Patents by Inventor Takeshi Shiba

Takeshi Shiba 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: 20180249803
    Abstract: A heated air blower includes an energization control unit that controls on and off states of energization of a heater unit. The energization control unit includes a first energization control mode in which when a hot and cold mode is selected, control is executed in a manner that an energization time for energizing the heater unit in a predetermined period is equal to or less than 3 seconds and a product of power input to the heater unit and the energization time is equal to or larger than 1000 W·s. It is thus possible to provide a heated air blower that can further enhance a hair treatment effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yasunori MATSUI, Mayuka KAMBAYASHI, Takeshi SHIBA
  • Publication number: 20170258196
    Abstract: A voltage supply unit in a hair care device includes a voltage supply member which has an exposed surface exposed to the outside and is attached to a housing, and a first conductive section that is electrically connected to the voltage supply member. Furthermore, the voltage supply member has a visible light transmission section having visible light transparency, the visible light transmission section having a second conductive section electrically connected to the first conductive section. In addition, the second conductive section has a contact surface contacted by supply object U, and at least a portion of the exposed surface serves as the contact surface. Furthermore, a shield section that overlaps an entirety of the exposed surface and does not transmit visible light is provided inward of the exposed surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Hiromitsu MIYATA, Takeshi SHIBA
  • Publication number: 20150375007
    Abstract: An optical hair-growing device includes a headset that outputs light, and a controller that controls operation of the headset. The headset includes a light emitting unit including a light source, a pair of arms attached to the light emitting unit, a pair of first attachments attached to the arms to produce reaction force, and a pair of second attachments attached to the light emitting unit to produce reaction force. When the headset is attached on a head, the pair of first attachments each comes into contact with a side head portion to give the reaction force to the head, and the pair of second attachments each comes into contact with a head top portion to give the reaction force to the head. According to the present constitution, a position of the light emitting unit with respect to the head is hard to be displaced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Toshihiro TAKEUCHI, Takeshi SHIBA
  • Patent number: 9199383
    Abstract: A blade of a reciprocating electric shaver includes a newly provided guide frame freely detachably held on a holding frame provided on a shaver body, in which, in the guide frame, there are provided: coupling portions to which an outer edge frame that fixes an outer edge thereto is coupled; and spring receiving portions which support lower ends of inner edge push-up springs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Shimizu, Shunsuke Komori, Takeshi Shiba, Jyuzaemon Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 9108325
    Abstract: An electric shaver includes: a main body; an outer blade provided to an end of the main body and having a blade hole defined by a bar; and an inner blade provided inward of the outer blade and configured to reciprocate in a longitudinal direction of the outer blade to cut hair in the blade hole with the outer blade. The bar has a hair raising portion coming in contact with hair upon movement of the outer blade on a skin surface to raise hair up from the skin surface. A contact pressure on the skin surface to be exerted by the outer blade in a first portion of the outer blade is greater than that in a second portion of the outer blade. Hair raising performance in raising hair up from the skin surface in the first portion is smaller than hair raising performance in the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigetoshi Sakon, Kenji Narita, Jyuzaemon Iwasaki, Makoto Fukutani, Hiroaki Shimizu, Takeshi Shiba
  • Patent number: 8819946
    Abstract: A support arm that is rockably supported on one end of a grip portion and projects from the one end is provided. Both ends of a blade head are supported by the support arm such that the blade head can rock around an axis extending along a reciprocating direction of an inner blade, and an axial direction of the rocking motion of the support arm with respect to the grip portion is set in a direction intersecting with the reciprocating direction of the inner blade. This configuration achieves an electric shaver capable of increasing the movable range of the blade head while preventing a main body from increasing in size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masanobu Yamasaki, Takeshi Shiba, Juzaemon Iwasaki, Shinji Fujimoto, Masaaki Sato, Shunsuke Komori
  • Patent number: 8806763
    Abstract: An electric shaver including a hand grip 10 configured to be gripped by a user's hand, and a blade head 20 provided on an upper end of the hand grip. The blade head carries at least one shaving unit 50 comprising an outer blade foil 70 and an inner blade 80 driven in a shearing engagement manner with the outer blade foil. The outer blade foil has a plurality of holes in which hairs are introduced. The outer blade foil is elongated and has a length, and is curved along a width direction to form a generally C-shaped cross section, and is curved convexly and uniformly along its length to have a longitudinal curved outline. A radius of curvature of the longitudinal curved outline is 150 mm to 350 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Shiba, Nariyoshi Nakamura, Masaaki Sato, Tomoyuki Inoue, Shunsuke Komori, Makoto Fukutani
