| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D580123 |
Belt conveyor |
November 4, 2008 |
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| D572875 |
Belt conveyor |
July 8, 2008 |
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| D552134 |
Roll mill |
October 2, 2007 |
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| D549747 |
Roll mill |
August 28, 2007 |
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| D549247 |
Huller |
August 21, 2007 |
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| D523025 |
Rice huller |
June 13, 2006 |
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| D520536 |
Flour milling machine |
May 9, 2006 |
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| D515602 |
Processing machine for bran-free rice |
February 21, 2006 |
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| D512600 |
Flour milling machine |
December 13, 2005 |
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| D505682 |
Screen for a grain milling machine |
May 31, 2005 |
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| D472909 |
Rice cleaning machine |
April 8, 2003 |
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| D369361 |
Roller of a roll unit for use in flour milling machines |
April 30, 1996 |
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| 7360750 |
Piezoelectric air valve and multiple-type piezoelectric air valve |
April 22, 2008 |
| The air valve includes a valve body for controlling operations to open and close the communication between an air pressure chamber and an air outlet, a piezoelectric element for generating driving force in the form of displacements, and a displacement enlarging mechanism for enlarging |
| 7357954 |
Process for preparing instant rice and product thereof |
April 15, 2008 |
| Milled rice grains are primarily immersed, and at least surface layers of the grains are converted to the alpha-type. The rice grains are then preliminarily dried and consummatively polished, and are further subjected to secondary immersing and secondary alpha-type conversion. During |
| 7298870 |
Granule color sorting apparatus with display control device |
November 20, 2007 |
| A color sorting apparatus capable of displaying images of granules picked up by a CCD sensor on a panel and performing sensibility control of defective granules while observing the displayed images is provided. The color sorting apparatus comprises a contour processor for outputting |
| 7296511 |
Rice hulling roll driving apparatus in rice huller |
November 20, 2007 |
| In a rice huller, a first small-diameter pulley and a second large-diameter pulley are attached to a first roll shaft. A first large-diameter pulley and a second small-diameter pulley are attached to a second roll shaft. This configuration makes it possible to switch between a first |
| 7204438 |
Impact crushing apparatus for grain |
April 17, 2007 |
| The present invention relates to an impact crushing apparatus that mills grain between a milling cylinder and a screen. Each of a plurality of blades mounted along the circumference of the milling cylinder comprises a columnar body with a square cross section, cutting tools disposed on |
| 7016043 |
Quality evaluation method and apparatus for non-bran rice |
March 21, 2006 |
| A quality evaluation method and apparatus for non-bran rice evaluate quality or taste of non-bran rice by identifying proportions of a hull layer, an aleurone layer, an endosperm layer, which adhere to a surface of the non-bran rice according to luminance levels of self-emitted fluor |
| 7008662 |
Producing method and producing apparatus of rice with germinated germs |
March 7, 2006 |
| Warm and wet air are applied to brown rice with germinated germs, produced by adding water to the brown rice, for removing water attached to a surface of the rice. A surface of the germinated brown rice is polished by a rice-polishing machine while remaining the germinated germs to o |
| 6832545 |
Apparatus for manufacturing no-bran cereal |
December 21, 2004 |
| An apparatus for manufacturing no-bran cereal such as no-bran rice which require no washing before cooking. With the apparatus, bran stuck on a surface of a grain of the polished cereal is easily removed without imparting any damage on the surface, and further moisture in the grain is |
| 6817474 |
Color sorting apparatus for granular objects with function to sorting out foreign magnetic metal |
November 16, 2004 |
| A magnetic metal removing device for color sorting apparatus includes a hollow feeding roll. Within a hollow portion of the feeding roll, a magnet is arranged such that it closely opposes to a part of an inner surface of the hollow feeding roll to form a magnetic force active surface on |
| 6814242 |
Rotatively oscillating separator |
November 9, 2004 |
| A rotatively oscillating separator comprising separating vessels 4 each having cone-shaped separating plate 5 disposed in the vessel, and drive means 6 for rotatively oscillating said separating vessels 4, mixed rice consisting of unhulled rice and unpolished rice being fed onto the |
| 6772969 |
Break roll machine operable with ease in replacement of the rolls |
August 10, 2004 |
