Patents by Inventor Takashi Sonehara

Takashi Sonehara 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: 9952623
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus, including a first housing, a second housing which has a display section and a support member supporting the display section, and a housing connection section which rotatably connects the second housing with respect to the first housing. The support member includes a first support section connected to the housing connection section, a second support section which fixedly supports the display section, and a support connection section, positioned between the first support section and the second support section, which has a flexibility to rotatably connect the second support section with respect to the first support section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Tomita, Takashi Sonehara, Minoru Shimizu, Takuya Motoishi, Naoki Ogishita, Yuuki Kubota, Ryousuke Tobiyama, Masanobu Yamaguchi, Kouichi Hiroyoshi, Kazuaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9836116
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing apparatus, including a first housing, a second housing, having a display section which displays information, in which the display section is reversed between a first position and a second position, a connection section which rotatably connects the second housing with respect to the first housing, a posture detection section which detects any of the four postures of a first posture, a second posture, a third posture, and a fourth posture, and a display control section which controls a display state of the display section in accordance with a detection result of the posture detection section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Kawamoto, Toshiyuki Shiwa, Masami Hosaka, Shunichiro Takamura, Kenichi Ono, Takehiko Mizutani, Toshihiro Kawakubo, Nobuhiro Kumae, Tailiang Qian, Naoki Ogishita, Minoru Shimizu, Yuuki Kubota, Takuya Motoishi, Takashi Sonehara, Ryousuke Tobiyama
  • Publication number: 20170147032
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus, including a first housing, a second housing which has a display section and a support member supporting the display section, and a housing connection section which rotatably connects the second housing with respect to the first housing. The support member includes a first support section connected to the housing connection section, a second support section which fixedly supports the display section, and a support connection section, positioned between the first support section and the second support section, which has a flexibility to rotatably connect the second support section with respect to the first support section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro TOMITA, Takashi Sonehara, Minoru Shimizu, Takuya Motoishi, Naoki Ogishita, Yuuki Kubota, Ryousuke Tobiyama, Masanobu Yamaguchi, Kouichi Hiroyoshi, Kazuaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9552014
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus, including a first housing, a second housing which has a display section and a support member supporting the display section, and a housing connection section which rotatably connects the second housing with respect to the first housing. The support member includes a first support section connected to the housing connection section, a second support section which fixedly supports the display section, and a support connection section, positioned between the first support section and the second support section, which has a flexibility to rotatably connect the second support section with respect to the first support section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Tomita, Takashi Sonehara, Minoru Shimizu, Takuya Motoishi, Naoki Ogishita, Yuuki Kubota, Ryousuke Tobiyama, Masanobu Yamaguchi, Kouichi Hiroyoshi, Kazuaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20160170444
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus, including a first housing, a second housing which has a display section and a support member supporting the display section, and a housing connection section which rotatably connects the second housing with respect to the first housing. The support member includes a first support section connected to the housing connection section, a second support section which fixedly supports the display section, and a support connection section, positioned between the first support section and the second support section, which has a flexibility to rotatably connect the second support section with respect to the first support section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro TOMITA, Takashi Sonehara, Minoru Shimizu, Takuya Motoishi, Naoki Ogishita, Yuuki Kubota, Ryousuke Tobiyama, Masanobu Yamaguchi, Kouichi Hiroyoshi, Kazuaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9280181
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus, including a first housing, a second housing which has a display section and a support member supporting the display section, and a housing connection section which rotatably connects the second housing with respect to the first housing. The support member includes a first support section connected to the housing connection section, a second support section which fixedly supports the display section, and a support connection section, positioned between the first support section and the second support section, which has a flexibility to rotatably connect the second support section with respect to the first support section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Tomita, Takashi Sonehara, Minoru Shimizu, Takuya Motoishi, Naoki Ogishita, Yuuki Kubota, Ryousuke Tobiyama, Masanobu Yamaguchi, Kouichi Hiroyoshi, Kazuaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140293525
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus, including a first housing, a second housing which has a display section and a support member supporting the display section, and a housing connection section which rotatably connects the second housing with respect to the first housing. The support member includes a first support section connected to the housing connection section, a second support section which fixedly supports the display section, and a support connection section, positioned between the first support section and the second support section, which has a flexibility to rotatably connect the second support section with respect to the first support section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro TOMITA, Takashi SONEHARA, Minoru SHIMIZU, Takuya MOTOISHI, Naoki OGISHITA, Yuuki KUBOTA, Ryousuke TOBIYAMA, Masanobu YAMAGUCHI, Kouichi HIROYOSHI, Kazuaki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20140292646
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing apparatus, including a first housing, a second housing, having a display section which displays information, in which the display section is reversed between a first position and a second position, a connection section which rotatably connects the second housing with respect to the first housing, a posture detection section which detects any of the four postures of a first posture, a second posture, a third posture, and a fourth posture, and a display control section which controls a display state of the display section in accordance with a detection result of the posture detection section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke KAWAMOTO, Toshiyuki SHIWA, Masami HOSAKA, Shunichiro TAKAMURA, Kenichi ONO, Takehiko MIZUTANI, Toshihiro KAWAKUBO, Nobuhiro KUMAE, Tailiang QIAN, Naoki OGISHITA, Minoru SHIMIZU, Yuuki KUBOTA, Takuya MOTOISHI, Takashi SONEHARA, Ryousuke TOBIYAMA
  • Patent number: 8363399
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a casing and a first reinforcement portion. The casing is rectangular and includes, on a first side wall of a first corner portion, a first hole portion into which an antitheft member is capable of being inserted. The first reinforcement portion is opposed to an inner side of the first side wall of the first corner portion and includes a second hole portion that is in communication with the first hole portion and constitutes a fixing hole capable of fixing the antitheft member together with the first hole portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Sonehara, Kiyokuni Arima
