Patents by Inventor Hidemichi Inoue

Hidemichi Inoue 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: 6321077
    Abstract: A reception control system for automobiles according to the present invention includes tuners for a plurality of receivers for receiving various types of waves including at least an AM/FM broadcast wave, a TV broadcast wave and a GPS wave. The tuners are separated from receiver bodies and integrally incorporated into an antenna section (a plurality of antenna elements+an AM/FM reception circuit+a TV reception circuit) including at least a plurality of antenna elements. The tuners are supplied with a digital control signal through a LAN provided in an automobile thereby to control reception of waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Harada Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Saitoh, Hiroyuki Tachihara, Hidemichi Inoue, Richard Langley, David Briggs
  • Patent number: 6040799
    Abstract: The beam steering antenna unit of the present invention is constituted to determine the antenna directivity in the direction of the broadcast tower from which the electric wave currently being received is sent, by carrying out the selective combination of plural antenna elements, and controlling the phase relations between the RF signals of each band received with the above antenna elements based on the objective broadcast station data obtainable from the tuner, broadcast tower position data obtainable from the broadcast tower data base, and the present position information obtainable from the GPS receiver in receiving the FM/AM band, TV band, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Harada Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tachihara, Hidemichi Inoue, Hiroshi Endo