Patents by Inventor Yukio Ito

Yukio Ito 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: 6521822
    Abstract: In an electronic device having a solar cell and a unit driven by a power generated by the solar cell, the solar cell 10 includes a transparent substrate 12; a plurality of conductive portions 14a to 14d provided around the transparent substrate 12 and connected in series; and a plurality of photocells 18, each having a thin-line shape, formed at proper intervals on the transparent substrate 12 and connected to the conductive portions 14a to 14d. By forming a transparent electrode film 80 on the transparent substrate 12 and by connecting the transparent electrode film 80 to the ground, an adverse influence of static electricity is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Junsuke Kashikie, Teruhiko Fujii
  • Patent number: 6508700
    Abstract: A coin processing device (1) comprises a first sorting component (35) disposed downstream from a coin detaining component (30), for sorting into a return passage (70) and a coin storage component (91) any coins A that have been temporarily detained by the coin detaining component (30), and a second sorting component (51) disposed downstream from the first sorting component (35), for sorting into the coin storage component (91) and a cashbox any coins A that have been sorted into the coin storage component (91) by the first sorting component (35).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Mori, Mitsugu Mikami, Yukio Ito, Kenji Nakajima, Takahiro Hayashi, Masato Yagi
  • Publication number: 20020157700
    Abstract: An object is to provide an electronic device driven by a solar cell having improved transparency by extremely narrowing photocells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Junsuke Kashikie, Teruhiko Fujii
  • Patent number: 6457586
    Abstract: A unit box (11) containing a bank-note conveyor belt unit (4) and a bank-note identifying unit (5) and not containing a bank-note accommodating unit, is provided in an openable and closable fashion with respect to a body (3) of a bank-note processing device (1), so that a conveyor belt (21) facing the side of a bank-note input opening (2) is exposed when the unit box (11) is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Shigeru Yasuda, Yukio Ito, Tadashi Hatamachi, Noboru Yamagishi, Kouji Akiba
  • Publication number: 20020101091
    Abstract: A panel driving device turns an openable panel inside out by rotating the openable panel by 180° about a rotation center shaft and moving the rotation center shaft upward or downward during a specific period while the openable panel is rotated. The panel driving device is provided with a rotating mechanism for supporting the openable panel on a rotatable end of a rotary arm and rotating the openable panel, and a torque converting mechanism for converting part of a driving force of the rotating mechanism into a rotating force for rotating the rotary arm only during the specific period to rotate the rotary arm upward or downward. The openable panel can be turned inside out by a simple construction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Applicant: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukio Ito
  • Patent number: 6412619
    Abstract: A bill identification device (20) is disposed in the vertical portion (6b) of a bill transporting route (6) that comprises a horizontal portion (6a) connected to a bill slot (3) and a vertical portion (6b) rising up substantially in a vertical direction from the downstream end of the horizontal portion (6a) whereby the drop in genuineness identification capability for an inserted bill can be prevented as much as possible even if a liquid such as salt water is poured into the bill slot (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Mitsugu Mikami, Yoshikazu Mori
  • Publication number: 20020079641
    Abstract: A bank-note processing device wherein disposed between a pair of rotary drums (22, 23) is a stacker lever (53) that presses that portion of the bank-note (31) inserted in bank-note guide slits (22b, 23b) which is positioned on the side of a bank-note reverse-flowing-preventive lever (32) toward a stacker (20) in operative association with the movement of a stacker chute (51), whereby even if a large number of wrinkled bank-notes are received in the stacker, jamming of bank-notes is minimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
  • Publication number: 20020070496
    Abstract: A bank-note processing device wherein disposed between a pair of rotary drums (22, 23) is a stacker lever (53) that presses that portion of the bank-note (31) inserted in bank-note guide slits (22b, 23b) which is positioned on the side of a bank-note reverse-flowing-preventive lever (32) toward a stacker (20) in operative association with the movement of a stacker chute (51), whereby even if a large number of wrinkled bank-notes are received in the stacker, jamming of bank-notes is minimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2002
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
  • Patent number: 6394444
    Abstract: A bank-note processing device wherein disposed between a pair of rotary drums (22, 23) is a stacker lever (53) that presses that portion of the bank-note (31) inserted in bank-note guide slits (22b, 23b) which is positioned on the side of a bank-note reverse-flowing-preventive lever (32) toward a stacker (20) in operative association with the movement of a stacker chute (51), whereby even if a large number of wrinkled bank-notes are received in the stacker, jamming of bank-notes is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
  • Patent number: 6390816
    Abstract: A dental handpiece is disclosed for injecting an air-powder mixture and water against teeth for dental treatment. The handpiece includes a container for accommodating powders, an air supply line for supplying air into the container to produce an air-powder mixture in the container, a mixture transfer line for transferring the mixture, a water supply line for transferring water, and an injection nozzle for injecting the mixture and the water against a treatment site. The container has a curved inner surface for allowing whirl of air spatially in all directions in the container. The air supply line has a plurality of branched lines each extending in the central part of the container to close proximity to the curved inner surface of the container. Each of the branched lines has in its distal part a plurality of ports oriented to direct air flow therethrough along the curved inner surface of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Nakanishi Inc.
