Patents Assigned to Retug, Inc.
  • Patent number: 6609981
    Abstract: A shaft adapted to move through a fluid, wherein the shaft has a surface, diameter, and length, and wherein the shaft comprises at least two ridges extending along at least a portion of the length, such that fluid resistance encountered by the shaft as it is moved through the fluid is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Retug, Inc.
    Inventor: Junichi Hirata
  • Patent number: 5948123
    Abstract: A coloring method, wherein coloring agent or pigment is injected into active cells of an animal hide before the hide is harvested, and a coloring agent injection device with one or more needles, which are injected into the active cells of the hide of an animal whose hide is to be harvested. The coloring agent becomes fixed in the active cells of the hide, which ingest and spread said coloring agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: Retug, Inc.
    Inventors: Junichi Hirata, Hiroko Hasegawa