Patents by Inventor Isamu Kataoka

Isamu Kataoka 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: 5090936
    Abstract: A movable decoration capable of being moved to exhibit unexpected motion or variation in configuration while maintaining a conventional ornamental effect in a stationary state, resulting in a viewer taking much interest and exhibiting lots of imaginative power. The movable decoration includes a power supply, to which a sensor switch is connected. Also, the decoration includes a motor connected through the sensor switch to the power supply, a drive mechanism connected to the motor so as to be actuated thereby, and a core in the form of a wire operatively connected to the drive mechanism so as to be rotated depending on actuation of the drive mechanism. On the core is loosely fitted a hollow element such as a artificial plant, a doll or the like so that it may be meanderingly moved depending on and separate from rotation of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Assignee: Takara Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuta Satoh, Shigeru Nakane, Shinya Saitoh, Isamu Kataoka
  • Patent number: 4903424
    Abstract: A movable decoration capable of being moved to exhibit unexpected motion or variation in configuration while maintaining a conventional ornamental effect in a stationary state, resulting in a viewer taking much interest and exhibiting lots of imaginative power. The movable decoration includes a power supply, to which a sensor switch is connected. Also, the decoration includes a motor connected through the sensor switch to the power supply, a drive mechanism connected to the motor so as to be actuated thereby, and a core in the form of a wire operatively connected to the drive mechanism so as to be rotated depending on actuation of the drive mechanism. On the core is loosely fitted a hollow element such as a artificial plant, a doll or the like so that it may be meanderingly moved depending on and separate from rotation of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1990
    Assignee: Takara Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuta Satoh, Shigeru Nakane, Shinya Saitoh, Isamu Kataoka
  • Patent number: 4613315
    Abstract: A doll toy comprising hollow upper and lower body portions. The lower body portions are adapted to wag relative to the upper body portion by a swinging mechanism provided within the upper and lower body portions. The doll toy has a switch provided within a mouth portion and adapted to be actuated by a teething ring or the like for actuating a motor to drive the swinging mechanism. The legs of the doll toy are adapted to be bent around knee portions. With this arrangement, the doll toy can assume a crawling mode and an upright walking mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1986
    Assignee: Takara Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Isamu Kataoka
  • Patent number: D312673
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: Takara Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Isamu Kataoka
  • Patent number: D312848
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: Takara Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Isamu Kataoka
  • Patent number: D312849
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: Takara Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Isamu Kataoka
  • Patent number: D312850
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: Takara Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Isamu Kataoka, Shinya Saitoh, Shigeru Nakane
  • Patent number: D312851
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: Takara Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Isamu Kataoka
  • Patent number: D314999
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1991
    Assignee: Takara Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Isamu Kataoka