Patents by Inventor Takao Kuroki

Takao Kuroki 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: 20190339731
    Abstract: To provide a protrusion drop structure and others in which when a load applied to an operating button in a back direction is smaller than a predetermined load, the bending of a printed circuit board is made sufficiently small so as not to give a feeling of strangeness when a user depresses the operating button, and when a load applied to the operating button in the back direction reaches the predetermined load, a projecting height of the operating button from a surface of a casing is reduced to less than or equal to a predetermined height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke KAWAI, Masumi IHARA, Takao KUROKI
  • Patent number: 9519171
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a backlight holding case 8 accommodating a light guide plate 7; a design frame 3 which includes a flange part 3a protruding inward from a peripheral edge of a frame opening, and a design panel part 3b protruding outward therefrom, and which is attached to an opening of a backlight holding case 8 to sandwich the plate 7 between the flange part 3a and backlight holding case 8; a protective-plate-attached liquid crystal display panel 2 in which a protective plate 2a is mounted on a display surface, and which the outer peripheral part of the protective plate 2a is fixed to the panel part 3b, and the back side is illuminated with light from the light source guided by the plate 7; and a rear side case 4 assembled to the design frame 3 fixed by the panel 2 through the panel part 3b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takao Kuroki, Rei Tsukahara
  • Patent number: 9341875
    Abstract: A mold frame 5 includes a flange part 5b that is formed to expand outward on a peripheral edge of a frame opening, and that holds an outer peripheral part 3b of a protection plate 3 from a rear surface side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Akatsuka, Takao Kuroki
  • Publication number: 20150022753
    Abstract: A mold frame 5 includes a flange part 5b that is formed to expand outward on a peripheral edge of a frame opening, and that holds an outer peripheral part 3b of a protection plate 3 from a rear surface side thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Akatsuka, Takao Kuroki
  • Publication number: 20140362328
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a backlight holding case 8 accommodating a light guide plate 7; a design frame 3 which includes a flange part 3a protruding inward from a peripheral edge of a frame opening, and a design panel part 3b protruding outward therefrom, and which is attached to an opening of a backlight holding case 8 to sandwich the plate 7 between the flange part 3a and backlight holding case 8; a protective-plate-attached liquid crystal display panel 2 in which a protective plate 2a is mounted on a display surface, and which the outer peripheral part of the protective plate 2a is fixed to the panel part 3b, and the back side is illuminated with light from the light source guided by the plate 7; and a rear side case 4 assembled to the design frame 3 fixed by the panel 2 through the panel part 3b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takao Kuroki, Rei Tsukahara
  • Publication number: 20100226712
    Abstract: In a bush to be used when an appliance is installed on another member, the bush includes an outer peripheral side elastic component 2 made of a plastic material, composed of a central portion 2a attached to the casing 12 of the appliance by a tap screw 5 and an outer peripheral portion 2c formed integral with the central portion 2a through a clearance 6 provided therebetween and having a flexure allowance L; and an inner peripheral side elastic component 3 made of a rubber elastic material having hardness lower than that of the outer peripheral side elastic component 2, and assembled into the clearance 6 of the outer peripheral side elastic component 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: Takao Kuroki, Satoru Yamamoto