Patents by Inventor Masanori Mizunuma

Masanori Mizunuma 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: 5102148
    Abstract: A pick-up game includes a base portion, a shell rotatably mounted on the base portion, a plurality of pintles mounted for reciprocating and rotating movement of the shell, and a motor for rotating the shell and thus orbiting the pintles around a rotation axis of the shell. Rack and cam segments coupled to the base portion reciprocate and rotate the pintles and pick-up figures carried by the plurality of pintles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Assignee: Tomy Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masanori Mizunuma
  • Patent number: 4993336
    Abstract: A needle locker has a body having therein a first needle receiving hole and a second needle receiving hole. The first needle receiving hole is arranged in a direction perpendicular to the cloth feeding direction. The second needle receiving hole is adjacent the first needle receiving hole and arranged in the same direction. Two needles are disposed in the first needle receiving hole in adjacent parallel relationship and are detachably secured in the first needle receiving hole by a first setscrew. A single needle is inserted in and fitted detachably to the second needle receiving hole by a second short needle setscrew.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: SSMC Inc.
    Inventor: Masanori Mizunuma
  • Patent number: 4970976
    Abstract: There is disclosed an overlock sewing machine. The overlock sewing machine includes a looper switching unit for selecting an overlocking operative state or overlocking inoperative state, a needle clamp member having a first needle holding hole in which two needles are mounted separately in the manner that the two needles are positioned in parallel and a second needle holding hole positioned slightly eccentrically at the front side of the cloth feeding direction and perpendicular to the cloth feeding direction, whereby eight types of overlocking operations and one type of double-loop stitching operation can be effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: SSMC Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Kitai, Masanori Mizunuma, Tatsuo Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 4863164
    Abstract: A string pickup game apparatus includes a pair of supporters each of which has a pair of pinchers which are manipulated by a trigger such that two players using the two supporters can pick up string objects and place them in corresponding holding areas. The object of the game is to remove as many string objects as possible from a central holding area, and also from an opponents holding area, and deposit them in the player's own holding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1989
    Assignee: Tomy Kogyo Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Masanori Mizunuma
  • Patent number: 4813670
    Abstract: A hand held game instrument including a plurality of arm members connected to pivot about a grip member so that a head portion of the instrument engages a protrusion on the grip member causing objects in the head member to drop into a receptacle on the grip member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: Tomy Kogyo Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Masanori Mizunuma
  • Patent number: 4773643
    Abstract: A picture matching game includes a display box and three rotating members rotatable in the display box. Each rotating member has three display surfaces, any one display surface being stopped in a display position, and the three rotating members being stopped with three display surfaces in display positions to jointly form a display pattern. All possible display patterns are printed on playing cards, which are scattered face up before playing. When the rotating members are stopped and a display pattern is displayed, players reach for and take a card which matches the displayed pattern, the fastest player being the one to take the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: Tomy Kogyo Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Masanori Mizunuma
  • Patent number: 4482154
    Abstract: A game apparatus has a housing which includes a stationary element located on the housing and at least one movable element located on the housing in association with the stationary element. The stationary element includes members dividing the stationary element into a plurality of sections. The movable element includes members dividing the movable element into a plurality of sections, with the plurality of sections on the movable element equal in number to the plurality of sections on the stationary element. The movable element is movable with respect to the stationary element between three positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1984
    Assignee: Tomy Kogyo Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Masanori Mizunuma, Hiroyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4361327
    Abstract: A toy that includes a housing having at least one object which is movably located in the housing. Also located in the housing is an object moving member which is a composite of two sections. The sections of this moving member are each individually movable with respect to one another and each independently movable with respect to the housing. This individual movement of the sections allows them to move into a cooperative position with respect to one another. When the sections are located in the cooperative position and maintained in the cooperative position by coordinating the individual movements of the sections, it is possible to locate the object on the object moving member and move the object from a first point in the housing to a second point in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1982
    Assignee: Tomy Kogyo Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Kurita, Masanori Mizunuma