Patents Examined by Maria N. Buhr
  • Automatic cutting and crimping apparatus
    Patent number: 6490495
    Abstract: When a reset-up work has been generated associated with a changing in processing data between old and new lots, a cumulative standard time required for the operator to carry out the reset-up work is calculated, and a lapse time since the starting of the reset-up work is subtracted from the calculated cumulative standard time to obtain a cumulative standard remaining time, and the count-down of this cumulative standard remaining time is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Murata
  • Information storage and information transmission media with parental control
    Patent number: 5813010
    Abstract: Parental information of a video program recorded on an optical disk is always checked in a disk player. Even if a jump of laser beam tracing of an optical head erroneously occurs due to shocks or vibrations, the content of parental information assigned to the destination of optical head jumping is checked, to thereby achieve an accurate parental control of selective restriction for the video whose reproduction or presentation is restricted by the parental information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomoaki Kurano, Hideki Mimura, Shinichi Kikuchi, Kazuhiko Taira, Takeshi Hagio