Patents by Inventor Fumio Taniguchi

Fumio Taniguchi 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).

  • Publication number: 20050274402
    Abstract: A cleaning device for an electrical hair removing apparatus is capable of being stored in a compact profile. The apparatus has an operator head at its top, and is formed on its bottom with an electric terminal for receiving an external signal that controls the apparatus. The cleaning device includes a basin for receiving the operator head of the apparatus and also includes a control circuit providing the external signal. The device has a tank storing a volume of a cleaning liquid, and a circulator configured to supply the cleaning liquid into the basin from the tank for cleaning the operator head. A stand is provided on the device to hold the apparatus upside down with the operator head disposed within the basin. The stand is formed at its top end with a header carrying contacts which are connected to the terminal on the bottom of the apparatus. The stand is composed of a fixed support and a movable arm which extends from the support and is formed at its top with the header.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Saito, Hiroyuki Kameoka, Jyuzaemon Iwasaki, Fumio Taniguchi, Yasuo Ibuki, Hiroshi Shigeta
  • Publication number: 20050229400
    Abstract: In a shaver having provided on an upper end portion of a main body thereof a head portion comprising a razor having an outer blade and an inner blade, a front cross section of the shaver has a shape narrowed at a substantially center portion in its up and down direction, and a side cross section of the shaver has a substantially S-shape, in order to increase the contact area between the main body and the palm, to improve fit feeling, to make it hard to slip, and to finely adjust the angle of the razor against the skin without moving the wrist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Takashi Yamaguchi, Yasunori Ueda, Kotaro Yanagi, Izumi Mihara, Masahiro Takatani, Tetsushi Ogawa, Takumi Adachi, Etsushi Muramatsu, Tsuyoshi Nishizawa, Takashi Yukawa, Matsuki Yamamoto, Fumio Taniguchi, Masanobu Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20050189003
    Abstract: A cleaning device utilizes a cleaning liquid composed of a solute dissolved in a solution for cleaning an operator head of a hair removing apparatus. The device includes a housing configured to hold the hair removing apparatus, a basin mounted in the housing for receiving therein the operator head, and a tank storing the solution or the liquid. A circulator is provided to circulate the cleaning liquid between the tank and the basin. The device includes a container which is configured to hold the solute and is formed separately from the tank. The container is disposed in a circulation path between the basin and the tank in order to replenish the solute into the circulating solution or the liquid. Thus, the solute can be constantly supplied to the solution or the cleaning liquid for maintaining the cleaning effect over a prolonged period of use and for easy replenishment of the solute, eliminating the necessity of replacing the whole cleaning liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Saito, Hiroyuki Kameoka, Jyuzaemon Iwasaki, Fumio Taniguchi, Yasuo Ibuki, Hiroshi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 6892457
    Abstract: A water and dust-proof electric shaver head support structure that provides a wide range of movement to the floating shaver head to closely follow the contours of the skin. The floating shaver head, which contains the motor and shaving blades, freely pivots in the lateral plane and telescopically floats in relation to the shaver grip. A box-like space is formed in the shaver grip below the lower surface of the shaver head, and front and rear support walls extend upward from the shaver grip to support the shaver head in the forward/rearward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Shiba, Fumio Taniguchi, Masanobu Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20050031475
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a bellows pump which is able to accurately pump out a fixed amount of fluid, even with the fluid of high temperature with granular bits included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2004
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Inventor: Fumio Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20050017408
    Abstract: A radiator core support is made by an insert injection molding method. Four core members shaped in a triangular prism are built into a quadric-prism core and inserted into a rectangular tube, an upper radiator core support member. Then, an outwardly pressing member is inserted into a longitudinal slanted hole of the core to move and contact its members to the inner surfaces of the tube. The tube is located in a mold, into which molten molding material is injected. The tube is overmolded at the tops of a hood lock stay, and right and left side support members, being integrally formed out of rein. After cooling, drawing the pressing member from the core; then the core from the mold; and the molded part is removed from the mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2004
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Takeshi Mori, Kenji Kodaira, Fumio Taniguchi, Shigekazu Okamura, Masahiro Fujii
  • Publication number: 20040231160
    Abstract: A dry shaver has a cradle head carrying shaving units as well as a motor for driving the shaving units. The cradle head is supported to a hand grip such that it is allowed to swivel about at least one swivel axis parallel to a thickness direction of the hand grip. At least one portion of the motor projects upwardly of the swivel axis, whereby the cradle head is given overall mass center which is located upwardly of the swivel axis with respect to the height axis of the hand grip. Accordingly, the motor of heavy nature can be best utilized to locate the overall mass center of the cradle head above the swivel axis for generating a torque acting to swivel the cradle head from a neutral position about the swivel axis when the hand grip is held upright.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: Takeshi Shiba, Fumio Taniguchi, Ryo Motohashi, Masanobu Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20040154650
