Patents by Inventor Toru Nakao

Toru Nakao 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: 20050105967
    Abstract: Abstract of the Disclosure A magnetic tape is characterized in that a servo signal for performing tracking control of a magnetic head is written on a data band, data is recorded on the data band, and the servo signal is magnetized and written on the servo band magnetized in any one of direction of longitudinal directions with being magnetized in a reverse direction for the one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toru NAKAO
  • Publication number: 20050057840
    Abstract: Disclosed are a magnetic tape capable of suppressing deterioration of the S/N ratio of the data and servo signals and adapted to high density recording design, and a servo writer capable of producing the above magnetic tape. Further, the magnetic tape includes a DC-magnetized DC written region, a servo signal being written onto the DC written region, and a data track. Here, the DC written region and the servo signal are formed to satisfy a relationship ?1.5×Tw?Fd?1.5×Tw, where Fd denotes a position of an end of the DC written region with respect to an end of the servo signal, and Tw denotes a width of the data track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventors: Toru Nakao, Takahisa Izumida
  • Publication number: 20050052779
    Abstract: Disclosed are a servo writer and a servo writing method capable of writing a servo signal onto a servo band of a magnetic tape in an excellent condition, regardless of the thickness of the magnetic tape. The servo writer includes a magnetic tape traveling system for traveling a magnetic tape, a DC erase head for magnetizing a servo band of the magnetic tape in one direction along the length of the magnetic tape, a servo signal write head for writing a servo signal onto the servo band in the direction opposite to the one direction, a servo signal read head for reading the servo signal from the servo band, and control device for controlling a degauss current supplied to the DC erase head, based on an output read from the servo signal by the servo signal read head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2004
    Publication date: March 10, 2005
    Inventors: Toru Nakao, Takahisa Izumida
  • Patent number: 6865050
    Abstract: The servo signal recording device records a servo signal onto a magnetic tape. The device includes a transporting unit for transporting the magnetic tape along its lengthwise direction, a recording unit for recording the servo signal onto the transported magnetic tape, a detecting unit for detecting an edge of the magnetic tape at a time when the servo signal is recorded and an adjusting unit for adjusting a recording position of the servo signal along a crosswise direction of the magnetic tape in accordance with a detection result of the edge of the magnetic tape by the detecting unit. The servo signal verifying device verifies a servo signal recorded onto a magnetic tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Nakao, Seiji Tateishi
  • Publication number: 20050041324
    Abstract: A servo writer according to the present invention is a servo writer which writes a servo signal on a servo band of a magnetic tape. It comprises a magnetic tape driving system in which a magnetic tape supplied from a supply reel is taken up by a take-up reel to drive the magnetic tape; a DC erasing head which is slidably in contact with said driving tape and which DC-magnetizes said servo band with imparting an azimuth relative to said servo band; and a servo signal writing head provided on a downstream of said DC erasing head in the driving direction of the magnetic tape, which is slidably in contact with said driving tape and which magnetizes the servo band by a magnetizing force having a component with a reverse magnetizing force relative to the magnetizing force of the DC erasing head in the lengthwise direction of the magnetic tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2004
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventors: Seiji Tateishi, Toru Nakao
  • Publication number: 20050035241
    Abstract: A magnetic tape drive is equipped with a travel device for running a magnetic tape and a plurality of guides for guiding the magnetic tape, which is running, along a predetermined route. Each of the guides has a roller portion and a flange portion. A surface hardening treatment is dispensed to a guide out of the guides where a ratio of a peripheral speed of the guide for a running speed of the magnetic tape is not more than 0.9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2004
    Publication date: February 17, 2005
    Inventors: Toru Nakao, Masahiko Asai
  • Publication number: 20040228034
    Abstract: A magnetic head assembly to record servo signals, that serves for positing of data recording magnetic heads and data reproducing magnetic heads, on magnetic tapes comprises a servo signal recording head of which sliding surface has a magnetic gap embedded thereon in order to record the servo signals onto a magnetic tape and guide blocks which are set adjacent to at least one of the up-stream position or the down-stream position of a line of magnetic tape passing the servo signal recording head and are slightly set back from said sliding surface of the recording head so that said magnetic tape slides an edge of the servo signal recording head and an edge of the guide block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2004
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Nakao, Takahisa Izumida, Akihiro Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20040212916
    Abstract: A servo write head assembly comprises an AC demagnetizing head that slides in contact with a magnetic tape all of which surface is magnetized in one direction of longitudinal directions thereof, and demagnetizes a data band of the magnetic tape; a servo write head that slides in contact with the magnetic tape, magnetizes a servo band of the magnetic tape in a reverse direction, and writes a servo signal; and a guide for regulating a movement in lateral directions of the magnetic tape that is running, wherein the AC demagnetizing head and the servo write head are integrally configured and the guide is provided between the AC demagnetizing head and the servo write head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Nakao, Takahisa Izumida
  • Publication number: 20040207943
    Abstract: Data for specifying servo bands SB1 to SB5 is embedded in each servo signal S1 to S5 that is written on a plurality of servo bands SB1 to SB5 formed on a magnetic tape MT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Nakao, Takahisa Izumida
  • Publication number: 20040208694
    Abstract: A magnetic tape is characterized in that a servo signal for performing tracking control of a magnetic head is written on a data band, data is recorded on the data band, and the servo signal is magnetized and written on the servo band magnetized in any one of direction of longitudinal directions with being magnetized in a reverse direction for the one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toru Nakao
