Patents by Inventor Tatsuya Kato

Tatsuya Kato 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: 6611394
    Abstract: When a memory in cassette (MIC) in a loaded tape cassette can successfully be accessed, an MIC type stored in the MIC is detected to judge a data format the tape cassette has. To this end, the tape cassette is adapted such that the data format or the loaded tape cassette can be identified without detecting an identification hole formed in the tape cassette. Thus, it is possible to easily accommodate any future extension of the data format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kato, Katsumi Ikeda, Osamu Nakamura, Yasuaki Kano, Katsumi Maekawa, Yoshihisa Takayama
  • Publication number: 20030157930
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to allow efficient detection of computer viruses in a portable telephone. The server device 10 comprises a pattern data transmission request receiving unit 12 which receives pattern data transmission requests that include the model name of the portable telephone 100, a pattern data extraction unit 13 which extracts specified pattern data from a plurality of sets of pattern data on the basis of the model name of the portable telephone 100 contained in the pattern data transmission requests received by the pattern data transmission request receiving unit 12, and a pattern data transmitting unit 14 which transmits the specified pattern data extracted by the pattern data extraction unit 13 to the portable telephone 100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoru Morota, Yasutaka Urakawa, Tatsuya Kato, Kenji Ishii, Masanori Fujita
  • Publication number: 20030156005
    Abstract: The invention is to offer a fuse and a fuse production method excellent in cost down. A fuse having an electrically conductive fuse element. The fuse element has a pair of terminal connection portions and a fusible member for electrically connecting the terminal connection portions each other and for being fused and broken when an over electric current flows. At least a part of the fusible portion is formed by spouting or dropping the melting metal drops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ohashi, Tatsuya Kato, Hitoshi Ushijima, Hiroyo Ayuzawa
  • Publication number: 20030154409
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile communications terminal and a data transmitting method which can prevent the alteration of programs that are the object of virus protection study. In the mobile communications terminal 10 of the present invention, a digital signature is applied to the program 26 that is the object of virus protection study using (for example) a public key encryption program stored in an IC chip 12 such as a UIM or the like. Accordingly, in cases where this program is transmitted via a network 28 by the user, the alteration of the program 26 by a third party at an intermediate point in the network 26 can be prevented. Furthermore, the presence or absence of any alteration can be verified in the virus protection study object program receiving server 32 that receives this program 26.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoru Morota, Yasutaka Urakawa, Tatsuya Kato, Kenji Ishii, Masanori Fujita
  • Patent number: 6605328
    Abstract: In an optical recording medium comprising a phase change recording layer (4) containing Sb and optionally, Te and/or In as a main component, the recording layer is able to be crystallized to provide a crystallized region which contains rhombohedral crystals consisting essentially of Sb and is substantially free of a crystal phase other than the rhombohedral crystals. When the recording layer contains a rare earth element, Zr, Hf, Ti or Sn as an auxiliary component, the medium has a dielectric layer (31) composed of silicon oxide, silicon nitride, aluminum oxide, or a mixture of zinc sulfide and at least 30 mol % of silicon oxide, disposed contiguous to and in front of the recording layer (4) as viewed from the recording/reading beam incident side. The medium has a high transfer rate and improved thermal stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shingai, Hiroyasu Inoue, Tatsuya Kato, Hajime Utsunomiya, Yoshitomo Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20030145455
    Abstract: A wire processing apparatus includes a microwave generator, a microwave transmitter, a waveguide coaxial converter and a wire insertion pipe, and the wire insertion pipe is disposed in the wireguide coaxial converter. In wire recycling process, after a tip end of a coated wire is inserted into the wire insertion pipe, microwave is launched into the inside of the waveguide coaxial converter. The tip end of the coated wire is separated into a decomposed coating insulator and a molten electric conductor by microwave. In wire cross-linking process, after microwave is launched into the inside of the waveguide coaxial converter, the coated wire is inserted into the wire insertion pipe. The coated wire is cross-linked by high frequency heat and a coating insulator is adhered well to an electric conductor by heat shrinking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kato, Masashi Kando
  • Publication number: 20030129437
    Abstract: The invention is to offer a composite material with least uneven distribution of a mechanical strength resulted from dispersing conditions of an inorganic filler and having a by far high mechanical strength in comparison with conventional composite materials, as well as to offer a method of making the same. Inorganic hollow particles and at least one of inorganic fiber sheets are accommodated in a stacked manner within a casting mold, and a molten metal is poured into a casting mold while pressurizing it, followed by cooling, whereby it is possible to produce such a composite material where a first composite layer and a second composite layer continuously exist in a metal matrix, so as to compose a composite material being a single body as a whole, the first composite layer containing at least one of inorganic fiber sheets and the second composite layer containing inorganic hollow particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Kawaguchi, Makoto Katsumata, Tatsuya Kato
