Patents by Inventor Toshihiko Hiratani

Toshihiko Hiratani 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: 20230347807
    Abstract: A storage conveyor mounted on a vehicle and configured to convey a cargo includes a right angle turn unit configured to change a traveling direction of the cargo from a first direction to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction at a right angle. When the traveling direction of the cargo is changed in the right angle turn unit, the cargo is pulled to a corner portion, which is a downstream end in the first direction and an upstream end in the second direction of the right angle turn unit, and then the cargo is conveyed to a downstream side in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshihiko HIRATANI, Naoyuki TAGURI
  • Publication number: 20230348184
    Abstract: An in-vehicle cargo handling system includes a storage conveyor configured to circularly convey a cargo along a one-stroke conveyance route, and a stacker fixedly installed in a vehicle and configured to rotate the cargo at least around an axis parallel to a vehicle vertical direction, the stacker transferring the cargo between a first transfer position provided in the middle of the conveyance route and a second transfer position separated from the first transfer position in a horizontal direction, in which the stacker allows the cargo to be transferred to and from the storage conveyor at the first transfer position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshihiko HIRATANI, Naoyuki Taguri
  • Patent number: 5206683
    Abstract: An optical printer includes a housing in which a photoreceptor including a transparent substrate, a transparent electrode layer and a photosensitive layer composed of a-Si which are formed on the substrate is housed. A main surface of photoreceptor is moved in a first direction parallel therewith. The charging of the photoreceptor, the forming of an electrostatic latent image and the toner-developing are performed at approximately the same time and a toner image formed on the photoreceptor is transcribed onto a paper by a transcribing roller. The paper which is inserted from a first opening formed on the housing is fed in the first direction with respect to the transcribing roller through a first feeding path. A contact line sensor is arranged above the photoreceptor at a position in the vicinity of the transcribing roller. An original which is inserted from a second opening formed on the housing is fed to the line sensor in a second direction opposite to the first direction through a second feeding path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1993
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeo Fukatsu, Hironobu Tsujimoto, Toshihiko Hiratani, Kazuyuki Gotoh, Yasuo Kishi