Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Higashiura

Toshiyuki Higashiura 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: 4484693
    Abstract: An apparatus for the high speed supply of individual circular or cylindrical articles such as chip resistors, shafts, pins and the like to a printed circuit board or other type of equipment is disclosed. The apparatus includes a first turn table, a vertically movable mounting table carried by the first turn table, a plurality of hoppers disposed in a circle on the mounting table, pipes movable into and out of the hoppers, chutes in the form of coiled springs, cylindrical chutes provided on the first turn table and connected to the pipes through the chutes in the form of coiled springs, escapement pushers having article holding holes disposed on the underside of the cylindrical chutes, a pickup chuck adapted to grip an article disposed in the article holding hole of a respective escapement pusher and to remove the article therefrom, and a push lever adapted to push each escapement pusher when each pusher is brought to a predetermined position as a result of rotation of said first turn table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1984
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Fujita, Yoshiaki Yoshida, Toshiyuki Higashiura, Kunio Tanaka
  • Patent number: 4451976
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mounting apparatus for leadless electronic parts wherein leadless electronic parts 3 supplied through a cylindrical chute 5 are dropped one by one into a part holding hole 7 of a part feeding pusher 6, with the part holding hole having a cutout, the part feeding pusher 6 transports the leadless electronic part 3 between chucks 10 and 11, and then a main block 8 including the chucks 10 and 11 is pivoted such that the leadless electronic parts 3 are taken out and mounted on a mounting portion of a printed circuit board 1 rapidly and reliably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Fujita, Yoshiaki Yoshida, Toshiyuki Higashiura, Kunio Tanaka