Patents by Inventor Kyuhei Taniguchi

Kyuhei Taniguchi 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: 5076586
    Abstract: A miniature layout of a 3-course miniature golf links can afford golf players as satisfactory a feeling of golf play as experienced at a formal 9-hole golf links without necessitating a large area for construction. In a limited narrow area, three courses are arrayed in a triangular configuration. In each one of two courses among the three courses are disposed one tee position for a long course, one tee position for a middle course, one tee for a short course and a putting green, and in the other one course are disposed three tee positions for middle courses and a putting green, whereby it is made possible to play golf of 9 holes, par 36, by playing golf while going around the above-mentioned three courses either in the clockwise direction or in the anticlockwise direction. Preferably, an auto-caddie-cart system is disposed in a loop form along the inner periphery of the courses. Also, preferably a lighting installation for night play is disposed along the inner periphery of the courses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: Fujita Corporation
    Inventors: Kyuhei Taniguchi, Hiroki Hashimoto, Ryoichi Suzuki