Patents by Inventor Nobuo Akiba

Nobuo Akiba 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: 6354560
    Abstract: A marking device is provided that can confirm a mark imprinted on a molded piece from outside a molding tool and can inscribe a plurality of marks with a sole marker. The marking device consists of a reference sleeve, a top imprint portion, a sleeve, a top imprint portion, and a pin. The reference sleeve is fixedly assembled and has the top reference imprint surface confronting a molding area, a reference imprint mark being formed on the stamp surface. The top imprint portion is rotatably journaled within the reference sleeve and has the top display imprint surface being flush with the top reference imprint surface, on which data imprint marks to be pointed by a reference imprint mark are formed. The sleeve has a base end actuator, on which data display are indicated, formed at a protrusion protruded from a molding area outward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: Futaba Denshi Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kawasaki, Hiroaki Maru, Nobuo Akiba
  • Patent number: 6348007
    Abstract: A golf cart control and monitoring system on a golf course including a plurality of sensors arranged along a golf cart path at locations corresponding to at least a teeing ground, a fairway, and a putting green of each hole of the golf course in which each of the sensors includes a sensor ID transmitting apparatus. Each of a plurality of golf carts traveling on the golf cart path includes a golf cart ID transmitting apparatus configured to maintain communication between the sensors and the golf carts. Also included is a golf cart control station having a golf cart location device configured to determine locations of the golf carts traveling on the golf cart path. The golf cart location device includes a radio transmitter/receiver configured to receive information on the golf cart IDs and a current location of the golf carts in the golf course from the sensors and the golf carts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: Futaba Denshi Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kawasaki, Nobuo Akiba, Hiroshi Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20010053719
    Abstract: A golf cart location display device that facilitates to view the display status of cart operation management is provided. The window 30, which can display a table for respective courses, is created. The cart marks 35 are respectively displayed at predetermined positions (tee ground T, fairway F, and green G) on each of holes (1H to 9H) based on cart locations detected by sensors dotted at predetermined positions on cart routes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 1999
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Inventors: HIROAKI KAWASAKI, NOBUO AKIBA, HIROSHI YOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20010041608
    Abstract: A golflinks operation-control system is comprised of at least one sensor placed at a required position along a cart route on a golfcourse in which an information on position is individually set and which can transmit the information on position within a given area, at least one cart which can patrols the cart route and which is provided with a receiver of the information on position and a transmitter of the sensor identification information received and a cart identification information set individually, and a control house which is provided with a receiver of the information on position and the cart identification information to detect a present position of the particular cart which is patrolling the golfcourse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 1999
    Publication date: November 15, 2001
    Inventors: HIROAKI KAWASAKI, NOBUO AKIBA
  • Patent number: 6186908
    Abstract: A retrieval apparatus for operation-management system of golf links and method therefor are, herein, disclosed. LED which is constructed as a display means of measurement results by a sensor is turned on in a given color on the basis of sensor ID detected by moving a moving vehicle on a cart route on which a retrieval apparatus is mounted. And, control on lighting of LED which is constructed as a display means of measurement results by a repeater is performed on the basis of repeater ID detected during moving of the moving vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Futaba Denshi Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kawasaki, Nobuo Akiba
  • Patent number: 5465101
    Abstract: A display device capable of permitting a plurality of display units connected together to carry out a series of displays through a single control section, to thereby automatically assign numbers to the display units. The control section and first- to six-stage display units are cascade-connected to each other, wherein the sixth- or last-stage module is connected at an output terminal thereof to an input terminal of the control section. The control section outputs an H signal in synchronism with the trigger signal of which the number of times of outputting is predetermined. The modules each normally outputs the L signal. However, the module outputs the H signal at a timing of the next trigger signal when it is fed with the H signal. Addition of 1 to the number of L signals in each of the modules at the time of N=6 permits a number of the module to be obtained. The control section grasps the number of modules connected based on the number of L signals input thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: Futaba Denshi Kogyo K.K.
    Inventors: Nobuo Akiba, Isao Ohtsuka, Shigekazu Shiratori, Katsunori Kase
  • Patent number: 4619518
    Abstract: When, in a two-color image forming apparatus, a first visible image is formed on a photosensitive drum, and sequentially a second visible image is formed on the drum on which the first visible image remains, said second visible image being different in color from said second visible image, a cylindrical non-magnetic sleeve rotates in a direction opposite to a rotation of a permanent magnet equipped with the sleeve, thereby enabling a developer to be conveyed in a direction opposite to a rotation of the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1986
    Assignees: Casio Electronics Mfg. Co., Ltd., Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Kameyama, Nobuo Akiba
  • Patent number: 4390268
    Abstract: A cleaning device for a transferring system wet type electronic copying machine. A cleaning roller is juxtaposed with the photosensitive drum in such a manner that the roller is in contact with the drum so as to absorb developing solution containing toner left on the photosensitive drum. The developing solution containing toner absorbed by the cleaning roller is squeezed out by a cleaning device which depresses the cleaning roller and is then discharged by discharging means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1983
    Assignees: Copyer Co., Ltd., Canon Inc.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Furuichi, Takeshi Honjo, Nobuo Akiba