Patents by Inventor Fumikazu Matsuura

Fumikazu Matsuura 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: 9220381
    Abstract: To provide a hand dryer that is capable of reducing the amount of noise without reducing the drying performance, and is capable of preventing foreign substances from entering from an air outlet thereof. A hand dryer is configured to blow water off hands with airflow emitted from nozzles. The hand dryer includes a hand insertion section that is open toward the outside, and the nozzles disposed on wall surfaces of the hand insertion section. A nozzle hole at the distal end of each of the nozzles is a wave-shaped slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Akiyoshi, Fumikazu Matsuura, Hitoshi Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20130104413
    Abstract: To provide a hand dryer that is capable of reducing the amount of noise without reducing the drying performance, and is capable of preventing foreign substances from entering from an air outlet thereof. A hand dryer is configured to blow water off hands with airflow emitted from nozzles. The hand dryer includes a hand insertion section that is open toward the outside, and the nozzles disposed on wall surfaces of the hand insertion section. A nozzle hole at the distal end of each of the nozzles is a wave-shaped slit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Akiyoshi, Fumikazu Matsuura, Hitoshi Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20120017460
    Abstract: A hand dryer includes a hand drying chamber that includes a hand insertion opening from which a hand is inserted, a first wall section that faces the hand inserted from the hand insertion opening, a second wall section that faces the hand and the first wall section, and a plurality of air nozzle sections, which extends in a direction from the hand insertion opening to a far side and jets a high-speed air, on any one of the first wall section and the second wall section, and a distance between the air nozzle sections in a horizontal direction is wide on a side of the hand insertion opening and is narrow on the far side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kikuchi, Fumikazu Matsuura, Keiji Kameishi, Kenji Sawabe, Yoshihiro Fukaya
  • Publication number: 20120017459
    Abstract: A hand dryer includes a hand drying chamber that includes a hand insertion opening from which a hand is inserted, a first wall section that faces the hand inserted from the hand insertion, opening, a second wall section that faces the hand and the first wall section, and a plurality of air nozzle sections, which extends in a direction from the hand insertion opening to a far side and jets a high-speed air, on any one of the first wall section and the second wall section, wherein a distance between the first wall section or the second wall section that faces the air nozzle sections and the air nozzle sections is large in an upper portion and is small in a lower portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kikuchi, Fumikazu Matsuura, Keiji Kameishi, Kenji Sawabe, Yoshihiro Fukaya