Patents by Inventor Masao Nagano

Masao Nagano 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).

  • Publication number: 20070032107
    Abstract: In a pivotal lever-type connector, at the same time when a male connector housing is fitted into a predetermined position relative to a female connector housing, so that the female connector housing and the male connector housing are brought into a provisionally-fitted condition, distal end portions of elastic retaining arms, after abutting respectively against male connector housing-side inclining surfaces, are guided respectively onto female connector housing-side inclining surfaces, and slide on the respective female connector housing-side inclining surfaces in respective directions to decrease the distance therebetween, so that a pivotal lever is pivotally moved, thereby canceling the provisionally-fitted condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Inventors: Kuninori Matsubara, Michiko Watanabe, Masao Nagano
  • Publication number: 20070026706
    Abstract: In a pivotal lever-type connector, a pivotal lever includes a metallic pivotal lever body which is disposed generally in straddling relation to a hood portion of a female connector housing, and can be engaged with engagement projections of a male connector housing, and a synthetic resin-made pivotal movement operating portion mounted on the pivotal lever body to cover a pivotally-moving end portion of the pivotal lever body. The pivotal movement operating portion has synthetic resin-made elastic retaining arms molded integrally with a body of this operating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Kuninori Matsubara, Masao Nagano, Michiko Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20070020978
    Abstract: A lever-type connector 10 includes female and male connector housings 41 and 11 which have respective connection terminals 50 and 51, and can be fitted together. A lock lever 17 is pivotally supported on the male connector housing 11, and engagement lock projections 46, formed on the female connector housing 41, are engaged with the lock lever 17, and in this condition the lock lever 17 is pivotally moved so as to fit the female and male connector housings 41 and 11 together. The lock lever 17 has at least one projection 27 serving as a contact point at which the lock lever contacts the male connector housing 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Inventors: Takao Murakami, Takanori Yamawaki, Masao Nagano, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Masato Minakata
  • Patent number: 7066747
    Abstract: A connector includes a connector housing that has a first terminal and an inner housing that has a second terminal, and is configured to be fitted into the connector housing so that the second terminal is connected to the first terminal. A first slanting face is formed on an outer peripheral face of the inner housing. The connector housing have a chamber for receiving the inner housing therein when the inner housing is fitted into the connector housing. A first prevention face is formed on an inner peripheral face of the chamber. The first slanting face is surface-contacted with the first prevention face when the inner housing is completely fitted into the connector housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Nagano, Takao Murakami
  • Publication number: 20060009058
    Abstract: A connector includes a connector housing that has a first terminal and an inner housing that has a second terminal, and is configured to be fitted into the connector housing so that the second terminal is connected to the first terminal. A first slanting face is formed on an outer peripheral face of the inner housing. The connector housing have a chamber for receiving the inner housing therein when the inner housing is fitted into the connector housing. A first prevention face is formed on an inner peripheral face of the chamber. The first slanting face is surface-contacted with the first prevention face when the inner housing is completely fitted into the connector housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Masao Nagano, Takao Murakami
  • Publication number: 20050225197
    Abstract: In a slotless permanent magnet rotary electric machinery, comprising a substantially cylindrical rotor (53) incorporated with a permanent magnet (52), a stator iron core (54) surrounding the rotor; and a coil (55) provided between the rotor (53) and stator core (54) in a spaced relationship with respect to the rotor (53), the coil (55) comprises a plurality of turns which are shifted from one turn to another along the circumferential direction in a mutually overlapping manner; and the coil turns are formed by a conductor (60, 60a, 60b) having an elongated cross section, a long axis of the cross section extending in a radial direction. This provides rotary electric machinery which can significantly reduce loss in a high speed range without substantially increasing copper loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Inventors: Masao Nagano, Masaru Ozawa
  • Patent number: 6708516
    Abstract: An air conditioner having an air blower (1) for air blowing, a front heat exchanger (2) and a rear heat exchanger (3) respectively provided on the front side and the rear side of an indoor unit (10) so as to surround the air blower (1) and for carrying out heat exchange between the indoor air and a refrigerant, a rear drain pan (11) provided under this rear heat exchanger (3) and for receiving drained water, and an air blower air path (4) formed around the air blower (1) and narrowed near the front end portion of the drain pan (11). The lower portion of the rear heat exchanger (3) is located rearward in comparison with the upper portion of the rear heat exchanger (3) so as to be inclined backward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidetomo Nakagawa, Masao Nagano, Isao Funayama, Toshiaki Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20030167786
    Abstract: An air conditioner having an air blower (1) for air blowing, a front heat exchanger (2) and a rear heat exchanger (3) respectively provided on the front side and the rear side of an indoor unit (10) so as to surround the air blower (1) and for carrying out heat exchange between the indoor air and a refrigerant, a rear drain pan (11) provided under this rear heat exchanger (3) and for receiving drained water, and an air blower air path (4) formed around the air blower (1) and narrowed near the front end portion of the drain pan (11). The lower portion of the rear heat exchanger (3) is located rearward in comparison with the upper portion of the rear heat exchanger (3) so as to be inclined backward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidetomo Nakagawa, Masao Nagano, Isao Funayama, Toshiaki Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20030040565
