Patents by Inventor Ryoichiro Uehara

Ryoichiro Uehara 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).

  • Publication number: 20090007391
    Abstract: A buckle includes a male member and a female member. The male member is provided with a base, a pair of legs and an engaging portion provided on a distal ends of the legs. The female member is provided with an insertion port, a guide that elastically deforms the distal end of each of the legs inserted through the insertion port in a direction in which the distal ends come closer to each other and a pair of engaged portions formed on both sides of a remote side of the guide. Each of the engaged portions displaces each of the engaging portions in the direction in which the engaging portions get apart with each other and is provided by a concave that has an abutment wall on a rear portion in the releasing direction to be abutted by each of engaging portions. Each of the abutment walls is formed as a slant surface that inclines in the direction in which the abutment walls come closer to each other toward the releasing direction of the male member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventor: Ryoichiro Uehara
  • Publication number: 20080098579
    Abstract: A connecting device which has an excellent appearance, produces no frictional sound between a connecting device main body such as a swivel hook main body and a belt attaching member and can be assembled easily and securely. The connecting device includes a neck portion standing from a proximal portion of a main body of the connecting device and an engagement head which is expanded in an outward direction form a center of an axis line such that a diameter thereof can be reduced, the engagement head being provided at a front end of the neck portion. A belt attaching member is connected to the main body rotatably around the neck portion. A through hole which the engagement head can be engaged with by insertion is formed in part of the belt attaching member. In the through hole, a small-diameter hole portion having a smaller diameter than the diameter of the engagement head and a large-diameter hole portion having a large diameter than the diameter of the engagement head are connected via a stepped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventor: Ryoichiro Uehara
  • Publication number: 20080040900
    Abstract: To connect a belt connecting member (4) of a first member (1) with a snap hook (5) of a second member (2), a neck portion (21) having a circular cross section is provided so as to project from a connecting portion of the snap hook (5), a bulging portion (22) is provided on a tip end of the neck portion (21) so as to radially bulge to define an engaging portion (23), a fitting hole (13) is provided on a connecting portion of the belt connecting member (4) with an engaged portion (15) that is engageable with the bulging portion (22), the engaged portion (15) and the engaging portion (23) are formed in an oval shape having a long axis (L, L?) in a flush plane of the belt connecting member (4) and the snap hook (5) and a short axis (S, S?) in orthogonal planes of the belt connecting member (4) and the snap hook (5), and the engaging force can be largest when the snap hook (5) is in its most general state in use where the belt connecting member (4) and the snap hook (5) are orthogonal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Inventor: Ryoichiro Uehara
  • Patent number: 7320160
    Abstract: A buckle (10) including a plug (30) and a socket (20) is provided with a posture-adjuster that adjusts relative postures of the plug (30) and the socket (20) in a direction that leads a longitudinal axis (A2) of the plug (30) and a longitudinal axis (A1) of the socket (20) to be parallel when the plug (30) is relatively moved in a direction toward inside of the socket (20) from an insertion slot (21) thereof. The posture-adjuster has a guide path (24) that is provided to the socket (20) and has a width that becomes wider as being closer to the front end side thereof as well as a step portion (36) as a guided member that is provided to the plug (30) and guided by the guide path (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichiro Uehara, Hiroshi Matoba
  • Patent number: 7318259
    Abstract: A buckle which is an insertion type, wherein looseness between a buckle main body and an insertion body is eliminated and generation of impact sound or vibration sound is prevented, and in a resin buckle including the buckle main body formed of a housing and the insertion body having insertion leg portions on both sides, a concave guide groove is provided in a longitudinal direction of a center of an inner face of each of an upper face plate and a lower face plate of the housing of the buckle main body, while a guide lever which can be inserted into the guide groove provided in the housing is provided in a protruded form in a center of a proximal lever of the insertion body. A sliding contact portion which is elevated to make pressure contact with an opposing face is provided in part of the guide groove or the guide lever, or both the guide groove and the guide lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventor: Ryoichiro Uehara
  • Patent number: 7194787
    Abstract: A sheet attaching instrument (10) that includes an instrument body (11) and an attachment member (12), in which at least one engaging hole (50) is provided with a fall-stop (58) that can hold an attachment projection (30) in an area between an inserting section (51) and a holding section (52), and at least one peripheral edge of a pair of lateral side areas extending from the inserting section (51) to the holding section (52) through the fall-stop (58) is provided with a bridge (54) of which middle section is elastically deformable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Ryukichi Murai, Yasutaka Nishida, Ryoichiro Uehara, Yasuaki Funo
