Patents by Inventor Osamu Ito

Osamu Ito 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: 8633724
    Abstract: A probe-unit base member having high rigidity and requiring no troublesome operations for its manufacture and a probe unit are provided. To achieve the purpose, the probe-unit base member includes a conductive substrate 41 that has a first opening 41a capable of fitting therein a probe holder 3 and a second opening 41b communicated with the first opening 41a; a coating 42 that is made of an insulating adhesive agent and is coated at least on an edge of the second opening 41b; and an insulating guide member 43 that is bonded to the edge of the second opening 41b through the coating 42 and guides one of two contact bodies to a position in contact with probes 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Kazama, Kohei Hironaka, Mitsuhiro Kondo, Osamu Ito
  • Patent number: 8588098
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a communication system, and a processing method used in the reception apparatus that are capable of reducing collisions of an Ack frame. A transmission apparatus 100 transmits an Ack frame 200 made up of only a PLCP preamble. In a reception apparatus 300, an RF unit 320 supplies the Ack frame 200 received by an antenna 310 to a PMD unit 340. The PMD unit 340 determines a termination end of the Ack frame 200 on the basis of a signal strength of the Ack frame 200 supplied from the RF unit 320. Furthermore, the PMD unit 340 generates a timing of the termination end of the PLCP preamble of the Ack frame 200 on the basis of the PLCP preamble. A PLCP unit 350 detects the Ack frame 200 on the basis of a result in which the termination end of the Ack frame 200 has been determined using the signal strength and the timing of the termination end of the PLCP preamble generated by the PLCP preamble of the Ack frame 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Ito
  • Patent number: 8562392
    Abstract: A polishing apparatus includes a polishing table with a polishing pad at an upper surface, and a conditioning disc carrying out conditioning of the polishing pad, and a moving mechanism (constructed, for example, from a swing arm) capable of moving the conditioning disc to a standby position above the polishing pad, and a spraying mechanism (constructed, for example, from a washing water nozzle) that sprays liquid to the conditioning disc positioned at the standby position so as to wash or wet the conditioning disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Shiratani, Shigeyuki Yoshida, Osamu Ito
  • Publication number: 20130244737
    Abstract: A lid member with a waterproof function opening and closing an opening portion formed in a housing is structured by a rubber-like elastic material seal portion provided with a projection portion which is integrally formed in one surface of a resin main body of the lid member and is stored within the opening portion, an annular projection portion which is integrally formed in an outer peripheral surface of the projection portion and comes into close contact with a peripheral surface of the opening portion, and a reinforcing portion which extends from the annular projection portion to the vicinity of a junction portion of the outer peripheral surface with the main body, and a thermoplastic elastomer retention portion which exists so as to come into close contact with an outer peripheral surface of the reinforcing portion, and is integrally formed in a side of the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: NIPPON MEKTRON, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Tanaka, Osamu Ito, Yuichi Kakihara
  • Patent number: 8532212
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication system, including a first terminal equipped with N antennas, N being an integer of at least two, a second terminal equipped with M antennas, M being an integer of at least one, and a third terminal equipped with L antennas, L being an integer of at least one. The first terminal includes a matrix calculation portion that calculates a transmission weight matrix suitable for transmitting data from the first terminal to the second terminal, and a matrix multiplication portion that multiplies a first data stream and a second data stream by the transmission weight matrix, the first data stream being transmitted from the first terminal to the second terminal, and the second data stream being transmitted from the first terminal to the third terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Ito
  • Patent number: 8511258
    Abstract: Disclosed is a coal boiler that makes it possible to reduce the height of the boiler and shorten the period of construction. The coal boiler includes a first furnace in which a combustion gas generated by burning coal and air ascends; a second furnace in which the combustion gas supplied from the first furnace flows downward; and a heat recovery area in which the combustion gas supplied from the second furnace flows upward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Masato Handa, Teruyuki Okazaki, Kazumi Yasuda, Osamu Ito
  • Publication number: 20130194531
    Abstract: A display device includes first and second substrates, first and second, red, green and blue color filters, disposed between the first and second substrates, and arranged in a first direction, a first light blocking film disposed between the first red and the green color filters, a second light blocking film disposed between the green and the blue color filters, and a third light blocking film disposed between the blue and the second red color filters, and signal lines, thin film transistors, and pixel electrodes formed on the first substrate. The first, second, and third light blocking films are overlapped with the signal lines. A width of a part of the second light blocking film disposed between the pixel electrodes in the first direction is larger than a width of a part of the first light blocking film disposed between the pixel electrodes in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Takahiro Ochiai, Tohru Sasaki, Osamu ITO
