Patents by Inventor Shigeo Iizuka
Shigeo Iizuka 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).
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Patent number: 10406548Abstract: A trigger-type liquid dispenser, in which an upright and inverted dual unit includes a joint member, a pipe holding member, and a valve body. The joint member includes a through hole, which may be closed by the valve body, a valve-body-holding wall portion, which accommodates the valve body above the through hole in a manner such that the valve body is displaceable upward and downward, and an opening portion, which is formed in the valve-body-holding wall portion. In the inverted position, the upright and inverted dual unit permits content liquid contained in a container to be supplied to the dispenser main body by passing content liquid through a flow path from opening portion, through the hole, to the flow path defined between the joint member and pipe holding member sequentially. The valve body is inserted through the opening portion to be accommodated in the valve-body-holding wall portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kotaro Fujiwara, Shigeo Iizuka
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Patent number: 10307778Abstract: A trigger-type liquid dispenser includes a dispenser main body, pump, and nozzle. The body includes a fitted portion, which communicates with a delivery port. The nozzle includes a partition wall, which covers an opening end of the fitted portion and has a dispensing hole, and an outer circumferential wall. The nozzle is rotatable with respect to the fitted portion between an opened position, wherein the hole communicates with the port, and a closed position, wherein the hole is blocked. The outer circumferential wall includes a locking projection, in undercut engagement with a projecting portion, on an outer surface of the fitted portion, to hold the nozzle in engagement with the fitted portion. The locking projection, in an inner edge portion thereof, has a concave portion, wherein the degree of undercut engagement with the projecting portion is reduced when the nozzle is located between the opened and the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kotaro Fujiwara, Shigeo Iizuka
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Patent number: 10195626Abstract: A trigger-type liquid dispenser that, even when lateral force is applied to a trigger, prevents liquid leakage. The trigger-type liquid dispenser includes a pump, which includes: a cylinder, which includes an inner tubular wall and an outer tubular wall; a piston, which has a front-side end portion; a front-side sealing piece and a rear-side sealing piece; an outer-circumferential-side support portion; and an inner-circumferential-side support portion. The outer-circumferential-side support portion is provided with an annular cut-off portion, which forms a gap between the outer-circumferential-side support portion and an outer circumferential surface of the piston.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kotaro Fujiwara, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Shigeo Iizuka
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Patent number: 10040087Abstract: A trigger-type liquid dispenser includes valve member, which is provided in flow path to control liquid to flow in direction in flow path. Valve member includes intake-side check valve, which permits flow of liquid from container side to pump side and prevents flow of liquid from pump side to container side, and discharge-side check valve, which permits flow of liquid from pump side to nozzle side and prevents flow of liquid from nozzle side to pump side. Discharge-side check valve is formed in umbrella shape that is elastically deformable freely in radial direction and has outer circumferential end configured to contact inner circumferential surface of flow path, with contact force of outer circumferential end with respect to inner circumferential surface of flow path being distributed non-uniformly in circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kotaro Fujiwara, Shigeo Iizuka
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Patent number: 9987648Abstract: Provided is a trigger-type liquid dispenser (1) including an operating lever (6) held swingably by a main body portion (3) in which a pump is disposed and including a spring member (7) that imparts restoring force to the operating lever (6). The trigger-type liquid dispenser (1) is configured to draw, pressurize, and force-feed a content liquid contained in a container (C) to dispense the content liquid through a nozzle (5), by actuating the pump in response to the operating lever (6) being pulled repeatedly. The spring member (7) is held swingably with respect to the main body portion (3), and, in response to the operating lever (6) being pulled, the spring member (7) undergoes elastic deformation and swings with respect to the main body portion (3).Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kotaro Fujiwara, Shigeo Iizuka
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Patent number: 9962724Abstract: A dispenser main body (11) includes a cylindrical-shaped fitted portion (16a), and a nozzle (40) includes: a nozzle main body (41) and a nozzle extension body (42). The nozzle (40) is provided with a dispensing tube (51) including: a first dispensing tubular portion (51a) and a cylindrical-shaped second dispensing tubular portion (51b). A cut-out (52a) is provided in the front end of the first dispensing tubular portion (51a) or in a base end of the second dispensing tubular portion (51b), and an opening end of the cut-out (52a) is closed by the first dispensing tubular portion (51a) or the second dispensing tubular portion (51b) to provide an air inlet hole (52) in the dispensing tube (51).Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kotaro Fujiwara, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Shigeo Iizuka
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Publication number: 20170348716Abstract: A trigger-type liquid dispenser that, even when lateral force is applied to a trigger, prevents liquid leakage. The trigger-type liquid dispenser includes a pump, which includes: a cylinder, which includes an inner tubular wall and an outer tubular wall; a piston, which has a front-side end portion; a front-side sealing piece and a rear-side sealing piece; an outer-circumferential-side support portion; and an inner-circumferential-side support portion. The outer-circumferential-side support portion is provided with an annular cut-off portion, which forms a gap between the outer-circumferential-side support portion and an outer circumferential surface of the piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2015Publication date: December 7, 2017Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kotaro FUJIWARA, Hiroyuki NAKAMURA, Shigeo IIZUKA
