Patents by Inventor Yutaka Sugawara

Yutaka Sugawara 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: 7364309
    Abstract: In an image projection on a screen, an image projection apparatus improves the safety of entry into a projection region by the human body and does not bring about the increase of complexity of the configuration thereof owing to the improvement of the safety. A monitoring area is regulated on the outside of the projection area (3) of the screen (2). A detection wave such as infrared rays is emitted from a detection wave source (1c) of the image projection apparatus (1). A reflection wave from the monitoring area is detected by reflection wave detection means (1d) such as a CCD sensor. Whether the human body or an obstacle enters the monitoring space, which is surrounded by a detection wave (4) between the main body unit of the image projection apparatus (1) and the screen (2), or not is detected. Once the entry is detected, the intensity of the radiation light traveling toward the projection area (3) is reduced or cut off according to the situation or the degree of the entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Sugawara, Naoya Eguchi
  • Publication number: 20070171521
    Abstract: Light emitted from a light source is modulated and projected on a screen. The screen includes a securing member, a diffuser plate supported by the securing member using a plurality of elastic members, where the elastic members are disposed so that the diffuser plate is resiliently displaced in two directions in the plane of the diffuser plate, and a driving unit that moves the diffuser plate with respect to the securing member in the two directions in the plane of the diffuser plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Sugawara, Hiroki Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20050128578
    Abstract: In an image projection on a screen, an image projection apparatus improves the safety of entry into a projection region by the human body and does not bring about the increase of complexity of the configuration thereof owing to the improvement of the safety. A monitoring area is regulated on the outside of the projection area (3) of the screen (2). A detection wave such as infrared rays is emitted from a detection wave source (1c) of the image projection apparatus (1). A reflection wave from the monitoring area is detected by reflection wave detection means (1d) such as a CCD sensor. Whether the human body or an obstacle enters the monitoring space, which is surrounded by a detection wave (4) between the main body unit of the image projection apparatus (1) and the screen (2), or not is detected. Once the entry is detected, the intensity of the radiation light traveling toward the projection area (3) is reduced or cut off according to the situation or the degree of the entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Yutaka Sugawara, Naoya Eguchi
  • Patent number: 6570828
    Abstract: A skew of an optical pickup device can be adjusted by a movable-side member itself which holds thereon an objective lens. A holder which holds an objective lens is supported by four spring wires such that it can be moved in the focusing direction and the tracking direction of an optical disk. A center of a magnetic circuit which drives the holder is shifted in the outer peripheral side relative to the optical disk. Elastic force of the spring wires of the inner peripheral side is suppressed by increasing the amount of a gel material bonded to the spring wires located on the inner peripheral side of the optical disk as a damping material as compared with the amount of the gel material bonded to the spring wires located on the outer peripheral side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyasu Kikuchi, Akio Yamakawa, Yusaku Seki, Tetsuo Maeda, Yutaka Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20020176348
    Abstract: A skew of an optical pickup device can be adjusted by a movable-side member itself which holds thereon an objective lens, A holder which holds an objective lens is supported by four spring wires such that it can be moved in the focusing direction and the tracking direction of an optical disk. A center of a magnetic circuit which drives the holder is shifted in the outer peripheral side relative to the optical disk. Elastic force of the spring wires of the inner peripheral side is suppressed by increasing the amount of a gel material bonded to the spring wires located on the inner peripheral side of the optical disk as a damping material as compared with the amount of the gel material bonded to the spring wires located on the outer peripheral side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Inventors: Nobuyasu Kikuchi, Akio Yamakawa, Yusaku Seki, Tetsuo Maeda, Yutaka Sugawara
  • Patent number: 6172958
    Abstract: In order to provide an optical pick-up capable of carrying out write and read operations of information signals with respect to plural kinds of optical discs in which thicknesses of transparent bases are different from each other and simple in configuration, a first object lens 7a for converging light beams from a first light source onto an optical disc 101 of the first kind and a second object lens 7b for converging light beams from a second light source 6 onto an optical disc 102 of the second kind are provided on the same lens bobbin 8. The lens bobbin 8 is movably supported by the columnar support shaft and is caused to undergo movement operation by magnetic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Mochizuki, Yutaka Sugawara
  • Patent number: 4678773
    Abstract: An antitumor agent of the present invention comprises, as an effective ingredient, lipoteichoic acid which is extracted from gram-positive bacterial cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1987
    Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroko Usami, Akihiro Yamamoto, Yutaka Sugawara, Shozo Kotani, Keijiro Kato
  • Patent number: 4349541
    Abstract: An anti-tumor preparation containing cells of Streptococcus equisimilis and a process for preparing the preparation which comprises subjecting the cells to heat treatment in a salt solution with or without penicillin treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Takeda, Takashi Matsuno, Mihoko Ohtaka, Hiroki Mitsui, Tsutomu Kawaguchi, Hisako Masuda, Hiroshi Okazaki, Mitsuaki Handa, Yutaka Sugawara, Haruki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 4242326
    Abstract: An anti-tumor substance which is not only heatstable but also has low inflaming and pain-inducing properties and low pyrogenic activity is disclosed. The substance is prepared by disrupting cells of bacteria belonging to hemolytic streptococci, extracting from the disrupted material a water-insoluble substance and treating the substance with one or more proteases and, optionally, with one or more nucleases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1980
    Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yutaka Sugawara, Akihiro Yamamoto, Mitsuaki Handa, Hiroko Usami, Haruki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 4019137
    Abstract: A long-scale moving coil instrument of the type comprising a frame, means including an arcuate core member secured to the frame for forming a magnetic circuit path, and a mounting member carrying a moving coil over the core member and being suspended for rotation relative to the frame by means of tension bands secured to bosses on the mounting member. The instrument is characterized by a pair of boss-stoppers made of an elastic, electrically insulating material. Each boss-stopper supports a tension spring, lies in a through-hole provided in the frame, and has a central passage through which the tension bands extend for connection to the tension springs, the passages additionally receiving the bosses on the coil mounting member to limit movement thereof. With this arrangement, electrical connections to the moving coil may be effected by means of the tension bands while maintaining the electrical connections isolated from the frame with the electrically insulating boss-stoppers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1977
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Takeda, Yutaka Sugawara