Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Ito

Tomohiro Ito 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: 8611581
    Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20130294630
    Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Tomohiro MATSUO, Takashi OHTA, Koji NAGENO, Tomohiro ITO
  • Publication number: 20130294635
    Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: TOMOHIRO MATSUO, TAKASHI OHTA, KOJI NAGENO, TOMOHIRO ITO
  • Patent number: 8565468
    Abstract: There is provided a headphone including a headband having flexibility; a slider having flexibility with the headband attached at one end, and a headphone unit attached at the other end; a slide groove, arranged at an end of the headband or the one end of the slider, for guiding a circling movement of the slider with respect to the headband; and a slider guide, having rigidity higher than the headband and the slider, for holding the one end of the slider at the end of the headband so that one surface of the slider facing one surface of the headband circling moves with respect to the one surface of the headband while being engaged to the slide groove. A headphone that can be thinned while suppressing lowering of the attachment property is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ito, Hiroaki Ishiguro, Yuusuke Oosato
  • Publication number: 20130272561
    Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Tomohiro MATSUO, Takashi OHTA, Koji NAGENO, Tomohiro ITO
  • Publication number: 20130251185
    Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20130251186
    Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20130251184
    Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
  • Patent number: 8488149
    Abstract: A communication device includes a first tag data reading unit, a storing unit, an extracting unit, a display unit, and a transmitting unit. The first tag data reading unit is configured to read tag data from a wireless tag. The tag data is written in the wireless tag. The storing unit is configured to store transmit data and identification data in association with each other from the storing unit. The extracting unit is configured to extract, if the tag data corresponds to the identification data, the transmit data in association with the identification data. The display unit is configured to display contents of the transmit data that is extracted by the extracting unit. The transmitting unit is configured to transmit the transmit data displayed on the display unit to a destination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ito
  • Patent number: 8482760
    Abstract: A communication apparatus is provided. The communication apparatus includes an image read unit which reads image data from a transmission document; a transmission unit which transmits data; a tag read unit which wirelessly reads tag data stored in a wireless tag corresponding to the transmission document, the tag data comprising destination data indicating a first destination of the transmission document; an operation unit configured to input a second destination of the transmission document; a comparison unit which compares the first destination and the second destination; and a transmission controller which controls the transmission unit based on a comparison result of the comparison unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ito
  • Patent number: 8411893
    Abstract: There is provided a headphone including: a housing that accommodates a driver unit; a sound guiding tube that protrudes from the housing in a predetermined direction and guides a sound generated from the driver unit to an external auditory canal; and a hanger that rotatably supports the housing via a supporting shaft provided in approximately the same direction as a depth direction of the external auditory canal and in a direction inclined to a protruding direction of the sound guiding tube. According to this structure, by rotating the housing with respect to the hanger via the supporting shaft, the protruding direction of the sound guiding tube with respect to the hanger can be adjusted. Thus, by adjusting the protruding direction of the sound guiding tube according to the inclined angle of the external auditory canal of a user, wearability of a headphone can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ito, Tomohiro Matsuo
  • Patent number: 8363875
    Abstract: There is provided a headphone having a pair of units being attached to both ends of a band, and at least one of the units being made slidable relative to the band. The headphone comprises a slider that supports the unit, accommodates a part of a cord for connecting end parts of the band and the unit, and includes an engaged part for regulating a sliding range of the unit, a slider guide fixed to an end part of the band and inserted through the slider, for guiding a sliding motion of the slider in the sliding motion of the unit, and an engaging part having approximately the same width as that of the engaged part, attached to the end part of the band, and engaged with the engaged part so as to be locked to the end part of the engaged part in the sliding motion of the unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ito, Mitsuyoshi Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20130022780
