Patents by Inventor Kiyoshi Kashimoto

Kiyoshi Kashimoto 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: 5149095
    Abstract: A ball conveying game apparatus including a plurality of ball support portions provided on a vertical game board surface, a protrusible and retractable plunger provided at at least one of the ball support members, and a manual operating member such as a pressing member linked on an operational basis to the ball support member through a predetermined interlocking mechanism so that a ball can be transferred from one to another of the ball support members along a ball moving course by operating the manual operating member. The ball is conveyed from a starting point to a goal point by a plurality of choosable ball moving courses arranged in the ball moving course. Selection from among the choosable ball moving courses is made by operating the manual operating member. In playing the ball conveying game apparatus, therefore, a player is required to dexterously manipulate the manual operating member. Various ways of playing are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1992
    Assignee: Tomy Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Kashimoto, Masanori Mizunuma
  • Patent number: 5098111
    Abstract: An ornamental game includes a transparent tank preferably having three sides. A fluid contained in and substantially filling the transparent tank is circulated in a direction rearward to forward by means of a rising fluid path. A plurality of movable members, each having a specific gravity slightly greater than that of the fluid are propelled upwardly in the rising fluid path by the rising current of fluid and are discharged from the open top of the partition plate, and a target mounted on an ornamental body disposed in front of the partition plate below the top thereof in the circulatory flow path of fluid catches the movable members on the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: Tomy Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Kashimoto
  • Patent number: 4995606
    Abstract: A game board including a plurality of spiral rods mounted on an upper surface of a base and rotated in association with the drive mechanism in the base. A ring member is loosely received by a spiral rod and a manipulator is used to remove the ring member while the spiral rod is rotating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1991
    Assignee: Tomy Kogyo Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Kashimoto