Patents by Inventor Toshio Konno
Toshio Konno 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).
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Patent number: 7729519Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a housing, a pad button section and a switch board. The housing includes a cover member including an opening part. One of a first switch board on which a fingerprint authentication unit is mounted, and a second switch board on which no fingerprint authentication units are mounted is selectively adopted as the switch board. One of a first pad button section including a fingerprint authentication cover between buttons, and a second pad button section in which a pair of buttons are adjacent to each other is selectively adopted as the pad button section. The cover member is identical in shape between a case where the first pad button section is adopted and a case where the second pad button section is adopted.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2009Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Naoya Shigenobu, Yuichi Hirai, Toshio Konno
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Publication number: 20090304241Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a housing, a pad button section and a switch board. The housing includes a cover member including an opening part. One of a first switch board on which a fingerprint authentication unit is mounted, and a second switch board on which no fingerprint authentication units are mounted is selectively adopted as the switch board. One of a first pad button section including a fingerprint authentication cover between buttons, and a second pad button section in which a pair of buttons are adjacent to each other is selectively adopted as the pad button section. The cover member is identical in shape between a case where the first pad button section is adopted and a case where the second pad button section is adopted.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2009Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Naoya Shigenobu, Yuichi Hirai, Toshio Konno
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Patent number: 7624840Abstract: A portable computer includes a speaker device and a first casing. The speaker device includes a speaker main body and a speaker housing for housing the speaker main body. The first casing has a bottom wall. The bottom wall has swelling portion which swells outward and contains at least part of the speaker housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2008Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Toshio Konno, Satoshi Kishikawa, Koji Ariga
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Patent number: 7606023Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus is provided with a first case including a peripheral wall, a display device contained in the first case and including four side faces, a second case, a hinge shaft which swingably supports the first case on the second case, and a bracket which is connected to the hinge shaft and extends in the first case. The bracket includes a holding portion, which extends along one of the side faces of the display device and is fixed to the display device, and a fixing portion fixed to a peripheral portion of the first case situated off regions defined between the four side faces of the display device and those wall portions of the peripheral wall which face the side faces, individually.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2007Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Toshio Konno, Masanori Sato, Tomomi Murayama
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Patent number: 7525213Abstract: A wave activated power generation device includes a cylindrical floating body anchored on water and extending vertically to a water surface, a ballast provided at a lower end portion of the floating body, and a power generating equipment provided at an upper end portion of the floating body. The floating body includes a buoyancy control chamber allowing the floating body to vertically float in the water and adjusting a position of the floating body relative to the water surface to a predetermined height in accordance with a relation between buoyancy of the floating body and weight of the ballast, and an air chamber formed between the buoyancy control chamber and the power generating equipment. The power generating equipment includes an air turbine provided above the air chamber and driven by air flow generated between an inside and outside of the air chamber by vertical motion of the water surface, and a generator rotationally driven by the air turbine.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2005Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: Toyo Technology Inc.Inventors: Yoshihiro Nagata, Toshio Konno
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Patent number: 7503423Abstract: A portable computer includes a speaker device and a first casing. The speaker device includes a speaker main body and a speaker housing for housing the speaker main body. The first casing has a bottom wall. The bottom wall has swelling portion which swells outward and contains at least part of the speaker housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2006Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Toshio Konno, Satoshi Kishikawa, Koji Ariga
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Publication number: 20090021898Abstract: A portable computer includes a speaker device and a first casing. The speaker device includes a speaker main body and a speaker housing for housing the speaker main body. The first casing has a bottom wall. The bottom wall has swelling portion which swells outward and contains at least part of the speaker housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2008Publication date: January 22, 2009Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Toshio Konno, Satoshi Kishikawa, Koji Ariga
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Publication number: 20080088133Abstract: A wave activated power generation device includes a cylindrical floating body anchored on water and extending vertically to a water surface. a ba last provided at a lower end portion of the floating body and a power generating equipment provided at an upper end portion of the floating body The floating body includes a buoyancy control chamber allowing the floating body to vertically float in the water and adjusting a position of the floating body relative to the water surface to a predetermined height in accordance with a relation between buoyancy of the floating body and weight of the ballast, ad an air chamber formed between the buoyancy control chamber and the power generating equipment. The power generating equipment includes an air turbine provided above the air chamber and driven by air flow generated between a inside and outside of the air chamber by vertical motion of the water surface, ad a generator rotationally driven by the air turbine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2005Publication date: April 17, 2008Applicant: TOYO TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Yoshihiro Nagata, Toshio Konno
