Patents by Inventor Shigeru Nigorikawa

Shigeru Nigorikawa 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: 4628412
    Abstract: A case for an electronic device includes a frame of metal having an opening, a cover of metal covering the opening, and a circuit board fixedly mounted in the frame and having a hole defined therein. The frame has a portion bent as a shield plate extending through the hole toward an inner surface of the cover. The end portion of the shield plate has a distal end bent as a contact leg held against the inner surface of the cover. The contact leg has a recess, and the circuit board includes a projecting tongue extending into the hole in alignment with the recess and supporting a ground pattern soldered to the shield plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1986
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeru Nigorikawa
  • Patent number: 4589055
    Abstract: In an oscillator having a frame, a variable capacitor mounted in the frame and having a rotor and a stator, the rotor having a rotor shaft rotatably supported on the frame, a rotor shaft support mechanism comprises: two sets of rotor shaft support portions provided in the frame, one of the two sets of rotor support portions being formed in the opposing side plates of the frame and being adapted to support the rotor shaft in a transverse direction, and the other one of the rotor shaft support portions being formed in the upper and lower plates of the frame and being adapted to support the rotor shaft in another vertical direction, whereby the rotor shaft can be supported by desiredly selected one of the two sets of rotor support portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1986
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeru Nigorikawa
  • Patent number: 4500920
    Abstract: In furnishing an RF modulator with a reference signal generator for generating a specified test signal, and a switching circuit for switching a video signal and the test signal on occasion; the reference signal generator and the switching circuit are received in a shield case of the RF modulator, thereby to prevent radiated interferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1985
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tohru Ohyama, Shigeru Nigorikawa