Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Sasao

Tomohiro Sasao 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).

  • Power transmission member for head movement mechanism, and disk device equipped with the head movement mechanism
    Patent number: 7844983
    Abstract: A power transmission member is provided with which it is possible to lessen the impact force produced when the head of a disk device hits part of a base member or the like. The power transmission member is a power transmission member of a mechanism for moving a head, used for recording on or reproducing from a disk, relative to a base member in a disk device, comprising a fixed component for attaching to a head, a power transmission component for receiving drive from a motor serving as a drive source, a linking component for linking the fixed component and the power transmission component, and a contacting component. The contacting component is fixed to the power transmission component, and comes into contact with part of the base member, or part of a member fixed to the base member, at least one end of the movement range of the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kozo Ezawa, Kisaburo Kurobe, Tomohiro Sasao
  • Power transmission member for head movement mechanism, and disk device equipped with the head movement mechanism
    Publication number: 20090064215
    Abstract: A power transmission member is provided with which it is possible to lessen the impact force produced when the head of a disk device hits part of a base member or the like. The power transmission member is a power transmission member of a mechanism for moving a head, used for recording on or reproducing from a disk, relative to a base member in a disk device, comprising a fixed component for attaching to a head, a power transmission component for receiving drive from a motor serving as a drive source, a linking component for linking the fixed component and the power transmission component, and a contacting component. The contacting component is fixed to the power transmission component, and comes into contact with part of the base member, or part of a member fixed to the base member, at least one end of the movement range of the head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Kozo Ezawa, Kisaburo Kurobe, Tomohiro Sasao
  • IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20090051813
    Abstract: A television screen or a PC screen can be displayed on the monitor (21) of an existing PC (17) or an overlay display of the combined two screens can be carried out. Any of the displays can be easily changed at any position with any window size by an operation through the PC (17). Even if the PC (17) is stopped, a television screen can be displayed on the monitor (21) of the PC (17) and viewed by the user. The image processing device can be used as a recorder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sasao, Masaki Toyota