Patents by Inventor Kiyoshi Morikawa
Kiyoshi Morikawa 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).
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Publication number: 20240094802Abstract: An information processing system includes at least one processor configured to: acquire a captured image including an image of a thumb of a user; and switch an operation mode for a virtual object disposed within a virtual space to a specific mode for positionally changing the virtual object if the captured image includes an image of a nail of the thumb or an image that enables estimation of presence of the nail of the thumb.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Takashi Morikawa, Kiyoshi Iida, Toshihiko Suzuki
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Publication number: 20090070036Abstract: A reception unit (103) receives selection of a guide execution item. Furthermore, the reception unit (103) receives setting of execution information specifying a condition for executing a voice guide for a guide execution item not selected by the reception unit (103). If the guide execution item has been selected, the guide unit (104) executes a voice guide correlated with the guide execution item. Moreover, if the guide execution item has not been selected and if the travel state of a moving body detected by a detection unit (102) satisfies the condition specified by the execution information, the guide unit (104) executes a voice guide correlated with the guide execution item which has not been selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2007Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Nakamura, Koichi Kikuchi, Katsunori Oritani, Manabu Kiyota, Yasuo Ogiwara, Kiyoshi Morikawa
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Publication number: 20090043496Abstract: A program recording device includes a route searching unit that searches for a route to a destination based on map information, a keyword creating unit that creates a keyword from information concerning the destination or information concerning the route, a determining unit that determines a program to be recorded based on the keyword, and a recording unit that records the program that is determined by the determining unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2006Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Koga, Hiroaki Sibasaki, Mari Kitada, Shuuji Watanabe, Kiyoshi Morikawa
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Publication number: 20090018763Abstract: A program recording device includes a route searching unit (101) that searches for a route to a destination based on map information, a determining unit (102) that determines a program to be recorded based on the information concerning the destination or information concerning the route that is searched for by the route searching unit (101), and a recording unit (103) that records the program that is determined by the determining unit (102). Thus, a program that is related to activities of a user can be recorded without requiring a complicated operation such as advance designation of a broadcast date, a broadcast time, a broadcast channel of a program wished to be recorded, or a keyword.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2006Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Koga, Hiroaki Sibasaki, Mari Kitada, Shuuji Watanabe, Kiyoshi Morikawa
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Patent number: 7006409Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved disc changer adapted to exactly detect whether a magazine storing a plurality of discs has been attached in the disc changer. When a magazine storing a plurality of discs is inserted into the disc changer, a detection arm and a lock arm both serving as moving members are moved by such an insertion. The lock arm, by virtue of the movement of itself, engages into an insertion groove provided on the backside of the inserted magazine and locks the magazine on the disc changer. The detection arm, by virtue of the movement of itself, actuates a lock detection switch. Here, since the detection arm and the lock arm are both urged by an urging spring, it becomes possible to exactly detect the attachment of the magazine by allowing the moving members locking the magazine on the disc changer to actuate the lock detection switch.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2003Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Jun Togashi, Hideki Kinoshita, Satoru Anada, Takashi Ota, Kiyoshi Morikawa, Toshiyuki Sakai, Shoichi Naruse
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Publication number: 20040027933Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved disc changer allowing correct attachment of a magazine into a magazine holder. In the disc changer of the invention, a plurality of restriction members are provided in the magazine holder which receives a magazine for arranging and storing a plurality of discs, located on the magazine holder's one surface facing the upper surface of the magazine received therein. Therefore, these restriction members can get into contact with the upper surface of the magazine being inserted into the magazine holder in an upwardly inclined state, thereby restricting the insertion direction of the magazine. In this way, the magazine with its insertion direction being restricted, can be attached into the magazine holder in a correct manner, without bringing about any undesired effect caused by both the drawing means and the disc storing position within the magazine on the positioning or the like in the disc arranging direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: Pioneer Electronic CorporationInventors: Jun Togashi, Hideki Kinoshita, Satoru Anada, Takashi Ota, Kiyoshi Morikawa, Toshiyuki Sakai, Shoichi Naruse
