Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Kohno
Tetsuya Kohno 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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Patent number: 10641266Abstract: A transfer device that includes a case that houses a transfer mechanism; a strainer that suctions oil stored in a lower portion of the case; a valve body that has a hydraulic supply circuit that supplies a hydraulic pressure to the transfer mechanism and a suction oil path that discharges an extra hydraulic pressure that is extra for the hydraulic supply circuit; a first suction inlet that communicates with one of the suction oil path and the strainer and a second suction inlet that communicates with the other of the suction oil path and the strainer, and a balanced vane pump.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2016Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuhiro Takeda, Yoshihiro Mizuno, Tetsuya Kohno, Yoshinobu Soga, Syuji Moriyama, Hiromitsu Nitani, Takafumi Inagaki
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Patent number: 9851001Abstract: A drive unit for vehicles that prevents a blow out of lubrication oil from a breather during splash lubrication is provided. A partition plate is disposed along a flat face of a ring gear to divide an inner space of the chamber into a first reservoir in which the ring gear is disposed, and a second reservoir to which the lubrication oil partially flows thereinto to return to an oil pan. The partition plate comprises a main body disposed between the flat face of the ring gear and an inner face of the chamber opposed thereto, and a bent portion formed on an upper end of the main body to guide the lubrication oil scattered upwardly by a rotation of the ring gear in a direction away from the breather.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2013Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki Higashi, Kozo Yamamoto, Kazutoshi Motoike, Tetsuya Kohno
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Publication number: 20170356444Abstract: A transfer device that includes a case that houses a transfer mechanism; a strainer that suctions oil stored in a lower portion of the case; a valve body that has a hydraulic supply circuit that supplies a hydraulic pressure to the transfer mechanism and a suction oil path that discharges an extra hydraulic pressure that is extra for the hydraulic supply circuit; a first suction inlet that communicates with one of the suction oil path and the strainer and a second suction inlet that communicates with the other of the suction oil path and the strainer, and a balanced vane pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2016Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuhiro TAKEDA, Yoshihiro MIZUNO, Tetsuya KOHNO, Yoshinobu SOGA, Syuji MORIYAMA, Hiromitsu NITANI, Takafumi INAGAKI
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Publication number: 20150354693Abstract: A drive unit for vehicles that prevents a blow out of lubrication oil from a breather during splash lubrication is provided. A partition plate is disposed along a flat face of a ring gear to divide an inner space of the chamber into a first reservoir in which the ring gear is disposed, and a second reservoir to which the lubrication oil partially flows thereinto to return to an oil pan. The partition plate comprises a main body disposed between the flat face of the ring gear and an inner face of the chamber opposed thereto, and a bent portion formed on an upper end of the main body to guide the lubrication oil scattered upwardly by a rotation of the ring gear in a direction away from the breather.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2013Publication date: December 10, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideyuki HIGASHI, Kozo YAMAMOTO, Kazutoshi MOTOIKE, Tetsuya KOHNO
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Patent number: 8631344Abstract: There is provided a novel menu selection method in a mobile phone. Also provided is a cursor displaying method with which a user can intuitively recognize a moving direction and moving speed. In addition, a novel scrollbar with which the user can recognize, in a case of displaying menus beyond a display screen, a range currently displayed on a display screen among all the menus and a current cursor position within the menus displayed on the current display screen.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2011Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.Inventors: Tatsuya Hama, Tetsuya Kohno, Satomi Yonezawa, Ikuo Terado, Takamoto Tsuda, Katsunori Miura, Kazuhiro Kondo, Yukako Morimoto
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Patent number: 8584014Abstract: An information processing apparatus having an input configured to receive a first operation and a second operation input by a user, a playback unit configured to obtain predetermined data and play back the data based on the operation input by the user from the input; and a display control unit configured to control, in correspondence with a virtual hierarchical structure for classifying the predetermined data, a display of a display screen indicating each hierarchy level, and for controlling a display of a predetermined mark in the display screen. The display control unit also controls the display of the predetermined mark corresponding to the predetermined data which is played back by the playback unit in a manner different from other non-selected marks while the predetermined mark is being selected.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2012Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shinichi Iriya, Tetsuya Kohno, Takatoshi Nakamura, Junichiro Sakata
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Patent number: 8342536Abstract: A sealing device that hermetically seals a gap between a first member and a second member that is reciprocally movable with respect to the first member. The sealing device seals liquid supplied into a pressurizing chamber surrounded by the first member and the second member. The sealing device includes a seal member that is attached to the second member. The seal member slides relative to the first member while being in contact with the first member. The seal member includes a base portion and a protruding portion. The protruding portion protrudes from the base portion toward the first member to separate the first member from the base portion. After the liquid is supplied into the pressurizing chamber to fill the pressurizing chamber with the liquid, the protruding portion elastically deforms to bring the base portion into close contact with the first member.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Koyo Sealing Techno Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirofumi Morishita, Tetsuya Kohno
