Patents by Inventor Tetsuo Itou

Tetsuo Itou 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).

  • Publication number: 20150222227
    Abstract: A monitoring system includes a slave device (4) and a master device (5). The slave device (4) superposes a current signal, which represents measurement data obtained by measuring each of one or more solar cell panels included in plural solar cell panels (P1 to P15) constituting a solar cell string (10), to a DC current path. The DC current path includes plural power lines (L1 to L14), a first trunk power line (21), and a second trunk power line (22). The master device (5) is connected onto the first trunk power line (21), second trunk power line (22), or both of the trunk power lines, and receives the measurement data from the slave device (4). Accordingly, the communication performance between the slave device and master device in, for example, a monitoring system that performs monitoring in units of a solar cell panel can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: Hitachi Industry & Control Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Nishizawa, Shintaro Suzumura, Tetsuo Itou, Hideki Yoshida, Yuji Kasai, Masahiro Murakawa
  • Patent number: 8744097
    Abstract: A microphone has a slide member and a push member. The slide member has a slide knob, and a conductive state and a nonconductive state are switched according to operation of the slide knob. The push member holds a switch in the conductive state while a push button is pushed. A mechanism interlocking of the slide member and the push member is provided and interlocks operation of the slide member with the push member by converting movement of the slide member in a sliding direction into movement of the push member in a pushing direction, the slide knob and the push button are separated from each other in the sliding direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiro Nakazawa, Tetsuo Itou
  • Publication number: 20120045077
    Abstract: Microphone (1) has a slide member (13) as a first operating part, and a push member (15) as a second operating part. The slide member (13) has a slide knob (9), and a conductive state and a nonconductive state are switched according to operation with respect to the slide knob (9). The push member (15) holds a switch (21) in the conductive state while a push button (11) is pushed. An interlocking mechanism of the slide member (13) and the push member (15) is provided. The interlocking mechanism interlocks operation of the slide member (13) with the push member (15) by converting movement of the slide member (13) in a sliding direction into movement of the push member (15) in a pushing direction. Further, the slide knob (9) and the push button (11) are separated from each other in the sliding direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukihiro Nakazawa, Tetsuo Itou
  • Publication number: 20120002975
    Abstract: A wireless microphone transmits audio signals using infrared rays. A plurality of infrared light emitting devices are attached to a board in the wireless microphone, and at least one of the plurality of infrared light emitting devices is disposed on each side of the board. A plurality of infrared light emitting devices may be provided on each side of the board, and the infrared light emitting devices may be disposed radially. Without providing a different dedicated board for the light emitting devices than the board, infrared rays can be radiated to an area around the mic. In this manner, a wireless microphone is provided that can radiate infrared rays to an area around the mic and that has a simple structure and a small number of components and thus can improve productivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukihiro Nakazawa, Tetsuo Itou, Yuuji Kawasaki, Keiji Yamahai, Akira Okutani
  • Patent number: 7933174
    Abstract: An objective lens actuator in an optical pickup, having a semiconductor laser diode, electro-optic parts, such as a lens or the like, as well as, the objective lens actuator, etc., in a case, comprises: a holder, which mounts an objective lens and a coil thereon, as being a movable part; a magnetic circuit part, which is made up with a magnet for magnetically driving said holder and a yoke; a plural number of elastic support parts which elastically supports said holder; and a support part, which supports other ends of said elastic support parts, wherein said support part has a part, which is cut open in parallel with the elastic support parts, between said elastic support parts, and has a through hole, in which said elastic support part passes through for each of said elastic support parts, and thereby to provide the objective lens actuator for lowering the unwanted vibration mode of the objective lens, and also enabling a stable control thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Media Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Satou, Katsuhiko Kimura, Tetsuo Itou, Souichirou Yamada
  • Patent number: 7927043
    Abstract: A sleeve 10 for introduction of a pressurized fluid, which is attached to a rockbolt main body 1, comprises a cylindrical projecting part 11 of a large diameter and a bearing-plate-holding part 12 of a diameter smaller than an aperture of a bearing plate 6. The projecting part 11 and the bearing-plate-holding part 12 preferably has the same inner diameter. When the rockbolt main body 1 is embedded in a bedrock or ground, the bearing plate 6 locates on an edge of a rockbolt-setting hole of the bedrock or ground, and the bearing-plate-holding part 12 extends through the bearing plate 6 into the rockbolt-setting hole. Since the projecting part 11 and the bearing plate 6 are disposed on a sprayed concrete layer, a projection height of the rockbolt is remarkably decreased. Consequently, lining concrete 8 is applied onto the sprayed concrete layer with ease, and the bedrock or ground is reinforced with high reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsurou Iwasaki, Masahiro Nakata, Hiromichi Shiroma, Tetsuo Itou, Kenji Ooshima, Hiroyuki Tanase, Takefumi Nakako, Takeyuki Yoshida, Toshiharu Kittaka
