Patents by Inventor Shigeki Ashida

Shigeki Ashida 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: 6540443
    Abstract: A ground-boring apparatus for boring the ground within a casing tube, which is driven into the ground by a casing tube pusher machine to prevent the surrounding soil from collapsing into a to be formed hole. The soil removed by an extensible kelly bar to be suspended by a movable crane, a boring bucket attached to the lower end of the kelly bar, a supporting frame unit to be placed on the casing tube for holding the kelly bar rotatably about its vertical axis, hydraulic motors provided on the supporting frame unit for turning the kelly bar about its vertical axis, and clamping devices for joining the supporting frame unit and the casing tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignees: Bauer Maschinen GmbH, Kato Kenki Yugen Kaisha
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kato, Shigeki Ashida, Daisuke Fujiki, Leonhard Weixler
  • Publication number: 20010041099
    Abstract: To efficiently bore a hole of a desired diameter regardless of ground conditions of a boring site without the need of an auxiliary crane and thereby curtail processes required for boring operation, a ground-boring apparatus for boring the ground within a casing tube (2), which is driven into the ground by a casing tube pusher machine (3) to prevent the ground from collapsing into a bored hole, and for removing soil from the inside of the bored hole comprises an extensible kelly bar (10) to be suspended by a movable crane, a boring bucket (14) attached to the lower end of the kelly bar (10), a supporting frame unit (11) to be placed on the casing tube (2) for holding the kelly bar (10) rotatably about its vertical axis, hydraulic motors (116) provided on the supporting frame unit (11) for turning the kelly bar (10) about its vertical axis, and clamping devices (114) for joining the supporting frame unit (11) and the casing tube (2) to thereby ensure the rotation of the kelly bar (10) counteracting a reaction f
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Publication date: November 15, 2001
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kato, Shigeki Ashida, Daisuke Fujiki, Leonhard Weixler
  • Patent number: 6139225
    Abstract: An underground continuous wall building method and apparatus in which a chain cutter 2 provided with excavation blades is obliquely mounted on a running carriage 1. Slanting continuous trenches G1, G2 are excavated by moving the running carriage 1 in a transverse direction while rotating the cutter 2 with the cutter 2 obliquely placed in the ground, and a water cutoff material is poured into the excavated continuous trenches G1, G2 and solidified therein to build slanting continuous walls R1, R2 in the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Kenji Koike, Yoshiaki Inagaki, Minoru Aoi, Fumio Kinoshita, Shigeki Ashida, Yuji Nakajima, Tatsuo Komoto, Hiroaki Kondo
  • Patent number: 4615901
    Abstract: A process for preparing foodstuff having continuous fiber structure which involves forming a wet mixture by adding meat stuff and/or other foods to wheat gluten alone or to a mixture of wheat gluten with other vegetable proteins, stretching the wet mixture, and heating the wet mixture in a high-temperature dry atmosphere, wherein steam is mixed with air alone or with a mixture of air and an inert gas, and the relative humidity is maintained within the range of 75 to less than 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1986
    Assignee: Kanegafuchi Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuo Yoshioka, Takatsugu Yamamoto, Toshihiko Nishiyama, Hiroyuki Fujita, Shigeki Ashida
  • Patent number: 4362760
    Abstract: A fibrous food material for use in meat-like products is provided.Also provided is a process for preparing the same, by other than a spinning process, which comprises intermixing a hydrous mixture of 3 to 10 parts of wheat protein and 0 to 7 parts of meat on the solid content ratio with a polysaccharide and common salt, then heating the admixture while stretching in an aqueous salt solution of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1982
    Assignee: Kanegafuchi Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fujita, Shigeki Ashida, Yoshiaki Taguchi, Masami Sakai