Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Nanno

Toshiaki Nanno 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).

  • Publication number: 20110316316
    Abstract: A massage chair includes a main frame, a seat, and a backrest. The main frame includes a back frame configured to support the backrest and a base frame configured to support the seat. The base frame is formed by combining a plurality of structural members. The plurality of structural members are arranged on positions corresponding to edges of a hexahedron. Part of the back frame serves as part of the structural members of the base frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Toshiaki Nanno, Akihiro Takaya, Nobuyuki Nishitani, Yoshimi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20110278890
    Abstract: A massage chair includes a seat, a backrest and a front cover. The front cover is shaped to cover the front face of the backrest and the top face of the seat. The upper and lower ends of the front cover are detachably attached to the upper part of the backrest and the front part of the seat through upper and lower attachments, respectively. The left and right ends of the front cover are detachably attached only to the left and right ends of the seat through left and right attachments, respectively. The attachment positions of the left and right ends of the front cover correspond to positions of the left and right ends of the seat, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Yoshimi Takahashi, Akihiro Takaya, Toshiaki Nanno, Nobuyuki Nishitani
  • Publication number: 20070287941
    Abstract: A chair-type massage machine with a seat, a backrest and an armrest comprises an upper member which is disposed above and in spaced-apart relation to the armrest with a distance allowing a hand and/or arm to be inserted therebetween, to extend in the same direction as that of the armrest. A lower air bag adapted to be inflated/deflated by an air pressure is attached onto a top surface of the armrest. First and second upper air bags adapted to be inflated/deflated by an air pressure are attached onto a bottom surface of the upper member to form a line along a longitudinal direction of the upper member. The total surface area of the upper air bags and the total volume of the upper air bags in their inflated state are set to be less than the surface area of the lower air bag and the volume of the lower air bag in its inflated state, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuki YODA, Koji TERADA, Shinji TSUTSUI, Hiroyuki HOJO, Souichirou MIZOGUCHI, Toshiaki NANNO
  • Patent number: 6491652
    Abstract: A massage device capable of applying favorable pressure stimulation owing to expansion and shrinking of air bags irrespective of thickness of portions to be massaged such as legs or arms. The massage device has supporting bodies, strap bodies made of pliable material that are attached to the supporting bodies at their ends to form U-shaped sections, air bags provided at inner surfaces of strap bodies for receiving portions of a human body such as legs or arms to be massaged, and an air supply means for expanding and shrinking of the air bags. Upon locating portions to be massaged on the strap bodies, the strap bodies assume shapes that fit along the shapes of the portions of the body to be massaged to thus support the portions to be massaged on the strap bodies. Pressuring stimulation can then be applied to the portions to be massaged by making the air bags perform expansion and shrinking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Hata, Shigeru Dono, Yukihiko Kitano, Masamichi Miyaguchi, Shinji Tsutsui, Yuichi Nishibori, Toshiaki Nanno