Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Shimizu

Toshiaki Shimizu 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: 20100192272
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To stably supply a fiber structure having excellent ashing durability, water/oil repellency and antifouling properties. [Solution] A fiber structure characterized in that each of the single fibers used in it is covered, on the surface thereof, with a resin film containing an organic fluorochemicals via a resin film containing a triazine ring-containing compound or containing an organic fluorochemicals and a triazine ring-containing compound, and that said fiber structure has a water repellency level of grade 4 or higher and an oil repellency level of grade 4 or higher after 20 times of washing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2007
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Masao Seki, Rumi Karasawa, Wataru Abe, Toshiaki Shimizu, Takashi Kawasaki, Masanobu Sato
  • Publication number: 20100149728
    Abstract: A pressure control valve provided on a terminal plate of a capacitor includes a filter, a valve body and a cap. The filter is provided so as to close a through-hole disposed in a terminal plate and is composed of a gas permeable sheet preventing permeation of the electrolyte solution. The valve body formed of an elastic material has a cylindrical part and a bottom part, and is disposed so that the bottom part covers the through-hole of the terminal plate. The cap is fixed to the terminal plate, covers the valve body and holds the valve body in a composed state with respect to the terminal plate. The cap is provided with a vent hole. The valve body and the filter are provided apart from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Toshiaki Shimizu, Motohiro Sakata, Toshiyuki Kitagawa, Kouji Moriyama, Kouji Ueoka
  • Patent number: 7717790
    Abstract: A symbol display device for a game machine includes a reel unit having a plurality of reels, each having a peripheral surface with a plurality of peripheral symbols. An end reel arranged at an end position of the reels has a lateral surface where a pointer is displayed. A reel supporting member that supports the reels rotatably independently includes a lateral wall having a window through which the lateral surface of the end reel is seen. The lateral wall of the reel supporting member has a plurality of lateral symbols arranged around the window, whereby any one of the lateral symbols is pointed by the pointer on the lateral surface of the end reel due to rotation of the end reel. A pivoting unit pivots the reel unit to a first position where the peripheral surfaces of the reels are observable and to a second position where the pointer on the lateral surface of the end reel and the lateral symbols on the lateral wall of the reel supporting member are observable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Konami Gaming, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20100113130
    Abstract: The present invention is a gaming machine for providing a display and paying out award, including a storage device which stores a game data to implement at least two games of the same type, an extended device which adds a game element to the two games and a game device which implements the two games of the same type, wherein the extended device works independently of the game device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Konami Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Kamano, Toshiaki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20100105474
    Abstract: A symbol display device for a game machine includes a reel unit having a plurality of reels, each having a peripheral surface with a plurality of peripheral symbols. A reel supporting member that supports the reels rotatably and independently includes a lateral wall having a plurality of lateral symbols arranged around the rotational axis of the end reel, whereby any one of the lateral symbols may be indicated by a pointer that rotates about the rotational axis of the end reel. A pivoting unit pivots the reel unit to a first angular position at which the peripheral surfaces of the reels are observable and to a second angular position at which the pointer and the lateral symbols on the lateral wall of the reel supporting member are observable. A controller for controlling the pivoting unit causes the pivoting unit to vibrate the reel unit near the first angular position and near the second angular position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: KONAMI GAMING, INC.
