Patents by Inventor Toshimi Kamitani

Toshimi Kamitani 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: 20240051329
    Abstract: Provided is a writing implement that maximizes the effective area of a viewer portion allowing visual recognition in the writing direction and that facilitates writing at a high level, at the same time. This writing implement is a writing implement A, including for example, a pen tip 20 that feeds ink from a writing implement body 10 and has a viewer portion 33 allowing visual recognition in the writing direction. The pen tip 20 is comprised of, at least, a writing part 25 and a retainer 30 having the viewer portion 33, an ink feeder portion 26 for feeding the ink from the writing implement body 10 to the writing part 25. The minimum width X of the viewer portion 33 is 3.7 mm or greater and a length Y of the viewer portion 33 is 7.4 mm or greater. The ink feeder portion 26 is arranged on one side of the viewer portion 33.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirotake IZAWA, Toshimi KAMITANI, Chihiro MOCHIZUKI, Kaito TSUKADA
  • Publication number: 20230406029
    Abstract: Provided is a fiber-bundled part for writing instruments having excellent strength and durability, as well as a pen tip and a writing instrument using the fiber-bundled part, which can be suitably used for pen tips, ink feed cores and relay cores of writing instruments such as marking pens and felt-tip pens. The fiber-bundled part for writing instruments of the present disclosure is used for the ink feed core leading to the pen tip or a writing pen core, and comprises a multifilament of long fibers having different melting points, and the multifilament at least contain crimped fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshihiro TAKAHASHI, Toshimi KAMITANI, Hirotake IZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220324250
    Abstract: Provided is a writing implement having a pen tip with a viewer part where the effective area for allowing visual recognition of the writing direction relative to the entire pen tip is maximized without impairing ink discharge. The pen tip feeds ink from the writing implement body, and the writing direction can be recognized through the viewer part. The pen tip has a holding body with the viewer part and a writing part that attaches a writing core having a U-shaped or L-shaped configuration to the holding body. The part of the writing core in contact with the side surface of the holding body is formed to have a square cross-section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirotake IZAWA, Toshimi KAMITANI
  • Patent number: 11427027
    Abstract: A writing implement having a pen tip that can achieve excellent ink outflow performance and an increase in the effective area of a viewer portion allowing recognition of the writing direction, relative to the whole pen tip. The writing implement is a writing implement A which includes a pen tip 20 feeding ink from a writing implement body 10 and having a viewer portion through which the writing direction can be recognized, and is characterized in that the pen tip 20 is configured of, a least, a writing part 30 and a holding body 40 having a viewer portion 43, and the holding portion 40 has a sheet-shaped ink feeder 25 formed with slits or bumps on the surface and inside thereof to produce a capillary action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yasuaki Ogiwara, Naohiko Moriya, Toshimi Kamitani
  • Patent number: 11207913
    Abstract: Provided are an erasing member which is excellent in erasability for handwritings written by means of a pencil, a mechanical pencil and the like and which does not produce eraser dusts, and an erasing tool in which a part to be erased can be visually recognized in erasing.The erasing member comprises a blend composition containing a liquid-absorbing porous material, and a basic magnesium carbonate porous material and the like can be used as the liquid-absorbing porous material. And in an erasing tool in which an erasing part is formed at one end and in which a transparent or translucent visible part making it possible to visually recognize a writing surface is provided in the vicinity of the erasing part, the erasing member described above is mounted to the erasing part, whereby the erasing tool which does not produce eraser dusts is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoru Banzai, Toshimi Kamitani, Yosuke Setagawa, Hitoshi Kino, Tooru Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11148460
    Abstract: To provide a writing instrument capable of further improving durability of a writing nib without impairing writing performance even when writing is performed with a heavy writing load. A writing instrument A having a writing part formed of at least a writing nib 30 made of a porous body and a retainer 40 made of a hard material, in which the protrusion amount of the distal end of the writing nib 30 from the retainer 40 is 0.65 mm or more and 1.05 mm or less and/or 40% or more and 65% or less of the thickness of the writing nib 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Pencil Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hitoshi Suzuki, Kouichi Hirano, Yukinori Sawa, Toshimi Kamitani
  • Publication number: 20210316566
    Abstract: To provide a pen tip that can enhance its color brilliance and color distinctiveness as well as providing a writing tool having the pen tip. A pen tip A of the present invention is a pen tip equipped with a pen core 20 containing a concealing material, and is characterized in that the pen core has the lightness (L* value) of 80 or higher in the L*a*b* (CIELAB) color system. The writing tool, for example, includes a retention body 10 having a visible part allowing visual recognition of the writing direction and the pen tip A having the above configuration and attached with the retention body 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Toshimi KAMITANI
