Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Mukai

Masatoshi Mukai 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: 7481743
    Abstract: A training machine 10 is for training the muscles of an upper body of a training person M sitting on a seat unit 50 provided in a machine main body, and is provided with an arm unit 60 disposed in the vicinity of the left and right sides of the seat unit 50, having a specified length and capable of making rotational movements against a specified load. The arm unit 60 has the bottom end thereof rotatably supported about shaft tubes 62 extending in horizontal transverse direction and has such a curved shape that a middle part thereof bulges out forward, and the leading end portions thereof serve as grips 611, 612. An electrical load generating unit 80 is provided to electrically give a load in accordance with an external force exerted to the arm unit 60, and locks the rotation of the arm unit 60 at a position where the portions of the arm unit 60 in the vicinity of the leading ends thereof are substantially horizontally held.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Konami Sports & Life Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Keiichi Matsubara, Hisashi Mori, Kojiro Minami, Atsushi Yamazaki, Setsu Muraki, Masatoshi Mukai
  • Publication number: 20070254787
    Abstract: A training apparatus comprises a seat 32 mounted on an apparatus body, a training mechanism disposed in front of the seat 32 and provided with a mechanism adapted to exercise legs of a user, a load-applying unit adapted to apply a braking force to a movement of the training mechanism in an electrically adjustable manner, and a tilt adjustment unit adapted to tiltingly move a front end of the seat in a vertical direction. The training apparatus of the present invention allows a user, even an elderly person or a person who requires assistance to readily sit on the seat without an unnatural or forced physical posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Applicant: Konami Sports & Life Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Matsubara, Hisashi Mori, Toru Higuchi, Yasuhiro Noguchi, Setsu Muraki, Masatoshi Mukai, Daisuke Shijo, Kojiro Minami, Atsushi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20070184952
    Abstract: Disclosed is a training apparatus, which comprises a seat unit 30 including a seat 35 allowing a user M to sit thereon, a foot plate 42 adapted to allow the user M sitting on the seat 35 to keep his/her feet bottoms in contact therewith, a displacement mechanism unit 38 adapted to apply to the user M a load against a straining force generated when the user M sitting on the seat 35 while keeping the feet bottoms in contact with the foot plate 42 strains his/her legs, and a base board 20 mounting thereon the above components. The foot plate 42 is adapted to be changed in posture between a horizontal posture T1 where it protrudes approximately horizontally and outwardly from a pair of footrest frames 41 mounted on the base board 20, and a vertical posture T2 where it protrudes approximately vertically and upward from the footrest frames 41 at approximately the same height level as a that of the seat 35.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Applicant: Konami Sports & Life Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Matsubara, Hisashi Mori, Kojiro Minami, Masatoshi Mukai, Daisuke Shijo, Toru Higuchi, Yasuhiro Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20070066453
    Abstract: A training machine 10 is for training the muscles of an upper body of a training person M sitting on a seat unit 50 provided in a machine main body, and is provided with an arm unit 60 disposed in the vicinity of the left and right sides of the seat unit 50, having a specified length and capable of making rotational movements against a specified load. The arm unit 60 has the bottom end thereof rotatably supported about shaft tubes 62 extending in horizontal transverse direction and has such a curved shape that a middle part thereof bulges out forward, and the leading end portions thereof serve as grips 611, 612. An electrical load generating unit 80 is provided to electrically give a load in accordance with an external force exerted to the arm unit 60, and locks the rotation of the arm unit 60 at a position where the portions of the arm unit 60 in the vicinity of the leading ends thereof are substantially horizontally held.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Applicant: Konami Sports & Life Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Matsubara, Hisashi Mori, Kojiro Minami, Atsushi Yamazaki, Setsu Muraki, Masatoshi Mukai
  • Patent number: 6462720
    Abstract: There is provided a light-emitting display device which is resistive to shock and vibration and a display switching method comprising: a forward transparent plate 322a having a light scattering portion for a predetermined design pattern relative to a surface direction thereof, a backward transparent plate 322b having a light scattering portion for a predetermined design pattern relative to a surface direction in which the second-mentioned design pattern is different from the first-mentioned design pattern of the light scattering portion of the forward transparent plate, a light source 324 for the forward transparent plate for supplying incidence of light into the forward transparent plate from an end surface of the forward transparent plate, and an other light source 325 for the backward transparent plate for supplying incidence of light into the backward transparent plate from an end surface of the backward transparent plate, so that switching is made from and to emitting and quenching of the backward transp
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Konami Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihisa Yamashita, Kojiro Minami, Hirofumi Fujimoto, Katsunori Hirasawa, Masatoshi Mukai, Yutaka Tsuji
  • Patent number: 4696084
    Abstract: A scroll type fluid machine comprising a pair of mutually engaged scroll members each including a side plate and a spiral lap uprightly disposed on an inside surface of the side plate; when the scroll members are relatively revolved in solar motion relationship, a fluid volume in sealed chambers defined by the pair of engaged scroll members being varied, so that a pressure of the fluid in the sealed chambers is thereby varied in order to discharge a gas therefrom, characterized by constituting so that stress may not concentrate at stress concentration portions of the scroll members, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1987
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahisa Hirano, Shoji Fukami, Yasuharu Maruiwa, Takuyuki Itoh, Tamio Sugimoto, Tetsuo Ono, Masatoshi Mukai
  • Patent number: 4666380
    Abstract: A scroll type fluid machine comprising a pair of mutually engaged scroll members each including a side plate and a spiral lap uprightly disposed on an inside surface of the side plate; when the scroll members are relatively resolved in solar motion relationship, a fluid volume in sealed chambers defined by the pair of engaged scroll members being varied, so that a pressure of the fluid in the sealed chambers is thereby varied in order to discharge a gas therefrom, characterized by constituting so that stress may not concentrate at stress concentration portions of the scroll members, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1987
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahisa Hirano, Shoji Fukami, Yasuharu Maruiwa, Takuyuki Itoh, Tamio Sugimoto, Tetsuo Ono, Masatoshi Mukai
  • Patent number: D444786
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Konami Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makiko Otomi, Eiji Yokoi, Masatoshi Mukai