Patents by Inventor Kinji Mineo

Kinji Mineo 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: 8439219
    Abstract: A cap seal and a doubly-sealing apparatus of a container such as a drum using the same, which execute a reliable sealing function of a cap part of the container such as the drum. Double sealing of the cap part of the container such as the drum due to the cap seal is fully performed despite various errors such as the difference in the curling external diameter of the cap part of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Yamato System Company Ltd.
    Inventor: Kinji Mineo
  • Publication number: 20100219190
    Abstract: A cap seal and a doubly-sealing apparatus of a container such as a drum using the same, which execute a reliable sealing function of a cap part of the container such as the drum. Double sealing of the cap part of the container such as the drum due to the cap seal is fully performed despite various errors such as the difference in the curling external diameter of the cap part of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: Yamato System Company Ltd.
    Inventor: Kinji Mineo
  • Publication number: 20090019632
    Abstract: A portable toilet used in outdoor activities including driving, camping, and fishing, and in time of disasters such as earthquake is provided, which portable toilet can be provided inexpensively as the structure of the toilet seat portion to be installed on a pail can is very small and thus can be mass produced at low material cost. The portable toilet is convenient to carry around since the toilet seat portion can be accommodated in the pail can when not being used. The portable toilet includes a pail can 1 configuring a toilet bowl body, a stool accommodating plastic bag 2, and a pair of toilet seat configuring left half-body 11 and a right half-body 12 facing each other on the left and the right.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2007
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: Yamato System Company Ltd.
    Inventor: Kinji Mineo
  • Patent number: 4677730
    Abstract: A method of attaching a press-in flange having a tubular portion and a horizontal portion to a tubular mouthpiece of the top plate of a drum or like container by providing a gasket between the tubular portion of the flange and an upward annular projection on the flange horizontal portion, forcing the flange having the gasket thereon into the tubular mouthpiece from below, and outwardly bending the upper end of the flange tubular portion to hold the upper end folded over the upper end of the mouthpiece while bringing the annular projection into intimate contact with the inner surface of a curved portion between the upper and lower ends of the mouthpiece to confine the gasket in a space defined by the annular projection, the curved portion, the lower end of the tubular portion and part of the horizontal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1987
    Assignee: Yamato Iron Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanari Mineo, Kinji Mineo
  • Patent number: 4316318
    Abstract: A method of mounting a mouthpiece onto a container which comprises fitting a tubular mouthpiece having an externally threaded portion and an annular leg portion of reduced thickness at the lower portion of the externally threaded portion, around an upright tubular portion formed integral with a top plate of the container, bending the upper end of the tubular portion outward to cause the bent edge of the upper end to hold the upper end of the mouthpiece from above, pressing outward from inside the lower end of the tubular portion and the said lower end leg portion of the mouthpiece both at a plurality of portions to form a plurality of projections at the lower end of the tubular portion and also the same number of recessed portions in the said leg portion of the mouthpiece, and causing the projections to engage with the recessed portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1982
    Assignee: Yamato Iron Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kinji Mineo
  • Patent number: 3987929
    Abstract: Cap seal made of a material having some elasticity and including a circular top wall, a peripheral wall and an inward annular projection formed on the inner surface of the peripheral wall and engageable with an outwardly projecting edge at the upper end of a mouthpiece of a drum. Each of the circular top wall and the peripheral wall is formed with a groove for removing the cap seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1976
    Assignee: Yamato Iron Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kinji Mineo
  • Patent number: D267545
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1983
    Assignee: Yamato Iron Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kinji Mineo
  • Patent number: D268482
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1983
    Assignee: Yamato Iron Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kinji Mineo
  • Patent number: D268483
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1983
    Assignee: Yamato Iron Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kinji Mineo
  • Patent number: D606814
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Yamato System Company Ltd.
    Inventor: Kinji Mineo