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Patent number: 8332779Abstract: There is provided a novel menu selection method in a mobile phone. Also provided is a cursor displaying method with which a user can intuitively recognize a moving direction and moving speed. In addition, a novel scrollbar with which the user can recognize, in a case of displaying menus beyond a display screen, a range currently displayed on a display screen among all the menus and a current cursor position within the menus displayed on the current display screen.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2007Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Tatsuya Hama, Tetsuya Kohno, Satomi Yonezawa, Ikuo Terado, Takamoto Tsuda, Katsunori Miura, Kazuhiro Kondo, Yukako Morimoto
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Patent number: 8302506Abstract: A power transmission device includes: a main case having an inside storing an oil; a drum carrying up the oil; and a partition wall partitioning the inside of the main case into a transmission gear housing containing the drum and a catch tank. An inner wall of the main case includes a down-extending portion extending down toward a feed opening of the catch tank, and extending toward the drum rather than along a vertical plane extending in the vertical direction as the down-extending portion extends downward, and a receding portion bordering on the down-extending portion and extending away from the drum from a bordering point where the receding portion borders on the down-extending portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2009Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shigetsugu Iwata, Tetsuya Kohno
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Publication number: 20120254757Abstract: An information processing apparatus having an input configured to receive a first operation and a second operation input by a user, a playback unit configured to obtain predetermined data and play back the data based on the operation input by the user from the input; and a display control unit configured to control, in correspondence with a virtual hierarchical structure for classifying the predetermined data, a display of a display screen indicating each hierarchy level, and for controlling a display of a predetermined mark in the display screen. The display control unit also controls the display of the predetermined mark corresponding to the predetermined data which is played back by the playback unit in a manner different from other non-selected marks while the predetermined mark is being selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi IRIYA, Tetsuya Kohno, Takatoshi Nakamura, Junichiro Sakata
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Patent number: 8276072Abstract: An information processing apparatus having an input configured to receive a first operation and a second operation input by a user, a playback unit configured to obtain predetermined data and play back the data based on the operation input by the user from the input; and a display control unit configured to control, in correspondence with a virtual hierarchical structure for classifying the predetermined data, a display of a display screen indicating each hierarchy level, and for controlling a display of a predetermined mark in the display screen. The display control unit also controls the display of the predetermined mark corresponding to the predetermined data which is played back by the playback unit in a manner different from other non-selected marks while the predetermined mark is being selected.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2010Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shinichi Iriya, Tetsuya Kohno, Takatoshi Nakamura, Junichiro Sakata
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Patent number: 8015261Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprising a first sending/receiving means for a first information processing apparatus; a second sending/receiving means for a second information processing apparatus; a first recording means for recording normal content data and restricted content data; a second recording means for recording information required for selecting data; an updating means for updating the information recorded; and a selection means for selecting data to be sent to said first information processing apparatus from the first content data and the second content data recorded by said first recording means based on the information recorded by said second recording means in response to a request signal from said first information processing apparatus received by said first sending/receiving means.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2002Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Kohno, Shinichi Iriya, Junichiro Sakata, Takatoshi Nakamura
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Patent number: 7975237Abstract: There is provided a novel menu selection method in a mobile phone. Also provided is a cursor displaying method with which a user can intuitively recognize a moving direction and moving speed. In addition, a novel scrollbar with which the user can recognize, in a case of displaying menus beyond a display screen, a range currently displayed on a display screen among all the menus and a current cursor position within the menus displayed on the current display screen.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2007Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Tatsuya Hama, Tetsuya Kohno, Satomi Yonezawa, Ikuo Terado, Takamoto Tsuda, Katsunori Miura, Kazuhiro Kondo, Yukako Morimoto
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Publication number: 20110145756Abstract: There is provided a novel menu selection method in a mobile phone. Also provided is a cursor displaying method with which a user can intuitively recognize a moving direction and moving speed. In addition, a novel scrollbar with which the user can recognize, in a case of displaying menus beyond a display screen, a range currently displayed on a display screen among all the menus and a current cursor position within the menus displayed on the current display screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2011Publication date: June 16, 2011Inventors: Tatsuya HAMA, Tetsuya Kohno, Satomi Yonezawa, Ikuo Terado, Takamoto Tsuda, Katsunori Miura, Kazuhiro Kondo, Yukako Morimoto
