Patents by Inventor Yoshihito Shimizu

Yoshihito Shimizu 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: 20230165232
    Abstract: An abutting member for returning comprises a bearing that a rotational movement shaft is inserted into, a projection portion that projects from the bearing in a radially outward direction, and a protrusion portion that protrudes from the projection portion in an axial direction of the rotational movement shaft. The projection portion comprises a first abutting portion that abuts onto a guide in the first half of a rotational movement of the abutting member for returning. The protrusion portion comprises a second abutting portion that abuts onto the guide in the latter half of a rotational movement of the abutting member for returning. The guide comprises a first guide face that the first abutting portion abuts onto, and a second guide face that the second abutting portion abuts onto. A length L1 from a center of swinging of the guide to the first guide face and a length L2 from the center to the second guide face satisfy a relationship of L1>L2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventor: Yoshihito SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20230165233
    Abstract: A sound generator comprises a protrusion and a recess that are alternatingly disposed in a circumferential direction. The recess comprises a first apex that is a boundary with one adjacent protrusion, a first face that is continuous to the first apex, and is recessed in a radially outward direction, a second face that is continuous to the first face, and a second apex that is continuous to the second face, and is a boundary with the other protrusion that is adjacent to the recess. A length L2 from the second apex to a deepest portion of the recess is longer than a length L1 from the first apex to the deepest portion of the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventor: Yoshihito SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 10856535
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fishing spinning reel including a reel unit and a rotor that is rotatably supported by the reel unit. The reel unit includes: a body that has a side opening portion and in which a spool reciprocating device is housed and supported; a lid that closes the side opening portion; and a cover member mounted on a rear portion of the body. A handle shaft is rotatably supported by the body and the lid. In the rear portion of the body, a rear opening portion for receiving at least a part of a component of the spool reciprocating device and disposing the component on the rear side is formed. The cover member covers the rear opening portion and the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: GLOBERIDE, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Shimizu, Kazuyuki Matsuda, Wataru Tsutsumi, Masashi Fujioka, Hironori Horie
  • Patent number: 10588301
    Abstract: A meshed state between a drive gear and a pinion gear can be maintained with high accuracy, and rigidity of a reel body is increased. Entry of dust and water between a side opening portion and a lid member is prevented and tangling of a fishing line is avoided. A fishing spinning reel includes a lid member closing a side opening portion provided in a body and a handle shaft is rotatably supported by at least the lid member. A female screw portion is provided on the side opening portion, and a male screw portion is provided on the lid member. There are provided a drive gear, a pinion gear meshed with the drive gear, a front bearing rotatably supporting a front portion of the pinion gear, and a rear bearing rotatably supporting a rear portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: GLOBERIDE, Inc.
    Inventors: Wataru Tsutsumi, Kazuyuki Matsuda, Yoshihito Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20190133102
    Abstract: A meshed state between a drive gear and a pinion gear can be maintained with high accuracy, and rigidity of a reel body is increased. Entry of dust and water between a side opening portion and a lid member is prevented and tangling of a fishing line is avoided. A fishing spinning reel includes a lid member closing a side opening portion provided in a body and a handle shaft is rotatably supported by at least the lid member. A female screw portion is provided on the side opening portion, and a male screw portion is provided on the lid member. There are provided a drive gear, a pinion gear meshed with the drive gear, a front bearing rotatably supporting a front portion of the pinion gear, and a rear bearing rotatably supporting a rear portion thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Wataru TSUTSUMI, Kazuyuki MATSUDA, Yoshihito SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20180368377
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fishing spinning reel including a reel unit and a rotor that is rotatably supported by the reel unit. The reel unit includes: a body that has a side opening portion and in which a spool reciprocating device is housed and supported; a lid that closes the side opening portion; and a cover member mounted on a rear portion of the body. A handle shaft is rotatably supported by the body and the lid. In the rear portion of the body, a rear opening portion for receiving at least a part of a component of the spool reciprocating device and disposing the component on the rear side is formed. The cover member covers the rear opening portion and the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshihito SHIMIZU, Kazuyuki MATSUDA, Wataru TSUTSUMI, Masashi FUJIOKA, Hironori HORIE
