Patents by Inventor Kei Tashiro

Kei Tashiro 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: 20110020696
    Abstract: A battery apparatus and electronic equipment in which the battery apparatus has a characteristic compatible with the electronic equipment can be suitably attached to the electronic equipment. In a battery apparatus, an identification section of the battery apparatus serves to identify a characteristic of the battery apparatus, and which is provided on an end surface and on both sides of a battery-side terminal in the width direction of the battery apparatus. The identification section is configured with identification recesses formed in a manner open to the end surface, and at least one of the positions, cross-sectional shapes, and lengths on the end surface of the identification recesses, is formed on the basis of the characteristic of the battery apparatus. The cross-sectional shape and length of the identification recess is formed on the basis of the characteristic of the battery apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio TAKESHITA, Kei Tashiro, Takashi Kondou, Yoshihito Tamesue
  • Publication number: 20110020697
    Abstract: A battery apparatus and electronic equipment in which the battery apparatus has a characteristic compatible with the electronic equipment can be suitably attached to the electronic equipment. In a battery apparatus, an identification section of the battery apparatus serves to identify a characteristic of the battery apparatus, and which is provided on an end surface and on both sides of a battery-side terminal in the width direction of the battery apparatus. The identification section is configured with identification recesses formed in a manner open to the end surface, and at least one of the positions, cross-sectional shapes, and lengths on the end surface of the identification recesses, is formed on the basis of the characteristic of the battery apparatus. The cross-sectional shape and length of the identification recess is formed on the basis of the characteristic of the battery apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio TAKESHITA, Kei Tashiro, Takashi Kondou, Yoshihito Tamesue
  • Publication number: 20110020351
    Abstract: The invention discloses a useful and novel factor (polypeptide) which plays an important role for morbid vascular smooth muscle in restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and arterial sclerosis in the field of cardiovascular system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: TASUKU HONJO, KEI TASHIRO, KAZUHIRO KOBUKE
  • Patent number: 7855012
    Abstract: A secondary battery for electronic appliance to be installed in an electronic appliance, thereby feeding an electric power to the electronic appliance, is disclosed, which includes: a battery cell in which a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolyte are accommodated in a pack, and a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal from the positive electrode and the negative electrode, respectively are lead out from the same side face of the pack; a metallic battery can in which one opening from which the battery cell is inserted is formed and which accommodates the battery cell therein such that the side face from which the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal are lead out is faced towards the opening side; and a lid made of a synthetic resin in which a positive electrode terminal part and a negative electrode terminal part to be connected to the electrodes of the electronic appliance upon being connected to the positive electrode terminal and the neg
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Takeshita, Yoichi Miyajima, Hiroaki Sato, Atsushi Takahashi, Shoichi Shintani, Kei Tashiro, Osamu Nagashima, Hideki Kamiya, Hisashi Aoki, Toshiyuki Okada, Yoshihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 7847522
    Abstract: A battery device includes a battery cell constituted by a secondary cell, a case that houses the battery cell, and a battery-side positive electrode terminal and a battery-side negative electrode terminal electrically provided in the case and connected to the battery cell. The battery device further includes a temperature detecting unit that detects the temperature of the battery cell, a temperature control unit that heats and/or cools the battery cell when an electric current is supplied thereto, and a current control unit that divides, according to the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit, an externally-supplied charging current supplied from the outside via the battery-side positive electrode terminal and the battery-side negative electrode terminal into a first current supplied to the battery cell and a second current supplied to the temperature control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Tashiro, Yoichi Miyajima, Osamu Nagashima, Toshio Takeshita
  • Publication number: 20100302391
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a camera control unit outputs serial data containing information for specifying a predetermined control target device to be controlled from among plural control target devices comprised in a camera head. The camera head identifies the control target device specified by the received serial data, and supplies the identified control target device with a select signal for an active state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shinozaki, Masatoshi Ookubo, Kei Tashiro, Takashi Tsuda, Hiroyuki Irikura, Junya Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 7831129
