Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Sasamoto

Hiroshi Sasamoto 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: 20180318975
    Abstract: A parts supply apparatus includes a supply tray stacking portion where a supply tray containing parts is stacked; a tray raising/lowering unit for separating one of the supply trays from the supply tray stacking portion; a tray holding unit with which the tray raising/lowering unit is provided; and an empty tray stacking portion where an empty tray, which is the supply tray that is emptied after supply of the parts, is stacked. The empty tray stacking portion is disposed above the supply tray stacking portion in a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sasamoto, Shunichi Nagashima
  • Patent number: 10076815
    Abstract: A parts supply apparatus includes a supply tray stacking portion where a supply tray containing parts is stacked; a tray raising/lowering unit for separating one of the supply trays from the supply tray stacking portion; a tray holding unit with which the tray raising/lowering unit is provided; and an empty tray stacking portion where an empty tray, which is the supply tray that is emptied after supply of the parts, is stacked. The empty tray stacking portion is disposed above the supply tray stacking portion in a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sasamoto, Shunichi Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20160297612
    Abstract: A parts supply apparatus includes a supply tray stacking portion where a supply tray containing parts is stacked; a tray raising/lowering unit for separating one of the supply trays from the supply tray stacking portion; a tray holding unit with which the tray raising/lowering unit is provided; and an empty tray stacking portion where an empty tray, which is the supply tray that is emptied after supply of the parts, is stacked. The empty tray stacking portion is disposed above the supply tray stacking portion in a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sasamoto, Shunichi Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20050286873
    Abstract: A video and audio recorder and a method of operating the same. The recorder includes a TV signal receiving unit, a video/audio compression recording control unit for compressing the video and audio signals and outputting a compressed video/audio multiplex data at the time of recording a program, an accumulation recording unit for recording the compressed video/audio multiplex data in a recording medium, and a recording control unit for controlling the video/audio compression recording control unit thereby to control the program recording operation. The recording control unit, based on the program information of the program to be recorded, controls the program recording operation by setting proportion information between the video recording bit rate and the audio recording bit rate in the compression process of the video and audio signals in the video/audio compression recording control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Inventors: Kouji Kamogawa, Masayuki Inoue, Yoko Morimoto, Hiroshi Sasamoto, Yoshihiro Machida
  • Patent number: 5191707
    Abstract: A working line for a rear floor of a vehicle includes a first setting station for setting the rear floor panel on the rear frame, a combining station for combining the rear floor panel to the rear frame, an assembling station for assembling the rear floor by welding the rear wheel housings and the rear panel to the rear floor panel, and a second setting station. They are arranged in the order mentioned from a starting end towards a finishing end of the working line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1993
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sasamoto, Keizaburo Ohtaki
  • Patent number: 5143270
    Abstract: A system for assembling a motorcar vehicle body is divided into a first-floor portion and a second-floor portion. The first-floor portion has a main working line provided with a vehicle body assembling station, a floor panel assembling line, and a floor panel parts working line. The second-floor portion has another floor panel parts working line and a roof panel working line. There are provided apparatuses for charging floor panel consitituting parts worked in the floor panel parts working line disposed on the first-floor portion to a floor panel assembling line, and for lowering floor panel constituting parts worked in the floor panel parts working line disposed on the second-floor portion from the second-floor portion to charge them to the floor panel assembling line so that these constituting parts are combined together in the floor panel assembling line to assemble the floor panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Hamada, Keizaburo Ohtaki, Takashi Kubo, Hiroshi Sasamoto