Patents by Inventor Shuichi Ogihara

Shuichi Ogihara 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: 11478973
    Abstract: This method for manufacturing a resin container includes injection molding a plurality of preforms in an arrangement direction, a adjusting the temperature of the preforms, and molding containers from the preforms. The manufacturing method includes, between the injection molding and the temperature adjusting, changing the orientation of the preforms aligned in the arrangement direction to an orientation aligned in a conveying direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuichi Ogihara
  • Publication number: 20220332033
    Abstract: Provided is a resin container manufacturing method including: an injection molding process of injection molding a plurality of preforms along a predetermined arrangement direction; a temperature adjustment process of adjusting a temperature of the preform; and a blow molding process of molding a resin container from the preform. After the injection molding process, the preform and the container are conveyed along a conveying direction intersecting the arrangement direction over the temperature adjustment process and the blow molding process. The temperature adjustment process includes a first temperature adjustment process of adjusting the temperature of the preform, a second temperature adjustment process of adjusting the temperature of the preform under a condition different from that of the first temperature adjustment process, and a fine adjustment process of finely adjusting the temperature of the preform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi OGIHARA, Masatoshi ANDO
  • Publication number: 20210339452
    Abstract: This method for manufacturing a resin container includes injection molding a plurality of preforms in an arrangement direction, a adjusting the temperature of the preforms, and molding containers from the preforms. The manufacturing method includes, between the injection molding and the temperature adjusting, changing the orientation of the preforms aligned in the arrangement direction to an orientation aligned in a conveying direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuichi OGIHARA
  • Patent number: 10543635
    Abstract: An apparatus for molding a handle-equipped container is provided. The apparatus has a gripping mechanism section 160a which comprises a first gripping member 161 having a pair of first chuck members 163 for grasping a preform 200, and a second gripping member 162 having a pair of second chuck members 167 for grasping a container handle 20 in association with the action of the first gripping member 161. The apparatus can simultaneously grasp a plurality of the preforms 200 and a plurality of the container handles 20 and reliably transport them to a blow molding section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi Ogihara, Masayuki Usami, Atsushi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 10335992
    Abstract: A blow molding device and a blow molding method are disclosed that can blow-mold a container with a handle without requiring a handle inserter that inserts a handle into a blow molding section. A blow molding method for blow-molding a container with a handle includes heating a preform (2) that is held by a heating transfer jig (370), transferring the preform from the heating transfer jig to a blow transfer jig (420), and transferring the blow transfer jig in a state in which a handle (500) is held by the blow transfer jig to be adjacent to the preform in a transfer direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuichi Ogihara
  • Patent number: 10150242
    Abstract: A container with a handle, in which a handle is engaged with a portion of the container, is manufactured by arranging the handle in a handle arrangement part, inserting a bottomed tubular preform into a cavity of a mold and performing blow molding. The mold includes an inner wall surface that forms an external shape of the container and a pressurizing member that forms a handle engaging part engaging with the handle to a portion of the container, and the pressurizing member is capable of moving between a first position which is a position at an outer side of the inner wall surface and a second position at which a portion of the inner wall surface is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi Ogihara, Kazuyuki Yokobayashi, Masayuki Usami
  • Patent number: 9884445
    Abstract: A preform heating apparatus has cover members 164 provided to close upper parts of two transport lines arranged in parallel, heating units 162 each having heaters 166 for heating preforms 200, and a first supply section for supplying cooling air into the cover members 164. The heating units 162 are each provided within each cover member 164 on a side between the transport lines. The first supply section introduces cooling air from air delivery spaces 169 provided between the transport lines into the cover members 164 through gaps between the heaters 166 to supply the cooling air toward the preforms 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Shuichi Ogihara
  • Patent number: 9580252
    Abstract: A transport apparatus (300) for transporting a preform (200) for blow molding comprises: a transport device that transports the preform while allowing the preform to rotate on its axis in a horizontal direction; and an engaging device (310) that engages the preform being transported while being allowed to rotate on its axis, and setting the orientation of the preform to a predetermined orientation. The engaging device engages a convexity or a concavity provided in the outer periphery of the preform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Yokobayashi, Shuichi Ogihara
  • Publication number: 20170050368
    Abstract: A blow molding device and a blow molding method are disclosed that can blow-mold a container with a handle without requiring a handle inserter that inserts a handle into a blow molding section. A blow molding method for blow-molding a container with a handle includes heating a preform (2) that is held by a heating transfer jig (370), transferring the preform from the heating transfer jig to a blow transfer jig (420), and transferring the blow transfer jig in a state in which a handle (500) is held by the blow transfer jig to be adjacent to the preform in a transfer direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuichi OGIHARA
  • Publication number: 20160368197
    Abstract: A preform heating apparatus has cover members 164 provided to close upper parts of two transport lines arranged in parallel, heating units 162 each having heaters 166 for heating preforms 200, and a first supply section for supplying cooling air into the cover members 164. The heating units 162 are each provided within each cover member 164 on a side between the transport lines. The first supply section introduces cooling air from air delivery spaces 169 provided between the transport lines into the cover members 164 through gaps between the heaters 166 to supply the cooling air toward the preforms 200.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TAKAHASHI, Shuichi Ogihara
  • Patent number: 9511532