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Publication number: 20170333931Abstract: A trigger-type liquid dispenser includes a dispenser main body, pump, and nozzle. The body includes a fitted portion, which communicates with a delivery port. The nozzle includes a partition wall, which covers an opening end of the fitted portion and has a dispensing hole, and an outer circumferential wall. The nozzle is rotatable with respect to the fitted portion between an opened position, wherein the hole communicates with the port, and a closed position, wherein the hole is blocked. The outer circumferential wall includes a locking projection, in undercut engagement with a projecting portion, on an outer surface of the fitted portion, to hold the nozzle in engagement with the fitted portion. The locking projection, in an inner edge portion thereof, has a concave portion, wherein the degree of undercut engagement with the projecting portion is reduced when the nozzle is located between the opened and the closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2015Publication date: November 23, 2017Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kotaro FUJIWARA, Shigeo IIZUKA
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Publication number: 20170120277Abstract: A trigger-type liquid dispenser, in which an upright and inverted dual unit includes a joint member, a pipe holding member, and a valve body. The joint member includes a through hole, which may be closed by the valve body, a valve-body-holding wall portion, which accommodates the valve body above the through hole in a manner such that the valve body is displaceable upward and downward, and an opening portion, which is formed in the valve-body-holding wall portion. In the inverted position, the upright and inverted dual unit permits content liquid contained in a container to be supplied to the dispenser main body by passing content liquid through a flow path from opening portion, through the hole, to the flow path defined between the joint member and pipe holding member sequentially. The valve body is inserted through the opening portion to be accommodated in the valve-body-holding wall portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kotaro FUJIWARA, Shigeo IIZUKA
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Publication number: 20170113238Abstract: A trigger-type liquid dispenser includes valve member, which is provided in flow path to control liquid to flow in direction in flow path. Valve member includes intake-side check valve, which permits flow of liquid from container side to pump side and prevents flow of liquid from pump side to container side, and discharge-side check valve, which permits flow of liquid from pump side to nozzle side and prevents flow of liquid from nozzle side to pump side. Discharge-side check valve is formed in umbrella shape that is elastically deformable freely in radial direction and has outer circumferential end configured to contact inner circumferential surface of flow path, with contact force of outer circumferential end with respect to inner circumferential surface of flow path being distributed non-uniformly in circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2015Publication date: April 27, 2017Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kotaro FUJIWARA, Shigeo IIZUKA
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Publication number: 20170065994Abstract: Provided is a trigger-type liquid dispenser (1) including an operating lever (6) held swingably by a main body portion (3) in which a pump is disposed and including a spring member (7) that imparts restoring force to the operating lever (6). The trigger-type liquid dispenser (1) is configured to draw, pressurize, and force-feed a content liquid contained in a container (C) to dispense the content liquid through a nozzle (5), by actuating the pump in response to the operating lever (6) being pulled repeatedly. The spring member (7) is held swingably with respect to the main body portion (3), and, in response to the operating lever (6) being pulled, the spring member (7) undergoes elastic deformation and swings with respect to the main body portion (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2015Publication date: March 9, 2017Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kotaro FUJIWARA, Shigeo IIZUKA
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Patent number: 9579670Abstract: A dispensing container that dispenses a liquid contained therein in foam includes: a container body storing therein a liquid; and a base cap mounted to a mouth of the container body. The container body is flexible so that a squeeze operation may be performed on the container body. The base cap is provided, on a top wall, with a nozzle forming a tubular passage communicating with a front end orifice. The nozzle is provided with a foaming mechanism for the liquid at an upstream end portion and with a through-hole in a predetermined position on a circumferential wall of the nozzle that is downstream of the foaming mechanism. The through-hole is provided with a check valve, and the front end orifice communicates with an inside of the container body through the through-hole.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2012Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sasaki, Takefumi Kuriyama, Shigeo Iizuka, Hiroshi Mizushima
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Publication number: 20170014844Abstract: A dispenser main body (11) includes a cylindrical-shaped fitted portion (16a), and a nozzle (40) includes: a nozzle main body (41) and a nozzle extension body (42). The nozzle (40) is provided with a dispensing tube (51) including: a first dispensing tubular portion (51a) and a cylindrical-shaped second dispensing tubular portion (51b). A cut-out (52a) is provided in the front end of the first dispensing tubular portion (51a) or in a base end of the second dispensing tubular portion (51b), and an opening end of the cut-out (52a) is closed by the first dispensing tubular portion (51a) or the second dispensing tubular portion (51b) to provide an air inlet hole (52) in the dispensing tube (51).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2015Publication date: January 19, 2017Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kotaro FUJIWARA, Hiroyuki NAKAMURA, Shigeo IIZUKA
