Patents by Inventor Yoshifumi Fukuyama

Yoshifumi Fukuyama 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: 20200022867
    Abstract: A treatment unit includes a treatment element configured to press a person to be treated; a treatment part that includes the treatment element; an output shaft that drives the treatment part; a drive part configured to rotate the output shaft; and a swash plate eccentric cam that rotates integrally with the output shaft. The treatment part oscillates in a direction along a direction of an axis of rotation of the output shaft and a direction intersecting the direction of the axis without rotating along with rotation of the swash plate eccentric cam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Soma Kanazawa
  • Patent number: 9622935
    Abstract: The massage machine includes a chair main body that includes: a seat part on which a person to be treated is seated, a backrest part, which is provided at a back part of the seat part, and on which the person to be treated leans, and a footrest which is provided at a front part of the seat part and supports leg parts of the person to be treated; guide rails and which are provided at the chair main body; and a first massage part and a second massage part which are configured to respectively move in the height direction along the guide rails. The first massage part moves at least from a position corresponding to the backrest part to a position corresponding to the seat part, and the second massage part moves at least from a position corresponding to the footrest to the position corresponding to the seat part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: FAMILY INADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Nobuhide Kimura
  • Patent number: 9216134
    Abstract: Provided is a massage machine capable of performing a rubbing operation and a pressing operation separately on different areas of the back surface of a body part of a person to be treated while performing the rubbing operation on the side surface of the body part. Specifically provided is a massage machine (M1 (M2)) provided with a rubbing unit (1) comprising a pair of rubbing parts (2, 2) for applying a rubbing massage to a body part of a person to be treated and a rubbing driving part (3) for driving the rubbing parts (2). The rubbing parts (2) comprise a pair of first rubbing parts (12, 12) disposed on both sides of the body part and reciprocating in the direction along the side surface of the body part, and a pair of second rubbing parts (13, 13) disposed on the back surface of the body part and reciprocating in the direction along the back surface of the body part and in the direction crossing the back surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Family Inada Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Hideshi Kondo, Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Nagatoshi Harada, Hiroo Hujita, Yoshiyuki Hamada, Yasuhiro Sugino, Myongsik Kim, Mitsuo Deguchi
  • Publication number: 20140364781
    Abstract: A massage machine includes a seat portion, a backrest portion and a rocking mechanism center where the backrest portion reclines at a back portion side of the seat portion about a reclining center. The rocking mechanism portion swings the backrest portion and the seat portion about a rocking center, and the rocking center exists below a swing track of the reclining center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Fukuyama
  • Publication number: 20140343467
    Abstract: The massage machine includes a chair main body that includes: a seat part on which a person to be treated is seated, a backrest part, which is provided at a back part of the seat part, and on which the person to be treated leans, and a footrest which is provided at a front part of the seat part and supports leg parts of the person to be treated; guide rails and which are provided at the chair main body; and a first massage part and a second massage part which are configured to respectively move in the height direction along the guide rails. The first massage part moves at least from a position corresponding to the backrest part to a position corresponding to the seat part, and the second massage part moves at least from a position corresponding to the footrest to the position corresponding to the seat part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: FAMILY INADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Nobuhide Kimura
  • Patent number: 8827938
    Abstract: A massage machine includes a seat portion, a backrest portion and a rocking mechanism center where the backrest portion reclines at a back portion side of the seat portion about a reclining center. The rocking mechanism portion swings the backrest portion and the seat portion about a rocking center, and the rocking center is apart or different from the reclining center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Family Inada Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Fukuyama
  • Patent number: 8494873
    Abstract: An endoscopic inspection information administering system includes: an unlinking unit for canceling a link between a first piece of inspection request information selected from the inspection request information on a database and a first piece of inspection result information linked with the first piece of the inspection request information; a retrieval display unit for retrieving, from the database, second pieces of the inspection request information including the same patient ID as a patient ID included in the first piece of the inspection request information and displaying the retrieved second pieces of the inspection request information, and a recording control unit for recording, into the database, a piece of the inspection request information selected from the displayed second pieces of the inspection request information in link with the first piece of the inspection result information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hidehito Sakurai, Takayoshi Kiuchi, Ryojiro Sasage, Koichiro Miyazaki, Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Yasuhiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20120215143
    Abstract: The massage mechanism includes inner treatment elements, outer treatment elements and a driving device that drives the treatment elements. A distance between the inner treatment elements and the outer treatment elements is changed by the driving device. A first supporting shaft supports the inner and the outer treatment elements and is rotated about an axial center by the driving device. The first supporting shaft includes inner inclined shafts that support the inner treatment elements via an arm and outer inclined shafts that support the outer treatment elements via the arm. The massage mechanism is configured to be movable from a backrest part to a footrest part via a seat part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Family Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nichimu INADA, Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Tomohisa Shirakawa
