Patents by Inventor Tsuneyoshi Kon

Tsuneyoshi Kon 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).

  • Manufacturing apparatus for tape cassette
    Patent number: 4114252
    Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus for a tape cassette includes: a rotary table having at least one pair of hub chucks for demountably holding a pair of hubs supplied to the rotary table; a mechanism for clamping an initial end of a supplied tape to one of the hubs held by the hub chucks; a tape winding member for winding a predetermined length of the supplied tape onto the one hub; a cutting member for cutting the trailing side of the wound tape on the one hub; another mechanism for clamping the terminal end of the cut tape to the other of the hubs; and an assembling mechanism for transporting the hubs to which the ends of the tape are clamped and on which the tape is wound, to a position adjacent to a mounted cassette half, demounting the hubs from the hub chucks and assembling the hubs into the mounted cassette half.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1978
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuneyoshi Kon, Hiroshi Toi, Tamiaki Matsuura, Kiyohiko Akanuma, Toru Takamiya, Motosuke Usui