Patents by Inventor Takao Takagi
Takao Takagi 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: 9307772Abstract: A method for forming a food product into a circular shape, wherein both ends of an elongated food product are connected each other and closed, or into a C-shape, wherein both ends of the elongated food product face each other and opened. The method includes (a) fixing one end of the elongated food product to a rotatable core member, (b) pressing the food product toward the core member by moving the core member close to and away from a pressing roller, when the food product is formed into a circular shape by being wound around the core member by rotating the core member, and (c) separating the formed food product and the core member by releasing the food product from the core member, after forming the food product 3 into a required shape by being wound around the core member.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiko Kato, Hitoshi Kuwabara, Takao Takagi, Nobuaki Harada, Noritake Fukuda
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Patent number: 8850967Abstract: Forming machines and methods for forming a croissant dough piece in which the lateral end sides can be bent to form and join them, while they contact the upper surface of a transporting conveyor, are provided. In one aspect of the invention, the forming machines include an interception pin 75, which is arranged above the transporting conveyor 5 such that it is vertically movable and it is also movable in the conveying direction of the transporting conveyor 5. The forming machine also includes a plurality of pressing members 99, which are arranged above the transporting conveyor 5 such that they are vertically movable and are movable in the conveying direction of the transporting conveyor 5 at a velocity faster than that of the interception pin 75, and they are movable toward and away from each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko Kato, Takao Takagi, Akira Todate
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Publication number: 20140186506Abstract: A method for forming a food product into a circular shape, wherein both ends of an elongated food product are connected each other and closed, or into a C-shape, wherein both ends of the elongated food product face each other and opened. The method includes (a) fixing one end of the elongated food product to a rotatable core member, (b) pressing the food product toward the core member by moving the core member close to and away from a pressing roller, when the food product is formed into a circular shape by being wound around the core member by rotating the core member, and (c) separating the formed food product and the core member by releasing the food product from the core member, after forming the food product 3 into a required shape by being wound around the core member.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiko Kato, Hitoshi Kuwabara, Takao Takagi, Nobuaki Harada, Noritake Fukuda
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Patent number: 8535038Abstract: A food dough forming apparatus for joining together a first end face of a rod-shaped food dough and a second end face of another rod-shaped food dough, the apparatus including: deforming and facing means for deforming the food doughs so as to cause the first end face and the second end face to face each other; and joining means for joining together the end faces caused to face each other by the deforming and facing means.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2008Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Okaizumi, Takao Takagi
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Publication number: 20120052179Abstract: Forming machines and methods for forming a croissant dough piece in which the lateral end sides can be bent to form and join them, while they contact the upper surface of a transporting conveyor, are provided. In one aspect of the invention, the forming machines include an interception pin 75, which is arranged above the transporting conveyor 5 such that it is vertically movable and it is also movable in the conveying direction of the transporting conveyor 5. The forming machine also includes a plurality of pressing members 99, which are arranged above the transporting conveyor 5 such that they are vertically movable and are movable in the conveying direction of the transporting conveyor 5 at a velocity faster than that of the interception pin 75, and they are movable toward and away from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2011Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko Kato, Takao Takagi, Akira Todate
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Publication number: 20100104719Abstract: A food dough forming apparatus (1) for joining together a first end face (W1A) of a rod-shaped food dough (W1) and a second end face (W2A) of another rod-shaped food dough (W2), the apparatus including: deforming and facing means (3) for deforming the food doughs (W1, W2) so as to cause the first end face (W1A) and the second end face (W2A) to face each other; and joining means (5) for joining together the end faces (W1A, W2A) caused to face each other by the deforming and facing means (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: RHEON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Okaizumi, Takao Takagi
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Patent number: 7547540Abstract: A cell/tissue culture apparatus for applying a desired tensile stress to a material to be cultivated such as a cell or tissue as a physical stimulation, thereby enhancing acceleration of culture of the material to be cultivated. The cell/tissue culture apparatus comprises a chamber (a culture chamber 8) for circulating a culture fluid (24), a material to be cultivated (a matrix 32) that is placed and cultivated in the chamber, stress generation means (an electromagnetic stretcher 38, an actuator 56) for causing a tensile stress to act on the material to be cultivated from an outside of the chamber, and control means (controllers 50, 60) for causing the tensile stress generated by the stress generation means to intermit as well as undergo gradual increase or gradual decrease. The material to be cultivated can be caused to undergo expansion or contraction by applying and relieving the tensile stress, thereby applying a physical stimulation necessary for the proliferation to the material to be cultivated.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2002Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: Takagi Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takao Takagi, Setsuo Watanabe
