Patents Assigned to Family Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20240091916
    Abstract: A tool includes a socket and an attachment that includes a shaft portion. The shaft portion transmits torque to the socket. The socket includes a distal end face, a proximal end face, an accommodation hole that opens in the distal end face, and a connection hole that opens in the proximal end face and is connected to the accommodation hole. The shaft portion includes an outer peripheral surface provided with a first transmission surface for transmitting torque to the inner peripheral surface of the connection hole. The accommodation hole includes an inner peripheral surface provided with a second transmission surface for transmitting torque to threaded fastener. The accommodation hole forms an accommodation space capable of accommodating threaded fasteners in a row. The shaft portion includes, at a distal end, a contact portion, which contacts one of the threaded fasteners accommodated in the accommodation space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: HumanIQ Co., Ltd., PEC KYOKAI CO., LTD., FAMILY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kota Horie, Hitoshi Yamada, Tadashi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20130088059
    Abstract: A massage machine that can stably rock a chair main body in a forward-backward direction and that has minimal overall height comprising a chair main body, a base which supports the chair main body, massage portions provided in the chair main body, and a rocking mechanism portion which rocks the chair main body in the forward-backward direction with respect to the base. The rocking mechanism portion includes link members, each of which has a lower portion pivotally supported by the base and an upper portion pivotally supporting the chair main body. The chair main body is rocked in the forward-backward direction by rocking the upper portions of the link members in the forward-backward direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Family Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoki Nagamitsu
  • Patent number: 8348870
    Abstract: A massaging apparatus capable of performing rubbing-massage properly with respect to a body part of a user having various shapes is provided. A massaging apparatus of the present invention includes a first massaging unit including a pair of massaging plates which are disposed at both sides of a body part of a user so as to sandwich the body part, a driving force transmission unit configured to cause the massaging plates to reciprocate in a direction along a side surface of the body part, and air bags which are disposed outside the massaging plates and are expanded and contracted by air supply and exhaust, to change a distance between the pair of massaging plates, wherein the massaging plates are reciprocatable along the side surface of the body part in a state where the air bags are expanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Family Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoki Nagamitsu, Nobuhisa Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20120316478
    Abstract: A massage machine includes a body supporting portion which supports a body of a person to be treated and a massage mechanism which moves inside the body supporting portion along a body height direction of the person to be treated. The body supporting portion is divided in the body height direction into a base portion and a movable portion. The body supporting portion extends and contracts when the movable portion moves relative to the base portion. The massage machine is capable of adapting to the body size of the person to be treated by changing the treatment range of the massage mechanism by extending or contracting the body supporting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: Family Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Tomoki Nagamitsu
  • Publication number: 20120215143
    Abstract: The massage mechanism includes inner treatment elements, outer treatment elements and a driving device that drives the treatment elements. A distance between the inner treatment elements and the outer treatment elements is changed by the driving device. A first supporting shaft supports the inner and the outer treatment elements and is rotated about an axial center by the driving device. The first supporting shaft includes inner inclined shafts that support the inner treatment elements via an arm and outer inclined shafts that support the outer treatment elements via the arm. The massage mechanism is configured to be movable from a backrest part to a footrest part via a seat part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Family Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nichimu INADA, Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Tomohisa Shirakawa
  • Publication number: 20120167493
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sunlight-collecting apparatus, comprises: a reflector panel (110) installed below a light-collecting panel (10) installed on an outer wall of a building; a supporting unit (120) configured as a fixing frame (121) coupled to each frame on the outer wall of the building to support the reflector panel (110); and an actuator unit (130) for controlling the angle of the reflector panel (110), wherein sunlight is effectively collected by the light-collecting panel (10) and reflector panel (110) to improve the efficiency of generating power from solar energy, and the angle of the reflector panel (110) installed below the light-collecting panel (110) is controlled by the actuator unit (130) to enable the more effective collection of sunlight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: 3DS FAMILY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung Chul Lee
  • Publication number: 20120071799
    Abstract: Provided is a massage machine capable of performing a rubbing operation and a pressing operation separately on different areas of the back surface of a body part of a person to be treated while performing the rubbing operation on the side surface of the body part. Specifically provided is a massage machine (M1 (M2)) provided with a rubbing unit (1) comprising a pair of rubbing parts (2, 2) for applying a rubbing massage to a body part of a person to be treated and a rubbing driving part (3) for driving the rubbing parts (2). The rubbing parts (2) comprise a pair of first rubbing parts (12, 12) disposed on both sides of the body part and reciprocating in the direction along the side surface of the body part, and a pair of second rubbing parts (13, 13) disposed on the back surface of the body part and reciprocating in the direction along the back surface of the body part and in the direction crossing the back surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Family Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Hideshi Kondo, Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Nagatoshi Harada, Hiroo Hujita, Yoshiyuki Hamada, Yasuhiro Sugino, Myongsik Kim, Mitsuo Deguchi
  • Publication number: 20110077563
    Abstract: A massage machine includes a seat portion, a backrest portion and a rocking mechanism center where the backrest portion reclines at a back portion side of the seat portion about a reclining center. The rocking mechanism portion swings the backrest portion and the seat portion about a rocking center, and the rocking center is apart or different from the reclining center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Family Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Fukuyama
