Patents by Inventor Koji Hirano

Koji Hirano 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: 6020433
    Abstract: An anionic electrodeposition coating composition containing, as the heat curable resin components, (A) a water-dispersible vinyl copolymer having hydroxyl group, carboxyl group and an ester linkage modified by a lactone group compound and (B) a crosslinking agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Hirano, Hiroshi Inoue, Shinji Miyatake, Masahiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 5798749
    Abstract: A graphic display control apparatus which automatically scrolls display contents of a screen vertically, horizontally or diagonally by automatically updating the reading address corresponding to the amount of scrolling, when read-out areas for display information of one screen read out from a frame memory whose capacity allows a CPU to write display information larger than one screen, e.g., an animation background, a motorcar navigation map or the like therein are sequentially moved, thereby to lighten the burden of the CPU at the scrolling time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1998
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isao Minematsu, Koji Hirano, Hiroki Takita
  • Patent number: 5754161
    Abstract: A graphic scrolling apparatus comprising a unit for storing image data; an image display device having a screen for displaying a first predetermined-sized area of the image data stored in the image data storing unit; a buffer memory for temporarily storing a second predetermined-sized area of the image data stored in the image data storing means, the second predetermined-sized area being larger than the first predetermined-sized area; a first depicting unit for retrieving, from the image storing means, at least image data corresponding to a third area of the first predetermined-sized area, which protrudes from the second predetermined-sized area and for depicting the at least image data corresponding to the third area on a fourth area of the second predetermined sized area, which is in the outside of the first predetermined-sized area as the first predetermined-sized area scrolls on the second predetermined-sized area; and an image display controlling unit for controlling the apparatus such that an image is d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Electric Semiconductor Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadayuki Noguchi, Akihiko Ishimoto, Koji Hirano
  • Patent number: 5379301
    Abstract: A microprocessor, comprising a register 18 for setting either a first mode in which a trap instruction is not executed, or a second mode in which the trap instruction can be executed is set, wherein an instruction decoding circuit 23, in case of operating in the first mode, outputs an internal signal SG1 directing execution of a subroutine call, when decoding a subroutine call instruction, to an instruction executing unit 14, and in case of operating in the second mode, outputs the internal signal SG1 directing execution of a trap when decoding the subroutine call instruction, to the instruction executing unit 14. By such a configuration, a break can be effected in a unit of subroutine under a simple control when debugging the program, and by enabling the breaking without decoding a program to be debugged, the debugging can be effected efficiently under a real time environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Sato, Koji Hirano, Kazunori Saitoh
  • Patent number: 5063656
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a Y-shaped wire harness (23) having a pair of wires (2,3) and for orientating the wires (2,3) in a specific orientation. More particularly the apparatus includes jaws (12) for orientating the wires (2,3), an identification member (14) for holding the wires (2,3) in that orientation during termination of one ends thereof and a guide member (18) for receiving and storing the wire harness (23) with the wires (2,3) in the specific orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Koji Hirano, Hiroshi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 5034132
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for extraction of impurities from a powdery or particulate solid material charged into a extractor. According to the disclosure, not only can the extraction of impurities be carried out efficiently, but also the refinement of a solid material can be carried out, with the degree of the extraction of the impurities being very high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Assignees: Toyo Engineering Corporation, Asahi Denka Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisashi Miyakawa, Naoki Mizutani, Kazuoki Urabe, Kageo Yoshida, deceased, Osamu Nittani, Koji Hirano
  • Patent number: 3946422
    Abstract: An electret transducer in which the electret material is an inorganic insulator sheet with electric charges in it and is juxtaposed to an electrode, and either the sheet or the electrode is mechanically deformable to change the distance between the two, thereby changing the electric charge induced in the electrode by the charged electret sheet. In a preferred form, the electret material comprises a multilayer sheet of insulating materials. The method of forming the transducer includes at least the steps of vapor-depositing a thin layer of inorganic material on a substrate and subjecting the exposed surface of the insulating material to a source of electric charge for a time sufficient to implant charges in the insulating material. If the insulating material is to be deformable, it should be deposited on a thin layer of metal which, in turn, has been deposited on a thicker substrate. A spacer layer of metal is deposited on top of the charged insulating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1976
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Yagi, Yoshihiro Saito, Koji Hirano