Patents by Inventor Masayuki Kihara

Masayuki Kihara 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: 11388842
    Abstract: An electric device includes an electric component mounted on a circuit board, a cabinet, a heat conducting member, and an elastic portion. The cabinet faces the circuit board. The heat conducting member has heat conductivity, a first contact portion that is in contact with the electric component, and at least one second contact portion that is in contact with the cabinet. The elastic portion has elasticity in a direction in which the circuit board and the cabinet face each other. The first contact portion and the second contact portion are separated from each other in the direction in which the circuit board and the cabinet face each other. The elastic portion applies an elastic force to at least one of the first contact portion and the second contact portion in a direction in which the first contact portion and the second contact portion are separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Nagasawa, Kenta Kawashima, Masayuki Kihara, Masateru Ueki
  • Publication number: 20210267089
    Abstract: An electric device includes an electric component mounted on a circuit board, a cabinet, a heat conducting member, and an elastic portion. The cabinet faces the circuit board. The heat conducting member has heat conductivity, a first contact portion that is in contact with the electric component, and at least one second contact portion that is in contact with the cabinet. The elastic portion has elasticity in a direction in which the circuit board and the cabinet face each other. The first contact portion and the second contact portion are separated from each other in the direction in which the circuit board and the cabinet face each other. The elastic portion applies an elastic force to at least one of the first contact portion and the second contact portion in a direction in which the first contact portion and the second contact portion are separated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: AKIRA NAGASAWA, KENTA KAWASHIMA, MASAYUKI KIHARA, MASATERU UEKI
  • Publication number: 20210144865
    Abstract: A screw attachment member includes a structure in which an insertion hole through which a screw passes and an opening are formed. In the structure, a peripheral edge portion of the insertion hole is in contact with a bearing surface of a head portion of the screw. The insertion hole is formed so that a distance between an inner peripheral surface and a central axis of the insertion hole varies in a circumferential direction. The opening is formed in a periphery of a proximal portion in the insertion hole at which a distance between the inner peripheral surface and the central axis is shorter than an average.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: TATSUYA TERASHIMA, MASAYUKI KIHARA
  • Patent number: 8368579
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a remote controller apparatus including: preset holding means for holding, per preset code, preset information representative of correspondence between buttons of a plurality of trial-targeted remote controllers on the one hand, and an output signal given when each of the buttons is pushed on the other hand; evaluation value creating means for counting, out of the preset information held in the preset holding means, the number of preset codes of which the output signal is the same for each of the pushed buttons, before setting the largest count as an evaluation value of the button in question; and button presenting means for presenting as a trial button the button of which the evaluation value is the smallest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshifumi Yamamoto, Tomoko Kumagai, Masayuki Kihara, Atsushi Naoi
  • Publication number: 20080180303
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a remote controller apparatus including: preset holding means for holding, per preset code, preset information representative of correspondence between buttons of a plurality of trial-targeted remote controllers on the one hand, and an output signal given when each of the buttons is pushed on the other hand; evaluation value creating means for counting, out of the preset information held in the preset holding means, the number of preset codes of which the output signal is the same for each of the pushed buttons, before setting the largest count as an evaluation value of the button in question; and button presenting means for presenting as a trial button the button of which the evaluation value is the smallest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshifumi Yamamoto, Tomoko Kumagai, Masayuki Kihara, Atsushi Naoi
  • Patent number: 6931209
    Abstract: A remote commander in which a switching element connected in series to an infrared light-emitting diode is turned on and off in response to carrier pulses to energize the infrared light-emitting diode to generate an infrared remote control signal includes varying means for varying duty ratios of carrier pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Aita, Masayuki Kihara
  • Publication number: 20020093597
    Abstract: A remote commander in which a switching element connected in series to an infrared light-emitting diode is turned on and off in response to carrier pulses to energize the infrared light-emitting diode to generate an infrared remote control signal includes varying means for varying duty ratios of carrier pulses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2001
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Inventors: Masanori Aita, Masayuki Kihara
  • Patent number: 6107951
    Abstract: A remote control signal transmission device includes a plurality of operation keys; a detector for detecting which operation keys have been operated; a memory for storing correspondence tables between the operation keys and remote control signals, with each of the correspondence tables differing depending on an electronic apparatus taken as a remote control target; a setter that receives a detection output of the detector and, when consecutive operation of a pre-defined plurality of said operation keys is detected as the detection output, selects a correspondence table for an electronic apparatus corresponding to the consecutive operation from within a plurality of the correspondence tables stored in the memory; a remote control signal generator, the signal from which corresponds to an operated key according to a correspondence table set by the setter and transmitting the remote control signal to electronic apparatus taken as the control target; and a setting protector for protecting settings of the setting m
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Katayama, Masayuki Kihara, Tetsuya Nakamura