Patents by Inventor Jo Nakagawa

Jo Nakagawa 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).

  • Auto-loading system for interfacing a magazine of recording medium cartridges with a recording/reproducing apparatus
    Patent number: 5793564
    Abstract: An auto-loading system for recording medium cartridges is provided which permits the simple and reliable operation of rotating the recording medium cartridges between a magazine and a drive. The auto-loading system has a cartridge tray of an elevator which is moved upward and downward between a cartridge port of the drive and a cartridge insertion port and a cartridge ejection port of the magazine within an autoloader body so that a plurality of recording medium cartridges are rotated between the magazine and the drive by the operation of ejecting the recording medium cartridges into the cartridge tray from the cartridge ejection port of the magazine by a first cartridge ejecting mechanism and the operation of ejecting the recording medium cartridges into the cartridge port of the drive or the cartridge insertion port of the magazine from the cartridge tray by a second cartridge ejecting mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Nakase, Jo Nakagawa, Hirohiko Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Umemura, Akira Saito