Patents by Inventor Shojiro Kawaguchi

Shojiro Kawaguchi 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: 4570272
    Abstract: A toilet bowl flushing device capable of discharging automatically a large amount of flushing water to the bowl immediately after termination of use of the bowl and a small amount of water continuously from the beginning of the use until a predetermined time has elapsed after the large amount discharge. Valve means for controlling the amount of water provided to the bowl includes a small-amount water discharging means and a large-amount water discharging means, and is coupled to a control means including a timer means suitably energizing the small-amount and large-amount water discharging means so that an auxiliary bowl flushing is performed with a small amount of flushing water to prevent sticking of filth to the bowl during the use, a main bowl flushing is realized with a large amount of flushing water immediately after the use, and a small amount of flushing water is kept discharged still after the main flushing to avoid any generation of water hammering phenomenon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1986
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shojiro Kawaguchi, Kuniyuki Odaka
  • Patent number: 4069816
    Abstract: An instrument for giving patting treatment to a user's shoulder or the like body part to promote blood circulation in stiffened muscle. In a housing of the instrument's body having an aperture, stationary electromagnet part defining an axial space is fixed aligning the space with the housing aperture and freely movable plunger is disposed to extend in the axial space so that, as electromagnetically attracted at an end inside the housing to a magnetized core end due to energization of coil of the stationary electromagnet part, the plunger extracts out of the housing with the other end located in the housing aperture and having a treating attachment with which the instrument is butted to the body part substantially vertically with its weight applying to the latter through the attachment, so as to raise the instrument's body relatively upward and, upon de-energization of the coil, the instrument's body falls down to hit upon the attachment to give the patting treatment to the body part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1978
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Yamamura, Shojiro Kawaguchi, Otohiko Terashima, Tutomu Ichinomiya, Shinpei Otuka