| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 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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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6431367 |
Method and apparatus for exchanging sifter frames of a plan sifter |
August 13, 2002 |
| The invention provides a method for exchanging a plurality of sifter frames of a plan sifter. The steps of the method include a step, when taking out a number of sifter frames from a sifting chamber, of taking out a plurality of sifter frames in a unitary state with the unitary state bei |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6125550 |
Food drying method |
October 3, 2000 |
| The field of the invention is food drying apparatus and methods. In particular, the invention discloses a rotary dryer which dries food granules, such as rice, by rotation within a perforated cylindrical barrel, to prepare the rice for packaging. The dryer provides high velocity dryi |
| 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 |
| 6082251 |
Apparatus and method for cooking food products for consumption |
July 4, 2000 |
| An apparatus and method are disclosed for cooking food products. In particular, cereal grains and rice products may be cooked pursuant to a multi-step process in which rice is first prewashed, presteamed, and then allowed to absorb water in a steeping step for a short time before being |
| 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 |
| 5997930 |
Method for processing rice |
December 7, 1999 |
| The field of the invention relates to a method for processing food products to prepare the food products for packaging. The methods involve presteaming, steeping, steam cooking, and then drying the food products. The method reveals pressure cooking with a pressure that is maintained |
| 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 |
| 5859435 |
Content measuring apparatus for plant leaf |
January 12, 1999 |
| A content measuring apparatus has a light source for irradiating near infrared light on a leaf, a light intensity detecting device for receiving transmitted light from the leaf, an operation means for calculating the light absorbance of the leaf from the intensity of transmitted light an |
| 5852882 |
Food drying apparatus |
December 29, 1998 |
| The field of the invention is food drying apparatus and methods. In particular, the invention discloses a rotary dryer which dries food granules, such as rice, by rotation within a perforated cylindrical barrel, to prepare the rice for packaging. The dryer provides high velocity dryi |
| 5846591 |
Pretreatment process in flour milling method |
December 8, 1998 |
| A pretreatment process in a flour milling method in which raw wheat grains are first polished and the polished grains are ground and milled for producing end flour, includes a first, a second, a third polishing step, and a step of adding water. In the first polishing step a pericarp of e |
| 5838135 |
Driving means formed by induction motor and method for starting the same |
November 17, 1998 |
| 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 |
| 5808242 |
Electromagnetic flow rate measuring apparatus and method for compensating the measured flow rate |
September 15, 1998 |
| An electromagnetic flow rate measuring apparatus measures and calculates a flow rate of granules based on a measurement of capacitance which changes according to the quantity of the granules flowing at a granule passage. The measuring apparatus includes a granule flow pipe which is coupl |
| 5798466 |
Flow meter and method of calibrating same |
August 25, 1998 |
| By a load detector, a magnitude of a dynamic load, depending on a downward-flow impact of a particulate material flowing through a flow passage, is measured, and also a magnitude of a static load, corresponding to a total amount of the particulate material flown through a predetermin |
| 5779058 |
Color sorting apparatus for grains |
July 14, 1998 |
| The color sorting apparatus includes a grain guide device, a grain feeder, an illumination device for illuminating the grain, an optical detector consisting of an optical detection section for receiving the light from the illuminated grain and a background, and ejector for rejecting the |
| 5773066 |
Method and apparatus for carrying out pre-treatment of wheat grains for flour milling |
June 30, 1998 |
| Raw wheat grains are polished after being subjected to a first water addition and being tempered, and the polished wheat grains are ground after being subjected to a second water addition and being tempered. The first water addition is to cause the raw wheat grains to have a water co |
| 5752664 |
Vertical grain milling machine |
May 19, 1998 |
| In an abrasive type vertical grain milling machine, there are mounted, on a main shaft extending generally vertically and disposed rotatably in an upright bran-removing cylinder, a screw roll for feeding grain, a plurality of abrasive milling rolls disposed below the screw roll in sp |
| 5744184 |
Method for efficient utilization of water in processing food products |
