Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Arimoto

Tetsuya Arimoto 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: 5584598
    Abstract: A concrete-floor finisher includes a plurality of rotary shafts (28) supported on a supporting plate (2) of a machine proper (1) so as to be tiltable in x and y directions and rotatable opposite to each other, and a plurality of blades (12a to 12d) radially arranged relative to a rotor (10) at the lower part of each of the rotary shafts and respectively held in place by a plurality of fitting members (13), and a rocking supporting unit (14) for the fitting member of each blade is composed of a fixed plate (15) attached to the upper surface of the blade, a holding member (16) attached to the vertical plate portion of the fixed plate, a bearing (18) pivotally supporting substantially the central portion of the holding member (16) by a supporting pin (17) extended in the tangential direction of the circle of rotation, and means for fitting a square cylindrical portion (19) of the bearing onto the forward end of the fitting member and removably fixing in place with a bolt (21) or the like, thus ensuring 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1996
    Assignee: Tokimec Inc.
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Watanabe, Noriyuki Takeuchi, Tetsuya Arimoto, Atsushi Yamashiro
  • Patent number: 5528423
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a zoom lens system used for photo-taking in a 35 mm single lens reflex camera. The zoom lens system consists of, from the object side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power. Zooming from a wide-angle side to a telephoto side takes place by moving all of the first lens unit through the fourth lens unit to the object side. Focusing on an object at a short distance is performed by moving the second lens unit to the object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Arimoto, Soh Ohzawa
  • Patent number: 5365297
    Abstract: A camera system comprises an operation member provided in an interchangeable lens adapted to be manually operated; a signal sending circuit for sending a signal in response to the manual operation of the operation member; and a controller provided in a camera body which is adapted to switch between an operative state where a predetermined operation is executed and a halt state where the controller is halted after completion of the predetermined operation. The controller switches from the halt state to the operative state in response to the signal from the signal sending circuit to execute the predetermined operation. According to the camera system, since the system controller in the camera body is actuated in response to the operation of the member on the lens side, a camera which can substantially instantaneously respond to a request on the lens side can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuya Arimoto, Minoru Kuwana, Kenji Ishibashi, Yasuaki Serita, Masayuki Ueyama, Hiroshi Ootsuka, Hisashi Tokumaru
  • Patent number: 5258802
    Abstract: A camera system comprises an operation member provided in an interchangeable lens adapted to be manually operated; signal sending circuit for sending a signal in response to the manual operation of the operation member; and a controller provided in a camera body which is adapted to switch between an operative state where a predetermined operation is executed and a halt state where the controller is halted after completion of the predetermined operation. The controller switches from the halt state to the operative state in response to the signal from the signal sending circuit to execute the predetermined operation. According to the camera system, since the system controller in the camera body is actuated in response to the operation of the operation member on the lens side, a camera which can substantially instantaneously respond to a request on the lens side can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuya Arimoto, Minoru Kuwana, Kenji Ishibashi, Yasuaki Serita, Masayuki Ueyama, Hiroshi Ootsuka, Hisashi Tokumaru
  • Patent number: 5257135
    Abstract: A compact zoom lens system comprises from the object side: a first lens component of a positive refractive power; a second lens component of a negative refractive power with a variable air space between the first and second lens components; and a third lens component of a positive refractive power with a variable air space between the second and third lens components. A plurality of aspherical surfaces are employed for the realization of a compact and low-cost zoom lens system. Furthermore, a focusing operation is carried out by both of the first and second lens components or third lens component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuo Kohno, Takashi Okada, Tetsuya Arimoto, Hiroyuki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 5196880
    Abstract: A camera system which comprises a photo-taking lens assembly of varifocal type including a zooming lens and a focusing lens; a manipulatable member; a zooming drive device for driving the zooming lens during a manipulation of the manipulatable member; a focusing device for driving the focusing lens; a focal length detector for sequentially detecting a current focal length of the photo-taking lens assembly; a zooming amount calculator operable to repeatedly add or subtract a predetermined amount to or from the current focal length during the manipulation of the manipulatable member thereby to sequentially update a target focal length used as a reference for the drive of the zooming lens; a first control adapted to receive the target focal length updated by the zooming amount calculator for calculating the amount of deviation in focus which would occur before the target focal length is attained and also for controlling the focusing device so as to eliminate the amount of deviation in focus which has been calcul
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1993
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Ishibashi, Minoru Kuwana, Yasuaki Serita, Tetsuya Arimoto, Hiroshi Ootsuka, Yoshihiro Hara, Hiroshi Ueda, Masayuki Ueyama
  • Patent number: 5185678
    Abstract: A zoom lens system comprises from the object side, a first lens unit of positive refractive power, a second lens unit of negative refractive power, a third lens unit of positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit of positive refractive power, and a fifth lens unit of negative refractive power. The first, third and fourth lens units move towards the object side in a zooming operation from the shortest focal length condition to the longest focal length condition. Further, the zoom lens system fulfills the following conditions:0.4<.vertline.f.sub.2 .vertline./f.sub.w <0.51.0<.vertline.f.sub.5 .vertline./f.sub.4 <5.02.5<e.sub.3T /e.sub.3W <4.5wherein f.sub.2 represents a focal length of the second lens unit, f.sub.w represents a focal length of the whole zoom lens system in the shortest focal length condition, f.sub.5 represents a focal length of the fifth lens unit, f.sub.4 represents a focal length of the fourth lens unit, e.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1993
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuya Arimoto
  • Patent number: 4786152
    Abstract: A compact telephoto lens system with a large aperture whose aberrations are corrected well at any focusing position. This telephoto lens system consists of three lens units, namely a positive, a negative and a positive lens unit and only the negative lens unit moves for focusing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1988
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuya Arimoto
  • Patent number: 4759619
    Abstract: An improvement of an inverted telephoto type wide angle lens system having, from the object to the image side a front lens group of a negative refractive power which is left stationary upon focusing, and a rear lens group of a positive refractive power which is shiftable for the purpose of focusing is disclosed. The improvement is characterized in that the lens system fulfills the following condition:2.65<.vertline.f.sub.F .vertline./f.sub.R <7.5wherein f.sub.F represents the focal length of the front lens group, and f.sub.F represents the focal length of the rear lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Nakamura, Tetsuya Arimoto