Patents by Inventor Takanori Yabuuchi

Takanori Yabuuchi 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: 20230117653
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a heat-sealing device capable of preventing problems associated with cap sealing performance and/or sensation of the cap being open due to an inappropriate cap temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicants: Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd., Shikoku Kakoki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunio KOMATSU, Masato YAMADA, Takanori YABUUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230072273
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a detection device that detects the occurrence of an event (so-called “double capping”) in which two caps are disposed on one container. To that end, the detection device (10, 10A) of the present invention has two types of sensors provided on a production line (100) for a commercial product in which an opening (1A) of a container (1) is sealed with a cap (2), said sensors being a proximity sensor (3) along a path where the container (1) moves and a sensor (4: for example, a transmission sensor) equipped with a transmitter (4A), which is inside the same path, and a receiver (4B). An area detected by the sensors (3, 4) is an area where the cap (2) is not present in a normal state (a state in which double capping has not occurred), but where a subsequent cap (2-1) is present if two caps (2) in a row have been attached to one container (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicants: Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd.,, Shikoku Kakoki Co., Ltd.,
    Inventors: Kunio KOMATSU, Masato YAMADA, Takanori YABUUCHI
  • Patent number: 9242754
    Abstract: A continuous rotary filling and packaging machine covers a container body with a molded lid and ultrasonically seals the container body. The molded lid to produce a sealed container includes a lid detecting device 70 disposed on the downstream side of the lid supplying device 60 and an ultrasonic sealing device 100 including lifting and lowering means including a cam mechanism for lifting and lowering a container table 103. The lifting and lowering means is configured such that the molded lid on the container body and a seal working surface of an ultrasonic horn 108 come into press-contact with each other at a top dead point of the container table. A container table lowering control mechanism does not lift, to the top dead point, a container table of a container whose container body does not have the molded lid placed thereon or properly placed thereon as determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA, SHIKOKU KAKOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Masuda, Yoshifumi Miki, Takanori Yabuuchi
  • Publication number: 20130036708
    Abstract: A continuous rotary filling and packaging machine covers a container body with a molded lid and ultrasonically seals the container body. The molded lid to produce a sealed container includes a lid detecting device 70 disposed on the downstream side of the lid supplying device 60 and an ultrasonic sealing device 100 including lifting and lowering means including a cam mechanism for lifting and lowering a container table 103. The lifting and lowering means is configured such that the molded lid on the container body and a seal working surface of an ultrasonic horn 108 come into press-contact with each other at a top dead point of the container table. A container table lowering control mechanism does not lift, to the top dead point, a container table of a container whose container body does not have the molded lid placed thereon or properly placed thereon as determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicants: SHIKOKU KAKOKI CO., LTD., KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Masuda, Yoshifumi Miki, Takanori Yabuuchi