Patents by Inventor Toshio Kawara

Toshio Kawara 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: 5508946
    Abstract: An electronic balance, capable of displaying a weight value in different units, includes a first memory device for storing a plurality of units which can be selected, a menu key for causing the contents of the first memory device to be sequentially displayed, a registration key for causing any unit being displayed by the operation of the menu key to be registered in a second memory device, and a unit switch key for sequentially calling the units stored in the second memory device and causing the display of a weight value in the unit which has been called.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Kawara, Ken Uesaka
  • Patent number: 4889528
    Abstract: A drip infusion rate control apparatus controlling the flow rate of a medical solution to be infused into a human or animal body by means of a drip infusion system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1989
    Assignees: Shimadzu Corporation, Tanekazu Nadai
    Inventors: Tanekazu Nadai, Toshio Kawara
  • Patent number: 4494022
    Abstract: An electromagnetic force-transducer comprising a magnetic circuit and an electromagnetic coil kept movable in the static field provided by said magnetic circuit. The electromagnetic coil consists of two coaxial parallel windings wound on a common frame with a distance kept between the both. The magnetic circuit comprises an inner magnetic path and an outer magnetic path with a cylindrical clearance left therebetween. In the upper and the lower part of the clearance there are provided with an upper magnetic gap and a lower magnetic gap, respectively. The magnetic field in the upper gap and that in the lower gap are directed oppositely to each other. The coil frame is kept movable vertically in the cylindrical clearance, positioning one of the two windings in the upper magnetic gap and the other in the lower magnetic gap. The two windings are current-supplied in the directions opposite to each other to produce their respective electromagnetic forces in the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1985
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Kawara, Yoshihumi Shibahara
  • Patent number: 4375838
    Abstract: An electronic balance includes a weighing means for producing digital output signals as a measured value in response to a force induced upon a tray, a first memory for storing the mass of a reference weight, a discriminator for signalizing the existence and non-existence of an object on the tray, a second memory for storing a corrected value obtained by differentiating between a measured value of the reference weight and the mass stored in the first memory when the discriminator signalizes that no object is placed on the tray, an arithmetic unit for correcting a measured value signalized by the weighing means in accordance with the corrected value stored in the second memory when the discriminator signalizes that an object exists on the tray, and an output unit for permitting of visual inspection of the arithmetic results obtained by the arithmetic unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1983
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Shozo Yano, Yasuhiro Hujinaga, Toshio Kawara, Akira Komoto
  • Patent number: 4347903
    Abstract: A weighing balance to provide an average weight to an object which tends to move while being weighed such as a laboratory animal. The object to be weighed is placed on a receiving pan which provides an electrical analog output signal corresponding to the weight of the object. This signal after passing through an amplifier is converted to a digital electrical signal fed to a data input control means. A level detector setting means allows an output from said control means only when the weight on the balance reaches a predetermined level. The output from the control means is fed to a memory having a plurality of registers which store this information. Coupled on one side to this memory is a comparator which is also coupled on a second side to said control means. Also coupled to said comparator means is an allowable range means, sampling time means, and average calculating means. The average calculating means feeds an output to a printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1982
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Shozo Yano, Toshiyuki Miyake, Yasuhiro Fujinaga, Akira Koomoto, Toshio Kawara, Akio Yagi, Tomohiro Tsuji, Tadashi Nagaoka