  • Publication number: 20100165556
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a casing and a first reinforcement portion. The casing is rectangular and includes, on a first side wall of a first corner portion, a first hole portion into which an antitheft member is capable of being inserted. The first reinforcement portion is opposed to an inner side of the first side wall of the first corner portion and includes a second hole portion that is in communication with the first hole portion and constitutes a fixing hole capable of fixing the antitheft member together with the first hole portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Sonehara, Kiyokuni Arima
  • Patent number: 7486501
    Abstract: An information processing device may include a device main body including a keyboard, and a display slidably supported by the device main body, wherein the device main body may include a support section for slidably supporting the display, and a pair of grip sections positioned on both sides of the display continuously to the support section and to be grasped by the user, the pair of grip sections may be formed so as to protrude in a display arrangement direction in which the display may be arranged with respect to the support section, and an operation section to be operated by the user may be disposed on a surface of the pair of grip sections in the direction of protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Hanatsuka, Hiroyuki Ozawa, Takashi Sonehara
  • Publication number: 20070297124
    Abstract: An information processing device may include a device main body including a keyboard, and a display slidably supported by the device main body, wherein the device main body may include a support section for slidably supporting the display, and a pair of grip sections positioned on both sides of the display continuously to the support section and to be grasped by the user, the pair of grip sections may be formed so as to protrude in a display arrangement direction in which the display may be arranged with respect to the support section, and an operation section to be operated by the user may be disposed on a surface of the pair of grip sections in the direction of protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Hanatsuka, Hiroyuki Ozawa, Takashi Sonehara
  • Patent number: 6633930
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and information providing medium, more particularly, the present invention provides an information processing apparatus having a first executing means for executing a predetermined processing in response to a rotational operation; and a second executing means for executing another predetermined processing in response to a pushing operation. Accordingly, repeated, complicated operations required in a related art operating systems to select a desired application program on a taskbar having a start menu button to activating the selected application program is eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Sonehara, Katsuhiro Hashimoto, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, Yamamoto Ryou
  • Patent number: 6599090
    Abstract: A cooling device is provided for cooling the inside of a main body of an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes the main body having a movable bottom surface portion and a display unit openable/closable relative to the main body. The cooling device is characterized by including means for transmitting an opening/closing angle of the display unit, and means for driving the movable bottom surface portion in accordance with the opening/closing angle of the display unit transmitted by the transmission means, to enlarge the inner space of the main body, thereby cooling the inside of the main body. Another cooling device is disclosed, which includes means for sucking a first gas, means for discharging the first gas sucked by the sucking means, and means for sucking and discharging a second gas by the action of the first gas discharged by the discharging means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuzo Ozaki, Yasuhiro Nakai, Takashi Sonehara, Shigeyuki Hokao, Motoshi Mizoguchi
  • Publication number: 20030115384
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and information providing medium, more particularly, the present invention provides an information processing apparatus having a first executing means for executing a predetermined processing in response to a rotational operation; and a second executing means for executing another predetermined processing in response to a pushing operation. Accordingly, repeated, complicated operations required in a related art operating systems to select a desired application program on a taskbar having a start menu button to activating the selected application program is eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 1999
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventors: TAKASHI SONEHARA, KATSUHIRO HASHIMOTO, YOSHIHIRO YAMAGUCHI, YAMAMOTO RYOU
  • Patent number: 6437978
    Abstract: A cooling device is provided for cooling the inside of a main body of an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes the main body having a movable bottom surface portion and a display unit openable/closable relative to the main body. The cooling device is characterized by including means for transmitting an opening/closing angle of the display unit, and means for driving the movable bottom surface portion in accordance with the opening/closing angle of the display unit transmitted by the transmission means, to enlarge the inner space of the main body, thereby cooling the inside of the main body. Another cooling device is disclosed, which includes means for sucking a first gas, means for discharging the first gas sucked by the sucking means, and means for sucking and discharging a second gas by the action of the first gas discharged by the discharging means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuzo Ozaki, Yasuhiro Nakai, Takashi Sonehara, Shigeyuki Hokao, Motoshi Mizoguchi
  • Publication number: 20020012228
    Abstract: A cooling device is provided for cooling the inside of a main body of an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes the main body having a movable bottom surface portion and a display unit openable/closable relative to the main body. The cooling device is characterized by including means for transmitting an opening/closing angle of the display unit, and means for driving the movable bottom surface portion in accordance with the opening/closing angle of the display unit transmitted by the transmission means, to enlarge the inner space of the main body, thereby cooling the inside of the main body. Another cooling device is disclosed, which includes means for sucking a first gas, means for discharging the first gas sucked by the sucking means, and means for sucking and discharging a second gas by the action of the first gas discharged by the discharging means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION.
    Inventors: Yuzo Ozaki, Yasuhiro Nakai, Takashi Sonehara, Shigeyuki Hokao, Motoshi Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 4342774
    Abstract: An N-acylcarnosine aluminum salt of the formula, ##STR1## wherein R represents a lower alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a phenyl group or a lower alkoxy group-substituted phenyl group, and n is an integer of 1 to 3 is effective for use as a digestive ulcer-remedying or anti-ulcer agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1982
    Assignee: Nippon Chemiphar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Okabe, Takashi Sonehara, Masaru Sato, Mitsuo Mazaki
  • Patent number: D491188
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoji Amemiya, Takashi Sonehara, Hideki Hanamura