Patents by Inventor Taro Horii

Taro Horii 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 and apparatus for sorting fruits, vegetables or the like by weight
    Patent number: 4426006
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for sorting fruits, vegetables or the like by weight. An electronic weighing device is used in combination with a basket conveyer system arranged by mounting evenly spaced receiving or weighing baskets on a chain conveyer. The basket are loosely mounted on the mounting metal members of the chain conveyer. Each time a basket is conveyed over a weighing stand of the weighing device, the basket is detached from the mounting member and is pushed so as to slide over a measuring rail by a freely rotatable pushing member which has small frictional resistance and is arranged to be in pushing contact with a vertical face of the basket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1984
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taichi Horii, Taro Horii, Kazuo Haraguchi