Patents by Inventor Makoto Natori
Makoto Natori 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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Patent number: 11571197Abstract: An in-tube transit object that is inserted in a tube includes: a coil section formed by winding a wire; and a fiber section attached to an end on one side and an end on the other side in a winding-axis direction of the coil section. The coil section is formed with a large diameter section, through which fiber of the fiber section is inserted, at the end on the one side and the end on the other side, and is inserted in an extending state in the winding-axis direction when the in-tube transit object is inserted into the tube. The fiber section is configured to expand when seen in the winding-axis direction in the case where the in-tube transit object is inserted in the tube and then discharged from the tube, which brings the coil section into a compressed state in the winding-axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignees: Mikuro Spring Co., Ltd., GUNZE LIMITEDInventors: Takayuki Koyama, Makoto Natori, Yusuke Sato, Saki Okumura, Yuuki Kato, Mieko Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20210244263Abstract: According to one embodiment, a coil sheath is provided which is formed by spirally winding a wire and having a plurality of unit loops arranged side by side in a direction of an axis, wherein each unit loop includes a plurality of non-circular loops each having a long axis portion and a short axis portion, a dimension of the long axis portion is longer than a short axis portion of the other loops, and, in front view seen in an axial direction, each unit loop includes a central space including the axis and a plurality of peripheral spaces located around the central space.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicants: nano grains Co., Ltd., Mikuro Spring Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keita Suzuki, Makoto Natori, Yusuke Sato
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Patent number: 11065008Abstract: An embolic coil is formed by being spirally wound by an element wire and is filled into an aneurysm. The embolic coil includes: a first coil portion, in which a large-diameter coil portion wound to have a large diameter D1 and a small-diameter coil portion wound to have a diameter D2 smaller than the large-diameter coil portion are arranged in a plurality of coils and alternately in a longitudinal direction Y of the embolic coil. A second coil portion is wound to be continuous with the first coil portion and to have a surface flatter than the first coil portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignees: SHINSHU UNIVERSITY, Mikuro Spring Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Koyama, Takuya Kojima, Makoto Natori, Yusuke Sato
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Publication number: 20210177388Abstract: An in-tube transit object that is inserted in a tube includes: a coil section formed by winding a wire; and a fiber section attached to an end on one side and an end on the other side in a winding-axis direction of the coil section. The coil section is formed with a large diameter section, through which fiber of the fiber section is inserted, at the end on the one side and the end on the other side, and is inserted in an extending state in the winding-axis direction when the in-tube transit object is inserted into the tube. The fiber section is configured to expand when seen in the winding-axis direction in the case where the in-tube transit object is inserted in the tube and then discharged from the tube, which brings the coil section into a compressed state in the winding-axis direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicants: Mikuro Spring Co., Ltd., GUNZE LIMITEDInventors: Takayuki KOYAMA, Makoto NATORI, Yusuke SATO, Saki OKUMURA, Yuuki KATO, Mieko ISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20190142436Abstract: An embolic coil is formed by being spirally wound by an element wire and is filled into an aneurysm. The embolic coil includes: a first coil portion, in which a large-diameter coil portion wound to have a large diameter D1 and a small-diameter coil portion wound to have a diameter D2 smaller than the large-diameter coil portion are arranged in a plurality of coils and alternately in a longitudinal direction Y of the embolic coil. A second coil portion is wound to be continuous with the first coil portion and to have a surface flatter than the first coil portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2016Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicants: SHINSHU UNIVERSITY, Mikuro Spring Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi KOYAMA, Takuya KOJIMA, Makoto NATORI, Yusuke SATO
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Patent number: 8379003Abstract: A display device for displaying an image using matrix driving includes: an emission element corresponding to each pixel to be displayed, disposed on L lines, with the scanning direction as lines; a display portion whereby the M lines worth of the emission elements are simultaneously driven; and a connection unit for connecting an on-substrate wiring line extracted from the emission element of the display portion externally; with the connection units including connection terminals for connecting each of the on-substrate wiring lines externally, and at least a part of the connection terminals being arrayed two-dimensionally so as to make up M columns; and with each of the M columns worth of the connection terminals being connected with the on-substrate wiring lines which are thinned out (M?1) wiring lines at a time.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2008Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hidehiro Kawaguchi, Masato Doi, Toshiaki Kanemitsu, Makoto Natori
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Patent number: 8125152Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a light source apparatus capable of improving color reproduction compared to related arts without declining intensity. A light source apparatus includes: a cold cathode fluorescent tube including a B phosphor for blue and a G phosphor for green; and a light emitting diode for red, wherein the G phosphor emits a single-spectrum light with a peak wavelength of 510 to 530 nm, and the light emitting diode emits a single-spectrum light with a peak wavelength of 620 to 650 nm.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2006Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masaru Fujiwara, Tsutomu Niimura, Makoto Natori
