Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Ido

Kazuhiro Ido 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: 6600430
    Abstract: A vehicle wireless data communication system of the invention comprises: a portable device including wireless data communication means and storing means for storing a network setting-up code; and a vehicle carried device including wireless data communication means and storing means for storing a network setting-up code corresponding to the network setting-up code of the portable device, wherein when the portable device approaches to a position within a communication range of the vehicle carried device (S1), an inquiry communication is carried out to compare the network setting-up codes for verification (S2), and when the network setting-up codes are coincident with each other (S3, S5), a wireless link is set up and the vehicle carried device is rendered active (S6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Clarion, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi Minagawa, Kazuhiro Ido
  • Publication number: 20010020891
    Abstract: A vehicle wireless data communication system of the invention comprises: a portable device including wireless data communication means and storing means for storing a network setting-up code; and a vehicle carried device including wireless data communication means and storing means for storing a network setting-up code corresponding to the network setting-up code of the portable device, wherein when the portable device approaches to a position within a communication range of the vehicle carried device (S1), an inquiry communication is carried out to compare the network setting-up codes for verification (S2), and when the network setting-up codes are coincident with each other (S3, S5), a wireless link is set up and the vehicle carried device is rendered active (S6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2001
    Publication date: September 13, 2001
    Inventors: Shoichi Minagawa, Kazuhiro Ido
  • Patent number: 6147596
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted record medium reproducing apparatus having a personal computer function. The apparatus is equipped with a control panel tiltable manually through a tilting link mechanism provided to cover a record medium insertion opening of a reproducing apparatus body. Further, the apparatus is provided with a click sensation mechanism for providing a click sensation when the control panel is tilted to a record medium ejecting position, and further provided with a connecting member for establishing a connection between the control panel and the supporting plate and being released from its connecting condition when the supporting plate is moved to a connection release enabling position. With this apparatus, a record medium can be inserted and ejected safely and with certainty, and the control panel can be detached from the supporting plate in a safe condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Tsuchiya, Toru Takeuchi, Sadao Nagata, Yoshiya Isezaki, Kazuhiro Ido, Toshiharu Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 5539713
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide, as an auto-changer device, a medium recording-playback device which makes it possible to improve the ease of operations for ejecting plural recording medium elements from inside the device. The device possesses a stocker in which plural MDs are stored in respective storage sections that are distinguished by identification numbers, a carrier which loads installed MDs into the stocker or ejects them from an insertion port as far as a reloading position, an eject key which sets the eject mode for the MDs, and a CPU which, in response to input of the eject key, causes MDs that are present in the device to be ejected in a set order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ido, Eiichi Ishikawa, Masayuki Sakai, Yukio Yoshino