Patents by Inventor Tadashi Munakata
Tadashi Munakata 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).
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Patent number: 6488124Abstract: In an elevator, a driving unit is installed at the top of an elevator shaft above a counterweight. Traction sheaves engage with ropes and are rotated by the driving device. These traction sheaves are positioned close to wall surfaces of the elevator shaft, that are adjacent to its wall surface facing the counterweight. The traction sheaves are also positioned outside the horizontally projected plane of a car.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1998Date of Patent: December 3, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kunio Yasuda, Yoshiaki Fujita, Kosei Kamimura, Ikuo Asami, Yasuyuki Wagatsuma, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Tadashi Munakata, Shin Murakami, Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Takeshi Miyata, Mitsuo Hayase
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Patent number: 6390243Abstract: An elevator apparatus is provided with an elevator path having a restricted height. Under a roping ratio of 1:1, a thin driving unit having a traction sheave 1 and a driving mechanism 2 is positioned between an inner wall 3a of the elevator path 3 and a space occupied by an elevator car 4 rising and falling in the elevator path 3. One end of a suspension rope 7 is fixed to the elevator car 4 in a position below a ceiling 4c of the elevator car 4. With the arrangement, the car 4 can move close to the ceiling 4c of the elevator car 4 effectively. Further, it is possible to reduce respective heights of the elevator path 3 and a building equipped with the elevator apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2001Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Tadashi Munakata, Kosei Kamimura, Yasuyuki Wagatsuma, Hisao Yamamoto, Koji Yajima
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Patent number: 6382360Abstract: An elevator apparatus is provided with an elevator path having a restricted height. Under a roping ratio of 1:1, a thin driving unit having a traction sheave 1 and a driving mechanism 2 is positioned between an inner wall 3a of the elevator path 3 and a space occupied by an elevator car 4 rising and falling in the elevator path 3. One end of a suspension rope 7 is fixed to the elevator car 4 in a position below a ceiling 4c of the elevator car 4. With the arrangement, the car 4 can move close to the ceiling 4c of the elevator car 4 effectively. Further, it is possible to reduce respective heights of the elevator path 3 and a building equipped with the elevator apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2001Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Tadashi Munakata, Kosei Kamimura, Yasuyuki Wagatsuma, Hisao Yamamoto, Koji Yajima
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Publication number: 20010009210Abstract: An elevator apparatus is provided with an elevator path having a restricted height. Under a roping ratio of 1:1, a thin driving unit having a traction sheave 1 and a driving mechanism 2 is positioned between an inner wall 3a of the elevator path 3 and a space occupied by an elevator car 4 rising and falling in the elevator path 3. One end of a suspension rope 7 is fixed to the elevator car 4 in a position below a ceiling 4c of the elevator car 4. With the arrangement, the car 4 can move close to the ceiling 4c of the elevator car 4 effectively. Further, it is possible to reduce respective heights of the elevator path 3 and a building equipped with the elevator apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2001Publication date: July 26, 2001Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Tadashi Munakata, Kosei Kamimura, Yasuyuki Wagatsuma, Hisao Yamamoto, Koji Yajima
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Publication number: 20010009211Abstract: An elevator apparatus is provided with an elevator path having a restricted height. Under a roping ratio of 1:1, a thin driving unit having a traction sheave 1 and a driving mechanism 2 is positioned between an inner wall 3a of the elevator path 3 and a space occupied by an elevator car 4 rising and falling in the elevator path 3. One end of a suspension rope 7 is fixed to the elevator car 4 in a position below a ceiling 4c of the elevator car 4. With the arrangement, the car 4 can move close to the ceiling 4c of the elevator car 4 effectively. Further, it is possible to reduce respective heights of the elevator path 3 and a building equipped with the elevator apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2001Publication date: July 26, 2001Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Tadashi Munakata, Kosei Kamimura, Yasuyuki Wagatsuma, Hisao Yamamoto, Koji Yajima
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Publication number: 20010009209Abstract: An elevator apparatus is provided with an elevator path having a restricted height. Under a roping ratio of 1:1, a thin driving unit having a traction sheave 1 and a driving mechanism 2 is positioned between an inner wall 3a of the elevator path 3 and a space occupied by an elevator car 4 rising and falling in the elevator path 3. One end of a suspension rope 7 is fixed to the elevator car 4 in a position below a ceiling 4c of the elevator car 4. With the arrangement, the car 4 can move close to the ceiling 4c of the elevator car 4 effectively. Further, it is possible to reduce respective heights of the elevator path 3 and a building equipped with the elevator apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2001Publication date: July 26, 2001Inventors: Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Tadashi Munakata, Kosei Kamimura, Yasuyuki Wagatsuma, Hisao Yamamoto, Koji Yajima
