Patents by Inventor Hideo Sahara

Hideo Sahara 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: 7396239
    Abstract: This invention provides an electronic card connector which can connect by smoothly inserting, to one connector, electronic cards of different sizes. An electronic card connector provides a guide case forming a universal slot which has an opening to which two or more different sized electronic cards can be inserted and which provides a connector, which can connect with the above-mentioned electronic cards, which is set in the interior of a universal slot, and in a universal slot, there is installed a freely rotatable shutter member which has a cover of a prescribed length at the end of one side in the longitudinal direction of this opening, and the opening of the universal slot by the cover of this shutter member is shut by opening an opening of a size for which the smallest sized electronic card can be inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Harasawa, Hideo Sahara
  • Publication number: 20060088307
    Abstract: This invention provides an electronic card connector which can connect by smoothly inserting, to one connector, electronic cards of different sizes. An electronic card connector provides a guide case forming a universal slot which has an opening to which two or more different sized electronic cards can be inserted and which provides a connector, which can connect with the above-mentioned electronic cards, which is set in the interior of a universal slot, and in a universal slot, there is installed a freely rotatable shutter member which has a cover of a prescribed length at the end of one side in the longitudinal direction of this opening, and the opening of the universal slot by the cover of this shutter member is shut by opening an opening of a size for which the smallest sized electronic card can be inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Applicant: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Harasawa, Hideo Sahara