Patents Assigned to MARUZEN Company Limited
  • Patent number: 11035643
    Abstract: A barrel catch of a toy gun has a barrel through hole with diameter larger than outer circumference of the barrel so that the barrel penetrates through hole center. The barrel catch includes a barrel fitting portion fitted/attached to the barrel on the inner circumference of the hole opposite to the pressing portion exposed from an opening in a barrel attachment portion of a toy gun body. The barrel catch is housed in a housing portion of the toy gun body slidably in the direction defined by the pressing portion and the opposite portion of the pressing portion. The barrel includes a barrel catch fitting portion fittable to the barrel fitting portion of the barrel catch upon penetration of the barrel through the barrel catch. The barrel slidably penetrates the barrel through hole of the barrel catch in the direction defined by the pressing portion and the opposite portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: MARUZEN COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 10866058
    Abstract: A device for attachment-detachment of a slide for toy gun only by operating a single lever without using any tool, includes a toy gun body, a slide at an upper part of the toy gun body while covering a barrel, and slidingly movable in directions toward the barrel and rear side of the toy gun, a takedown lever disposed on the toy gun body surface at a boundary with the slide, and rotatingly movable along the toy gun body surface, and a slide block crank that comes in contact with a slide block abutment portion of a shaft support portion of the slide to prevent the slide from moving toward the rear end side, and moves in muzzle/non-muzzle directions accompanying with the rotating motion of the takedown lever. The slide block crank extends closer to a muzzle in moving in the muzzle direction than in moving in the non-muzzle direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: MARUZEN COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 10712112
    Abstract: A toy gun includes: a frame; a trigger; a sear that is interlocked with an action of the trigger; a hammer configured to jet a gas out of a gas cylinder to fire a bullet by interlock with the action of the sear; left and right safety levers installed outside the frame with a gap between the safety levers and the frame. The safety levers can be selectively in contact with or out of contact with the sear. A biasing means provides bias in such a direction as to maintain a gap between the frame and each of the safety levers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: MARUZEN COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 10184751
    Abstract: A valve body used in a shooting mechanism of an air gun includes a hollow valve body air chamber, a bottom portion of the chamber is detachably closed with a fit lid. A valve body cover is attached to the valve body. The valve body cover includes unit covers that are joined together. The unit covers include a lateral portion forming a part of the valve body cover and a joint. A unit cover bottom portion forms a part or all of the bottom portion of the valve body cover. When the valve body is housed in the unit covers, the unit covers are attached to the circumference of the valve body, and the bottom portion of the valve body cover is closed and may cover the lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: MARUZEN COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 9835406
    Abstract: A toy gun includes: a nail arm which is rotated around a nail arm rotating shaft placed in a position opposite to the cartridge with a trigger rotating shaft in between and is substantially in an L shape; a guide as a long hole which is provided in the nail arm and guides a terminal; a nail which is attached to a tip of the nail arm and can be engaged with a cartridge loading portion; and a link which is attached to a cover capable of being abutted against a cartridge loading portion and slides the cover to the cartridge side or the side opposite to the cartridge by bringing the terminal into or out of abutment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: MARUZEN COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 9835405
    Abstract: The moving distance of a cartridge which is actuated each time a trigger is pulled once can be increased. A toy gun includes: a trigger; a cartridge in which cartridge bullet loading portions loaded with bullets are continuously provided and which is installed ahead of the trigger; a link mechanism (including a trigger rear end portion, a link A, a link B, a rod, and an arm) which is once extended from behind the trigger to the side opposite the cartridge installation position and thereafter inverted and whose tip is extended to ahead of the trigger; and a nail which is actuated through the link mechanism in conjunction with the actuation of the trigger and moves the cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: MARUZEN COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 9784525
    Abstract: A simple apparatus which prevents a danger that a gas cylinder with gas left in the cylinder leaps out when the gas cylinder is taken out to change a gas cylinder is provided. A toy gun 1 includes: a gas cylinder housing portion 11 which is provided in the grip portion of an air gun and houses a gas cylinder 31; a clamp 41 which opens or closes the gas cylinder housing portion 11; a clamp pivot 42 about which the clamp 41 is rotated; a roller 14 installed at the bottom portion of the gas cylinder housing portion 11; and a receptacle 21 which is installed between the upper part of the roller 14 and the bottom portion of the gas cylinder 31 and is energized toward the roller 14 and whose surface shape is matched with the bottom face shape of the gas cylinder 31.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: MARUZEN COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 9612081
