Patents by Inventor Masafumi Yamaura

Masafumi Yamaura 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: 6292107
    Abstract: A keyless entry system transmitter that achieves both a reduction in power consumption when transmitting radio signals, and enhances system convenience by boosting transmission power in cases where required. A set-voltage value corresponding to a function specified by operation of an operation switch is read from a corresponding-voltage memory portion, and this read set-voltage value is output to a DAC. Accordingly, when operation specifying the same function is again performed with the operation switch before a predetermined timeout time clocked by a timer has elapsed, a counter is incremented, and a voltage-setting output to the DAC increases in accordance with a count value thereof. As a result, voltage supplied to a transmitter unit through a regulator increases as well. Consequently, transmission power of a remote-control signal sent via a transmission antenna is also increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Yamaura, Takashi Harada, Tomoyuki Miyagawa
  • Patent number: 5773947
    Abstract: In a position detector, a ring gear rotates with a motor output shaft and a specified rotation position is detected by a move contact and fixed contacts. When the output shaft rotates thereafter, holding a carrier by a wave washer is released and the transmission of rotation of the output shaft to the ring gear is dropped. Therefore, by rotating the output shaft sufficiently at the time of assembling, an initial state, in which a protrusion section abuts a protrusion and the move contact contacts the fixed contact, is set automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignees: ASMO Co., Ltd., Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Torii, Kengo Yamamura, Masafumi Yamaura, Makihiro Ishikawa, Yoshihisa Sato