Patents by Inventor Shingo Ohmura

Shingo Ohmura 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: 7367067
    Abstract: A warm bath apparatus for safely and comfortably warming a part of a user's body such as feet and hands by use of a previously prepared mixture of air and heated liquid particles such as steam is provided. This apparatus comprises a housing having a warm bath room, a tank for storing a liquid, a heater for heating the liquid to provide heated liquid particles, a mixing room separately formed from the warm bath room in the housing to mix the heated liquid particles with air; and a supply port for supplying a resultant mixture of the heated liquid particle and the air provided from the mixing room into the warm bath room According to this apparatus, it is possible to provide a warm bath therapy effect to the user suffering from sensitivity to cold with a high degree of satisfaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunichi Watanabe, Shigenori Kugumiya, Shingo Ohmura
  • Patent number: 6923794
    Abstract: A skin care apparatus includes a skin care unit and a negative ion supplying unit. The skin care unit is configured to perform skin care on a skin surface of human being. The negative ion supplying unit is configured to discharge negatively ionized air toward the skin surface and includes a negative ion generator which is configured to generate the negatively ionized air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shingo Ohmura
  • Publication number: 20050015874
    Abstract: A warm bath apparatus for safely and comfortably warming a part of a user's body such as feet and hands by use of a previously prepared mixture of air and heated liquid particles such as steam is provided. This apparatus comprises a housing having a warm bath room, a tank for storing a liquid, a heater for heating the liquid to provide heated liquid particles, a mixing room separately formed from the warm bath room in the housing to mix the heated liquid particles with air; and a supply port for supplying a resultant mixture of the heated liquid particle and the air provided from the mixing room into the warm bath room According to this apparatus, it is possible to provide a warm bath therapy effect to the user suffering from sensitivity to cold with a high degree of satisfaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shunichi Watanabe, Shigenori Kugumiya, Shingo Ohmura
  • Publication number: 20030055469
    Abstract: A skin care apparatus includes a skin care unit and a negative ion supplying unit. The skin care unit is configured to perform skin care on a skin surface of human being. The negative ion supplying unit is configured to discharge negatively ionized air toward the skin surface and includes a negative ion generator which is configured to generate the negatively ionized air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS, LTD.
    Inventor: Shingo Ohmura
  • Patent number: 6377749
    Abstract: The present invention is a hairdryer. The hairdryer includes a housing body which has an opening at a front end thereof and an air intake at a rear end thereof. A handle is disposed at a bottom portion of the housing body. A heater and a fan are disposed within the housing body. An outer nozzle is disposed at its front end of the housing body and forming an outer air outlet opening. An inner nozzle is disposed inside the outer nozzle and forming an inner air outlet opening. The inner nozzle includes an inclined portion and a parallel portion. The inclined portion extends from a predetermined position inside the outer nozzle toward the inner air outlet opening while inclining toward a central axis of the outer nozzle. The parallel portion extends from a front end of the inclined portion toward the inner air outlet opening approximately in parallel with the central axis of the outer nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shingo Ohmura
  • Publication number: 20010051042
    Abstract: The present invention is a hairdryer. The hairdryer includes a housing body which has an opening at a front end thereof and an air intake at a rear end thereof. A handle is disposed at a bottom portion of the housing body. A heater and a fan are disposed within the housing body. An outer nozzle is disposed at its front end of the housing body and forming an outer air outlet opening. An inner nozzle is disposed inside the outer nozzle and forming an inner air outlet opening. The inner nozzle includes an inclined portion and a parallel portion. The inclined portion extends from a predetermined position inside the outer nozzle toward the inner air outlet opening while inclining toward a central axis of the outer nozzle. The parallel portion extends from a front end of the inclined portion toward the inner air outlet opening approximately in parallel with the central axis of the outer nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Publication date: December 13, 2001
    Inventor: Shingo Ohmura