Patents by Inventor Motohisa Funahashi

Motohisa Funahashi 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: 5436843
    Abstract: A resource recycling system and a product circulation system, wherein a search is made for information regarding specifications and production methods for a recovered product and an original product is produced with the recovered product used as resources. These systems include a plurality of production factories for producing a predetermined products, and housing a production apparatus and a reclamation factory. A communication network is connected for transmitting therebetween production information necessary for producing products. Also a recycle plate is created for identifying a production apparatus. The plate is used to transmit accounting information on an amount of money required to reproduce the product from the reclaimed resources. The reclamation apparatus also identifies a production apparatus by which a recovered product was produced, extracts production information on the recovered product and generates a disassembly procedure for the recovered product from the extracted production information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohji Kamejima, Junichi Nishihashi, Masakazu Ejiri, Masami Yamasaki, Motohisa Funahashi, Akira Masaki, Tomoyuki Hamada, Ichiro Nakamura, Kichie Matsuzaki