  • Patent number: 7096545
    Abstract: A buckle includes a socket (10), a plug (20) of which tip end part can be inserted into and released from the socket by pressing both sides of the socket by a manual operation. The plug has a base (21) located on a base end of the plug, a pair of lock arms (22) extending to the tip end of the plug from the base, an engaging part (24) provided on the intermediary of the lock arm and engageable with the inside of the socket, a pressing part (25) provided on the intermediary of the lock arm and pressed by the manual operation, and a bridge (30) for connecting the intermediaries of the lock arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichiro Uehara, Kayo Fujimoto, Yasutaka Nishida
  • Patent number: 7055226
    Abstract: A buckle, which comprises a female body and a male body, which may be inserted each other and prevents rocking in right and left directions and clattering of the female body and the male body at the time, is provided. A buckle comprising a female body formed with a flat housing and a male body having a pair of right and left flexible insertion legs, wherein when the female body and the male body are inserted to engage, the butting surfaces between the female body and the male body on a plane, that is, butting portions are formed with horizontal straight portions on both sides of the butting portions as well as a concave portion at the center in female body and a convex portion in the male body, or a convex portion in the female body and a concave portion in the male body continuously formed, so as to join the female body to the male body in the condition closely in contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichiro Uehara, Tomohisa Ishida, Yukio Kamagata
  • Publication number: 20060090310
    Abstract: A buckle (10) including a plug (30) and a socket (20) is provided with a posture-adjuster that adjusts relative postures of the plug (30) and the socket (20) in a direction that leads a longitudinal axis (A2) of the plug (30) and a longitudinal axis (A1) of the socket (20) to be parallel when the plug (30) is relatively moved in a direction toward inside of the socket (20) from an insertion slot (21) thereof. The posture-adjuster has a guide path (24) that is provided to the socket (20) and has a width that becomes wider as being closer to the front end side thereof as well as a step portion (36) as a guided member that is provided to the plug (30) and guided by the guide path (24).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Inventors: Ryoichiro Uehara, Hiroshi Matoba
  • Publication number: 20050235470
    Abstract: A buckle which is an insertion type, wherein looseness between a buckle main body and an insertion body is eliminated and generation of impact sound or vibration sound is prevented, and in a resin buckle including the buckle main body formed of a housing and the insertion body having insertion leg portions on both sides, a concave guide groove is provided in a longitudinal direction of a center of an inner face of each of an upper face plate and a lower face plate of the housing of the buckle main body, while a guide lever which can be inserted into the guide groove provided in the housing is provided in a protruded form in a center of a proximal lever of the insertion body. A sliding contact portion which is elevated to make pressure contact with an opposing face is provided in part of the guide groove or the guide lever, or both the guide groove and the guide lever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Inventor: Ryoichiro Uehara
  • Publication number: 20050091808
    Abstract: A buckle includes a socket (10), a plug (20) of which tip end part can be inserted into and released from the socket by pressing both sides of the socket by a manual operation. The plug has a base (21) located on a base end of the plug, a pair of lock arms (22) extending to the tip end of the plug from the base, an engaging part (24) provided on the intermediary of the lock arm and engageable with the inside of the socket, a pressing part (25) provided on the intermediary of the lock arm and pressed by the manual operation, and a bridge (30) for connecting the intermediaries of the lock arms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Ryoichiro Uehara, Kayo Fujimoto, Yasutaka Nishida
  • Publication number: 20040226149
    Abstract: A sheet attaching instrument (10) that includes an instrument body (11) and an attachment member (12), in which at least one engaging hole (50) is provided with a fall-stop (58) that can hold an attachment projection (30) in an area between an inserting section (51) and a holding section (52), and at least one peripheral edge of a pair of lateral side areas extending from the inserting section (51) to the holding section (52) through the fall-stop (58) is provided with a bridge (54) of which middle section is elastically deformable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Inventors: Ryukichi Murai, Yasutaka Nishida, Ryoichiro Uehara, Yasuaki Funo
  • Patent number: D510296
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventor: Ryoichiro Uehara
  • Patent number: D524693
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichiro Uehara, Hiroshi Matoba
  • Patent number: D560551
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventor: Ryoichiro Uehara
  • Patent number: D562730
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventor: Ryoichiro Uehara
  • Patent number: D576519
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventor: Ryoichiro Uehara
  • Patent number: D579763
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichiro Uehara, Yasutaka Nishida
  • Patent number: D583654
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventor: Ryoichiro Uehara
  • Patent number: D496304
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichiro Uehara, Kayo Fujimoto