Patents by Inventor Katsuyoshi Abekawa

Katsuyoshi Abekawa 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: 6557669
    Abstract: The automatic dish serving system includes: a supply center for supplying articles such as food and drink; a customer's seat to which the articles are served; a carrier wagon traveling along a route between the supply center and the customer's seat for carrying the articles of food and drink loaded on the carrier wagon; and a route guide device for guiding the carrier wagon so as to take an appropriate route, wherein the customer's seat is provided with a turntable for retaining the served articles of food and drink and provided with an arrival portion to which the carrier wagon arrives and wherein the carrier wagon is provided with a transfer device for transferring the articles between the turntable and the carrier wagon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Asa Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuyoshi Abekawa
  • Publication number: 20020156703
    Abstract: A product displaying/selling system is provided which allows a user to purchase a product and to get the image of how the user would feel if the user tried on/wore the product without even leaving home, and which also helps the user minimize the gap between the image of how the user would feel about the product if the user tried on/wore the product and how the user really feels about the product when actually trying on/wearing the product after having purchased the product. In the system connected to a terminal of a client (1) via a network (4), a product requested by the client (1) is synthesized with an image of the client (1) to form a three-dimensional image for output to the terminal of the client (1), and the product can be purchased. The system ranks products for display and sale of the products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2002
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Inventor: Katsuyoshi Abekawa
  • Publication number: 20010037915
    Abstract: The present invention provides an automatic dish serving system comprising: a supply center for supplying articles such as food and drink; a customer's seat to which the articles are served; a carrier wagon traveling along a route between the supply center and the customer's seat for carrying the articles of food and drink loaded on the carrier wagon; and a route guide means for guiding the carrier wagon so as to take an appropriate route, wherein the customer's seat is provided with a turntable for retaining the served articles of food and drink and provided with an arrival portion to which the carrier wagon arrives and wherein the carrier wagon is provided with a transfer means for transferring the articles between the turntable and the carrier wagon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2001
    Publication date: November 8, 2001
    Inventor: Katsuyoshi Abekawa