  • Patent number: 8464876
    Abstract: A banknote handling apparatus including a receiving unit that receives banknotes to be counted, a recognition unit that recognizes attributes of the banknotes, a storing unit that stores the banknotes sorted based on a recognition result by the recognition unit, an operation unit for selecting a counting mode and a setting for stacking, and a verification counting process control unit that executes a first counting process when the operation unit selects a verification mode as the counting mode, stores the banknotes in stacking units in a designated first setting for stacking, executes a verification counting process to the banknotes stacked in the first setting for stacking, stores the banknotes in stacking units in a designated second setting for stacking that is different from the first setting for stacking, and determines match/mismatch of the number of banknotes of each denomination in the first counting process and the verification counting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ozaki, Osamu Ito
  • Publication number: 20130082829
    Abstract: A force sense presentation apparatus includes a main body, a first movable unit, and a first drive mechanism. The main body has a longitudinal direction in a first axis direction and includes a holding unit held by a user. The first movable unit is configured to cover at least a part of the holding unit and is capable of being displaced with respect to the main body in a second axis direction which intersects the first axis. The first drive mechanism is provided to the main body and configured to cause the first movable unit to be displaced in the second axis direction with respect to the main body to generate a moment about a third axis to the holding unit. The third axis intersects the first axis and the second axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kousuke Seki, Hideo Kawabe, Osamu Ito, Takeshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 8411653
    Abstract: There is provided a receiving apparatus including a radio receiving section that receives a first radio signal transmitted according to a first communication system and a second radio signal transmitted according to a second communication system, a first detection section that detects the first radio signal among radio signals received by the radio receiving section, a second detection section that detects the second radio signal among radio signals received by the radio receiving section using a predetermined correlation threshold, and a threshold control section that temporarily changes the correlation threshold of the second detection section when the first radio signal is detected by the first detection section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Ito
  • Patent number: 8401696
    Abstract: A banknote handling apparatus and a method of controlling the banknote handling apparatus that make the display of complicated functions and configuration of a banknote handling apparatus easy for the operator to understand. A banknote handling apparatus of the present invention includes an operation unit that accepts an instruction from an operator, first and second display units that can display graphics, a storage unit that stores first and second data for display on the first and second display units, detecting part that detects an occurrence of a predetermined event, and a control unit that reads out first and second data stored in the storage unit based on the content of the event, causes the first display unit to display the first data, and causes the second display unit to display the second data, when the detecting part detects the occurrence of the predetermined event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ozaki, Osamu Ito
  • Patent number: 8395730
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate, liquid crystal sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first red color filter, a green color filter, a blue color filter, a second red color filter disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and arranged in a first direction, a first light blocking film disposed between the first red color filter and the green color filter, a second light blocking film disposed between the green color filter and the blue color filter, and a third light blocking film disposed between the blue color filter and the second red color filter, and drain signal lines, thin film transistors, and pixel electrodes formed on the first substrate. Drain electrodes of the thin film transistors are connected to drain signal lines, and source electrodes of the thin film transistors are connected to the pixel electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Ochiai, Tohru Sasaki, Osamu Ito
  • Publication number: 20130049957
    Abstract: A mobile terminal apparatus including a casing, a plurality of vibrators, and a controller. The plurality of vibrators are provided inside the casing. The controller is configured to judge an orientation from a position of the casing to a target position and cause a vibration for presenting the orientation in the casing by driving at least one of the plurality of vibrators based on a result of the judgment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kousuke Seki, Hideo Kawabe, Osamu Ito, Takeshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 8380014
