Patents by Inventor Toru Kawanobe

Toru Kawanobe 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).

  • Video transmitter for effecting after-recording
    Patent number: 5629740
    Abstract: In a video transmitter including a first data processing system wherein compressed and encoded video-audio data are read out of a first store under control of a CPU, and then decoded to be reproduced, there is provided a second data processing system for after-recording, data processing operation of which is controlled by a CPU. The second processing system comprises a audio data compressor, a first buffer memory, a second store, a second buffer memory, and a audio data decoder. Reproducing operations of the first and second data processing systems are performed in synchronism with each other. Thus, with a video transmitter equipped with a codec apparatus, it is possible to achieve after-recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: Toko, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tanaka, Toru Kawanobe, Masaru Kawazoe
  • Method for electroless plating gold directly on tungsten or molybdenum
    Patent number: 3993808
    Abstract: Gold is directly plated onto tungsten or molybdenum by an electroless plating process using a plating solution including a gold compound and having pH not less than 8, and desirably not less than 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1976
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Inaba, Toru Kawanobe