Patents by Inventor Kenshi Matsuoka

Kenshi Matsuoka 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).

  • Publication number: 20200172281
    Abstract: The present invention provides a label with a prize offer having excellent concealment of a prize display and also provides a method enabling accurate and inexpensive production of the label. A label having a prize offer, wherein, using a center impression-type flexographic printing machine, a design layer, a prize offer display layer, and an underlayer are formed lying one over another by printing on a rear surface side of a translucent film, an opaque display base portion having high light-blocking properties is provided on the design layer, rear overprinting is performed on the prize offer display layer, while a transparent prize display is also provided to lie over the display base portion, or is not provided, back-rear printing is performed in the same color as the rear overprinting on the underlayer, and a transparent display window portion is provided to be aligned with the display base portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Kenshi MATSUOKA, Akiyoshi KANO, Takashi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8141733
    Abstract: A plastic beverage container that can withstand deformation by positive pressure and that can be stably stored lying on its side is provided. The beverage container for storing a product under positive pressure includes a body portion having an outer wall made of plastic, and the body portion has a symmetrical cross-sectional shape formed by a plurality of circular arcs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventor: Kenshi Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 7699183
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are bottle-shaped containers having a trunk portion approximating a square. The trunk portion comprises four tabular side walls arrayed about a center axis and four corner walls connected to adjacent side walls in a corner-cutting form. The width of the corner walls expands from the top end and the bottom end toward a position about midway between the top end and the bottom end. By making the widths of the side walls and the corner walls about equal at a location about midway between the top portion and the bottom portion, the distance between the corner walls in mutual opposition with respect to the center axis can be decreased, forming a waist portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignees: The Coca-Cola Company, Yoshino Kogyosho, K.K.
    Inventors: Kenshi Matsuoka, Ryoichi Tomishima, Satoshi Kuboi, Toshimasa Tanaka, Tadashi Hayakawa, Takao Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20100089863
    Abstract: To provide a plastic bottle whose weight can be reduced without sacrificing strength of a bottle mouth, the plastic bottle is provided with a bottle mouth having a circumferential wall, including a threaded section formed on an outer circumferential surface of the circumferential wall, a support ring protruding from the outer circumferential surface below the threaded section, and punched sections formed on the circumferential wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Inventor: Kenshi Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20090166314
    Abstract: A plastic bottle is provided with a constricted portion and a non-constricted portion contiguous above and below with the constricted portion. One of the constricted portion or the non-constricted portion has a substantially polygonal cross-sectional shape, and the other one of the constricted portion or the non-constricted portion has a circular cross-sectional shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventor: Kenshi Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20090101660
    Abstract: A beverage container including a finger insertion indentation is provided. The beverage container includes a barrel portion having a substantially square cross-sectional shape defined by a plurality of walls including at least a front wall, a rear wall, a left side wall, and a right side wall. The container also includes a pair of indentations formed in at least one of the front and rear walls for insertion of, and engagement with, a finger, and a column portion separating the pair of indentations into left and right portions. Each of the pair of indentations has a bottom wall, a first side wall extending from the bottom wall to the column portion, and a second side wall extending from the bottom wall and facing the first side wall, the second side wall having a peak portion extending along a corner portion of the substantially square cross-sectional shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventor: Kenshi Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20080314862
    Abstract: A beverage container or plastic bottle that allows easy label or film removal is provided. The beverage container includes a shoulder portion, a base portion, a body portion extending between the shoulder portion and the base portion, the body portion having a reinforcing concave rib circumferentially formed on the body portion, the concave rib having an asymmetrical shape at a vertical cross-section of the concave rib, and a heat shrink film disposed over the body portion, the heat shrink film having an edge disposed over the concave rib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Kenshi Matsuoka, Yufuko Suga
  • Publication number: 20080245762
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are bottle-shaped containers having a trunk portion approximating a square. The trunk portion comprises four tabular side walls arrayed about a center axis and four corner walls connected to adjacent side walls in a corner-cutting form. The width of the corner walls expands from the top end and the bottom end toward a position about midway between the top end and the bottom end. By making the widths of the side walls and the corner walls about equal at a location about midway between the top portion and the bottom portion, the distance between the corner walls in mutual opposition with respect to the center axis can be decreased, forming a waist portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Kenshi Matsuoka, Ryoichi Tomishima, Satoshi Kuboi, Toshimasa Tanaka, Tadashi Hayakawa, Takao Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20080173614
    Abstract: A plastic beverage container that can withstand deformation by positive pressure and that can be stably stored lying on its side is provided. The beverage container for storing a product under positive pressure includes a body portion having an outer wall made of plastic, and the body portion has a symmetrical cross-sectional shape formed by a plurality of circular arcs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventor: Kenshi Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20070068894
    Abstract: Plastic bottles (1) which are characterized in that: they are composed of neck (2), shoulder (3), body (4) and bottom (5); the cross-sectional shape at the body (3) is a regular polygon, the number of angles of which is an even number of not less than 4 nor more than 32; each angle of the polygon is rounded off by an arc (8) whose radius is not longer than half the radius of a circle circumscribed about the cross-sectional shape at body (3); cross-sectional shapes have the same shape at any portion of body (3); circles circumscribed about the cross-sectional shapes are identical with one another; the circumscribed circles have a center on the vertical central axis of body (3); and the cross-sectional shape of body (3) rotates around said central axis in proportion to height along said central axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Hiromasa Iwashita, Osamu Aoyagi, Kenshi Matsuoka
  • Patent number: D587582
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Kenshi Matsuoka, Tsuguharu Akiyama
  • Patent number: D592679
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Kenshi Matsuoka, Natsuko Kanehara, Toshiaki Takemura