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Patent number: 7668556Abstract: A communication system including a communication terminal apparatus and a wireless key apparatus in wireless communication is provided. The communication terminal apparatus includes a first communication unit operable to receive a first wireless signal, and a first control unit operable to determine a distance between the communication terminal apparatus and the wireless key apparatus based on the received first wireless signal, wherein the first control unit limits a predetermined function of the communication terminal apparatus based on determining the distance. The wireless key apparatus includes a second communication unit operable to receive a second wireless signal, and a second control unit operable to determine the distance between the communication terminal apparatus and the wireless key apparatus based on the received second wireless signal, whereby the second control unit decreases transmission power associated with the second communication unit based on the determined distance.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2005Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Minoru Yokoshi, Mitsuyoshi Yasuda, Katsutoshi Itoh, Makoto Natori, Osamu Yoshimura, Takeshi Itagaki
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Patent number: 7577447Abstract: In a case when a wireless communication is carried out between a communication terminal apparatus and a wireless key apparatus in which one of the two apparatuses which carry out the communication becomes a master and the other one becomes a slave, the slave detects a signal from the master and the wireless communication is carried out by a wireless communication system executing the wireless connection between the two apparatuses, it is constituted such that each of the communication terminal apparatus and the wireless key apparatus includes communication means for carrying out the wireless communication, and control means; and in a case when the wireless communication state between the communication terminal apparatus and the wireless key apparatus is a non-connection state, the side which becomes the master is to transmit a signal asking for a “response from the slave” intermittently by changing the period into a plurality of steps in response to the non-connection time period and the side which becomes thType: GrantFiled: June 28, 2005Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Katsutoshi Itoh, Mitsuyoshi Yasuda, Makoto Natori, Osamu Yoshimura, Minoru Yokoshi, Takeshi Itagaki
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Patent number: 7509118Abstract: A head set apparatus capable of a wireless communication by a predetermined wireless communication system. The wireless communication system includes at least a first communication mode and a second communication mode. The first communication mode enables a data transfer with a partner apparatus and a second communication mode carries out a wireless communication with the partner apparatus with a period shorter than that of the communication in the first communication mode while the wireless connected state remains. The head set apparatus includes a communication section for carrying out a wireless communication by the predetermined wireless communication system and a control section for making the head set function as a head set when the communication state in the communication means is in the first communication mode and for making the head set function as a wireless key for security when the communication state is in the second communication mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2005Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Katsutoshi Itoh, Mitsuyoshi Yasuda, Makoto Natori, Osamu Yoshimura, Minoru Yokoshi, Takeshi Itagaki
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Publication number: 20090033644Abstract: A display device for displaying an image using matrix driving includes: an emission element corresponding to each pixel to be displayed, disposed on L lines, with the scanning direction as lines; a display portion whereby the M lines worth of the emission elements are simultaneously driven; and a connection unit for connecting an on-substrate wiring line extracted from the emission element of the display portion externally; with the connection units including connection terminals for connecting each of the on-substrate wiring lines externally, and at least a part of the connection terminals being arrayed two-dimensionally so as to make up M columns; and with each of the M columns worth of the connection terminals being connected with the on-substrate wiring lines which are thinned out (M?1) wiring lines at a time.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2008Publication date: February 5, 2009Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hidehiro Kawaguchi, Masato Doi, Toshiaki Kanemitsu, Makoto Natori
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Patent number: 7468959Abstract: A communication terminal apparatus and a wireless key apparatus including judgment means for judging or presuming the wireless communication state or the wireless communication distance in a communication circuit. The communication terminal apparatus and the wireless key apparatus are wireless-connected, and in a case when a communication state for carrying out a wireless communication intermittently is set in each communication circuit and there is judgment or presumption of a predetermined state in the judgment means in a state in which the wireless connection is maintained, the mode setting relating to the function limitation or the notification mode setting relating to the function limitation is to be changed.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2005Date of Patent: December 23, 2008Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Katsutoshi Itoh, Mitsuyoshi Yasuda, Makoto Natori, Osamu Yoshimura, Minoru Yokoshi, Takeshi Itagaki
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Patent number: 7436798Abstract: A communication system that includes a communication terminal apparatus and a wireless key apparatus and in which wireless communication is possible. A first communication mode attempts a wireless connection in a first period in order to carry out a wireless communication between the communication terminal apparatus and the wireless key apparatus and a second communication mode carries out a wireless communication between the communication terminal apparatus and the wireless key apparatus in a second period longer than that of the connection mode of the wireless connected state.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2005Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Katsutoshi Itoh, Mitsuyoshi Yasuda, Makoto Natori, Osamu Yoshimura, Minoru Yokoshi, Takeshi Itagaki
