Patents by Inventor Kazuma Taniguchi

Kazuma Taniguchi 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: 11930799
    Abstract: A guide frame of a fishing line guide includes a hollow frame body, and a core member inserted into at least a part of the frame body. The frame body includes a frame member configured to abut a prescribed angle region on a circumference of a guide ring, an attachment foots configured to attach to a fishing rod and a support leg configured to connect ends of the frame member and then attachment foots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Shimano Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kaminou, Kazuma Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11617359
    Abstract: A tubular reel seat for fishing rod includes a tubular movable hood and a trigger. The tubular movable hood is disposed on a front side of the reel seat, and includes a hood portion configured to cover a front-end portion of a reel foot of the fishing rod. The trigger is disposed in part of a circumference of an outer circumferential surface of the movable hood on an opposite side of the hood portion, the trigger is configured to be hooked by a finger from the front side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Shimano Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuma Taniguchi, Yoshiyuki Kaminou, Soushi Iwata, Takahiro Yamanaka
  • Publication number: 20220394964
    Abstract: A guide for a fishing rod includes a rod body, a guide ring configured to have a fishing line inserted therethrough, and a guide frame fixed to the rod body, extending outward in a radial direction of the rod, and holding the guide ring. The guide ring has an outer circumferential groove along an outer circumferential edge positioned on an outer side of a central axis of the guide ring in the radial direction of the rod. The guide frame further has a frame including a ring-shaped wire material holding the guide ring, a supporting leg portion fixed to the rod body and connecting to and supporting the frame, and a first opposing surface of the outer circumferential groove opposing at least a portion of the frame, and a second opposing surface of the frame opposing the first opposing surface, the first and second opposing surfaces having different shapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KAMINOU, Kazuma TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220394965
    Abstract: A guide for a fishing rod, includes a rod body, a guide ring configured to have a fishing line inserted therethrough, including an outer circumferential groove along an outer peripheral edge located outside of the central axis in a radial direction of the rod, a guide frame fixed to the rod body extending outwardly in a radial direction of the rod and which has a frame including a ring-shaped wire material that holds the guide ring, and a bonding assisting aid having a first bonding portion bonded to the outer circumferential groove, and a second bonding portion bonded to an inner circumferential surface of the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KAMINOU, Kazuma TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200329687
    Abstract: A guide frame of a fishing line guide includes a hollow frame body, and a core member inserted into at least a part of the frame body. The frame body includes a frame member configured to abut a prescribed angle region on a circumference of a guide ring, an attachment foots configured to attach to a fishing rod and a support leg configured to connect ends of the frame member and then attachment foots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KAMINOU, Kazuma TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200037590
    Abstract: A tubular reel seat for fishing rod includes a tubular movable hood and a trigger. The tubular movable hood is disposed on a front side of the reel seat, and includes a hood portion configured to cover a front-end portion of a reel foot of the fishing rod. The trigger is disposed in part of a circumference of an outer circumferential surface of the movable hood on an opposite side of the hood portion, the trigger is configured to be hooked by a finger from the front side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuma TANIGUCHI, Yoshiyuki KAMINOU, Soushi IWATA, Takahiro YAMANAKA
  • Patent number: 9010014
    Abstract: A rod body for a fishing rod, in which torsional rigidity and the like are enhanced by exercising ingenuity in direction of arrangement of a prepreg tape, is provided. An inner layer 23 is formed by winding a main pattern, which is constituted by a prepreg sheet 52 having a length corresponding to the length of a rod body and provided with reinforcing fibers 42 uniformly aligned, so that reinforcing fibers 42 are tilted relative to the rod axis. An outer layer 25 is formed by helically winding a prepreg tape with small-width 70, which is constituted by reinforcing fibers 42 uniformly aligned in the longitudinal direction, in the rod axis direction so that ends of the prepreg tape 70 in the small-width direction thereof abut closely against each other. The reinforcing fibers 42 of the prepreg sheet 52 and the reinforcing fibers 42 of the prepreg tape 70 are wound so as to cross each other when viewed in a radial direction, with the winding being made helically in directions opposite to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Shimano Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoki Iwanari, Soushi Iwata, Kazuma Taniguchi