Patents by Inventor Hiroki Hirashima

Hiroki Hirashima 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: 7755227
    Abstract: A vibration generator is provided. The vibration generator comprising a case having a hollow inside and a lower plate. A first vibrator is disposed away from the lower plate of the case and supported by first elastic member fixed to the lower plate. A second vibrator is disposed away from the first vibrator and supported by second elastic member fixed to the first vibrator. The first vibrator and the second vibrator are operable to vibrate separately. When operated separately at least two different resonance frequencies are created and transmitted to the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki Hirashima
  • Publication number: 20070085425
    Abstract: A vibration generator is provided. The vibration generator comprising a case having a hollow inside and a lower plate. A first vibrator is disposed away from the lower plate of the case and supported by first elastic member fixed to the lower plate. A second vibrator is disposed away from the first vibrator and supported by second elastic member fixed to the first vibrator. The first vibrator and the second vibrator are operable to vibrate separately. When operated separately at least two different resonance frequencies are created and transmitted to the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Applicant: ALPS ELECTRIC CO.,
    Inventor: Hiroki Hirashima
  • Patent number: 7080306
    Abstract: A disk device for performing error-correction processing is loaded with a high-reliability disk to which a C1 code as a low-level error-correction code (ECC) is added for every sector, and a C2 code as a high-level ECC is added for every plurality of sectors. A host computer includes a device driver corresponding to the high-reliability disk. When data written to the high-reliability disk is read, low-level error-correction is performed based on the C1 code in units of one block corresponding to one sector, and the corrected data is notified to the host computer. Simultaneously, the C2 code along with the data for a plurality of blocks is loaded, and high-level error correction based on the C2 code is thereby performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignees: Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Sugawara, Hiroki Hirashima, Isao Asano, Kyoichi Shirane
  • Publication number: 20050156560
    Abstract: A plurality of chargers 7 are provided in a housing 2, these chargers 7 noncontactly supply electric power to the objects W by electromagnetic induction. Each of the objects W includes an IC chip 80 having a high-frequency oscillator circuit and an antenna 90 connecting to the IC chip. The charging apparatus 1 further includes an antenna 110 for receiving high-frequency data signals from the IC chip 80 and a circuit for controlling the chargers 7 around the object W according to the data signals received by the antenna 110 so as to drive a charger 7 sending electromagnetic waves to the object from an optimal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Inventors: Motohiro Shimaoka, Hiroki Hirashima, Yasuo Kondo
  • Patent number: 6535346
    Abstract: A disc driving device of the type in which two different head units are moved by a linear motor along the radial direction of two discs having different recording densities. If a floppy disc with the standard recording density (lower order mode) is loaded on a disc table and a shock sensor detects the shock, a controller discontinues the recording and/or reproducing processing by a FDD (Floppy Disk Drive).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Asano, Hiroki Hirashima, Masahiro Matsunaga, Kazuhisa Taira