Patents by Inventor Takao Kato

Takao Kato 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: 8072385
    Abstract: Disclosed is a circuit substrate supporting structure including: a base; a cover to cover over the base; a circuit substrate accommodated in the cover in a state standing on the base; a projecting section provided on the circuit substrate in a state projecting from a bottom edge section of the circuit substrate and placed on the base; an elastic piece placed on the projecting section; and a pressurizing section convexly provided on an inner wall of the cover above the projecting section to be pressed against the projecting section from above the elastic piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyuichi Sato, Hiroshi Suzuki, Kenichi Kamada, Takao Kato
  • Patent number: 8044871
    Abstract: A hybrid antenna unit includes a circuit board having top and bottom surfaces, a planer antenna element which is mounted on the top surface of the circuit board and which receives first and second radio waves, an antenna base and a top cover that cover the circuit board and the planer antenna element. A bar antenna element stands on the top cover in a slanting position. A processing unit is mounted on the bottom surface of the circuit board and is connected to the planer antenna element. The processing unit processes the first and the second radio waves. A shielding case is mounted on the bottom surface of the circuit board and shields the processing unit. A booster circuit is mounted on the circuit board and is for use in the bar antenna element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Takisawa, Junichi Noro, Takao Kato, Kenichi Kamada, Kyuichi Sato
  • Patent number: 8026864
    Abstract: An antenna element includes: an antenna plate; an antenna probe formed monolithically with the antenna plate and extending in a vertical direction from the antenna plate; a ground plate disposed in parallel to the antenna plate at a distance; and a dielectric spacer disposed between the antenna plate and the ground plate, wherein the antenna probe is bent from an edge of the antenna plate toward a center thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Noro, Hisashi Takisawa, Takao Kato
  • Publication number: 20110227654
    Abstract: A power amplifying apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first amplifying unit having a first amplifying element to amplify an input signal, a second amplifying unit having a second amplifying element to amplify an output signal from the first amplifying unit; and a bias supply unit giving bias values to the first amplifying element and the second amplifying element, respectively, the bias values causing the first amplifying element and the second amplifying element to operate in a non-linear region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Inventors: Ryo MOCHIZUKI, Takao Kato
  • Patent number: 8022883
    Abstract: In an automobile rear windowpane antenna apparatus including a defogger disposed on a rear windowpane plate at a lower portion thereof an antenna pattern is disposed above the defogger on the rear windowpane plate at an upper portion thereof and is disposed so as to extend between near a right end edge of a window frame and near a left end edge thereof. A feeding point is disposed inside the antenna pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Shinkawa, Takao Kato, Nobuo Tamura, Wassom Pierre
  • Patent number: 8009964
    Abstract: For programs selected as those whose label is to be created, a list of available templates is displayed on a arrangement processing screen 200 together with contents of EPG information acquired from an EPG information DB. The EPG information is displayed on a left screen 210 and the templates list is displayed on a right screen 220, so that one template desired to be applied is selected on the right screen 220, according to which template, one or a plurality of the EPG information pieces whose label is desired to be created is selected on the left screen 210. Templates 230, 240, 250, and 260 constitute a label set comprised of a plurality of labels, thus enabling creating labels by incorporating information pieces of specified items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Minako Ishida, Hideo Ueno, Takao Kato, Naruhito Muto
  • Patent number: 7886398
    Abstract: An oral cavity cleaning tool for the purpose of sterilization of the inside of oral cavity is provided that carries out efficient sterilization by using effective chlorine that is obtained through electrolysis. The oral cavity cleaning tool comprises a block handle, a head section extending from the block handle, a pair of electrodes provided on the head section and a power source that supplies electric current to the pair of electrodes, wherein the electrodes are put into contact with an oral fluid that contains chloride ions thereby to cause electric current to flow between the electrodes, so that the chloride ions are transformed into effective chlorine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Lion Corporation
    Inventors: Toyoko Morita, Toshiaki Kobayashi, Takao Kato
  • Patent number: 7888642
