Patents by Inventor Hirohisa Shimizu

Hirohisa Shimizu 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).

  • Publication number: 20020007511
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hair washer which changes spouting angles of the respective washing nozzles in accordance with a figure, a hair style, and dirt levels of hair of a person under hair washing, thereby washing securely parts where a washing needs to be performed. An engage part 3a of a nozzle holding means 3 is engaged with an end part of a coupler 2 with respective approximately spherical-shaped base parts 1b and 4b of a mist nozzle 1 or a shower nozzle 4 being placed on a hemispherical-shaped nozzle receiving part 2a, whereby the respective base parts 1b and 4b of the mist nozzle 1 and the shower nozzle 4 touch an O-ring 3c disposed in a nozzle holding means 3. Therefore, the respective base parts 1b and 4b enables to move slidably along a face of a nozzle receiving part 2a of the coupler 2, to change directions of the respective spouting orifices 1a and 4a of the mist nozzle 1 and the shower nozzle 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 1999
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: HIROHISA SHIMIZU, HIDEAKI MIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20010054197
    Abstract: An automatic hair washer of the present invention comprises a heater 20 and a heater control unit 21 in a hot water storing tank 3, and starts the heater 20 by the heater control unit 21 to heat the wash water to have a predetermined temperature when the wash water in the hot water storing tank 3 has a temperature below the predetermined temperature. Therefore, the wash water remaining in the hot water storing tank 3 at the end of hair washing is not drained but used in the following hair washing, thereby saving water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 1999
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Inventor: HIROHISA SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20010032356
    Abstract: This invention provides an automatic hair washer that is capable of preventing the hairs of the person under hair washing from being attached to the internal wall of the cistern as well as the hairs of the person under hair washing being tangled with each other during the hair washing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2000
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Inventor: HIROHISA SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 6291051
    Abstract: The present invention prevents the leakage of wash water by securely eliminating a gap between an opening of a face cover and a face of a person under hair washing regardless of the size of the face of the person, when hair washing is performed using an automatic hair washer. A hair washing waterproof sheet comprises an approximately rectangular vinyl sheet having an opening 1a of such a size that a head can be inserted though, in the center. The waterproof sheet has an outer circumference part 1c and an inner circumference part 1b which are passed through by elastic braids, thereby being stretchable. Further, magic tapes 2 for fixing the inner circumference part 1b to the person under hair washing are provided at opposed positions of a lower part of the inner circumference part 1b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Oohiro Works, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirohisa Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6269492
    Abstract: An automatic hair washer which has plural washing nozzles for spouting wash water to a head part, and includes a hot water storing tank for storing wash water, a hot water supplying pump for pumping wash water from the hot water storing tank and supplying the pumped wash water to the washing nozzles. Hot water supplying electromagnetic valves for controlling spouting of wash water from the washing nozzles by opening/closing operations thereof are also provided along with hot water supplying pump control for controlling output from the hot water supplying pump to change amounts of wash water supplied to the washing nozzles from the hot water supplying pump in correlation with the opening/closing operations of the hot water supplying electromagnetic valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Oohiro Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Miyoshi, Hirohisa Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20010007952
    Abstract: The present invention provides a facial treatment device which can repeat warming and cooling of the face of a person while the massages are given to the face at the same time, whereby the beauty effects such as the facial treatment and body slimming can be mutually and efficiently can be obtained. A Peltier element 12 is placed adjacent to a probe 11 having a high thermal conductivity, which can abut the face of a person 19 to be treated. Then, the current is supplied by a DC power supply 101 to the Peltier element 12 as well as the direction of the current is switched between the forward and backward directions by the selector switch 100. Thereby, the cooling and warming of the probe 11 is repeated. At the same time, a motor 15 having an eccentric weight 17 attached thereto is driven, whereby the probe 11 is vibrated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2000
    Publication date: July 12, 2001
    Applicant: Oohiro Works, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirohisa Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6249922
    Abstract: An automatic hair washer having a basin with a plurality of washing nozzles for spouting wash water into the basin, a hot water storing tank for storing wash water, a pump for pumping out wash water from the hot water storing tank to the washing nozzles, electromagnetic valves for controlling spouting of the wash water from the washing nozzles, electromagnetic valve control means for controlling the electromagnetic valves so that wash water flows from at least one of the washing nozzles during a predetermined period and, by opening the electromagnetic valve of another of the washing nozzles while wash water flows from the at least one washing nozzle, wash water flows from both washing nozzles in an overlapping manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Oohiro Works, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirohisa Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6243888