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Eiichi Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20020029096
    Abstract: An open network environment and a multi vendor system for an air conditioner is realized so that management and services can be made highly efficient. A management system for an air conditioner has a status database for storing collected running data, and a setting database for storing setting data of the air conditioner, the setting data including data regarding a running stop state, a running mode, an air quantity and a temperature, respectively of the air conditioner, wherein the running data stored in the status database is read to monitor the air conditioner and the setting data is rewritten to control the air conditioner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Inventors: Tadashi Takai, Masanori Takagi, Yukio Ito, Makoto Itoh
  • Patent number: 6309616
    Abstract: A method for adsorbing and removing ethylene in an exhaust gas, comprises contacting with the gas an adsorbent comprising a zeolite which contains Ag and which has a ferrierite structure with a SiO2/Al2O3 molar ratio being at least 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Tosoh Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ogawa, Yukio Ito, Masao Nakano, Keiji Itabashi
  • Publication number: 20010031441
    Abstract: A dental handpiece is disclosed for injecting an air-powder mixture and water against teeth for dental treatment. The handpiece includes a container for accommodating powders, an air supply line for supplying air into the container to produce an air-powder mixture in the container, a mixture transfer line for transferring the mixture, a water supply line for transferring water, and an injection nozzle for injecting the mixture and the water against a treatment site. The container has a curved inner surface for allowing whirl of air spatially in all directions in the container. The air supply line has a plurality of branched lines each extending in the central part of the container to close proximity to the curved inner surface of the container. Each of the branched lines has in its distal part a plurality of ports oriented to direct air flow therethrough along the curved inner surface of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Publication date: October 18, 2001
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Eiichi Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 6302256
    Abstract: A coin handling device, as a first invention, comprising a cable (20), a liquid guide means (61) for guiding liquid falling via a cable guide hole (10a) into a device body (2), a liquid storing means (62) and a liquid discharging means (63). A coin handling device, as a second invention, wherein a coin selection unit (101, 201) comprising a coin guide means (181), a liquid collecting means (182) and a liquid discharging means (183) is equipped with a liquid flow-in means (184) for allowing liquid falling via the coin guide means (181) to flow into those portions of the coin selection unit (101, 201) other than the liquid sorting means (182), a liquid passing means (185) and a liquid flowout means (186, 216) for continuously feeding the passed liquid to the liquid discharging means (183).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Masato Yagi, Nobuyuki Iida, Tetsuro Kikuchi, Kenji Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20010017276
    Abstract: A unit box (11) containing a bank-note conveyor belt unit (4) and a bank-note identifying unit (5) and not containing a bank-note accommodating unit, is provided in an openable and closable fashion with respect to a body (3) of a bank-note processing device (1), so that a conveyor belt (21) facing the side of a bank-note input opening (2) is exposed when the unit box (11) is opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Publication date: August 30, 2001
    Inventors: Shigeru Yasuda, Yukio Ito, Tadashi Hatamachi, Noboru Yamagishi, Kouji Akiba
  • Patent number: 6267370
    Abstract: A card dispensing device has a mechanism for preventing double feeding of cards. The double feed preventing mechanism can be card attitude correction rollers, which adjoin the leading edges of the cards within the card dispensing unit and thickness screws to regulate the vertical dimension of the card feed route. The double feed preventing mechanism can be a plate having a leading edge extending into the card feed route to regulate the vertical dimension of the card feed route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yoshihisa Hirayama, Hideo Tanaka, Takashi Imaizumi
  • Publication number: 20010008831
    Abstract: A coin processing device (1) comprises a first sorting component (35) disposed downstream from a coin detaining component (30), for sorting into a return passage (70) and a coin storage component (91) any coins A that have been temporarily detained by the coin detaining component (30), and a second sorting component (51) disposed downstream from the first sorting component (35), for sorting into the coin storage component (91) and a cashbox any coins A that have been sorted into the coin storage component (91) by the first sorting component (35).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Publication date: July 19, 2001
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Mori, Mitsugu Mikami, Yukio Ito, Kenji Nakajima, Takahiro Hayashi, Masato Yagi
  • Patent number: 6231042
    Abstract: A card-dispensing device has a mechanism for forcibly modifying the attitude of the slide during the forward run of the slide from a horizontal attitude in which the slide is pushing a card forward to an attitude which is inclined through a fixed angle, and then forcibly returned to its initial horizontal attitude during the backward run.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yoshihisa Hirayama, Hideo Tanaka, Takashi Imaizumi
  • Patent number: 6217021
    Abstract: Stacker (2) of the paper money processing device (1) is provided with L-shaped levers (4) whose front end (4a) is formed to be orientated upward and which rotatably support auxiliary rollers (5) at the front end (4a), and a thrusting member (6) which thrusts the L-shaped levers (4) toward a paper money carrier belt (26) of the device main body (22) constantly. The stacker (2) is constructed in such a way that, when it is mounted in the device main body (22), a paper money inserted is held and carried between the auxiliary rollers (5) and the paper money carrier belt (26) by the thrusting force of the thrusting member (6), and when the stacker (2) is removed from the device main body (22), a paper money housed within the stacker (2) is prevented from falling down from the stacker (2) by the L-shaped levers (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
  • Patent number: D448444
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Daiwa Seiko, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Kondo, Yukio Ito, Wataru Tsutsumi, Shigeo Mimura