Patents by Inventor Taro Inoue

Taro Inoue 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: 5187802
    Abstract: In a virtual machine system in which a virtual machine directly executes operations by use of the hardware without an intervention from the virtual machine control program (VMCP), at an occurrence of an input/output interruption, the system sets to a storage an event that the input/output interruption has been accepted and reserved by the VMCP. When the virtual machine processes interruption information by means of the hardware without an intervention of the VMCP, the virtual machine resets the state of the storage. When the virtual machine is set to an interruptible state, control is passed to the VMCP. The VMCP tests to determine whether or not the virtual machine has reset the state of the storage, thereby judging an acceptability of the interruption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1993
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taro Inoue, Hidenori Umeno, Toru Ohtsuki, Kiyoshi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 4653517
    Abstract: An iron for straightening curly hairs includes a handle, a rod support mounted on the handle, a pair of first and second electrically heatable rods mounted at one end to the rod support and extending parallel to each other in spaced relationship, a rod moving plate pivotably mounted on the rod support, and a third electrically heatable rod rotatably mounted at one end on the rod moving plate and extending parallel to the first and second rods. The third rod is movable between a first position between the first and second rods and a second position away from the first and second rods in response to pivotal movement of the rod moving plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1987
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Inoue Shoten
    Inventor: Taro Inoue
  • Patent number: 4591695
    Abstract: A curling iron comprising a barrel rotatably supported on a grip portion and a clamping tongue which are assembled in a form similar to a pair of scissors so that the tongue makes pivotal movements relative to the barrel. The barrel, which is rotatable relative to the grip portion, encloses an electric heater in it and is designed to rotate in the direction opposite to the rotational direction of the grip portion of the curling iron by means of suitable gears provided between the barrel and the grip portion. The clamping tongue mounted onto the iron body may be formed with rollers arranged in arc form or with a plate bent in an arc. With such a structure, the hair held between the barrel and the tongue is curled from the root to the end by turning the grip portion which turns the barrel in the opposite direction of the handle turning direction by means of gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1986
    Inventor: Taro Inoue