  • Publication number: 20210237502
    Abstract: Provided is a writing implement having a pen tip that can achieve excellent ink outflow performance and an increase in the effective area of a viewer portion allowing recognition of the writing direction, relative to the whole pen tip. The writing implement is a writing implement A which includes a pen tip 20 feeding ink from a writing implement body 10 and having a viewer portion through which the writing direction can be recognized, and is characterized in that the pen tip 20 is configured of, a least, a writing part 30 and a holding body 40 having a viewer portion 43, and the holding portion 40 has a sheet-shaped ink feeder 25 formed with slits or bumps on the surface and inside thereof to produce a capillary action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yasuaki OGIWARA, Naohiko MORIYA, Toshimi KAMITANI
  • Publication number: 20190193454
    Abstract: To provide a writing instrument capable of further improving durability of a writing nib without impairing writing performance even when writing is performed with a heavy writing load. A writing instrument A having a writing part formed of at least a writing nib 30 made of a porous body and a retainer 40 made of a hard material, in which the protrusion amount of the distal end of the writing nib 30 from the retainer 40 is 0.65 mm or more and 1.05 mm or less and/or 40% or more and 65% or less of the thickness of the writing nib 30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Hitoshi SUZUKI, Kouichi HIRANO, Yukinori SAWA, Toshimi KAMITANI
  • Patent number: 9636940
    Abstract: Provided is a writing instrument suited to ballpoint pens, marking pens and the like in which a flow pressure of an ink applied to a pen tip is controlled to a fixed level to prevent an ink direct flow phenomenon reverse flow phenomenon. The above writing instrument comprises a pen tip disposed at a front part of an ink tank, an ink received in the ink tank, a follower filled at a rear part of the ink, and a capillary porous member provided with a capillary force, which is arranged at a space part between a rear part of the follower and a rear end part of the ink tank in a state in which the follower is filled, wherein the pen tip is sealed when a cap is put on the writing instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshimi Kamitani, Satoru Banzai, Yoshiharu Namiki, Yosuke Setagawa, Hitoshi Kino, Tooru Nakajima, Takanori Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9566818
    Abstract: In order to provide a writing instrument applicable to an applicator, in which a writing or applying direction can be visually recognized in a broad range at a visual part of a tip, the writing instrument is endowed with a constitution in which a tip is equipped with a porous member as a writing part and a holding member holding the above porous member and having at least one liquid guiding part for feeding an liquid to the writing or applying part, which comprises a relay porous member for feeding a liquid contained in a instrument main body to the liquid guiding part provided in the holding member 55 and in which the holding member is a visible part wherein an area ratio of the above visible part on the front or side face is 40% or more of the tip protruding from a tip part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshimi Kamitani, Hiroyuki Okuyama, Mitsuhiro Kawabata, Tadashi Kouriki
  • Publication number: 20150367672
    Abstract: In order to provide a writing instrument applicable to an applicator, in which a writing or applying direction can be visually recognized in a broad range at a visual part of a tip, the writing instrument is endowed with a constitution in which a tip 40 is equipped with a porous member 45 as a writing part and a holding member 55 holding the above porous member 45 and having at least one liquid guiding part 50 for feeding an liquid to the writing or applying part, which comprises a relay porous member 30 for feeding a liquid contained in a instrument main body 10 to the liquid guiding part 50 provided in the holding member 55 and in which the holding member 55 is a visible part enabling to visually recognize a writing or an applying direction, wherein an area ratio of the above visible part on the front or side face is 40% or more of the tip 40 protruding from a tip part of the instrument main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshimi KAMITANI, Hiroyuki OKUYAMA, Mitsuhiro KAWABATA, Tadashi KOURIKI
  • Publication number: 20150298489
    Abstract: Provided is a writing instrument suited to ballpoint pens, marking pens and the like in which a flow pressure of an ink applied to a pen tip is controlled to a fixed level to prevent an ink direct flow phenomenon reverse flow phenomenon. The above writing instrument comprises a pen tip disposed at a front part of an ink tank, an ink received in the ink tank, a follower filled at a rear part of the ink, and a capillary porous member provided with a capillary force, which is arranged at a space part between a rear part of the follower and a rear end part of the ink tank in a state in which the follower is filled, wherein the pen tip is sealed when a cap is put on the writing instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshimi KAMITANI, Satoru BANZAI, Yoshiharu NAMIKI, Yosuke SETAGAWA, Hitoshi KINO, Tooru NAKAJIMA, Takanori SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 9132692
    Abstract: In order to provide a writing instrument in which a writing direction can be visually recognized in a broad range at a visual part of a pen tip and which can surely write to end of writing, the writing instrument is endowed with a constitution in which a pen tip is equipped with a porous member as a writing part and a holding member holding the above porous member and having at least one ink guiding part through which an ink contained in a barrel is provided to a writing part held by the holding member which is a visible part enabling to visually recognize a writing direction, wherein an area ratio of the visible part is 40% or more of the pen tip protruding from a tip part of the writing instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshimi Kamitani, Hiroyuki Okuyama, Mitsuhiro Kawabata, Tadashi Kouriki
