Patents by Inventor Makoto Muraki

Makoto Muraki 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: 10500511
    Abstract: A spinning top toy including a body and a separate shaft portion. The body has a first hook and the shaft portion has a second hook. The body and the shaft portion are switchable between couplable and decouplable states depending on a relative rotational position. The first hook and the second hook are vertically aligned in the couplable state, and are vertically misaligned in the decouplable state. An urging unit brings an upper face of the first hook and a bottom face of the second hook into contact by an urging force of a spring in the couplable state. The body and the shaft portion enter the couplable state by turning and pushing. The body and the shaft portion engage each other by bringing the upper face of the first hook into contact with the bottom face of the second hook by the urging force of the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Muraki, Takeaki Maeda
  • Patent number: 10421022
    Abstract: A detachable structure includes a toy and a detaching tool. The toy comprises a first part and a second part engaged with the first part. The detaching tool comprises a presser and elastic holders with holding parts that are at any one of a holding position and a holding releasable position. The first part is elastic and comprises an elastic engaging hook that is at any one of an engaged position and an engagement releasing position. The second part engages with the first part when the second part is brought to the first part in a certain direction so that the second part slidably contacts the first part to move the elastic engaging hook to the engagement releasing position and then further to the engaged position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Muraki, Takeaki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20190255450
    Abstract: A spinning top toy used for battle games in which the spinning top toy collides with an opponent spinning top toy includes a shaft part, a body, and first and second gripping members. The body is configured on the shaft part. The first and second gripping members are configured on at least a part of an outer periphery of the body. One of the first and second gripping members is urged to the other of the first and second gripping members to have a first distance therebetween. The first and second gripping members are separated to have a second distance therebetween when the shaft part is rotated. The first distance is smaller than the second distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: TOMY Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto MURAKI, Takeaki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20190134517
    Abstract: A spinning top toy for being rotated around a rotating axis includes a shaft part being configured to be in contact to a floor, and a body being detachably attached to the shaft part. One of the shaft part and the body includes first and second divided pieces including first and second coupling parts respectively. The first coupling part is configured to be coupled detachably with the second coupling part. The first and second divided pieces are arranged on a plane perpendicular to the rotating axis when the first and second coupling parts are coupled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: TOMY Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto MURAKI, Takeaki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20190111353
    Abstract: A detachable structure includes a toy and a detaching tool. The toy comprises a first part and a second part engaged with the first part. The detaching tool comprises a presser and elastic holders with holding parts that are at any one of a holding position and a holding releasable position. The first part is elastic and comprises an elastic engaging hook that is at any one of an engaged position and an engagement releasing position. The second part engages with the first part when the second part is brought to the first part in a certain direction so that the second part slidably contacts the first part to move the elastic engaging hook to the engagement releasing position and then further to the engaged position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Muraki, Takeaki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20190111352
    Abstract: A toy top includes a shaft portion, an additional part and an engaging part. The shaft portion includes a spinning shaft. The additional part is attached to the shaft portion movably in an axis direction of the spinning shaft. The engaging part engages the additional part with the shaft portion at different positions in the axis direction of the spinning shaft. An attachment position of the additional part is changeable by changing engagement of the additional part by the engaging part. A grounding state or a height of the shaft portion is changeable according to change of the attachment position of the additional part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto MURAKI, Takeaki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20190105576
    Abstract: A spinning top toy including a body and a separate shaft portion. The body has a first hook and the shaft portion has a second hook. The body and the shaft portion are switchable between couplable and decouplable states depending on a relative rotational position. The first hook and the second hook are vertically aligned in the couplable state, and are vertically misaligned in the decouplable state. An urging unit brings an upper face of the first hook and a bottom face of the second hook into contact by an urging force of a spring in the couplable state. The body and the shaft portion enter the couplable state by turning and pushing. The body and the shaft portion engage each other by bringing the upper face of the first hook into contact with the bottom face of the second hook by the urging force of the spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto MURAKI, Takeaki MAEDA
  • Patent number: 10183226
    Abstract: A spinning top toy including a body and a separate shaft portion. The body has a first hook and the shaft portion has a second hook. The body and the shaft portion are switchable between couplable and decouplable states depending on a relative rotational position. The first hook and the second hook are vertically aligned in the couplable state, and are vertically misaligned in the decouplable state. An urging unit brings an upper face of the first hook and a bottom face of the second hook into contact by an urging force of a spring in the couplable state. The body and the shaft portion enter the couplable state by turning and pushing. The body and the shaft portion engage each other by bringing the upper face of the first hook into contact with the bottom face of the second hook by the urging force of the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Muraki, Takeaki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20180361261
    Abstract: A spinning top toy includes a braking member, a shaft part which is configured to be rotated, and a body which is detachably attached to the shaft part. The body is configured to be detached from the shaft part by being rotated with respect to the shaft part. When an impact is applied to the body, the braking member is configured on one of the shaft part and the body and is movable by a centrifugal force. When urged by the centrifugal force, the braking member is configured to become in contact with the other of the shaft part and the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: TOMY Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto MURAKI, Takeaki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20180353867
    Abstract: A toy top includes a shaft portion, a body, and a first attacking member and a second attacking member that are disposed at different circumferential direction positions of the body. The first attacking member is movable between an inner first position and an outer second position in a radial direction. The second attacking member is movable between an inner third position and an outer fourth position in the radial direction. The first attacking member is biased toward the first position and is movable to the second position by centrifugal force. The second attacking member is restrained at the third position when the first attacking member is at the first position and is released from restraint to be moved to the fourth position when the first attacking member is at the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta HASHIBA, Makoto Muraki, Takeaki Maeda
  • Patent number: D835724
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Muraki
  • Patent number: D842934
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Muraki
  • Patent number: D843489
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Horikoshi, Makoto Muraki
  • Patent number: D849849
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Muraki, Hiroyuki Matsukawa
  • Patent number: D851709
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Muraki, Hiroyuki Matsukawa
  • Patent number: D854096
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Muraki, Hiroyuki Matsukawa
  • Patent number: D854097
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Muraki
  • Patent number: D854626
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Horikoshi, Makoto Muraki
  • Patent number: D857109
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Muraki
  • Patent number: D862609
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Muraki, Kouji Narita