Patents Assigned to Mikasa Corporation
  • Patent number: 11071891
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing an exercise ball which is made by using a pasted ball such as a soft leather ball and which has a lower impact value compared to a conventional yarn-wound ball. The exercise ball comprises a spherical hollow rubber bladder (2) in which compressed air is sealed, and a yarn-wound reinforcement layer (3) formed by evenly winding a filament yarn around the surface of the rubber bladder, wherein the exercise ball is characterized in that nylon filament yarn, obtained by hard twisting two 30-50 denier nylon filaments 1-a, 1-b in a single-direction twist is used as a winding yarn (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: MIKASA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Fujikura, Yukio Sunamori, Akinori Hamamoto
  • Publication number: 20200330831
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing an exercise ball which is made by using a pasted ball such as a soft leather ball and which has a lower impact value compared to a conventional yarn-wound ball. The exercise ball comprises a spherical hollow rubber bladder (2) in which compressed air is sealed, and a yarn-wound reinforcement layer (3) formed by evenly winding a filament yarn around the surface of the rubber bladder, wherein the exercise ball is characterized in that nylon filament yarn, obtained by hard twisting two 30-50 denier nylon filaments 1-a, 1-b in a single-direction twist is used as a winding yarn (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: MIKASA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi FUJIKURA, Yukio SUNAMORI, Akinori HAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8801553
    Abstract: There is provided a sports ball capable of relieving the pain of the hands suffered from impact on the ball and having a soft feel and high flexibility. The sports ball comprises a spherical hollow rubber bladder (2) inflated with air injected into it, a fabric tape reinforcement layer (3) formed by winding a narrow adhesive-impregnated fabric tape (7) around a central spherical portion (6) of the rubber bladder about each of three axes of the rubber bladder with the exception of opposite spherical end portions (5) of the rubber bladder, whereby the fabric tape reinforcement layer is formed as orthogonal lap windings of the fabric tape over substantially all of the spherical surface of the rubber bladder, to provide a fabric tape wound ball core, and surface panels (4) adhered with adhesive to the fabric tape reinforcement layer on the rubber bladder, after vulcanization and forming of the fabric tape wound ball core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Mikasa Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Fujikura, Osamu Kobayashi, Shuzo Matsuno
  • Patent number: 8672783
    Abstract: Surface panels of a sports ball are arranged to facilitate bending of their outer peripheral edge portions into an arc, without reducing strength of an elastic member, to define a groove at a seam between adjacent panels. Panels are adhered through the elastic members to a body defining a ball core with high adhesion strength. The panels have sheet material backed by an elastic member, each panel having an arched portion formed by bending inwardly an outer peripheral edge portion of each panel with a radius of curvature more than the thickness of the panel, after formation of many apertures in an inner peripheral edge portion of the elastic member. Lower edges of the arched portions of adjacent panels abut each other. A groove is defined at seams between adjacent panels, and the panels are adhered to a ball core body by adhering the elastic members to the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Mikasa Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Fujikura, Masanobu Morishige, Shuzo Matsuno
  • Publication number: 20120231908
    Abstract: Surface panels of a sports ball are arranged to facilitate bending of their outer peripheral edge portions into an arc, without reducing strength of an elastic member, to define a groove at a seam between adjacent panels. Panels are adhered through the elastic members to a body defining a ball core with high adhesion strength. The panels have sheet material backed by an elastic member, each panel having an arched portion formed by bending inwardly an outer peripheral edge portion of each panel with a radius of curvature more than the thickness of the panel, after formation of many apertures in an inner peripheral edge portion of the elastic member. Lower edges of the arched portions of adjacent panels abut each other. A groove is defined at seams between adjacent panels, and the panels are adhered to a ball core body by adhering the elastic members to the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: MIKASA CORPORATION
    Inventors: TAKASHI FUJIKURA, MASANOBU MORISHIGE, SHUZO MATSUNO
  • Patent number: 8092324
    Abstract: Provided are: a sheet-like ball material including a fibrous base material, and an elastic polymer cover layer that is laminated on a surface of the fibrous base material, in which continuous pebbles and discontinuous valleys are formed on a surface of the cover layer, the valleys discontinuously formed are formed at average intervals of 0.5 to 3 mm, the valley has a depth of 50 to 500 ?m, a vertical projected area of each valley is 1 to 5 mm2, and a total area of the vertical projected area of each valley accounts for 3 to 30% relative to a surface area of the elastic polymer cover layer; a ball used for volleyball or beach volleyball including the sheet-like ball material, which is excellent in the controllability for all types of ball plays such as tossing and serving in the smoothness of the attenuation degree in the ball speed of the ball during flight of the ball, and in the design, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignees: Kuraray Co., Ltd., Mikasa Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ashida, Koki Ogata, Yoshiaki Yasuda, Taketoshi Saeki
  • Publication number: 20120004058
