Patents by Inventor Torahiko Hayashi

Torahiko Hayashi 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).

  • Patent number: 8123513
    Abstract: These inventions provide a method and an apparatus for rolling food dough without causing slipping between the food dough and rolling rollers and without causing twisted shrinkages in the food dough, and disk-shaped food dough manufactured by the method. Further, these inventions relate to the disk-shaped food dough manufactured by the method and the apparatus. The apparatus used for the method is comprised of a cradle that can relatively ascend away from and descend toward a table, and conical-shaped rolling rollers rotatably disposed at the cradle, which rollers can swivel. When the food dough is rolled by means of the rolling rollers by pressing the food dough, the rolling rollers rotate so that the speed of the rotation is higher than that when they are passively rotated by the swiveling motion. The relative speed of the descent of the rolling rollers toward the food dough is controlled so that the speed gradually decreases from the initial speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Morikawa, Torahiko Hayashi, Takamasa Tsuchida, Hiroshi Ebata, Norio Koboyashi
  • Patent number: 7931923
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a loaf of bread of this invention is comprised of a forming step to form a sheet from a block of bread dough that is kneaded from the raw materials for bread, a further forming step to form a bar-like dough by rolling or folding the sheet, a cutting step to cut the bar-like dough, and a placing step to place the bar-like pieces of dough that were cut at the cutting step into a baking mold so that at least one cutting plane faces upward. If there are air bubbles between layers of the bar-like pieces of dough, the air bubbles can escape from a cutting surface of the bar-like pieces of dough when they rise and expand at the fermenting and baking steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Keiji Hayashi, legal representative, Michio Morikawa, Sadao Ueno, Hiroyuki Okaizumi
  • Patent number: 7910148
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for beating and rolling a fermented dough belt between rolling members to release surplus fermentation gases in the dough belt has a first rolling member having a plurality of rolling rollers. Each rolling roller of the plurality moves sequentially upstream from downstream and beats and rolls the dough belt. A second large diameter conveying rolling member conveys and moves the dough belt between the first and the second rolling members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Sadao Ueno
  • Patent number: 7578232
    Abstract: A method according to this invention is comprised of a forming step to form a sheet from a block of bread dough that is kneaded from the raw materials for bread, a further forming step to form a bar-like dough by rolling or folding the sheet a cutting step to cut the bar-like dough, and a placing step to place the bar-like pieces of dough that were cut at the cutting step into a baking mold so that at least one cutting plane faces upward. If there are air bubbles between layers of the bar-like pieces of dough, the air bubbles can escape from a cutting surface of the bar-like pieces of dough when they rise and expand at the fermenting and baking steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Sadao Ueno, Hiroyuki Okaizumi
  • Publication number: 20090162512
    Abstract: These inventions provide a method and an apparatus for rolling food dough without causing slipping between the food dough and rolling rollers and without causing twisted shrinkages in the food dough, and disk-shaped food dough manufactured by the method. Further, these inventions relate to the disk-shaped food dough manufactured by the method and the apparatus. The apparatus used for the method is comprised of a cradle that can relatively ascend away from and descend toward a table, and conical-shaped rolling rollers rotatably disposed at the cradle, which rollers can swivel. When the food dough is rolled by means of the rolling rollers by pressing the food dough, the rolling rollers rotate so that the speed of the rotation is higher than that when they are passively rotated by the swiveling motion. The relative speed of the descent of the rolling rollers toward the food dough is controlled so that the speed gradually decreases from the initial speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Morikawa, Torahiko Hayashi, Takamasa Tsuchida, Hiroshi Ebata, Norio Koboyashi
  • Publication number: 20080095885
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a loaf of bread of this invention is comprised of a forming step to form a sheet from a block of bread dough that is kneaded from the raw materials for bread, a further forming step to form a bar-like dough by rolling or folding the sheet, a cutting step to cut the bar-like dough, and a placing step to place the bar-like pieces of dough that were cut at the cutting step into a baking mold so that at least one cutting plane faces upward. If there are air bubbles between layers of the bar-like pieces of dough, the air bubbles can escape from a cutting surface of the bar-like pieces of dough when they rise and expand at the fermenting and baking steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Sadao Ueno, Hiroyuki Okaizumi, Keiji Hayashi
  • Patent number: 7270051
    Abstract: Apparatus for supplying food dough including a hopper to which a large block of food dough is supplied, a cutting apparatus located at a lower opening port of the hopper to cut the block into small blocks that have substantially the same volume, a dough feeder having a plurality of rollers that are arranged in a V to form the small blocks into a sheet of food dough, a transferring conveyor to transfer the small blocks to the dough feeder, a feeding conveyor that conveys the sheet of the food dough formed by the dough feeder of a constant thickness, a weighing conveyor for measuring the weight of a part of the sheet that is supplied by the feeding conveyor as the sheet is being conveyed, and a cutting apparatus for cutting the sheet of the food dough when the measurement of the weighing conveyor corresponds to a preset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Shigeo Uesawa, Eiji Kuribayashi
  • Patent number: 7205017
    Abstract: A plurality of rolling rollers move sequentially upstream from downstream or downstream from upstream along the food dough belt, while each rolling roller rotates on its own axis. The moving direction of the rolling roller is changed according to technical requirements. The number of beats is regulated by changing the moving speed V1 of the rolling roller. Further, the peripheral speed of the rolling roller is made to be equal to or almost equal to the surface speed of the food dough belt by changing the rotating speed V2 of the rolling roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa
