Patents by Inventor Kazunori Ayama

Kazunori Ayama 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: 7676848
    Abstract: A web part comprises a lower-side web part provided on a pocket-part side of a glove and an upper-side web part provided on an opposite side relative to the pocket-part side. An extended part resulting from extension of a ball-receiving leather of a main body of the glove into between a thumb stall and a forefinger stall constitutes the lower-side web part. The lower-side web part is provided on a back side of the glove in comparison to a smoothly curved line which connects an intermediate point of the thumb stall in a thickness direction thereof and an intermediate point of the forefinger stall in a thickness direction thereof in a sectional surface in a lateral direction starting from the thumb stall, passing through the lower-side web part and reaching the forefinger stall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Mizuno Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Motooka, Kazunori Ayama
  • Patent number: 7574749
    Abstract: A glove comprises an outer leather member including an outer leather pocket portion and an outer leather back face portion, an inner leather member, inserted in the outer leather member, having a palm member provided along the outer leather pocket portion and a back member provided along the outer leather back face portion, finger portions formed between the palm member and the back member for receiving the fingers of a wearer of the catching tool and a reinforcing portion selectively provided on a specific position of the palm member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Mizuno Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Kogawa, Masaki Terashita, Norifumi Ito, Kazunori Ayama
  • Patent number: 7370368
    Abstract: In a catching tool for baseball or softball, a lining leather including at least a back-side leather and a palm-side leather is inserted into a surface leather including at least a back leather and a ball-receiving leather, and the lining leather has inner-side finger stalls defined by peripheral edges of the back-side leather and the palm-side leather which are sewn together. A finger part stabilizing member is provided along at least a region on right and left sides in a region covering a root part through a fingertip part of a wearer's finger inside the inner-side finger stall. The finger part stabilizing member is provided in at least one of the inner-side finger stalls, which are an inner-side thumb stall, an inner-side forefinger stall, an inner-side middle finger stall, an inner-side fourth finger stall, and an inner-side little finger stall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Mizuno Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Motooka, Kazunori Ayama, Norifumi Ito, Masaki Terashita
  • Publication number: 20070044194
    Abstract: A web part comprises a lower-side web part provided on a pocket-part side of a glove and an upper-side web part provided on an opposite side relative to the pocket-part side. An extended part resulting from extension of a ball-receiving leather of a main body of the glove into between a thumb stall and a forefinger stall constitutes the lower-side web part. The lower-side web part is provided on a back side of the glove in comparison to a smoothly curved line which connects an intermediate point of the thumb stall in a thickness direction thereof and an intermediate point of the forefinger stall in a thickness direction thereof in a sectional surface in a lateral direction starting from the thumb stall, passing through the lower-side web part and reaching the forefinger stall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: Mizuno Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Motooka, Kazunori Ayama
  • Publication number: 20060272068
    Abstract: In a catching tool for baseball or softball, a lining leather including at least a back-side leather and a palm-side leather is inserted into a surface leather including at least a back leather and a ball-receiving leather, and the lining leather has inner-side finger stalls defined by peripheral edges of the back-side leather and the palm-side leather which are sewn together. A finger part stabilizing member is provided along at least a region on right and left sides in a region covering a root part through a fingertip part of a wearer's finger inside the inner-side finger stall. The finger part stabilizing member is provided in at least one of the inner-side finger stalls, which are an inner-side thumb stall, an inner-side forefinger stall, an inner-side middle finger stall, an inner-side fourth finger stall, and an inner-side little finger stall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Applicant: Mizuno Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Motooka, Kazunori Ayama, Norifumi Ito, Masaki Terashita
  • Publication number: 20050268367
    Abstract: A glove comprises an outer leather member including an outer leather pocket portion and an outer leather back face portion, an inner leather member, inserted in the outer leather member, having a palm member provided along the outer leather pocket portion and a back member provided along the outer leather back face portion, finger portions formed between the palm member and the back member for receiving the fingers of a wearer of the catching tool and a reinforcing portion selectively provided on a specific position of the palm member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Applicant: Mizuno Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Kogawa, Masaki Terashita, Norifumi Ito, Kazunori Ayama