  • Patent number: 9485977
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fishing spinning reel in which handle operation in high load winding is smooth. Specifically, the fishing spinning reel includes: a pinion gear having a rotor fixed on an end of the pinion gear and meshing with a drive gear rotationally driven by rotational operation of a handle rotatably supported on the reel body; a spool shaft inserted through the pinion gear and having a spool mounted on a front end thereof, the spool holding a fishing line wound therearound; and an oscillation mechanism configured to reciprocate the spool shaft back and forth in accordance with drive of the drive gear, wherein the spool shaft is not supported at a region from a meshing region between the drive gear and the pinion gear to a rear end of the spool shaft where the spool shaft is supported by a slidable body of the oscillation mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: GLOBERIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Shimizu, Wataru Tsutsumi
  • Publication number: 20150090819
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fishing spinning reel in which handle operation in high load winding is smooth. Specifically, the fishing spinning reel includes: a pinion gear having a rotor fixed on an end of the pinion gear and meshing with a drive gear rotationally driven by rotational operation of a handle rotatably supported on the reel body; a spool shaft inserted through the pinion gear and having a spool mounted on a front end thereof, the spool holding a fishing line wound therearound; and an oscillation mechanism configured to reciprocate the spool shaft back and forth in accordance with drive of the drive gear, wherein the spool shaft is not supported at a region from a meshing region between the drive gear and the pinion gear to a rear end of the spool shaft where the spool shaft is supported by a slidable body of the oscillation mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshihito Shimizu, Wataru Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 7721986
    Abstract: A fishing spinning reel of the invention includes a spool wound with a fish line, a rotor rotatable through a pinion gear brought in mesh with a drive gear rotated by a winding operation of a handle, a switch mechanism including a switch lever capable of operating to switch a restricting state of restricting rotation of the spool and a free state of making the spool free, and a return mechanism for returning the switch mechanism brought into the spool free state to the restricting state by the winding operation of the handle. The return mechanism includes a connecting gear brought in mesh with a gear driven by the drive gear, and a kick member rotatably supported centering on the connecting gear, and a center of a mesh portion of the gear and the connecting gear is arranged on a side of the drive gear relative to an axis center of the pinion gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Daiwa Seiko, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshihito Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20080203206
    Abstract: A fishing spinning reel of the invention includes a spool wound with a fish line, a rotor rotatable through a pinion gear brought in mesh with a drive gear rotated by a winding operation of a handle, a switch mechanism including a switch lever capable of operating to switch a restricting state of restricting rotation of the spool and a free state of making the spool free, and a return mechanism for returning the switch mechanism brought into the spool free state to the restricting state by the winding operation of the handle. The return mechanism includes a connecting gear brought in mesh with a gear driven by the drive gear, and a kick member rotatably supported centering on the connecting gear, and a center of a mesh portion of the gear and the connecting gear is arranged on a side of the drive gear relative to an axis center of the pinion gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: DAIWA SEIKO INC.
    Inventor: Yoshihito SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20020158160
    Abstract: A fishing reel has an indicator which is attached to a reel main unit capable of rotatably supporting a spool and which displays various fishing information items; an illumination member which is provided in the indicator and illuminates the inside of the indicator; detector for detecting an operating status of a member attached to the reel main unit; storage unit for storing at least requirements for extinguishing the illumination member set on the basis of the operating status of the member attached to the reel main unit; and controller for inputting a result of detection performed by the detector. The controller automatically extinguishes the illumination member on the basis of the result of detection operation performed by the detector and the extinction requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Applicant: DAIWA SEIKO, INC.