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electron beam apparatus for irradiating a sample with primary electron beams to detect secondary electron beams generated from a surface of the sample by the irradiation for evaluating the sample surface. In the electron beam apparatus, an electron gun has a cathode for emitting primary electron beams. The cathode includes a plurality of emitters for emitting primary electron beams, arranged apart from one another on a circle centered at an optical axis of a primary electro-optical system. The plurality of emitters are arranged such that when the plurality of emitters are projected onto a straight line parallel with a direction in which the primary electron beams are scanned, resulting points on the straight line are spaced at equal intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Nakasuji, Nabuharu Noji, Tohru Satake, Masahiro Hatakeyama, Kenji Watanabe, Takao Kato, Hirosi Sobukawa, Tsutomu Karimata, Shoji Yoshikawa, Toshifumi Kimba, Shin Oowada, Mutsumi Saito, Muneki Hamashima
  • Publication number: 20100328179
    Abstract: A shield cover is disposed so as to be opposed to a bottom plate and electromagnetic-shields a signal processing circuit mounted on a rear surface of a circuit board. The shied cover has a ceiling portion which includes a mounter vacuumed portion disposed in a center portion of the ceiling portion and vacuumed by a vacuum nozzle of a mounter, a ring-shaped outer edge disposed from an end of the side wall portion inwardly, and a plurality of beam portions joining the mounter vacuumed portion to the outer edge. An electromagnetic shielding of the signal processing unit is carried out using both of the shield cover and the bottom plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsumi Electric Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi TAKISAWA, Takao Kato, Junichi Noro
  • Publication number: 20100315305
    Abstract: A hybrid antenna unit includes a circuit board having top and bottom surfaces, a planer antenna element which is mounted on the top surface of the circuit board and which receives first and second radio waves, an antenna base and a top cover that cover the circuit board and the planer antenna element. A bar antenna element stands on the top cover in a slanting position. A processing unit is mounted on the bottom surface of the circuit board and is connected to the planer antenna element. The processing unit processes the first and the second radio waves. A shielding case is mounted on the bottom surface of the circuit board and shields the processing unit. A booster circuit is mounted on the circuit board and is for use in the bar antenna element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi TAKISAWA, Junichi NORO, Takao KATO, Kenichi KAMADA, Kyuichi SATO
  • Patent number: 7782272
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus includes: an antenna element; and a substrate on which a low noise amplifier is mounted and on which the antenna element is disposed, wherein the substrate comprises: an input unit for inputting an electric signal into the low noise amplifier from an output terminal formed at a lower part of the antenna element; an output unit for outputting the electric signal to a transmission unit connected to a signal processing unit for processing the electric signal from the antenna element; and a signal blocking unit provided between the input unit and the output unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Noro, Takao Kato
  • Publication number: 20100149070
    Abstract: An electrical connection structure including: a first terminal attached to an edge portion of a circuit board, and composed of a first nipping portion, a connecting portion, a second nipping portion and a leaf spring portion each formed integrally in order as a single member, wherein the connecting portion exists along a side face of the edge portion, the first and second nipping portion and the connecting portion hold the edge portion therebetween and the leaf spring portion extends from an opposite side to the side of the connecting portion of the second nipping portion so that an interior angle formed by the second nipping portion and the leaf spring portion to be an acute; and a second terminal to be electrically connected to the leaf spring portion, wherein the second terminal is pressed to the leaf spring portion into a direction of widening the interior angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsumi Electric Co.,Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyuichi Sato, Hiroshi Suzuki, Kenichi Kamada, Takao Kato
  • Publication number: 20100149055
    Abstract: In an automobile rear windowpane antenna apparatus including a defogger disposed on a rear windowpane plate at a lower portion thereof an antenna pattern is disposed above the defogger on the rear windowpane plate at an upper portion thereof and is disposed so as to extend between near a right end edge of a window frame and near a left end edge thereof. A feeding point is disposed inside the antenna pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsumi Electric Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro SHINKAWA, Takao Kato, Nobuo Tamura, Wassom Pierre
