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).

  • Publication number: 20090053549
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy fin material for brazing, characterized by comprising an aluminum alloy comprising more than 1.4% by mass but not more than 1.8% by mass of Fe, 0.8% by mass or more but 1.0% by mass or less of Si, and more than 0.6% by mass but not more than 0.9% by mass of Mn, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, wherein 80% or more of the surface area, as viewed from the surface layer of the fin plane, is occupied by recrystallized grains with a length of 10 mm or more, in a direction rolled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, FURUKAWA-SKY ALUMINUM CORP.
    Inventors: Kyoji Inukai, Tomohiro Ito, Akira Kawahara, Akio Niikura
  • Publication number: 20090051964
    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: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20090052718
    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: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Tomohiro ITO, Yasuo Yuyama
  • Patent number: 7492917
    Abstract: In a headphone, accidental winding and retracting is prevented from occurring without requiring complicated operations. The headphone includes housings incorporating an electro-acoustic transducer element, an input cord, one end of which is connected to the electro-acoustic transducer element. A take-up mechanism is incorporated in the housings and energized to wind and retract the input cord into the housings. A ratchet interacts with the take-up mechanism to prevent the winding and retracting of the input cord by the take-up mechanism. A cancellation mechanism prevents the winding and retracting of the input cord by the ratchet. An ear-hook having an ear-hook arm hooks the housing on the arm and is energized toward the housings, wherein when the ear-hook arm is away from the housings so the prevention of the winding and retracting of the input cord by the ratchet is not cancelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ito
  • Patent number: 7489795
    Abstract: In order to construct a headphone composed of a housing which holds a driver unit and an arm attached to the housing easily and favorably, a driver unit driven by an inputted audio signal, a housing 110 that therein accommodates the driver unit and has on its periphery a first flange portion for attaching an ear pad on the outside and an arm connected to the housing are provided. Then, a second flange portion that is connected to the first flange portion on the housing side is provided so that both the flange portion on the housing side and the flange portion on the arm side function as a flange for attaching an ear pad and also both the flange portions hold the driver unit when the arm is joined to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ito
  • Patent number: 7489776
    Abstract: A facsimile apparatus, to which an external telephone enables to be connected through a line, has a line I/F section that transfers and receives signal through a network, a voltage detection section that is provided in a semiconductor DAA and detects a line voltage of the line, an adjustment section that adjusts a line voltage during establishment of a connection through the line so as to be within a predetermined voltage, and an external telephone monitor section that acquires a value of the line voltage detected by the voltage detection section at regular time intervals and monitors a use state of the external telephone based on the acquired values of the line voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ito
  • Patent number: 7476440
    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: August 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Oda, Yasuaki Kai, Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20080283651
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a hanging device including: a reeling portion which includes a reel adapted to reel a cord connected to an electronic device or component part and in which the reel is turned to pull out the cord from an orifice portion of a casing and to reel the cord through the orifice portion; an engaging portion disposed in the vicinity of the orifice portion of the reeling portion; and a connecting member attached to the cord so as to be engageable with and disengageable from an engaging portion of the orifice portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro ITO, Jun Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20080239379
    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: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20080192975
    Abstract: An input cord used in a headphone apparatus and an electronic apparatus is wound around a winding device such as a reel, and assembly is facilitated without using jigs when a commutator mechanism relaying to a D/U on the other side through a passage cord is installed. A terminal board including metal slip rings is provided on the side of a lower flange of a reel in left and right headphone housings, and contact points (brushes) are provided on the side of a housing 2 at a position opposed to the terminal board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2005
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20080159581
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide headphones having no headband in which left and right driver units are connected by a cord passed behind the neck, wherein the headphones will not slip off if hung on the shoulders when not being used and are intended to improve fashionableness; in headphones 10 having no headband in which left and right driver units 2L, 2R are connected by a cord 4 passed behind the neck, the middle part of this cord is inserted into a cylindrical belt 11a, and also end members 12, 12 which fix the cord 4 and this cylindrical belt 11a are provided at both ends of this cylindrical belt 11a to form a belt-like strap portion 11; and further this cylindrical belt 11a is provided with a print or decoration which is pliable and flexible when being bent, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ito, Rumi Nakano, Tomomi Hamada
  • Publication number: 20080112586