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a thermosetting resin composition having superior toughness. The thermosetting resin composition of the present invention includes a thermosetting resin, and an adsorbing filler in which a thermoplastic resin C is adsorbed on a filler, wherein an adsorption coefficient that is greater than 0 and less than or equal to 0.8, defined by Formula 1 below, is satisfied. Adsorption coefficient=Amount(parts by mass)of the thermoplastic resin C adsorbed on 100 parts by mass of the filler/specific gravity of the thermoplastic resin C/DBP oil absorption(mL/100 g)of the filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Inventors: Masayuki Kawazoe, Tomohiro Ito, Mitsuhiro Iwata
  • Publication number: 20120269376
    Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
  • Patent number: 8291013
    Abstract: A communication apparatus including: a communicating portion communicable with a server device storing feed information including content informations; a feed-information obtaining portion which obtains the feed information; a display portion which displays informations; a storage portion which stores informations; an updated-date-and-time extracting portion which extracts, from the feed information, an updated date and time indicating a date and time at which information constituted by at least part of the feed information has been updated; an updated-date-and-time storing portion which stores, into the storage portion, the updated date and time and the information constituted by at least part of the feed information in association with each other; and a display controller which displays at least part of the content information(s) corresponding to the information constituted by at least part of the feed information associated by the updated-date-and-time storing portion in order of the updated date and time
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ito
  • Patent number: 8275130
    Abstract: A secret key registration system which registers a secret key in a portable key device and vehicle. A first transformation equation is stored in a writer and the vehicle. A second transformation equation is stored in the portable key device and the vehicle. The writer transmits a registration code to the portable key device and generates intermediate data with the first transformation equation of the writer. The intermediate data is transmitted to the portable key device, which generates the secret key from the intermediate data with the second transformation equation. The portable key device transmits the registration code to the vehicle. The vehicle generates intermediate data from the registration code with the first transformation equation of the vehicle, and then generates the secret key from the intermediate data with the second transformation equation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Daisuke Kawamura, Hiroaki Iwashita, Kouhei Kishimoto, Yuuki Nawa, Yoshiyuki Mizuno, Hiromitsu Mizuno, Shinichi Koga, Kota Nishida, Tomohiro Ito, Hideki Kawai
  • Patent number: 8270655
    Abstract: A headphone device includes a pair of headphone units composed of a left headphone unit and a right headphone unit, a band section that is attached to the left headphone unit and the right headphone unit, and arranged so as to be positioned at the back of a head, a headphone cord attached to the left headphone unit or the right headphone unit, and a headphone cord attaching section that freely changes a branch point of the band section and the headphone cord by moving along the band section in a freely sliding manner in order to place the headphone cord along the band section to integrate the headphone cord and the band section with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ito, Yasuo Yuyama
  • Patent number: 8229154
    Abstract: The present invention provides a more excellent headphone device that is provided with the portability and operability as compared with that in the past. The present invention provides a device that is connected to an electronic device through a connecting cord which includes a housing, a reeling section that reels up a headphone cord of a headphone to the inside of the housing, an attachment section that is arranged on the housing, and is to be attached to the user, and a link section that physically links any one of the housing and the attachment section to the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ito
  • Patent number: 8194723
    Abstract: The present invention provides a test apparatus for a 64B/66B encoding process capable of precisely performing a test with a high reproducibility on a certain pattern of a 64B/66B encoder or decoder. A frame generator generates frame data in a layer higher than a physical coding sublayer of Ethernet (registered trademark) and inputs the frame data to a 64B/66B encoder such that the 64B/66B encoder performs a 64B/66B encoding process of the physical coding sublayer with respect to the frame data. A sequence pattern generator generates a certain 66B sequence pattern written in advance, and a controller writes a desired sequence pattern in the sequence pattern generator and, at the same time, controls a data selector to select one of data encoded by the 64B/66B encoder and a sequence pattern output from the sequence pattern generator and to provide the selected one to a test subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ito, Takayuki Awano
  • Patent number: RE43468
    Abstract: An alumina particle (1) of the present invention has an alumina body with a short axis length (b) of 1 to 10 nm, a long axis length (a) of 20 to 400 nm and an aspect ratio (a/b) of 5 to 80. The alumina body is expressed by a Formula I, and n is not less than 0. Al2O3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Oda, Yasuaki Kai, Tomohiro Ito