Patents by Inventor Hirotsugu Toda

Hirotsugu Toda 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: 11384598
    Abstract: There is provided a screen guide that engages a support rail or is detachable from the support rail at an intermediate position on the support rail. The support rail supports the screen guide and includes first and second engagement edges, and the screen guide is formed by connecting a plurality of guide pieces to one another in series. Each of the guide pieces includes a piece body that engages an end portion of a screen and an engagement member that includes first and second engagement portions that engage the first and second engagement edges of the support rail, respectively. Each of the engagement members is coupled to the corresponding piece body such that the engagement member is capable of being displaced to a first position at which the first and second engagement portions engage the first and second engagement edges, respectively, and to a second, detached position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKI HANBAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Toda, Masato Moriya
  • Patent number: 10920488
    Abstract: There is provided a screen device that is capable of preventing deformation such as loosening of a horizontally-sliding roll screen due to the weight of the screen. A guide member has a slit that allows a fastener-like member at an upper end of the screen to be slidably engaged therewith in a retained state. In a state in which a space, which allows bending in the vertical direction, is formed above the guide member, both end portions and of the guide member are fixed to an upper horizontal frame of a screen frame, flange portions of the guide member are positioned above protruding walls in the upper horizontal frame, and spring members that apply upward urging forces to the guide member are provided between the protruding walls and the flange portions. Thus, deformation of the screen due to the weight thereof is suppressed by using the guide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKI HANBAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Toda, Masato Moriya
  • Publication number: 20190119979
    Abstract: There is provided a screen device that is capable of preventing deformation such as loosening of a horizontally-sliding roll screen due to the weight of the screen. A guide member has a slit that allows a fastener-like member at an upper end of the screen to be slidably engaged therewith in a retained state. In a state in which a space, which allows bending in the vertical direction, is formed above the guide member, both end portions and of the guide member are fixed to an upper horizontal frame of a screen frame, flange portions of the guide member are positioned above protruding walls in the upper horizontal frame, and spring members that apply upward urging forces to the guide member are provided between the protruding walls and the flange portions. Thus, deformation of the screen due to the weight thereof is suppressed by using the guide member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKI HANBAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu TODA, Masato MORIYA
  • Publication number: 20190048659
    Abstract: There is provided a screen guide that engages a support rail or is detachable from the support rail at an intermediate position on the support rail. The support rail supports the screen guide and includes first and second engagement edges, and the screen guide is formed by connecting a plurality of guide pieces to one another in series. Each of the guide pieces includes a piece body that engages an end portion of a screen and an engagement member that includes first and second engagement portions that engage the first and second engagement edges of the support rail, respectively. Each of the engagement members is coupled to the corresponding piece body such that the engagement member is capable of being displaced to a first position at which the first and second engagement portions engage the first and second engagement edges, respectively, and to a second, detached position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Hirotsugu TODA, Masato MORIYA
  • Patent number: 8316913
    Abstract: A sliding screen door includes a net formed to be capable of expansion and contraction, and capable of freely opening and closing by horizontal pulling, a net guide is formed to be able to form the net guide into a straight line shape, and a movement of a net holding member that follows the net guide is made smooth, and many of the guiding elements form the net guide for guiding the lower end of the net into an approximately U-shape composed of a bottom portion and rising wall portions, and a mutually and flexibly connected by means of inserting a series of wire members into through holes that follow tip end portions of the rising wall portions, and are formed into a series of guides rails that are serially in contact with each other and a net holding member is provided in the aforementioned guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Seiki Hanbai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiko Chino, Hirotsugu Toda, Masato Moriya, Yoji Kamosawa
  • Patent number: 7931070
    Abstract: In a sliding screen door in which a net is formed to be capable of expansion and contraction, and is formed to be capable of freely opening and closing by horizontal pulling, a net guide forms the net guide into a straight line shape in a condition of being led out from a frame member, and a movement of a net-holding member that follow the net guide is made smooth, and many of the guiding elements form the net guide for guiding the lower end of the net and include an approximately u-shape composed of a bottom portion and rising wall portions, and are formed into a series of guide rails that are serially in contact with each other by means of rising wall portions of the adjoining guiding elements, and a net-holding member which is engaged with the guide rails so as to be movable along the guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Seiki Hanbai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiko Chino, Hirotsugu Toda, Masato Moriya, Yoji Kamosawa
