Patents by Inventor Shinichi TAKATSU

Shinichi TAKATSU 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: 20210178447
    Abstract: A vehicle panel roller hemming device includes roller hem equipment including: a positioning mechanism configured to position an outer panel on a hemming die by a locator; and a suction and fixing mechanism configured to suck and fix a lower face of the outer panel by a vacuum pad. The suction and fixing mechanism includes a pad base part; a skirt part continuously rising with a predetermined thickness from an edge of the pad base part and including an opening on an end edge thereof; a decompression space formed by an inner wall of the pad base part and an inner wall of the skirt part; and a suction through pipe penetrating the pad base part and communicating with the decompression space, and configured to suck air inside the decompression space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Shinichi TAKATSU, Koichi MURATA, Yoshihiro AOKI