Patents by Inventor Yasue Chihara
Yasue Chihara 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: 9761265Abstract: A disc device according to the present disclosure is a disc device for supplying a disc to each of a plurality of disc drives, and includes a carrier for retaining a plurality of discs in a stacked state, for separating one disc from the retained plurality of discs above a tray that is ejected from an arbitrary disc drive, and for placing the separated one disc on the tray.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasue Chihara, Masanori Ohnishi, Norikatsu Yoshida
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Publication number: 20170140787Abstract: A disc device according to the present disclosure is a disc device for supplying a disc to each of a plurality of disc drives, and includes a carrier for retaining a plurality of discs in a stacked state, for separating one disc from the retained plurality of discs above a tray that is ejected from an arbitrary disc drive, and for placing the separated one disc on the tray.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2017Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventors: Yasue CHIHARA, Masanori OHNISHI, Norikatsu YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 9204567Abstract: A music reproduction apparatus in which a first reproduction unit that has a first retainer capable of retaining a first external audio source and a second reproduction unit that has a second retainer capable of retaining a second external audio source are arranged next to each other. The music reproduction apparatus includes an opening-closing door that covers the first reproduction unit and the second reproduction unit in an openable and closable manner. The second retainer is positioned at an accommodation position on the deeper side than the opening-closing door in the state covered by the opening-closing door. When the opening-closing door is moved to uncover the second retainer, the second retainer is drawn from the accommodation position to move to a draw out position.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masanori Ohnishi, Masahiko Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kusu, Yasue Chihara
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Patent number: 8881185Abstract: A rotary element assembly structure in which a rotary element 53 is assembled to a tip side of a hollow shaft B1 provided upright on a pedestal 60. A cylindrical portion 53c for fitting with the hollow shaft is provided to a rotation center portion of the rotary element. In the cylindrical portion, a hook strut portion 53s that has a hook portion 53f overhanging in the radial direction at its tip side and that extends substantially in the fitting direction is arranged. A base end portion of the hook strut portion and a base end portion of the cylindrical portion are coupled with each other by a resin-made thin plate portion 53p. A small diameter portion B1s which is smaller in diameter than a hollow portion B1d of the hollow shaft is provided on the tip side of the hollow shaft. The radius of the overhang tip portion of the hook portion is set to be greater than the radius of the small diameter portion of the hollow shaft, and to be smaller than the radius of the hollow portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Masanori Ohnishi, Masahiko Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kusu, Yasue Chihara
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Patent number: 8873356Abstract: A disc device with which the disc replacing time can further be suppressed includes a picker for conveying a plurality of discs in a stacked state, and a carrier which retains the plurality of discs in a stacked state, which supplies the retained plurality of discs to a respective one of a plurality of disc drives, respectively, and which collects the supplied plurality of discs in a stacked state. The carrier is structured to retain a stacked object made up of a first plurality of discs collected from the plurality of disc drives and a second plurality of discs to be supplied next to the plurality of disc drives.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2013Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Takuto Yamazaki, Masanori Ohnishi, Yasue Chihara
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Patent number: 8863160Abstract: A disc device supplies a disc to each of a plurality of disc drives. The disc device includes a carrier which retains a plurality of discs being stacked in such a stacked state, which separates one disc from the retained plurality of discs above a tray ejected from an arbitrary one of the disc drives, and which places the separated disc on the tray. The carrier includes a plurality of claw portions holding the inner circumferential portion of the bottommost disc out of the plurality of discs, and a disc press pressing the topmost disc out of the plurality of discs so as to be in parallel to the disc placing face of the tray.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yasue Chihara, Takuto Yamazaki, Tatsuro Nishi, Hirokuni Hagita, Takahiro Sato, Masanori Ohnishi
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Patent number: 8776099Abstract: There is provided a disk device that prevents entering of foreign matters, and that forms an opening/closing lid using an inclined surface of a front wall so that the disk device has a design according to which the thickness is not noticeable. A front wall 1a of an outer case 1 includes an inclined surface whose front part is inclined downward. An opening portion 1b is provided to the front wall 1a of the outer case 1, and a lid 2 that covers the opening portion 1b while allowing it to be opened or closed is provided. The lid 2 is configured to move, by rotating about a rotation shaft provided in a direction crossing a disk conveyance direction, between a closed lid position 2A in which the lid is flush with the inclined surface such that a disk insertion opening 1c is not exposed to the outside and an open lid position 2B in which the disk insertion opening 1c is exposed to the outside and a disk 200 is guided to the disk insertion opening 1c.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2011Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Norikatsu Yoshida, Yasue Chihara, Masanori Ohnishi