  • Publication number: 20100141549
    Abstract: Disclosed is a circuit substrate supporting structure including: a base; a cover to cover over the base; a circuit substrate accommodated in the cover in a state standing on the base; a projecting section provided on the circuit substrate in a state projecting from a bottom edge section of the circuit substrate and placed on the base; an elastic piece placed on the projecting section; and a pressurizing section convexly provided on an inner wall of the cover above the projecting section to be pressed against the projecting section from above the elastic piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyuichi SATO, Hiroshi SUZUKI, Kenichi KAMADA, Takao KATO
  • Publication number: 20100141534
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cabinet of an electrical apparatus including: a base; a cover to cover over the base; a gasket placed on a top face of the base and nipped between a bottom edge section of the cover and the base; a fastening section to penetrate through the base from a bottom face to the top face of the base to connect to an inner face of the cover and to tighten so that the base is pulled to a cover side; a seal integrally formed with the gasket to surround on the top face of the base a through hole which the fastening section penetrates; and a hood provided on an inner face of the cover so as to surround a connecting portion of the fastening section and the cover, and the hood being pressed against the seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsumi Electric Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyuichi SATO, Hiroshi Suzuki, Kenichi Kamada, Takao Kato
  • Patent number: 7696944
    Abstract: Disclosed is an antenna apparatus including: an antenna element including a receiving unit to receive an electric wave; a circuit substrate including a circuit surface on which a circuit amplifying an input from the antenna element is formed; a shield cover covering the circuit surface to shield the circuit substrate from a disturbing wave, the shield cover being grounded; a coaxial cable to supply driving power and GND potential to the circuit, and to output a signal from the circuit, the coaxial cable inserted into the shield cover, wherein the shield cover includes a base surface disposed in parallel with the circuit surface and a tongue flap extending to the coaxial cable, and the tongue flap includes a connecting piece formed by bending an end of the tongue flap at a side of the coaxial cable, the connecting piece being soldered to an outer conductor of the coaxial cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Noro, Takao Kato
  • Patent number: 7646345
    Abstract: A hinge portion is formed on the base portion. An antenna portion is attached to the hinge portion so as to be pivotable thereabout. The hinge portion includes a hinge base having a first shaft formed on one end thereof, a second shaft formed on the other end thereof, and a first protrusion formed on an outer periphery of the second shaft, and a hinge bush rotatably mounted on the first shaft and engaged with the antenna portion. The antenna portion is formed with a hole surrounding the outer periphery of the second shaft. A projection is formed on an inner periphery of the hole. The first protrusion is brought into contact with the projection when the antenna portion is pivoted so as to define a predetermined angle with respect to the base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Takisawa, Junichi Noro, Kyuichi Sato, Takao Kato, Arata Togashi
  • Publication number: 20090295678
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus is disclosed. A circuit board has a first face, a second face opposite to the first face, and an edge formed with a notch connecting the first face and the second face. A circuit is arranged on the first face. An antenna element is configured to receive radio waves. A connecting member includes a first part coupled to the antenna element at a position opposing the second face and a second part fitted with the notch and elastically connected to the circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Junichi NORO, Kyuichi Sato, Takao Kato
  • Patent number: 7620421
    Abstract: In addition to an FM reception antenna element for receiving an FM radio wave and an FM receiver connected to the FM reception antenna element, a mobile object is provided with a first antenna element for receiving a satellite signal, a signal processing unit connected to the first antenna, and a second antenna element connected to the signal processing unit. The signal processing unit processes the satellite signal into an FM signal. The second antenna element emits the FM signal as the FM radio wave that may be received in the FM reception antenna and processed by the FM receiver in the manner known in the art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Kato, Junichi Noro, Akira Miyoshi, Toshiaki Aizawa
  • Patent number: D615966
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Tomohiro Shinkawa, Takao Kato, Nobuo Tamura, Wassom Pierre