Patents by Inventor Nobuko Wakayama

Nobuko Wakayama 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).

  • Apparatus and method for altering the apparent effects of gravity
    Patent number: 6596076
    Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus and method that appear to alter the effects of gravity by generating a magnetic field that causes an upward/downward magnetic force to act on a substance in a container. This offsets or adds to the downward force of gravity, to simulate a low-gravitational or excess-gravitational environment inside the substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignees: Director-General of Agency of Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventor: Nobuko Wakayama
  • Uniform magnetic force generating magnet
    Patent number: 6362712
    Abstract: Magnets comprising main magnets formed by arranging a single main magnet or plural main magnets, and auxiliary magnets for uniformalizing the magnetic force of the main magnets in a predetermined space. The magnets uniformalize the magnetic force in space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignees: Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan as represented by Director General of National Reseacrh Institute for Metals, Japan as represented by Director General of Agency of Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Tsukasa Kiyoshi, Hitoshi Wada, Nobuko Wakayama