  • Publication number: 20030124884
    Abstract: In a structure of installation, mounting/dismounting a device on a body pane can be done easily and the device can be fixed securely and recyclability is improved. Providing a mounting portion 27 on an automotive component 10, a supporting portion 51 on a body of motor vehicle 50, a magnet 45 on either one of the mounting portion 27 or supporting portion 51, and making the other of the mounting portion 27 or supporting portion 51 with a ferromagnetic material, the mounting portion 27 and the supporting portion 51 are fixed attractively by magnetic force. The mounting portion 27 is provided with a slide portion 29 and the supporting portion 51 is provided with a guide portion 53 engaging slidingly with the slide portion 29.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Katsumata, Tatsuya Kato, Atsushi Kagawa
  • Publication number: 20030063540
    Abstract: An optical recording method that performs recording by irradiating optical recording media with laser beam modulated in intensity based on a write waveform is provided. The write waveform has a plurality of write pulse blocks for forming write marks, and each write pulse block has at least one type of upward pulse. In the event that the width of said upward pulse is so narrow that the laser beam intensity corresponding to the peak intensity of that upward pulse cannot be obtained, the peak intensity of that upward pulse is increased so that, in said laser beam, the beam intensity it should have or a value close thereto is obtained. Thereby, good recording and playback characteristics can be obtained even when recording at a high transfer rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kato, Hajime Utsunomiya, Hideki Hirata
  • Patent number: 6539001
    Abstract: The invention provides a visual telephone apparatus which can assure a high speed of response of a user data application. An image compression section compresses an image signal imaged by a video camera with an image compression ratio based on control information from a terminal control section. A speech compression section compresses a speech signal collected by a microphone with a speech compression ratio based on control information from the terminal control section. The terminal control section produces such control information based on keyboard input data from a keyboard, mouse input data from the mouse and common application operation information from a computer. A multiplexer multiplexes transmission compressed image data and transmission compressed speech data based on the control information outputted from the terminal control section and outputs transmission multiplexed data to a line interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuya Kato
  • Patent number: 6501612
    Abstract: A tape drive device including a tape driver for information recording or reproduction is performed on a magnetic tape when a tape cassette having the magnetic tape accommodated therein is loaded, a memory driver through which when a memory for recording management information to manage the recording or reproduction to the magnetic tape is provided to the tape cassette, read-out or writing of the management information from/into the memory can be performed, a detector for detecting storage capacity information of the memory which is stored in the memory, and an identifier for identifying the storage capacity of the memory on the basis of the storage capacity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kato, Katsumi Ikeda, Yoshihisa Takayama
  • Publication number: 20020191527
    Abstract: An information readout method for an optical information medium comprising an information recording layer having pits or recorded marks representative of information data involves the step of irradiating a laser beam to the information recording layer through an objective lens for providing readings of the pits or recorded marks. When the laser beam has a wavelength &lgr; of 400 to 410 nm, the objective lens has a numerical aperture NA of 0.70 to 0.85, and the pits or recorded marks have a minimum size PL of up to 0.36&lgr;/NA, readout is carried out at a power Pr of at least 0.4 mW for the laser beam. When the laser beam has a wavelength &lgr; of 630 to 670 nm, the objective lens has a numerical aperture NA of 0.60 to 0.65, and the pits or recorded marks have a minimum size PL of up to 0.36&lgr;/NA, readout is carried out at a power Pr of at least 1.0 mW for the laser beam. Pits or recorded marks of a size approximate to the resolution limit determined by diffraction can be read out at a high C/N.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Kikukawa, Tatsuya Kato, Hajime Utsunomiya, Hiroshi Shingai
  • Patent number: 6482679
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a highly reliable electronic component in which the shield case is securely fixed to a substrate without requiring a step for filling a solder paste in engaging holes, and a highly reliable electronic component with a shield case manufactured by the method, wherein engaging pins of the shield case are inserted into the engaging holes of the mother substrate, reflow soldering is applied when the solder paste is coated on the circumference of the engaging holes as well as on the area including the circumference of the engaging hole and at least a part of the engaging hole at the reversed face (back face) of the component mounting face covered with the shield case of the mother substrate, and mother substrate is divided into individual electronic component with the shield case after soldering the engaging pins of the shield case to the case fixing electrodes disposed on the circumference face of the engaging holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kato, Yasuo Yokoyama, Kazuhiko Kitade, Ryugaku Takamori
