Patents by Inventor Takanobu Sasaki
Takanobu Sasaki 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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Publication number: 20160134943Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device comprises a receiver configured to accept an instruction to display or change a menu screen, and an identifier recorder configured to record, when the menu screen is displayed or changed under the instruction, an identifier of the displayed or changed menu screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2014Publication date: May 12, 2016Inventor: Takanobu Sasaki
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Patent number: 8228355Abstract: A display device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a display configured to have a backlight; a driver configured to drive the backlight; first and second temperature measurement modules, configured to measure temperatures of the display device, disposed in different positions in the display; a first comparison module configured to compare the temperature measured in the first temperature measurement module with a first threshold value; a second comparison module configured to compare the temperature measured in the second temperature measurement module with a second threshold value different from the first threshold value; and a controller controlling an output current value of the driver based on a comparison result in the first comparison module and the second comparison module.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2010Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Takanobu Sasaki
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Publication number: 20110080431Abstract: A display device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a display configured to have a backlight; a driver configured to drive the backlight; first and second temperature measurement modules, configured to measure temperatures of the display device, disposed in different positions in the display; a first comparison module configured to compare the temperature measured in the first temperature measurement module with a first threshold value; a second comparison module configured to compare the temperature measured in the second temperature measurement module with a second threshold value different from the first threshold value; and a controller controlling an output current value of the driver based on a comparison result in the first comparison module and the second comparison module.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2010Publication date: April 7, 2011Inventor: Takanobu Sasaki
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Publication number: 20100214486Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sharpening module and a grayscale smoothing module are provided. The smoothing module smoothes and reduces grayscale differences in a plain area of an input digital image signal, according to a parameter. A frequency state detection module detects a frequency state of the input digital image signal. A first case to be detected is that lower-frequency components are substantially fewer than higher-frequency components. A second case to be detected is that the lower-frequency components are substantially more than the higher-frequency components. A correction parameter output module outputs a correction parameter which enhances a smoothing process more when the second case is detected than when the first case is detected, the smoothing process being performed by the smoothing module.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2009Publication date: August 26, 2010Inventor: Takanobu Sasaki
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Publication number: 20070174839Abstract: A program management method for managing a number of task processing of execution when a computer for executing the task processing of a received request executes the task processing with a plurality of programs which extend across a plurality of processes, wherein a memory unit of the computer manages a resource usage volume for each task processing; and wherein a processing unit stops the task processing which has a largest resource usage volume when the resource usage volume exceeds a predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2006Publication date: July 26, 2007Inventors: Ruriko Takahashi, Takanobu Sasaki
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Publication number: 20070121010Abstract: According to one embodiment, format data are stored by a last memory function for each of at least external input, and when an input is re-selected next time or the power is reset, the priority is given to the previously stored data through the last memory function, rather than the detection results of the current input, to carry out the image output control. The image output control is processed in parallel with the detection of the format of the current input.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2006Publication date: May 31, 2007Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Takanobu Sasaki
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Patent number: 6522245Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a composite apparatus in which a meter for a vehicle and an obstacle alarm device for a vehicle share a constituting means common to the meter and the obstacle alarm device. The meter and the obstacle alarm device share a buzzer-driving circuit (40) of and a buzzer (50).Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2001Date of Patent: February 18, 2003Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Shinji Kondo, Naoyuki Aoki, Tatsuya Seto, Tomoyuki Miyagawa, Takanobu Sasaki, Shingo Kuwamura, Yasuhiro Yamada, Keiichi Kurokawa
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Patent number: 6431001Abstract: An obstacle detecting system for vehicles has an ultrasonic vibrator having a vibration plate and mounted on a vehicle to transmit and receive an ultrasonic wave. An obstacle is detected in response to an output signal of the ultrasonic vibrator. When the temperature around the ultrasonic vibrator is below a predetermined temperature corresponding to snowfall, the system calculates a ratio of a period of reverberating vibration of the ultrasonic vibrator relative to a predetermined time period following an ultrasonic wave transmission, and determines accumulation of snow when the calculated ratio exceeds a predetermined time ratio. The system notifies an abnormality of the ultrasonic vibrator arising from the accumulation of snow.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2001Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Takeo Tsuzuki, Takanobu Sasaki, Kenichi Ohue, Tomoyuki Funayama
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Publication number: 20020023498Abstract: An obstacle detecting system for vehicles has an ultrasonic vibrator having a vibration plate and mounted on a vehicle to transmit and receive an ultrasonic wave. An obstacle is detected in response to an output signal of the ultrasonic vibrator. When the temperature around the ultrasonic vibrator is below a predetermined temperature corresponding to snowfall, the system calculates a ratio of a period of reverberating vibration of the ultrasonic vibrator relative to a predetermined time period following an ultrasonic wave transmission, and determines accumulation of snow when the calculated ratio exceeds a predetermined time ratio. The system notifies an abnormality of the ultrasonic vibrator arising from the accumulation of snow.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2001Publication date: February 28, 2002Inventors: Takeo Tsuzuki, Takanobu Sasaki, Kenichi Ohue, Tomoyuki Funayama
