Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiro Nadachi

Mitsuhiro Nadachi 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: 20240100799
    Abstract: A printing device, a printing machine, and a box making machine are provided with printing cylinders on which printing plates can be mounted, ink supply rolls that are placed on the upstream or downstream sides of the printing cylinders in a sheet-conveying direction and that can be in contact with the printing cylinders, ink supply units that can supply ink to the ink supply rolls, first covers that cover the upper parts of the printing cylinders in the vertical direction and that can be opened and closed, and footholds that cover the vertically upper parts of the ink supply rolls and that can be operated by an operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro NADACHI, Kazuya AKITA, Makoto SHIMOHATSUBO
  • Publication number: 20230073751
    Abstract: A slitter device includes an upper rotary shaft and a lower rotary shaft that are supported so as to be able to rotate. An upper slitter head that is supported by the upper rotary shaft so as to be able to rotate therewith. A lower slitter head that is supported by the lower rotary shaft so as to be able to rotate therewith and that is disposed on one side of the upper slitter head in the axial direction of the lower rotary shaft. An upper movement device that can move the upper slitter head in the axial direction of the upper rotary shaft. A lower movement device can move the lower slitter head in the axial direction of the lower rotary shaft. A control device that controls movement of the upper movement device and the lower movement device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Yasunari SUZUKI, Masayoshi TANCHI, Mitsuhiro NADACHI
  • Publication number: 20230075729
    Abstract: Provided are a slotter head, a slotter device and a box making machine comprising a cutter holder which is in a disk shape and is rotationally supported, a first cutting blade which is mounted to an outer peripheral portion of the cutter holder, a moving holder which is supported by the cutter holder movably along the circumferential direction, a second cutting blade which is mounted to an outer peripheral portion of the moving holder, a first drive device which rotationally drives the cutter holder, and a second drive device which rotationally drives the moving holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro NADACHI, Yasunari SUZUKI, Masayoshi TANCHI, Kazushige KUROKAWA, Masaya FUJINO, Makoto SHIMOHATSUBO
  • Patent number: 11479038
    Abstract: A viscosity measurement device includes a measurement tool having a pump for feeding a printing liquid by pressure. The viscosity measurement device includes a passage part having a first passage part in which a flow path cross-sectional area for the printing liquid is set at a first area, and a second passage part in which a flow path cross-sectional area for the printing liquid is set at a second area smaller than the first area and which is arranged on an upstream side in a supply direction of the printing liquid with respect to the first passage part, the passage part being interposed in the supply path and arranged upward toward a downstream side in the supply direction of the printing liquid; and a sensor attached to the second passage part and measuring the fall time of the measurement tool in a prescribed vertical region in the second passage part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nadachi, Makoto Shimohatsubo
  • Publication number: 20210046753
    Abstract: A viscosity measurement device includes a measurement tool having a pump for feeding a printing liquid by pressure. The viscosity measurement device includes a passage part having a first passage part in which a flow path cross-sectional area for the printing liquid is set at a first area, and a second passage part in which a flow path cross-sectional area for the printing liquid is set at a second area smaller than the first area and which is arranged on an upstream side in a supply direction of the printing liquid with respect to the first passage part, the passage part being interposed in the supply path and arranged upward toward a downstream side in the supply direction of the printing liquid; and a sensor attached to the second passage part and measuring the fall time of the measurement tool in a prescribed vertical region in the second passage part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro NADACHI, Makoto SHIMOHATSUBO
  • Patent number: 10343861
    Abstract: A sheet feeder includes: a wheel for issuing a lowermost sheet out to a sheet processing unit; a grate for spacing the sheet apart from the wheel at a raised position and bringing the sheet into contact with the wheel at a lowered position; and a drive device for driving the grate up and down. The drive device includes: a link mechanism for movably supporting the grate; a spring for urging the grate to the lowered position; a grate raising/lowering cam for periodically driving the grate up/down; and a skip feed cam that is driven by a control device, separately from a drive system of the grate raising/lowering cam, and that, at a timing where reached is a phase at which the grate raising/lowering cam does not put the grate in the raised position, retains the grate at the raised position in order to skip feeding of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nadachi, Osamu Hatano
  • Publication number: 20190062085
    Abstract: A sheet feeder includes: a wheel for issuing a lowermost sheet out to a sheet processing unit; a grate for spacing the sheet apart from the wheel at a raised position and bringing the sheet into contact with the wheel at a lowered position; and a drive device for driving the grate up and down. The drive device includes: a link mechanism for movably supporting the grate; a spring for urging the grate to the lowered position; a grate raising/lowering cam for periodically driving the grate up/down; and a skip feed cam that is driven by a control device, separately from a drive system of the grate raising/lowering cam, and that, at a timing where reached is a phase at which the grate raising/lowering cam does not put the grate in the raised position, retains the grate at the raised position in order to skip feeding of the sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro NADACHI, Osamu HATANO
