Patents by Inventor Noboru Sawane

Noboru Sawane 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: 8713993
    Abstract: Provided is a pinhole inspecting method for suitably inspecting a pinhole in a bottle compared with conventional pinhole inspection. A reference inner pressure (P1) is a bottle inner pressure obtained directly after closing a supply valve (3) after opening the supply valve (3) for only a predetermined time. Whether the reference inner pressure (P1) is over a previously specified first threshold value (Pth1) or not is checked, and when it exceeds the first threshold value (Pth1), airtight status of the bottle is held for a predetermined time, and then a pressure reduction quantity (?P) of the bottle inner pressure from the reference inner pressure is measured after a fixed time. The bottle is judged to have no pinholes only when the value of ?P is not exceeding the previously specified second threshold value (?Pth2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yousuke Matsushita, Noboru Sawane, Yasushi Oobuchi
  • Patent number: 8167601
    Abstract: A blow molding machine with air conditioning that while minimizing the introduction rate of outside air maintains constant temperature in a plant building and the interior of a blow molding machine and production of a bottle as a final configuration with stability in its measurement value. The machine is constructed so that air for biaxially stretching blow molding together with hot air of heating zone and internal air of a plant building is suctioned by suction chamber, filtered by primary filter and secondary filter into clean air, brought into heat exchange with primary cooling coil, fed under pressure by air blower and released through low-temperature duct into the interior of the plant building. Further, a housing on its side face is provided with vent to allow reflux of the clean air released into the interior of the plant building and flow into the heating zone and blow zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yousuke Matsushita, Noboru Sawane
  • Patent number: 8137086
    Abstract: This invention is configured having a control mechanism which supports a preform and controls the state of rotation of a support member being moved through a heating region so as to control the orientation of the preform with respect to heating devices, the control mechanism having a first magnetic pole member arranged along at least a part of the heating region and a second magnetic pole member fastened at a portion of the support member being moved through the heating region facing the first magnetic pole member, the support member moved through the heating region being set to a rotation state determined by a relationship between the polarity of the first magnetic pole member and the polarity of the second magnetic pole member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yousuke Matsushita, Noboru Sawane
  • Publication number: 20100257919
    Abstract: Provided is a pinhole inspecting method for suitably inspecting a pinhole in a bottle compared with conventional pinhole inspection. A reference inner pressure (P1) is a bottle inner pressure obtained directly after closing a supply valve (3) after opening the supply valve (3) for only a predetermined time. Whether the reference inner pressure (P1) is over a previously specified first threshold value (Pth1) or not is checked, and when it exceeds the first threshold value (Pth1), airtight status of the bottle is held for a predetermined time, and then a pressure reduction quantity (?P) of the bottle inner pressure from the reference inner pressure is measured after a fixed time. The bottle is judged to have no pinholes only when the value of ?P is not exceeding the previously specified second threshold value (?Pth2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN KAISHA, LTD.
    Inventors: Yousuke Matsushita, Noboru Sawane, Yasushi Oobuchi
  • Publication number: 20100068323
    Abstract: This invention is configured having a control mechanism which supports a preform 50 and controls the state of rotation of a support member 20 being moved through a heating region so as to control the orientation of the preform 50 with respect to heating devices, the control mechanism having a first magnetic pole member 122a arranged along at least a part of the heating region and a second magnetic pole member 24 fastened at a portion of the support member 20 being moved through the heating region facing the first magnetic pole member 122a, the support member 20 moved through the heating region being set to a rotation state determined by a relationship between the polarity of the first magnetic pole member 122a and the polarity of the second magnetic pole member 24.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventors: Yousuke Matsushita, Noboru Sawane
  • Publication number: 20100015269
    Abstract: A blow molding machine with air conditioning that while minimizing the introduction rate of outside air, realizes maintaining of constant temperature in not only a plant building but also the interior of a blow molding machine and production of a bottle as a final configuration with stability in its measurement value. The blow molding machine with air conditioning is constructed so that air for use in biaxially stretching blow molding together with hot air of heating zone (1) and internal air of a plant building is suctioned by means of suction chamber (4), filtered by means of primary filter (6) and secondary filter (7) into clean air, brought into heat exchange with primary cooling coil (8), fed under pressure by air blower (10) and released through low-temperature duct (12) into the interior of the plant building.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: Yousuke Matsushita, Noboru Sawane