Patents by Inventor Mitsuru Kainuma

Mitsuru Kainuma 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: 20050049514
    Abstract: The wearable heartbeat measuring device is accomplished by wearing a wrist-watch-like heart monitor device on the wrist. The heart monitor is worn on the top of the wrist with a strap around the wrist. The strap has an inflexible extending portion that extends from the heart monitor at a predetermined angle and a predetermined width with respect to the wrist so that a predetermined space is maintained between the top portion of the wrist and the strap for promoting the transfer efficiency of the pulsation force that is initially experienced at a part of the strap at the bottom of the wrist. The strap also has a flexible portion. A predetermined angle and a predetermined width of the extended portion also facilitate the flexible portion to form a flat area where the wrist contacts the strap. In the prefer embodiments, the width of the strap exceeds the width of the wrist when it is worn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwamiya, Mitsuru Kainuma, Kazuo Aoki, Kazuto Ushiyama
  • Patent number: 5835017
    Abstract: In a radio searching system, a present position of an object under search such as a mentally handicapped aged person and a mountain climber is correctly defined and displayed by utilizing the characteristics of the radio signals. The radio searching system is comprised of a portable radio unit for transmitting a radio signal having a predetermined frequency, searching radio units provided at a plurality of searching points, for receiving the radio signal transmitted from the portable radio unit, a position defining unit for defining a position of an object under search on which the portable radio unit is mounted based on the transmission direction of the radio signal received by the searching radio unit, and an image display unit for displaying on an image, the position of the object under search defined by the position defining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Otax Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadahiro Ohkura, Toshiyuki Yoshida, Mitsuru Kainuma, Kazuo Aoki
  • Patent number: 5532581
    Abstract: In a connector apparatus employed in a measuring system, a sensor is connected by releasable connector to a measuring unit to form a standard sensor connection eliminating any requirement for calibration. The connector apparatus includes a measuring circuit containing a setting line scanning program reading a plurality of setting switches in the connector set in ON/OFF states indicating the type of sensor and correction data employed by the scanning program for measurements made by the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignee: Otax Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadahiro Ohkura, Toshiyuki Yoshida, Mitsuru Kainuma, Kazuo Aoki
  • Patent number: 5528519
    Abstract: In a connector apparatus used to a measuring apparatus, a method for connecting a sensor to the measuring apparatus is standardized without any calibration. The connector apparatus is arranged by comprising: a measuring apparatus for storing therein a read command program: a connector containing a ROM (read-only memory) from which a measurement item is readable in accordance with the read command program stored in the measuring apparatus; and a sensor connected to the connector and operable in accordance with the measurement item read out from the ROM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: Otax Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadahiro Ohkura, Toshiyuki Yoshida, Mitsuru Kainuma, Kazuo Aoki