Patents by Inventor Junichi Itokawa
Junichi Itokawa 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).
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Patent number: 9085387Abstract: The present invention relates to a bottle which is formed of a synthetic resin material into a cylindrical shape with a bottom. A bottom wall portion of a bottom of the bottle includes: a ground contact portion; a rising peripheral wall portion; a ring-shaped movable wall portion; and a depressed peripheral wall portion. The movable wall portion is rotatably disposed about a connecting part with the rising peripheral wall portion so as to move the depressed peripheral wall portion upward, and a concave and convex portion is formed over an entire circumference of the rising peripheral wall portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Goro Kurihara, Hiroaki Imai, Tadayori Nakayama, Junichi Itokawa
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Patent number: 8851312Abstract: Pinhole detection is achieved when pinholes happen to develop near stoppers used to fit a handle. A biaxially drawn synthetic resin bottle has a recessed portion, and a synthetic resin handle, fitted in an undercut engagement to the recessed portion by insert molding. The handle comprises upper and lower fitting arms disposed at a grip in a vertically long plate shape. Both arms extend forward from the grip. A stopper extends upward from a front end of the upper fitting arm, and a stopper extends upward and/or downward from a front end of the lower fitting arm. A ridge or groove is formed extending rearward of a stopper of either arm, along a top surface of the upper fitting arm or along a top surface and/or an underside surface of the lower fitting arm. A connecting passage for air release is formed along the ridge/groove.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2008Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Itokawa, Yoshinori Matsuo, Takao Iizuka
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Publication number: 20130213926Abstract: The present invention relates to a bottle which is formed of a synthetic resin material into a cylindrical shape with a bottom. A bottom wall portion of a bottom of the bottle includes: a ground contact portion; a rising peripheral wall portion; a ring-shaped movable wall portion; and a depressed peripheral wall portion. The movable wall portion is rotatably disposed about a connecting part with the rising peripheral wall portion so as to move the depressed peripheral wall portion upward, and a concave and convex portion is formed over an entire circumference of the rising peripheral wall portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2011Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Goro Kurihara, Hiroaki Imai, Tadayori Nakayama, Junichi Itokawa
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Patent number: 8162163Abstract: This invention is aimed at material saving and cost reduction. A technical problem to be solved by the invention is to provide a light-weight Y-shaped handle without impairing injection moldability and the functions of the handle. The principal means of solving the above-described technical problem is an injection molded handle used by being fitted and secured firmly to a rear portion of a body of a synthetic resin bottle by an insert molding method.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2007Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Matsuo, Junichi Itokawa, Takao Iizuka
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Publication number: 20110315653Abstract: Pinhole detection is achieved when pinholes happen to develop near stoppers used to fit a handle. A biaxially drawn synthetic resin bottle has a recessed portion, and a synthetic resin handle, fitted in an undercut engagement to the recessed portion by insert molding. The handle comprises upper and lower fitting arms disposed at a grip in a vertically long plate shape. Both arms extend forward from the grip. A stopper extends upward from a front end of the upper fitting arm, and a stopper extends upward and/or downward from a front end of the lower fitting arm. A ridge or groove is formed extending rearward of a stopper of either arm, along a top surface of the upper fitting arm or along a top surface and/or an underside surface of the lower fitting arm. A connecting passage for air release is formed along the ridge/groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2008Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichi Itokawa, Yoshinori Matsuo, Takao Iizuka
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Publication number: 20100282708Abstract: This invention is aimed at material saving and cost reduction. A technical problem to be solved by the invention is to provide a light-weight Y-shaped handle without impairing injection moldability and the functions of the handle. The principal means of solving the above-described technical problem is an injection molded handle used by being fitted and secured firmly to a rear portion of a body of a synthetic resin bottle by an insert molding method.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2007Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Matsuo, Junichi Itokawa, Takao Iizuka
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Patent number: 7481326Abstract: A biaxially drawn and blow-molded bottle made of synthetic resin with a handle, the handle is injection-molded, made of a synthetic resin and fitted firmly to the bottle, the bottle also has a recession with a projecting wall in a central part of the recession, and the handle has a pair of beams parallel to each other and on opposite sides of the projecting wall and a grip plate integrally connected between the pair of beams, the beams also have embedded ridges disposed centrally along an axis of each beam wherein the embedded ridges extend from the pair of beams to engage the recession and the projecting wall, and the embedded ridges each have a central plane approximately perpendicular to the axis of the beam on which the embedded ridges are disposed and the embedded ridges become wider along the plane as they extend away from the beams.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2003Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Itokawa, Yoshinori Matsuo, Takao Iizuka