  • Patent number: 8820569
    Abstract: A fuel container includes a container body having a fuel discharge port and an interior spacing. A body of liquid fuel is filled in the interior spacing of the container body. Follower units are provided in the container body, in contact with at least a part of an end of the body of the liquid fuel. Solid follower auxiliary members are interposed between the follower units and the body of liquid fuel to be optically detectable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignees: Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Pencil Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunari Kabasawa, Yoshihisa Suda, Takahiro Osada, Kozi Nishimura, Toshimi Kamitani
  • Publication number: 20140150203
    Abstract: Provided are an erasing member which is excellent in erasability for handwritings written by means of a pencil, a mechanical pencil and the like and which does not produce eraser dusts, and an erasing tool in which a part to be erased can be visually recognized in erasing. The erasing member comprises a blend composition containing a liquid-absorbing porous material, and a basic magnesium carbonate porous material and the like can be used as the liquid-absorbing porous material. And in an erasing tool in which an erasing part is formed at one end and in which a transparent or translucent visible part making it possible to visually recognize a writing surface is provided in the vicinity of the erasing part, the erasing member described above is mounted to the erasing part, whereby the erasing tool which does not produce eraser dusts is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoru Banzai, Toshimi Kamitani, Yosuke Setagawa, Hitoshi Kino, Tooru Nakajima
  • Patent number: 8616797
    Abstract: In order to provide a thermosensitive decolorable ink composition which can readily be decolored with simple heating by rubbing and the like without using a microcapsule and is not developed again in color even after stored at very low temperature (?50° C. or lower) and which is excellent in stability with passage of time and has a vivid hue intensity, the above thermosensitive decolorable ink composition is provided with a constitution in which it contains as a colorant, color developing particles comprising at least a leuco dye, a developer and a crystalline substance and in which it further contains a decolorant comprising an amorphous resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Pencil Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshimi Kamitani, Hiroyuki Okuyama
  • Patent number: 8435698
    Abstract: A fuel container 1 comprises: a container main body 2 in which a liquid fuel 4 is housed and fuel exhausting ports 24 and 31 to exhaust the liquid fuel 4 to the outside is formed; a following auxiliary member 71 which is solid, and situated on an end side of the liquid fuel 4 in the container main body 2, the following auxiliary member 71 moving to the sides of the fuel exhausting ports 24 and 31 as the liquid fuel 4 is exhausted; and a following body 5 situated on the end side of the liquid fuel 4, and packed in a space formed by an inner peripheral surface of the container main body 2 and an outer peripheral surface of the following auxiliary member 71, the following body 5 moving to the fuel exhausting ports 24 and 31 as the liquid fuel 4 is exhausted. Then, at least one of the inner peripheral surface of the container main body 2 and the outer peripheral surface of the following auxiliary member 71, which are faced to each other, is made to be uneven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignees: Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Pencil Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yugo Matsuda, Yasunari Kabasawa, Toshimi Kamitani, Kiyoshi Fujisawa
  • Publication number: 20130064595
    Abstract: In order to provide a writing instrument in which a writing direction can be visually recognized in a broad range at a visual part of a pen tip and which can surely write to end of writing, the writing instrument is endowed with a constitution in which a pen tip is equipped with a porous member as a writing part and a holding member holding the above porous member and having at least one ink guiding part through which an ink contained in a barrel is provided to a writing part held by the holding member which is a visible part enabling to visually recognize a writing direction, wherein an area ratio of the visible part is 40% or more of the pen tip protruding from a tip part of the writing instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshimi Kamitani, Hiroyuki Okuyama, Mitsuhiro Kawabata, Tadashi Kouriki
  • Patent number: 8173318
    Abstract: The fuel reservoir for a fuel cell is a fuel reservoir detachably connected with a fuel cell main body, and it is equipped with a fuel-storing vessel of a tube type for storing a liquid fuel and a fuel discharge part; the fuel discharge part is provided with a valve for sealing communication between the inside and the outside of the above fuel-storing vessel; and a follower which seals the liquid fuel and moves as the liquid fuel is consumed is disposed in the rear end part of the liquid fuel stored. The valve assumes a structure in which a slit is formed in an elastic material and a structure in which a valve member is pressed by a resilient body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Pencil Co., Ltd., Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Osada, Yoshihisa Suda, Toshimi Kamitani, Kunitaka Yamada, Kouji Nishimura, Yasunari Kabasawa