Patents by Inventor Kaname Okuno

Kaname Okuno 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: 8591561
    Abstract: A hair-growth adjusting light emitting device includes a device body, a light-emitting unit attached to the device body, and a locking unit for locking the light-emitting unit to the device body. The device body has a main capacitor, a device body connector, an electric power switch, a release switch, and an electric power supplying part. The light-emitting unit has a light-emitting body and a light-emitting body side connector. Furthermore, the hair-growth adjusting light emitting device includes a release restriction mechanism for preventing the light-emitting unit from being released by the release button when the electric power switch is at a power-on position where the electric power supplying part feeds the electric power to the main connector, and a power-on restriction mechanism for preventing the electric power switch from moving to the power-on position when the light-emitting unit is detached from the device body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Kinoshita, Chosei Hamada, Yasuhiro Satou, Kaname Okuno, Masako Yamasaki, Kaori Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120065708
    Abstract: A hair-growth adjusting light emitting device includes a device body, a light-emitting unit attached to the device body, and a locking unit for locking the light-emitting unit to the device body. The device body has a main capacitor, a device body connector, an electric power switch, a release switch, and an electric power supplying part. The light-emitting unit has a light-emitting body and a light-emitting body side connector. Furthermore, the hair-growth adjusting light emitting device includes a release restriction mechanism for preventing the light-emitting unit from being released by the release button when the electric power switch is at a power-on position where the electric power supplying part feeds the electric power to the main connector, and a power-on restriction mechanism for preventing the electric power switch from moving to the power-on position when the light-emitting unit is detached from the device body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: Panasonic Electric Works, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Kinoshita, Chosei Hamada, Yasuhiro Satou, Kaname Okuno, Masako Yamasaki, Kaori Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5974358
    Abstract: A navigation apparatus is provided for surveying a present spot of the apparatus carried by a vehicle or a user with such surveying unit as a global positioning system (GPS), displaying on a display unit a present spot mark by means of latitudinal and longitudinal lines X and Y of the surveyed spot, showing on a guide display unit positions to be in coincidence with the latitudinal and longitudinal lines according to the surveyed spot, and transferring with a writing guide unit the positions of the latitudinal and longitudinal lines shown on the guide display unit onto a map. Then, the user places the apparatus on the map, and the present spot can be optimumly recognized on the map by means of the present spot mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kozo Kawai, Kaname Okuno
  • Patent number: 5819199
    Abstract: A navigation apparatus is provided for surveying the position of the apparatus with such surveying unit as a global positioning system (GPS), to have respective figures of reference latitudinal and longitudinal lines X and Y displayed on a display device and, at the same time, to have the latitude and longitude of the position to be indicated by a present position mark of the apparatus calculated in accordance with a preliminarily set scale of reduction of a map utilized. Then, the user places the apparatus on the map so that the latitudinal and longitudinal lines X and Y displayed on the apparatus will coincide with corresponding latitudinal and longitudinal lines on the map, and then the present position can be recognized by the user by means of the present position mark of the display device on the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kozo Kawai, Kaname Okuno, Yoshinobu Sakamura
  • Patent number: 5453751
    Abstract: A planar antenna includes a set of first radiating plate and first power supplying plate in which openings of the former and power supplying terminals of the latter are respectively coupled electromagnetically to each other, and a further set of second radiating plate and second power supplying plate in which openings of the former and power supplying terminals of the latter are respectively coupled electromagnetically to each other. Antenna structure is thereby simplified while improving productivity and wide band wave reception, and allowing two different polarized waves to be received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuya Tsukamoto, Iwakuni Ujiyama, Kaname Okuno
  • Patent number: 5321411
    Abstract: A planar antenna for linearly polarized waves includes a grounding conductor plate, a power supply circuit plate having a pattern of power supplying circuit of conductor strips each including power supply terminals, and a radiation plate having apertures forming radiation elements, the respective plates being arranged sequentially with an insulating layer interposed between adjacent ones of the plates to separate them to be independent of one another through a predetermined interval, while arranging the power supplying terminals of the power supplying circuit pattern as well as the apertures in the radiation plate so that the respective power supply terminals terminate to be within a contour of the apertures, in a top plan view, whereby the planar antenna makes it possible to receive at a high gain the linearly polarized waves over a wide band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuya Tsukamoto, Hirowo Inoue, Kaname Okuno, Toshio Abiko
  • Patent number: 5270721
    Abstract: A planar antenna includes a grounding conductor plate, a power supply plate having a pattern of power supplying conductor strips each including power supply terminals, and a radiation plate having apertures forming radiation elements, the respective plates being arranged sequentially with an insulating layer interposed between adjacent ones of the plates to separate them to be independent of one another through a predetermined interval, while coupling electromagnetically the respective power supplying terminals of the power supplying conductor pattern on the power supply plate to the radiation elements provided as the apertures in the radiation plate. With this simplified arrangement, the planar antenna makes it possible to receive at a high gain circularly polarized waves over a wide range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuya Tsukamoto, Toshio Abiko, Hiroo Inoue, Kaname Okuno