    Abstract: A hair washer comprising a cistern into which the head part of a person under hair washing can be inserted, the hair washer including a plurality of washing nozzles for spouting out washing water provided at each side wall surface, rear wall surface, and front part of the bottom wall of the cistern. A drain outlet is provided for draining out washing water spouted out from the washing nozzles, the drain outlet being provided at the rear part of the bottom wall of the cistern. At least one groove extends toward the drain outlet, the groove being provided at gaps between the plurality of washing nozzles located at the front part of the bottom wall of the cistern, wherein washing water spouted out from the washing nozzles is exhausted out from the drain outlet and passes through the groove provided at the bottom wall of the cistern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: Oohiro Works, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirohisa Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20010001884
    Abstract: The present invention provides an automatic hair washer which can perform hair washing in a most suitable situation for parts washed by washing nozzles which are provided on inner walls of a cistern, purposes and configurations of the washing nozzles. According to the present invention, in all washing steps from a preliminary washing step t1 to a rinsing step t7, output of a hot water supplying pump 6 is changed by a hot water supplying pump control unit 20 in timings of opening/closing operations of hot water supplying electromagnetic valves 10a to 10j for shower heads S1 to S12, to vary pressures and amounts of wash water spouted from the shower heads S1 to S12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2000
    Publication date: May 31, 2001
    Inventors: HIDEAKI MIYOSHI, HIROHISA SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 6233755
    Abstract: A hair washer including a hot water storing tank for storing hot water, a cistern for receiving at least the hair of a person undergoing hair washing, a cistern including shower heads and nozzle heads in an interior thereof, a neck-receiving member provided on the cistern for supporting the back of the neck of a person undergoing hair washing, a conduit running below the neck-receiving member and connecting the hot water storing tank to the shower heads and nozzle heads in the cistern whereby the hot water passing through the conduit heats the neck-receiving member and thus the back of the neck of the person undergoing hair washing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Oohiro Works, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirohisa Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6212703
    Abstract: A hair washing apparatus including a cistern having an opening on an upper part thereof, into which a person under hair washing inserts his head while lying on his back and a neck receiving part for receiving a neck of the person, the neck receiving part provided at an entering edge part of the cistern, wherein the neck receiving part comprises a board having a plurality of slits or small holes. The cistern includes a wash water spouting means for spouting wash water toward an underside part of the neck receiving part, and the wash water spouting means includes a rotatable water supply pipe having a plurality of spouts and a lever provided on the water supply pipe. The lever allows for rotation of the water supply pipe about the longitudinal axis thereof to adjust a spouting angle of the wash water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Oohiro Works, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirohisa Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6205596
    Abstract: An automatic hair washer having a basin including nozzles for spouting wash water, a hot water storing tank, a pump for pumping wash water at a predetermined hydraulic pressure from the hot water storing tank to the nozzles, a delivery pipe for delivering wash water from the hot water storing tank to the pump and from the pump to the nozzles, a three-way valve provided in the delivery pipe between the nozzles and the pump, a flow dividing pipe for delivering water from the three-way valve to the hot water storing tank, and a controller for the three-way valve such that at the initiation of a washing cycle the three-way valve diverts a portion of the wash water in the delivery pipe back to the hot water storing tank via the flow dividing pipe while simultaneously feeding the remainder of the wash water in the delivery pipe to the nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Oohiro Works, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirohisa Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6205597
    Abstract: A method of operating an automatic hair washer from initiation of a washing cycle to termination of the washing cycle including the step of pumping water from a hot water storing tank to a flow diversion control mechanism. At the initiation of a hair washing cycle, a portion of the water is transported through a delivery pipe to washing nozzles of the hair washer while the remainder of the water is simultaneously transported through a flow dividing pipe back to the hot water storing tank. After initiation of the hair washing cycle is completed, the flow diversion control mechanism is adjusted to direct all of the water to the delivery pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Oohiro Works, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirohisa Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6181982
    Abstract: A device which can reduce the workload on operators during replenishment and stocktaking of drugs stored in a drug dispenser. The drug dispenser has a memory for storing data on the initial number of drugs in each of the drug feeders, a processor for calculating the number of drugs currently remaining in each drug feeder by subtracting the number of drugs discharged from each feeder from the initial number of drugs in each drug feeder, and a display for displaying the name of drugs if the number of drugs currently remaining in any drug feeder is smaller than a predetermined value. With this arrangement, an operator can easily see which drug feeders are short of drugs without directly checking the respective feeders by removing them from shelves. The workload on operators for drug replenishment is thus reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yuyama Seisakusho
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Naoki Koike, Hirohisa Shimizu