| A break roll machine wherein a timing belt of a differential transmission mechanism can be removed easily and wherein the removal of a roll pack module from a machine frame and the installation of the new pre-assembled roll pack module can be performed easily in a short time is disclosed |
| 6732963 |
Flour milling roll machine having front door and roll cover with fulcrum axes for exposing rolls |
May 11, 2004 |
| The machine comprises a front door, a roll cover having a main roll cover and a feed roll cover, a first fulcrum axis between the main and feed roll covers, and a second fulcrum axis between the feed roll cover and a frame. The front door has a hinge at the upper portion so that it is ke |
| 6703210 |
Method and device for determining concentration of dioxins |
March 9, 2004 |
| A method for determining the concentration of dioxins present in a sample comprises the steps of chemically linking a hapten having a structure mimic to a part of the structures of dioxins with a ruthenium complex to thus form an antigen; incubating the resulting antigen together with an |
| 6683970 |
Method of diagnosing nutritious condition of crop in plant field |
January 27, 2004 |
| A method of diagnosing nutritious condition of crop in a plant field is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: locating a camera equipped with a plurality of image elements in a predetermined central depression angle with respect to the plant field; obtaining an amount of reflecti |
| 6610345 |
Method of manufacturing no-bran cereal |
August 26, 2003 |
| A method of and an apparatus for manufacturing no-bran cereal such as no-bran rice which require no washing before cooking. With the method and the apparatus, bran stuck on a surface of a grain of the polished cereal is easily removed without imparting any damage on the surface, and furt |
| 6466321 |
Method of diagnosing nutritious condition of crop in plant field |
October 15, 2002 |
| From the crop of a predetermined area in a plant field under exposure to natural light, a reflectivity of the light having relation to crop information such as nitrogen content rate is measured by a camera; the crop information as first crop information is obtained from the first crop |
| 6460704 |
Rotary shaking separator |
October 8, 2002 |
| A rotary shaking separator for separating unhulled rice and unpolished rice from each other includes at least one separating vessel and a plurality of drives located at even intervals on the peripheral edge of the separating vessel, the plurality of drives being actuated to bring the who |
| 6442486 |
Method for determining amount of fertilizer application for grain crops, method for estimating q |
August 27, 2002 |
| A method and an apparatus for determining an amount of fertilizer to be applied to grain crops are disclosed. A fertilizer application related formula for obtaining the necessary amount of fertilizer to be applied is established by analyzing growth information including leaf blade in |
| 6427128 |
Apparatus and method for evaluating quality of granular object |
July 30, 2002 |
| A quality evaluation method for granular objects includes the steps of: irradiating objects from a front side and a back side; taking a reflection light image and a transmission light image from both the front and back sides of the objects; obtaining optical information of the objects by |
| 6347579 |
Husking apparatus |
February 19, 2002 |
| A husking apparatus supplies cereal grains between a pair of rotating rubber rolls through a guiding chute, rubs and husks them. A roll diameter marker for indicating an abrasion degree of the diameter of one of the rubber rolls is provided near the minimum gap between the rubber rolls. |
| 6318000 |
Circulating type grain drying machine |
November 20, 2001 |
| The circulating type grain drying machine is provided in which, at the grain filling operation, a controller causes a first heated air generator to operate and a second heated air generator to stop operating, and also causes, according to the detected values of the outside air humidity f |
| 6250479 |
Rotationally oscillating separator with eccentric shaft mounting portions |
June 26, 2001 |
| A rotationally oscillating separator for separating mixed rice into unhulled rice and unpolished rice after the rice have passed through a rice huller to remove the hulls from rice. The separator comprises a vertical rotating shaft supported for rotation and having an axis, means for |
| 6223451 |
Apparatus for drying granular objects involving pre-heating process |
May 1, 2001 |
| An apparatus for drying granular objects comprises, from the top of the apparatus, a holding section; a heating section for heating the granular objects flowing down from the holding section, the heating section being provided beneath the holding section and having a plurality of air duc |
| 6208420 |
Method and apparatus for estimating quality of grains |
March 27, 2001 |
| A method and an apparatus are provided for estimating a quality of grains to be harvested from a grain plant in the future, during a growth period prior to the harvesting. The method comprises the step for establishing a quality conversion coefficient for estimating a specific quality of |
| 6199777 |
Flour milling method having a sorting step for raw wheat grains and flour milling system adoptin |
March 13, 2001 |