    Abstract: A holder for waterproof connector comprising a holder portion made of a resin and a packing portion made of a gel-like material for keeping a waterproof connector having the terminal portion of an electric wire with a terminal inserted therein watertight at the electric wire side thereof, wherein the packing portion made of a gel-like material is obtained by hardening a silicone composition containing all of the following components (A) to (D): (A) an organopolysiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups per molecule in an amount of 100 parts by weight; (B) an organopolysiloxane having at least two hydrogen atoms having a silicon atom bonded thereto per molecule in an amount such that the amount of the hydrogen atom having a silicon atom bonded thereto in the component (B) is from not smaller than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Sugiyama, Masao Nagano
  • Patent number: 6275020
    Abstract: There are provided a frequency analysis method permitting a frequency analysis to be performed at a high rate and a sweep type spectrum analyzer using such frequency analysis method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventor: Masao Nagano
  • Patent number: 6263028
    Abstract: A digitized quadrature detected output of a sampling rate R (=16Rs, where Rs is the symbol rate) from a quadrature detector is subjected to FFT processing and the frequency of the peak power spectrum of the FFT output is detected. Then, a frequency error &OHgr;01 between the frequency of the peak power spectrum and a standardized value is calculated and the frequency error &OHgr;01 of the detected output is corrected. The corrected output is decimated by a filter to a signal of a sampling rate 4Rs, which is input into an estimate part, wherein a clock phase is calculated which minimizes variance of the amplitude of the input sample data and a frequency error &OHgr;02 is computed from a deviation of the signal point of the input sample data from a standardized angle value of the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventor: Masao Nagano
  • Patent number: 6101218
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for measuring power of carrier channel in question and power leaked from an adjacent channel (leakage power) of a transmitter, and calculating a ratio between the leakage power and the carrier power in the time domain using a digital signal processing technique. The power measurement apparatus includes a frequency mixer which receives a signal from a transmission channel in consideration, an A/D converter for converting an output of the frequency mixer to a digital signal, a Hilbert converter for converting the digital signal into a complex signal, a low pass filter for removing low frequency components from the output signal of the Hilbert converter, a bandpass filter for separating the output of the low pass filter into the carrier power and the leakage power, and a power processing unit for computing the ratio between the leakage power and the carrier power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Advantest Corp.
    Inventor: Masao Nagano
  • Patent number: 5963589
    Abstract: A digital signal modulation analysis device is to shorten the time for modulation analysis, and at the same time to structure a measurement device that is small in scale and inexpensive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Advantest Corp.
    Inventors: Masao Nagano, Hitoshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5828218
    Abstract: In estimating the residual capacity of a battery according to the maximum output estimating process, a reference point is established in advance at the intersection of a plurality of current/voltage characteristic linear curves corresponding to various residual capacities of the battery or in an area in the vicinity of the intersections of the curves. A current/voltage characteristic linear curve is determined so as to pass through the reference point and a measured operating point of the battery which corresponds to the present discharging current and output voltage values measured when the battery is discharged. Then, a maximum transfer power value of the battery is determined from the current/voltage characteristic linear curve thus determined, and the present residual capacity of the battery is estimated from the maximum transfer power value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahide Yokoo, Masao Nagano, Hideharu Takemoto
  • Patent number: 5808463
    Abstract: A method for measuring an adjacent channel power of a device under test (DUT) such as a radio transmitter. The method comprises the steps of performing a frequency conversion to convert a transmitting signal of the DUT to an intermediate frequency signal; sampling the intermediate frequency signal to convert it to a digital signal; resolving the digital signal into an in-phase component and a quadrature component by a quadrature detection; removing a high frequency component from each of the in-phase and quadrature components; executing a complex Fourier transformation for the in-phase and quadrature components to obtain a frequency spectrum; and computing the leakage power to the adjacent channel from the frequency spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventor: Masao Nagano
  • Patent number: 5771443
    Abstract: An FM input signal V(t) is A/D converted, then an in-phase component I and a quadrature component Q are obtained. Then, an instantaneous phase .theta.=tan.sup.-1 (Q/I) of the V(t) is obtained and also an instantaneous frequency of the modulated signal f.sub.a (t)=(1/2.pi.)d.theta./dt is obtained. Alternately, f.sub.a (t)=(IdQ/dt-QdI/dt)/{2.pi.(I.sup.2 +Q.sup.2)} is directly obtained from I and Q. A positive peak P+ and a negative peak P- of the obtained f.sub.a (t) is detected to display the average value of these as a frequency deviation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Nagano, Hitoshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5724388
    Abstract: A digital signal modulation analysis device is to shorten the time for modulation analysis, and at the same time to structure a measurement device that is small in scale and inexpensive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: ADVANTEST Corp.
    Inventors: Masao Nagano, Hitoshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5635842
    Abstract: In estimating the residual capacity of a battery according to the maximum output estimating process, a reference point is established in advance at the intersection of a plurality of current/voltage characteristic linear curves corresponding to various residual capacities of the battery or in an area in the vicinity of the intersections of the curves. A current/voltage characteristic linear curve is determined so as to pass through the reference point and a measured operating point of the battery which corresponds to the present discharging current and output voltage values measured when the battery is discharged. Then, a maximum transfer power value of the battery is determined from the current/voltage characteristic linear curve thus determined, and the present residual capacity of the battery is estimated from the maximum transfer power value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1997
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahide Yokoo, Masao Nagano, Hideharu Takemoto