Patents by Inventor Yoshifumi Kawabata

Yoshifumi Kawabata 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: 20100185317
    Abstract: A valuable-medium processing apparatus includes a receptacle in which valuable mediums are put; an escrow unit that temporarily holds the valuable mediums; a storage unit that stores therein the valuable mediums; a transporting unit including a holding route in which the valuable mediums put in the receptacle are temporarily held in the escrow unit and then transported to the storage unit, and a non-holding route in which the valuable mediums put in the receptacle are transported to the storage unit without being held in the escrow unit; and a control unit that, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, controls the transporting unit to determine a transporting route by selecting one of the holding route and the non-holding route, and transport the valuable mediums via the determined route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventors: Makoto ASO, Tomoyuki Kubo, Hirofumi Ozaki, Yoshifumi Kawabata, Kenichi Hattori
  • Patent number: 7628279
    Abstract: A currency sorter has: take-in means (106) for taking currency notes in sorter one by one; discriminating means (105) for discriminating the currency notes; stacking means (111 to 115) for stacking the currency notes according to the discrimination result obtained by said discriminating means; bundling means (200) for bundling a predetermined number of the currency notes; a money returning unit at which an odd currency note which is a fraction of the predetermined number of the currency notes is returned, first conveyer means for conveying the predetermined number of the currency notes from all deposited in said stacking means with grabbing them to the bundling means; and second conveyer means for conveying the odd currency notes left in the stacking means with grabbing them to said money returning unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Glory Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Sekiguchi, Yasushi Yokota, Akito Kuroda, Yoshifumi Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20090013653
    Abstract: A currency sorter has: take-in means (106) for taking currency notes in sorter one by one; discriminating means (105) for discriminating the currency notes; stacking means (111 to 115) for stacking the currency notes according to the discrimination result obtained by said discriminating means; bundling means (200) for bundling a predetermined number of the currency notes; a money returning unit at which an odd currency note which is a fraction of the predetermined number of the currency notes is returned, first conveyer means for conveying the predetermined number of the currency notes from all deposited in said stacking means with grabbing them to the bundling means; and second conveyer means for conveying the odd currency notes left in the stacking means with grabbing them to said money returning unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: Glory Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha a corporation of Japan
    Inventors: Junichi Sekiguchi, Yasushi Yokota, Akito Kuroda, Yoshifumi Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20060076213
    Abstract: A currency sorter has: take-in means (106) for taking currency notes in sorter one by one; discriminating means (105) for discriminating the currency notes; stacking means (111 to 115) for stacking the currency notes according to the discrimination result obtained by said discriminating means; bundling means (200) for bundling a predetermined number of the currency notes; a money returning unit at which an odd currency note which is a fraction of the predetermined number of the currency notes is returned, first conveyer means for conveying the predetermined number of the currency notes from all deposited in said stacking means with grabbing them to the bundling means; and second conveyer means for conveying the odd currency notes left in the stacking means with grabbing them to said money returning unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2005
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Inventors: Junichi Sekiguchi, Yasushi Yokota, Akito Kuroda, Yoshifumi Kawabata
  • Patent number: 6588327
    Abstract: An energy and water saving pasteuriser capable of maintaining a stable temperature distribution pattern even when transfer work are interrupted during the operation, or a tunnel type refrigerator (10) allowing hot work such as bottles and cans filled with the products sterilized at a high temperature of generally 75° C. to allow temperature of generally 25° C., wherein plural cooling vessels (11a, 12a, 12b, 12c, 12d, 13a, 13b) are disposed in a row from the upstream side to the downstream side so as to form a first cooling region (11), an intermediate cooling region (12), and a final cooling region (13), an adsorption freezing machine (19) is installed between the first cooling region (11) and final cooling region (13), and a cooling tower (20) is installed in the intermediate cooling region (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignees: Showa Tansan Co., Ltd., Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norimitsu Wakabayashi, Ryosuke Aika, Yoshifumi Kawabata, Fujio Komatsu, Masami Kohama
  • Publication number: 20020170440
    Abstract: An energy and water saving pasteuriser capable of maintaining a stable temperature distribution pattern even when transfer work are interrupted during the operation, or a tunnel type refrigerator (10) allowing hot work such as bottles and cans filled with the products sterilized at a high temperature of generally 75° C. to allow temperature of generally 25° C., wherein plural cooling vessels (11a, 12a, 12b, 12c, 12d, 13a, 13b) are disposed in a row from the upstream side to the downstream side so as to form a first cooling region (11), an intermediate cooling region (12), and a final cooling region (13), an adsorption freezing machine (19) is installed between the first cooling region (11) and final cooling region (13), and a cooling tower (20) is installed in the intermediate cooling region (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Inventors: Norimitsu Wakabayashi, Ryosuke Aika, Yoshifumi Kawabata, Fujio Komatsu, Masami Kohama
  • Patent number: 4794690
    Abstract: A phase adjusting apparatus for use in an assembling machine for assembling first and second workpieces including a movable frame which is arranged to move into and out of the space formed between the two workpieces. Prior to coupling the two workpieces, the movable frame is moved to enter the space and a first movable table and a second movable table on the movable frame are used to adjust the phase of a rotary body on the first workpiece and the phase of a rotary shaft on the second workpiece to another. After removing the movable frame from the space, the two workpieces are then brought together so that the rotary body and the rotary shaft are coupled to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1989
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Yamanaga, Keiichiro Gunji, Yousuke Narita, Toshiaki Nagasawa, Yoshifumi Kawabata