Patents by Inventor Shoichi Muramoto

Shoichi Muramoto 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: 4349767
    Abstract: An electron gun used in a cathode ray tube, for example, color television picture tube, is disclosed. The electron gun has a plurality of electrodes aligned in one direction along an axis of a neck portion of the cathode ray tube. Each of the electrodes is supplied with a suitable potential for focusing and accelerating an electron beam derived by a cathode. A resistance element which comprises a ceramic substrate coated with a layer of resistive material is provided along and adjacent to the electrodes in the cathode ray tube. One end of the resistance element is electrically connected to the anode potential, and another end is connected to a stem lead pin which is at a substantially low enough potential to avoid mutual electric discharge between stem lead pins. Suitable potential for the selective electrodes is derived from intermediate taps of the resistor and electrode material are composed of a mixture of RuO.sub.2 and glass frit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shoichi Muramoto, Yoshihiro Tsukamura, Masayuki Tozawa, Fusao Ishii
  • Patent number: 4088984
    Abstract: A flame detecting apparatus in which a detecting electrode is disposed in a flame, the base of a transistor is connected to the detecting electrode and biased with a predetermined DC voltage derived from a biasing circuit, the biasing circuit including a resistor and the impedance of the flame, an AC signal is applied to the emitter of the transistor, and an amplified AC signal is derived from the collector of the transistor as an output signal; the output signal being used as a control signal for a fuel supply control and/or an indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1978
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shoichi Muramoto, Susumu Nishigaki
  • Patent number: 4069436
    Abstract: A flat thermionic cathode is provided with a substrate having at least one main heating element thereon to produce at least one substantially localized area of heat and a sub-heating element to substantially define a heating area, the localized area being produced within the heating area. A cathode element including electron emissive material is disposed at the localized area. While the localized area tends to produce a temperature gradient directed from the localized area toward the perimeter of the substrate so as to create thermal stress in the substrate along the perimeter thereof, the sub-heating element reduces this temperature gradient and, consequently, the thermal stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1978
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Nakayama, Akio Ohkoshi, Shoichi Muramoto, Takehisa Natori, Koichiro Sumi, Hideaki Nakagawa, Torao Aozuka
  • Patent number: 4053807
    Abstract: A thermionic cathode structure includes a ceramic base plate, a heater layer of tungsten coated on the ceramic base plate, a cathode lead layer of tungsten formed on a ceramic insulating layer covering the heater layer, a base metal layer coated on the cathode lead layer, and a cathode material coated on the base metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1977
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Torao Aozuka, Akio Ohkoshi, Shoichi Muramoto, Akira Nakayama, Koichiro Sumi
  • Patent number: 3979623
    Abstract: An indicator display tube in which indicator electrode units, each consisting of anode and cathode segments, lie in the same plane and in which all of the cathode segments are simultaneously energized and the anode electrodes are energized on a time sequential basis in such a manner that only the indicator electrode unit having its anode electrodes energized will glow at a particular time. The cathode segments of each indicator unit are connected in parallel which substantially reduces the number of leads to the display tube over conventional indicators which require a separate lead for energizing each of the cathode segments. The indicator display tube has means for preventing accidental discharge of adjacent indicator electrode units which would produce erroneous message displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1973
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1976
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuzuru Yanagisawa, Akio Ohgoshi, Akira Nakayama, Shoichi Muramoto
  • Patent number: 3976907
    Abstract: An indicator display tube in which indicator electrode units, each consisting of anode and cathode segments, lie in the same plane and in which all of the cathode segments are simultaneously energized and the anode electrodes are energized on a time sequential basis in such a manner that only the indicator electrode unit having its anode electrodes energized will glow at a particular time. The cathode segments of each indicator unit are connected in parallel which substantially reduces the number of leads to the display tube over conventional indicators which require a separate lead for energizing each of the cathode segments. The indicator display tube has means for preventing accidental discharge of adjacent indicator electrode units which would produce erroneous message displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1974
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1976
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuzuru Yanagisawa, Akio Ohgoshi, Akira Yamanaka, Shoichi Muramoto
  • Patent number: 3950200
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a thermal printing head by printing a circuit pattern of resistive elements and electric conductors on one surface of a flat paper sheet, covering the circuit pattern and surface of the flat paper sheet with a carrier layer of a substantially transparent methacrylic acid resin, peeling off the flat paper sheet, placing the remaining carrier layer carrying the circuit pattern over a surface of a pre-shaped insulating substrate with the circuit pattern being laid downward, and heating the carrier layer placed on the substrate to cause the carrier layer to be burned off and cause the circuit pattern to adhere to the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1973
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1976
    Assignee: Nippon Toki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi Muramoto, Ichiro Fukunaga, Haruyuki Ikeda