Patents by Inventor Noboru Shiina

Noboru Shiina 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: 8130987
    Abstract: A speaker system has a laterally extending body portion for supporting the back of the head of a user and a pair of right and left side portions respectively connected to the right and left ends of the body portion. A plurality of openings in side wall of each of two speaker boxes for making communication between the inside and the outside of each speaker box, for preventing sound leakage from each speaker unit and ensuring the sound pressure level in a low-frequency range of the audio frequencies reproducible by the speaker unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Kaneda, Naotaka Kishi, Noboru Shiina
  • Publication number: 20090257616
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a speaker system including: a laterally extending body portion for supporting the back of the head of a user; and a pair of right and left side portions respectively connected to the right and left ends of the body portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo KANEDA, Naotaka KISHI, Noboru SHIINA
  • Publication number: 20090224117
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a suction cup device, including: a suction cup having a suction face, and a rear face along a thicknesswise direction thereof; a center stem connected to a central portion of the rear face of the suction cup and extending in a direction away from the rear face along the thicknesswise direction; a case having a contacting portion capable of contacting with an outer circumferential portion of the rear face or with a portion of an attaching object face outside the suction cup; and a displacement mechanism provided between the center stem and the case for operating the case to cause the contacting portion of the case to contact with the outer circumferential portion of the rear face or the portion of the attaching object face outside the suction cup to displace the center stem in the direction away from the attaching object face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Kaneda, Naotaka Kishi, Noboru Shiina
  • Patent number: 5561419
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus for transmitting signals between a plurality of controllers and a master unit in a wireless fashion and a game machine using the wireless communication apparatus are disclosed, wherein different delay times are set for the respective controllers, each of the controllers comprises a first receiver for receiving a reference time signal from the master unit, an input device for inputting an operating signal by a user and a first transmitter for transmitting the operating signal to the master unit at the delay time set for the controller after receiving the reference time signal and the master unit comprises a reference time signal generator for repeatedly generating the reference time signal, a second transmitter for transmitting the reference time signal to each controller, a second receiver for receiving the operating signal transmitted from each of the controllers and a discriminator for taking out output signals from the signals received by the second receiver, respectively
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Capcom Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Sasaki, Noboru Shiina, Kuniharu Itoh, Akio Sakai