Patents by Inventor Akira Kanai

Akira Kanai 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: 5654756
    Abstract: An image pick-up apparatus, wherein a light emitting device sequentially emits a plurality of colors of light to a subject, a mono-color image pick-up element photo-electrically converts light reflected by or transmitted through the subject into color-field sequential signals, a memory stores the color-field sequential signals separately in connection with respective colors, and a convertor sequentially or simultaneously reads out the color-field sequential signals stored in connection with the respective colors in the memory and converts them into desired video signals of various color spaces. A disc shaped light shield device with a slit intermittently interrupts light from the light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jynya Takahashi, Masaki Yamakawa, Akira Kanai
  • Patent number: 5648825
    Abstract: In a color image display system formed of a monochromatic CRT or like image display device (102) having a screen (103) for display of images and a rotary filter (106) comprising color filter sections (106R, 106G and 106B) of a plurality of colors; image signals are read from memories (130R, 130G, 130B) at a rate higher than they are written in the memories, so as to reduce flickers. The problem of passing of the reading address over the writing address is solved by reading the image signal of prominent color taking a period in which the passing over occurs. High frequency components of other color image signals are extracted and added to the image signal of each color to thereby enhance the definition of the picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Kanai, Masaki Yamakawa, Shoichi Sugihara, Masaharu Hayakawa, Kiyotaka Yamamoto, Masafumi Kodama, Akiko Maeno
  • Patent number: 5574516
    Abstract: A color image display system includes a monochromatic CRT or similar image display device which includes a screen for display of images and a rotary filter having filter sections of a plurality of colors. The system further includes memories for storing color image signals corresponding to each of the colors. A control circuit reads the color image signals from the memories at a higher rate than the color image signals are written into the memories to reduce image flickering. The reading operation, however, passes over the writing operation. Discontinuities caused by this passing over are reduced by reading a color image signal corresponding to a less prominent color during the passing over. Discontinuities are avoided by providing an additional memory in the system and alternately reading and writing between one of the first set of memories and the additional memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Kanai, Masaki Yamakawa, Shoichi Sugihara, Masaharu Hayakawa, Kiyotaka Yamamoto, Masafumi Kodama, Akiko Maeno
  • Patent number: 4656951
    Abstract: A rotary table unit having a stationary base element and a table element rotatably mounted on the stationary base element is provided with hydrostatic and hydrodynamic bearing guides forming a composite bearing guide mechanism for enabling smooth and stable rotation of the table element under application of local load to the table element. The rotary table unit is also provided with a main drive motor for rotating the table element and an auxiliary drive motor for supplementing a drive force of the main drive motor in response to a change in load applied to the table element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1987
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sosaku Kimura, Toshikazu Hatsuse, Masami Shimizu, Masakazu Miyashita, Junichi Yoshioka, Akira Kanai, Koichi Koizumi
  • Patent number: 4653408
    Abstract: A direct-acting table mechanism in which tables are driven without any contact by use of a hydrostatic fluid for thrust-transmitting the tables in their sliding direction. The tables are hydrostatically supported on hydrostatic guides on a bed, and differential pressures are supplied to the hydrostatically supporting portions to control the attitude of the tables. This table mechanism is of high degree of accuracy uninfluenced by errors in the feed screw system, high rigidity and thus permits highly stable fine feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1987
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Nagashima, Toshikazu Hatsuse, Masakazu Miyashita, Akira Kanai
  • Patent number: 4528074
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a grinding wheel by electroplating. A part of the outer peripheral portion of a grinding wheel body is immersed in a plating solution. While rotating the grinding wheel body at a low speed, electric current is supplied to flow between an anode disposed in the plating solution and a cathode contacting the grinding wheel body, so that a pre-plating layer of uniform thickness is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the grinding wheel body. Plating operation is continued while adhering abrasive grains to the pre-plating layer to further cause a precipitation of a plating layer to temporarily fix the abrasive grains. The abrasive grains are then pressed by a pressing roller so as to be forcibly embedded into the pre-plating layer by making an effective use of plastic deformation of the pre-plating layer, thereby to obtain a uniform projection height of the abrasive grains from the surface of the grinding wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1985
    Assignee: Nissin Machine Works, Limited
    Inventors: Masakazu Miyashita, Akira Kanai, Junichi Yoshioka, Koichi Koizumi, Fukuo Hashimoto, Michimasa Daito, Takashi Hasebe
  • Patent number: 4523410
    Abstract: In a machine tool such as a surface grinding machine or the like, a guide mechanism for the machine tool wherein one of a pair of opposed guideways is formed into a hydrodynamic guideway, whilst the other guideway is formed into a hydrostatic guideway, the hydrodynamic guideway is utilized as only one master guide, and on the other hand, the hydrostatic guideway is made to act in such that a moving body is pushed onto the hydrodynamic guideway with a constant pressure, so that this arrangement makes uniform the contact pressure distribution in the hydrodynamic guideway, thus the posture of the moving body is improved thereby making the same to perform precision linear motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1985
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Yoshioka, Koichi Koizumi, Akira Kanai, Kazuo Shiba
  • Patent number: 4504048
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed which enables a controlled member (e.g. a workpiece retaining member in a jig) to be adjusted in position by extremely small amounts of linear displacement or angular rotation, with a very high degree of accuracy and static and dynamic stability. The apparatus is based on a servo system controlled by electrical signals and employs hydrostatic pads to support and move the controlled member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1985
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Company Limited
    Inventors: Kazuo Shiba, Masao Takahashi, Akira Kanai, Kouichi Koizumi
  • Patent number: 4343829
    Abstract: Herein disclosed is a method of fabricating a thick single-crystalline silicon film at a low temperature less than 1000.degree. C. The method is characterized in that, simultaneously as silicon polycrystals are grown on a substrate to form polycrystalline silicon, said polycrystals are irradiated and annealed with a laser or electron beam so that said polycrystalline silicon is single-crystallized to fabricate a single-crystalline silicon film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroo Tochikubo, Akira Kanai
  • Patent number: 4193644
    Abstract: A servo control system which can automatically control a position of a hydrostatically supported member such as a table of a machine tool, rotary shaft or the like is disclosed. The system comprises a closed loop control system including a differential amplifier for effecting a subtraction operation between an amount of displacement of a member and an amount of reference signal and a servo amplifier delivering a control signal and a servovalve for supplying operating pressure upon receipt of the control signal to the member, whereby the position of the member is controlled by the pressure applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1980
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Miyashita, Akira Kanai