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cartridge for an air gun that facilitates the loading of a bullet into the cartridge. The cartridge includes cylindrical unitary cartridges into which bullets are to be inserted, a cartridge assembly in which the unitary cartridges are coupled to each other and continuously disposed between both ends to form a strip shape, and a magazine case that houses the cartridge assembly. The cartridge assembly is transported by a cartridge transport unit. Further, the unitary cartridges each include two cylindrical parts. The cylindrical parts of neighboring unitary cartridges are sequentially fit-coupled to each other in order to form the cartridge assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: MARUZEN COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 9366499
    Abstract: A toy gun includes a barrel in which bullets travel due to released gas, a magazine that is cylindrically shaped and disposed in parallel with the barrel to house the bullets, a magazine joint that couples the rear end of the magazine to the barrel and allows the bullets to travel therein, a cut portion disposed between the magazine and the magazine joint and positioned toward the barrel, a magazine follower base that slides in the magazine, a pressing member that presses the magazine follower base toward the rear end of the toy gun, a trunk section that is pivotably mounted toward the rear end of the magazine follower base and allows a barrel side end thereof to slide in the magazine joint, and a magazine follower disposed on the barrel side end of the trunk section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: MARUZEN COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 9200865
    Abstract: A toy gun includes a toy gun body and a toy gun gas cartridge loading device to be attached to the toy gun body. The toy gun body has a loading device housing located around a gun body coupling valve. When attaching the toy gun gas cartridge loading device to the toy gun body with an end portion of the device inserted in the loading device housing of the toy gun body, a lock of the loading device is locked with a first lock of the gun body, and when detaching it from the toy gun body, the lock of the loading device is locked with a gun body second lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: MARUZEN COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 9194647
    Abstract: A toy gun includes a toy gun body and a toy gun gas cartridge loading device. The toy gun body includes a housing, a gun body first lock and a gun body second lock. The gas cartridge loading device is detachably housed in the housing and is locked with the gun body first lock. The gas cartridge loading device includes a loading device second lock which is housed in the loading device housing when an end of the gas cartridge loading device is housed in the housing. The loading device second lock is located on a lateral side of the gas cartridge loading device. When the gun body first lock is disengaged, the loading device second lock engages with a gun body second lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: MARUZEN COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Publication number: 20150027427
    Abstract: A toy gun includes a barrel in which bullets travel due to released gas, a magazine that is cylindrically shaped and disposed in parallel with the barrel to house the bullets, a magazine joint that couples the rear end of the magazine to the barrel and allows the bullets to travel therein, a cut portion disposed between the magazine and the magazine joint and positioned toward the barrel, a magazine follower base that slides in the magazine, a pressing member that presses the magazine follower base toward the rear end of the toy gun, a trunk section that is pivotably mounted toward the rear end of the magazine follower base and allows a barrel side end thereof to slide in the magazine joint, and a magazine follower disposed on the barrel side end of the trunk section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: MARUZEN COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Publication number: 20140338650
    Abstract: A toy gun includes a toy gun body and a toy gun gas cartridge loading device to be attached to the toy gun body. The toy gun body has a loading device housing located around a gun body coupling valve. When attaching the toy gun gas cartridge loading device to the toy gun body with an end portion of the device inserted in the loading device housing of the toy gun body, a lock of the loading device is locked with a first lock of the gun body, and when detaching it from the toy gun body, the lock of the loading device is locked with a gun body second lock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: MARUZEN COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Publication number: 20140290637
    Abstract: A toy gun includes a toy gun body and a toy gun gas cartridge loading device. The toy gun body includes a housing, a gun body first lock and a gun body second lock. The gas cartridge loading device is detachably housed in the housing and is locked with the gun body first lock. The gas cartridge loading device includes a loading device second lock which is housed in the loading device housing when an end of the gas cartridge loading device is housed in the housing. The loading device second lock is located on a lateral side of the gas cartridge loading device. When the gun body first lock is disengaged, the loading device second lock engages with a gun body second lock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Maruzen Company Limited
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 8763597
