Patents by Inventor Mitsuru Iida

Mitsuru Iida 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: 20080014785
    Abstract: This connector assembly comprises a header 1 to which a plurality of coaxial cables 3 are connectable and a socket 2 configured to be mounted on a printed board 4. The header 1 can be detachably coupled to the socket 2. The header 1 has a first terminal array 12 to which the coaxial cables 3 are electrically connectable. The socket 2 has a second terminal array 21 which makes contact with the first terminal array 12 when the header 1 is coupled to the socket 2. The first terminal array has a plurality of first terminals each having a wire terminal 120 for connection with each conductive wire of the cables and a contact 122 for contact with the second terminal array. The feature of the present invention resides in that the wire terminals 120 are arranged in a line, and the contacts 122 of the first terminal array are arranged in two rows in a staggered configuration, and a pitch of the contacts 122 of each row is larger than a pitch of the wire terminals 120.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Iida, Hirohisa Tanaka, Kenji Jounen, Kousuke Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 7273390
    Abstract: This connector assembly comprises a header 1 to which a plurality of coaxial cables 3 are connectable and a socket 2 configured to be mounted on a printed board 4. The header 1 can be detachable coupled to the socket 2. The header 1 has a first terminal array 12 to which the coaxial cables 3 are electrically connectable. The socket 2 has a second terminal array 21 which makes contact with the first terminal array 12 when the header 1 is coupled to the socket 2. The first terminal array has a plurality of first terminals each having a wire terminal 120 for connection with each conductive wire of the cables and a contact 122 for contact with the second terminal array. The feature of the present invention resides in that the wire terminals 120 are arranged in a line, and the contacts 122 of the first terminal array are arranged in two rows in a staggered configuration, and a pitch of the contacts 122 of each row is larger than a pitch of the wire terminals 120.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Iida, Hirohisa Tanaka, Kenji Jounen, Kousuke Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20070161274
    Abstract: A compact and simple constitution of a card connector, with which attaching and detaching works of a card can be performed easily, is provided. The connector 1 comprises: a body 2 having a recess 2a for a card 100; six contact springs projecting from a bottom face 3a of the recess 2a on which the IC card 100 is disposed, and elastically contacting with contact terminals 101 of the card 100; a stationary hooking portion 20 provided on a rear face side of the body 2; a movable hooking member 5 provided on a front face side of the body 2, and movable in a anteroposterior direction of the body 2; and a plate spring 18 for charging the movable hooking member 5 toward the rear face of the body 2, and wherein a tapered face 5b is formed on a rear face side of a hooking portion 5c so as to come closer to the rear face of the body 2 as approaching to the bottom face 3a of the recess 2a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirohisa Tanaka, Toshihiro Yamamoto, Mitsuru Iida, Yoshihisa Inaba
  • Patent number: 7218340
    Abstract: A video-scope according to the present invention has an image sensor and is selectively connectable to plural types of video-processors. The video-scope has a memory, a signal processor, a video-processor detector, and a data setter. The memory stores a series of register setting data, which is associated with signal processes for image signals, read from the image sensor, and which corresponds to the plural types video-processors. The signal processor is provided in the video-scope and processes the image signals. The video-processor detector detects the type information of the connected video-processor. Then, the data setter reads the register setting data corresponding to the detected type information from the memory, and writes the register setting data in a register provided in the signal processor. The signal processor processes the image signals in accordance with the register setting data in the register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: PENTAX Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Takahashi, Tsutomu Takizawa, Mitsuru Iida
  • Publication number: 20060276075
    Abstract: This connector assembly comprises a header 1 to which a plurality of coaxial cables 3 are connectable and a socket 2 configured to be mounted on a printed board 4. The header 1 can be detachably coupled to the socket 2. The header 1 has a first terminal array 12 to which the coaxial cables 3 are electrically connectable. The socket 2 has a second terminal array 21 which makes contact with the first terminal array 12 when the header 1 is coupled to the socket 2. The first terminal array has a plurality of first terminals each having a wire terminal 120 for connection with each conductive wire of the cables and a contact 122 for contact with the second terminal array. The feature of the present invention resides in that the wire terminals 120 are arranged in a line, and the contacts 122 of the first terminal array are arranged in two rows in a staggered configuration, and a pitch of the contacts 122 of each row is larger than a pitch of the wire terminals 120.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Mitsuru IIDA, Hirohisa Tanaka, Kenji Jounen, Kousuke Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 7134882
    Abstract: In a connector with a component built-in, a base member is formed of three-dimensional formation circuit substrate, and has a fitting portion that is to be fitted to a connector of counterpart. Terminals electrically connected to a wiring pattern on a mother board, contacts electrically connected to contacts of the connector of counterpart, and a conductive pattern electrically connected to the electronic component are formed on a surface of the base member. Thus, the conductive pattern can easily be modified depending on application, and it is possible to provide complicated wirings. Furthermore, since the electronic component is mounted on the base member, it is possible to make the connector embed a lot of electronic components, and degrees of freedom of design are increased. Still furthermore, the electronic component can be connected by reflow soldering, so that mounting workability of the electronic component is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Iida, Mitsutaka Abe, Hidetaka Mori
  • Publication number: 20060183358
    Abstract: In a connector with a component built-in, a base member is formed of three-dimensional formation circuit substrate, and has a fitting portion that is to be fitted to a connector of counterpart. Terminals electrically connected to a wiring pattern on a mother board, contacts electrically connected to contacts of the connector of counterpart, and a conductive pattern electrically connected to the electronic component are formed on a surface of the base member. Thus, the conductive pattern can easily be modified depending on application, and it is possible to provide complicated wirings. Furthermore, since the electronic component is mounted on the base member, it is possible to make the connector embed a lot of electronic components, and degrees of freedom of design are increased. Still furthermore, the electronic component can be connected by reflow soldering, so that mounting workability of the electronic component is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2004