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Patent number: 6247557Abstract: An elevator apparatus including an elevator path having a restricted height. Under a roping ratio of 1:1, a thin driving unit having a traction sheave and a driving mechanism is positioned between an inner wall of the elevator path and a space occupied by an elevator car rising and falling in the elevator path. One end of a suspension rope is fixed to the elevator car in a position below a ceiling of the elevator car. With the arrangement, the car can move close to the ceiling of the elevator car effectively. Further, it is possible to reduce respective heights of the elevator path and a building equipped with the elevator apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 1999Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Tadashi Munakata, Kosei Kamimura, Yasuyuki Wagatsuma, Hisao Yamamoto, Koji Yajima
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Patent number: 6141862Abstract: An apparatus for disassembling and assembling a gas turbine combustor comprises a hand assembly for holding a combustor component of a gas turbine, an inserting and drawing section which supports the hand assembly and moves the same in parallel to a central axis of the combustor component and a retainer for securing the inserting and drawing section onto a casing which constitutes an outer section of the gas turbine.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 1996Date of Patent: November 7, 2000Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hiroshi Matsui, Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Tadashi Munakata, Yoshikata Kobayashi, Takeshi Takahara, Yoshihiko Nakada, Yukio Someya
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Patent number: 5969531Abstract: The inspection apparatus for inspecting performance of a structure such as stator windings of an electric rotating machine of the invention comprises a probe including a measuring element, an arm unit and a cylinder face circumferential moving apparatus. The arm unit has an arm link section supporting the probe (mainly comprising a leading end link assembly and an arm posture keeping mechanism), an arm housing section (mainly comprising a guide rail) regarding driving of this arm link section, and an arm driving mechanism. The arm driving mechanism causes the leading end link assembly to project from the guide rail at an angle toward a measuring position side of the stator windings relative to the axial direction of the rotor unit, while causing the arm link section to travel along the guide rail. The arm posture keeping mechanism is provided with a link wire and a spring, and maintains a straight arm posture of the leading end link assembly after projection from the guide rail.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1997Date of Patent: October 19, 1999Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shin Murakami, Tadashi Munakata, Norihito Togashi, Satoshi Suzuki, Sueyoshi Mizuno, Yoshikata Kobayashi, Satoshi Irie, Masanori Sotodate, Katsune Zaitsu, Shinji Takahashi, Hideyuki Shimada
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Patent number: 5950805Abstract: This invention provides a convey apparatus capable of conveying a convey target without locally applying an excessive force to it. The convey apparatus includes a convey portion and a medium pressure switching unit. The convey portion has a plurality of medium passages for passing a medium therethrough, and at least part of the surface of the convey portion is made of an elastic material. The diameters of the medium passages can be freely increased/decreased. The medium pressure switching unit controls the pressures of a medium supplied to the respective medium passages of the convey portion to increase or decrease the diameters of the medium passages, thereby generating a carrier wave on the surface of the convey portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1996Date of Patent: September 14, 1999Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Tadashi Munakata
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Patent number: 5417542Abstract: A method and an apparatus for carrying a workpiece for improving efficiency in a workpiece carrying operation. In the apparatus, a moving member having a workpiece holding member is driven with a linear motion in a horizontal plane along a carrier passage, and the workpiece holding member is driven with a revolutional motion in a vertical plane around a revolution axis displaced from a center of the workpiece holding member, while the workpiece holding member maintains an orientation in which a holder holding the workpiece points downwards. The holder of the workplece holding member is controlled to sequentially carry out holding of the workpiece and releasing of the workpiece at lowest positions of the workpiece holding member in the revolutional motion, so as to realize a continuous workpiece carrying operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1992Date of Patent: May 23, 1995Assignees: Japan Tobacco, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hisao Suzuki, Kazuhiro Tokitsu, Makoto Kasahara, Kiyoe Imai, Kouichi Yumita, Tadashi Munakata, Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Etuo Minamihama, Takatomo Izume, Yasuharu Ujiie, Masamichi Kato
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Patent number: 5331731Abstract: A work mounting apparatus according to the present invention comprises a rotating drum divided into upper and lower drums, a head unit arranged on the outer periphery of the rotating drum or the lower drum, a circular work head attached to the head unit, and a suction nozzle protruding from the outer peripheral surface of the work head toward a workbench. While the lower drum is rotating, the suction nozzle of the work head repeats cycloid motion along the workbench with its posture or orientation kept fixed with respect to the workbench. While repeating the cycloid motion, the nozzle receives a work from a work feeder of the workbench by suction, and mounts the work on a printed board on the workbench. The work mounting apparatus further includes a balance weight for the work head, and a friction brake for applying a frictional force to the turning shaft of the work head, to thereby stabilize the turning motion of the work head.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1992Date of Patent: July 26, 1994Assignees: Japan Tobacco Inc., Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hisao Suzuki, Kazuhiro Tokitu, Tadashi Munakata, Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Takatomo Izume, Masamichi Kato, Etuo Minamihama