  • Patent number: 8661688
    Abstract: An electric shaver including: a gripper portion to be held by the user's hand; and a head portion configured to hold a shaving-blade unit and supported to be swingable in predetermined directions with respect to the gripper portion, wherein the head portion is provided with an edge-trimmer-blade unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shigeta, Masanobu Yamasaki, Shin Hosokawa, Takeshi Shiba, Jyuzaemon Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 8479397
    Abstract: In an electric shaver moving inner blades reciprocally and linearly, outer blades which are elongated in longitudinal direction are respectively held on outer blade frames and the outer blade frames are further held in floatable in floating direction on a frame holder. An outer blade mounting base has a pair of protrusions formed at positions near to both ends thereof in the longitudinal direction to protrude in the floating direction and the frame holder has a pair of end walls arranged in parallel in the longitudinal direction and a pair of engaging rims formed at both ends in the longitudinal direction. The engaging rims enclose the protrusions so as to position the frame holder to the outer blade mounting base when the frame holder is attached to the outer blade mounting base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Hiroaki Shimizu, Shin Hosokawa, Takeshi Shiba
  • Patent number: 8381405
    Abstract: An electric shaver including: a gripper portion to be held by the user's hand; and a head portion configured to hold a shaving-blade unit and supported to be swingable in predetermined directions with respect to the gripper portion, wherein the head portion is provided with: an edge-trimmer-blade unit configured to be switched between a ready-for-use state and a stored state by an operation element; and a engaging portion for fixing the head portion, the engaging portion configured to be engaged with the operation element when the edge-trimmer-blade unit is switched to the ready.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shigeta, Masanobu Yamasaki, Shin Hosokawa, Takeshi Shiba, Jyuzaemon Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 8296955
    Abstract: An electric shaver in which a blade frame part is attached to an upper portion of a body part, the blade frame part including an outer blade, an outer blade frame to fix the outer blade thereto, a holding frame to hold the outer blade frame vertically movable, and an outer peripheral frame connected to the holding frame, the upper portion including an inner blade. The holding frame is detachably attached to the outer peripheral frame from an under side thereof, and the outer peripheral frame entirely covers an outer periphery of the holding frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Takeshi Shiba, Jyuzaemon Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 8146253
    Abstract: An inner cutter of an electric shaver that cuts hairs by sliding along an inner surface of an outer cutter includes a base portion that is connected to a driving unit, a plurality of cutting pieces that are formed in a U-shape and whose both ends in the longitudinal direction are fixed to the base portion, and a plate member whose one end is fixed to the base portion and the other end is connected to the cutting piece. The plate member is elastically deformed corresponding to elastic deformation of the cutting piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Takeshi Shiba, Jyuzaemon Iwasaki, Shinji Fujimoto, Shunsuke Komori
  • Patent number: 8011102
    Abstract: A dry shaver has an elongated shaving head with a lengthwise axis. The shaving head carries semi-cylindrical first and second outer cutters disposed on its opposite width ends, and a semi-cylindrical finishing cutter and a slit cutter interposed between the first and second outer cutters. The finishing cutter has a finishing foil which is deeply curved than a foil of the first and second outer cutters into an arcuate contour having a width less than that of the first and second outer cutters. The finishing foil disposed behind the first outer cutter comes into contact with a users skin to make closer shaving than the first and second cutters. A skin guard project between the first outer cutter and the finishing cutter to protect the skin from being pressed excessively to a side of the finishing foil when moving the shaving head across a user' skin with the first outer cutter leading in a moving direction, thereby reducing skin irritation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Jyuzaemon Iwasaki, Takeshi Shiba, Hiroaki Shimizu, Shunsuke Komori
  • Patent number: 7996995
