Patents by Inventor Norio Shibagaki

Norio Shibagaki 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).

  • Veneer bonding apparatus, veneer bonding method, bonded veneers, and veneer transporting method
    Patent number: 6089297
    Abstract: An apparatus for and a method of bonding veneers without problems in manufacturing process even if logs, which causes disorder of veneers after dried are used. The veneer bonding apparatus for bonding veneers to each other comprises: a bonding face machining device for machining both end portions of a veneer to be bonded to bonding faces; a bonding agent applying device for applying bonding agent to at least one bonding face of the machined bonding faces; an adjusting device for adjusting a front end bonding face of a succeeding veneer to a rear end bonding face of a preceding veneer such that a face side of the preceding veneer with the applied bonding agent and a backside of the succeeding veneer with the applied bonding agent are flush with each other; and a pressurizing device for pressurizing the adjusted bonding faces to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Meinan Machinery Works, Inc.
    Inventors: Norio Shibagaki, Teruo Fujie, Kenichi Hiraiwa, Masanori Nagai, Kiichi Yamamoto, Matsunaga Tsuruta, Mikio Tsutsui, Katsuhito Okada, Takayuki Yamauchi
  • Unseasoned veneer bonding method and apparatus therefor
    Patent number: 6013152
    Abstract: An unseasoned veneer bonding method and an apparatus therefor capable of bonding unseasoned veneers to each other without being affected by the moisture content of the unseasoned veneers and with ease. The unseasoned veneer bonding method comprising the steps of: machining an end portion of at least one unseasoned veneer of unseasoned veneers with prescribed thickness to be bonded to form a portion thinner than the prescribed thickness; overlapping the thinner portion of the one unseasoned and an end portion of the other unseasoned veneer to each other through thermosetting bonding agent; and press-contacting a heating body to at least the thinner portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Meinan Machinery Works, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuji Hasegawa, Norio Shibagaki, Tokuro Nakabayashi
  • Substantially uncurved and unwaved plywood produced by using veneers with unstraight fibers and method for producing such a plywood
    Patent number: 5255726
    Abstract: A substantially uncurved and unwaved plywood includes at least one pair of veneers located symmetrically with respect to a middle of a thickness of the plywood and having unstraight grains which coincide with each other.A method for producing a substantially uncurved and unwaved plywood comprises locating at least one pair of veneers with identical unstraight grains in a pair of positions symmetrical with respect to a middle of a thickness of a plywood to be produced, in such a manner than the grains of the veneers coincide with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Meinan Machinery Works, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuji Hasegawa, Yoshinori Koba, Norio Shibagaki, Akira Itoh, Matsunaga Tsuruta