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Patent number: 9475632Abstract: Provided is a syringe-type ejecting container that is capable of ejecting even a small amount of a content medium. Such an ejecting container includes an ejecting unit and an operation unit. The operation unit includes a syringe having a front end tubular portion, a rod extending through an inside of the front end tubular portion, and an operation shaft that causes the rod to project from the front end tubular portion. The ejecting unit includes a pipe that is mounted to the front end tubular portion and that is filled with a content medium, a plunger that is arranged inside the pipe, a nozzle that is mounted over an outside of a front end of the pipe, and a spin element that is arranged inside the nozzle close to the ejection hole and that is formed with a swirling groove leading to the ejection hole.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Toru Toma, Shigeo Iizuka
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Patent number: 9346600Abstract: A discharge container includes a container main body having an inner container and an outer container, and a discharge cap, a suction hole configured to suction external air to a space between the inner container and the outer container is formed in the outer container, the discharge cap includes an air valve configured to switch between allowing and blocking communication between the outside of the discharge cap and the suction hole, and a discharge film elastically deformable to close the discharge port, and a slit is formed in the discharge film. As the discharge film is elastically deformed according to an increase in the pressure inside the inner container, the slit is widened and opened to open the discharge port.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2012Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsuo Furusawa, Shinya Hoshino, Shigeo Iizuka
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Publication number: 20150329271Abstract: Provided is a syringe-type ejecting container that is capable of ejecting even a small amount of a content medium. Such an ejecting container includes an ejecting unit and an operation unit. The operation unit includes a syringe having a front end tubular portion, a rod extending through an inside of the front end tubular portion, and an operation shaft that causes the rod to project from the front end tubular portion. The ejecting unit includes a pipe that is mounted to the front end tubular portion and that is filled with a content medium, a plunger that is arranged inside the pipe, a nozzle that is mounted over an outside of a front end of the pipe, and a spin element that is arranged inside the nozzle close to the ejection hole and that is formed with a swirling groove leading to the ejection hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2013Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Toru TOMA, Shigeo IIZUKA
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Patent number: 8950633Abstract: Provided is a foam dispenser that is capable of preventing water or the like from entering an air cylinder. In the foam dispenser, a liquid piston is fitted in a liquid cylinder portion, and an air piston is fitted in an air cylinder portion, and upward and downward displacement of the actuator causes a content liquid within the liquid cylinder portion and air within the air cylinder portion to be mixed and foamed and then dispensed from a nozzle, and a partition wall is provided with an ambient air introducing hole, and from at least a portion of a hole periphery of the ambient air introducing hole, a water entering prevention side wall portion stands for preventing water from entering the ambient air introducing hole.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeo Iizuka, Hiroshi Mizushima
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Patent number: 8925767Abstract: A container with a folded-back bottom wall, which is very stable in a rest position, has a strong bottom wall, and makes it possible to minimize the amount of remaining liquid while allowing costs to be reduced is provided. The container with a folded-back bottom wall has a bottom wall and a body part and transforms into a first mode in which the bottom wall is made to project downwards from the lower surface of the body part, and into a second mode in which the bottom wall is folded back inside the body part. The boundary portion between the bottom wall and the body part is folded to have an outwardly-convex shape so that a folding groove is circumferentially formed, and the bottom wall is folded back inside the body part at the folding groove.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2010Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeo Iizuka, Shigeru Hayakawa
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Publication number: 20140263443Abstract: A discharge container includes a container main body having an inner container and an outer container, and a discharge cap, a suction hole configured to suction external air to a space between the inner container and the outer container is formed in the outer container, the discharge cap includes an air valve configured to switch between allowing and blocking communication between the outside of the discharge cap and the suction hole, and a discharge film elastically deformable to close the discharge port, and a slit is formed in the discharge film. As the discharge film is elastically deformed according to an increase in the pressure inside the inner container, the slit is widened and opened to open the discharge port.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2012Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsuo Furusawa, Shinya Hoshino, Shigeo Iizuka
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Publication number: 20140209639Abstract: A dispensing container that dispenses a liquid contained therein in foam includes: a container body storing therein a liquid; and a base cap mounted to a mouth of the container body. The container body is flexible so that a squeeze operation may be performed on the container body. The base cap is provided, on a top wall, with a nozzle forming a tubular passage communicating with a front end orifice. The nozzle is provided with a foaming mechanism for the liquid at an upstream end portion and with a through-hole in a predetermined position on a circumferential wall of the nozzle that is downstream of the foaming mechanism. The through-hole is provided with a check valve, and the front end orifice communicates with an inside of the container body through the through-hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2012Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sasaki, Takefumi Kuriyama, Shigeo Iizuka, Hiroshi Mizushima