Patents by Inventor Junichi Shirakawa

Junichi Shirakawa 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: 20110237184
    Abstract: An on-board device 10 has: a communication unit 110 that carries out communication with a portable device 30 that has a transfer reservation function of place information indicating an arbitrary place; a place information acquisition unit 130 that acquires the place information from the portable device 30 after the communication is established; a place information determination unit 140 that determines a category of processing relating to the place information acquired by the place information acquisition unit 130; a place information processing unit 200 that at least registers a place or sets a destination using the place information based on the category determined by the place information determination unit 140; and a route guidance unit 180 that guides a route to a destination when the destination has been set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiro Minoshima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kazunori Hashimoto, Nobuhiro Ishizuka, Ken Murayama, Junichi Shirakawa, Shuji Daioku, Nobuo Kusumoto, Akira Tojima
  • Publication number: 20110213551
    Abstract: An on-board device 10 of the invention has: a destination setting unit 110 with which a destination is set; a route guidance unit 130 that provides route guidance for a vehicle until a parking location that corresponds to the destination; a destination information transmitter 140 that transmits destination information indicating the destination to a portable device 30; and an arrival confirmation information receiver 160 that receives from the portable device 30 arrival confirmation information indicating that the destination has been reached. The route guidance unit 130 ends the route guidance for the vehicle to the parking location when the destination information has been transmitted or the arrival confirmation information has been received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kunihiro Minoshima, Kazunori Hashimoto, Nobuhiro Ishizuka, Ken Murayama, Junichi Shirakawa, Nobuo Kusumoto, Shuji Daioku
  • Publication number: 20110205153
    Abstract: A mobile phone (1) in accordance with the present invention includes: a transmission setting database (50); a transmission setting section (21) for registering, on the transmission setting database (50), a piece of image data to be transmitted to a data receiving device; and an image data transmitting section (12) for transmitting, to the data receiving device, the piece of image data registered on the transmission setting database (50), the image data transmitting section (12) transmitting the piece of image data to the data receiving device in response to a transmission request received from the data receiving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Ueda, Junichi Shirakawa, Nobuo Kusumoto, Syuji Daioku, Azusa Umemoto, Akira Tojima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kunihiro Minoshima, Kazunori Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20110183627
    Abstract: It is possible to present identification information of a sender in such a manner that the identification information is easily understood by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Ueda, Junichi Shirakawa, Syuji Daioku, Nobuo Kusumoto, Akira Tojima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kunihiro Minoshima, Kazunori Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20110088067
    Abstract: A remote controlling apparatus (300) includes: an operating second communication section (302) transmitting a signal outside of the remote controlling apparatus; an apparatus searching section (6) detecting, within a communications radius of the operating-side second communication section (302), an apparatus capable of executing a booked operation; and a booking control section (7) transmitting a signal at a start time of a booked operation, to the apparatus detected by the apparatus searching section (6) via the operating second communication section (302) to execute the booked operation. Hence, it is possible to cause execution of a booked operation with an optimum apparatus in accordance with a situation at the start time of the booked operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventors: Akihiro Azuma, Junichi Shirakawa
  • Publication number: 20110072493
    Abstract: A service providing device (400) includes: one-time PW generating processing section (435) which generates, for each operation device (300), authentication information for use in authentication processing carried out by the service providing device (400) in a case where the service providing device (400) is accessed by a display processing device (200); and an image data generating processing section (436) which (i) generates operation data including the authentication information generated and processing specifying information specifying the authentication processing, and (ii) transmits the operation data thus generated to the operation device (300).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: Taichiro Morishita, Masaki Takeuchi, Tohru Sugayama, Junichi Shirakawa, Mitsunori Nojima, Yohhei Iwami, Akira Tojima
  • Publication number: 20110018754
    Abstract: A remote operation apparatus (300) includes: an operating-side first communication section (301) that is capable of transmitting a signal to an operation target apparatus (200); an operating-side second communication section (302) that is capable of transmitting/receiving the signal to/from the operation target apparatus (200); a connection start section (11) which transmits a connection start signal, which notifies a start of the transmission/reception of the signal via the operating-side second communication section (302), to the operation target apparatus (200) via the operating-side first communication section (301); and an operating-side communication control section (12) which transmits/receives the signal to/from the operation target apparatus (200) via the operating-side second communication section (302). With this arrangement, it is possible to easily specify a communication partner to/from which a signal is transmitted/received via the operating-side second communication section (302).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Akira Tojima, Junichi Shirakawa
  • Publication number: 20070016877
    Abstract: There is provided a communication system, a data terminal apparatus, a server apparatus, and a menu screen updating method that succeed in enhancing the ease-of-use of a menu screen with additional functions. The service server transmits to the receiving apparatus additional menu data for permitting selection of additional functions. In the receiving apparatus, on the basis of initial menu data for permitting selection of initial functions and the additional menu data obtained as the second menu data, menu display data is produced. On the basis of the menu display data, a menu screen is created. The menu screen is outputted to the display device so that it shows up on the display section of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Shirakawa, Shinichi Kitabayashi, Akira Tojima
