Tabata Co., Ltd.

Unicharm Corporation

Haruo Kawashima

Kenji Kawana

Minoru Takeuchi

Shunji Fukasawa

Taro Fujima

Shoji Fujiwara

Hiromasa Sato

Seishiro Urabe

Masaji Fujiwara

Nobuyuki Abe

Masashi Fujiwara

Yoshiharu Takizawa

Katsuyuki Hori

A practice device for corrected golf swing basically comprises a frame which is relatively long in one direction and a pair of strip-shaped members extending in alignment with each other in the one direction so as to define a straight target line. The frame includes a pair of space defining members extending in the one direction in parallel to each other leaving a space therebetween so that said space is adjustable. The strip-shaped members linearly extend outward in the one direction from respective middle locations on the lines connecting respective pairs of the frame ends which are opposed in a direction orthogonal to said one direction, respectively.

Practice device for corrected golf swing

A diving mask includes a nose cover and a valve seat of a drainage mechanism having a check valve formed in the vicinity of the nose cover. The nose cover and the value seat are formed from an elastic material which is integral with a soft elastic material forming the nose cover. In the vicinity of the valve seat, an annular member formed from a plastic material plastics having a hardness and deformation-resistance both higher than those of the elastic material forming the valve seat is embedded in a bottom of the nose cover so as to extend along the valve seat.

Diving mask

Swimming goggles includes lens assemblies and pad assemblies attached to peripheral frames of the respective lens assemblies. Each of the pad assemblies is formed by a first elastic member made of first elastic material which is relatively stiff and a second elastic member made of second elastic material which is relatively flexible wherein the second elastic member is in close contact with and bonded to the first elastic member in a radial direction of the lens assembly.

Swimming goggles

Here is disclosed an attachment for a golf tee improved to support a golf ball above a top face of the golf tee. An attachment constructed to be mounted on a head of a golf tee has a first annular segment having a generally inverted cone shape that is cut off at the top and adapted to be close round a peripheral surface of the head of the golf tee, a cylindrical second annular segment extending downward from a lower end of the first annular segment for partially surrounding a leg of the golf tee, and an elastically deformable supporting segment extending upward from an upper end of the first annular segment so as to support the golf ball with an upper distal end thereof. The first annular segment is formed with elastically deformable tongues and each of these tongues is formed on an inner surface thereof with a salience adapted to come in contact with a top face of the golf tee from above.

Attachment for golf tee

A jacket having a buoyancy compensating function has a pocket into which a weight can be inserted and a flap. A first locking member is attached to outer surface of the pocket and a second locking member adapted to be engaged with the first locking member is attached to outer surface of the flap. The second locking member comprises a pair of elastic arms adapted to be guided along grooves of the first locking member and stopper means adapted to be forced into a space defined between these elastic arms and thereby to prevent the elastic arms from being elastically deformed. The weight is provided with a band strip adapted to extend outward from the pocket through a gap defined between the first locking member and the stopper means after the weight has been inserted into the pocket.

Buoyancy compensator

Here is disclosed a snorkel comprising a mouthpiece section, an open end section, a tubular section being contiguous to the open end section and a connector section interposed between the mouthpiece section and the tubular section and provided with a check valve. First and second halves constituting the connector section are pressed against each other along respective peripheral edges of these halves and then covered with a belt-like section welded to the connector section from the outside.

Snorkel

A face mask has a lens frame, buckles mounted on transversely opposite extremities of the lens frame, a headband having its longitudinally opposite end portions adjustably held by the respective buckles and a pair of band guides which the headband passes through. The headband is provided on its longitudinally opposite end portions with a plurality of engagement teeth. Each of the band guides has a first guide opening and a second guide opening. The first guide opening is formed with a first guide area and a second guide areas. The first guide area is adapted to guide zones of the end portion extending along its transversely opposite side edges and the second guide area is adapted to guide the engagement teeth. The second guide opening has a height corresponding to or slightly larger than a thickness t of the end portion.

Face mask

A buoyancy compensating jacket is provided on a waist portion with a pocket having a first flap, a pouch having a flat cord adapted to be inserted into and taken out from the pocket with a weight packed into the pouch. As a guide means for the flat cord, at least one of a substantially C-shaped guide ring provided at a distal end of the first flap substantially in the vertically middle and a groove formed on an outer surface of the pocket and/or an inner surface of the first flap substantially in the vertically middle.

Buoyancy compensating jacket

A pair of lens frames being more soft and flexible than a pair of lenses include annular lens holders to hold the lenses , gasket skirts extending from rear edges of the lens holders and a bridge to connect the lens holders to each other. The bridge has a gradient in flexibility increasing from a middle zone of the bridge bisecting the length of the bridge toward the respective lens holders

Swimming goggle

A diving jacket includes a back-plate shoulder belts and a waist belt The waist belt includes a pair of belt members each having a circumferentially rear end region is fixed to an associated connector plate made of a material harder than the belt and disposed between the rear end region and the back-plate A lower end region of the shoulder bent also is fixed to the associated connector plate

Diving jacket

A buoyancy regulator for diving includes a cylinder band for fixation of an air cylinder. The cylinder band comprises a belt-like part and a buckle which is formed with a plurality of band insertion slits arranged in a longitudinal direction of the cylinder band. Each pair of side walls respectively lying on both sides of each of the insertion slits is marked with the same letters indicating a sequence in which the belt-like part should be inserted through the buckle.

Buoyancy regulator for diving

Swim fins includes an instep of a foot pocket which is provided with a plurality of ribs extending forward from the vicinity of an opening for foot insertion and grooves each defined between each pair of the adjacent ribs and extending forward. The instep is thinner along the grooves than along the ribs.

Swim fins

A strap clamping block for swimming goggles, having a pair of guiding channels which are independent of each other and adapted to guide two sections of a strap extending in parallel to each other, respectively. The guiding channels respectively have separator surfaces curved, in the vicinity of a rear end of the clamping block, so as to separate the two sections of the strap up- and downward from each other.

Strap clamping blocks for swimming goggles

A buckle provided in the form of a frame comprising first and second side edges opposed to each other in a longitudinal direction of strap recieved by the buckle, first and second ends opposed to each other in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, and a plurality of partitions arranged between the first and second ends which connect the first and second side edges to each other. The first and second side edges and the first and second ends cooperating with the partitions to define a plurality of strap guiding holes arranged in the longitudinal direction. One of the first and second side edges partially defining a first outermost one of the strap guiding holes lying adjacent the first end. The other of the first and second side edges partially defining a second outermost one of the strap guiding holes lying adjacent the second end. The first and second outer most strap guiding holes being formed with slots each communicating the respective one of the first and second outermost strap guiding holes and having an opening-width dimensioned in the longitudinal direction that is smaller than the width of the strap.

Buckle for a pair of swimming goggles

A diving jacket includes a back-plate and a pair of waist belt members respectively having circumferentially rear end regions fixed to the back-plate by a means of associated connector plates . Rear end regions of the respective connector plates are formed with a plurality of dovetail tenons or a plurality of dovetail grooves arranged in vertical direction of the connector plates so as to extend in parallel one to another and the back-plate is formed with much more dovetail grooves or dovetail tenons than those formed in the connector plates so as to be operatively associated with the dovetail tenons or dovetail grooves of the connector plates , respectively.

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Tokyo, Japan

Haruo Kawashima