    Inventor: Toshiaki SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20100079927
    Abstract: A capacitor includes a capacitor element including first and second electrodes, an electrolyte solution, first and second collector plates made of metal and joined to the first and second electrodes of the capacitor element, respectively, a case accommodating the capacitor element, the electrolyte solution, the first and second collector plates, a terminal plate placed at an opening of the case and joined to the second collector plate, and a sealing rubber sealing the terminal plate and the opening of the case. The case has a tubular portion and a bottom plate closing the tubular portion. An inner surface of the bottom plate of the case has a contacting portion contacting the first collector plate and a junction portion facing the first collector plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki Shimizu, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Takumi Yamaguchi, Kouji Ueoka, Ichiro Aoki
  • Publication number: 20090303662
    Abstract: A pressure regulating valve is provided on a terminal plate of a capacitor. This pressure regulating valve includes a gas permeable sheet, a valve body made of silicone rubber, a packing, and a cap. The gas permeable sheet that prevents permeation of electrolyte is provided so as to close a hole created in a terminal plate. The packing is interposed between the valve body and the gas permeable sheet, and is made of an elastic material with moisture permeation resistance higher than that of silicone rubber. The cap is fixed onto the terminal plate and covers the valve body and the packing such that the valve body and the packing are retained in a compressed state with respect to the terminal plate. The valve body and the packing are provided away from the gas permeable sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: Motohiro Sakata, Toshiyuki Kitagawa, Kouji Moriyama, Kouji Ueoka, Toshiaki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20090296316
    Abstract: A capacitor includes a capacitor element, a bottomed, cylindrical, metallic case, a metallic terminal plate, and a sealing rubber. A flange is provided along the outer circumference of the terminal plate. The flange is brought into contact with the bottom face of the sealing rubber for positioning. The case is wrung from the outside thereof so as to compress the sealing rubber. The sealing rubber has at least one of a ring-shaped top projection wall projecting between the metallic case and the terminal plate on the top face thereof, and a ring-shaped bottom projection wall projecting between the metallic case and the flange on the bottom face thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki Shimizu, Toshitaka Hibi, Toshiharu Hirata, Motohiro Sakata, Hideo Yokoe
  • Publication number: 20090017903
    Abstract: In a gaming machine, a reel assembly includes a lighting unit, a lighting driver unit, and a color check unit, as well as a reel and a motor. The lighting unit emits colored rays to a symbol displayed on a visible region on a reel. The lighting driver unit adjusts driving currents for the lighting unit in accordance with a control signal. The color check unit generates an error signal when detecting that the level of any driving current falls outside a predetermined range. A game control unit conducts a game by randomly changing arrangements and colors of the visible symbols. A lighting control unit provides the control signal to the lighting driver unit. If receiving the error signal from the color check unit, the lighting control unit informs the game control unit of an error state of the lighting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: Konami Gaming, Incorporated
    Inventors: Masao Mizoguchi, Hidekazu Kato, Toshiaki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20080227520
    Abstract: In a gaming machine according to the present invention, a reel assembly includes a lighting unit, a lighting driver unit, and a color check unit, as well as a reel and a motor. The lighting unit emits colored rays to a symbol displayed on a visible region on a reel. The lighting driver unit adjusts driving currents for the lighting unit in accordance with a control signal. The color check unit generates an error signal when detecting that the level of any driving current falls outside a predetermined range. A game control unit conducts a game by randomly changing arrangements and colors of the visible symbols. A lighting control unit provides the control signal to the lighting driver unit. If receiving the error signal from the color check unit, the lighting control unit informs the game control unit of an error state of the lighting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: KONAMI GAMING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hidekazu KATO, Toshiaki SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20080119655
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a process for preparing a synthetic intermediate of biotin which is industrially advantageous, and discloses a process for preparing a compound represented by the formula (I): 1 wherein R1 and R2 may be the same or different from each other, and each represents hydrogen atom, a benzyl group which may have a substituent(s) on the benzene ring, a benzhydryl group which may have a substituent(s) on the benzen ring, or a trityl group which may have a substituent(s) on the benzene ring, R3 represents cyano group, carboxyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an alkylthiocarbonyl group, or a carbamoyl group which may have a substituent, or a salt thereof which comprises subjecting a compound represented by the formula (II-a): 2 wherein the symbols have the same meanings as defined above, or a salt thereof to ring transformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2008
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Masahiko Seki, Toshiaki Shimizu, Shin-ichi Yoshida, Masanori Hatsuda
  • Patent number: 7368413
