Patents by Inventor Kaichi Suzuki

Kaichi Suzuki 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: 7128934
    Abstract: A support-equipped extracting bag for a drink, for example coffee, comprises an extracting bag member 2 containing therein a drink material to be extracted and having a front face section 2a and back face section 2b each comprising a filtering sheet; and a support member 3 attached to the bag member and covering an upper half portion of the bag member, to hygienically keep a top end of the bag member to be opened during storage and to enable the bag member to be stably and safely held in a cup, wherein the upper middle portion of the support member and the upper portion of the bag member can be opened by removing the upper middle portion of the support member and the upper portion of the bag member along cut lines 8 and 9 or vacant area 10 or 11 and a row of perforations 13 formed through the support and bag members, and by bending the right and left side upper portions of the support member inward along folds or dotted cuts 14 and 15 formed in the right and left side upper portions of the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignees: Key Coffee, Inc., Yamanaka Sangyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiji Ohta, Kaichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6742660
    Abstract: An antibacterial, biodegradable extracting container has a filtering surface formed from a water-permeable woven or knitted fabric formed from fibers comprising, as a principal component, an antibacterial, biodegradable polylactate polymer, and having a thickness of 1 to 100 dtex, wherein, preferably, the filtering surface is formed from the woven fabric having a cover factor K of 1600 to 6400, determined in accordance the following equation: K=(N×(A)1/2/T)+(M×(B)1/2/S) wherein, N=warp density (yarns/10 cm), M=weft density (yarns/10 cm), A=thickness (dtex) of the warp yarns, B=thickness (dtex) of the weft yarns, T=specific gravity of the warp yarns and S=specific gravity of the weft yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignees: Yamanaka Ind., Unitika Fibers, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaichi Suzuki, Kouji Kajiwara, Shuhei Kurata
  • Publication number: 20030099791
    Abstract: An antibacterial, biodegradable extracting container has a filtering surface formed from a water-permeable woven or knitted fabric formed from fibers comprising, as a principal component, an antibacterial, biodegradable polylactate polymer, and having a thickness of 1 to 100 dtex, wherein, preferably, the filtering surface is formed from the woven fabric having a cover factor K of 1600 to 6400, determined in accordance the following equation:
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventors: Kaichi Suzuki, Kouji Kajiwara, Shuhei Kurata
  • Patent number: 5496573
    Abstract: A coffee filter material and bag suitable for providing a high-quality coffee extract, having a nonwoven fabric filter layer which is composed of thermoplastic organic synthetic fibers, satisfies the relationships (1) to (4):3.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.30 (1)y.gtoreq.0.2x (2)1.ltoreq.r.sub.30 (3)andr.sub.70 .ltoreq.50 (4)wherein x is a basis weight (g/m.sup.2) of the woven fabric, y is a cumulative volume value (cm.sup.3 /g) of fine pores in the nonwoven fabric, r.sub.30 is a maximum radius (.mu.m) of the fine pores observed when the volumes of the fine pores are cumulated from the small pore radius side and the cumulative volume value becomes equal to 0.3y, and r.sub.70 is a maximum radium (.mu.m) of the fine pores observed when the volumes of the fine pores are cumulated from the small pore radius side and the cumulative volume value becomes equal to 0.7y, and is capable of absorbing in the wet state thereof at least 0.5 g/g of an oil and fat component from the coffee extract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Assignees: Yamanaka Industry Co., Ltd., Kuraray Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tsuji, Hiromasa Saisaka, Hideo Murakami, Kaichi Suzuki, Masaaki Fukuchi