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a capturing apparatus includes a capturing unit configured to capture a moving image video, a storage unit configured to store the moving image video captured by the capturing unit, an operation unit configured to include a plurality of keys used to instruct playback of the moving image video stored in the storage unit, a skip playback unit configured to play back the moving image video while skipping the moving image video at predetermined time intervals every time a predetermined operation is made on the operation unit, and a playback control unit configured to switch the time intervals skipped by the skip playback unit based on the total playback time period of the moving image video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tatsuro Abe, Kuniaki Takahashi, Tatsuhiko Ikehata, Shiro Nagaoka, Kei Tashiro, Tsuyoshi Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 7794867
    Abstract: A battery apparatus and electronic equipment in which the battery apparatus has a characteristic compatible with the electronic equipment can be suitably attached to the electronic equipment. In a battery apparatus, an identification section of the battery apparatus serves to identify a characteristic of the battery apparatus, and which is provided on an end surface and on both sides of a battery-side terminal in the width direction of the battery apparatus. The identification section is configured with identification recesses formed in a manner open to the end surface, and at least one of the positions, cross-sectional shapes, and lengths on the end surface of the identification recesses, is formed on the basis of the characteristic of the battery apparatus. The cross-sectional shape and length of the identification recess is formed on the basis of the characteristic of the battery apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Takeshita, Kei Tashiro, Takashi Kondou, Yoshihito Tamesue
  • Patent number: 7794975
    Abstract: The invention discloses a useful and novel factor (polypeptide) which plays an important role for morbid vascular smooth muscle in restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronany angioplasty (PTCA) and arterial sclerosis in the field of cardiovascular system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tasuku Honjo, Kei Tashiro, Kazuhiro Kobuke
  • Publication number: 20100196895
    Abstract: A method of determining the presence or the absence of a glaucoma risk, including the steps of detecting in vitro an allele and/or a genotype of a single nucleotide polymorphism which is located on a 31st base of a base sequence, in a sample from a subject, wherein the base sequence is at least one base sequence selected from the group consisting of base sequences shown in SEQ ID NOs: 203 to 514 or a complementary sequence thereto (step A), and comparing the allele and/or the genotype detected in the step A with at least one of an allele and/or a genotype, containing a high-risk allele, in the base sequences shown in SEQ ID NOs: 203 to 514 (step B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicants: SHIGERU KINOSHITA, KEI TASHIRO, SANTEN PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Kinoshita, Kei Tashiro, Masakazu Nakano, Tomohito Yagi, Kazuhiko Mori, Yoko Ikeda, Takazumi Taniguchi, Masaaki Kageyama
  • Patent number: 7749758
    Abstract: The present invention relates to human, rat and mouse stem cell-derived neuron survival factor polypeptides (SDNSF), a process for producing them, cDNA encoding SDNSF, a vector comprising the cDNA, host cells transformed by the vector, an antibody against SDNSF, pharmaceutical compositions containing SDNSF or the antibody, a method of assaying SDNSF, a reagent for assaying SDNSF, and a screening method using SDNSF. The polypeptides are effective in the survival of nerve cells and, therefore, efficacious in treating injury to the central nerve system caused by brain infarction, brain hemorrhage, spinal cord injury, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignees: Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tasuku Honjo, Kei Tashiro, Jun Takahashi, Hiroki Toda
  • Patent number: 7710285
    Abstract: A battery device includes a battery cell, a case housing the battery cell, an antenna, a battery-side communication unit performing wireless communication with an electronic-apparatus side communication unit provided at an electronic apparatus on which the battery device is removably mounted through the antenna, a memory unit storing battery data which is data concerning the battery device and a control unit performing control of the battery-side communication unit, both reading/writing of the battery data with respect to the memory unit or only reading thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichi Miyajima, Toshio Takeshita, Kei Tashiro, Osamu Nagashima, Masatsugu Honma
  • Patent number: 7701500
    Abstract: A concept such as an album is introduced with respect to management and arrangement of image files, and several albums are electronically classified and managed for an electronic camera apparatus. According to one embodiment, a method comprises capturing an image, recording the image as an image file, creating a plurality of albums used for classifying and arranging the image file, and displaying album identifier information corresponding to each of the created plurality of albums during the shooting mode or the playback mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toyokazu Aizawa, Tatsuhiko Ikehata, Kei Tashiro, Hiroto Yoshihara, Takahisa Yoneyama, Shiro Nagaoka
  • Publication number: 20100045242