    Abstract: Herbicidal compositions containing as active ingredients, one or more compounds selected from light-induced herbicidal compounds, especially 3-substituted phenylpyrazole derivatives and one or more compounds selected from organophosphorus herbicidal compounds, characterized by containing as surfactants, one or more of alkenyl alcohol alkoxylates and one or more of alkyl alcohol alkoxylates; and methods of using the herbicidal compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Nihon Nohyaku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Shimizu, Miyako Aoki, Isao Ishimura, Tsutomu Mabuchi
  • Publication number: 20080096652
    Abstract: A symbol display device for a game machine includes a reel unit having a plurality of reels, each having a peripheral surface with a plurality of peripheral symbols. An end reel arranged at an end position of the reels has a lateral surface where a pointer is displayed. A reel supporting member that supports the reels rotatably independently includes a lateral wall having a window through which the lateral surface of the end reel is seen. The lateral wall of the reel supporting member has a plurality of lateral symbols arranged around the window, whereby any one of the lateral symbols is pointed by the pointer on the lateral surface of the end reel due to rotation of the end reel. A pivoting unit pivots the reel unit to a first position where the peripheral surfaces of the reels are observable and to a second position where the pointer on the lateral surface of the end reel and the lateral symbols on the lateral wall of the reel supporting member are observable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventor: Toshiaki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 7335778
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a process for preparing a synthetic intermediate of biotin which is industrially advantageous, and discloses a process for preparing a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 may be the same or different from each other, and each represents hydrogen atom, a benzyl group which may have a substituent(s) on the benzene ring, a benzhydryl group which may have a substituent(s) on the benzen ring, or a trityl group which may have a substituent(s) on the benzene ring, R3 represents cyano group, carboxyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an alkylthiocarbonyl group, or a carbamoyl group which may have a substituent, or a salt thereof which comprises subjecting a compound represented by the formula (II-a): wherein the symbols have the same meanings as defined above, or a salt thereof to ring transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Tanabe Seiyaku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Seki, Toshiaki Shimizu, Shin-ichi Yoshida, Masanori Hatsuda
  • Publication number: 20080045300
    Abstract: A gaming machine for the playing of a game of chance wherein an outcome of said game of chance is determined by a predefined one of a plurality of payline patterns of indicia displayed on a display means by a game control module; said payline patterns formed of a selection of elements of a matrix of columns and rows and wherein the number of said elements forming any one payline pattern is greater than the number of columns of said matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: KONAMI AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD.
    Inventors: Jason Quayle, Gerard Crosby, Toshiaki Shimizu, Osamu Yoshimi
  • Patent number: 7256192
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aromatic diamide derivative represented by the general formula (I): [A1 is optionally substituted (C1-C8)alkylene group, (C3-C8)alkenylene group or the like, B is —O— or —N(R4)— (wherein R4 is H, (C1-C6)alkyl, halo(C1-C6)alkyl or the like), R1 is H, (C1-C6)alkyl, optionally substituted phenyl, optionally substituted heterocyclic group, or the like, R2 and R3 are each H, (C3-C6)cycloalkyl or —A2—R8 (A2 is —C(?O)—, —C(?S)— or —C(?NR9)—, R8 and R9 are each H, (C1-C6)alkyl or the like), Q1 to Q5 are each carbon or nitrogen, X and Y are each halogen, cyano, nitro, (C3-C6)cycloalkyl, optionally substituted phenyl, optionally substituted heterocyclic group, or the like, n is 0 to 4, m is 1 to 5, and Z1 and Z2 are each O or S] or a salt thereof, an agricultural and horticultural chemical, and a usage of the chemical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Nihon Nohyaku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Tohnishi, Eiji Kohno, Hayami Nakao, Tateki Nishida, Takashi Furuya, Toshiaki Shimizu, Akira Seo, Kazuyuki Sakata, Shinsuke Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20070131140
    Abstract: The invention provides an oil type release agent die casting containing 70 to 98 parts by weight of a solvent having a specified flash point, 1 to 10 parts by weight of mineral oils and/or synthetic oils having a high viscosity, 15 parts by weight or less of a silicone oil, and 1 to 5 parts by weight of additives having a lubricating function, wherein the flash point of the agent is in the range of 70 to 170° C., and dynamic viscosity of the agent is 2 to 30 mm2/s or higher at 40° C., and a method for setting a mixing ratio of the solvent, a casting method, and a spraying unit for the case of using the release agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Hisaharu Aoki, Koji Togawa, Hirobumi Ohira, Masanao Kobayashi, Yuichi Yamazaki, Hiroaki Komatsubara, Toshiaki Shimizu, Ryusuke Izawa, Hideki Furukawa, Masayuki Harada, Mitsuyoshi Yokoi, Masayuki Kito, Keigo Yorioka, Akihiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: D577078
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: Konami Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Shimizu, Takashi Nishitsuji, Masayuki Seto
  • Patent number: D611996
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Konami Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Shimizu, Takashi Nishitsuji
  • Patent number: D616042
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Konami Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Shimizu, Takashi Nishitsuji