Patents by Inventor Toshinao Okihara

Toshinao Okihara 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: 8307870
    Abstract: A double facer that fabricates a corrugated fiberboard and that includes heat plate units having thin walls aims at improving the heat conductive efficiency to fiberboard sheets in order to enhance responsibility to the setting temperature and concurrently avoiding thermal deformation of the heat plates due to a difference in temperature between the top surface and the bottom surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packing Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Itoyama, Hiroshi Ishibuchi, Toshinao Okihara, Kazuhito Ohira, Takashi Nitta
  • Patent number: 8281694
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a height of a circular slitter blade includes rotating the slitter blade and the receiving roll such that an outer circumferential surface of the slitter blade and the receiving roll move in the same direction as the traveling direction of the corrugated board web; emitting a light beam in a width direction of the corrugated board web to pass through a contact point of the outer circumferential surface of the receiving roll with the corrugated board web; determining a height of the slitter blade at which the circular outer edge of the slitter blade intercepts the light beam while moving the slitter blade toward the receiving roll; and setting the height of the slitter blade to the determined height as a slitting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshinao Okihara
  • Publication number: 20110209862
    Abstract: A double facer that fabricates a corrugated fiberboard and that includes heat plate units having thin walls aims at improving the heat conductive efficiency to fiberboard sheets in order to enhance responsibility to the setting temperature and concurrently avoiding thermal deformation of the heat plates due to a difference in temperature between the top surface and the bottom surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRINTING & PACKAGING MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Itoyama, Hiroshi Ishibuchi, Toshinao Okihara, Kazuhito Ohira, Takashi Nitta
  • Publication number: 20100218653
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and a device for adjusting the height of a slitter blade wherein the quality at a slitting section of a cardboard web is ensured in a slitter device by finding an optimal engaging point of a receiving roll and a slitter blade, and setting of the engaging point can be achieved easily by a simple and low cost mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Toshinao Okihara
  • Publication number: 20100186896
    Abstract: In a double facer in which a one-sided corrugated board and a liner sheet which are web-like and which are superposed with each other are glued to each other while they travels on a heating plate so as to produce a corrugated board, the heating plate has a thin wall thickness so as to enhance the efficiency of heat transfer to a paper sheet which travels on the upper surface of the heating plate, and the heating plate 20 is provided at the lower surface thereof with a heat radiation means (having the configuration that reinforcing ribs 22 are formed at the lower surface of the heating plate in a direction orthogonal to the direction of travel of a paper sheet, having their height which are successively decreased, or several steam through-holes 51 are formed in the heating plate, and are adapted to be fed therein with saturated steam whose pressure or temperature is successively lowered) in order to decrease a temperature difference between the upper surface and the lower surface of the heating plate so as to
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Tadashi Itoyama, Hiroshi Ishibuchi, Kazukiyo Kono, Masashi Sasaki, Toshihide Kato, Toshinao Okihara
  • Patent number: 5435217
    Abstract: An improved disc-shaped knife rotary cutter which has a reduced size and is not complicated in structure as a whole, and which require a knife only on the upper side of a traveling sheet. The knife can be used over a long period and paper powder produced as a result of cutting of a sheet by the knife can be removed by a suction box extending over a full width of the sheet. The improved rotary cutter performs cutting by moving a knife edge portion of a rotating disc-shaped knife into a surface of a sheet being successively fed. On the underside of the traveling sheet, a brush consisting of rod-shaped brush elements is fixed on a backing table over the entire region in the lateral widthwise direction of the sheet. A knife edge of the knife is disposed close to a front end portion of the backing table and upon transfer of the knife in the lateral widthwise direction of the sheet the knife is raised to be disengaged from the brush and the sheet and then it is transferred and set in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihide Kato, Toshinao Okihara