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Patent number: 7541178Abstract: A cell/tissue culture apparatus is suitable for a culture of a cultivated object of a cell or tissue adapted for a prescribed portion of a living body of a breast and so on, a culture chamber (18, a culture vessel 10) which accommodates a cell or tissue to be cultivated and also makes a culture fluid (34) circulate is formed by a flexible material (flexible films 12, 14), and the culture chamber is immersed in a fluid (water 8). A pressure or an oscillation is given to the culture chamber installed in the fluid, and a physical stimulation due to the pressure from the fluid or the oscillation of the fluid is given to a cell or tissue under a culture.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2002Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignee: Takagi Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takao Takagi, Setsuo Watanabe
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Patent number: 7399629Abstract: The invention provides a cell/tissue culture apparatus capable of applying an optional physical stimulation to a material to be cultivated serving as a cell or tissue to be cultivated and of protecting the material to be cultivated from contamination of various bacteria and so forth.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2002Date of Patent: July 15, 2008Assignee: Takagi Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takao Takagi, Setsuo Watanabe
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Patent number: 7144726Abstract: A cell/tissue culture apparatus can give a physical stimulation necessary for proliferation and growth to a cultured object which is a cell or tissue to be cultured. The cell/tissue culture apparatus has a chamber (a culture chamber 4) which accommodates a cultured object (a matrix 8) and supplies a culture fluid (6), a pressing means (a pressing plate 10, 11) which is movably arranged in the chamber and gives a physical stimulation due to a press to the cultured object by movement thereof, and a driving means (a pressure unit 22, an electromagnet unit 32) which gives a driving force to the pressing means for applying the physical stimulation to the cultured object from an outside of the chamber in a state out of contact with the pressing means.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2002Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: Takagi Industrial Co.Inventors: Takao Takagi, Setsuo Watanabe
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Patent number: 7061518Abstract: An LED print head is arranged opposite to a photosensitive body, consisting of a base body, which is arranged parallel to the axis of the photosensitive body and consists of a large volume base part having an upper face opposite to the photosensitive body and a small volume projection part extending upward from a part of the upper face of the base part, and having a narrow width in the path of the photosensitive body. An LED base panel is fitted on the upper face of the base part, and a lens array is on the part of a side of the projecting part, being arranged between the opposing face of the photosensitive body, and the upper face of the LED base panel. Manufacturing and attaching methods relating to the print head are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2002Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignee: Suzuka Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunsuke Ueda, Takao Takagi, Setsuo Suzuki, Takeyoshi Horiuchi, Hideyuki Ikoma, Hiromu Ono, Takashi Toyoda, Sayuri Natsui
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Patent number: 6921662Abstract: The invention provides a cell/tissue culture apparatus for applying a physical stimulation necessary for the proliferation and growth of a cell or tissue to a material to be cultivated serving as a cell or tissue to be cultivated, thereby realizing the culture as desired and protecting the material to be cultivated from contamination of various bacteria and so forth.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2002Date of Patent: July 26, 2005Assignee: Takagi Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takao Takagi, Setsuo Watanabe
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Publication number: 20050106716Abstract: A cell/tissue culture apparatus can give a physical stimulation necessary for proliferation and growth to a cultured object which is a cell or tissue to be cultured. The cell/tissue culture apparatus has a chamber (a culture chamber 4) which accommodates a cultured object (a matrix 8) and supplies a culture fluid (6), a pressing means (a pressing plate 10, 11) which is movably arranged in the chamber and gives a physical stimulation due to a press to the cultured object by movement thereof, and a driving means (a pressure unit 22, an electromagnet unit 32) which gives a driving force to the pressing means for applying the physical stimulation to the cultured object from an outside of the chamber in a state out of contact with the pressing means.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2002Publication date: May 19, 2005Applicant: TAKAGI INDUSTRIAL CO., LTDInventors: Takao Takagi, Setsuo Watanabe
