Patents by Inventor Yukikazu Niizuma

Yukikazu Niizuma 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: 7645966
    Abstract: An attachment structure of a storage unit having: a tank casing body; a tank casing door member, and a lock portion; and an operation member, and a push button, wherein: an outer circumference of a storage unit is surrounded with an opening portion of an exterior panel; the push button is protruded from an outer surface of the exterior panel in a mount position of the exterior panel when the exterior panel is in assembling work; and a space for inserting a circumferential edge of the opening portion of the exterior panel is formed on the back of the push button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Hayakawa, Kouji Kanzaki, Toshifumi Kamiya, Takashi Sugimoto, Yasuhiko Inoue, Yukikazu Niizuma
  • Publication number: 20050029268
    Abstract: An attachment structure of a storage unit having: a tank casing body provided for forming a space for holding a water supply tank; a tank casing door member including a support shaft supported to the tank casing body on one side so as to make the tank casing door member opened/closed freely, and a lock portion locked to the tank casing body on the other side, the tank casing door member blocking the space of the tank casing body in a closed state and biased in a direction of departing from the tank casing body; and an operation member including an engagement portion engaged with the lock portion to retain a state locked to the casing base, and a push button for unlocking the locked state by a pushing operation, wherein: an outer circumference of a storage unit is surrounded with an opening portion of an exterior panel; the push button is protruded from an outer surface of the exterior panel in a mount position of the exterior panel when the exterior panel is in assembling work; and a space for inserting a cir
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Inventors: Yuji Hayakawa, Kouji Kanzaki, Toshifumi Kamiya, Takashi Sugimoto, Yasuhiko Inoue, Yukikazu Niizuma
  • Publication number: 20040076412
    Abstract: A water supply tank unit, attached to a heating apparatus having a moistening function, comprising an open/close member biased in a direction of departing from a unit body attached to the heating apparatus, and a water supply tank held in the open/close member so as to be attachable/detachable, wherein the water supply tank and the open/close member have protrusions respectively so that the protrusions climb over each other and are locked to each other in a process of attaching/detaching the water supply tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Applicants: Matsushita Electric Industrial, Co., Ltd., Nifco Inc.
    Inventors: Kouji Kanzaki, Toshifumi Kamiya, Yuji Hayakawa, Takashi Sugimoto, Yasuhiko Inoue, Yukikazu Niizuma
  • Patent number: D564870
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Nifco Inc.
    Inventor: Yukikazu Niizuma