Patents by Inventor Hisako Nomura

Hisako Nomura 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: 9795218
    Abstract: A cushion for a chair including a seat member and a back-supporting member, wherein the seat member includes two ischium-facing portions, a surface of each ischium-facing portion abutting an ischium of the user and having a specific three-dimensional curved surface; and the back-supporting member includes an ilium upper border-facing portion and a lower ribs-facing portion, a surface of the ilium upper border-facing portion abutting an ilium of the user and being entirely concavely curved in a transverse cross section along a left-right direction, a surface of the lower ribs-facing portion abutting the lower ribs of the user and being entirely concavely curved in the transverse cross section along the left-right direction, and a portion of the back-supporting member upper than the lower ribs-facing portion having a specific three-dimensional curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: P.A.S. Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Muraguchi, Hisako Nomura
  • Publication number: 20150150379
    Abstract: A cushion for a chair including a seat member and a back-supporting member, wherein the seat member includes two ischium-facing portions, a surface of each ischium-facing portion abutting an ischium of the user and having a specific three-dimensional curved surface; and the back-supporting member includes an ilium upper border-facing portion and a lower ribs-facing portion, a surface of the ilium upper border-facing portion abutting an ilium of the user and being entirely concavely curved in a transverse cross section along a left-right direction, a surface of the lower ribs-facing portion abutting the lower ribs of the user and being entirely concavely curved in the transverse cross section along the left-right direction, and a portion of the back-supporting member upper than the lower ribs-facing portion having a specific three-dimensional curved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: P.A.S. Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Muraguchi, Hisako Nomura
  • Publication number: 20120049595
    Abstract: A seat device has an upper body support member having an upper body support surface that supports an upper back of a person. The support surface has aid ridges for shoulder blades. The aid ridges are located to be fit to a range of fifth to seventh ribs of the ribs in a vertical direction of the seat member, and are substantially horizontal in a width direction of the seat device. The support surface is located such that a length from a center line of the support surface in a width direction thereof to a center-line-side end of each of the aid ridges is equal to or larger than a length from a backbone center line to a backbone end of the person and equal to or smaller than a length from the backbone center line to a shoulder blade of the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi INOU, Mamoru Sawada, Seiji Totsuka, Hisako Nomura, Kenichi Muraguchi, Hiroyuki Mishima
  • Publication number: 20120049594
    Abstract: A device for retaining a person's seated position is provided as seats for vehicles, for example. The device has a seat member and an upper body support member. The seat member has a seat surface on which a person is seated. The seat surface has a pair of reference ridges each of which is fit to a recess between a biceps femoris muscle and a semimembranosus muscle of each of thighs of the person. The upper body support member has an upper body support surface that supports an upper body back of the person. Various types of ridges are provided on the upper body support surfaces for stabilizing the upper body of the person seated on the seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi INOU, Mamoru Sawada, Seiji Totsuka, Hisako Nomura, Kenichi Muraguchi, Hiroyuki Mishima
  • Publication number: 20120049593
    Abstract: A seat device capable of retaining a person's seated position is provided as seats for vehicles, for example. The seat device has an upper body support member having an upper body support surface that supports an upper body back of a person seated. The upper body support surface has slant ridges for ribs. The slant ridges can touch the ribs of the person from beneath and are slanted according to the ribs, the ribs descending with person's exhalation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inou, Mamoru Sawada, Seiji Totsuka, Hisako Nomura, Kenichi Muraguchi, Hiroyuki Mishima
  • Publication number: 20120049592
    Abstract: A device for retaining a person' seated position is provided as seats for vehicles, for example. The device has a seat member and an upper body support member. The seat member a seat surface on which a person is seated. The upper body support member has an upper body support surface that supports an upper body back of the person. The upper body support surface has a pair of support projections for ilia, which are fit to a pair of ilium projections of the person, the ilium projections being projected rearward when the person is seated on the seat surface of the seat member. The seat surface has a pair of accommodating recesses for ischiums, which accommodates therein a pair of ischium projected portions of the person, the ischium projected portions being projected downward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi INOU, Mamoru Sawada, Seiji Totsuka, Hisako Nomura, Kenichi Muraguchi, Hiroyuki Mishima