Patents by Inventor Takateru Sato

Takateru Sato 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: 5303876
    Abstract: A magnetic tape cassette comprises a cassette casing, a pair of reels, on which a magnetic tape is wound, which are received in the cassette casing in a rotatable manner, and an interlocking plate for stopping the feeding of the magnetic tape, mounted on either one of said pair of reels, which is provided with an adjusting button and a control pin, wherein the interlocking plate and the adjusting button are formed integrally of a flexible material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Suzuki, Takateru Sato, Haruo Shiba
  • Patent number: 5153799
    Abstract: A magnetic tape cassette has in the front portion of the housing two pairs of fixed tape guide ribs protruding the same length frontwardly of the housing to define a guide path for the magnetic tape and also protruding so as to form linear front edges of a height greater than the width of the tape, the fixed tape guide ribs in at least one pair being formed adjacent to each other, with the upper and lower ends of the protruding front edges being integrally joined by bridges of the same material. The bridges are formed to have a given, constant width and a given, constant height upwardly and downwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Kimio Tanaka, Shinichi Sato, Takateru Sato
  • Patent number: 4935833
    Abstract: Guide members along and with which a magnetic tape runs in sliding contact within a magnetic tape cassette housing are made of a liquid crystal polymer of a totally aromatic polyester filled with a lubricant. The lubricant is carbon fiber, graphite, or molybdenum disulfide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Haruo Shiba, Kimio Tanaka, Takateru Sato
  • Patent number: 4892266
    Abstract: A magnetic tape cassette comprises upper and lower half members for housing hubs with a magnetic tape wound therearound, provided with guide rollers and tape guides for guiding said magnetic tape in the front portion of the tape cassette, and a separate rear member including a portion for preventing erasure by mistake and a portion for detecting the kind of a tape. Provided at the rear edges of said upper and lower half members, and said rear member is coupled to the rear edges of said upper and lower half members by coupling means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1990
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Kimio Tanaka, Takateru Sato, Haruo Shiba
  • Patent number: 4839055
    Abstract: A method for treating a blood which comprises:separating the blood withdrawn from a patient's body with a first membrane into a condensed blood fraction containing human blood plasma immunoglobulin M, and a plasma fraction; separating the plasma fraction with a second membrane into low molecular weight protein and high molecular weight protein containing human blood plasma immunoglobulin G; and mixing the condensed blood and the low molecular weight protein with a substitute liquid to return the combined liquid into the patient's body; said first and second membranes containing specific sizes of micropores uniformly distributed on at least one surface of the membrane, and having a specific permeability of albumin and specific permeability of human blood plasma immunoglobulin M or G. The method and apparatus specifically can remove only a harmful antibody from a positive patient in a crossmatch test after DST, whereby a transplantation surgery of a living-related kidney can be safely carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignees: Kuraray Co., Ltd., Kawasumi Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Ishizaki, Takateru Sato, Soichi Tanaka, Keiki Kariu
  • Patent number: 4775911
    Abstract: A magnetic tape cassette having a protective slide cover for a space between a front portion of the cassette and a pivotal front lid covering a magnetic tape exposed at the front portion. Forward end of the slide cover is provided with a projection adapted to engage the front lid to prevent the cover from deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1988
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Takateru Sato, Morimasa Sasaki
  • Patent number: 4733317
    Abstract: A magnetic tape cassette is provided with a detection hold laterally extending between two cylindrical holes extending from the upper surface of the upper half casing and the lower surface of the lower half casing in which ribs are formed in the detection hole to restrict vertical movement of a magnetic tape running between the two cylindrical holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1988
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Takateru Sato, Haruo Shiba
  • Patent number: 4688128
    Abstract: In a magnetic tape cassette comprising upper and lower half casings, at least screw-fastening portions and their neighboring portions at four corners of the upper and lower half casings are formed by a two-layered structure consisting of the first layer of an opaquelayer, a transparent layer or a semitransparent layer and the second layer of a transparent layer or a semitransparent layer which is laminated on the first layer in one piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1987