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Publication number: 20040027934Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved disc changer adapted to exactly detect whether a magazine storing a plurality of discs has been attached in the disc changer. When a magazine storing a plurality of discs is inserted into the disc changer, a detection arm and a lock arm both serving as moving members are moved by such an insertion. The lock arm, by virtue of the movement of itself, engages into an insertion groove provided on the backside of the inserted magazine and locks the magazine on the disc changer. The detection arm, by virtue of the movement of itself, actuates a lock detection switch. Here, since the detection arm and the lock arm are both urged by an urging spring, it becomes possible to exactly detect the attachment of the magazine by allowing the moving members locking the magazine on the disc changer to actuate the lock detection switch.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: Pioneer Electronic CorporationInventors: Jun Togashi, Hideki Kinoshita, Satoru Anada, Takashi Ota, Kiyoshi Morikawa, Toshiyuki Sakai, Shoichi Naruse
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Patent number: 6446523Abstract: A combination gear having a gear slipping-off preventing structure with an easier combining operation is provided, which includes: a first gear having a shaft hole; a second gear, having a shaft hole, to coaxially couple with the first gear so as to constitute the combination gear; and a shaft to be inserted into the shaft holes of the respective first and second gears, wherein either one of the first and second gears is provided with a coupling male-portion having a securing projection and the other of the first and second gears is provided with a coupling female-portion having a securing recess so that the first and second gears combine together by coupling the coupling male-portion with the coupling female-portion with an engagement between the securing projection and the securing recess. And, a relief portion to permit a relief of an end portion of the securing projection on coupling the coupling male-portion with the coupling female-portion is also provided inside the securing recess.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2000Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Takashi Ota, Jun Togashi, Kiyoshi Morikawa, Hideki Kinoshita, Satoru Anada
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Patent number: 6414933Abstract: A feeding screw is rotatably mounted on a chassis of a recording medium reproducing device. A half nut having a semicircular sectional shape is mounted on an optical pickup carriage. The half nut has at least one thread which comprises a thick central portion to be engaged with the feeding screw and thin both side portions not to be engaged with the feeding screw. The optical pickup carriage is fed by a rotation of the feeding screw, being engaged with the half nut.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2000Date of Patent: July 2, 2002Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Satoru Anada, Hideki Kinoshita, Jun Togashi, Takashi Ota, Kiyoshi Morikawa
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Patent number: 6353589Abstract: A pickup guide mechanism in which a shaft for guiding a pickup is arranged over an opening formed on a chassis and the shaft is fixed to the chassis by a fixing unit. The fixing unit includes a countersunk head screw, which is screwed to the chassis, the tapered face of the head portion of which pushes an end portion of the guide shaft, wherein the taper angle of the tapered face of the head portion exceeds 90°.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2000Date of Patent: March 5, 2002Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Jun Togashi, Kiyoshi Morikawa, Satoru Anada, Hideki Kinoshita, Takashi Ota
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Patent number: 6159954Abstract: A keratan sulfate oligosaccharide which comprises from two to five sugar units and has sulfated N-acetylglucosamine at the reducing end and in a molecule of which at least two hydroxyl groups are sulfated, preferably, which contains at least disaccharide represented by the formula Gal(6S)-GlcNAc(6S) (in the formula, Gal, GlcN, Ac, and 6S represent a galactose, a glucosamine, an acetyl group, and a 6-O-sulfate ester, respectively) as a constitutional ingredient, and/or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof are used as active ingredients of anti-inflammatory agents, antiallergic agents, immunomodulators, cell differentiation inducers, and apoptosis inducers.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1999Date of Patent: December 12, 2000Assignee: Seikagaku CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Maruyama, Kiyoshi Morikawa, Akira Tawada, Satoshi Miyauchi, Keiichi Yoshida, Akira Asari
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Patent number: 6041032Abstract: A disk changer stably maintains a tray with a selected disk loaded thereon even if a physical impact or vibration is loaded from outside therein while the tray is being drawn out, the disk is being reproduced, or the tray is being retained.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1997Date of Patent: March 21, 2000Assignee: Pioneer Electronic Corp.Inventors: Nobuo Ishida, Jun Togashi, Tomomichi Kimura, Kiyoshi Morikawa, Yoshihumi Nakayama, Hiroshi Akiyama, Tatsuya Yanagisawa, Takashi Ota
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Patent number: 5991246Abstract: A casing of a device has a pair of vertical side walls, and a plurality of vertically arranged optical discs. Each side wall has a vertical guide slit. A disc player has two pins projected from opposite sides. Elevation plates are horizontally slidably mounted on the vertical side walls at outsides thereof. Each of the elevation plates has a V-shaped guide slit comprising an upper diagonal slit and a lower diagonal slit. Each pin is slidably engaged with vertical guide slit and with the V-shaped guide slit so that disc player is held at a vertical position. The elevation plates are driven in a horizontal direction which is changed to an opposite direction at a joint between the upper diagonal slit and the lower diagonal slit. Thus, each of the pins is moved along the vertical guide slit and the V-shaped guide slit, so that the disc player is carried to a position corresponding an optical disc.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1997Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Pioneer Electronic CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi Morikawa, Yoshihumi Nakayama, Jun Togashi, Hiroshi Akiyama, Nobuo Ishida, Tomomichi Kimura, Tatsuya Yanagisawa, Takashi Ota
