Patents by Inventor Takao Shimada
Takao Shimada 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).
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Patent number: 10794478Abstract: A washer having such a thickness t that a value (L3?(L1+L2+t)) obtained by subtracting the sum of a first distance L1 in an axial direction between a leading end face of a friction member and a face of a lockup piston, a second distance L2 in the axial direction between a shell-side abutting face of a pump shell and a face of an outside extended portion of an output hub, and the thickness t in the axial direction of the washer, from a third distance L3 in the axial direction between an opposed face of a front cover and a cover-side abutting face of a tubular portion, is in a predetermined range larger than zero, is selected and placed between the lockup piston and the outside extended portion of the output hub.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignees: AISIN AW INDUSTRIES CO., LTD, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenichi Muneda, Takao Shimada, Fumimasa Kasashima, Keigo Goto, Masaaki Yamaguchi, Kazuyoshi Ito, Kensuke Sakamoto, Takayuki Miyaoka
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Publication number: 20190186630Abstract: A washer having such a thickness t that a value (L3?(L1+L2+t)) obtained by subtracting the sum of a first distance L1 in an axial direction between a leading end face of a friction member and a face of a lockup piston, a second distance L2 in the axial direction between a shell-side abutting face of a pump shell and a face of an outside extended portion of an output hub, and the thickness t in the axial direction of the washer, from a third distance L3 in the axial direction between an opposed face of a front cover and a cover-side abutting face of a tubular portion, is in a predetermined range larger than zero, is selected and placed between the lockup piston and the outside extended portion of the output hub.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicants: AISIN AW INDUSTRIES CO., LTD, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenichi MUNEDA, Takao SHIMADA, Fumimasa KASASHIMA, Keigo GOTO, Masaaki YAMAGUCHI, Kazuyoshi ITO, Kensuke SAKAMOTO, Takayuki MIYAOKA
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Patent number: 8010516Abstract: A content sharing system and content importance level judging method are provided. The content sharing system provides an importance level of arbitrary content is individually judged with respect to users and a notice message valuable for a user is appropriately notified to a client or the outside tool. Further, an access user is able to set the disclosure level of access record of a user accessed the content. In the content sharing system, an importance level of content of multimedia data on a server shared with clients of a plurality of users is judged, in which the importance level of the content with respect to each user is individually calculated by interpreting existing data or a user environment, the client condition is judged, a notice rule setting is changed in accordance with the client condition or an instruction from the client, and a notice message is issued to an appropriate address based on the calculated importance level and a notice rule of the content.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2005Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shinya Ishii, Yuichi Abe, Yoshihiro Manabe, Takao Shimada, Norikazu Hiraki, Kenichiro Nakamura, Ryoichi Imaizumi, Takashi Totsuka
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Patent number: 7965976Abstract: If a situation in which it is difficult to make a decision about automatic processing without involving user intervention occurs, an inquiry is made to a user to clear such a situation and a response by the user to the inquiry is used as a decision criterion by which to decide the execution of automatic processing when a similar situation occurs later. If a change occurs in the broadcast time of a broadcast program set for timer-recording, this broadcast program overlaps, in broadcast time, another broadcast program set for timer-recording. However, if a need occurs for recording broadcast programs in excess of the number of broadcast programs that may be simultaneously recorded, an inquiry is made to the user which of these broadcast programs is to be preferentially recorded. A response by the user to this inquiry is also used as a criteria for selecting a broadcast program to be preferentially recorded if a similar situation occurs later.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2006Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Mitsuru Takehara, Masashi Iwabuchi, Tomohiko Shirahama, Takao Shimada
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Publication number: 20060195867Abstract: If a situation in which it is difficult to make a decision about automatic processing without involving user intervention occurs, an inquiry is made to a user to clear such a situation and a response by the user to the inquiry is used as a decision criterion by which to decide the execution of automatic processing when a similar situation occurs later. If a change occurs in the broadcast time of a broadcast program set for timer-recording, this broadcast program overlaps, in broadcast time, another broadcast program set for timer-recording. However, if a need occurs for recording broadcast programs in excess of the number of broadcast programs that may be simultaneously recorded, an inquiry is made to the user which of these broadcast programs is to be preferentially recorded. A response by the user to this inquiry is also used as a criteria for selecting a broadcast program to be preferentially recorded if a similar situation occurs later.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2006Publication date: August 31, 2006Inventors: Mitsuru Takehara, Masashi Iwabuchi, Tomohiko Shirahama, Takao Shimada