  • Patent number: 7859774
    Abstract: An objective lens actuator which drives an objective lens in a focusing direction and a tracking direction, so as to focus lights on a recording surface of an optical disc, as a recording medium of information. The objective lens actuator includes a magnet, a lens holder which is configured to hold the objective lens thereon, and four pieces of tracking coils which are disposed in a line on a side surface of the lens holder for holding the objective lens thereon, facing to the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Media Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Ochi, Katsuhiko Kimura, Souichirou Yamada, Tetsuo Itou
  • Patent number: 7643385
    Abstract: To improve the reliability to an environmental temperature change of an optical pickup, an optical pickup 7 has a semiconductor laser 711 for generating a laser beam. An objective lens drive leads the laser beam to a predetermined position of a disk. The semiconductor laser and objective lens drive are mounted on a pickup hosing 70. The objective lens drive has a movable portion 74 and the movable portion has an objective lens 716 for condensing the laser beam on the recording face of the disk. A fixed portion 72 holds the movable portion through a support member. The fixed portion has a magnetic yoke 75. An extended portion formed by extending a part of the yoke to the fixed portion side and the upside 72b of a cutout formed at the intermediate portion of the fixed portion in the tracking direction are adhered and fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Media Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Ochi, Katsuhiko Kimura, Masaya Horino, Junichi Senga, Masayoshi Watanabe, Tetsuo Itou
  • Publication number: 20090116129
    Abstract: An objective lens actuator, having a small tilt of an objective lens, for driving the objective lens in a focusing direction and a tracking direction, so as to focus lights on a recording surface of an optical disc, as a recording medium of information, comprises therein: a magnet; a lens holder, which is configured to hold the lens thereon; and four (4) pieces of tracking coils are disposed in a line on a side surface of the lens holder for holding the objective lens thereon, facing to the magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Manabu OCHI, Katsuhiko Kimura, Souichirou Yamada, Tetsuo Itou
  • Publication number: 20090116345
    Abstract: An objective lens actuator in an optical pickup, having a semiconductor laser diode, electro-optic parts, such as a lens or the like, as well as, the objective lens actuator, etc., in a case, comprises: a holder, which mounts an objective lens and a coil thereon, as being a movable part; a magnetic circuit part, which is made up with a magnet for magnetically driving said holder and a yoke; a plural number of elastic support parts which elastically supports said holder; and a support part, which supports other ends of said elastic support parts, wherein said support part has a part, which is cut open in parallel with the elastic support parts, between said elastic support parts, and has a through hole, in which said elastic support part passes through for each of said elastic support parts, and thereby to provide the objective lens actuator for lowering the unwanted vibration mode of the objective lens, and also enabling a stable control thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Yoshihiro SATOU, Katsuhiko Kimura, Tetsuo Itou, Souichirou Yamada
  • Publication number: 20070081864
    Abstract: A sleeve 10 for introduction of a pressurized fluid, which is attached to a rockbolt main body 1, comprises a cylindrical projecting part 11 of a large diameter and a bearing-plate-holding part 12 of a diameter smaller than an aperture of a bearing plate 6. The projecting part 11 and the bearing-plate-holding part 12 preferably has the same inner diameter. When the rockbolt main body 1 is embedded in a bedrock or ground, the bearing plate 6 locates on an edge of a rockbolt-setting hole of the bedrock or ground, and the bearing-plate-holding part 12 extends through the bearing plate 6 into the rockbolt-setting hole. Since the projecting part 11 and the bearing plate 6 are disposed on a sprayed concrete layer, a projection height of the rockbolt is remarkably decreased. Consequently, lining concrete 8 is applied onto the sprayed concrete layer with ease, and the bedrock or ground is reinforced with high reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Applicant: Nisshin Steel Co.,LTD
    Inventors: Tatsurou Iwasaki, Masahiro Nakata, Hiromichi Shiroma, Tetsuo Itou, Kenji Ooshima, Hiroyuki Tanase, Takefumi Nakako, Takeyuki Yoshida, Toshiharu Kittaka
  • Publication number: 20060087931
    Abstract: To improve the reliability to an environmental temperature change of an optical pickup, an optical pickup 7 has a semiconductor laser 711 for generating a laser beam. An objective lens drive leads the laser beam to a predetermined position of a disk. The semiconductor laser and objective lens drive are mounted on a pickup hosing 70. The objective lens drive has a movable portion 74 and the movable portion has an objective lens 716 for condensing the laser beam on the recording face of the disk. A fixed portion 72 holds the movable portion through a support member. The fixed portion has a magnetic yoke 75. An extended portion formed by extending a part of the yoke to the fixed portion side and the upside 72b of a cutout formed at the intermediate portion of the fixed portion in the tracking direction are adhered and fixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Inventors: Manabu Ochi, Katsuhiko Kimura, Masaya Horino, Junichi Senga, Masayoshi Watanabe, Tetsuo Itou
  • Patent number: 6709048
