Patents by Inventor Kanae Fukamatsu

Kanae Fukamatsu 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).

  • Portable terminal apparatus
    Patent number: 7266397
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a portable terminal apparatus having a novel surface lighting portion which can appeal to user's vision intensively and variously and can effectively make the notification of incoming calls or the like by means of light. The portable terminal apparatus includes a housing, a surface lighting portion provided on the outer surface of the housing, and a panel member detachably mounted on the housing so as to cover the surface lighting portion. At least a part of the panel member is transparent or semitransparent. The surface lighting portion has a flat outer surface, and the panel member is a flat plate like member, wherein the housing has a device for holding the flat plate like member placed on the flat outer surface of the surface lighting portion. The whole of the surface lighting portion is illuminated upon receiving an incoming call, for example, and the panel member is also illuminated according to a pattern formed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Sato, Kanae Fukamatsu, Yoshiko Sakamoto, Tetsuya Kohno, Kayo Sasaki, Mizuho Ikeda, Mototsugu Tsutsui
  • Portable terminal apparatus
    Publication number: 20040110540
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a portable terminal apparatus having a novel surface lighting portion which can appeal to user's vision intensively and variously and can effectively make the notification of incoming calls or the like by means of light. The portable terminal apparatus includes a housing, a surface lighting portion provided on the outer surface of the housing, and a panel member detachably mounted on the housing so as to cover the surface lighting portion. At least a part of the panel member is transparent or semitransparent. The surface lighting portion has a flat outer surface, and the panel member is a flat plate like member, wherein the housing has a device for holding the flat plate like member placed on the flat outer surface of the surface lighting portion. The whole of the surface lighting portion is illuminated upon receiving an incoming call, for example, and the panel member is also illuminated according to a pattern formed thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventors: Toshiaki Sato, Kanae Fukamatsu, Yoshiko Sakamoto, Tetsuya Kohno, Kayo Sasaki, Mizuho Ikeda, Mototsugu Tsutsui
  • Holder for headphone
    Patent number: D510086
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventors: Maki Hirakawa, Michio Deguchi, Kanae Fukamatsu
  • Holder for headphone
    Patent number: D511769
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventors: Maki Hirakawa, Michio Deguchi, Kanae Fukamatsu
  • Noise canceller
    Patent number: D512417
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventors: Maki Hirakawa, Michio Deguchi, Kanae Fukamatsu
  • Headphone
    Patent number: D513249
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Maki Hirakawa, Michio Deguchi, Kanae Fukamatsu
  • Keyboard
    Patent number: D516080
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Sakamoto, Yoshiya Watanabe, Yasuhisa Kaneda, Kanae Fukamatsu, Michio Deguchi
  • Keyboard
    Patent number: D517068
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Sakamoto, Yoshiya Watanabe, Yasuhisa Kaneda, Kanae Fukamatsu, Michio Deguchi
  • Keyboard
    Patent number: D517552
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Sakamoto, Yoshiya Watanabe, Yasuhisa Kaneda, Kanae Fukamatsu, Michio Deguchi
  • Headphone
    Patent number: D521502
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Maki Hirakawa, Michio Deguchi, Kanae Fukamatsu
  • Keyboard
    Patent number: D522013
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Sakamoto, Yoshiya Watanabe, Yasuhisa Kaneda, Kanae Fukamatsu, Michio Deguchi