    Abstract: There is provided a sports ball capable of relieving the pain of the hands suffered from impact on the ball and having a soft feel and high flexibility. The sports ball comprises a spherical hollow rubber bladder (2) inflated with air injected into it, a fabric tape reinforcement layer (3) formed by winding a narrow adhesive-impregnated fabric tape (7) around a central spherical portion (6) of the rubber bladder about each of three axes of the rubber bladder with the exception of opposite spherical end portions (5) of the rubber bladder, whereby the fabric tape reinforcement layer is formed as orthogonal lap windings of the fabric tape over substantially all of the spherical surface of the rubber bladder, to provide a fabric tape wound ball core, and surface panels (4) adhered with adhesive to the fabric tape reinforcement layer on the rubber bladder, after vulcanization and forming of the fabric tape wound ball core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: Mikasa Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Fujikura, Osamu Kobayashi, Shuzo Matsuno
  • Patent number: 7758458
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gas filling-type ball for sports which has excellent non-slip property and sufficient mechanical strength such as surface abrasion resistance, and which can be particularly suitably used in a field of a material for a ball such as a basketball, American football, or rugby ball. The present invention relates to a ball used for any one of basketball, handball, rugby ball, and American football, comprising a sheet having formed thereon a cover layer including substantially continuous pebbles and hemispherical valleys adjoining the pebbles formed on a surface of a base fabric, in which: a height difference between the pebbles and the valleys is 50 to 1,000 ?m, a vertical projected area of each of the adjoining valleys is 3 to 30 mm2, and an average distance between the valleys is 0.5 to 3 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignees: Kuraray Co., Ltd., Mikasa Corporation
    Inventors: Michinori Fujisawa, Sadahiro Ishii, Taketoshi Saeki
  • Publication number: 20100009792
    Abstract: Provided are: a sheet-like ball material including a fibrous base material, and an elastic polymer cover layer that is laminated on a surface of the fibrous base material, in which continuous pebbles and discontinuous valleys are formed on a surface of the cover layer, the valleys discontinuously formed are formed at average intervals of 0.5 to 3 mm, the valley has a depth of 50 to 500 ?m, a vertical projected area of each valley is 1 to 5 mm2, and a total area of the vertical projected area of each valley accounts for 3 to 30% relative to a surface area of the elastic polymer cover layer; a ball used for volleyball or beach volleyball including the sheet-like ball material, which is excellent in the controllability for all types of ball plays such as tossing and serving in the smoothness of the attenuation degree in the ball speed of the ball during flight of the ball, and in the design, e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicants: Kuraray Co., Ltd., Mikasa Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ashida, Koki Ogata, Yoshiaki Yasuda, Taketoshi Saeki
  • Publication number: 20070219028
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gas filling-type ball for sports which has excellent non-slip property and sufficient mechanical strength such as surface abrasion resistance, and which can be particularly suitably used in a field of a material for a ball such as a basketball, American football, or rugby ball. The present invention relates to a ball used for any one of basketball, handball, rugby ball, and American football, comprising a sheet having formed thereon a cover layer including substantially continuous pebbles and hemispherical valleys adjoining the pebbles formed on a surface of a base fabric, in which: a height difference between the pebbles and the valleys is 50 to 1,000 ?m, a vertical projected area of each of the adjoining valleys is 3 to 30 mm2, and an average distance between the valleys is 0.5 to 3 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Applicant: MIKASA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michinori Fujisawa, Sadahiro Ishii, Taketoshi Saeki
  • Patent number: 6962120
    Abstract: A method of forming a strong seam by using a sewing machine, without backstitching. In the sewing machine, a first shuttle hook which rotates in the counterclockwise direction, a first needle, a second needle, and a second shuttle hook which rotates in the counterclockwise direction are arranged in turn in the feed direction. A material to be sewn is fed every time when the needles simultaneously and independently form stitches, so as to form two independent seams which overlap each other in a manner such that the knots of the seams overlap each other on each knotted point, where one of the seams consists of perfect stitches, and the other seam consists of hitch stitches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Mikasa Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Fujikura, Hiroshi Muratani, Takahito Yanamoto
  • Patent number: D520580
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Mikasa Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Takata
  • Patent number: D568425
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Mikasa Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoo Oono
  • Patent number: D568426
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Mikasa Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroo Takubo
  • Patent number: D811500
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: MIKASA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuzo Matsuno, Ryutaro Ogawa
  • Patent number: D961704
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: MIKASA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazunari Tashiro
  • Patent number: D983913
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: MIKASA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Laszlo Ordog