Patents by Inventor Hideki Shigemoto

Hideki Shigemoto 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).

  • Publication number: 20120229925
    Abstract: A lens driving device includes a box-shaped yoke, a tubular carrier, a coil, a magnet, and a base. The carrier has a first opening in which a lens can be installed. The carrier is held in the yoke for moving from a top dead point to a bottom dead point. The coil is provided on an outer periphery of the carrier. The magnet is provided facing the coil. The base has a second opening on its bottom, and is provided adjacent to the carrier at a side of the moving direction of the carrier. The base has a tubular protrusion formed protruding upward from an outer periphery of its second opening. The tubular protrusion overlaps with the carrier in a direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the carrier wherever the carrier moves between the top dead point and the bottom dead point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: KENICHI MORIO, HIDEKI SHIGEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20120063018
    Abstract: A lens actuator includes a box-shaped housing, a prism-shaped carrier, magnets, and coils. The housing accommodates the carrier to be movable along a first direction therein, and the carrier includes a hollow space where a lens can be mounted. The magnets are disposed at one of the carrier or the housing. The coils are disposed at one of the housing or the carrier such that the coils confront the magnets. When the magnets are disposed at the carrier, the coils are disposed at the housing, and when the magnets are disposed at the housing, the coils are disposed at the carrier. The carrier includes first flat guide section formed on a corner of the outer wall, and the housing includes second flat guide section formed on a corner of the inner wall, and the first guide section confront to and slide along the second guide section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventors: Hideki SHIGEMOTO, Norifumi Sata
  • Patent number: 7773046
    Abstract: The present invention provides an antenna device that is easy to manufacture by doing away with the wiring section. The antenna device includes an antenna member housed inside a nearly tubular case and a terminal body electrically connected to the antenna member for taking out electrical signal to outside, and the antenna member is sealed inside the case. The antenna device also has a housing for sealing the antenna member inside the case for engaging with a connector to be coupled, and a plugging member having an O-ring and a terminal stage fit into a nearly integral unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki Shigemoto
  • Patent number: 7400305
    Abstract: An antenna device having a substantially cylindrical shaped case to house the antenna part and a stopper to seal a case opening tightly, wherein the stopper has the first waterproof on the outer periphery to contact the case and the second waterproof on the inner periphery to contact the lead wires. The first waterproof and the second waterproof are disposed on a same location. The present invention can provide the antenna device capable of preventing water immersion into the case simply and reliably without using any filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideki Shigemoto
  • Publication number: 20080030423
    Abstract: The present invention provides an antenna device that is easy to manufacture by doing away with the wiring section. The antenna device includes an antenna member housed inside a nearly tubular case and a terminal body electrically connected to the antenna member for taking out electrical signal to outside, and the antenna member is sealed inside the case. The antenna device also has a housing for sealing the antenna member inside the case for engaging with a connector to be coupled, and a plugging member having an O-ring and a terminal stage fit into a nearly integral unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Inventor: Hideki Shigemoto
  • Publication number: 20070139288
    Abstract: An antenna device having a substantially cylindrical shaped case to house the antenna part and a stopper to seal a case opening tightly, wherein the stopper has the first waterproof on the outer periphery to contact the case and the second waterproof on the inner periphery to contact the lead wires. The first waterproof and the second waterproof are disposed on a same location. The present invention can provide the antenna device capable of preventing water immersion into the case simply and reliably without using any filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideki SHIGEMOTO
  • Patent number: 6293160
    Abstract: In an operating part located at the center of an elastic board having a first and a second pairs of strain detecting elements, a through hole is provided. The through hole is fitted with an operating rod allowing the up and down movement. Underneath the operating rod, a push button switch is provided. A cursor on a display screen may be moved by horizontal manipulation of the operating rod, and the switch may be put into action for input by vertical manipulation of the operating rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideki Shigemoto
  • Patent number: 6218635
    Abstract: A push and rotary operating type electronic device includes: a cylindrical operating knob supported rotatably about an axis extending through both end surfaces; a rotary contact plate having an electric contact surface, and disposed on one of the end surfaces of the cylindrical operating knob; a rotatable body supported rotatably at one side of it, and for rotatably supporting the cylindrical operating knob; a substrate body for rotatably supporting the cylindrical operating knob and the rotatable body as an integral unit; a push-to-operate type component disposed on the substrate body in a position apart from a supporting portion of the rotatable body in such a manner as to be actuated by a rotational movement of the rotatable body; and a contact bar having a flexible contact blade at one end for contacting resiliently with the electric contact surface provided on the rotary contact plate and an externally connecting terminal at the other end, and fixed to the substrate body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Shigemoto, Hiroshi Matsui, Hiroto Inoue
  • Patent number: 6181323
    Abstract: A multidirectional controller includes: a substrate having a first end portion and a second end portion, which sways via a supporting point provided at the first end portion; an electronic part provided at the second end portion, which includes a control portion which is manipulated in a predetermined direction in which the electronic part causes the substrate to sway when the electronic part is manipulated; a supporting member for supporting the substrate; and a switch provided so as to be switched in response to the sway of the substrate, when the electronic part is manipulated in the predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Shigemoto, Hiroshi Matsui, Yukihiro Ishihara
  • Patent number: 5705778
    Abstract: A rotary operation type electric device of the present invention includes: a rotary shaft; a rotary plate which is rotatable around the rotational axis; a connecting member for connecting the rotary shaft and the rotary plate, which retracts in an axial direction of the rotary shaft and does not retract in a rotary direction of the rotary plate; and an output terminal for outputting a signal in accordance with rotation of the rotary plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsui, Tamotsu Yamamoto, Hideki Shigemoto
  • Patent number: 5469125
    Abstract: A rotary electronic device of a neutral position return type having an output that is controlled in a stepless mode. A rotary variable resistor of the rotary electronic device is installed on a tubular holder, and a torsion coil spring is disposed between a manipulation knob and the tubular holder. The neutral position return is very simply configured by using a small sized rotary variable resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1995
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Shigemoto, Hiroshi Matsui, Jun Sugahara
  • Patent number: 5349323
    Abstract: A seesaw manipulation-type variable resistor is provided which has a linear sliding-type variable resistor unit. A U-shaped groove in a below-extended arm of a manipulation key smoothly interlink with a coupling member of a linear sliding-type variable resistor. A position restoring leaf spring is provided touching protrusions under both ends of the manipulation key, to give the manipulation key a force for restoration to its neutral position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Shigemoto, Hiroshi Matsui