Patents by Inventor Hidehiro Yanagibashi
Hidehiro Yanagibashi 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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Publication number: 20110242751Abstract: A foldable portable terminal apparatus includes: a first casing including an operation portion, and a second casing including a display portion, which are connected through a connection portion so as to allow the second casing to open and close with respect to the first casing in a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction. The portable terminal apparatus includes a slide sheet printed with a character or symbol for operation purpose. The slide sheet slides in association with opening and closing actions in the first direction and has a hole formed along a sliding direction thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2009Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasutoki Manda, Hidehiro Yanagibashi, Haruo Hayakawa
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Publication number: 20110172003Abstract: The present invention has operating section 3, provided on an opposing plane of lower chassis 200 that faces upper chassis 100 when folded; circuit plane 7, provided inside lower chassis 200; and spacer 5, provided between operating section 3 and circuit plane 7 and supported by a rib.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi YAMAMOTO, Hidehiro Yanagibashi
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Patent number: 7957769Abstract: An electronic device with a display device and a mobile phone wherein if a shock of falling or the like, is added to a housing, the shock is hard to transmit to an end face of the display device are provided. For a shock acting on a housing 11 by falling or the like, since a projection portion 36 having a recess 36a is provided between an inner wall 31 of an accommodation portion 30 and a frame 33, the shock from the inner wall 31 is relieved or absorbed by the projection portion 36, particularly, the recess 36a. Accordingly, if a shock of falling or the like, is added to the housing 11, a display device 40 can be protected from the shock.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2006Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kenichi Mochizuki, Hidehiro Yanagibashi
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Publication number: 20110124384Abstract: Orientation of display of an operation portion can be changed according to a screen of a display portion in a portable terminal apparatus capable of opening and closing a second casing with respect to a first casing in a first direction and a second direction. A portable terminal apparatus includes a first casing 1 including an operation portion and a second casing 2 including a display portion which are connected through a connection portion 3. The connection portion 3 includes a first rotation shaft 9 capable of rotating the second casing 2 in a first direction and a second rotation shaft 10 capable of rotating the second casing 2 in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first rotation shaft 9 includes a protrusion portion 12.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasutoki Manda, Hidehiro Yanagibashi, Haruo Hayakawa
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Patent number: 7885653Abstract: The present invention has operating section 3, provided on an opposing plane of lower chassis 200 that faces upper chassis 100 when folded; circuit plane 7, provided inside lower chassis 200; and spacer 5, provided between operating section 3 and circuit plane 7 and supported by a rib.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2003Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Koichi Yamamoto, Hidehiro Yanagibashi
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Publication number: 20090264160Abstract: An electronic device with a display device and a mobile phone wherein if a shock of falling or the like, is added to a housing, the shock is hard to transmit to an end face of the display device are provided. For a shock acting on a housing 11 by falling or the like, since a projection portion 36 having a recess 36a is provided between an inner wall 31 of an accommodation portion 30 and a frame 33, the shock from the inner wall 31 is relieved or absorbed by the projection portion 36, particularly, the recess 36a. Accordingly, if a shock of falling or the like, is added to the housing 11, a display device 40 can be protected from the shock.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2006Publication date: October 22, 2009Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Mochizuki, Hidehiro Yanagibashi
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Publication number: 20090111537Abstract: In a foldable mobile terminal device, a first housing is connected to a second housing via a connecting portion. The mobile terminal device includes: a first hinge shaft for opening/closing the second housing together with the connecting portion in a longitudinal direction; a second hinge shaft for opening/closing the second housing in a lateral direction; a call clearing button disposed on a second hinge shaft side of an upper surface of the first housing as seen from a lateral center of the upper surface; and a first projection for button identification which is provided on an edge portion of the second hinge shaft side and lies lateral to the call clearing button wherein a height of the first projection is made lower than a height of the upper surface of the first housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2008Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiji Fujimoto, Hidehiro Yanagibashi
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Publication number: 20080268923Abstract: In a folding rotary portable terminal, a first case having a display section for at least displaying information and side face keys and are coupled to a second case having at least a camera section and side face keys and through a hinge part having at least two degrees of freedom in rotation, namely open/close and orthogonal directions. When the first case is rotated by 180° about the rotary shaft of the hinge part from an opened state of the first case and the second case to a folding state where the first case is superposed on the second case with the display section directed outward, the side face keys on the different side faces of the first case and the second case come to the same side. Thus, even in the folding state, various functions can be operated easily.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2005Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenichi Mochizuki, Hidehiro Yanagibashi, Kazunori Satou, Akira Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20070097611Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a portable type electronic apparatus including a hinge portion having a rotating function in a plurality of directions, wherein two casings can be held stably without shaking in a state in which they are opened. A portable type electronic apparatus (101) includes a hinge portion (30) for coupling a first casing (10) and a second casing (20) in such a manner that both of the casings can be opened and closed through a first rotating axis (31) and the first casing (10) can be rotated through a second rotating axis (32) in an orthogonal direction to the first rotating axis (31).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2003Publication date: May 3, 2007Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Takamori, Kenichi Nishikawa, Teruo Nanmoku, Muneoki Kamata, Hidehiro Yanagibashi