    Abstract: The present invention provides a charging apparatus capable of efficiently charging battery in view of power consumption and a charging method. The charging apparatus has a charging unit which charges a battery, a remaining capacity detecting unit which detects remaining capacity of the battery, a necessary charging capacity obtaining unit which obtains charging capacity necessary for use after completion of the charging of the battery, an additional charging capacity calculating unit which calculates additional charging capacity for additionally charging the battery based on the remaining capacity and the necessary charging capacity of the battery, a charging current determining unit which determines a charging current at the time when the charging unit charges for the additional charging capacity based on power consumption generated at the time of charging for the additional charging capacity, and a control unit which controls the charging unit based on the determined charging current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu NAGASHIMA, Kei TASHIRO, Yoichi MIYAJIMA, Toshio TAKESHITA
  • Patent number: 7662620
    Abstract: The present invention relates to human, rat and mouse stem cell-derived neuron survival factor polypeptides (SDNSF), a process for producing them, cDNA encoding SDNSF, a vector comprising the cDNA, host cells transformed by the vector, an antibody against SDNSF, pharmaceutical compositions containing SDNSF or the antibody, a method of assaying SDNSF, a reagent for assaying SDNSF, and a screening method using SDNSF. The polypeptides are effective in the survival of nerve cells and neuronal stem cells, therefore, efficacious in treating injury to the central nerve system and cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignees: ONO Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tasuku Honjo, Kei Tashiro, Jun Takahashi, Hiroki Toda
  • Patent number: 7615963
    Abstract: In the present invention, a battery pack type discriminating or deciding concave portion (131) is formed at a position corresponding to a battery pack type deciding switch (214) of an SQ battery pack (1) and when the SQ battery pack (1) is set, the battery pack type deciding switch (214) is avoided to be pressed by a bottom (115) of the SQ battery pack (1) owing to the concave portion (131). In this way, as the switch (214) is avoided to be pressed, it is recognized that the set battery pack is an SQ battery pack (1) under charging. Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to identify battery packs among different charging modes and charging can be performed in a proper charging mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Tashiro, Hideyuki Sato, Kiyotaka Murata, Toshio Takeshita
  • Patent number: 7525288
    Abstract: A charging/discharging apparatus, method and system that receives power from a power supplying apparatus. The method includes a temperature measuring step for measuring an internal temperature of the charging/discharging apparatus. A first transmitting step transmits the internal temperature data of the charging/discharging apparatus to the power supplying apparatus. Charged state information of a battery pack attached to the charging/discharging apparatus is collected and supplied to the power supplying apparatus. A battery pack temperature measuring step measures an internal temperature of the battery pack and a second transmitting step transmits the internal temperature data of the battery pack to the power supplying apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Tashiro, Hideyuki Sato, Kiyotaka Murata, Toshio Takeshita
  • Publication number: 20090081227
    Abstract: The present invention relates to human, rat and mouse stem cell-derived neuron survival factor polypeptides (SDNSF), a process for producing them, cDNA encoding SDNSF, a vector comprising the cDNA, host cells transformed by the vector, an antibody against SDNSF, pharmaceutical compositions containing SDNSF or the antibody, a method of assaying SDNSF, a reagent for assaying SDNSF, and a screening method using SDNSF. The polypeptides are effective in the survival of nerve cells and, therefore, efficacious in treating injury to the central nerve system caused by brain infarction, brain hemorrhage, spinal cord injury, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Inventors: Tasuku HONJO, Kei Tashiro, Jun Takahashi, Hiroki Toda
  • Publication number: 20090080874
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided photographic apparatus which has image acquisition unit, image processing unit configured to process the image data acquired by image acquisition unit, display unit configured to display the image represented by the imaged data processed by image processing unit, attitude detection unit configured to detect the attitude of photographic apparatus and outputs attitude information, and control unit configured to controls image acquisition unit, image processing unit and display unit. The control unit outputs, to display unit, an inclination reference image that enables a user to visually perceive how much an image photographed when photographic apparatus actually inclines is inclined to an image photographed when photographic apparatus does not incline at all.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Ikehata, Tatsuro Abe, Kei Tashiro, Shiro Nagaoka
  • Publication number: 20090040382
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a camera apparatus includes an extraction device extracting a corresponding ā€œIā€ picture corresponding to chapter data from ā€œIā€ pictures included in moving image data while the chapter data specifying a reproduction start point in the moving image data indicating a shot video is being generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shiro Nagaoka, Kuniaki Takahashi, Tatsuhiko Ikehata, Kei Tashiro