Patents by Inventor Kenichi Muraki

Kenichi Muraki 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: 6662809
    Abstract: An eyelash curler that can selectively perform all-eyelashes curling and localized eyelashes curling is disclosed. The eyelash curler includes a curler main body, an immobilizing member attached to a top of the curler main body for immobilizing eyelashes, a plurality of first sandwiching-holding members attached to the curler main body underneath the immobilizing member and adapted to sandwich the eyelashes against the immobilizing member, and an operating handle attached to the curler main body for causing the plurality of first sandwiching-holding members to sandwich the eyelashes against the immobilizing member. By selecting a operation mode by a mode-switching switch, each of the plurality of first sandwiching-holding members can be independently pressed against and released from the immobilizing member so that a user can easily perform localized curling of the eyelashes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Yamaguchi, Kenichi Muraki, Hisasi Kitamura, Fumio Mihara
  • Publication number: 20030102005
    Abstract: A method and device for curling eyelashes in several bunches includes a positioning frame, a pressing frame mounted opposing the positioning frame and configured to move relative to the positioning frame, the pressing frame having an elastic surface, and an operating handle configured to move the elastic surface of the pressing frame in and out of contact with the positioning frame and to thereby curl eyelashes positioned between the positioning frame and elastic surface. A combing member divides the eyelashes into multiple bunches prior to curling the eyelashes. The pressing frame may be configured to curl a lash line region or a middle region of the eyelashes, or an auxiliary pressing frame can be included so that the device curls both the lash line and middle region of the lashes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Muraki, Naoki Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20020129829
    Abstract: An eyelash curler that can selectively perform all-eyelashes curling and localized eyelashes curling is disclosed. The eyelash curler includes a curler main body, an immobilizing member attached to a top of the curler main body for immobilizing eyelashes, a plurality of first sandwiching-holding members attached to the curler main body underneath the immobilizing member and adapted to sandwich the eyelashes against the immobilizing member, and an operating handle attached to the curler main body for causing the plurality of first sandwiching-holding members to sandwich the eyelashes against the immobilizing member. By selecting a operation mode by a mode-switching switch, each of the plurality of first sandwiching-holding members can be independently pressed against and released from the immobilizing member so that a user can easily perform localized curling of the eyelashes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Inventors: Naoki Yamaguchi, Kenichi Muraki, Hisasi Kitamura, Fumio Mihara
  • Publication number: 20020065522
    Abstract: A depilating device including a housing, a depilation head detachably attached to the housing and including a hair removing device configured to remove hairs, a driving unit provided in the housing and configured to drive the hair removing device, and at least one overload clutch provided in the housing to transmit driving output by the driving unit to the hair removing device and configured to interrupt transmission of the driving when a torque required to operate the hair removing device is beyond a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Yamaguchi, Toshihiro Takeuchi, Kenichi Muraki