Patents by Inventor Ichiro Ohnishi

Ichiro Ohnishi 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: 20100156160
    Abstract: A seat structure includes: a seat main body; a seating surface element attached to the seat main body, and extending in a longitudinal direction; a back element connected to a rear end of the seating surface element in a reclinable manner, and extending in a vertical direction; an upper end flap connected to an upper end of the back element in a forward tiltable manner; a displacement member supported on the back element in a vertically displaceable manner; and a first connection element connecting the displacement member and the upper end flap so as to tilt the upper end flap forward according to displacement of the displacement member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Aprica Children's Products Inc.
    Inventor: Ichiro OHNISHI
  • Patent number: 7585026
    Abstract: A crotch belt (20) which is one component of a body restraint belt includes an elastic plate (21) having bending elasticity, and a buckle (22) mounted on an end of the elastic plate (21). One end of the elastic plate (21) is fixed to a fixing point (23) under a seating surface (4). While the crotch belt (20) is not connected to a waist belt, the crotch belt (20) is positioned along a front part of the seating surface (4) so as to be close to it by elastic force of the elastic plate (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Aprica Children's Products Inc.
    Inventors: Kenzou Kassai, Ichiro Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20090134604
    Abstract: A baby carriage includes: a pair of front legs; a pair of connecting members; a pair of guide sleeves respectively fixed to intermediate regions of the pair of front legs; a pair of rear legs having their upper ends pivotally connected to the pair of connecting members, respectively; a pair of push bars sidably held by the pair of connecting members and the pair of guide sleeves, respectively; width-direction connecting means for connecting left and right sides of the baby carriage each formed by each front leg, each rear leg, and each push bar to each other; and a canopy having its both ends in a width direction respectively connected to and held by the pair of push bars at a position lower than the pair of connecting members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventor: Ichiro Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20090102163
    Abstract: A baby carriage includes: a pair of front legs; a pair of connecting members; a pair of guide sleeves respectively fixed to intermediate regions of the pair of front legs, a pair of rear legs having their upper ends pivotally connected to the connecting members, respectively; a pair of push bars slidably held by the pair of connecting members and the pair of guide sleeves, respectively; a pair of slide members provided slidably on upper regions of the pair of rear legs, respectively; a back cross member having its upper end pivotally connected to the pair of slide members and its lower end pivotally connected to respective lower regions of the pair of rear legs; and a bottom cross member having its front end pivotally connected to respective lower ends of the pair of push bars, and its rear end pivotally connected to respective intermediate regions of the pair of rear legs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: GRACO CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS INC.
    Inventor: Ichiro Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20090102149
    Abstract: A baby carriage includes: a pair of front legs; a pair of connecting members; a pair of guide sleeves respectively fixed to intermediate regions of the pair of front legs; a pair of rear legs having their upper ends pivotally connected to the pair of connecting members, respectively; a pair of push bars slidably held by the pair of connecting members and the pair of guide sleeves, respectively; width-direction connecting means for connecting for connecting the pair of front legs, the pair of rear legs, and respective lower ends of the pair of push bars so that a distance between the pair of front legs, a distance between the pair of rear legs, and a distance between the respective lower ends of the pair of push bars can be reduced; and a handle member having an inverted U-shape for connecting respective upper ends of the pair of push bars to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: GRACO CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS INC.
    Inventor: Ichiro Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20090033065
    Abstract: A baby carriage includes: a pair of front legs extending in an up-down direction and having front wheels in their respective lower parts; a pair of push bars having their respective lower ends pivotally connected to upper ends of the front legs through pivot shafts, respectively; opened state lock means for locking an opened state of the baby carriage with the push bars aligned approximately linearly with respect to the front legs, respectively; closed state lock means for locking a folded state of the baby carriage with the push bars pivoted forward to a position where upper ends of the push bars get close to the front legs, respectively; and a dome-shaped canopy having its both ends in a width direction supported by the pair of push bars, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Kenzou Kassai, Ichiro Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20090008909
    Abstract: A baby carriage includes a body and a seat hammock. The body includes a pair of seat surface support bars extending in a front-rear direction for supporting a seat surface portion of the seat hammock, and a pair of backrest surface support bars extending in an up-down direction for supporting a backrest surface portion of the seat hammock. The seat hammock has a front receiving portion at a front end of the seat surface portion for disengageably receiving respective front ends of the pair of seat surface support bars, and has a rear receiving portion at an upper end of the backrest surface portion for disengageably receiving respective upper ends of the pair of backrest surface support bars. In this baby carriage, the seat hammock that forms a seat can be easily attached to and detached from the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventors: Kenzou Kassai, Ichiro Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20090008908
    Abstract: Each element of opened/closed state lock means is arranged around each of pivot shafts that respectively pivotally connect front legs and push bars. In a folded state of a baby carriage, lower ends of the push bars do not protrude above upper ends of the front legs. The lower ends of the push bars and the upper ends of the front legs are in contact with each other and are not separated from each other both in an opened state and folded state of the baby carriage. The baby carriage can implement reduction in weight with a simple structure and reduction in height of the baby carriage in the folded state, and also can prevent problems such as pinched fingers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventors: Kenzou Kassai, Ichiro Ohnishi, Takanori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7458599
