Patents by Inventor Shinobu Tabata

Shinobu Tabata 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: 8286268
    Abstract: A freely cuttable garment is provided. The freely cuttable garment is capable of being cut by a consumer into any design shape for use. The garment is formed of a fray-preventing knitted fabric woven with heat-welding elastic yarn. Sizes of opening parts of the neck, side, and bottom of the garment are smaller than those of a standard product; a total length and sleeve length of the garment are larger than those of the standard product; and a body width, cuff, waist, and lower bottom edge of the garment are equal to those of the standard product. The garment can be cut into any design shape and can be used with the opening parts left cut-off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Gunze Limited
    Inventors: Mizue Yamashita, Naoko Fujimoto, Hitomi Arimura, Akira Nakai, Tsutomu Suzuoki, Shinobu Tabata, Masayuki Tani, Taisuke Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20120167635
    Abstract: A freely cuttable garment is provided. The freely cuttable garment is capable of being cut by a consumer into any design shape for use. The garment is formed of a fray-preventing knitted fabric woven with heat-welding elastic yarn. Sizes of opening parts of the neck, side, and bottom of the garment are smaller than those of a standard product; a total length and sleeve length of the garment are larger than those of the standard product; and a body width, cuff, waist, and lower bottom edge of the garment are equal to those of the standard product. The garment can be cut into any design shape and can be used with the opening parts left cut-off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Mizue Yamashita, Naoko Fujimoto, Hitomi Arimura, Akira Nakai, Tsutomu Suzuoki, Shinobu Tabata, Masayuki Tani, Taisuke Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8173558
    Abstract: A polyurethane elastomeric filament-containing weft knit fabric is obtained by plating a bare yarn of highly fusible, alkali-resistant polyurethane elastomeric filament having at least 50% retention of tenacity following dry heat treatment under 100% extension at 150° C. for 45 seconds, a melting point of 180° C. or below, and at least 60% retention of tenacity following treatment in a 2 g/L aqueous sodium hydroxide solution under 100% extension at 100° C. for 60 minutes at every loop of a weft knit fabric having a 1×1 rib knit structure or a center yarn-containing reversible knit structure composed of at least one type of non-elastomeric yarn, then heat setting the plated structure so as to thermally fuse the highly fusible, alkali-resistant polyurethane elastomeric filaments to each other or to the non-elastomeric yarns at crossover points therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignees: Nisshinbo Textile Inc., Gunze, Limited
    Inventors: Kunihiro Fukuoka, Koji Nishio, Seiji Yamahara, Takahiro Yamazaki, Takashi Maruoka, Fumiyuki Yamasaki, Susumu Kibune, Tsutomu Suzuoki, Shigeo Souda, Taisuke Yamamoto, Kouji Kimura, Shinobu Tabata
  • Publication number: 20090235427
    Abstract: A garment is provided which a purchaser can freely cut after purchase into any design shape and then wear, and also which has a cut-off part requiring no high-level cutting and sewing processing techniques. The garment is formed of a fray-preventing knitted fabric woven with heat-welding elastic yarn. Sizes of opening parts of the neck, side, and bottom of the garment are smaller than those of a standard product; a total length and sleeve length of the garment are larger than those of the standard product; and a body width, cuff, waist, and lower bottom edge of the garment are equal to those of the standard product. The garment can be cut into any design shape and can be used with the opening parts left cut-off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: GUNZE LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsutomu SUZUOKI, Shinobu Tabata, Masayuki Tani, Taisuke Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20090007309
    Abstract: A garment is provided which a purchaser can freely cut after purchase into any design shape and then wear, and also which has a cut-off part requiring no high-level cutting and sewing processing techniques. The garment is formed of a fray-preventing knitted fabric woven with heat-welding elastic yarn. Sizes of opening parts of the neck, side, and bottom of the garment are smaller than those of a standard product; a total length and sleeve length of the garment are larger than those of the standard product; and a body width, cuff, waist, and lower bottom edge of the garment are equal to those of the standard product. The garment can be cut into any design shape and can be used with the opening parts left cut-off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: GUNZE LIMITED
    Inventors: Mizue Yamashita, Naoko Fujimoto, Hitomi Arimura, Akira Nakai, Tsutomu Suzuoki, Shinobu Tabata, Masayuki Tani, Taisuke Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20080032580
    Abstract: A polyurethane elastomeric filament-containing weft knit fabric is obtained by plating a bare yarn of highly fusible, alkali-resistant polyurethane elastomeric filament having at least 50% retention of tenacity following dry heat treatment under 100% extension at 150° C. for 45 seconds, a melting point of 180° C. or below, and at least 60% retention of tenacity following treatment in a 2 g/L aqueous sodium hydroxide solution under 100% extension at 100° C. for 60 minutes at every loop of a weft knit fabric having a 1×1 rib. knit structure or a center yarn-containing reversible knit structure composed of at least one type of non-elastomeric yarn, then heat setting the plated structure so as to thermally fuse the highly fusible, alkali-resistant polyurethane elastomeric filaments to each other or to the non-elastomeric yarns at crossover points therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicants: NISSHINBO INDUSTRIES, INC., GUNZE LIMITED
    Inventors: Kunihiro Fukuoka, Koji Nishio, Seiji Yamahara, Takahiro Yamazaki, Takashi Maruoka, Fumiyuki Yamasaki, Susumu Kibune, Tsutomu Suzuoki, Shigeo Souda, Taisuke Yamamoto, Kouji Kimura, Shinobu Tabata
  • Publication number: 20060258242
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for providing detergent-free washing function by which a washing effect approximately same as that in the case of using a detergent can be caused even in the case of washing a fiber or a fiber product without using a detergent and a fiber product capable of washing without using a detergent. The present invention relates to a method for providing a detergent-free washing function to a fiber or a fiber product, which is subjected to hydrophilization treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Inventors: Shoichi Hirano, Yoshinari Yui, Kazuhito Ozaki, Ozawa Nanami, Shingo Akjeda, Shinobu Tabata, Susumu Kibune