  • Patent number: 6990730
    Abstract: A process and system for mounting terminals with electric wires in cavities of connector housings. Press-connecting terminals are initially loaded in cavities arranged in an upper surface of a connector jig and electric wires are press-connected on the terminals in the jigs. Then, the terminals with electric wires are transferred from the connector jig to cavities arranged in a lower surface of a inserting jig by pins arranged to contact and push the terminals from below in the transfer direction. Then, the terminals are loaded from the inserting jig to cavities of connector housings from the back by blades arranged to contact and push the terminals from one end in the inserting directing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Fujita, Yoshinobu Ota, Junichi Shirakawa, Kenji Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 6931719
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided to perform an insulation-displacement connecting operation and a cover mounting operation efficiently, and hence to improve a yield for insulation-displacement joint connectors having many contacts. The apparatus includes a press unit (200) with a slide unit (220) for carrying connection-assisting parts, such as a wire-checking device for checking a housing of an insulation-displacement joint connector, a wire pushing device and a cover holder. A wire checking operation, a wire pushing operation and a cover mounting operation are performed continuously by switching the slide unit (220) by means of a switching device (230) and successively driving the connection-assisting parts by means of one press (210).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshi Itai, Koji Fujita, Kenji Hashimoto, Junichi Shirakawa
  • Patent number: 6877208
    Abstract: A mixed wire conveying step is provided to supply a plurality of terminal-connected wires having different specifications to the same production line. A wire holding step is provided to hold a terminal of the supplied terminal-connected wire such that the terminal can be inserted at least by means of a terminal chuck. An inserter selecting step is provided to select a suitable one from a plurality of terminal inserters for inserting the terminal in an inserting step in accordance with the kind of the supplied terminal-connected wire. The inserting step is performed by the cooperation of the terminal inserter selected in the inserter selecting step and a terminal chuck. A wide range of inserting operations for inserting many kinds of terminal-connected wires TW can be performed by a single unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Shirakawa, Tomomi Katsurayama, Kazumitsu Fukada
  • Publication number: 20040103531
    Abstract: A mixed wire conveying step is provided to supply a plurality of terminal-connected wires having different specifications to the same production line. A wire holding step is provided to hold a terminal of the supplied terminal-connected wire such that the terminal can be inserted at least by means of a terminal chuck. An inserter selecting step is provided to select a suitable one from a plurality of terminal inserters for inserting the terminal in an inserting step in accordance with the kind of the supplied terminal-connected wire. The inserting step is performed by the cooperation of the terminal inserter selected in the inserter selecting step and a terminal chuck. A wide range of inserting operations for inserting many kinds of terminal-connected wires TW can be performed by a single unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Applicant: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Shirakawa, Tomomi Katsurayama, Kazumitsu Fukada
  • Patent number: 6612026
    Abstract: A process and system for mounting terminals with electric wires in cavities of connector housings. Press-connecting terminals are initially loaded in cavities arranged in an upper surface of a connector jig and electric wires are press-connected on the terminals in the jigs. Then, the terminals with electric wires are transferred from the connector jig to cavities arranged in a lower surface of a inserting jig by pins arranged to contact and push the terminals from below in the transfer direction. Then, the terminals are loaded from the inserting jig to cavities of connector housings from the back by blades arranged to contact and push the terminals from one end in the inserting directing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Fujita, Yoshinobu Ota, Junichi Shirakawa, Kenji Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20030145456
    Abstract: A process and system for mounting terminals with electric wires in cavities of connector housings. Press-connecting terminals are initially loaded in cavities arranged in an upper surface of a connector jig and electric wires are press-connected on the terminals in the jigs. Then, the terminals with electric wires are transferred from the connector jig to cavities arranged in a lower surface of a inserting jig by pins arranged to contact and push the terminals from below in the transfer direction. Then, the terminals are loaded from the inserting jig to cavities of connector housings from the back by blades arranged to contact and push the terminals from one end in the inserting directing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Applicant: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Fujita, Yoshinobu Ota, Junichi Shirakawa, Kenji Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20020055295
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided to perform an insulation-displacement connecting operation and a cover mounting operation efficiently, and hence to improve a yield for insulation-displacement joint connectors having many contacts. The apparatus includes a press unit (200) with a slide unit (220) for carrying connection-assisting parts, such as a wire-checking device for checking a housing of an insulation-displacement joint connector, a wire pushing device and a cover holder. A wire checking operation, a wire pushing operation and a cover mounting operation are performed continuously by switching the slide unit (220) by means of a switching device (230) and successively driving the connection-assisting parts by means of one press (210).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Publication date: May 9, 2002
    Inventors: Toshio Itai, Koji Fujita, Kenji Hashimoto, Junichi Shirakawa