Patents by Inventor Shoji Murakawa

Shoji Murakawa 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: 4686750
    Abstract: An automatic clip mounting device for automating a punching step and a clip mounting step at a same working position in working an elongated work without relocating the work. The device comprising a support bed for holding the elongated work, a clamp device for fixing the work held by the support bed, a punching device for punching the work fixed by the clamp device, a clip setting device for gripping a clip and mounting the clip at a position where the clip is punched by the punching device, a clip supplying device for supplying the clip to the clip setting device, and a sequential moving device for moving a moving base, where the punching device and the clip setting device are mounted, to a working position of the work fixed by the clamp device and the support bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1987
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoji Murakawa
  • Patent number: 4472126
    Abstract: In an apparatus for manufacturing reinforced hoses, a reinforced layer forming device is arranged concentric with material efflux port of an outer tube extruder and an inner tube extruder so that inner tube formation, the reinforcing layer formation and the outer tube extruding can be performed continuously and nearly at the same time on a torpedo projected beyond the top end of an inner die (2) of the inner tube extruder (1). In order to obtain the reinforcing layer of uniform spiral structure stably, a spiral device (21) as a reinforcing layer forming device has an inner spinner (25) and an outer spinner (26), each having conical frustum form, and top end portions of the inner and outer spinners are provided with a plurality of thread holes (G1, G2) and inserted in a gap between the intermediate die (12) and the inner die (2), and the inner and outer spinners can be rotated integrally with inner and outer bobbin carriers respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1984
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Mitsui, Shoji Murakawa