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Patent number: 6879337Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a mobile terminal device with a camera, in which orientation of the camera can be easily adjusted in association with opening and closing motions of an upper case, and the camera can be protected from the exterior in association with a motion for folding the cases of the mobile terminal device, after photographing operation of the camera has been finished. The mobile terminal device with a camera according to the present invention includes a lower case 1 provided with an operating part, an upper case 2 provided with a display part, a hinge part 3 for connecting the upper case 2 with the lower case 1 in a foldable manner, and a photographing part 6 rotatably an association mechanism 7 by which the photographing part 6 is rotated in association with opening and closing motions of the upper case 2.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2002Date of Patent: April 12, 2005Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masami Tatehana, Kenji Kino, Hidehiro Yanagibashi, Yutaka Masutani, Ichiro Kajiya
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Patent number: 6788960Abstract: A portable telephone 1 has a connecting portion 2 as well as a first housing portion 3 and a second housing portion 4 which are connected by the connecting portion 2 in such a manner as to be capable of being folded. An external video camera unit 10 is inserted in a camera-unit attaching portion 6. Various video camera units having different specifications, such as a color video camera unit, a monochromatic video camera unit, a wide-angle video camera unit, and a tele video camera unit, can be attached to or detached from the camera-unit attaching portion 6. The portable information communication terminal 1 is capable of identifying the specifications of the attached video camera unit and of switching over its internal operation in accordance with the specifications.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2002Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yutaka Masutani, Michiyoshi Kudo, Hidehiro Yanagibashi
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Patent number: 6721420Abstract: The invention supports an antenna (9) retractably from bottom to top via an antenna receiver section (8) on the side of the second case body (2) so that it is possible to fold/unfold the first case body (1) irrespective of the direction of the antenna (9) and whether the antenna (9) is stretched or housed.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2000Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Kubo, Masao Kobayashi, Hidehiro Yanagibashi, Teruo Nanmoku, Suguru Suzuki, Naokazu Nagasawa
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Publication number: 20040051779Abstract: A portable terminal device with a camera capable of easily adjusting the orientation of the camera interlockingly with the opening and closing operation of an upper cabinet and protecting the camera from the outside interlockingly with the folding operation of the cabinet of the portable terminal device after completing a photographing operation by the camera, comprising a lower cabinet (1) having an operating part thereon, an upper cabinet (2) having a display part thereon, a hinge part (3) for foldably connecting the upper cabinet (2) to the lower cabinet (1), and an imaging part (6) rotatably installed on the hinge part (3), the imaging part (6) further comprising an interlocking mechanism (7) rotated interlockingly with the opening and closing operation of the upper cabinet (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Inventors: Masami Tatehana, Kenji Kino, Hidehiro Yanagibashi, Yutaka Masutani, Ichiro Kajiya
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Patent number: 6633749Abstract: In a folding mobile wireless device, at least one of contact portions of connecting portions which come in contact with a coupling pin has a higher strength than a portion other than the contact portion or a housing provided with the connecting portion including the contact portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2001Date of Patent: October 14, 2003Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Koritsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Kubo, Masao Kobayashi, Suguru Suzuki, Teruo Nanmoku, Hidehiro Yanagibashi, Toshihisa Ubukata
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Publication number: 20020137542Abstract: A portable telephone 1 has a connecting portion 2 as well as a first housing portion 3 and a second housing portion 4 which are connected by the connecting portion 2 in such a manner as to be capable of being folded. An external video camera unit 10 is inserted in a camera-unit attaching portion 6. Various video camera units having different specifications, such as a color video camera unit, a monochromatic video camera unit, a wide-angle video camera unit, and a tele video camera unit, can be attached to or detached from the camera-unit attaching portion 6. The portable information communication terminal 1 is capable of identifying the specifications of the attached video camera unit and of switching over its internal operation in accordance with the specifications.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2002Publication date: September 26, 2002Inventors: Yutaka Masutani, Michiyoshi Kudo, Hidehiro Yanagibashi
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Publication number: 20020016182Abstract: In a folding mobile wireless device, at least one of contact portions of connecting portions which come in contact with a coupling pin has a higher strength than a portion other than the contact portion or a housing provided with the connecting portion including the contact portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2001Publication date: February 7, 2002Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Kubo, Masao Kobayashi, Suguru Suzuki, Teruo Nanmoku, Hidehiro Yanagibashi, Toshihisa Ubukata
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Publication number: 20020006809Abstract: A portable radio device (100) has the lower casing (120) and the upper casing (110), and a hinge portion (130) to connect together the lower and upper casings (120) and (110) respectively roatatably, and is provided with a convex portion for accommodating a microphone (128) which is provided on the surface A of the inside of the lower casing (20) and protruded from the surface A of the inside, and a concave portion for accommodating a receiver (116) which is provided at a position opposite to the convex portion (128) when the lower and upper casings (120) and (110) are folded on the surface B of the inside of the upper casing (110), and is formed so that the convex portion (128) can be fitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2001Publication date: January 17, 2002Inventors: Tetsuya Kubo, Masao Kobayashi, Suguru Suzuki, Teruo Nanmoku, Hidehiro Yanagibashi
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Patent number: 6246372Abstract: In a state that a whip antenna is contained in a housing of a cellular phone, a minute space is formed between a feeding spring and an attaching member conductive to a helical antenna base portion, so as to generate electrostatic capacitance, which is equivalent to the impedance characteristic of a mono-pole antenna. Then, electrostatic capacitance and a coil portion of a helical antenna constitute an LC series resonance circuit so as to improve the wide band of the helical antenna.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1999Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi Egawa, Masazumi Yamazaki, Yoshio Koyanagi, Hidehiro Yanagibashi