    Abstract: The present invention provides an excellent headphone which can give a more comfortable feeling and a more stable feeling to the user when being fixed to the user as compared with that in the past. The headphone includes a headphone section that has a sound-sending section of a speaker unit arranged at the front surface side thereof, and has its rear surface side covered by a housing, and an ear pad that covers the sound-sending section of the speaker unit, wherein, in the ear pad, a porous elastic body of low repulsion is covered by a pad cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20080089544
    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: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20080015329
    Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition contains polycarbonate molecules to which inorganic oxide fine particles are bonded through connecting groups of an aliphatic ether type represented by a following general wherein M represents a tri- or tetravalent metal element capable of bonding to surfaces of the inorganic oxide fine particles; m is 0 or 1; n is an integer of 2 to 8 indicating the number of methylene groups in a chain; R1 represents an aliphatic group containing a straight chain formed by connecting 2 to 8 carbon atoms to each other, and both terminals of which are bonded to two oxygen atoms adjacent thereto; at least one of *1-, *2- and *3- is a bonding species capable of bonding to the surfaces of the inorganic oxide fine particles, and at least one of the *1-, *2- and *3- is bonded to the surfaces of the inorganic oxide fine particles; and *4- represents a bond with a polycarbonate molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventors: Takashi Seino, Yasuaki Kai, Tomohiro Ito, Hironobu Muramatsu, Manabu Kawa, Minoru Soma
  • Publication number: 20070194162
    Abstract: A headphone with a cord take-up device is provided, which is put into practice relatively easily and which prevents a harsh clicking sound from arising when an input cord is pulled out of a headphone housing. The headphone with a cord take-up device includes: an input cord; take-up means provided in a housing and forced to wind and retract the input cord into the housing; ratchet means interacting with the take-up means, including a ratchet wheel and an engaging pawl provided at one end of a turning arm and forced toward the side of the ratchet wheel, preventing the input cord from being wound and retracted by the take-up means and allowing the input cord to be pulled out of the housing; and a buffer material provided between the turning arm and the housing; wherein movement of the engaging pawl at one end of the turning arm is restricted by the buffer material when the input cord is pulled out of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2005
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20070189570
    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: January 10, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20070164432
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate which has a plurality of semiconductor device formation regions and alignment mark formation region having the same planar size as that of the semiconductor device formation region, a plurality of post electrodes which are formed in each semiconductor device formation region, and an alignment post electrode which is formed in the alignment mark formation region and smaller in number than the post electrodes formed in each semiconductor device formation region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Wakisaka, Tomohiro Ito, Shigeru Yokoyama, Osamu Kuwabara, Norihiko Kaneko, Syouichi Kotani
  • Publication number: 20070140445
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes: a modem that modulates and demodulates a signal transmitted and received through a communication line; a caller information acquisition unit that acquires caller information for identifying a caller based on the signal output from the modem; a display device that displays the caller information; an instantaneous disconnection detection unit that detects an occurrence of an instantaneous disconnection while the communication line is connected; and a reconfiguration unit that reconfigures the modem when the instantaneous disconnection detection unit detects the instantaneous disconnection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20070126419
    Abstract: A method of correcting temperature characteristic of a rotation angle detecting device that includes a permanent magnet, a magnetic core, a Hall element that rotates relative to the permanent magnet when a rotating object rotates to provide an output signal. The method includes a step of setting temperature correction values for correcting a temperature characteristic of the rotation angle detecting device according to magnetic flux density. The magnetic flux density is divided into a plurality of grade ranges and the temperature correction values are respectively set for the grade ranges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamitsu Kubota, Yoshiyuki Kono, Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20070122291
    Abstract: [Problem] To always perform accurate pressure feedback control, and control the discharge flow rate of liquid chemical with high precision, even in situations in which the pressure setting value of the operation pressure differs due to changes in the type of liquid chemical, etc. [Means of solution] A pump 11 has a pump chamber 13 and an operation chamber 14 separated by a diaphragm 12 comprised of a flexible membrane, and performs the intake and discharge of liquid chemical in accordance with the change in pressure inside the operation chamber 14. An electro-pneumatic regulator 32 supplies operation air to the operation chamber 14. In addition, in the present system, a plurality of pressure sensors 51, 63 having different pressure detection ranges is provided as pressure detection means for detecting the operation air pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicants: OCTEC INC., CKD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya Okumura, Tetsuya Toyoda, Tomohiro Ito, Akira Murakumo, Atsuyuki Sakai