Patents by Inventor Enomoto Toshinori

Enomoto Toshinori 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).

  • Licence plate adapted for internal illumination
    Patent number: 6779914
    Abstract: A licence plate adapted for illumination, which has an opaque face plate having outward-facing and inward-facing faces, and cut-out areas corresponding to numerals, letter, symbols or designs; and a translucent, heat-deformable backing plate heat-pressed against the inward-facing face of the face plate to force portions of the backing plate into the cut-out areas, such that when the licence plate is illuminated from a point inward of the backing plate, the portions of the backing plate within the cut-out areas are illuminated for viewing from a point outward of the face plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Inventors: Arai Katsuo, Enomoto Toshinori, Bounnakhone J. Suyavong, Kham Jimmy Chounpanh
  • Licence plate adapted for internal illumination
    Publication number: 20030227780
    Abstract: A licence plate adapted for illumination comprises: an opaque face plate having outward-facing and inward-facing faces, and cut-out areas corresponding to numerals, letters, symbols or designs; and a translucent, heat-deformable backing plate heat-pressed against the inward-facing face of the face plate to force portions of the backing plate into the cut-out areas; such that when the licence plate is illuminated from a point inward of the backing plate, the portions of the backing plate within the cut-out areas are illuminated for viewing from a point outward of the face plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Inventors: Arai Katsuo, Enomoto Toshinori, Bounnakhone J. Suyavong, Kham Jimmy Chounpanh