Patents by Inventor Shigeo Matsumoto

Shigeo Matsumoto 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: 20240096198
    Abstract: An area determination apparatus (2000) acquires three-dimensional facility data (20). The three-dimensional facility data (20) is three-dimensional data of a target facility including a plurality of segments. The area determination apparatus (2000) determines a designated segment, which is a segment designated in an input screen (10) including an image of the target facility. The area determination apparatus (2000) determines, as a monitoring area or a non-monitoring area, a three-dimensional area that is determined based on three-dimensional segment data (22) of the designated segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Tsuji, Shigeo Suzuki, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Takanori Shigeta
  • Patent number: 8434676
    Abstract: There is provided a banknote handling system including: a reception unit configured to receive a banknote that has been put therein; a recognition unit configured to recognize the banknote that has been received by the reception unit; a storing unit having at least one first cassette configured to store or escrow the banknote that has been recognized by the recognition unit, and at least one second cassette configured to store the banknote that has been recognized by the recognition unit; an operation unit configured to receive a deposit-confirmation instruction for the banknote that has been escrowed in the first cassette; and a control unit configured to cause the banknote that has been recognized by the recognition unit to be escrowed in the first cassette and to cause, when the deposit-confirmation instruction is received by the operation unit, the banknote that has been escrowed in the first cassette to be stored in the second cassette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Sekiguchi, Shinji Matsumoto, Mitsuhiro Takagi, Mikio Wada, Shigeo Matsumoto, Hirofumi Masuki
  • Publication number: 20110235893
    Abstract: There is provided a banknote handling system including: a reception unit configured to receive a banknote that has been put therein; a recognition unit configured to recognize the banknote that has been received by the reception unit; a storing unit having at least one first cassette configured to store or escrow the banknote that has been recognized by the recognition unit, and at least one second cassette configured to store the banknote that has been recognized by the recognition unit; an operation unit configured to receive a deposit-confirmation instruction for the banknote that has been escrowed in the first cassette; and a control unit configured to cause the banknote that has been recognized by the recognition unit to be escrowed in the first cassette and to cause, when the deposit-confirmation instruction is received by the operation unit, the banknote that has been escrowed in the first cassette to be stored in the second cassette.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Junichi Sekiguchi, Shinji Matsumoto, Mitsuhiro Takagi, Mikio Wada, Shigeo Matsumoto, Hirofumi Masuki
  • Patent number: 7443690
    Abstract: A memory device has a variable storage capacity depending on the object of use by a user, thereby improving convenience in use of the device. The memory device has a casing which may be loaded into host equipment. The casing has a plural number of loading sections in each of which a memory chip can be mounted. The casing carrying the memory chips has a terminal unit at the end insertable in the host equipment. Data readout from or writing into the memory chip is controlled by a semiconductor unit forming a control circuit disposed in the casing. The memory device may be of a recording capacity as desired by a user by changing the number of the memory chips mounted in the loading sections or by mounting memory chips of variable recording capacities in the loading sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeo Matsumoto, Yasushi Fujita, Katsumi Endo
  • Patent number: 7298242
    Abstract: An input device having a fingerprint detection function is provided with operating portions for carrying out operations of a host device. The input device includes a device body connected to the host device, a fingerprint detecting portion provided in an upper surface of the device body and serving to detect the fingerprint of the user, and an opening portion for exposing the fingerprint detecting portion to the exterior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Fujita, Shigeo Matsumoto, Katsumi Endo, Akira Kadonaga
  • Publication number: 20060232946
    Abstract: A memory device has a variable storage capacity depending on the object of use by a user, thereby improving convenience in use of the device. The memory device has a casing which may be loaded into host equipment. The casing has a plural number of loading sections in each of which a memory chip can be mounted. The casing carrying the memory chips has a terminal unit at the end insertable in the host equipment. Data readout from or writing into the memory chip is controlled by a semiconductor unit forming a control circuit disposed in the casing. The memory device may be of a recording capacity as desired by a user by changing the number of the memory chips mounted in the loading sections or by mounting memory chips of variable recording capacities in the loading sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeo Matsumoto, Yasushi Fujita, Katsumi Endo
  • Patent number: 7110262
    Abstract: A memory device has a variable storage capacity depending on the object of use by a user, thereby improving convenience in use of the device. The memory device has a casing which may be loaded into host equipment. The casing has a plural number of loading sections in each of which a memory chip can be mounted. The casing carrying the memory chips has a terminal unit at the end insertable in the host equipment. Data readout from or writing into the memory chip is controlled by a semiconductor unit forming a control circuit disposed in the casing. The memory device may be of a recording capacity as desired by a user by changing the number of the memory chips mounted in the loading sections or by mounting memory chips of variable recording capacities in the loading sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeo Matsumoto, Yasushi Fujita, Katsumi Endo
  • Publication number: 20040068660
    Abstract: An input device having a fingerprint detection function is provided with operating portions for carrying out operations of a host device. The input device includes a device body connected to the host device, a fingerprint detecting portion provided in an upper surface of the device body and serving to detect the fingerprint of the user, and an opening portion for exposing the fingerprint detecting portion to the exterior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Publication date: April 8, 2004
    Inventors: Yasushi Fujita, Shigeo Matsumoto, Katsumi Endo, Akira Kadonaga
  • Publication number: 20020116553