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Publication number: 20060114350Abstract: A data converting device which includes an input device which receives input information containing one or more kinds of data, a data analyzer which checks each kind of data constituting the input information and extracts data from the input information when the checked data are judged to be predetermined conversion target data to be subjected to a data conversion processing, and a controller which performs the conversion processing on an amount of the extracted data in accordance with a predetermined regulation for the kind of data. The invention further includes an information constructing device which replaces the non-converted data of the input information which converted extracted data, thereby reconstructing the input information, and an output device which outputs the reconstructed input information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2005Publication date: June 1, 2006Inventors: Takao Shimada, Tomohisa Kohiyama, Takahiro Yamada, Shin-ichi Hashimoto, Yuji Kimura, Takeo Tomokane, Itaru Nonomura, Kazuaki Tanaka, Yasunobu Hori, Yuuichi Ikeya, Yasuhiro Imai
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Publication number: 20050251411Abstract: A content sharing system and content importance level judging method are provided. The content sharing system provides an importance level of arbitrary content is individually judged with respect to users and a notice message valuable for a user is appropriately notified to a client or the outside tool. Further, an access user is able to set the disclosure level of access record of a user accessed the content. In the content sharing system, an importance level of content of multimedia data on a server shared with clients of a plurality of users is judged, in which the importance level of the content with respect to each user is individually calculated by interpreting existing data or a user environment, the client condition is judged, a notice rule setting is changed in accordance with the client condition or an instruction from the client, and a notice message is issued to an appropriate address based on the calculated importance level and a notice rule of the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2005Publication date: November 10, 2005Inventors: Shinya Ishii, Yuichi Abe, Yoshihiro Manabe, Takao Shimada, Norikazu Hiraki, Kenichiro Nakamura, Ryoichi Imaizumi, Takashi Totsuka
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Patent number: 6789263Abstract: A data conversion apparatus included an information input device, a holder for holding information designating a method of the conversion processing from input portion when the kind of the input information is examined and is judged as predetermined data for executing a data conversion processing, a convertor for executing the data in accordance with a predetermined rule, a synthesizer for generating new data by combining the input information with a predetermined data content, and an information output device for outputting the new data so generated. When the kind of the data is screen configuration data describing configuration of the screen output of an information processing unit, the predetermined rule adds a display area of the screen configuration and converts it to a screen configuration data capable of displaying a plurality of screen configurations on the same screen.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1997Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takao Shimada, Naoko Iwami, Tomohisa Kohiyama, Mitsuo Hayashi, Yasuyuki Kuwahara
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Publication number: 20010002851Abstract: There is provided a device for forming, from original sound-attached moving-picture (video) data, sound-attached moving-picture data of a desired reproduction time which has a data amount smaller than that of the original sound-attached moving-picture data and are suitable to output the corresponding sounds and moving pictures at the same time. The original sound-attached moving-picture data are separated into moving-picture data and sound data. When the separated moving-picture data are moving-picture data which are encoded by orthogonal transform coding, for every frame, any portion representing high frequency components in the moving-picture data in each frame of the moving-picture data is deleted.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2000Publication date: June 7, 2001Inventors: Takao Shimada, Tomohisa Kohiyama, Takahiro Yamada, Shin-ichi Hashimoto, Yuji Kimura, Takeo Tomokane, Itaru Nonomura, Kazuaki Tanaka, Yasunobu Hori, Yuuichi Ikeya, Yasuhiro Imai
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Patent number: 5822541Abstract: According to a data amount reducing device for reducing the data amount of compressed video data in which the compressed video data has a format having a control information portion comprising control information which contains information on picture size and bit rate and is adapted to determine the characteristics of the compressed video data, and a data portion comprising compressed video data of plural frames, the data amount of intra-coded frames contained in the data portion in the compressed video data is reduced, and the control information is altered so as to match the compressed video data after the reduction processing.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1996Date of Patent: October 13, 1998Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Itaru Nonomura, Shinichi Hashimoto, Takeo Tomokane, Takao Shimada, Takahiro Yamada