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Patent number: 5968806Abstract: A keratan sulfate hydrolase of an endo-.beta.-N-acetylglucosaminidase type, obtained by culturing Bacillus circulans KsT202, has reactivity on keratan polysulfate at high concentrations, an optimum pH of 4.5-6, stability at a pH of 6-7, an optimum temperature of 50-60.degree. C., thermostability at a temperature of 45.degree. C., and a molecular weight of approximately 200,000 dalton.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1998Date of Patent: October 19, 1999Assignee: Seikagaku CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi Morikawa, Hiroshi Maruyama, Takako Isomura, Kiyoshi Suzuki, Sadao Tatebayashi
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Patent number: 5939403Abstract: A keratan sulfate oligosaccharide which comprises from two to five sugar units and has sulfated N-acetylglucosamine at the reducing end and in a molecule of which at least two hydroxyl groups are sulfated, preferably, which contains at least disaccharide represented by the formula Gal(6S)-GlcNAc(6S) (in the formula, Gal, GlcN, Ac, and 6S represent a galactose, a glucosamine, an acetyl group, and a 6-O-sulfate ester, respectively) as a constitutional ingredient, and/or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof are used as active ingredients of anti-inflammatory agents, antiallergic agents, immunomodulators, cell differentiation inducers, and apoptosis inducers.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1997Date of Patent: August 17, 1999Assignee: Seikagaku CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Maruyama, Kiyoshi Morikawa, Akira Tawada, Satoshi Miyauchi, Keiichi Yoshida, Akira Asari
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Patent number: 5840546Abstract: A keratan sulfate hydrolase of an endo-.beta.-N-acetylglucosaminidase type, obtained by culturing Bacillus circulans such as Bacillus circulans KsT202, has reactivity on keratan polysulfate at high concentrations, an optimum pH of 4.5-6, stability at a pH of 6-7, an optimum temperature of 50.degree.-60.degree. C., thermostability at a temperature of 45.degree. C., and a molecular weight of approximately 200,000 dalton.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1997Date of Patent: November 24, 1998Assignee: Seikagaku CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi Morikawa, Hiroshi Maruyama, Takako Isomura, Kiyoshi Suzuki, Sadao Tatebayashi
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Patent number: 5663943Abstract: A vibration damping support mechanism for a recored data reproducing apparatus is provided which allows the apparatus to be installed in either a horizontal or vertical position without shifting the tensioning direction of damper springs. Each pair of the damping springs is mounted between a main reproducing unit and an outer casing. The two damper springs are arranged to extend in the thicknesswise and depthwise directions of the main reproducing unit respectively or arranged tilting at a predetermined angle. In the horizontal position, external vibrations are absorbed by the elastic action of one of the two damper springs and thus prevented from propagating directly to the main reproducing unit. Similarly in the vertical position, such external vibrations are absorbed by the elastic action of the other damper spring and prevented from propagating directly to the same.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 1996Date of Patent: September 2, 1997Assignee: Pioneer Electronic CorporationInventors: Tatsuya Yanagisawa, Nobuo Nohtomi, Nobutaka Sawada, Fumiya Yamada, Kiyohito Kajihara, Kiyoshi Morikawa, Atsushi Kurosawa, Tomomichi Kimura, Toshiroh Yamashita
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Patent number: 5532993Abstract: A vibration damping support mechanism for a recored data reproducing apparatus is provided which allows the apparatus to be installed in either a horizontal or vertical position without shifting the tensioning direction of damper springs. Each pair of the damping springs is mounted between a main reproducing unit and an outer casing. The two damper springs are arranged to extend in the thicknesswise and depthwise directions of the main reproducing unit respectively or arranged tilting at a predetermined angle. In the horizontal position, external vibrations are absorbed by the elastic action of one of the two damper springs and thus prevented from propagating directly to the main reproducing unit. Similarly in the vertical position, such external vibrations are absorbed by the elastic action of the other damper spring and prevented from propagating directly to the same.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1994Date of Patent: July 2, 1996Assignee: Pioneer Electronic CorporationInventors: Tatsuya Yanagisawa, Nobuo Nohtomi, Nobutaka Sawada, Fumiya Yamada, Kiyohito Kajihara, Kiyoshi Morikawa, Atsushi Kurosawa, Tomomichi Kimura, Toshiroh Yamashita
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Patent number: 5457677Abstract: A CD player has a magazine having a plurality of shelves each of which is provided for mounting an ordinary 12 cm CD. An adapter has a thickness so as to be mounted on the shelf of the magazine and has a U-shaped form having an arc corresponding to a circumference of a small CD. The adapter is so arranged that the center of the small CD attached to the adapter is deflected from the center of the ordinary CD to be mounted on the shelf when the adapter is mounted on the shelf of the magazine.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1992Date of Patent: October 10, 1995Assignee: Pioneer Electronic CorporationInventors: Toshirou Yamashita, Atsushi Kurosawa, Kiyoshi Morikawa, Tomomichi Kimura
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Patent number: 5405759Abstract: Disclosed are novel enzymes, heparitinase T-I, heparitinase T-II, heparitinase T-III and heparitinase T-IV, which degrade heparan sulfate and/or heparin, a process for producing thereof by cultivating a novel Bacillus circulans HpT 298 having an ability of producing these enzymes and a novel Bacillus circulans HpT 298.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 1993Date of Patent: April 11, 1995Assignee: Seikagaku Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kiyoshi Morikawa, Hirofumi Miyazono, Hiroshi Maruyama, Keiichi Yoshida