  • Publication number: 20020130125
    Abstract: A box-shaped automotive member includes a box-like body (2) for containing various parts, and this box-like body is formed of a hollow-grains-dispersed composite material having hollow grains contained in a metallic matrix. The content of the hollow grains is 50 to 70%, and the hollow grains are made of a material selected from a mullite material, an alumina material, a carbon material and a SiO2 material. Particularly when the box-like body is applied to a battery box (1) which can receive a battery or a junction box, this is effective for enhancing the fuel consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2002
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Murofushi, Tatsuya Kato
  • Publication number: 20020112568
    Abstract: A metal-inorganic particle composite material 1 is heated into a melt 2. Flux 3 is thrown into the melt 2, and both the melt 2 and the flux 3 are brought into contact with each other sufficiently. The resulting melt 2 is then left at rest so as to be separated into an upper layer containing inorganic particles 2a and a lower layer composed of metal 2b. Subsequently the upper layer and the lower layer are recovered individually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2002
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Katsumata, Eiji Murofushi, Tatsuya Kato
  • Patent number: 6438085
    Abstract: In the recording of an optical recording medium of phase change type according to the present invention, favorable properties are realized even when the recording is effected in a wide range of linear velocity. The optical recording method of the present invention is a method for recording an optical recording medium comprising a substrate and a recording layer of phase change type on the substrate. A pulse train is used as the recording waveform for laser beam modulation during the formation of one recording mark. The pulse train includes at least one unit pulse comprising an upward pulse and a subsequent downward pulse, and the relation (I): 0.25≦(TclH/TclL)×n≦1.25  (I). is satisfied when width of the last downward pulse standardized by the reciprocal of linear velocity is TclH at a linear velocity of V and TclL at a linear velocity of V/n (n is a real number greater than 1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kato, Isamu Kuribayashi, Hajime Utsunomiya, Takashi Kikukawa
  • Publication number: 20020105358
    Abstract: The apparatus forms an electric circuit on a construction member of a machine based on a set of three-dimensional data. The data defines a position and a profile of the construction member, a position of the electric circuit, and a shape of the electric circuit. The electric circuit is used for electrical connection between electric instruments mounted on the machine. The data is associated with a reference coordinate system provided in the machine, and the data includes coordinates of points for determining arrangement of the electric circuit, a distance between any two of the points adjacent to each other, and a cross-sectional area of the electric circuit associated extended between the two points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2002
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ohashi, Kinya Horibe, Hitoshi Ushijima, Tatsuya Kato
  • Patent number: 6430128
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for determining optimal read power adapted for use in an optical information medium wherein super-resolution readout beyond diffraction limit is conducted. Also provided is an optical information medium adapted for use in such method. In this method, when the readout is conducted under the conditions: LMIN<&lgr;/4NA, and when reading light has a wavelength &lgr;, objective lens of readout optical system has a numerical aperture NA, and minimum mark of the marks constituting the information pattern has a length LMIN, a short mark having a length LS and a long mark having a length LL meeting the relations: LS<&lgr;/4NA, and LL≅&lgr;/4NA are preliminarily formed in the optical information medium, and the optimal power of the reading light is determined on the output when said short mark and said long mark are read.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kato, Hajime Utsunomiya, Takashi Kikukawa, Hiroshi Shingai
  • Patent number: 6425042
    Abstract: When a tape cassette is mounted, a tape drive apparatus judges whether the tape cassette is of a first mode (normal mode) or a second mode (multi-partition mode) based on one or both of management information that is read out from the magnetic tape and management information that is read out from a memory (MIC) incorporated in the tape cassette. The tape drive apparatus then an performs an operation setting in accordance with the mode thus judged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi Ikeda, Masaki Yoshida, Hideto Suzuki, Yoshihisa Takayama, Tatsuya Kato, Osamu Nakamura, Hironori Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 6403193
    Abstract: An optical recording medium of the invention comprises a phase change type recording layer on a surface of a substrate with reading light incident on the recording layer through the substrate, and a dielectric layer provided in contact with the recording layer and on a side of the recording layer on which the reading light is incident. The substrate has a groove acting as a guide groove and a land between adjacent grooves so that the groove and land are used as recording tracks. The phase change type recording layer contains Ag, In, Sb and Te as main components, and has a thickness tR defined by tR≦&lgr;p/20 where &lgr;p is a wavelength of the reading light. The dielectric layer has a thickness td1 that is represented in terms of an optical path length at the wavelength &lgr;p and defined by &lgr;p/2≦td1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shingai, Hideki Hirata, Tatsuya Kato