  • Publication number: 20060137539
    Abstract: A method according to this invention is comprised of a forming step to form a sheet from a block of bread dough that is kneaded from the raw materials for bread, a further forming step to form a bar-like dough by rolling or folding the sheet a cutting step to cut the bar-like dough, and a placing step to place the bar-like pieces of dough that were cut at the cutting step into a baking mold so that at least one cutting plane faces upward. If there are air bubbles between layers of the bar-like pieces of dough, the air bubbles can escape from a cutting surface of the bar-like pieces of dough when they rise and expand at the fermenting and baking steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Sadao Ueno, Hiroyuki Okaizumi
  • Publication number: 20040241301
    Abstract: An apparatus for supplying food dough forms blocks of food dough that are continuously supplied into a sheet or belt of food dough and then divides it into chunks of food dough that have preset weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2003
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Applicant: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Shigeo Uesawa, Eiji Kuribayashi
  • Patent number: 6800313
    Abstract: An apparatus for supplying food dough forms blocks of food dough that are continuously supplied into a sheet or belt of food dough and then divides it into chunks of food dough that have preset weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Shigeo Uesawa, Eiji Kuribayashi
  • Publication number: 20040076725
    Abstract: A method according to this invention is comprised of a forming step to form a sheet from a block of bread dough that is kneaded from the raw materials for bread, a further forming step to form a bar-like dough by rolling or folding the sheet, a cutting step to cut the bar-like dough, and a placing step to place the bar-like pieces of dough that were cut at the cutting step into a baking mold so that at least one cutting plane faces upward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Sadao Ueno, Hiroyuki Okaizumi
  • Publication number: 20040065210
    Abstract: Conventionally, it has been necessary to use abundant dusting powder to prevent food dough from adhering to a rolling apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Publication date: April 8, 2004
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa
  • Patent number: 6709256
    Abstract: An apparatus for encrusting bean jam is provided wherein patterns for opening and closing movements and up and down movements of shutter members of a cutting apparatus can be readily changed. The encrusting apparatus includes a cutting apparatus (13) having a plurality of shutter members (11) to cut a bar-like food material that is supplied from a combining nozzle (9), a food-receiving apparatus (17) to receive a food material that is encrusted and that is cut by the cutting apparatus (13), a first control motor M1 to open and close the plurality of the shutter members, and a second control motor M2 to move the food-receiving apparatus (17) up and down. The reference position for the first control motor M1 is determined on the position of the shaft of it when the shutter members (11) are closed to have their front ends meet at the center, or when the position is shifted 180 degrees in phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Tashiro, Torahiko Hayashi, Kazuyoshi Onoguchi
  • Patent number: 6685457
    Abstract: An apparatus for supplying food dough forms blocks of food dough that are continuously supplied into a sheet or belt of food dough and then divides it into chunks of food dough that have preset weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., ltd
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Shigeo Uesawa, Eiji Kuribayashi
  • Publication number: 20040009253
    Abstract: An apparatus for supplying food dough forms blocks of food dough that are continuously supplied into a sheet or belt of food dough and then divides it into chunks of food dough that have preset weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Shigeo Uesawa, Eiji Kuribayashi
  • Publication number: 20030228388
    Abstract: Conventionally, wrinkles may arise on the surface of the bread dough belt, depending on the properties of the bread dough, mechanical conditions, etc., and the gluten structure in the bread dough belt may be harmed, when the bread dough belt is stretched or rolled while air bubbles are kept in the surface layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Sadao Ueno
  • Publication number: 20030124234
    Abstract: An apparatus for supplying food dough forms blocks of food dough that are continuously supplied into a sheet or belt of food dough and then divides it into chunks of food dough that have preset weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2003
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Applicant: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Shigeo Uesawa, Eiji Kuribayashi
  • Patent number: 6524090
    Abstract: An apparatus for supplying food dough forms blocks of food dough that are continuously supplied into a sheet or belt of food dough and then divides it into chunks of food dough that have preset weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Michio Morikawa, Shigeo Uesawa, Eiji Kuribayashi
  • Patent number: 6408899
    Abstract: An apparatus for encrusting a filling material is provided. The apparatus includes a screw-transferring apparatus to transfer a filling material and encrusting material, and vane pumps to transfer the respective filling and encrusting materials to a combining nozzle. The combining nozzle combines the crust that is supplied by the vane pump for crusts out of the filling material that is supplied by the vane pump for filling materials. Each screw-transferring apparatus includes horizontal screws. Each vane pump has a vertical rotating shaft. The end of each screw is free and is positioned at the inlet of each vane pump. At the inlet of each vane pump a food-guide plane is formed. That plane is tangent to a trajectory of the outer edge of the vane of the vane pump. The trajectory forms a circle that has the biggest diameter among all of the trajectories defined by the outer edges of the vanes when the vanes rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Torahiko Hayashi, Yasunori Tashiro