Patents by Inventor Kazuo Shinohara

Kazuo Shinohara 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: 4487245
    Abstract: A torque-adjusting device for twisting and untwisting a spring-motor built in a roller assembly is equipped with an easily operatable handle ring. The device includes a brake drum secured to a mounting bracket, a coil spring fitted on the brake drum, an intermediate disk disposed between the coil spring and the handle ring. The intermediate disk is integrally coupled with a stator to which one end of the spring-motor is fixed. The handle ring has an inner tongue inserted between the opposite projecting ends of the coil spring in a slit in the periphery of the disk with the result that the coil spring permits a rotational transmission from the handle ring to the stator but suppresses the counter transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1984
    Assignee: Toso Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Shinohara, Yoshihiro Shoji