| A flour milling method and a flour milling system are provided, in which a plurality of milling steps whose milling degrees are different from one another are performed sequentially from an upperstream to a downstream, each of the milling steps including a breaking step and a grading ste |
| 6173619 |
Method and device for effecting temperature compensation in load cell type load detector |
January 16, 2001 |
| The apparatus for effecting temperature compensation in a load cell type load detector is for a load detecting apparatus having a load cell constituting the load detector formed with a strain gauge attached to a deflectable body, a mount base for positioning the load detector, and a |
| 6154003 |
Driving means formed by induction motor and method for starting the same |
November 28, 2000 |
| An induction motor as driving apparatus includes two stators in which two rotor cores each formed in a squirrel cage type are rotatably mounted on a common rotary axis; two stators which respectively surround the two rotors and on which stator windings are respectively wound; and a switc |
| 6130492 |
Brushless three-phase synchronous generator having enhanced rotor field system |
October 10, 2000 |
| A brushless three-phase synchronous generator includes a stator having primary generating windings and stator excitation windings whose number of poles is odd-number times the number of poles of the primary generating windings. The generator further includes a cylindrical rotor on which |
| 6100488 |
Granular material color sorting apparatus utilizing fluid jets with an injection delay control u |
August 8, 2000 |
| A granular material sorting apparatus comprises a transfer device for causing material grains to fall down, optical detector units mounted along the falling-down locus of the material grains, an injection nozzle device for injecting air to the material grains, and a control unit for |
| 6097493 |
Device for evaluating quality of granular objects |
August 1, 2000 |
| A granular object evaluation device for evaluating quality and shapes of transparent or translucent granular objects includes an illuminating device for irradiating light to the object fed into a measuring area by a feeder, a detecting device in which a detection viewing line is directed |
| 6094994 |
Impact type flow meter with trough-like material supply device having a built in supply opening |
August 1, 2000 |
| An impact type flow meter for a particulate material such as cereal comprises a supply device for dropping the particulate material, an inclined load detection plate for receiving the dropped particulate material, and a load detector for detecting a load of the particulate material e |
| 6013887 |
Color-sorting machine for granular materials |
January 11, 2000 |
| A color-sorting machine for granular materials optically detects raw material grains falling along a substantially fixed path and sorts out no-good grains by color. An optical detection unit to this end comprises a condenser lens, a plurality of optical filters and a plurality of lig |
| 5994656 |
Color sorting machine for cereal grain or the like having dust collecting device |
November 30, 1999 |
| A color sorting machine sorts particles of different colors from raw material such as cereal grains or the like. The machine has a down chute descending towards a front side of the machine for letting raw material particles flow down linearly, a photoelectric detection device which s |
| 5976882 |
Method for measuring ash content of food stuff |
November 2, 1999 |
| A method for measuring ash content of food stuff is carried out by 1) preparing, with respect to food stuff samples whose ash content values are known, a calibration curve by a non-linear analysis of absorbance values and the known ash content of each sample, the absorbance values being |
| 5952234 |
Apparatus for measuring ash content of food stuff by ultraviolet radiation |
September 14, 1999 |
| A method for measuring ash content of food stuff is carried out by 1) preparing, with respect to food stuff samples whose ash content values are known, a calibration curve by a non-linear analysis of absorbance values and the known ash content of each sample, the absorbance values being |
| 5917927 |
Grain inspection and analysis apparatus and method |
June 29, 1999 |
| Rice and other grains are inspected by a video camera system, and the data are processed to determined grain measurements, whether each grain is broken, and to obtain measures such as the percent broken by weight of a sample of rice. The apparatus takes a sample of grains or a stream of |
| 5886533 |
Controlling water addition to grains using feedback to match a target microwave value |
March 23, 1999 |
| A water adding control apparatus includes a microwave detecting unit which enables the detection of microwave value proportional to the water content amount of the water added grain and which makes it unnecessary to make calculations for an estimated water content value of the water adde |
| 5873301 |
Roll type husking apparatus with inclined guide chute |
February 23, 1999 |
| A husking apparatus for cereals comprises a pair of rolls provided parallel to each other with a clearance therebetween, and an inclined guide chute situated above the rolls. The guide chute slides down cereal grains between the rolls, and the rolls rotate in opposite directions, res |