  • Patent number: 9833963
    Abstract: A folder/gluer unit includes an upper transfer belt that transfers a corrugated sheet in a direction of transfer, a pair of forming belts that abut against a folding surface which is formed by folding both end portions of the corrugated sheet in a width direction orthogonal to the direction of transfer and fold both of the end portions of the corrugated sheet in the width direction, a pair of folding bars that are disposed in the direction of transfer, abut against the folding surface at both of the end portions of the folded corrugated sheet in the width direction, and guide both of the end portions of the corrugated sheet in the width direction, a moving mechanism that moves the pair of folding bars in the width direction and in a vertical direction, and a control unit that controls the moving mechanism to adjust a position of the folding bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRINTING & PACKAGING MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nadachi, Osamu Hatano
  • Publication number: 20170274612
    Abstract: A gluing device has a sheet guide for guiding a corrugated fiberboard; a basal part having a fixed relative position with respect to the sheet guide; a support part moveable with respect to the basal part; a glue gun for contacting and applying glue to a glued portion within a seam margin at a side edge of a corrugated fiberboard passing through the sheet guide; a first energizing mechanism for energizing the support part towards the sheet guide; a second energizing mechanism for energizing the support part away from the sheet guide; and a position adjustment mechanism arranged between the first energizing mechanism and the basal part, for steples sly adjusting the position of the support part in a direction lying in the direction of the force exerted by the first energizing mechanism, and adjusting the gap between the glue gun and the sheet guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro NADACHI, Osamu HATANO
  • Patent number: 9604447
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a washing water supplying path connected to an ink chamber, including a seal blade and a doctor blade slidably contacting an outer circumference of an anilox roll; a washing water supplier for supplying washing water to an inside of the ink chamber through the washing water supplying path; a supplying path opening/closing device that opens and closes the washing water supplying path; a washing water recovering paths connected to the ink chamber; a suction recovering device that recovers the washing water in the ink chamber by suction through the washing water recovering path; and a controller that controls operations of the washing water supplier, the supplying path opening/closing device, and the suction recovering device. The control mode includes a decompression control mode in which the seal blade is elastically deformed towards the ink chamber by decompressing the inside of the ink chamber by recovering the washing water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRINTING & PACKAGING MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nadachi, Osamu Hatano
  • Publication number: 20160185104
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a washing water supplying path connected to an ink chamber, including a seal blade and a doctor blade slidably contacting an outer circumference of an anilox roll; a washing water supplier for supplying washing water to an inside of the ink chamber through the washing water supplying path; a supplying path opening/closing device that opens and closes the washing water supplying path; a washing water recovering paths connected to the ink chamber; a suction recovering device that recovers the washing water in the ink chamber by suction through the washing water recovering path; and a controller that controls operations of the washing water supplier, the supplying path opening/closing device, and the suction recovering device. The control mode includes a decompression control mode in which the seal blade is elastically deformed towards the ink chamber by decompressing the inside of the ink chamber by recovering the washing water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro NADACHI, Osamu HATANO
  • Patent number: 9199794
    Abstract: A conveyor that is disposed at a printing unit of a box making machine and conveys a corrugated sheet 10a that is to undergo printing, includes: a conveyor belt 23 having a conveying face that conveys the corrugated sheet; a suction box 24a that is disposed at a side of a back 23b of the conveying face of the conveyor belt and that suctions the corrugated sheet onto the conveying face with negative pressure; a plurality of guide rolls that guide or drive the conveyor belt. Air blowing means is disposed on the back side of the conveyor belt within a region from an outlet roll to an inlet roll of the guide rolls and blows air to an outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRINTING & PACKAGING MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nadachi, Osamu Hatano
  • Patent number: 9168733
    Abstract: In a printing machine that carries out printing while circulating a printing solution, the device inhibits foaming of the ink so that the viscosity of the ink is efficiently controlled. In a printing machine that carries out printing while circulating the printing solution containing a resin component to be transferred to the surface to be printed and a surfactant through a circulation route (10), the device supplies a viscosity adjusting solution that controls the viscosity of the printing solution to the printing solution containing foam generated on the circulation route (10) to break the foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRINTING & PACKAGING MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nadachi, Osamu Hatano