April 28, 1998 |
| Water is circulated in the processing of food products, such as rice, and in quantities sufficient to avoid undesirable clumping within processing machinery. Further, recycled water produced during the processing of food products is recirculated and reabsorbed by the food products. A por |
| 5713473 |
Color sorting apparatus for beans |
February 3, 1998 |
| A color sorting apparatus for beans includes a transferring device for transferring beans to be sorted to a detection position, an illuminating device for illuminating the bean at the detection position, a light receiving device for receiving a transmitted light transmitted through the |
| 5694027 |
Three-phase brushless self-excited synchronous generator with no rotor excitation windings |
December 2, 1997 |
| On a stator core, there are wound T-connection primary generating windings such that the second and third single-phase windings are respectively arranged at positions electrically orthogonal to the first single-phase winding. The winding number of the first single-phase winding is 31/2 |
| 5678777 |
Flour milling machine |
October 21, 1997 |
| At least a pair of metal rolls having different peripheral speeds with each other are removably mounted to respective rotary shafts in a cantilever form. The axial length of each of the metal rolls is between 100 and 500 mm and the peripheral speed of the high speed roll is between 12 an |
| 5678477 |
Husking apparatus |
October 21, 1997 |
| In a husking apparatus comprising: a husking portion having a pair of husking rolls which are adjustable in clearance between them and rotated in opposite directions with different peripheral speeds to perform husking of paddy grain; and a supply portion disposed above the husking portio |
| 5669511 |
Grain sorting apparatus |
September 23, 1997 |
| A grain sorting apparatus includes a conveyor belt mechanism for conveying grains, fed by a feed mechanism onto a conveying surface separately from each other at an upstream region with respect to a conveying direction, to a downstream end so that the grains are discriminated and sorted |
| 5638961 |
Cereal grain color sorting apparatus |
June 17, 1997 |
| In a color sorting apparatus comprising: a grain guide device); a grain feed device; optical detecting devices including illuminating devices for illuminating the grain, light-receiving sensors for receiving the intensity of light from the illuminated grain and backgrounds; and an ej |
| 5613428 |
Apparatus for cooking food products for consumption |
March 25, 1997 |
| An apparatus and method are disclosed for cooking food products. In particular, cereal grains and rice products may be cooked pursuant to a multi-step process in which rice is first prewashed, presteamed, and then allowed to absorb water in a steeping step for a short time before being |
| 5598091 |
Three-phase brushless self-excited synchronous generator with no rotor exciting windings |
January 28, 1997 |
| On a stator core, there are wound primary generating windings of four (4) poles with a distributed full-pitch winding structure and stator excitation windings with a concentrated full-pitch winding structure, having the number of poles odd-number times the number of poles of the prim |
| 5511469 |
Abrasive type vertical grain milling machine |
April 30, 1996 |
| There is disclosed an abrasive type vertical grain milling machine in which a space formed between any two adjacent ones of abrasive rolls serves as a jet air groove. The space serving as the jet air groove is of such an axial size that grain to be milled can come into and out of the spa |
| 5487472 |
Color sorter for sorting out moldy pulse |
January 30, 1996 |
| A pulse color sorter which permits removal of internally and externally moldy pulse having afuratoxine as decomposition product is disclosed. The pulse color sorter comprises a first detector which provides a first and a second detection signal according to dispersed and transmitted ligh |
| 5419252 |
Vertical milling machine |
May 30, 1995 |
| A vertical milling machine comprises a first milling part and a second milling part situated under the first milling part, the first and second milling parts having a common main shaft extending vertically. The first milling part has a supply part of grain on an upper end side thereof an |
| 5413034 |
Resistance member adjusting mechanism of abrasive type grain milling machine |
May 9, 1995 |
| An abrasive type vertical grain milling machine comprises a perforated cylindrical body which serves to define an outer periphery of a grain milling chamber and which has a plurality of vertically arranged resistance members projected radially into the grain milling chamber so as to |
| 5395059 |
Spacer for abrasive roll of abrasive type grain milling machine |
March 7, 1995 |
| An abrasive type vertical grain milling machine in which each of spacers comprises a boss portion fitted on a main shaft and a plurality of arm portions extending from the boss portion in the radially outwardly and serving to induce bran removing air into a grain milling chamber through |
