Patents by Inventor Takao Nire

Takao Nire 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: 6598272
    Abstract: A clasp suitable as button for clothes, buckle for belt or the like adapted to facilitate operation of fastening and unfastening. To provide such clasp suitable as button for clothes, buckle for belt or the like adapted to ensure its reliable fastening. A pair of basic bodies connected to front ends of a pair of swingable arms, respectively, contain therein magnets having opposed poles, respectively. These basic bodies are provided with at least one set of mutually opposed protruberances and notches adapted to come in engagement with each other as the front ends of the swingable arms get nearer toward each other and thereby to prevent the pair of basic bodies coupled to each other under attractive effect of the magnets from moving in horizontal direction as well as from swinging away from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Yamato Trading Nire Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takao Nire
  • Patent number: 6598271
    Abstract: A clasp suitable as button for clothes, buckle for belt or the like adapted to facilitate operation of fastening and unfastening. A clasp comprising a pair of basic bodies provided on mutually opposed surfaces thereof with a pair of magnets and recess and projection cooperating with each other to serve as lock means, respectively, the basic bodies adapted to be detachably coupled together as the projection is engaged with the recess and the magnets attract each other so that at least sliding shift of the basic bodies from each other in horizontal direction is restricted by engagement of the projection and recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Yamato Trading Nire Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Takao Nire
  • Publication number: 20020112323
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a clasp suitable as button for clothes, buckle for belt or the like adapted to facilitate operation of fastening and unfastening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Applicant: Yamato Trading Nire Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Takao Nire
  • Publication number: 20020083563
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a clasp suitable as button for clothes, buckle for belt or the like adapted to facilitate operation of fastening and unfastening. The present invention aims also to provide such clasp suitable as button for clothes, buckle for belt or the like adapted to ensure its reliable fastening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Applicant: YAMATO TRADING NIRE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takao Nire
  • Patent number: D441317
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Yamato Shoji Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takao Nire