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Patent number: 7352828Abstract: The present invention provides a receiving apparatus and method in which frequency of calculation such as weighting multiplication and memory capacity of a frame buffer can be reduced. To this end, reference phase information and data are separated by a reference phase inverse spreading unit (106) and a data portion inverse spreading unit (107), respectively. A weighting coefficient calculating unit (115) calculates weighting coefficients based on SNR values as transmission line information from an SNR calculating unit (114) and sends calculated weighting coefficients to a multiplier (109), where phase correction values based on the reference phase information are multiplied by the weighting coefficients to be correction coefficients.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2001Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiko Terashima, Taku Nagase, Makoto Natori
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Patent number: 7340215Abstract: It was constituted such that in a case when a function of the communication terminal apparatus 10 is limited in response to a wireless communication state between the communication terminal apparatus 10 and the wireless key apparatus 50, it is controlled in the wireless key apparatus 50 such that a communication connection with the communication terminal apparatus 10 is to be carried out; the function of the terminal apparatus 10 is to limited in the communication terminal apparatus 10 in a case when a predetermined communication state cannot be maintained with respect to the wireless key apparatus 50 and at the same time; and in a case when it is detected that the terminal apparatus 10 exists in a predetermined region such as in the vicinity of the apparatus 10 or the like, the function of the terminal apparatus 10 is not to be limited regardless of the communication state with respect to the wireless key apparatus 50.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Minoru Yokoshi, Mitsuyoshi Yasuda, Katsutoshi Itoh, Makoto Natori, Osamu Yoshimura, Takeshi Itagaki
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Patent number: 7340670Abstract: A decoding apparatus includes simultaneous decoding means for sequentially Viterbi-decoding a plurality of data sequences over respective data lengths from the start at the same time, and stop means for sequentially comparing likelihoods of respective data sequences which are simultaneously Viterbi-decoded by the simultaneous decoding means and stopping the simultaneous decoding means from decoding a certain data sequence if it is determined based upon the compared result that a likelihood of the certain data sequence is lower than a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2004Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventor: Makoto Natori
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Patent number: 7336929Abstract: A portable terminal monitors a signal level of a short-range wireless signal from a wireless communication apparatus. If the signal level drops so low that a state of connection for short-range wireless communications cannot be maintained between the two apparatuses, use of predetermined functions of the portable terminal is limited. A short-range wireless communication facility of the portable terminal and the wireless communication apparatus move into a particular operation mode if communications do not occur therebetween at least for a predetermined time period. In monitoring the signal level of the wireless signal from the wireless communication apparatus in the particular operation mode, the portable terminal reduces a response speed at which to detect a signal level change.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2005Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Yasuda, Katsutoshi Itoh, Makoto Natori, Minoru Yokoshi, Osamu Yoshimura, Takeshi Itagaki
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Patent number: 7239666Abstract: A communication system that can satisfactorily communicate with a mobile station by a transmitter and receiver of a simple arrangement wherein a plurality of carriers having different frequencies are transmitted simultaneously and data is transmitted on the basis of a phase difference between the carriers. Also, the carriers are multiplied with a predetermined time waveform and transmitted, so that a reception side receives data by use of a time waveform narrower than the above time waveform.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 1998Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsuhiro Suzuki, Makoto Natori
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Patent number: 7228142Abstract: According to the present invention makes, even if two of mobile communication terminal apparatuses such as a wireless key apparatus and a mobile telephone terminal apparatus or the like are utilized in various possessing states, it is made possible to maintain a stable distance detection accuracy. In a communication apparatus in which A distance to a connection partner terminal is detected according to a certain parameter and in a case when the distance exceeds a predetermined value, a function limitation or notification to a user is carried out, it is identified that the two of the mobile communication terminals lie in a predetermined appropriate distance according to a manual or automatic method and the proper distance identification information and further receiving state and transmission power at that time if they are necessary are communicated mutually and a parameter used for a distance detection is adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2005Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Makoto Natori, Katsutoshi Itoh, Mitsuyoshi Yasuda, Osamu Yoshimura, Minoru Yokoshi, Takeshi Itagaki
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Publication number: 20070018557Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a light source apparatus capable of improving color reproduction compared to related arts without declining intensity. A light source apparatus includes: a cold cathode fluorescent tube including a B phosphor for blue and a G phosphor for green; and a light emitting diode for red, wherein the G phosphor emits a single-spectrum light with a peak wavelength of 510 to 530 nm, and the light emitting diode emits a single-spectrum light with a peak wavelength of 620 to 650 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2006Publication date: January 25, 2007Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Masaru Fujiwara, Tsutomu Niimura, Makoto Natori