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Publication number: 20050048643Abstract: A cell/tissue culture apparatus is suitable for a culture of a cultivated object of a cell or tissue adapted for a prescribed portion of a living body of a breast and so on, a culture chamber (18, a culture vessel 10) which accommodates a cell or tissue to be cultivated and also makes a culture fluid (34) circulate is formed by a flexible material (flexible films 12, 14), and the culture chamber is immersed in a fluid (water 8). A pressure or an oscillation is given to the culture chamber installed in the fluid, and a physical stimulation due to the pressure from the fluid or the oscillation of the fluid is given to a cell or tissue under a culture.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2002Publication date: March 3, 2005Applicant: Takagi Industrial Co., LTDInventors: Takao Takagi, Setsuo Watanabe
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Publication number: 20040235153Abstract: A cell/tissue culture apparatus for applying a desired tensile stress to a material to be cultivated such as a cell or tissue as a physical stimulation, thereby enhancing acceleration of culture of the material to be cultivated. The cell/tissue culture apparatus comprises a chamber (a culture chamber 8) for circulating a culture fluid (24), a material to be cultivated (a matrix 32) that is placed and cultivated in the chamber, stress generation means (an electromagnetic stretcher 38, an actuator 56) for causing a tensile stress to act on the material to be cultivated from an outside of the chamber, and control means (controllers 50, 60) for causing the tensile stress generated by the stress generation means to intermit as well as undergo gradual increase or gradual decrease. The material to be cultivated can be caused to undergo expansion or contraction by applying and relieving the tensile stress, thereby applying a physical stimulation necessary for the proliferation to the material to be cultivated.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2004Publication date: November 25, 2004Inventors: Takao Takagi, Setsuo Watanabe
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Publication number: 20040235150Abstract: The invention provides a cell/tissue culture apparatus capable of applying an optional physical stimulation to a material to be cultivated serving as a cell or tissue to be cultivated and of protecting the material to be cultivated from contamination of various bacteria and so forth.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2004Publication date: November 25, 2004Inventors: Takao Takagi, Setsuo Watanabe
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Publication number: 20040135876Abstract: The present invention provide an LED print head arranged opposite to a photosensitive body, consisting of a base body, which is arranged parallel to the axis of said photosensitive body, and consists of a large volume base part having an upper face opposite to said photosensitive body and a small volume projection part extending upward from a part of said upper face of said base part, and having a narrow width in the path of said photosensitive body, an LED base panel fitted on the upper face of said base part, and a lens array fitting to the upper part of a side of said projecting part, being arranged between the opposing face of said photosensitive body, and the upper face of said LED base panel; a method for manufacturing said LED print head, a method for manufacturing a LED base panel used therein, and a method for attaching said LED print head to said base panelType: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Shunsuke Ueda, Takao Takagi, Setsuo Suzuki, Takeyoshi Horiuchi, Hideyuki Ikoma, Hiromu Ono, Takashi Toyoda, Sayuri Natsui
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Publication number: 20040077072Abstract: The invention provides a cell/tissue culture apparatus for applying a physical stimulation necessary for the proliferation and growth of a cell or tissue to a material to be cultivated serving as a cell or tissue to be cultivated, thereby realizing the culture as desired and protecting the material to be cultivated from contamination of various bacteria and so forth.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Inventors: Takao Takagi, Setsuo Watanabe
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Patent number: 6607917Abstract: The invention provides a method of and an apparatus for cultivating a cell or tissue capable of preventing the cell or tissue from being contaminated and realizing an efficient in vitro culture. The method of and the apparatus for cultivating a cell or tissue comprise installing a culture position (culture chamber) under an environment that is arbitrarily controlled such as an environment mimicking the living body, supplying a culture medium to the cell or tissue while the cell or tissue is held at the culture position, and cultivating the cell or tissue at the culture position that is under the ideal environment, thereby preventing the cell or tissue from being contaminated and realizing an efficient in vitro culture.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2001Date of Patent: August 19, 2003Assignees: Takagi Industrial Co., Ltd., The Brigham & Women's Hospital, Inc.Inventors: Takao Takagi, Setsuo Watanabe, Hidetada Takai, Ibuki Kinouchi, Shuichi Mizuno, Julie Glowacki
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Patent number: 6599734Abstract: The invention provides a method of and an apparatus for cultivating a cell or tissue capable of preventing the cell or tissue from being contaminated and realizing an efficient in vitro culture. The method of and the apparatus for cultivating a cell or tissue comprise installing a culture position (culture chamber) under an environment that is arbitrarily controlled such as an environment mimicking the living body, supplying a culture medium to the cell or tissue while the cell or tissue is held at the culture position, and cultivating the cell or tissue at the culture position that is under the ideal environment, thereby preventing the cell or tissue from being contaminated and realizing an efficient in vitro culture.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2001Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignees: Takagi Industrial Co., Ltd., The Brigham & Women's Hospital, Inc.Inventors: Takao Takagi, Setsuo Watanabe, Hidetada Takai, Ibuki Kinouchi, Shuichi Mizuno, Julie Glowacki