Patents Assigned to Kokuyo Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20200085195
    Abstract: In view of various movement of a seated person, when giving the left-right swinging operation to the seat in the non-conventional aspect, a chair configured such that the back can perform a new movement suitable for the left-right movement of the seat and return to the predetermined position when the seated person leaves a seat, is realized. For the purpose, a back 6 is arranged behind a seat 5, and the back 6 has an operation mechanism 6M turning-movably supporting the load received from a seated person in a left-right direction in a front view, and when the load is applied, at least a part of guide part 65a, 66a of the operation mechanism 6M is separated and the back moves freely, and when the applied load is removed, the back automatically returns to the neutral position along the guide part 65a, 66a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicants: KOKUYO CO., LTD., TAKANO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shibamoto, Takao Sugano, Kensuke Nakamura, Tomoaki Ichikawa, Kenta Shiozawa
  • Publication number: 20190343286
    Abstract: A chair includes: a leg 1; a seat 2; and a front-back support mechanism 4. The front-back support mechanism 4 is provided at a seat receiving part 50 directly supported by the leg 1, and the front-back support mechanism includes: a wavy plate 56 provided to horizontally extend from vertical walls 51 of the seat receiving part 50 and having mound-shaped surfaces 57, 58 each convexly curved upward; and followers 53, 54 provided at front-back support bodies 52 as supported parts and configured to move relative to the mound-shaped surfaces 57, 58 while contacting the mound-shaped surfaces 57, 58. The wavy plate 56 is associated with the followers 53, 54 such that a movement end inclines downward when the seat 2 moves from a neutral position in accordance with a relative movement between the mound-shaped surfaces 57, 58 and the followers 53, 54.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: KOKUYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Sugano, Katsuaki Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190290006
    Abstract: [Problem] The present invention provides a chair and a cover member of the chair that include a cover which can appropriately maintain the appearance of the chair while preventing a sitting person from touching a movement mechanism moving below a seat at the time of movement of the seat or a backrest. [Means for Solving the Problem] A chair according to the present invention is provided with cover members 71, 72 for covering a movement mechanism 5 to support a seat movably at least one direction of front-rear direction and left-right direction, and is configured so that the cover members 71, 72 include a plurality of through-holes 71x, 72x arranged lengthwise and breadthwise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: KOKUYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yojiro Kinoshita, Hideshi Hamaguchi, Ippei Iwahara
  • Publication number: 20190281985
    Abstract: A chair according to the present invention is a chair comprising a leg 1 arranged on a floor surface, a leg support pole 13 erected from the leg 1, a support base 4 fixed at an upper end of the leg support pole 13, a seat 2 arranged above the support base 4 and a support mechanism 5 interposed between the support base 4 and the seat 2 and configured to support the seat 2 movably in a front-rear direction and a left-right direction. Additionally, in the support mechanism 5, a left-right support part 51 is attached to the support base 4 movably in a left-right direction, a front-rear part 52 is attached to the left-right support part 51 movably in a front-rear direction, the seat 2 is attached to the front-rear support part 51, and the support base 4 has an arm attachment part 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicants: KOKUYO CO., LTD., TAKANO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yojiro Kinoshita, Toshiki Yajima, Kenta Shiozawa, Tomoaki Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20190281986
    Abstract: A chair according to the present invention includes: a leg 1; a leg support pole 13; a support base 4; a movement mechanism 5 located below a seat 2, the movement mechanism 5 provided with plural movement parts 5A, 5B configured to allow the seat 2 to move in a certain area along a predetermined trajectory in a front-rear and left-right directions between the support base 4 and the seat 2, the movement mechanism 5 being a support mechanism configured to support the seat 2 so that the seat 2 moves in the front-rear direction and left-right directions; and plural cover members 71, 72 arranged corresponding to the plural movement parts 5A, 5B. The plural cover members 71, 72 are configured to move relatively in accordance with movement of the plural movement parts 5A, 5B and cover the support mechanism 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: KOKUYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Sugano, Toshiki Yajima, Fei Xu, Yasuhiro Shibamoto, Yojiro Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20190208910
    Abstract: A leg 1 erected on a floor surface, a seat 3 supported above the leg 1 and a suspension support mechanism 5 configured to operatively support the seat 3, in a front-rear direction and in a right-left direction, along a predetermined trajectory by suspending the part of the seat 3 from a part of the leg 1, the suspension support mechanism 5 comprises a inclining function Q configured to downwardly incline the seat 3 so that a tip side in a movement direction of the seat 3 is positioned below a base end side when the seat 3 operates from a reference position (S) at which the seat 3 can rest by its own weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: KOKUYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Sugano, Toshiki Yajima, Katsuaki Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190045928
    Abstract: A chair includes a support mechanism 2 interposed between a leg 1 and a seat 3, wherein the support mechanism 2 is arranged below the seat 3, is configured to each individually and movably support the seat 3, at least at two locations in a front-rear direction and two locations in a left-right direction, along a predetermined trajectory, and the support mechanism 2 includes: a seat inclining mechanism Q or a seat inclining function configured to downwardly incline a tip side in a movement direction of the seat 3 in accordance with movement of the seat 3, and further includes: a center-of-gravity movement mechanism P or a return-force generation mechanism configured to generate a return force in a direction of returning the seat 3 having moved from a reference position (S) in a front-rear or left-right direction, to the reference position (S) by using a center-of-gravity movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: KOKUYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiki Yajima, Takao Sugano, Yasuhiro Shibamoto, Fei Xu