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Publication number: 20110041649Abstract: A power transmission device includes: a main case having an inside storing an oil; a drum carrying up the oil; and a partition wall partitioning the inside of the main case into a transmission gear housing containing the drum and a catch tank. An inner wall of the main case includes a down-extending portion extending down toward a feed opening of the catch tank, and extending toward the drum rather than along a vertical plane extending in the vertical direction as the down-extending portion extends downward, and a receding portion bordering on the down-extending portion and extending away from the drum from a bordering point where the receding portion borders on the down-extending portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2009Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shigetsugu Iwata, Tetsuya Kohno
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Patent number: 7845480Abstract: A support structure for supporting a brake, as a frictional coupling device, includes a snap ring, a friction plate, and a back plate. The snap ring fits in a groove that extends in a circle. The back plate is disposed between the friction plate and the snap ring. The back plate is pressed against the snap ring. The snap ring has a first end face that faces the back plate and a second end face that faces the opposite side from the first end face and is in contact with a sidewall of the groove. The back plate has an end face that is in contact with the first end face. The static friction coefficient between the first end face of the snap ring and the end face of the back plate is smaller than that between the second end face of the snap ring and the sidewall of the groove.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2007Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuo Obata, Tetsuya Kohno, Junichi Nishinosono, Hirofumi Onishi, Yuji Yasuda, Takanori Nukata
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Patent number: 7827693Abstract: A method of manufacturing a powertrain member capable of suppressing an effect of heat distortion is provided. A method of manufacturing a powertrain member including a disk portion provided to extend from a boss portion in a direction perpendicular to a rotation axis and having a through hole formed in the disk portion includes the first through hole formation step of forming a tip hole which is at least a portion of the through hole, the chamfering step of chamfering at least a portion of the tip hole, the heat treatment step of performing heat treatment after chamfering, and the second through hole formation step of forming a desired shape of the through hole by laser processing after heat treatment.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2006Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuya Kohno, Yuji Yasuda
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Patent number: 7827882Abstract: A differential gear unit divides an input driving force into first and second outputs, and permits a difference between the first and second outputs. The differential gear unit includes a differential case serving as a casing that defines an internal space and an opening communicated with the internal space and that is rotatable in a given direction and an opposite direction. The differential case includes a flange portion as an input portion to which the driving force is input. The differential case is configured such that the fatigue life of the differential case when the driving force is repeatedly input in the flange portion in the direction R1 is longer than the fatigue life of the differential case when the driving force is repeatedly input in the flange portion in the opposite direction; R1 is the rotational direction in which the vehicle runs forward.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2005Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuya Kohno, Yuji Yasuda
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Publication number: 20100241960Abstract: An information processing apparatus having an input configured to receive a first operation and a second operation input by a user, a playback unit configured to obtain predetermined data and play back the data based on the operation input by the user from the input; and a display control unit configured to control, in correspondence with a virtual hierarchical structure for classifying the predetermined data, a display of a display screen indicating each hierarchy level, and for controlling a display of a predetermined mark in the display screen. The display control unit also controls the display of the predetermined mark corresponding to the predetermined data which is played back by the playback unit in a manner different from other non-selected marks while the predetermined mark is being selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Shinichi IRIYA, Tetsuya Kohno, Takatoshi Nakamura, Junichiro Sakata
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Patent number: 7774426Abstract: An object of the present invention is to allow a client to make a request for music data stored in a server and to receive it and play it back. A client program 421 controls the sending of a request signal to a server 401, the reception and playback processing of music data from the server 401, and the display of a GUI performed by a display controller 426, and outputs the music data received by a communication unit 423 from the server 401 to an audio data converter 424. A server program 411 controls the sending of music data to the client 402, and registration of information in a music database 415, a link information database 416, and a ranking information database 417, searches the music database 415 for the requested music data, and sends the music data to the client 402. The present invention can be applied to a personal computer, a PDA, a cellular telephone, a desk-top playback device, a portable playback device, and a simplified playback device.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2007Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takatoshi Nakamura, Toshihiko Kawai, Shinichi Iriya, Junichiro Sakata, Tetsuya Kohno, Masamichi Ono, Atsushi Sakaida