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Publication number: 20140007144Abstract: A rotary element assembly structure in which a rotary element 53 is assembled to a tip side of a hollow shaft B1 provided upright on a pedestal 60. A cylindrical portion 53c for fitting with the hollow shaft is provided to a rotation center portion of the rotary element. In the cylindrical portion, a hook strut portion 53s that has a hook portion 53f overhanging in the radial direction at its tip side and that extends substantially in the fitting direction is arranged. A base end portion of the hook strut portion and a base end portion of the cylindrical portion are coupled with each other by a resin-made thin plate portion 53p. A small diameter portion B1s which is smaller in diameter than a hollow portion B1d of the hollow shaft is provided on the tip side of the hollow shaft. The radius of the overhang tip portion of the hook portion is set to be greater than the radius of the small diameter portion of the hollow shaft, and to be smaller than the radius of the hollow portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2011Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Ohnishi, Masahiko Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kusu, Yasue Chihara
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Publication number: 20130336098Abstract: A disc device with which the disc replacing time can further be suppressed includes a carrier which retains a plurality of discs in a stacked state, which supplies the retained plurality of discs to a plurality of disc drives, respectively, and which collects the supplied plurality of discs in a stacked state. The carrier is structured to retain a stacked object made up of a first plurality of discs collected from the plurality of disc drives and a second plurality of discs to be supplied next to the plurality of disc drives.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Inventors: Takuto YAMAZAKI, Masanori OHNISHI, Yasue CHIHARA
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Publication number: 20130326548Abstract: The disc device supplies a disc to each of the plurality of disc drives. The disc device includes a carrier which retains a plurality of discs being stacked in such a stacked state, which separates one disc from the retained plurality of discs above a tray ejected from an arbitrary one of the disc drives, and which places the separated disc on the tray. The carrier includes a plurality of claw portions holding the inner circumferential portion of the bottommost disc out of the plurality of discs, and a disc press pressing the topmost disc out of the plurality of discs so as to be in parallel to the disc placing face of the tray.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasue CHIHARA, Takuto YAMAZAKI, Tatsuro NISHI, Hirokuni HAGITA, Takahiro SATO, Masanori OHNISHI
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Publication number: 20130314857Abstract: A music reproduction apparatus in which a first reproduction unit that has a first retainer capable of retaining a first external audio source and a second reproduction unit that has a second retainer capable of retaining a second external audio source are arranged next to each other. The music reproduction apparatus includes an opening-closing door that covers the first reproduction unit and the second reproduction unit in an openable and closable manner. The second retainer is positioned at an accommodation position on the deeper side than the opening-closing door in the state covered by the opening-closing door. When the opening-closing door is moved to uncover the second retainer, the second retainer is drawn from the accommodation position to move to a draw out position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2011Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Ohnishi, Masahiko Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kusu, Yasue Chihara
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Publication number: 20130212605Abstract: There is provided a disk device that prevents entering of foreign matters, and that forms an opening/closing lid using an inclined surface of a front wall so that the disk device has a design according to which the thickness is not noticeable. A front wall 1a of an outer case 1 includes an inclined surface whose front part is inclined downward. An opening portion 1b is provided to the front wall 1a of the outer case 1, and a lid 2 that covers the opening portion 1b while allowing it to be opened or closed is provided. The lid 2 is configured to move, by rotating about a rotation shaft provided in a direction crossing a disk conveyance direction, between a closed lid position 2A in which the lid is flush with the inclined surface such that a disk insertion opening 1c is not exposed to the outside and an open lid position 2B in which the disk insertion opening 1c is exposed to the outside and a disk 200 is guided to the disk insertion opening 1c.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2011Publication date: August 15, 2013Inventors: Norikatsu Yoshida, Yasue Chihara, Masanori Ohnishi
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Patent number: 8351211Abstract: In an attachment structure for attaching an attached-plate to a printed substrate which is installed in a mechanical chassis, the mechanical chassis includes a positioning pin for positioning the printed substrate; and the attached-plate includes a guide groove that engages with the positioning pin and is slidably guided in a predetermined path, a fixing portion to the printed substrate, and an engaging portion that engages with a side portion of the printed substrate. By causing the attached-plate to slide along a substrate side of the printed substrate with the guide groove being engaged with the positioning pin, the guide groove is guided by the positioning pin, whereby the engaging portion engages with the side portion of the printed substrate. In the engagement state, by fixing the fixing portion of the attached-plate to the printed substrate, the attached-plate is attached to the printed substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shinichi Maeda, Yasue Chihara, Yuji Ariyoshi
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Publication number: 20090046438Abstract: In an attachment structure for attaching an attached-plate to a printed substrate which is installed in a mechanical chassis, the mechanical chassis includes a positioning pin for positioning the printed substrate; and the attached-plate includes a guide groove that engages with the positioning pin and is slidably guided in a predetermined path, a fixing portion to the printed substrate, and an engaging portion that engages with a side portion of the printed substrate. By causing the attached-plate to slide along a substrate side of the printed substrate with the guide groove being engaged with the positioning pin, the guide groove is guided by the positioning pin, whereby the engaging portion engages with the side portion of the printed substrate. In the engagement state, by fixing the fixing portion of the attached-plate to the printed substrate, the attached-plate is attached to the printed substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2008Publication date: February 19, 2009Inventors: Shinichi MAEDA, Yasue Chihara, Yuji Ariyoshi