Patents by Inventor Takeichi Hongo

Takeichi Hongo 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).

  • Game apparatus with controllers for moving toy and character therefor
    Patent number: 5766077
    Abstract: A highly entertaining game apparatus wherein three-dimensional toy bodies and a game machine are combined and characters corresponding to the toy bodies are displayed on a monitor comprises a game main unit 3, a robot toy 5 connected to the game main unit 3, a monitor 9 for displaying a character corresponding to the robot toy 5, a controller 11 for controlling movements of the character displayed on the monitor 9, a principal robot part (body part 21) of the robot toy 5 and a plurality of robot parts (arm parts 23, 25, leg part 27) removably attached to the principal robot part. The principal robot part has non-volatile memory in which self-related data is stored and each of the robot parts has an identification part for identifying itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Bandai
    Inventor: Takeichi Hongo
  • Small pet animal house
    Patent number: D450891
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignees: Bandai Co., Ltd., Wiz Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeichi Hongo, Taro Tsuji, Katsuhiro Watanabe, Mitsuhiro Takeda