Patents by Inventor Yoshimi Yotutani

Yoshimi Yotutani 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).

  • Profiling method
    Patent number: 6048142
    Abstract: In a profiling method, a shank section of a rotary tool which has a cutter and a rotatable journal bearing provided at a tip of a cutter, is chucked, and a spindle for driving the tool is resiliently supported in such a way as to be movable perpendicularly to the tool axis, the rotatable journal bearing being pressed against a surface of a workpiece to perform machining thereon by using the surface as a reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Fukuhara, Akiyasu Yonekawa, Yoshimi Yotutani