    Abstract: A burden of an operation of manually inputting identification information of an error bar-code ticket by using an external device can be reduced, and both image information and identification information of the error bar-code ticket can be transmitted to the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Ito, Hirofumi Ozaki
  • Patent number: 8355558
    Abstract: A money handling system includes: a sort pattern setting unit 107 configured to set a sort pattern showing one or more denominations of the banknotes to be sorted into the stacking units 103; a storage unit 109 configured to store the sort pattern set by the sort pattern setting unit 107, and to store a recognition result and a count result by the recognition unit 102 on the banknotes stacked in the stacking units 103; and a control unit 108 configured to control the transport unit 105 so as to transport the banknotes respectively to the stacking units 103 and the reject unit 104, based on the recognition result by the recognition unit 102 and the sort pattern stored in the storage unit 109.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Matsuura, Hajime Morino, Osamu Ito
  • Publication number: 20120327340
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate, liquid crystal sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first red color filter, a green color filter, a blue color filter, a second red color filter disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and arranged in a first direction, a first light blocking film disposed between the first red color filter and the green color filter, a second light blocking film disposed between the green color filter and the blue color filter, and a third light blocking film disposed between the blue color filter and the second red color filter, and drain signal lines, thin film transistors, and pixel electrodes formed on the first substrate. Drain electrodes of the thin film transistors are connected to drain signal lines, and source electrodes of the thin film transistors are connected to the pixel electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Takahiro OCHIAI, Tohru SASAKI, Osamu ITO
  • Patent number: 8336715
    Abstract: The banknote processing device 100 includes a first upper stacking unit 102a that is provided at an upper position of the banknote processing device and stacks rejected notes; a second upper stacking unit 102b that is provided adjacent to the first upper stacking unit and stacks banknotes other than the rejected notes; first to fourth lower stacking units 106a-106d that are arranged in parallel at lower positions of the banknote processing device and stack banknotes of at least one specific denomination; and a controller 111 that controls the transport unit to transport the banknote to the first upper stacking unit when a recognition result is a rejected note, and to transport the banknote to one of the second upper stacking unit and the first to fourth lower stacking units when the recognition result is not a rejected note.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumiaki Koga, Osamu Ito, Masakazu Miwa, Kouichi Maekawa
  • Publication number: 20120250329
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light source including an inorganic material substrate, a light emitting element mounted on a mounting surface of the inorganic material substrate, and a metalized pattern formed on a non-mounting surface of the inorganic material substrate on which the light emitting element is not mounted, a mounting substrate including an mounting surface on which the light source is mounted, and a conductor pattern formed on the mounting surface and bonded to the metalized pattern, and an optical member disposed on the mounting surface of the mounting substrate so as to guide a light emitted from the light source in a predetermined direction. The optical member includes a heat absorbing surface at least a part of which faces the conductor pattern of the mounting substrate, and a heat radiating surface that radiates heat of the light source conducted from the conductor pattern via the heat absorbing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Suehiro, Koji Tasumi, Osamu Ito
  • Patent number: 8269925
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which can obviate color mixing of colors when a display screen is viewed from oblique directions while enhancing a numerical aperture of a pixel is provided. In a liquid crystal display device having red sub pixels, green sub pixels and blue sub pixels, a width of a light blocking film arranged on a boundary portion between the blue sub pixel and the sub pixel of other color is set larger than a width of a light blocking film arranged on a boundary portion between the red sub pixel and the green sub pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Ochiai, Tohru Sasaki, Osamu Ito
  • Patent number: 8251280
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to transmit image data of valid surfaces of all bar-code tickets to an external device by a single bar-code ticket process, regardless of orientations and directions of the bar-code tickets. A bar-code ticket processing apparatus includes a taking unit configured to take thereinto a bar-code ticket; an image-data reading unit configured to read image data of both surfaces of the bar-code ticket taken by the taking unit; a valid-surface judging unit configured to judge the surfaces of the image data read by the image-data reading unit to be valid or not; and a control unit configured to generate ticket data including the image data of a valid surface out of the image data read by the image-data reading unit, based on the judgment result of the valid-surface judging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Ito, Hirofumi Ozaki