Patents by Inventor Yoshiro Osumi

Yoshiro Osumi 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: 4848232
    Abstract: An apparatus for electrically blasting a number of electric detonators arranged at a plurality of working faces, including a single controller having a power source unit for supplying a D.C. voltage and a plurality of ignition control units for selectively applying the D.C. voltage; a plurality of oscillators each arranged near respective working faces, the number of the oscillators corresponding to that of the ignition control units, each oscillator being energized with the D.C. voltage to generate a high frequency current and being connected to respective ignition control units via an electric wire bundle; and a plurality of lead wires each connected to outputs of respective oscillators. Loop-like leg wires of electric detonators are electro-magnetically coupled with the lead wires with the aid of transformer magnetic cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: Nippon Oil and Fats Company, Limited
    Inventors: Koichi Kurokawa, Takeo Ueda, Yoshiro Osumi