Patents by Inventor Takao Obara

Takao Obara 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).

  • Method of separation of backbone part of fish and device therefor
    Patent number: 7988542
    Abstract: To obtain a quality-meat-attached backbone part suitable as a material for minced fish the invention proposes cutting off a fin part and a kidney from a meat-attached backbone part obtained when filleting a fish into three pieces. The meat-attached backbone part is conveyed by a pair of upper and lower conveyor belts while being sandwiched and held between the belts. When the backbone part reaches a fin cutter arranged in a midstream of the conveyance, a belly part is pushed by a first pushing lever while a back part of the meat-attached backbone part is received and stopped by a receiving and stopping lever, and the back skin from a back fin to a tail fin is cut off by the fin cutter. Then, when the meat-attached backbone part reaches a kidney cutter, the belly part of the meat-attached backbone part is pushed by a second pushing lever to position the kidney-attached backbone section of the meat-attached backbone part at a cutting position by a kidney cutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignees: UniSea Inc., Toyo Suisan Kikai Co., Ltd., Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigetsugu Yamase, Tomoyori Tsukagoshi, Kohji Morita, Kazuharu Takeuchi, Takao Obara, Peter James Maloney
  • Starting clutch and method of controlling the same
    Patent number: 6849024
    Abstract: A starting clutch includes a planetary mechanism; a first clutch for outputting a torque to an outer diameter portion of the planetary mechanism; a second clutch for outputting the torque to an intermediate portion of the planetary mechanism; and a lock mechanism for locking a reactive force from an inner diameter portion of the planetary mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignees: NSK Ltd., NSK-Warner K.K.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Hayashi, Hiroshi Fukushima, Takao Obara, Minao Umeda, Keeichi Minagi, Masao Shoji, Yoshio Kinoshita, Shiro Takeuchi, Tadashi Watanabe, Hirofumi Nakagomi, Tatsuro Miyoshi, Shigeharu Nishimura, Hiroshi Yabe, Nobuhiro Horiuchi
  • Starting clutch and method of controlling the same
    Publication number: 20020086766
    Abstract: A starting clutch includes a planetary mechanism; a first clutch for outputting a torque to an outer diameter portion of the planetary mechanism; a second clutch for outputting the torque to an intermediate portion of the planetary mechanism; and a lock mechanism for locking a reactive force from an inner diameter portion of the planetary mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Applicant: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Hayashi, Hiroshi Fukushima, Takao Obara, Minao Umeda, Keeichi Minagi, Masao Shoji, Yoshio Kinoshita, Shiro Takeuchi, Tadashi Watanabe, Hirofumi Nakagomi, Tatsuro Miyoshi, Shigeharu Nishimura, Hiroshi Yabe, Nobuhiro Horiuchi