    Abstract: A folding baby carriage comprises a body so constituted that a seat and a backrest part approach each other in a folding operation, and a luggage basket positioned under the seat. The luggage basket comprises a front frame extending backward and forward under the seat, a rear frame turnably connected to a rear end of the front frame and extending backward and forward, and a lock mechanism preventing the rear frame being turned around the front frame. The rear frame is turned so as to take a lower position in which a rear part of the luggage basket is opened, a horizontal position in which it extends almost horizontally, and an upper position in which its rear end approximates the backrest part. The lock mechanism comprises horizontal position fixing means for fixing the rear frame in the horizontal position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Aprica Ikujikenkyukai Aprica Kassai Kabushikikaisha
    Inventors: Kenzou Kassai, Ichiro Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 7419181
    Abstract: A seat carriage body comprises a front leg, a rear leg, a push rod, and position fixing means. An upper end of the front leg is turnably connected to an upper end of the rear leg through a first shaft. A front end member of the push rod is connected to the front leg such that it can be displaced along the front leg at the time of a folding operation. A middle part of the push rod is turnably connected to the rear leg through a second shaft. The position fixing means fixes a positional relation among the front leg, the rear leg and the push rod in both open and folded states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Aprica Ikujikenkyukai Aprica Kassai Kabushikikaisha
    Inventors: Kenzou Kassai, Ichiro Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20070052209
    Abstract: A seat carriage body comprises a front leg, a rear leg, a push rod, and position fixing means. An upper end of the front leg is turnably connected to an upper end of the rear leg through a first shaft. A front end member of the push rod is connected to the front leg such that it can be displaced along the front leg at the time of a folding operation. A middle part of the push rod is turnably connected to the rear leg through a second shaft. The position fixing means fixes a positional relation among the front leg, the rear leg and the push rod in both open and folded states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Applicant: APRICA IKUJIKENKYUKAI APRICA KASSAI KABUSHIKIKAISHA
    Inventors: Kenzou Kassai, Ichiro Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 7175004
    Abstract: A wheel simultaneous brake mechanism for simultaneously braking two wheels includes two respective engaging members that are selectively movable between an engaged position and a disengaged position for selectively braking or releasing the two wheels. Each engaging member is biased by a spring toward its respective engaged position. The two engaging members are connected to one another in a manner transmitting a tensile force therebetween by a wire, so that the engagement or release of both engaging members can be actuated together in unison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Aprica Kassai Kabushikikaisha
    Inventors: Kenzou Kassai, Ichiro Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 7140634
    Abstract: A folding baby carriage comprises a pair of seating surface supporting side bars extending back and forth along both sides of a seating surface in order to support the seating surface from beneath. Each seating surface supporting side bar has a rigid inward extending portion extending toward the inside so as to support the seating surface from beneath, at a rear portion thereof. The inward extending portion is formed by bending a rear end portion of the seating surface supporting side bar toward the inside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Aprica Kassai Kabushikikaisha
    Inventors: Kenzou Kassai, Ichiro Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 7118173
    Abstract: A baby-care implement comprises a hood which covers a top of a seat thereof. The hood comprises a mounting base fixed to a body of the baby-care implement, a first hood bone whose lower end is turnably connected to the mounting base, a second hood bone positioned on the inner side of the first hood bone, whose lower end is turnably connected to the mounting base, a third hood bone positioned on the inner side of the second hood bone, a first hood sheet mounted on the first hood bone and extending backward and forward, and a second hood sheet mounted on the second hood bone, overlapping the inner side of the first hood sheet and extending backward and forward. The second hood sheet comprises one end in the back-and-forth direction which is separated from the first hood sheet and the other end which is connected to the first hood sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Aprica Ikujikenkyukai Aprica Kassai Kabushikikaisha
    Inventors: Kenzou Kassai, Ichiro Ohnishi, Toshio Oonuma, Masaki Ito
  • Patent number: 7114743
    Abstract: The folding baby carriage is foldable so that four wheels approach each other back and forth and from side to side. The baby carriage includes a lower frame structure that is positioned above the four wheels to form a seating surface portion of a seat and that is foldable so as to approach back and forth and from side to side with the four wheels, and an inverted U-shaped member extending to rise upward from both sides of the seating surface portion. The inverted U-shaped member remains on a single plane in both the folded state and the opened state without bending out of this plane, but lower ends of the inverted U-shaped member come closer together in the folded state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Aprica Kassai Kabushikikaisha
    Inventors: Kenzou Kassai, Ichiro Ohnishi
  • Patent number: D523256
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Aprica Ikujikenkyukai Aprica Kassai Kabushikikaisha
    Inventors: Kenzuo Kassai, Ichiro Ohnishi
  • Patent number: D523257
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Aprica Ikujikenkyukai Aprica Kassai Kabushikikaisha
    Inventors: Kenzou Kassai, Ichiro Ohnishi
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    Patent number: D528323
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Aprica Ikujikenkyukai Aprica Kassai Kabushikaisha
    Inventors: Kenzou Kassai, Ichiro Ohnishi
  • Patent number: D580307
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Aprica Ikujikenkyukai Aprica Kassai Kabushikikaisha
    Inventors: Kenzou Kassai, Ichiro Ohnishi
  • Patent number: D615004
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Aprica Children's Products Inc.
    Inventor: Ichiro Ohnishi