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: Matsuchita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Iida, Mitsutaka Abe, Hidetaka Mori
  • Publication number: 20060166196
    Abstract: The invention provides a reporter gene assay method by which the sex hormone-like activity inherent in a test substance can be accurately assayed excluding the effects caused by a decrease in cell activity (protein expressing capacity). The assay method is a reporter gene assay method using luciferase-expressing cells which comprises further tranferring a GFP gene into the luciferase-expressing cells, measuring the luciferase expression level and GFP expression level, and making a judgment about the thus-measured luciferase expression level using the decrease in GFP expression level as an indication of the decrease in cell activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Inventors: Mitsuru Iida, Hideo Oguri
  • Patent number: 6980227
    Abstract: An electronic endoscope has a video-scope with an image sensor and a video-processor. The video-scope has an objective lens and an illuminating lens in a tip portion. Further, the electronic endoscope has a luminance calculator and a light-amount adjuster. The luminance calculator divides the total area of a subject image into a plurality of division areas, defines weighted areas from the plurality of division areas in accordance with the tip characteristics of the video-scope, and calculates a total luminance value of the subject image by putting priority on predetermined weighted areas relative to the other areas. The light-amount adjuster adjusts the quantity of light illuminating the subject in accordance with the total luminance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: PENTAX Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Iida, Haruhiko Hibi, Kenichi Iriyama
  • Publication number: 20050270654
    Abstract: A diffusing sheet, a surface light source unit, and a transmission type display that can attain uniform illumination so that the brightness of light on the display screen appears uniform regardless of the position from which the display screen is observed. The diffusing sheet includes, on its light-emerging side surface, a diffusion lens array having a plurality of unit lenses, each unit lens being in a shape equivalent to a part of an elliptic cylinder having an elliptical cross section. The surface light source unit includes the diffusing sheet and a convergent sheet 12 that has a plurality of unit lenses 121 having almost trapezoidal cross sections, formed on one surface thereof. It is possible to attain uniform illumination by diffusing light from cathode ray tubes in the surface light source unit, and, at the same time, to converge the light serving as backlight to enhance optical efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Goto, Mitsuru Iida, Wataru Tokuhara
  • Patent number: 6943822
    Abstract: An electronic endoscope includes a video-scope with an image sensor and a video-processor, to which the video-scope is detachably connected. The electronic endoscope has a light source that emits illuminating light for illuminating a subject, a color adjuster that performs a color adjustment process for color image signals read from the image sensor, which include a plurality of color signal components corresponding to a plurality of color elements, and a light source detector that detects the type of the light source. The color adjuster performs the color adjustment process in accordance with the type of the light source such that color in displayed subject image is properly reproduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: PENTAX Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Iida, Haruhiko Hibi, Kenichi Iriyama
  • Publication number: 20050174511
    Abstract: The main object of the present invention is to provide a color filter for a transflective type color liquid crystal display which is easily produced and capable of displaying the same color tone with both of a reflecting light and a transmitting light, and shows light scattering in a reflective light region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2003
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Masayuki Sugawara, Mitsuru Iida, Ryutaro Harada, Tomohisa Ishizawa
  • Patent number: 6881188
    Abstract: An electronic endoscope system has a video-scope, a video-processor, and a liquid supply apparatus. The video-scope has a liquid transmitting tube for spouting liquid from a tip of the video-scope, and is detachably and electrically connected to the video-processor. The liquid supply apparatus is electrically connectable to the video-processor, and has a container for storing liquid and a liquid supplier that supplies the liquid in the container to the liquid transmitting tube. A liquid jet performance member for spouting the liquid is provided on the video-scope. A liquid jet performance detector detects operational status of the liquid jet performance member, and a liquid jet performance transmitter feeds a control signal regarding the operational status of the liquid jet performance member to the liquid supply apparatus. The liquid supplier supplies the liquid in the container to the liquid transmitting tube in accordance with the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: PENTAX Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Furuya, Haruhiko Hibi, Mitsuru Iida
  • Publication number: 20050049456
    Abstract: An endoscope system comprises an electric scope, an input apparatus, a processing unit, and a computer. The electric scope has an imaging device. The input apparatus is used for inputting information of a patient. The processing unit outputs first electric signals which are obtained by the imaging device, and second electric signals which are obtained by the input apparatus, as image signals for peripheral devices. The computer is connected to the processing unit. The processing unit separately outputs first image signals corresponding to the first electric signals, and second image signals corresponding to the second electric signals, to the computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Applicant: PENTAX Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuru Iida
  • Patent number: D547721
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Harano, Mitsuru Iida, Shunsuke Hashimoto
  • Patent number: D547722
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Harano, Mitsuru Iida, Shunsuke Hashimoto
  • Patent number: D547723
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Harano, Mitsuru Iida, Shunsuke Hashimoto
  • Patent number: D548184
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Harano, Mitsuru Iida, Shunsuke Hashimoto
  • Patent number: D548185
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Harano, Mitsuru Iida, Shunsuke Hashimoto
  • Patent number: D555593
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Harano, Mitsuru Iida, Shunsuke Hashimoto