Patents by Inventor Wataru Yoshizaki

Wataru Yoshizaki 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: 7515989
    Abstract: A goods sales management system has a plurality of goods vending machines 1provided with containers for storing a plurality of goods and a vending machine management apparatus 80 connected to each of the plurality of the goods vending machines via a communication line 70. The goods vending machine 1 has a time adjustment management unit 64 for making a time managed by itself coincide with a time managed by the vending machine management apparatus 80, an information management unit 63 for managing sales information such as number of sold goods and a sales time, a transmission time setting unit 66 for setting a transmitting time when the sales information is transmitted to the vending machine management apparatus 80, and an information transmitting unit 65 for transmitting the sales information to the vending machine management apparatus 80 at the set transmission time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Sega Corporation
    Inventor: Wataru Yoshizaki
  • Publication number: 20070051796
    Abstract: A goods sales management system includes a plurality of goods vending machines 1 having a container capable of storing a plurality of goods and a vending machine management apparatus 80 connected to the goods vending machines 1 via a communication line. The goods vending machine 1 includes a time adjustment management unit 64 for making the time managed by itself coincide with the time information managed by the vending machine management apparatus 80, a delivered-goods number counting unit 63 for counting the number of the goods delivered from the container, a goods number setting unit 62 for setting the number of the goods storable in the container, and the information transmitter/receiver unit 65.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Inventor: Wataru Yoshizaki
  • Publication number: 20070050082
    Abstract: A goods sales management system has a plurality of goods vending machines 1 provided with containers for storing a plurality of goods and a vending machine management apparatus 80 connected to each of the plurality of the goods vending machines via a communication line 70. The goods vending machine 1 has a time adjustment management unit 64 for making a time managed by itself coincide with a time managed by the vending machine management apparatus 80, an information management unit 63 for managing sales information such as number of sold goods and a sales time, a transmission time setting unit 66 for setting a transmitting time when the sales information is transmitted to the vending machine management apparatus 80, and an information transmitting unit 65 for transmitting the sales information to the vending machine management apparatus 80 at the set transmission time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventor: Wataru Yoshizaki
  • Patent number: D534217
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Sega Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Yoshizaki, Tohru Takada