the duration of the braking pulse applied after the printing pulse in the case of printing the single dot.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 1992Date of Patent: April 12, 1994Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Michio Ueda
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Patent number: 5295343Abstract: A container sealing apparatus comprising a conveyor for transporting containers, a sealer for sealing an opening edge portion of each of the containers with a closure material supplied adjacent to the container during transport by the conveyor, and a trimmer for blanking out a closure from the closure material affixed to the container, along the edge portion, the trimmer having a lifter for lifting the container from a path of transport of the container, a holder having a support for supporting the edge portion of the container lifted by the lifter and a cutter clearance groove formed externally of the support, and a cutter movable upward and downward so as to bring a cutting edge thereof into and out of the groove.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1993Date of Patent: March 22, 1994Assignee: Shikoku Kakoki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michio Ueda, Tetsuya Iuchi, Masao Nobuta, Tadashi Mifune, Seiji Hashimoto
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Patent number: 5263994Abstract: The dot impact printer of the invention sets an optimum printing speed based on various factors, such as kanji or alphanumeric characters, and to set an optimum brake pulse and an optimum energizing energy corresponding to the set optimum printing speed. The printing mode is determined through a series of logic steps and optimum settings for the printing actions is selected according to the mode identified. Thus, in the invention, based on the print contents, a printing speed, an energizing period of time for the first dot, an energizing period of time for the following dots, a brake pulse width, a period of time till the generation of brake pulses and delay time, are changed.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1992Date of Patent: November 23, 1993Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Michio Ueda
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Patent number: 5249513Abstract: An apparatus for producing fine-textured soybean curd as placed in containers comprises means for filling a mixture of soybean milk and a coagulant into coagulating buckets, means for heating the mixture to coagulate the mixture into soybean curd, covering means for placing an inverted container over each of the buckets to cover an upper-end opening of the bucket without dewatering the soybean curd within the bucket, means for inverting the bucket and the container as placed over the bucket, and means for withdrawing the soybean curd as accommodated in the container from the bucket by moving down the inverted container.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 1992Date of Patent: October 5, 1993Assignee: Shikoku Kakoki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Michio Ueda
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Patent number: 5070342Abstract: A thermal printer is provided which may use various types of ribbons including print only and print and erase ribbons. The printer includes a memory having stored therein predetermined printing condition data corresponding to a plurality of print modes including a mode in which only printing may be executed and a mode in which both printing and erasing may be executed. One of the modes is selected based upon the type of ink ribbon being used and the printing conditions are set in accordance with the stored data for the selected ribbon.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 1990Date of Patent: December 3, 1991Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Okumura, Koshiro Yamaguchi, Michio Ueda
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Patent number: 4913567Abstract: A printer wherein printing is effected while a print head and a recording medium are moved relative to each other with the print head in pressed contact with the medium. The printer includes a print-head support member for supporting the print head movably between a printing position and a release position. The printer further includes a support member and a displaceable member which are connected by an elastic member, so that the print head is moved from the release position to the printing position, and the print head in the printing position is pressed against the medium. The displacement of the displaceable member consists of a first movement for moving the print head to the printing position, and a second movement for enabling the elastic member to produce a biasing force for pressing the print head against the medium. An amount of displacement of the displaceable member per unit angle of rotation of the rotatable member is greater in the first movement than in the second movement.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1987Date of Patent: April 3, 1990Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Teruo Imamaki, Yoshiaki Yuki, Michio Ueda, Shigenori Hattori
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Patent number: 4841214Abstract: A control device is provided for a stepping motor which connects with a drive system comprising a somewhat resilient member exerting a rebound force, such as a gear for the platen or a wire for the carriage in an electronic typewriter. When the stepping motor stops rotating in a determined direction, the control device rotates the stepping motor in the opposite direction for a minimum step to compensate for the unnecessary reverse rotation of the stepping motor caused by the resiliency in the drive system. Therefore, a transmission shaft of the stepping motor is freed from such an undesired external force as the resiliency of other parts and the stepping motor is always stopped in a position appropriate for a subsequent rotation.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 1987Date of Patent: June 20, 1989Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Michio Ueda, Satoshi Shibata
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Patent number: 4803055Abstract: An apparatus for sterilizing containers comprises a closed sterilized chamber having a container inlet and a container outlet, an antiseptic vessel and a rinse vessel arranged within the sterilized chamber, and a group of container transport devices for transporting each container within the sterilized chamber from the inlet to the outlet by way of the vessels.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1987Date of Patent: February 7, 1989Assignee: Shikoku Kakoki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Michio Ueda
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Patent number: 4364058Abstract: An ink droplet charging device and method in which ink droplets are alternately charged positive, negative and with zero charges to prevent the accumulation of foreign particles upon charging electrodes. A nozzle jets an ink stream which is divided into ink droplets. A charging electrode disposed at the position where the ink stream divides into the droplets controls the charge condition of the ink droplets according to whether the ink droplets are utilized for printing or not. Positive, negative and ground level voltages are applied to the charging electrode in synchronization with the formation of the ink droplets.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1980Date of Patent: December 14, 1982Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayoshi Tamai, Michio Ueda, Masatsugu Kikuchi