    Abstract: A memory device has a variable storage capacity depending on the object of use by a user, thereby improving convenience in use of the device. The memory device has a casing which may be loaded into host equipment. The casing has a plural number of loading sections in each of which a memory chip can be mounted. The casing carrying the memory chips has a terminal unit at the end insertable in the host equipment. Data readout from or writing into the memory chip is controlled by a semiconductor unit forming a control circuit disposed in the casing. The memory device may be of a recording capacity as desired by a user by changing the number of the memory chips mounted in the loading sections or by mounting memory chips of variable recording capacities in the loading sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2001
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Inventors: Shigeo Matsumoto, Yasushi Fujita, Katsumi Endo
  • Patent number: 6186851
    Abstract: This invention secures the breakdown voltage between stem pins or the like for high voltage service in a cathode ray tube. This insulator formed is of a clay-like silicone compound having a tip-throughhole and pin-throughholes or a stem base with the electric insulator mounted to the stem base: A inter-stem electric insulation device is structured by mounting either one of the electric insulator or the stem base with the electric insulator to the stem of a cathode ray tube and by pressing to fix together. This structure does not occur bubble generation caused by the electric insulator, and makes the handling easy, and furthermore, accomplish an automatic mounting of the electric insulator to a stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeo Matsumoto, Takashi Setsuda, Haruo Ito, Kazuyuki Ota
  • Patent number: 5990610
    Abstract: This invention secures the breakdown voltage between stem pins or the like for high voltage service in a cathode ray tube. This insulator is formed of a clay-like silicone compound having a tip-throughhole and pin-throughholes or a stem base with the electric insulator mounted to the stem base. An inter-stem electric insulation device is structured by mounting either one of the electric insulator or the stem base with the electric insulator to the stem of a cathode ray tube and by pressing to fix together. This structure does not allow bubble generation caused by the electric insulator, and makes the handling easy, and furthermore, allows an automatic mounting of the electric insulator to a stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeo Matsumoto, Takashi Setsuda, Haruo Ito, Kazuyuki Ota
  • Patent number: 5722296
    Abstract: A ball joint connects a swinging shaft and a bell-crank provided on a change lever for transmitting a swinging movement of the change lever in a select direction to the bell-crank. The ball joint includes a ball having a pair of flat surfaces for defining a width smaller than the maximum diameter of the ball, a ball hole which is formed at one end of the bell-crank and in which the ball is rotatably fitted, a shaft hole which formed in the ball so as to open through both the flat surface and in which the swinging shaft of the change lever is slidably fitted. A rotation of the ball in the ball hole permits a relative swinging movement between the swinging shaft and the bell-crank. A sliding movement of the swinging shaft in the shaft hole permits an axial displacement of the swinging shaft with respect to the bell-crank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Atsumitec
    Inventors: Yukio Nishigai, Shigeo Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 5626057
    Abstract: Main and subsidiary levers 24 and 25 forming a change lever are intersected and coupled to each other to form a T-shape. A pair of hemispherical bodies forming a fulcrum member are formed, at their coupled end surfaces, with supporting recesses extended in three directions and fitted to outer peripheral surfaces of the intersected main and subsidiary levers. With this arrangement, it is possible to reliably and easily mount the spherical fulcrum member to the change lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1997
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Atsumitec
    Inventors: Yukio Nishigai, Shigeo Matsumoto, Takatoshi Harada
  • Patent number: 5560252
    Abstract: A cap for supporting a spehrical fulcrum member of a change lever between the cap itself and a hemispherical bottom wall of a housing, and a retainer for pressing the cap through an elastic ring are fitted to the housing. The retainer and the housing are provided at opposed peripheral surfaces of thereof with an engagement claw and an engagement hole, respectively. Therefoere, by only fitting the retainer to the housing, it is possible to easily secure the retainer to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Atsumitec
    Inventors: Yukio Nishigai, Shigeo Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 5382990
    Abstract: A number of units of projectors of a rear projection type are assembled together, and one screen commonly used for the assembled screen units is attached to front portions of the screen units. Assemblies, each having the above construction, are assembled in longitudinal and lateral directions to form a picture, so that a margin in the middle of the screen can be eliminated or the number of margins can be significantly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1995
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo Hata, Shigeo Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 4217015
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing a cathode tube and for a ventilator used in its baking process which eliminates the need for a pre-baking process, and polyvinyl-alcohol (PVA) in the phosphor coating and an acrylic resin layer are completely baked and decomposed during the process of the frit-sealing furnace. A ventilator is used in its baking process. The panel portion and a funnel portion are placed in a frit-sealing furnace with a mutually coupled condition so that both portions are frit-sealed and the phosphor is baked. A bulb formed of the panel and funnel portions is provided with a ventilator means to carry out the baking operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1980
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeo Matsumoto, Koichi Tago, Hidetoshi Kato
  • Patent number: 4165728
    Abstract: A decompressing device adapted for use in engines for prime mover-equipped bicycles. The decompressing device is operatively connected with the shifting operation of changing the bicycle running over to the engine power running, and the decompressing operation is automatically performed within a predetermined period in the initial starting period of the engine. The decompression is performed simply, and automatically, without requiring special skill and technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1979
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeo Matsumoto, Sadashi Yamamoto, Masaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: D466872
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeo Matsumoto, Yasushi Fujita, Hitoshi Ito, Yuji Himeno