  • Patent number: 10071394
    Abstract: Transferring tool (1), which is an application product according to the present, is characterized by comprising: agglutinant (55) which is a material for application, containing a photochromic compound that exhibits color when an ultraviolet light which is a certain wavelength light having a certain wavelength is irradiated thereon and becomes colorless when a visible light is irradiated thereon, that enters a state of exhibiting color when the certain wavelength light is irradiated thereon and enters a decolorized state when a visible light is irradiated thereon; case (2) which is a container in which said agglutinant (55) is accommodated; and irradiation unit (34) that is attached to case (2) and enables agglutinant (55) to be in a state of exhibiting color by irradiating an ultraviolet light towards passage region (X) that agglutinant (55) passes through within case (2) upon being applied onto a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Kokuyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shogo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9669652
    Abstract: This applicator product, in a section thereof for guiding an adhesive B from a container body 1 towards a top portion 64 and including at least the top portion 64, is furnished with a see-through passage 6a of translucent constitution such that the adhesive B is visible from the outside, whereby it is possible to apply a desired quantity of the adhesive B to an object, and to do so over a desired location and surface area. A cap 7 covers a nozzle 6, maintaining the adhesive B constituting the application material within the see-through passage 6a in a state of being shielded from visible light, so that the adhesive B retains stable coloration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: KOKUYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Kobayashi, Koji Gamoh
  • Patent number: 9475332
    Abstract: A punching blade can form a cut-and-raised piece provided with a wide width portion in a distal-end region, a cutting blade is provided with a first blade having a window with which the cut-and-raised piece is engaged and forming a first slit and a second blade for forming a second slit extending in a direction of a punched hole from the midstream of the first slit. It is also configured such that an edge from the wide width portion of the cut-and-raised piece to the base end can be engaged with the second slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Kokuyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Aoi
  • Patent number: 9108457
    Abstract: A dispenser with a transfer head includes a feeding roller placed within a case provided with an opening, and supporting a transfer tape T so as to be capable of being fed; a take-up roller for taking up a base material tape that has been used to transfer; a transfer roller for transferring a transfer agent; an interlocking mechanism for rotating the feeding roller and the take-up roller in an interlocking manner; a holding member provided on the opening side in a front/back direction so as to be capable of moving forward and backward; and a rotational frame for supporting the feeding roller, the take-up roller and the transfer roller, wherein when a pressing force is applied to the case while the holding member abuts against a surface to be transferred P, the transfer head is relatively projected, and moved on the surface P with pressing thereto so that the transfer agent can be transferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: KOKUYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Ohashi, Hideto Shima
  • Patent number: 8999493
    Abstract: A necessary and sufficient adhesive force of an adhesive agent layer is certainly kept while the dot diameter of the adhesive agent is made smaller and the thickness of the adhesive agent layer is made smaller. For the purpose, in an adhesive product, comprising an adhesive agent layer in which dots of a dot-form adhesive agent 12 are intermittently arranged, and a base material 11 which supports the adhesive agent layer, the dot diameter of the adhesive agent 12 is made into a very small value of less than 1.5 mm, and the thickness of the adhesive agent layer is set to less than 25 ?m while the area ratio that is the proportion of an area where the adhesive agent 12 occupies per unit area of the base material 11 is set to 0.7 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Kokuyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kasahara, Kazushige Kawashita, Hideomi Yamamoto, Junichi Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20140161564
    Abstract: A blade which is a part of a binding device forms a binding hole and a cut hole and binds a plurality of sheet bodies together by using a cut and raised piece cut raised out of the binding hole and the cut hole, the blade includes a core, an outer covering including a sheet metal and covering an outside of the core, and a cutting edge including a curved portion having a curved arc shape in a bottom view and liner portions extending from both ends of the curved portion in the bottom view, the cutting edge being continuous in a U shape and formed at a tip end of the outer covering, the curved portion includes a blade tip end portion and an adjacent portion adjacent to the blade tip end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: KOKUYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Aoi
  • Patent number: D755288
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Kokuyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daiki Kishimoto, Hideto Shima, Kosuke Kato
  • Patent number: D856057
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Kokuyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yojiro Kinoshita, Kazuo Oku, Takayoshi Kanou, Kenta Asano, Hideshi Hamaguchi, Ippei Iwahara
  • Patent number: D857435
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Kokuyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yojiro Kinoshita, Kazuo Oku, Takayoshi Kanou, Kenta Asano, Hideshi Hamaguchi, Ippei Iwahara
  • Patent number: D857437
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Kokuyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yojiro Kinoshita, Kazuo Oku, Takayoshi Kanou, Kenta Asano, Hideshi Hamaguchi, Ippei Iwahara
  • Patent number: D865423
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Kokuyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yojiro Kinoshita, Kazuo Oku, Takayoshi Kanou, Kenta Asano, Hideshi Hamaguchi, Ippei Iwahara
  • Patent number: D865424
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Kokuyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yojiro Kinoshita, Kazuo Oku, Takayoshi Kanou, Kenta Asano, Hideshi Hamaguchi, Ippei Iwahara
  • Patent number: D883375
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Kokuyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Oki Sato, Takashi Ohashi, Kenji Maehara