Patents by Inventor Shuntaro Sugawara

Shuntaro Sugawara 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).

  • Ink fountain apparatus for printing press
    Patent number: 5289772
    Abstract: An ink fountain apparatus for a printing press includes an ink fountain roller, an ink fountain, follow-up bearings, and springs. The ink fountain roller supplies a printing ink to a plate cylinder. The ink fountain has an ink blade disposed to have a predetermined gap with the circumferential surface of the ink fountain roller and movable forward and backward to approach to and separate from the circumferential surface of the ink fountain roller. The follow-up bearings are fixed to the ink fountain and contact the circumferential surface of the ink fountain roller to follow up a shape of the circumferential surface of the ink fountain roller. The springs bias the ink fountain toward the circumferential surface of the ink fountain roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1994
    Assignee: Komori Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutaka Kohara, Shuntaro Sugawara