    Abstract: A roof molding mounting structure of a vehicle is constituted by a groove portion (2) formed along a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and a roof molding (8) arranged within the groove portion (2). The groove portion (2) is formed in an inverse structure in which a left wall portion (6) and a right wall portion (7) are inward inclined. The roof molding (8) has a head portion (12) positioned above the groove portion (2), a main lip (13) having a front end portion elastically in contact with at least one of the left wall portion (6) and the right wall portion (7) in a lower side of the head portion (12), and a leg portion (15) elastically in contact with a bottom surface of the groove portion (2). A leg portion (15) of the roof molding (8) is elastically deformable in a vertical direction of the groove portion (2), and has a hollow portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., LTD, Kinugawa Rubber Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Setsuko Nagashima, Tetsuo Itou
  • Publication number: 20020180246
    Abstract: A roof molding mounting structure of a vehicle is constituted by a groove portion (2) formed along a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and a roof molding (8) arranged within the groove portion (2). The groove portion (2) is formed in an inverse structure in which a left wall portion (6) and a right wall portion (7) are inward inclined. The roof molding (8) has a head portion (12) positioned above the groove portion (2), a main lip (13) having a front end portion elastically in contact with at least one of the left wall portion (6) and the right wall portion (7) in a lower side of the head portion (12), and a leg portion (15) elastically in contact with a bottom surface of the groove portion (2). A leg portion (15) of the roof molding (8) is elastically deformable in a vertical direction of the groove portion (2), and has a hollow portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Setsuko Nagashima, Tetsuo Itou
  • Patent number: 5315460
    Abstract: A tape running guide and tape loading mechanism for a magnetic tape recording and reproducing apparatus including a tape guiding system having, at a tape supply side, at least a first movable slanted pin and a first movable tape height regulating guide roller for deriving a tape from an open space of a magnetic tape cassette and winding the tape on a cylindrical drum, a second slanted pin and a second tape height regulating guide roller and third movable guide pin for winding the tape on the second slanted pin. At a tape returning side, a fourth movable slanted pin and a fourth movable tape height regulating guide roller for deriving the magnetic tape from the open space of the tape cassette and winding the magnetic tape on the cylindrical drum a fifth movable slanted pin and a pinch roller which are to be derived from the open space of the tape cassette and a capstan in arranged outside the open space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1994
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Takeda, Masao Iwakura, Nobuo Masuoka, Tetsuo Itou, Ikuo Nishida, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Motonori Ohmori, Koji Iyota
  • Patent number: 5124854
    Abstract: A slide type cassette loading apparatus includes a loading section for receiving a tape cassette to move the same between an inlet/outlet position and a reference position for loading, and a movable chassis for sliding the cassette, located in the reference position, to a recording/reproducing position while carrying the cassette on the movable chassis. The loading section is of a double structure type which has an outer cassette holder pivotable relative to the movable chassis and an inner cassette holder supported to the outer cassette holder. The inner cassette holder is mounted on the outer cassette holder so as to make a pivotal movement together with the outer cassette holder and be movable in slide directions of the cassette, and is operatively coupled to the movable chassis so as to be movable together with the movable chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1992
    Assignees: Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Video Engineering, Incorporated
    Inventors: Koji Iyota, Ikuo Nishida, Yosiharu Yamasita, Motonori Ohmori, Hidekazu Takeda, Masao Iwakura, Tetsuo Itou
  • Patent number: 5119257
    Abstract: A rotary head device having a rotary drum and a rotating motor within the rotary drum, with the stator of the motor being supported by a fixed arm attached to a fixed drum or to a fixed drum supporting member. The construction permits the manufacture of the rotary head device using the manufacturing equipment used for conventional rotary shaft type rotary head devices despite the rotary head device being a thin device. In this rotary head device the position of contact of a ground brush and a rotor can be set at the center of rotation or thereabouts, so despite it being a thin device, the sliding speed of the ground brush is low, and hence it is possible to prevent the abrasion of the ground brush and also to prevent increase of the rotative driving torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1992
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Video Engineering Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Itou, Hidekazu Takeda, Masao Iwakura, Nobuo Masuoka, Toshio Osada
  • Patent number: 5065264
    Abstract: A magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus has a chassis, a rotary cylinder mounted on the chassis, and at least one guide base movably disposed around the rotary cylinder. The guide base is provided with a guide member for drawing out a magnetic tape from a tape cassette. The guide member draws out the magnetic tape from the tape cassette, as the guide base is being moved, and winds the magnetic tape around the rotary cylinder so that a predetermined tape passage is defined. The magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus further has a capstan mechanism for driving the magnetic tape to run the same. The capstan mechanism is arranged on the same side of the chassis on which the rotary cylinder is disposed, and has a capstan downwards extending toward the chassis to come into direct contact with the magnetic tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Video Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Motonori Ohmori, Ikuo Nishida, Koji Iyota, Hidekazu Takeda, Masao Iwakura, Tetsuo Itou