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Haruo Shiba, Takateru Sato, Kimio Tanaka, Yoshiya Sakata
  • Patent number: 4593868
    Abstract: A reel spring for a magnetic tape cassette is made of a resilient sheet metal into a diamond-like configuration in which a pair of portions which are asymmetrical with reference to two central axial line perpendicularly crossing and are symmetrical with reference to the crossing point are removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1986
    Assignee: TDK Electronics Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takateru Sato, Haruo Shiba
  • Patent number: 4593335
    Abstract: A pressure pad device for a magnetic tape cassette comprises a leaf spring having a central fulcrum portion, left and right side portions extending symmetrically from the central fulcrum portion, and each pad attached to each near end of the left and right side portions so as to be equidistant from the central fulcrum portion. A fitting hole is formed at the central fulcrum portion by bending alternately a plurality of strip zones formed in the central fulcrum portion of the leaf spring inwardly and outwardly. The fitting hole is adapted to receive a supporting pole of the magnetic tape cassette and each end of the left and right side portions of the leaf spring is flexibly in contact with each supporting of the magnetic tape cassette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1986
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Takateru Sato, Haruo Shiba
  • Patent number: 4466036
    Abstract: A magnetic tape cassette provided with a separating sheet interposed between a magnetic recording tape and a half casing. The separating sheet is provided with first protrusions projecting toward the tape and second protrusions projecting toward the half casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1984
    Assignee: TDK Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Ishida, Haruo Shiba, Takateru Sato
  • Patent number: 4456192
    Abstract: A magnetic tape clamping device of a reel hub is formed by a clamping piece having projections at the both ends and a concave portion formed on the periphery of the reel hub in which an undercut portion is formed in each side wall of the concave portion so that an increased clamping force is applied between the projections of the clamping piece and legs formed by undercut portions when a magnetic tape is pulled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1984
    Assignee: TDK Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takateru Sato, Haruo Shiba
  • Patent number: 4378066
    Abstract: A case for holding a magnetic tape cassette comprises a case body and a cover pivotally joined together by a pair of pivots fitted in corresponding pivot-receiving holes, with arcuate protuberances formed respectively around the pivots and pivot holes in such a manner that, when the pivots have been fitted in the holes, the both protuberances coact to keep the opposing side walls of the case body and the cover apart from each other, the protuberances themselves being arranged so as not to overlap each other. The pivots protrude inwardly from the side walls of the case body, the pivot holes are formed in the side walls of the cover, and the arcuate protuberances are formed, one for each, on the inner faces of the side walls of the case body and on the outer faces of the side walls of the cover. The protuberances of the case body are formed to extend semicircularly through an angle of 180 degrees around the pivots, and the protuberances of the cover extend through an angle of 90 degrees around the pivot holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1983
    Assignee: TDK Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takateru Sato, Haruo Shiba
  • Patent number: 4191345
    Abstract: A tape cassette comprises a tape guide having a cylindrical surface formed by hard chromium plating or nickel plating. The tape guide is a cylindrical plate having a slit parallel to the axis. The cylindrical tape guide has a groove at one end of the guide and is fitted to a post having a projection mounted on a half-case under connecting the groove of the guide to the projection of the post to contact the tape with the surface formed by the hard chromium plating or nickel plating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1980
    Assignee: TDK Electronics Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takateru Sato, Shigemasa Shoji
  • Patent number: 4180220
    Abstract: A tape cassette comprises a cover for covering a wound tape which comprises a polar member mounted on a wall of the cover and a coil spring fitted to the polar member. The polar member has a narrow width slit at the free end and a wide width slit adjacent to the narrow width slit at the side of the fixed end and one end of the coil spring is inserted in to the wide width slit through the narrow width slit and the other end of the coil spring is contacted with a case body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1979
    Assignee: TDK Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruo Shiba, Takateru Sato