Patents by Inventor Masuo Ota

Masuo Ota 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: 20140307086
    Abstract: A camera-equipped electronic apparatus by which an actual dimension of a subject can be easily known immediately at the time of capturing an image of the subject is provided. The camera-equipped electronic apparatus detects a size of an image of a marker and a size of the image of the subject in the captured image displayed on a display. Based on an actual dimension of the marker, the detected size of the image of the marker, and the detected size of the image of the subject, the actual dimension of the subject is computed, and the computed actual dimension is displayed on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Masuo OTA, Tsuguyoshi SADASHIMA
  • Patent number: 7717107
    Abstract: A smokeless cooker includes a table located indoors, with a cabinet, which may include a plurality of individual boxes stacked and assembled together, below the table. A gas-discharge flow path leads from the cabinet to the outdoors. The cabinet includes an inner box with an open upper portion in an upper opening section of an outer box. An installed cooking means is located inside the inner box. A suction flow path is formed outside the inner box, with a suction hole in the inner wall of the suction flow path above a heating surface of the installed cooking means. The gas-discharge flow path includes a fat/oil filtering section, an absorption deodorizing section, a HEPA filter and a fan. A duct leading to the outdoors is present at the downstream side of the HEPA filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Shinpo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masuo Ota
  • Publication number: 20080202492
    Abstract: A smokeless cooker includes a table located indoors, with a cabinet, which may include a plurality of individual boxes stacked and assembled together, below the table. A gas-discharge flow path leads from the cabinet to the outdoors. The cabinet includes an inner box with an open upper portion in an upper opening section of an outer box. An installed cooking means is located inside the inner box. A suction flow path is formed outside the inner box, with a suction hole in the inner wall of the suction flow path above a heating surface of the installed cooking means. The gas-discharge flow path includes a fat/oil filtering section, an absorption deodorizing section, a HEPA filter and a fan. A duct leading to the outdoors is present at the downstream side of the HEPA filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2007
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventor: MASUO OTA
  • Publication number: 20070062514
    Abstract: A smokeless cooker includes a table located indoors, with a cabinet, which may include a plurality of individual boxes stacked and assembled together, below the table. A gas-discharge flow path leads from the cabinet to the outdoors. The cabinet includes an inner box with an open upper portion in an upper opening section of an outer box. An installed cooking means is located inside the inner box. A suction flow path is formed outside the inner box, with a suction hole in the inner wall of the suction flow path above a heating surface of the installed cooking means. The gas-discharge flow path includes a fat/oil filtering section, an absorption deodorizing section, a HEPA filter and a fan. A duct leading to the outdoors is present at the downstream side of the HEPA filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventor: Masuo Ota
  • Patent number: 6966098
    Abstract: A cleaner is provided which includes an electric dirt collection mechanism with an electrically powered dirt collection action and a wiping cleaning mechanism with a wiping cleaning action utilizing a cleaning sheet provided on the bottom surface of the main body of the cleaner which moves across the floor, wherein the electric dirt collection mechanism is switched on and off using a switch, and the wiping cleaning mechanism can be attached to, or detached from, the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukinobu Sako, Masuo Ota, Akihiko Kotani
  • Publication number: 20040168281
    Abstract: A cleaner is provided which includes an electric dirt collection mechanism with an electrically powered dirt collection action and a wiping cleaning mechanism with a wiping cleaning action utilizing a cleaning sheet provided on the bottom surface of the main body of the cleaner which moves across the floor, wherein the electric dirt collection mechanism is switched on and off using a switch, and the wiping cleaning mechanism can be attached to, or detached from, the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukinobu Sako, Masuo Ota, Akihiko Kotani
  • Patent number: 5864895
    Abstract: A handy body washer comprises: a main body; a pump accommodated in the main body, a tank, slidably attached to the main body to house the main body therein, and a retractable nozzle member connected to the main body. The nozzle member has a free end and a plurality of nozzle apertures formed proximate the free end. The tank comprises: (i) a bottomed cylindrical body having an open top end and a bottom end, where the bottom end has a water supply opening; (ii) a water supply cover pivotally supported on the bottom end for opening and closing the water supply opening; and (iii) a gutter formed in an inner surface of the water supply cover for introducing the washing water flowing downward into the water supply opening while the water supply cover is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignees: Toto Ltd, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, Ltd
    Inventors: Masuo Ota, Miho Shirakawa, Shigehiko Fujita, Katsumi Nishimura, Yoshitaka Ezoe, Kinya Kawanobe, Hajime Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 5187734
    Abstract: A telephone answering attachment to a highfidelity music system. An adaptor switches audio signals between a telephone circuit, a double-deck recorder and an amplifier. A bell signal on the telphone circuit causes one deck to play a back a prerecorded message onto the telephone circuit and causes the other deck to then record the caller's message. A short notification message is displayed on a television screen. Otherwise, the adaptor leaves the double-deck recorder in its usual configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1993
    Assignee: Pioneer Electronic Corporation
    Inventors: Tokihiro Takahashi, Takayuki Sato, Masuo Ota, Tatsuro Nagao
  • Patent number: D410523
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Assignee: Koganei Corporation
    Inventor: Masuo Ota