  • Publication number: 20100312155
    Abstract: A massage machine equipped with air cells (23a, 23b) disposed opposite to each other at a given distance therebetween in the up-down direction, a pair of support plates (22, 22) for supporting the air cells (23a, 23b) from the outside in the up-down direction, a pair of rotation portions (21) for applying a drive force to the pair of support plates (22, 22) in the front-rear direction and for supporting the support plates (22, 22) on both the left and right sides, guide portions (25) formed in the pair of rotation portions (21) to support the pair of support plates (22) so that the pair of support plates is movable in a direction in which the support plates (22) approach and separate from each other, biasing portions (26) for biasing the pair of support plates (22) in a direction in which the support plates approach each other, and a drive unit (28) for applying a rotation drive force to the rotation portions (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: Family Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Daisuke Shinomiya
  • Publication number: 20100198121
    Abstract: In a chair-type massage machine equipped with a seat section and a backrest section provided backwardly of this seat section and a pillow section (5) provided above the above-mentioned backrest section, shoulder outside air cells (21), shoulder inside air cells (22), shoulder lower air cells (23) and neck air cells (20) are disposed, and these air cells (20) to (23) are controlled independently of one another, thereby performing treatment operations at plural portions of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: FAMILY Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsunori Tago, Keisuke Takatsuka, Tomoharu Fukuda, Noriaki Watanabe, Mitsunori Kato, Motoki Okuyama
  • Publication number: 20100198120
    Abstract: A control section (50) of a chair-type massage machine (1) is configured so that air cells (7c) press the area around the lumbar of the user supported on a backrest section (3) to push up the area in conjunction with the backward tilting of the backrest section (3) performed using an actuator (37).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Family Co. LTd
    Inventors: Mitsunori Tago, Tomoharu Fukuda, Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Shiro Watanabe, Koji Goto
  • Publication number: 20100137758
    Abstract: A massaging apparatus capable of performing rubbing-massage properly with respect to a body part of a user having various shapes is provided. A massaging apparatus 1 of the present invention comprise a first massaging unit 3 including a pair of massaging plates 10 which are disposed at both sides of a body part of a user so as to sandwich the body part, a driving force transmission unit 13 configured to cause the massaging plates 10 to reciprocate in a direction along a side surface of the body part, and air bags 11 which are disposed outside the massaging plates 10 and are expanded and contracted by air supply and exhaust, to change a distance between the pair of massaging plates 10, wherein the massaging plates 10 are reciprocatable along the side surface of the body part in a state where the air bags 11 are expanded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: FAMILY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Nagamitsu, Nobuhisa Matsuura
  • Patent number: 7717868
    Abstract: Disclosed is a chair-type massaging apparatus that is capable of massaging lower legs freely and precisely in pressing angles or pressing positions with a user seated therein and allows the user to assume a desired posture without interference. The chair-type massaging apparatus of the present invention typically includes a leg rest including a support portion configured to support lower legs of a user, and massaging portions configured to protrude and retract to press the lower legs of the user. The support portion includes protrusible portions that is mounted on both sides in the rightward and leftward direction and is protrusible to rise up inward in the rightward and leftward direction and is retractable. The massaging portions are mounted on the protrusible portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Family Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Mitsunori Tago, Shiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20090177128
    Abstract: A chair-type massaging apparatus of the present invention, including a massaging element that is mounted in a back rest configured to support a back of a user and is configured to be movable in a substantially forward and backward direction to apply stimulation to the back, a control device that includes a grip that is tilted by the user to be displaceable from a predetermined neutral position in the forward and backward direction substantially corresponding with the direction in which the massaging element moves and is configured to output a signal indicating a displacement of the grip, and a controller configured to, based on the signal from the control device, execute control to move the massaging element in a direction substantially corresponding with a direction in which the grip is operated to move.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: Family Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Tomoki Nagamitsu, Akihiko Gondai, Keisuke Takatsuka, Tomoharu Fukuda, Mitsunori Kato
  • Patent number: 7549966
    Abstract: The present invention is aimed at providing a chair-like massaging apparatus and a forearm massager for use with the chair-like massaging apparatus, which are capable of massaging a forearm of a user as desired and allow the user to take a free posture because of absence of an arm obstructing part in an upper portion of an armrest when the forearm is not to be massaged. To this end, the massaging apparatus of the present invention is configured such that an arm rest (5) configured to support a forearm of the user is provided with a detachable member (38) that is movable along a guide rail (37) and the detachable member (38) is provided with a fitting groove (39). A forearm massager (7) configured to be capable of giving pressure stimulation to the forearm with the forearm of the user sandwiched between the fix and support portion (46) and the pressing portion (47) is provided with a fitting protrusion (40) fitted in the fitting groove (39).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Family Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Fujii, Nichimu Inada
  • Patent number: D577923
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Family Co. Ltd
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Kita
  • Patent number: D656331
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Family Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Kita
  • Patent number: D680763
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Family Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Ouchi
  • Patent number: D705562
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Family Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Ouchi
  • Patent number: D841842
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: HERB FAMILY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yong Woo Lee