    Abstract: A blow molding device and a blow molding method are disclosed that can blow-mold a container with a handle without requiring a handle inserter that inserts a handle into a blow molding section. A blow molding method for blow-molding a container with a handle includes heating a preform (2) that is held by a heating transfer jig (370), transferring the preform from the heating transfer jig to a blow transfer jig (420), and transferring the blow transfer jig in a state in which a handle (500) is held by the blow transfer jig to be adjacent to the preform in a transfer direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Shuichi Ogihara
  • Publication number: 20160176098
    Abstract: An apparatus for molding a handle-equipped container is provided. The apparatus has a gripping mechanism section 160a which comprises a first gripping member 161 having a pair of first chuck members 163 for grasping a preform 200, and a second gripping member 162 having a pair of second chuck members 167 for grasping a container handle 20 in association with the action of the first gripping member 161. The apparatus can simultaneously grasp a plurality of the preforms 200 and a plurality of the container handles 20 and reliably transport them to a blow molding section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi OGIHARA, Masayuki USAMI, Atsushi NISHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 9333695
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an injection stretch blow molding device includes an injection molding section that produces N (N is an integer equal to or larger 2) preforms by injection molding, a cooling section that subjects the N preforms transferred from the injection molding section to forced cooling, a heating section that continuously transfers and heats the N cooled preforms, and a blow molding section that subjects the N heated preforms to stretch blow molding in n (n is an integer equal to or larger than 2) operations, the blow molding section simultaneously stretch blow molding M (M=N/n, M is a natural number) preforms among the N preforms into M containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Yamaguchi, Masatoshi Ando, Shuichi Ogihara
  • Publication number: 20160101946
    Abstract: A transport apparatus (300) for transporting a preform (200) for blow molding comprises: a transport device that transports the preform while allowing the preform to rotate on its axis in a horizontal direction; and an engaging device (310) that engages the preform being transported while being allowed to rotate on its axis, and setting the orientation of the preform to a predetermined orientation. The engaging device engages a convexity or a concavity provided in the outer periphery of the preform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki YOKOBAYASHI, Shuichi OGIHARA
  • Publication number: 20150328817
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an injection stretch blow molding device includes an injection molding section that produces N (N is an integer equal to or larger 2) preforms by injection molding, a cooling section that subjects the N preforms transferred from the injection molding section to forced cooling, a heating section that continuously transfers and heats the N cooled preforms, and a blow molding section that subjects the N heated preforms to stretch blow molding in n (n is an integer equal to or larger than 2) operations, the blow molding section simultaneously stretch blow molding M (M=N/n, M is a natural number) preforms among the N preforms into M containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki YAMAGUCHI, Masatoshi ANDO, Shuichi OGIHARA
  • Publication number: 20150328818
    Abstract: A container with a handle, in which a handle is engaged with a portion of the container, is manufactured by arranging the handle in a handle arrangement part, inserting a bottomed tubular preform into a cavity of a mold and performing blow molding. The mold includes an inner wall surface that forms an external shape of the container and a pressurizing member that forms a handle engaging part engaging with the handle to a portion of the container, and the pressurizing member is capable of moving between a first position which is a position at an outer side of the inner wall surface and a second position at which a portion of the inner wall surface is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi OGIHARA, Kazuyuki YOKOBAYASHI, Masayuki USAMI
  • Patent number: 9108344
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an injection stretch blow molding device includes an injection molding section that produces N (N is an integer equal to or larger 2) preforms by injection molding, a cooling section that subjects the N preforms transferred from the injection molding section to forced cooling, a heating section that continuously transfers and heats the N cooled preforms, and a blow molding section that subjects the N heated preforms to stretch blow molding in n (n is an integer equal to or larger than 2) operations, the blow molding section simultaneously stretch blow molding M (M=N/n, M is a natural number) preforms among the N preforms into M containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Yamaguchi, Masatoshi Ando, Shuichi Ogihara
  • Publication number: 20140302191
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an injection stretch blow molding device includes an injection molding section that produces N (N is an integer equal to or larger 2) preforms by injection molding, a cooling section that subjects the N preforms transferred from the injection molding section to forced cooling, a heating section that continuously transfers and heats the N cooled preforms, and a blow molding section that subjects the N heated preforms to stretch blow molding in n (n is an integer equal to or larger than 2) operations, the blow molding section simultaneously stretch blow molding M (M=N/n, M is a natural number) preforms among the N preforms into M containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Masaki YAMAGUCHI, Masatoshi ANDO, Shuichi OGIHARA
  • Publication number: 20140225315
    Abstract: A blow molding device and a blow molding method are disclosed that can blow-mold a container with a handle without requiring a handle inserter that inserts a handle into a blow molding section. A blow molding method for blow-molding a container with a handle includes heating a preform (2) that is held by a heating transfer jig (370), transferring the preform from the heating transfer jig to a blow transfer jig (420), and transferring the blow transfer jig in a state in which a handle (500) is held by the blow transfer jig to be adjacent to the preform in a transfer direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Inventor: Shuichi Ogihara
  • Patent number: 8777606
    Abstract: The injection stretch blow molding device includes an injection molding section that produces N (N is an integer equal to or larger 2) preforms by injection molding, a cooling section that subjects the N preforms transferred from the injection molding section to forced cooling, a heating section that continuously transfers and heats the N cooled preforms, and a blow molding section that subjects the N heated preforms to stretch blow molding in n (n is an integer equal to or larger than 2) operations, the blow molding section simultaneously stretch blow molding M (M=N/n, M is a natural number) preforms among the N preforms into M containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Nissei ASB Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Yamaguchi, Masatoshi Ando, Shuichi Ogihara