Patents by Inventor Michihiro Asano

Michihiro Asano 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: 6603859
    Abstract: A speaker with drive mechanism includes a plurality of speakers which can be moved individually or moved simultaneously without variations in positioning. The speaker with drive mechanism includes a memory, a memory for storing a current position of the speaker. When remote control signals indicating a speaker moving instruction are received, the received remote control signals are counted and the current position stored in the memory is updated. The result moves the commanded speaker to an updated address. Remote control signals indicating a relative speaker moving instruction may also be used to update the address in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Nakamichi Corp.
    Inventor: Michihiro Asano
  • Patent number: 5703844
    Abstract: A disk player has a magazine for storing disks and a disk transport mechanism transporting a selected disk between a playback position outside the magazine and a store position located entirely within the magazine. The carriages are stacked upon each other and pivotally supported within the magazine. The carriages are extracted from the stack by lifting a front end of a carriage above a selected carriage. A transport mechanism moves carriages between the magazine, the playback position and an eject position. A disk sensor senses the presence of a disk in the transport mechanism before the carriage is reinstalled in the magazine and a memory updated to indicate that the selected carriage is occupied by a disk. If an extra disk is inadvertently placed on the selected carriage, after the transport mechanism reinstalls the selected carriage, the sensor indicates that a disk remains on the transport mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: Nakamichi Corporation
    Inventor: Michihiro Asano
  • Patent number: 5604721
    Abstract: A disk player has a magazine for storing disks and a disk transport mechanism transporting a selected disk between a playback position outside the magazine and a store position located entirely within the magazine. The carriages are stacked upon each other and pivotally supported within the magazine. The carriages are extracted from the stack by lifting a front end of a carriage above a selected carriage. A transport mechanism moves carriages between the magazine, the playback position and an eject position. A disk sensor senses the presence of a disk in the transport mechanism before the carriage is reinstalled in the magazine and a memory updated to indicate that the selected carriage is occupied by a disk. If an extra disk is inadvertently placed on the selected carriage, after the transport mechanism reinstalls the selected carriage, the sensor indicates that a disk remains on the transport mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1997
    Assignee: Nakamichi Corporation
    Inventor: Michihiro Asano
  • Patent number: 5502691
    Abstract: A car loading audio instrument adapted to be used by being connected to a car battery so that an electric power is supplied to the audio instrument and comprising a circuit breaker to break a circuit in a non-reversible manner in accordance with detection of robbery of the car loading audio instrument so that it is prohibited from being operated. A robbery is detected when two power lines supplying power are disconnected from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: Nakamichi Corporation
    Inventor: Michihiro Asano
  • Patent number: 5418761
    Abstract: A car loading audio instrument adapted to be used by being connected to a car battery so that an electric power is supplied to the audio instrument and comprising a circuit breaker to break a circuit in a non-reversible manner in accordance with detection of robbery of the car loading audio instrument so that it is prohibited from being operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1995
    Inventor: Michihiro Asano