  • Publication number: 20090020234
    Abstract: The present invention is constructed such that in a sliding screen door in which a net is formed to be capable of expansion and contraction by being alternately folded back in a reverse direction, and is formed to be capable of freely opening and closing by horizontal pulling, a net guide for guiding the aforementioned net is formed to be able to form the net guide into a straight line-shape in a condition of being led out from a frame member, and a movement of a net-holding member that follows the net guide is made smooth, and many of the guiding elements form the net guide 12 for guiding the lower end of the net, which is moved out from and into an interior of a vertical frame member 6, from the lower end of the vertical frame member 6 that is attached to both ends of the net in an open and close direction in response to the open-and-close movement of the net, into an approximately U-shape composed of a bottom portion and rising wall portions, and are mutually and flexibly connected by means of inserting a
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: SEIKI HANBAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiko Chino, Hirotsugu Toda, Masato Moriya, Yoji Kamosawa
  • Patent number: 7472738
    Abstract: A screen device including a screen guide that has a simple structure, stably operates, and, in a guided-out state, can be formed in a straight rail-like shape. A screen guide of the screen device includes a large number of guide pieces, each formed in an approximately U-shape by a bottom and standing walls respectively extending along the end of a screen and the external side surfaces of the screen, and having a structure in which passage holes are formed along the tops of the standing walls, two strings of wire members are exerted through the respective passage holes, and, when the screen guide is guided out along the end of the screen, the serial contact surfaces of the adjacent guide pieces abut against each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Seiki Hanbai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoji Kamosawa, Hirotsugu Toda, Mitsuhiko Chino, Masato Moriya
  • Patent number: 7395850
    Abstract: A winding-up screen device in which, when a screen is wound around a winding axis, a screen guide for guiding the edge portion of the screen unwound from the winding axis is not left on the opening frame of a building. A joining groove is provided in the screen guide provided so as to go in and out between an opening frame and a fixed frame or a movable frame of the building, a joining part is attached to the edge portion, to be guided by the screen guide, of a screen, the screen guide goes in and out when the screen is wound and unwound by operation of the movable frame, and the joining part of the unwound screen is joined to the joining groove of the screen guide so as to freely slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Seiki Hanbai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiko Chino, Yoji Kamosawa, Hirotsugu Toda
  • Publication number: 20070068633
    Abstract: The present invention is constructed such that in a sliding screen door in which a net is formed to be capable of expansion and contraction by being alternately folded back in a reverse direction, and is formed to be capable of freely opening and closing by horizontal pulling, a net guide for guiding the aforementioned net is formed to be able to form the net guide into a straight line-shape in a condition of being led out from a frame member, and a movement of a net-holding member that follows the net guide is made smooth, and many of the guiding elements form the net guide 12 for guiding the lower end of the net, which is moved out from and into an interior of a vertical frame member 6, from the lower end of the vertical frame member 6 that is attached to both ends of the net in an open and close direction in response to the open-and-close movement of the net, into an approximately U-shape composed of a bottom portion and rising wall portions, and are mutually and flexibly connected by means of inserting a
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: Seiki Hanbai Co., LTD
    Inventors: Mitsuhiko Chino, Hirotsugu Toda, Masato Moriya, Yoji Kamosawa
  • Publication number: 20070039698
    Abstract: A winding-up screen device in which, when a screen is wound around a winding axis, a screen guide for guiding the edge portion of the screen unwound from the winding axis is not left on the opening frame of a building. A joining groove is provided in the screen guide provided so as to go in and out between an opening frame and a fixed frame or a movable frame of the building, a joining part is attached to the edge portion, to be guided by the screen guide, of a screen, the screen guide goes in and out when the screen is wound and unwound by operation of the movable frame, and the joining part of the unwound screen is joined to the joining groove of the screen guide so as to freely slide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2004
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Applicant: Seiki Hanbai CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiko Chino, Yoji Kamosawa, Hirotsugu Toda
  • Publication number: 20060162871
    Abstract: A screen device including a screen guide that has a simple structure, stably operates, and, in a guided-out state, can be formed in a straight rail-like shape. A screen guide of the screen device includes a large number of guide pieces, each formed in an approximately U-shape by a bottom and standing walls respectively extending along the end of a screen and the external side surfaces of the screen, and having a structure in which passage holes are formed along the tops of the standing walls, two strings of wire members are exerted through the respective passage holes, and, when the screen guide is guided out along the end of the screen, the serial contact surfaces of the adjacent guide pieces abut against each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Inventors: Yoji Kamosawa, Hirotsugu Toda, Mitsuhiko Chino, Masato Moriya