Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki SOWA

Nobuyuki SOWA 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).

  • Content data holding system, storage medium, content data holding server, and data management method
    Patent number: 11998838
    Abstract: A server includes a content storage medium configured to store content data of content usable in different types of games up to a first upper number, and a management information storage medium configured to store valid period information of a right to use an extended function concerning the content data The server, in case that a right to use an extended function is valid, sends the content data to an information-processing device or receives the content data from the information-processing device, and stores the content data in the content storage medium up to a second upper number larger than the first upper number. The server, in case that the right is invalid, performs at least one of transmission of the content data to the information-processing device and reception of the content data from the information-processing device, in a restricted manner as compared with a case where the right is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignees: Nintendo Co., Ltd., The Pokémon Company
    Inventors: Takanori Sowa, Nobuyuki Ohta, Takahiro Ohnishi, Hiroki Togashi, Akira Kinashi
  • Passenger conveyor and guide shoe for passenger conveyor
    Patent number: 11655125
    Abstract: Provided is a guide shoe for a passenger conveyor, including: a base portion to be slid across a skirt guard provided along a moving direction of a plurality of steps that are movably provided; and a weight containing a material having a specific gravity larger than a specific gravity of a material of the base portion, which is provided to the base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryu Okuda, Kenta Shirai, Takahiro Kondo, Hiroki Mori, Nobuyuki Sowa
  • PASSENGER CONVEYOR AND GUIDE SHOE FOR PASSENGER CONVEYOR
    Publication number: 20220153554
    Abstract: Provided is a guide shoe for a passenger conveyor, including: a base portion to be slid across a skirt guard provided along a moving direction of a plurality of steps that are movably provided; and a weight containing a material having a specific gravity larger than a specific gravity of a material of the base portion, which is provided to the base portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryu OKUDA, Kenta SHIRAI, Takahiro KONDO, Hiroki MORI, Nobuyuki SOWA