Patents by Inventor Chiyo Takai

Chiyo Takai has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11684034
    Abstract: An animal litter box includes: a tray housing including a urine passage portion and an insertion opening; and a tray including an absorbent-body placement surface. The urine passage portion has holes through which urine pass downward. The insertion opening is formed in a front surface of the tray housing. On the absorbent-body placement surface, an absorbent body for absorbing urine that has passed through the holes is placed. The tray is housed in the tray housing from the insertion opening in such a way that the tray is capable of being pulled out forward. The tray is capable of being housed in the tray housing with an orientation of the tray in the front-back direction reversed. The tray includes an identification portion in a part of the tray other than the absorbent-body placement surface, and the identification portion is for identifying one side and another side in the front-back direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chiyo Takai, Shinya Kaneko, Yuki Koido
  • Publication number: 20220256804
    Abstract: An animal toilet (1) has: a main body (10) provided with a urine passing section (12); and a tray (20) on which an absorbent body (200) for absorbing urine passing through the urine passing section (12) is disposed. In a lower end portion on one side in the front-rear direction of the main body (10), an opening (19) for accommodating the tray (10) is formed. In the left-right direction, the length of the opening (19) is longer than the length of the tray (20). In a state where the tray (20) is accommodated in the main body (10), both a bottom section (15d) of the main body and a bottom section (27) of the tray are grounded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Chiyo Takai, Yuki Koido, Yasuhiro Sasano, Shinya Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20210045348
    Abstract: An animal litter box includes: a tray housing including a urine passage portion and an insertion opening; and a tray including an absorbent-body placement surface. The urine passage portion has holes through which urine pass downward. The insertion opening is formed in a front surface of the tray housing. On the absorbent-body placement surface, an absorbent body for absorbing urine that has passed through the holes is placed. The tray is housed in the tray housing from the insertion opening in such a way that the tray is capable of being pulled out forward. The tray is capable of being housed in the tray housing with an orientation of the tray in the front-back direction reversed. The tray includes an identification portion in a part of the tray other than the absorbent-body placement surface, and the identification portion is for identifying one side and another side in the front-back direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Unichram Corporation
    Inventors: Chiyo TAKAI, Shinya KANEKO, Yuki KOIDO
  • Publication number: 20200229392
    Abstract: An animal litter box includes an inner space where an animal performs excretion and an absorbent-body arrangement portion. The inner space is surrounded by at least a bottom surface and a wall portion. The bottom surface receives excrement. The wall portion rises in the height direction from a periphery of the bottom surface. The absorbent-body arrangement portion is for arranging of an absorbent body that absorbs excrement, and is provided below the inner space in the height direction. The longitudinal central position of the inner space is located shifted from the longitudinal central position of the absorbent-body arrangement portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: UNICHARM Corporation
    Inventors: Chiyo Takai, Shinya Kaneko, Yuki Koido
  • Publication number: 20200163306
    Abstract: An animal litter box has a front-back direction, a left-right direction, and a height direction. The animal litter box includes: a main body that receives excrement of an animal; and a cover that is removably mounted to an upper portion of the main body. The cover includes walls on front-back-direction sides and on left-right-direction sides. The cover includes an open top at a ceiling, the cover includes a cutout in at least one of the walls. The cutout serves as an entrance/exit when the animal enters or exits the animal litter. The cover includes an extending bottom that extends from a lower end portion of the cutout to an inner side of the at least one of walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: UNICHARM Corporation
    Inventors: Chiyo Takai, Shinya Kaneko
  • Patent number: D897056
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chiyo Takai, Shinya Kaneko, Terutoki Kobayashi, Yuta Ida