    Abstract: It is made possible to use a toy gun that fires bullets by compressed gas without the replacement of a gas cartridge for a long time and the portability of the gas cartridge is enhanced. The air chamber body placed in the toy gun forms an air chamber. Compressed gas in the air chamber body passes through a gas discharge portion and shoots a bullet held by a bullet holding portion out of a muzzle. A valve establishes or breaks communication between the air chamber body and the gas discharge portion according to operation with an operation portion. The toy gun includes multiple gas cartridge attachment portions. A gas bomb is attached to each of the gas cartridge attachment portions. Each gas cartridge attachment portion is provided with a first valve portion. Compressed gas in the gas bomb attached to each gas cartridge attachment portion is guided into the air chamber by way of a gas introduction portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Maruzen Company Limited
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 8714145
    Abstract: A mechanism for an open bolt type air gun includes a trigger that is pulled with a bolt in its retracted position. The mechanism includes a sear or an inner safety and a trigger bar. The sear is located behind and below the bolt and has a projection to come into contact with a locking projection of the bolt. The inner safety is located below the bolt and has a projection to come into contact with the locking projection of the bolt. A first trigger bar is located below the sear and has a bolt contact part which extends upward at its front end and comes into contact with a cam part of the bolt and a locking projection to lock the sear. A second trigger bar is located below the inner safety and forward of the first trigger bar and has a locking projection to lock the inner safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Maruzen Company Limited
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Publication number: 20130263840
    Abstract: A mechanism for an open bolt type air gun includes a trigger that is pulled with a bolt in its retracted position. The mechanism includes a sear or an inner safety and a trigger bar. The sear is located behind and below the bolt and has a projection to come into contact with a locking projection of the bolt. The inner safety is located below the bolt and has a projection to come into contact with the locking projection of the bolt. A first trigger bar is located below the sear and has a bolt contact part which extends upward at its front end and comes into contact with a cam part of the bolt and a locking projection to lock the sear. A second trigger bar is located below the inner safety and forward of the first trigger bar and has a locking projection to lock the inner safety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: Maruzen Company Limited
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 8550062
    Abstract: A gas cartridge is firmly attached to a toy gun and the gas cartridge is replaced through simple operation. The gas cartridge is filled therein with compressed gas for firing a bullet. A cartridge housing portion slidably holds the circumferential surface of the gas cartridge. The lid portion of the gas cartridge housed in the cartridge housing portion is coupled to a cartridge attachment portion. A clamp arm has a roller and an extended portion and can be freely rotated around a rotation shaft. When the clamp arm is rotated, the roller presses the bottom portion of the gas cartridge in the cartridge housing portion. A raising lever has an abutment portion and is coupled to the extended portion so that the raising lever can be rotated around an installation shaft. When the raising lever is moved, the abutment portion slides on the sliding surface and rotates the clamp arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Maruzen Company Limited
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 8550061
    Abstract: A panel that conceals a gas cartridge attached to a toy gun is easily attached and detached without impairing the appearance of the toy gun. The gas cartridge is housed in a housing space formed in a cartridge housing portion and supplies compressed gas for firing a bullet. An introduction port for introducing the gas cartridge is provided in a first face of the cartridge housing portion. A working portion is provided in the cartridge housing portion and is moved in a direction along the first face. The panel is detachably attached to the cartridge housing portion and covers the introduction port. A protruded portion is extended from the lid portion of the panel. The protruded portion is provided with an inclined portion. The working portion is brought into slide contact with the inclined portion and moves the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Maruzen Company Limited
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda
  • Publication number: 20130192577
    Abstract: It is made possible to use a toy gun that fires bullets by compressed gas without the replacement of a gas cartridge for a long time and the portability of the gas cartridge is enhanced. The air chamber body placed in the toy gun forms an air chamber. Compressed gas in the air chamber body passes through a gas discharge portion and shoots a bullet held by a bullet holding portion out of a muzzle. A valve establishes or breaks communication between the air chamber body and the gas discharge portion according to operation with an operation portion. The toy gun includes multiple gas cartridge attachment portions. A gas bomb is attached to each of the gas cartridge attachment portions. Each gas cartridge attachment portion is provided with a first valve portion. Compressed gas in the gas bomb attached to each gas cartridge attachment portion is guided into the air chamber by way of a gas introduction portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Maruzen Company Limited
    Inventor: Tetsuo Maeda