Patents by Inventor Noriaki Tobimatsu

Noriaki Tobimatsu 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: 6608965
    Abstract: A recording/reproducing unit is arranged below an operating panel, and a spacing in the recording/reproducing unit for mounting/dismounting a recording medium is arranged outside the operating panel. Alternatively, there are provided a reproducing unit for controlling the playback of camera-built-in type recording/reproducing apparatus and an editing unit for receiving reproduced video data, editing the video data and recording the edited data on a recording medium. Alternatively, there are provided a shuttle control unit and a resetting unit for resetting the shuttle mode without changing the operating position of the shuttle control unit. Still alternatively, there are provided a display unit, an operating panel, a recording/reproducing unit, a battery loading unit and a battery that can be mounted on or dismounted from the battery loading unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Tobimatsu, Kenji Hyodo, Kimiko Yoshinari, Masami Ishii
  • Patent number: 4954916
    Abstract: A cassette recording-medium recording and/or reproducing apparatus has a lid for an opening which is provided in a cabinet, and a cassette holder which is secured inside the lid, and together with the lid, moved into its cassette receiving position, as the lid is moved toward its opening position to uncover the opening. The cassette holder is made to slide in a withdrawn direction of the cassette with respect to the lid, while the cassette holder is moved into the cassette receiving position, so that it becomes very easy to withdraw the cassette from the cassette holder by hand, because the lid does not interfere with the manual operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Noriaki Tobimatsu