Patents by Inventor Minoru Kochi

Minoru Kochi 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: 9231386
    Abstract: An electric cable cutter used with a hand-held tool includes a housing; a pair of cutting blades supported by the housing; a pair of orthogonal gears; a drive shaft with an eccentric shaft portion attached to an output gear of the pair of orthogonal gears; a differential gear mechanism which decelerates a rotation of the drive shaft; and an Oldham coupling which corrects an eccentric rotation of an output gear of the differential gear mechanism. A circular-arc-shaped outer surface of the one cutting blade is supported by the other cutting blade so as to be openable and closable. The pair of cutting blades is provided with an outer toothed portion engaging with an output gear of the Oldham coupling. An input gear of the pair of orthogonal gears is connected through an adapter pin to the hand-held tool attachable and detachable through a one-touch operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: TOA INTERSYSTEM INC.
    Inventors: Minoru Kochi, Sadayoshi Kobayashi, Kentaro Abe
  • Publication number: 20150340849
    Abstract: A manual cable cutter in which a fulcrum of at least one handle is set to a projecting piece provided to a cutting blade connected to the other handle; a middle portion of the one handle and a rear end portion of the cutting blade are connected through a slider mechanism, and a point of the connection is set as an action point of the handle; an angle between the fulcrum of the handle, and a contact point between the cutting blades is set in an appropriate range; and a ratio among a length between the center of the support shaft and the fulcrum of the handle, a length between the fulcrum and the action point of the handle, and a length between the action point of the handle and the center of the support shaft is set in an appropriate range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Minoru KOCHI, Sadayoshi KOBAYASHI, Hiroshi OYANAGI
  • Publication number: 20140007433
    Abstract: Provided is an electric cable cutter that easily cuts a cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: TOA Intersystem Inc.
    Inventors: Minoru Kochi, Sadayoshi Kobayashi, Kentaro Abe
  • Publication number: 20040134073
    Abstract: A manual cable cutter includes a pair of handles linked to each other in upper parts thereof with two frame plates, one of the pair of handles being adapted as a stationary handle and the other as a rocking handle; a stationary cutting blade having a basal terminal part fixed, with soft bolts capable of being sheared, onto one of the two frame plates in a state superposed on the one frame plate; a rotary cutting blade furnished on an arcuate outer surface thereof with a continuously formed toothed part and pivotally supported rotatably on the stationary cutting blade; a first energizing spring and a second energizing spring disposed between the two frame plates; and a backstop claw meshed with the toothed part of the rotary cutting blade under pressure of the first energizing spring, and a feed claw meshed with the toothed part of the rotary cutting blade under pressure of the second energizing spring and disposed in an upper part of the rocking handle, the backstop claw and the feed claw both being disposed
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventor: Minoru Kochi
  • Publication number: 20030200849
    Abstract: A reinforcing steel bar cutter includes a base, a pair of bearing plates erected on the base, a handle shaft pivotally attached to one of the pair of bearing plates, a stationary blade and a movable blade provided with depressed parts and interposed between the pair of bearing plates, and a posture-retaining wall formed on at least one of the pair of bearing plates for preventing the reinforcing steel bar inserted into the depressed parts from warping while the reinforcing steel bar is being cut. The stationary and movable blades have opposed cutting blade parts to each of which a relief angle is imparted. The movable blade is connected to the handle shaft and rotated relative to the stationary blade by rocking motion of the handle shaft to cut the reinforcing bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventor: Minoru Kochi
  • Patent number: D624797
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Toa Intersystem Inc.
    Inventors: Minoru Kochi, Sadayoshi Kobayashi