  • Publication number: 20040160697
    Abstract: A method for inspecting a head unit moving device is characterized by having the steps of running a inspection use tape in which a servo signal is written displaced in a width direction of a magnetic tape at a predetermined frequency and amplitude; measuring a position of a head unit practically moved in a width direction of the inspection use tape in response to the servo signal; and calculating a difference between the position and a position to be instructed so as to move the head unit in response to the servo signal, wherein the head unit moving device moves the head unit with a servo signal reading head, a data signal recording head, and a data signal reproducing head in the width direction of the magnetic tape in response to the servo signal read from the magnetic tape by the servo signal reading head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Publication date: August 19, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Nakao, Minoru Sueki, Takahisa Izumida
  • Publication number: 20040080846
    Abstract: A servo signal inspecting apparatus to inspect a recorded state of a servo signal with a reproducing head with a smaller width than a width of a servo track is characterized by being equipped with a magnetic tape driving unit running a magnetic tape, a reproducing head inspecting a servo signal recorded on the magnetic tape, and a head controlling unit controlling the reproducing head so as to vibrate in a range of width of the servo track in a width direction of the magnetic tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toru Nakao
  • Publication number: 20030099059
    Abstract: The present invention relate to a servo control method for controlling the position of a magnetic head in order to record/reproduce a data on/from a magnetic tape having a plurality of servo tracks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toru Nakao
  • Publication number: 20030095353
    Abstract: A method of writing a servo signal on a servo track of a magnetic tape is disclosed. The method comprises applying a recording current to a servo write head, wherein the recording current includes a plurality of continuous pattern sets formed by way of alternately supplying plus and minus polarities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toru Nakao
  • Publication number: 20020186497
    Abstract: The servo signal recording device records a servo signal onto a magnetic tape. The device includes a transporting unit for transporting the magnetic tape along its lengthwise direction, a recording unit for recording the servo signal onto the transported magnetic tape, a detecting unit for detecting an edge of the magnetic tape at a time when the servo signal is recorded and an adjusting unit for adjusting a recording position of the servo signal along a crosswise direction of the magnetic tape in accordance with a detection result of the edge of the magnetic tape by the detecting unit. The servo signal verifying device verifies a servo signal recorded onto a magnetic tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Nakao, Seiji Tateishi
  • Publication number: 20020031084
    Abstract: An NME that cannot communicate with an SSE to which the NME is to be connected by default gives a detouring process start instruction to the SSE of an adjacent station. In response to this, the SSE of the adjacent station acting as a detour acquires the configuration information and summary information from the nodes in the station to which the faulty SSE belongs. Then, the addressee of the notification sent from the nodes is changed from the faulty SSE to the SSE of the detour station in rewriting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Inventors: Toru Nakao, Keiko Hatada
  • Patent number: 5888637
    Abstract: A magnetic recording tape favorably employable for computer data storage has a flexible polymer web, a magnetic recording layer arranged on one surface side of the web via a non-magnetic undercoating layer, and a back-coating layer arranged on another surface side of the web, wherein the magnetic recording tape has a thickness of not more than 8 .mu.m; the non-magnetic undercoating layer has a thickness of 0.5 to 2.0 .mu.m; the magnetic recording layer has a thickness of 0.5 to 1.0 .mu.m; the polymer web has a Young's modules of not lower than 700 kg/mm.sup.2 in its width direction; and the back-coating layer is made of a binder polymer, a carbon black and an inorganic material powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kakuishi, Satoru Hayakawa, Toru Nakao
  • Patent number: 5045541
    Abstract: Fused pyridazine compounds ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are the same or different and respectively hydrogen, a halogen, hydroxy, nitro, amino, cyano, trifluoromethyl, and alkyl, an alkoxy or an alkanoylamino; one of R.sub.a and R.sub.b is a group of the formula--O--Y--NR.sup.5 R.sup.6wherein R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are the same or different and respectively hydrogen, an alkyl, a phenylalkyl or a substituted phenylalkyl or a group forming a heterocycle together with the adjacent nitrogen atom and Y stands for a straight- or branched-chain alkylene which may have hydroxy group as a substituent on the chain, and the other is hydrogen, or both of R.sub.a and R.sub.b are the same or different and respectively a group of the formula--O--Y--NR.sup.5 R.sup.6wherein R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are of the same meanings as defined above; W is .dbd.CH-- or .dbd.N; X is CH.sub.2, S, SO, SO.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Assignee: Yoshitomi Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Nakao, Minoru Kawakami, Masao Hisadome, Tetsuya Tahara
  • Patent number: 4965264
    Abstract: A thienocinnoline compound of the general formula ##STR1## wherein R stands for hydrogen, a halogen or a lower alkyl, Ar stands for an aryl, a heteroaryl, or an aryl or a heteroaryl having as a substituent at least a halogen, a lower alkyl, a lower alkoxy, nitro, amino, hydroxy, trifluoromethyl and/or a lower alkanoylamino; and the bond between 5a-position and 6-position represents a single bond or a double bond, which is useful as an antianxiety agent, amnesia-treating drug, a brain function-activating drug, an antidementiac drug or a potentiating agent of biological protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Assignee: Yoshitomi Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Nakao, Kenji Morita, Masao Hisadome, Shuzo Takehara
  • Patent number: 4931443
    Abstract: A piperazine compound represented by the general formula: ##STR1## (wherein each of the symbols is as defined above) or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof, and pharmaceutical uses thereof as well as intermediates thereof are disclosed. The above piperazine compounds possess antipsychotic activities with less adverse reaction on the extrapyramidal system and are useful as drugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1990
    Assignee: Yoshitomi Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Nakao, Kenji Morita, Minoru Obata, Yasuto Morimoto