Patents by Inventor Takashi Furutou

Takashi Furutou 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).

  • Image information reading apparatus
    Patent number: 6342708
    Abstract: An image information reading apparatus has an apparatus housing including in its front wall a cassette loading section which has first, second, third, and fourth loading regions, and a cassette placing section disposed immediately below the cassette loading section for placing a given number of cassettes therein. The operator of the image information reading apparatus temporarily places a given number of cassettes in the cassette placing section, and loads the cassettes, one by one, into the first, second, third, and fourth loading regions. No dedicated table for placing cassettes thereon is needed around the image information reading apparatus. The operator can handle the cassettes highly efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Iiyama, Takashi Furutou, Yuzuru Ootsuka, Kenji Takata