Patents by Inventor Noboru MATSUNAMI

Noboru MATSUNAMI 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: 10427824
    Abstract: Provided is a beverage bottle capable of keeping a carbonated beverage left over therein from going flat. The beverage bottle is provided with a bottle body having a volume-reducing structure capable of reducing the volume of the bottle body, a cap capable of sealing an opening of the bottle body, and a shrunken state-maintaining means provided on the bottle body to cause the bottle body having been reduced in volume to be maintained in the reduced volume state. The volume-reducing structure is configured of helical protrusions and recesses respectively formed on the bottle body, and the shrunken state-maintaining means is provided on a trunk section of the bottle body and is configured with a squeezing means for squeezing and maintaining the trunk section having been narrowed by being squeezed along the helical protrusions and recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Viewtec Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Noboru Matsunami
  • Publication number: 20180029740
    Abstract: Provided is a beverage bottle capable of keeping a carbonated beverage left over therein from going flat. The beverage bottle is provided with a bottle body having a volume-reducing structure capable of reducing the volume of the bottle body, a cap capable of sealing an opening of the bottle body, and a shrunken state-maintaining means provided on the bottle body to cause the bottle body having been reduced in volume to be maintained in the reduced volume state. The volume-reducing structure is configured of helical protrusions and recesses respectively formed on the bottle body, and the shrunken state-maintaining means is provided on a trunk section of the bottle body and is configured with a squeezing means for squeezing and maintaining the trunk section having been narrowed by being squeezed along the helical protrusions and recesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventor: Noboru MATSUNAMI