Patents by Inventor Osamu Usami

Osamu Usami 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: 20140058633
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted control device is provided with a touch detection unit and a control unit. The touch detection unit is provided corresponding to a vehicle-mounted apparatus to be controlled, and can detect a touch operation that is of a user and that relates to a function of the vehicle-mounted apparatus to be controlled. The control unit controls the vehicle-mounted apparatus on the basis of the touch operation of the user detected by the touch detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventors: Tatsumi Kuroda, Osamu Usami
  • Patent number: 4934552
    Abstract: A sealed vessel including a cylindrical body portion having an open end, and a cover fitting in the open end of the body portion, said sealed vessel being produced by pressing the open end of the body portion from the outside of the body portion to an outer peripheral surface of the cover provided with at least one of annular grooves around the outer peripheral surface of the cover to air-tightly fix the open end of the body portion and a process for producing the same are disclosed. According to the present invention, it is not necessary to perform any work such as a groove formation on a surface of the body portion but only necessary to provide one or more grooves on the outer peripheral surface of the cover. And in the case of using an electromagnetic force as the means for press-working, a part of the body portion is strictly and air-tightly fixed to the annular grooves at a moment and thus the sealed vessel can be produced with ease and at low costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: Showa Denko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Koide, Osamu Usami, Tunehisa Sekiguchi, Norihito Kohama