  • Publication number: 20150024917
    Abstract: A folder/gluer unit includes an upper transfer belt that transfers a corrugated sheet in a direction of transfer, a pair of forming belts that abut against a folding surface which is formed by folding both end portions of the corrugated sheet in a width direction orthogonal to the direction of transfer and fold both of the end portions of the corrugated sheet in the width direction, a pair of folding bars that are disposed in the direction of transfer, abut against the folding surface at both of the end portions of the folded corrugated sheet in the width direction, and guide both of the end portions of the corrugated sheet in the width direction, a moving mechanism that moves the pair of folding bars in the width direction and in a vertical direction, and a control unit that controls the moving mechanism to adjust a position of the folding bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing &Packaging Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nadachi, Osamu Hatano
  • Publication number: 20140378285
    Abstract: A conveyor that is disposed at a printing unit of a box making machine and conveys a corrugated sheet 10a that is to undergo printing, includes: a conveyor belt 23 having a conveying face that conveys the corrugated sheet; a suction box 24a that is disposed at a side of a back 23b of the conveying face of the conveyor belt and that suctions the corrugated sheet onto the conveying face with negative pressure; a plurality of guide rolls that guide or drive the conveyor belt. Air blowing means is disposed on the back side of the conveyor belt within a region from an outlet roll to an inlet roll of the guide rolls and blows air to an outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packaging Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nadachi, Osamu Hatano
  • Patent number: 8915186
    Abstract: It is an object is to improve the cleaning effect, to reduce the cleaning time, and to reduce the consumption of cleaning water during cleaning of an inside of an ink chamber of a flexographic printing machine. For cleaning an ink chamber 20, purge air “a” is supplied from pipes 46a-b to the ink chamber 20, and an ink “f” is collected from an ink supply pipe 26 and an ink recovery pipe 36 to an ink can 30. Subsequently, cleaning water “w” is supplied from the pipes 46a-b to the ink chamber 20, as well as defining a cleaning water circulatory passage 44 constructed from a three-way valve 24, an ink supply port 22, the ink chamber 20, excessive ink recovery ports 32, the ink recovery pipe 36, and a connecting pipe 40 for circulating cleaning water “w” through the circulatory passage 44 to clean inside the ink chamber 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nadachi, Osamu Hatano
  • Publication number: 20140224139
    Abstract: In a printing machine that carries out printing while circulating a printing solution, the device inhibits foaming of the ink so that the viscosity of the ink is efficiently controlled. In a printing machine that carries out printing while circulating the printing solution containing a resin component to be transferred to the surface to be printed and a surfactant through a circulation route (10), the device supplies a viscosity adjusting solution that controls the viscosity of the printing solution to the printing solution containing foam generated on the circulation route (10) to break the foam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRINTING & PACKAGING MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nadachi, Osamu Hatano
  • Patent number: 8579777
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a board box by performing a box-making process of a corrugated board sheet which is formed to have dimensions of a plurality of board boxes wherein the yield of the board sheet and the production efficiency are enhanced and a countermeasure can be taken against paper powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packaging Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Hatano, Kazuya Sugimoto, Mitsuhiro Nadachi
  • Patent number: 8495958
    Abstract: In a printer for corrugated cardboard sheets and a box making machine for corrugated cardboard sheets, a control device that controls an operation of an air cylinder is provided such that an ink supply roll is moved toward or away from a printing cylinder relative to an intermediate position of a gap between ends of a printing plate attached on a surface of a printing cylinder. With this configuration, ink of an ink supply roll is appropriately transferred to the printing plate, an ink film on the printing plate is uniformized, and then printing precision is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packaging Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Sugimoto, Yasunari Suzuki, Osamu Hatano, Mitsuhiro Nadachi
  • Publication number: 20120167791
    Abstract: It is an object is to improve the cleaning effect, to reduce the cleaning time, and to reduce the consumption of cleaning water during cleaning of an inside of an ink chamber of a flexographic printing machine. For cleaning an ink chamber 20, purge air “a” is supplied from pipes 46a-b to the ink chamber 20, and an ink “f” is collected from an ink supply pipe 26 and an ink recovery pipe 36 to an ink can 30. Subsequently, cleaning water “w” is supplied from the pipes 46a-b to the ink chamber 20, as well as defining a cleaning water circulatory passage 44 constructed from a three-way valve 24, an ink supply port 22, the ink chamber 20, excessive ink recovery ports 32, the ink recovery pipe 36, and a connecting pipe 40 for circulating cleaning water “w” through the circulatory passage 44 to clean inside the ink chamber 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nadachi, Osamu Hatano