    Abstract: An electric shaver includes net-shaped outer blades; and inner blades sliding reciprocally over an inner side of the outer blades as detachably connected with driving units driven by a motor. Each of the inner blades includes a blade plate having an inversed-like-U shape seen from a longitudinal direction in parallel with a reciprocating sliding direction; and a blade holder having attaching portions to be attached to the blade plate in longitudinally defined end regions, wherein connection portions to be detachably connected with the driving units are provided at the blade holder in a longitudinally defined center region, and, when dissembling the blade holder from the driving units, anti-detach portions are provided to thereby prevent separation of the blade holder in the longitudinally defined center region from the blade plate in the longitudinally defined center region due to a tensile load between the connection portions and the driving units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Shunsuke Komori, Takeshi Shiba, Jyuzaemon Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20110179648
    Abstract: An electric shaver includes: a main body; an outer blade provided to an end of the main body and having a blade hole defined by a bar; and an inner blade provided inward of the outer blade and configured to reciprocate in a longitudinal direction of the outer blade to cut hair in the blade hole with the outer blade. The bar has a hair raising portion coming in contact with hair upon movement of the outer blade on a skin surface to raise hair up from the skin surface. A contact pressure on the skin surface to be exerted by the outer blade in a first portion of the outer blade is greater than that in a second portion of the outer blade. Hair raising performance in raising hair up from the skin surface in the first portion is smaller than hair raising performance in the second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC ELECTRIC WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigetoshi SAKON, Kenji NARITA, Jyuzaemon IWASAKI, Makoto FUKUTANI, Hiroaki SHIMIZU, Takeshi SHIBA
  • Publication number: 20100325893
    Abstract: An inner edge of a reciprocating electric shaver includes an inner edge body, and an inner edge joint that supports the inner edge body, the inner edge body having a plurality of edge pieces which have an inverse U shape, slide along an inner surface of an outer edge, and cut beard. Then, in the inner edge joint, there are provided: a plurality of vibration plates which is connected to any of the plurality of edge pieces, and generates a shaving sound at a time of cutting the beard; and a support portion that supports the respective vibration plates, and the support portion is adapted to support a single point of each of the vibration plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC ELECTRIC WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Komori, Hiroaki Shimizu, Takeshi Shiba, Jyuzaemon Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 7832104
    Abstract: The invention provides a hair removing apparatus having a body hair treatment head removing a body hair by shaving the body hair, depilating the body hair or cutting the body hair, and a main body grip held by a hand, and in which the body hair treatment head being rotatably coupled to the main body grip in such a manner that the body hair treatment head is freely oscillated with respect to the main body grip. In this structure, the hair removing apparatus is provided with a weight applying means for applying a force opposing to a force by which the body hair treatment head is oscillated by its own weight of the body hair treatment head around a center of rotation of the body hair treatment head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanobu Yamasaki, Toshiyuki Tsushio, Takeshi Shiba, Juzaemon Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20100180446
    Abstract: A blade of a reciprocating electric shaver includes a newly provided guide frame (8) freely detachably held on a holding frame (7) provided on a shaver body, in which, in the guide frame (8), there are provided: coupling portions (9) to which an outer edge frame (2) that fixes an outer edge (1) thereto is coupled; and spring receiving portions (10) which support lower ends of inner edge push-up springs (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC ELECTRIC WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Shimizu, Shunsuke Komori, Takeshi Shiba, Jyuzaemon Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20100180920
    Abstract: In a agent supply device, a agent supplying unit is driven to supply a treatment agent to a head portion provided on a hair processing device after a cleaning unit cleans the head portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Fujimoto, Takeshi Shiba, Juzaemon Iwasaki, Masaaki Sato, Masanobu Yamasaki, Shunsuke Komori
  • Publication number: 20100180448
    Abstract: In an electric shaver moving inner blades reciprocally and linearly, outer blades which are elongated in longitudinal direction are respectively held on outer blade frames and the outer blade frames are further held in floatable in floating direction on a frame holder. An outer blade mounting base has a pair of protrusions formed at positions near to both ends thereof in the longitudinal direction to protrude in the floating direction and the frame holder has a pair of end walls arranged in parallel in the longitudinal direction and a pair of engaging rims formed at both ends in the longitudinal direction. The engaging rims enclose the protrusions so as to position the frame holder to the outer blade mounting base when the frame holder is attached to the outer blade mounting base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC ELECTRIC WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki SATO, Hiroaki SHIMIZU, Shin HOSOKAWA, Takeshi SHIBA