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Patent number: 5285484Abstract: A remote control apparatus for maintaining a tokamak type nuclear fusion reactor comprises a rail having a plurality of arcuated links to be extended in a circumferential direction and a plurality of joints for pivotally connecting the adjacent arcuated links, a vehicle running on the rail extended so as to form a continuous arc with its center substantially coinciding with the center of the torus space, and at least one handling device mounted on the vehicle, for handling the in-vessel components. The remote control apparatus is further provided with a rail housing device for receiving the arcuated links in a folded state when they are not in use, a rail mounting device for sending out said arcuated links in succession into the torus space, extending them so that they form a continuous arc and supporting the arcuated link on the proximal end of the rail, and a rail supporting device for supporting the central portion of the rail extended in the torus space.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 1992Date of Patent: February 8, 1994Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kiyoshi Shibanuma, Shin Murakami, Tadashi Munakata, Yoshinobu Ishikawa
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Patent number: 5274908Abstract: A work or component mounting apparatus according to the present invention comprises a rotating drum arranged above a workbench and divided into upper and lower drums, a head unit detachably mounted to the lower drum of the rotating drum, a circular work head (or, in other words, a component head) attached to the head unit, a suction nozzle protruding from the outer peripheral surface of the work head toward the workbench, and a controller housed in the upper drum of the rotating drum for controlling the turning motion of the work head and the supply of suction pressure to the suction nozzle. While the lower drum is rotating, the suction nozzle of the work head repeats cycloid motion along the workbench with its posture kept fixed with respect to the workbench. While repeating the cycloid motion, the nozzle receives a work from a work feeder of the workbench by suction, and mounts the work on a printed board on the workbench.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1992Date of Patent: January 4, 1994Assignees: Japan Tobacco Inc., Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hisao Suzuki, Kouichi Yumita, Kazuhiro Tokitu, Tadashi Munakata, Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Etuo Minamihama, Koji Taira, Yasuharu Ujiie
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Patent number: 5173248Abstract: A remote control apparatus for maintaining a tokamak type nuclear fusion reactor comprises a rail having a plurality of arcuated links to be extended in a circumferential direction and a plurality of joints for pivotally connecting the adjacent arcuated links, a vehicle running on the rail extended so as to form a continuous arc with its center substantially coinciding with the center of the torus space, and at least one handling device mounted on the vehicle, for handling the in-vessel components. The remote control apparatus is further provided with a rail housing device for receiving the arcuated links in a folded state when they are not in use, a rail mounting device for sending out said arcuated links in succession into the torus space, extending them so that they form a continuous arc and supporting the arcuated link on the proximal end of the rail, and a rail supporting device for supporting the central portion of the rail extended in the torus space.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1991Date of Patent: December 22, 1992Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kiyoshi Shibanuma, Shin Murakami, Tadashi Munakata, Yoshinobu Ishikawa
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Patent number: 4797061Abstract: A multi-jointed robot of high-speed and high-precision motion with reduced stress is disclosed. This robot has a first arm which is pivotal on a base, and a second arm which is pivotal on the first arm. The first arm is directly moved by a first motor on the base, while the second arm is moved by a double parallel link mechanism driven by a second motor which has two shafts at its both ends and which is supported on the base.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1987Date of Patent: January 10, 1989Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Tadashi Munakata
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Patent number: 4730975Abstract: In an industrial robot of a type having an arm made of a pentagonally connected links, of which an uppermost link is secured to a stationary member so as to be swingable around its axis, the uppermost link is rotated by a first motor, while second and third motors are provided nearby the uppermost link for operating upper links connected to the uppermost link swingably. A wrist base is pivotally connected to the lower ends of lower links to be swingable in a plane defined by the lower links and fourth and fifth motors are also provided nearby the uppermost link for driving, through belts and pulleys, a cross-shaped member pivotally connected to the wrist base and a wrist casing pivotally connected to the wrist base so as to swing around axes perpendicularly to each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 1986Date of Patent: March 15, 1988Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Tadashi Munakata
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Patent number: 4272781Abstract: The disclosed apparatus comprises a movable carriage on which an industrial television camera and nondestructive examining unit or probe are swingably supported. A control means for controlling the carriage, industrial television camera and the probe are also provided as is a monitor television for displaying the result of an examination made by the probe and a video tape recorder.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 1979Date of Patent: June 9, 1981Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuo Taguchi, Tadashi Munakata, Yoshikata Kobayashi