Patents by Inventor Minoru Oozeki

Minoru Oozeki 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: 7911401
    Abstract: An earphone antenna is provided that can eliminate high-frequency adverse effects on a wireless device transmitted from a human body via an earphone. The earphone antenna can ensure receiver sensitivity required for a signal in a wide frequency range without any sensitivity control operation and can transmit audio signals from a television receiver to an earphone unit. Two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines (8La), (8Lb), (8Ra), and (8Rb) corresponding to the left and right earphone units (12L) and (12R) are connected to a balun (4). Terminals of the two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines remote from the balun are connected to the left and right earphone units (12L) and (12R) via loading coils (LLa), (LLb), (LRa), and (LRb). The Terminals of the two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines remote from the balun are further connected to each other by a pair of conductive lines (20a) and (20b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Minoru Oozeki, Toshiyuki Imagawa
  • Publication number: 20100141538
    Abstract: An earphone antenna is provided that can eliminate high-frequency adverse effects on a wireless device transmitted from a human body via an earphone. The earphone antenna can ensure receiver sensitivity required for a signal in a wide frequency range without any sensitivity control operation and can transmit audio signals from a television receiver to an earphone unit. Two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines (8La), (8Lb), (8Ra), and (8Rb) corresponding to the left and right earphone units (12L) and (12R) are connected to a balun (4). Terminals of the two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines remote from the balun are connected to the left and right earphone units (12L) and (12R) via loading coils (LLa), (LLb), (LRa), and (LRb). The Terminals of the two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines remote from the balun are further connected to each other by a pair of conductive lines (20a) and (20b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Minoru Oozeki, Toshiyuki Imagawa
  • Patent number: 7671813
    Abstract: An earphone antenna is provided in which two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines respectively corresponding to left and right earphone units are connected to a balun. The left and right earphone units are connected to terminals of the two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines remote from the balun via loading coils, respectively. The terminals of the two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines remote from the balun are further connected to each other by a pair of conductive lines via audio blocking means. The earphone antenna having such a structure can eliminate high-frequency adverse effects on a wireless device transmitted from a human body via an earphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Minoru Oozeki, Toshiyuki Imagawa
  • Publication number: 20070171134
    Abstract: An earphone antenna is provided in which two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines respectively corresponding to left and right earphone units are connected to a balun. The left and right earphone units are connected to terminals of the two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines remote from the balun via loading coils, respectively. The terminals of the two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines remote from the balun are further connected to each other by a pair of conductive lines via audio blocking means. The earphone antenna having such a structure can eliminate high-frequency adverse effects on a wireless device transmitted from a human body via an earphone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Minoru Oozeki, Toshiyuki Imagawa
  • Patent number: 7236137
    Abstract: An earphone antenna in which a balun is connected to one side and the other side having an audio/high-frequency dual-function signal connecting the earphone unit via a loading coil and wireless equipment connected to the balun, the loading coil selecting low impedance for fundamental frequency and selecting to obtain high impedance for higher frequencies, in order to integrate earphone and antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Minoru Oozeki, Toshiyuki Imagawa
  • Publication number: 20060071869
    Abstract: An earphone antenna in which a balun is connected to one side and the other side having an audio/high-frequency dual-function signal connecting the earphone unit via a loading coil and wireless equipment connected to the balun, the loading coil selecting low impedance for fundamental frequency and selecting to obtain high impedance for higher frequencies, in order to integrate earphone and antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Minoru Oozeki, Toshiyuki Imagawa
  • Patent number: 6720924
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus comprises a substrate, a chip antenna mounted on the substrate, and a ground pattern disposed on the substrate, at least a portion on the side of a power supply terminal of an antenna conductor in the chip antenna being overlapped with the ground pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignees: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Tomomatsu, Takahiro Ueno, Toshiyuki Imagawa, Minoru Oozeki, Masayuki Ishiwa
  • Patent number: 6693604
    Abstract: A small antenna comprises a first meander part formed in such a manner that a meander conductor travels to a first direction and having a first end and a second end, and a second meander part formed in such a manner that a meander conductor travels to a second direction different from the first direction and having a first end connected with the second end of the first meander part and a second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignees: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Washiro, Yoichi Iso, Toshiyuki Imagawa, Minoru Oozeki
  • Patent number: 6630906
    Abstract: A chip antenna comprises an antenna conductor, and a dielectric chip which stacks on a portion of the antenna conductor, in which a conductor exposed portion of the antenna conductor which is not overlapped on the dielectric chip is bent along the surface of the dielectric chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignees: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Tomomatsu, Masayuki Ishiwa, Takahiro Ueno, Toshiyuki Imagawa, Minoru Oozeki
  • Publication number: 20020149538
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus comprises a substrate, a chip antenna mounted on the substrate, and a ground pattern disposed on the substrate, at least a portion on the side of a power supply terminal of an antenna conductor in the chip antenna being overlapped with the ground pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventors: Isao Tomomatsu, Takahiro Ueno, Toshiyuki Imagawa, Minoru Oozeki, Masayuki Ishiwa
  • Publication number: 20020063658
    Abstract: A small antenna comprises a first meander part formed in such a manner that a meander conductor travels to a first direction and having a first end and a second end, and a second meander part formed in such a manner that a meander conductor travels to a second direction different from the first direction and having a first end connected with the second end of the first meander part and a second end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Inventors: Takanori Washiro, Yoichi Iso, Toshiyoki Imagawa, Minoru Oozeki
  • Publication number: 20020027530
    Abstract: A chip antenna comprises an antenna conductor, and a dielectric chip which stacks on a portion of the antenna conductor, in which a conductor exposed portion of the antenna conductor which is not overlapped on the dielectric chip is bent along the surface of the dielectric chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Inventors: Isao Tomomatsu, Masayuki Ishiwa, Takahiro Ueno, Toshiyuki Imagawa, Minoru Oozeki