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Patent number: 7185777Abstract: A synthetic resin bottle has a grip assembled and fixed in an upright orientation to the center part of a concave region at the ear portion of a substantially cylindrical trunk portion of the bottle main body. A shoulder portion in the bottle main body has a lower circumferential wall with a truncated pyramid shape defined by a plurality of panels. A right/left center axis of a rear surface panel is placed at substantially at the center of the rear surface of the bottle main body. A center portion of each of the panels is formed as a protrusion having a convex shape gradually bulging outwards of the bottle main body.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2003Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Itokawa, Yoshinori Matsuo, Takao Iizuka
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Patent number: 7108146Abstract: A synthetic resin bottle with a handle of this invention comprises a biaxially drawn and blow-molded PET bottle and a handle, an injection-molded product of the same PET resin, which is fitted firmly to the bottle as an insert. The up-and-down property of the surfaces of the handle inserts, which come in contact with the PET bottle, is adjusted in response to the softening and drawing state of the PET preform that is deformed and molded into the bottle. This adjustment causes the friction resistance to be reduced between the handle inserts and the blow-molded PET bottle. The finely textured up-and-down pattern can be easily formed through the tests and adjustments by the surface treatment inside the mold cavity used for the injection molding of the handle. Thus, the optimum surface properties can be obtained in response to the bottle sizes and the handle shapes. Therefore, this invention requires no separate process, such as thermal crystallization.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2003Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Itokawa, Yoshinori Matsuo, Takao Iizuka
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Publication number: 20060021960Abstract: This invention is aimed at providing a biaxially drawn, blow-molded PET bottle with a handle, which bottle is highly safe and easy to handle, even in the case of large-size bottles with a capacity as large as a few liters. This can be achieved by improving the insert moldability of the handle and by increasing the strength of fitting of the handle to the bottle. Such a bottle with a handle comprises a polyethylene terephthalate resin bottle and a handle, an injection-molded product made of a synthetic resin, which is fitted firmly to the bottle as an insert. This bottle has a recession that has been caved in at the rear of body and also comprises a vertical projecting wall disposed in the central part of the bottom of this recession. The handle comprises a pair of fitting beams disposed in parallel to each other in the standing position and a grip plate integrally disposed to connect between the pair of fitting beams at both the upper and lower ends thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2003Publication date: February 2, 2006Applicant: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Itokawa, Yoshinori Matsuo, Takao Iizuka
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Publication number: 20060011574Abstract: A synthetic resin bottle has a grip assembled and fixed in an upright orientation to the center part of a concave region at the ear portion of a substantially cylindrical trunk portion of the bottle main body. A shoulder portion in the bottle main body has a lower circumferential wall with a truncated pyramid shape defined by a plurality of panels. A right/left center axis of a rear surface panel is placed at substantially at the center of the rear surface of the bottle main body. A center portion of each of the panels is formed as a protrusion having a convex shape gradually bulging outwards of the bottle main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2003Publication date: January 19, 2006Inventors: Junichi Itokawa, Yoshinori Matsuo, Takao Iizuka
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Publication number: 20050115919Abstract: A synthetic resin bottle with a handle of this invention comprises a biaxially drawn and blow-molded PET bottle and a handle, an injection-molded product of the same PET resin, which is fitted firmly to the bottle as an insert. The up-and-down property of the surfaces of the handle inserts, which come in contact with the PET bottle, is adjusted in response to the softening and drawing state of the PET preform that is deformed and molded into the bottle. This adjustment causes the friction resistance to be reduced between the handle inserts and the blow-molded PET bottle. The finely textured up-and-down pattern can be easily formed through the tests and adjustments by the surface treatment inside the mold cavity used for the injection molding of the handle. Thus, the optimum surface properties can be obtained in response to the bottle sizes and the handle shapes. Therefore, this invention requires no separate process, such as thermal crystallization.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2003Publication date: June 2, 2005Applicant: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., LTDInventors: Junichi Itokawa, Yoshinori Matsuo, Takao Iizuka
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Publication number: 20010042731Abstract: This invention is titled “Synthetic resin bottle with a handle.” The purpose of this invention is to solve the problem of incomplete fitting engagement between handle and bottle wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2001Publication date: November 22, 2001Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTDInventors: Junichi Itokawa, Kohei Nakajima
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Patent number: D414109Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1998Date of Patent: September 21, 1999Assignees: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd., Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.Inventors: Akiho Ota, Junichi Itokawa, Takao Iizuka, Raymond A Bourque, Nickolas Latorre
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Patent number: D421386Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1998Date of Patent: March 7, 2000Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akiho Ota, Junichi Itokawa, Takao Iizuka