    Abstract: A cleaning device for a hair removing apparatus such as a dry shaver has a basin that receives a shaver head and is supplied with a cleaning liquid for cleaning the head. A single pump is utilized for supplying the liquid from a tank to the basin. The tank is hermetically sealed and is selectively open to the atmosphere by way of an air valve. The valve and the pump are actuated in a controlled manner to selectively give a supply mode for supplying the liquid to the basin from the tank and a recovery mode for recovering the liquid from the basin to the tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Saito, Jyuzaemon Iwasaki, Hiroyuki Kameoka, Yasuo Ibuki, Fumio Taniguchi, Kotaro Yanagi, Hiroshi Shigeta
  • Publication number: 20040010919
    Abstract: A water and dust-proof electric shaver head support structure that provides a wide range of movement to the floating shaver head to closely follow the contours of the skin. The floating shaver head, which contains the motor and shaving blades, freely pivots in the lateral plane and telescopically floats in relation to the shaver grip. A box-like space is formed in the shaver grip below the lower surface of the shaver head, and front and rear support walls extend upward from the shaver grip to support the shaver head in the forward/rearward direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Shiba, Fumio Taniguchi, Masanobu Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 6623257
    Abstract: There is provided a system for supplying a fixed amount of fluid in which the reverse flow of the fluid is eliminated and a precise fixed amount of the fluid can be delivered. In a system for supplying a fixed amount of fluid comprising a fluid accommodating unit comprising a fluid accommodating bag and a pump connected to the fluid accommodating bag and a fluid supplying device body in which the fluid accommodating unit is detachably disposed and a pump driving mechanism for driving the pump is disposed, the pump of the fluid accommodating unit is a bellows pump having two check valves; the check valve comprises a valve base having through-holes formed therein and whose downstream surface is curved to be convex toward the downstream and a valve body made from an elastic thin plate for covering the downstream surface of the valve base and having a hole at the center thereof; and the pump driving mechanism drives a bellows so as to expand and contract it at a predetermined stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Libra Techno Yugen Kaisha
    Inventor: Fumio Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 6568083
    Abstract: A dry shaver is capable of being depressed equally at different positions but with differing contact pressures between outer and inner cutters. The shaver has a housing having a motor and inner and outer cutters at its upper end. The inner cutter is driven by the motor to move in shearing engagement with the outer cutter for shaving hairs. The inner cutter is urged upwardly by a bias spring to develop a contact pressure against the outer cutter. The outer cutter is carried by a cutter holder movably supported to a head frame mounted on top of the housing. The shaver has a height adjust mechanism for adjusting the height of the head frame relative to the housing between a high position and a low position while compressing the spring differently to vary the contact pressure, and for allowing the cutter holder to be depressed relative to the head frame from each of the height and low positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Taniguchi, Toshiyuki Tsushio, Yasunori Ueda, Masanobu Yamasaki, Takeshi Shiba, Jyuzaemon Iwasaki, Mitsuhiro Kadowaki, Hirokazu Kato, Mikihiro Yamashita, Yasuo Ibuki, Atsushi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20020039537
    Abstract: There is provided a system for supplying a fixed amount of fluid in which the reverse flow of the fluid is eliminated and a precise fixed amount of the fluid can be delivered. In a system for supplying a fixed amount of fluid comprising a fluid accommodating unit comprising a fluid accommodating bag and a pump connected to the fluid accommodating bag and a fluid supplying device body in which the fluid accommodating unit is detachably disposed and a pump driving mechanism for driving the pump is disposed, the pump of the fluid accommodating unit is a bellows pump having two check valves; the check valve comprises a valve base having through-holes formed therein and whose downstream surface is curved to be convex toward the downstream and a valve body made from an elastic thin plate for covering the downstream surface of the valve base and having a hole at the center thereof; and the pump driving mechanism drives a bellows so as to expand and contract it at a predetermined stroke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2001
    Publication date: April 4, 2002
    Inventor: Fumio Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 4705099
    Abstract: Herein disclosed is an improved cooling/heating unit incorporated with an automative air conditioner. The unit achieves quick freezing of ice cubes by stopping operation of an electric fan for a predetermined time. The electric fan is located in a refrigerated compartment through which a portion of an evaporator, which also passes through a freezer compartment, is arranged. By suppressing the operation of the fan, the total heat transfer capacity of the system can be directed toward increasing the cooling capacity in the freezer compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1987
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Taniguchi, Tomio Matsuno
  • Patent number: 4615262
    Abstract: A heater unit of an automotive air conditioning system has two demisting or defrosting ducts, which extend toward the front windows and the side window respectively. A flap valve is associated with each of the ducts in order to control air flow directed to the front and side windows independently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1986
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumio Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 4288018
    Abstract: A paper fastening device comprises a punching mechanism with punching depression members in vertical motion, a stapling mechanism with depression members for pushing out the contained staples and fastening papers together, a depression mechanism with pressing parts for depressing the depression members in said punching and stapling mechanisms, a selecting mechanism for selecting the interlocking of the pressing parts with said depression members by sliding said pressing parts, and a selection indicator in association with said selecting mechanism. Selection of punching or stapling or both thereof is effected at the indicator, and then the depression mechanism is operated, thereby the selected punching and/or stapling are applied to papers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1981
    Inventor: Fumio Taniguchi