Patents by Inventor Shinji Ishikura

Shinji Ishikura 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: 20240148931
    Abstract: Provided is a lighting device with an inactivation function, the lighting device allowing the addition of an inactivation function while being equal to conventional lighting devices in device size. The lighting device with the inactivation function includes: a UVC light source to emit ultraviolet light having a peak wavelength in a wavelength range from 200 nm to 230 nm; an LED light source to emit visible light; a single unit of an AC/DC converter to convert an AC voltage derived from an external power source into a DC voltage and output the DC voltage; a UVC light source-specific circuit part to convert the DC voltage output from the AC/DC converter into a voltage for lighting the UVC light source; and an LED light source-specific circuit part to convert the DC voltage output from the AC/DC converter into a current for lighting the LED light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji SHIMOMURA, Akira ISHIKURA
  • Patent number: 11180357
    Abstract: To reduce an amount of use of a replacement gas used for replacing air in a container. A gas replacement system includes: a washing machine that washes the container with water; a filling machine that fills the container with a content fluid; a sealing machine that seals the container transferred from the filling machine; a chamber that covers the filling machine and the sealing machine, and contains a replacement gas; and a water discharge mechanism (washing machine) that discharges the water in the container having been carried into the chamber while containing the water out of the container in the chamber. The water in the container is replaced with an ambient gas in the chamber along with the discharge of the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD., TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidehiko Yuse, Kazuyuki Kurosawa, Yukio Takada, Shinji Ishikura, Norio Inukai, Katsumi Sembon
  • Patent number: 10981681
    Abstract: A filling device with a filling failure is identified less costly, and the filling amount by the filling device is adjusted quickly. The filling/sealing device includes a filler including a filling turret having a plurality of holding parts and a filling device provided for each of the holding parts to fill a container with a liquid content, forwarding turrets that hold and turret-convey a container transported from the filling turret, a sealing device that seals the container transported from the forwarding turrets with a lid, an inspection device provided in the path, in which the container is held and turret-conveyed, to inspect a filling amount in the container, and a controller that identifies a filling device with a filling failure on the basis of an inspection result from the inspection device and controls the filling amount by the filling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Kurosawa, Hidehiko Yuse, Shinichi Hizume, Shinji Ishikura
  • Patent number: 10941029
    Abstract: There is provided a filling-and-sealing device and a filling-and-sealing method capable of reducing an amount of use of a replacement gas used for replacing air in a container. The filling-and-sealing device includes a filling machine that fills a container with a content fluid; a sealing machine that seals the container transferred from the filling machine with a lid; a chamber that covers the filling machine and the sealing machine; a gassing system that replaces, in the chamber, a gas in the container with a carbon dioxide gas by introducing the carbon dioxide gas as a second replacement gas supplied from a tank; and a pre-gassing system that replaces the gas in the container with a first replacement gas that remains in the chamber containing the carbon dioxide gas before processing by the gassing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD., TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidehiko Yuse, Kazuyuki Kurosawa, Yukio Takada, Shinji Ishikura, Norio Inukai, Katsumi Sembon
  • Publication number: 20200079635
    Abstract: To reduce an amount of use of a replacement gas used for replacing air in a container. A gas replacement system includes: a washing machine that washes the container with water; a filling machine that fills the container with a content fluid; a sealing machine that seals the container transferred from the filling machine; a chamber that covers the filling machine and the sealing machine, and contains a replacement gas; and a water discharge mechanism (washing machine) that discharges the water in the container having been carried into the chamber while containing the water out of the container in the chamber. The water in the container is replaced with an ambient gas in the chamber along with the discharge of the water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Hidehiko YUSE, Kazuyuki KUROSAWA, Yukio TAKADA, Shinji ISHIKURA, Norio INUKAI, Katsumi SEMBON
  • Publication number: 20180215600
    Abstract: There is provided a filling-and-sealing device and a filling-and-sealing method capable of reducing an amount of use of a replacement gas used for replacing air in a container. The filling-and-sealing device includes a filling machine that fills a container with a content fluid; a sealing machine that seals the container transferred from the filling machine with a lid; a chamber that covers the filling machine and the sealing machine; a gassing system that replaces, in the chamber, a gas in the container with a carbon dioxide gas by introducing the carbon dioxide gas as a second replacement gas supplied from a tank; and a pre-gassing system that replaces the gas in the container with a first replacement gas that remains in the chamber containing the carbon dioxide gas before processing by the gassing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Hidehiko YUSE, Kazuyuki KUROSAWA, Yukio TAKADA, Shinji ISHIKURA, Norio INUKAI, Katsumi SEMBON
  • Publication number: 20180002042
    Abstract: A filling device with a filling failure is identified less costly, and the filling amount by the filling device is adjusted quickly. The filling/sealing device includes a filler including a filling turret having a plurality of holding parts and a filling device provided for each of the holding parts to fill a container with a liquid content, forwarding turrets that hold and turret-convey a container transported from the filling turret, a sealing device that seals the container transported from the forwarding turrets with a lid, an inspection device provided in the path, in which the container is held and turret-conveyed, to inspect a filling amount in the container, and a controller that identifies a filling device with a filling failure on the basis of an inspection result from the inspection device and controls the filling amount by the filling device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicants: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MECHATRONICS SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki KUROSAWA, Hidehiko YUSE, Shinichi HIZUME, Shinji ISHIKURA
  • Patent number: 9428373
    Abstract: A rotary-type filling machine includes a rotary body, a liquid distribution chamber, a plurality of filling flow path configuration units, each of which has a fluid path constituted by a liquid path connected to the liquid distribution chamber and a liquid valve and configured to individually introduce a liquid into a container, a filling control device, a liquid supply unit, a pressure difference information detection unit configured to detect pressure difference information between a liquid distribution chamber pressure, which is a pressure of the liquid in the liquid distribution chamber, and a filling atmospheric pressure detected as a pressure of a flow release unit in a filling flow path configuration unit at an arbitrary radial direction position of the rotary body, and a rotation information detection unit configured to detect rotation information of the rotary body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES FOOD & PACKAGING MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Tanaka, Masayuki Hayashi, Shinji Ishikura
  • Publication number: 20130306190
    Abstract: A rotary-type filling machine includes a rotary body, a liquid distribution chamber, a plurality of filling flow path configuration units, each of which has a fluid path constituted by a liquid path connected to the liquid distribution chamber and a liquid valve and configured to individually introduce a liquid into a container, a filling control device, a liquid supply unit, a pressure difference information detection unit configured to detect pressure difference information between a liquid distribution chamber pressure, which is a pressure of the liquid in the liquid distribution chamber, and a filling atmospheric pressure detected as a pressure of a flow release unit in a filling flow path configuration unit at an arbitrary radial direction position of the rotary body, and a rotation information detection unit configured to detect rotation information of the rotary body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Food & Packaging Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Tanaka, Masayuki Hayashi, Shinji Ishikura