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Patent number: 5735479Abstract: A retractor for a seat belt includes a retractor base, a bobbin fixed to a winding shaft rotatably supported to the retractor base for winding a webbing, and a webbing guide having a first positioning portion located on the side of the bobbin and a second positioning portion located on the side of the upper end of the retractor base. The webbing guide is fixed to the retractor base for regulating a webbing moving path so that the webbing wound around the bobbin is drawn out from a prescribed position on said retractor base. The first and second positioning portions each has a protrusion portion provided with a plurality of protrusions abutting on the surface of said webbing and the surface of each protrusion abutting on said webbing forms a smooth bending face.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1996Date of Patent: April 7, 1998Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Takanobu Sasaki, Kazumi Hirata
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Patent number: 5566899Abstract: In a retractor with a clamping mechanism for holding a webbing directly in a vehicle emergency, the retractor provides a retractor base, a lower plate fixed to the retractor base, and a movable clamp member for holding the webbing between itself and the lower plate, in which the clamp member includes on a webbing opposing surface thereof a plurality of substantially conical-shaped clamp teeth for biting into a surface of the webbing to hold the webbing, and the clamp member is so structured that a webbing pushing force of both end portions thereof are weaker than the pushing force of a central portion thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 1994Date of Patent: October 22, 1996Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Takanobu Sasaki, Kazumi Hirata
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Patent number: 5558294Abstract: A retractor for a seat belt includes a retractor base, a bobbin fixed to a winding shaft rotatably supported to the retractor base for winding a webbing, and a webbing guide having a first positioning portion located on the side of the bobbin and a second positioning portion located on the side of the upper end of the retractor base. The webbing guide is fixed to the retractor base for regulating a webbing moving path so that the webbing wound around the bobbin is drawn out from a prescribed position on said retractor base. The first and second positioning portions each has a protrusion portion provided with a plurality of protrusions abutting on the surface of said webbing and the surface of each protrusion abutting on said webbing forms a smooth bending face.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1994Date of Patent: September 24, 1996Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Takanobu Sasaki, Kazumi Hirata
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Patent number: 5460338Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide at low manufacturing cost a clamp-operated retractor including an emergency locking mechanism adapted to lock the rotation of the winding shaft in the webbing pull-out direction in an emergency such as a collision, in which a webbing clamping mechanism is simple in structure, and is able to quickly stop the webbing from being pulled out.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1993Date of Patent: October 24, 1995Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Kazumi Hirata, Takanobu Sasaki, Masuo Matsuki, Yoshihiro Makishima, Ayaki Oyamada
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Patent number: 5232178Abstract: A retractor including emergency locking mechanism including a ratchet plate mounted on a winding shaft onto and from which a webbing is wound and unwound, an inertia member which is turned in response to the rotation of the shaft, a latch member which is turned together with the shaft in a webbing pull-out direction so as to engage a pawl with the ratchet plate to lock the shaft to prevent it from being rotated in such a direction as to allow the webbing to be pulled out of the retractor, and a locking mechanism for coupling the latch member to the shaft when the turning of the inertia member lags behind that of the shaft; and a clamping mechanism for pinching the webbing between a swingable clamping engagement member and the inner surface of the base of the retractor so as to prevent the webbing from being pulled out of the retractor, wherein a control mechanism for either swinging the clamping engagement member in a webbing pinch direction so as to put the engagement member in a first position for preventinType: GrantFiled: April 24, 1992Date of Patent: August 3, 1993Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Kazumi Hirata, Hiromichi Komori, Takanobu Sasaki
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Patent number: 5060978Abstract: A lip suitable for use in covering a rail of a passive seat belt system is coated with an abrasion-resistant material at a slide surface. The lip can be produced coating the slide surface of the lip with the abrasion-resistant material while using an integral flange as a coating flow limiter. Preferably, the flange is a burr formed upon molding of the lip.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1990Date of Patent: October 29, 1991Assignee: Nippon Seiko Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takanobu Sasaki
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Patent number: 4943087Abstract: A warning device for a passive seat belt system is disclosed. It includes an emergency release buckle; a tongue; a magnet displaceable between a first position and a second position, said magnet assuming the first position while the tongue and buckle are latched but a second position while the tongue and buckle are unlatched; an anchor base member; and a magnetic flux sensor for detecting a magnetic flux from the magnet. In a preferred embodiment, the warning device further includes a magnetic shielding means made of a high-permeability material and allowing magnetic flux to pass under low magnetic resistance to the magnetic flux sensor except for an area on a magnetic-flux-travelling path extending from the magnet to the sensor. In another preferred embodiment, the magnet may be arranged between the anchor base member and the buckle.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 1989Date of Patent: July 24, 1990Assignee: Nippon Seiko Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takanobu Sasaki
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Patent number: 4941681Abstract: An assembly of a slider and an anchor latch device is described. The assembly is suitable for use in a passive seat belt system of the type that a slider carries a webbing fastened thereto, is provided movably on and along a slide rail between an occupant-restraining position where the webbing may restrain an occupant and an occupant-releasing position where the webbing may release the occupant, and has a slider head received in the slide rail. The assembly includes an anchor base formed of a plate-like member and engageable with the slider when the slider is in the restraining position. Either the slider or anchor base is formed to maintain the slider and anchor base out of contact on the side of the slider head and on the side closest to the releasing position of an area of engagement between the slider and anchor base upon engagement thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1989Date of Patent: July 17, 1990Assignee: Nippon Seiko Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takanobu Sasaki