  • Publication number: 20120071799
    Abstract: Provided is a massage machine capable of performing a rubbing operation and a pressing operation separately on different areas of the back surface of a body part of a person to be treated while performing the rubbing operation on the side surface of the body part. Specifically provided is a massage machine (M1 (M2)) provided with a rubbing unit (1) comprising a pair of rubbing parts (2, 2) for applying a rubbing massage to a body part of a person to be treated and a rubbing driving part (3) for driving the rubbing parts (2). The rubbing parts (2) comprise a pair of first rubbing parts (12, 12) disposed on both sides of the body part and reciprocating in the direction along the side surface of the body part, and a pair of second rubbing parts (13, 13) disposed on the back surface of the body part and reciprocating in the direction along the back surface of the body part and in the direction crossing the back surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Family Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Hideshi Kondo, Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Nagatoshi Harada, Hiroo Hujita, Yoshiyuki Hamada, Yasuhiro Sugino, Myongsik Kim, Mitsuo Deguchi
  • Publication number: 20110077563
    Abstract: A massage machine includes a seat portion, a backrest portion and a rocking mechanism center where the backrest portion reclines at a back portion side of the seat portion about a reclining center. The rocking mechanism portion swings the backrest portion and the seat portion about a rocking center, and the rocking center is apart or different from the reclining center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Family Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Fukuyama
  • Publication number: 20110077961
    Abstract: An endoscopic inspection information administering system includes: an unlinking unit for canceling a link between a first piece of inspection request information selected from the inspection request information on a database and a first piece of inspection result information linked with the first piece of the inspection request information; a retrieval display unit for retrieving, from the database, second pieces of the inspection request information including the same patient ID as a patient ID included in the first piece of the inspection request information and displaying the retrieved second pieces of the inspection request information, and a recording control unit for recording, into the database, a piece of the inspection request information selected from the displayed second pieces of the inspection request information in link with the first piece of the inspection result information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidehito SAKURAI, Takayoshi KIUCHI, Ryojiro SASAGE, Koichiro MIYAZAKI, Yoshifumi FUKUYAMA, Yasuhiro ASAI
  • Publication number: 20100312155
    Abstract: A massage machine equipped with air cells (23a, 23b) disposed opposite to each other at a given distance therebetween in the up-down direction, a pair of support plates (22, 22) for supporting the air cells (23a, 23b) from the outside in the up-down direction, a pair of rotation portions (21) for applying a drive force to the pair of support plates (22, 22) in the front-rear direction and for supporting the support plates (22, 22) on both the left and right sides, guide portions (25) formed in the pair of rotation portions (21) to support the pair of support plates (22) so that the pair of support plates is movable in a direction in which the support plates (22) approach and separate from each other, biasing portions (26) for biasing the pair of support plates (22) in a direction in which the support plates approach each other, and a drive unit (28) for applying a rotation drive force to the rotation portions (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: Family Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Daisuke Shinomiya
  • Publication number: 20100198120
    Abstract: A control section (50) of a chair-type massage machine (1) is configured so that air cells (7c) press the area around the lumbar of the user supported on a backrest section (3) to push up the area in conjunction with the backward tilting of the backrest section (3) performed using an actuator (37).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Family Co. LTd
    Inventors: Mitsunori Tago, Tomoharu Fukuda, Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Shiro Watanabe, Koji Goto
  • Publication number: 20100117427
    Abstract: A chair includes: a seat body (7) an upper surface of which is a seat surface for a user to be seated thereon; a frame (8) supporting the seat body (7) in a manner to permit the seat body (7) to move between a center position and swing positions to which the seat body (7) is swung from the center position; and a driving portion for forcibly moving the seat body (7). The height of the seat surface determined when the seat body (7) is at the center position is lower than the height of the seat surface determined when the seat body is at the swing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Tomohisa Shirakawa, Hiroshi Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20090177128
    Abstract: A chair-type massaging apparatus of the present invention, including a massaging element that is mounted in a back rest configured to support a back of a user and is configured to be movable in a substantially forward and backward direction to apply stimulation to the back, a control device that includes a grip that is tilted by the user to be displaceable from a predetermined neutral position in the forward and backward direction substantially corresponding with the direction in which the massaging element moves and is configured to output a signal indicating a displacement of the grip, and a controller configured to, based on the signal from the control device, execute control to move the massaging element in a direction substantially corresponding with a direction in which the grip is operated to move.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: Family Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Tomoki Nagamitsu, Akihiko Gondai, Keisuke Takatsuka, Tomoharu Fukuda, Mitsunori Kato