    Inventor: Yoshihito Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6418866
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a fluidized bed incinerator which will increase the thermal capacity of the freeboard to respond to fluctuations of the load imposed by waste matter such as sludge or garbage with a high moisture content; which would absorb local and momentary temperature spikes due to load fluctuations or variations in the characteristics of the waste material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Shimizu, Hiroki Honda, Masao Takuma, Toshihisa Goda, Shiro Sasatani
  • Patent number: 6133499
    Abstract: According to the present invention, boiler water is pressurized so that its boiling point is set at approximately 200.degree. C. to 320.degree. C. The boiler water is heated in at least two stages. Thermal energy of gases containing chlorine compounds is used to heat the water to its boiling point. Thermal energy of gases which do not contain chlorine compounds is used to heat the water from its boiling point until superheated steam of a given temperature is generated. The heating which uses the thermal energy of gases containing chlorine compounds is accomplished using the thermal energy from the combustion of pyrolysis gases obtained from a pyrolysis means in which waste material is supplied into a chamber containing a fluidized bed medium which has been heated to at least 300.degree. C., and a pyrolytic reaction is induced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Horizoe, Yoshihito Shimizu, Jun Sato, Shizuo Yasuda, Yuji Kaihara, Yoshimasa Kawami
  • Patent number: 6099537
    Abstract: A medical treatment instrument is provided with a treatment section for treating issue, an insertion section which has at one end the treatment section, and an operating section which is provided at the other end of the insertion section, operates the treatment section, and has a fixed portion and a movable portion. The treatment section is actuated by pivoting the movable portion with respect to the fixed portion. The medical treatment instrument is further provided with an actuating main body and a cover. The cover is displaceable between a first position in which the medical treatment instrument is used and a second position in which the inside of the operating section is uncovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiya Sugai, Hiroyuki Nagamizu, Minoru Tsuruta, Yoshihito Shimizu, Toshihiko Suzuta, Norikiyo Shibata, Shinichi Nishigaki, Naoki Uchiyama, Yoshinao Oaki
  • Patent number: 6099464
    Abstract: A bending sheath for a probe being inserted in a channel of a forceps of an endoscope inserted in a body cavity of a patient for observing the diseased part thereof is disclosed. The bending sheath comprises a hollow sheath, at least one extended portion extending in the sheath axis direction from the sheath tip portion, and a tip holding member for holding detachably the inserted tip portion of the probe inserted in the sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Shimizu, Masashi Abe
  • Patent number: 5273025
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for detecting an endoscopic inserting condition. The apparatus includes an irradiation arrangement for applying electromagnetic waves to the inside of an organism from outside the organism, an electromagnetic wave reception arrangement which is disposed in an insert section of an endoscope for producing an electromagnetic signal, and a detection arrangement receiving the electromagnetic signal produced by the electromagnetic wave reception arrangement, for detecting the insertion orientation of the endoscope on the basis of the received electromagnetic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsunori Sakiyama, Yoshikatsu Nagayama, Hiroki Hibino, Yutaka Takahashi, Sakae Takehana, Yoshihito Shimizu, Yoshinao Oaki, Koji Koda
  • Patent number: 5253647
    Abstract: A position and orientation state pickup is designed to detect the position and orientation state of an endoscope inserted into a living body without any adverse effect on the living body, which is often observed in X-ray analysis. The position and orientation state pickup, generating an electro-magnetic field with frequency at least lower than the visible ray range toward the body from outside; detects influence of the endoscope inserted into the body on two-dimensional energy distribution of the electro-magnetic field generated toward the body; and show the position and orientation state of the endoscope from the detection results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Takahashi, Yoshikatsu Nagayama, Hiroki Hibino, Katsunori Sakiyama, Yoshihito Shimizu, Sakae Takehana, Yoshinao Oaki, Koji Koda, Yoshinobu Soeda, Masato Toda, Toshiaki Noguchi, Yuichi Yamada, Akira Osawa
  • Patent number: 5097838
    Abstract: An ultrasonic endoscope comprises an insertion section having a distal end portion and a proximal end portion, an ultrasonic probe disposed in the distal end portion of the insertion section and adapted to generate ultrasonic oscillations and detect reflected waves, an operating section connected to the proximal end portion of the insertion section and used to bend the insertion section, and an auxiliary operating section connected to the rear end of the operating section, the auxiliary operating section including a rotation drive unit for rotating the ultrasonic probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Hirooka, Yoshitake Saito, Takeshi Yokoi, Yoshihito Shimizu
  • Patent number: 4979518
    Abstract: A hyperthermal apparatus comprises a hollow tube insertable into a body cavity. The tube has a body liquid draining path, and is formed of a heat generating substance or a substance generating heat by absorbing an electromagnetic energy fed from outside the body. The tube is detainable in a position likely to be closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1990
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Itoh, Tsutomu Okada, Fumiaki Ishii, Minoru Shinotsuka, Yoshihito Shimizu
  • Patent number: D776232
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: GLOBRIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Shimizu, Wataru Tsutsumi, Masahiro Ootake, Takashi Kondo