Patents by Inventor Sunao Inoue

Sunao Inoue 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).

  • Protection member and optical pickup device using the same
    Patent number: 7710846
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a protection member used for preventing a contact between a lens for focusing light on an optical information recording medium and the optical information recording medium upon optically recording or reproducing information on or from the optical information recording medium, the protection member including an ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene porous film; and an optical pickup device having the protection member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Moriyama, Kazuaki Mochida, Sunao Inoue
  • Protection member and optical pickup device using the same
    Publication number: 20070230310
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a protection member used for preventing a contact between a lens for focusing light on an optical information recording medium and the optical information recording medium upon optically recording or reproducing information on or from the optical information recording medium, the protection member including an ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene porous film; and an optical pickup device having the protection member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Moriyama, Kazuaki Mochida, Sunao Inoue
  • Storage device with the ability to check for defects in same
    Patent number: 6233108
    Abstract: All storage areas constituting a storage medium are checked for defects by successively reading and writing data. If an error that has occurred owing to the checking operation is an error for which retry is possible, the number of times this occurs is accumulated in a retrial-count storage area of a memory. A faulty storage area is detected based upon the type of error that has occurred by checking and/or the number of occurrences that have been accumulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Sunao Inoue
  • System for recording processing operations of one processing apparatus and reflecting contents of the operations which have not been reflected since the previous reflecting
    Patent number: 5894585
    Abstract: In an information processing method of causing a plurality of information processing apparatuses to process information, the contents of a processing operation for data are stored in an information processing apparatus main body, the stored contents of the processing operation are recorded in a portable recording medium, and the data in another information processing apparatus is processed in accordance with the contents of the processing operation recorded in the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1999
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sunao Inoue, Akitomo Sasaki
  • Intra-ocular lens
    Patent number: 4955900
    Abstract: An intra-ocular lens comprising a lens part and a fixing part is disclosed, said lens part comprising a colorless transparent polyimide consisting mainly of a repeating unit represented by formula (I): ##STR1## The intra-ocular lens exhibits compatibility with the organism, chemical inactivity, and insusceptibility to modification or deterioration by the organism, has a refractive index of 1.6 or higher, completely absorbs ultraviolet rays while exhibiting substantial transparency to visible rays, and possesses heat resistance enough to withstand autoclaving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignees: Nitto Denko Corporation, Menicon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumi Higashi, Toshio Nakajima, Atsushi Hino, Sunao Inoue