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Publication number: 20070285878Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus is provided with a first case including a peripheral wall, a display device contained in the first case and including four side faces, a second case, a hinge shaft which swingably supports the first case on the second case, and a bracket which is connected to the hinge shaft and extends in the first case. The bracket includes a holding portion, which extends along one of the side faces of the display device and is fixed to the display device, and a fixing portion fixed to a peripheral portion of the first case situated off regions defined between the four side faces of the display device and those wall portions of the peripheral wall which face the side faces, individually.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2007Publication date: December 13, 2007Inventors: Toshio Konno, Masanori Sato, Tomomi Murayama
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Publication number: 20060245155Abstract: A portable computer includes a speaker device and a first casing. The speaker device includes a speaker main body and a speaker housing for housing the speaker main body. The first casing has a bottom wall. The bottom wall has swelling portion which swells outward and contains at least part of the speaker housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2006Publication date: November 2, 2006Inventors: Toshio Konno, Satoshi Kishikawa, Koji Ariga
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Patent number: 6245454Abstract: Gas manifolds which are excellent in both phosphoric acid proof and electric insulation and which have sufficient corrosion proof over a long period are provided. A resin sheet with high phosphoric acid proof is folded to have a size smaller than that of the corner sections of the inner plane of gas manifolds by the size corresponding to a thermal expansion, and the folded planes are thermally compressed in air tight to form box-shaped linings. These linings are applied to the inner planes of the gas manifolds. Patches are thermally compressed to the outer surface of the bottom section of the linings and each patch is fitted loosely with a male hook or a female hook. A female hook or a male hook for engaging with the hook on each patch is fitted on the inner plane of the gas manifolds at an opposing position. The linings can be fixed to the gas manifolds engageably and disengageably by these hooks.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1999Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yoshitsugu Gocho, Kotaro Iyasu, Yoshiyuki Abiru, Toshio Konno
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Patent number: 5507442Abstract: In a method for winding a toroidal coil, a winding of a first layer is made by means of repeating the following three steps. At a first step, one end of a wire is inserted into a central aperture of a core from one side thereof to extend the wire along an axial direction of the core; the other end of the wire is abutted to one surface of the core such that the other end is radially extended; and a tension is applied to the wire and the core with the other end of the wire is then turned in a diametrical direction of the core perpendicular to the radial direction. At a second step, the one end of the wire is inserted into the central aperture of the core towards the other side; and the tension is applied to the wire and the core is then rotated at a desired angle in one direction on a central axis of the core.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1993Date of Patent: April 16, 1996Assignee: Tokin CorporationInventors: Toshio Konno, Kazuhiro Sugai, Shinya Watanabe, Hiroyuki Konno, Tooru Shoji
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Patent number: 5486878Abstract: In a color image display apparatus, light beams intensity modulated by a green color image signal are deflected by an ocillating mirror, and then focused on a photo-conductive layer (PCL) member of a light-written type spacial light modulation element (SLM) through two focusing lenses for light write operation. Light beams intensity modulated by a time-axis compressed time-divisional image signal of two remaining colors (red and blue) are deflected by another mirror oscillated simultaneously with the ocillating mirror, and then focused on a PCL member of a SLM of the same type through two focusing lenses for light write operation. A read light beam is resolved into the light of the green wave length band and the lights of red and blue wave length bands, respectively, and then given to the SLMs, respectively for light read operation. The two read light beams reflected by the SLMs are synthesizing, and then projected on a screen through a common projection lens.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 1994Date of Patent: January 23, 1996Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Negishi, Tetsuji Suzuki, Fujiko Koyama, Yuji Uchiyama, Hiroyuki Bonde, Toshio Konno, Ryusaku Takahashi, Toshiaki Shou
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Spatial light modulator with photoconductor of hydrogenated amorphous silicon with 0.1-1.0 ppm boron
Patent number: 5444558Abstract: A spatial light modulator capable of displaying a good contrast and high resolution moving pictures without an after-image effect is disclosed. The modulator comprises a pair of transparent electrodes for generating an electric field therebetween and at least a photoconductive member and a photo modulation member being laminated and interposed between the transparent electrodes, the photoconductive member is a film having a thickness ranged from 10 .mu.m to 30 .mu.m and is made of hydrogenated amorphous silicon doped with boron such that an amount of the boron with respect to silicon in the hydrogenated amorphous silicon in atomic percent is, 0.1 to 1.0 ppm. To enhance the modulator performance, a thickness of the photoconductive member is so selected to have light absorptance ranged 70% to 95% at a wavelength of a writing light which writes information in the modulator.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 1993Date of Patent: August 22, 1995Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Dai Imanishi, Nozomu Ohkouchi, Kazushige Ohtawara, Hiroyuki Natsuhori, Shigeo Shimizu, Toshio Konno, Masanobu Shigeta, Hiromitsu Takenaka, Tadayuki Shimada -
Patent number: 5381188Abstract: The present invention offers a display system for displaying information comprising a linear array of N light-emitting devices emitting light of predetermined wavelength, the devices are arranged respectively with N pixels, a stream of the information is divided into pieces each of which containing the N pixels, and the N light-emitting devices are caused to emit N light beams simultaneously in a form of array during a given period for every divided piece of the information, the every divided piece of information may correspond to one line of a frame of picture, the N light beams are intensity-modulated respectively with the divided piece of the information, the N light beams are deflected simultaneously in a direction perpendicular to a direction of the array of the N light beams, and a spatial light modulator having a photoconductive layer and a light modulation layer interposed between a pair of electrodes, the photoconductive layer is responsive to the deflected N light beams incident thereto through a foType: GrantFiled: May 4, 1992Date of Patent: January 10, 1995Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Konno, Shintaro Nakagaki, Ichiro Negishi, Tetsuji Suzuki, Fujiko Tatsumi, Ryusaku Takahashi, Keiichi Maeno
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Patent number: 5357289Abstract: This specification discloses an image projector for projecting a tri-color composite optical image on a screen as a magnified optical image. A reading light beam emitted from a light source is separated into three color beams, e.g., Red, Green and Blue color beams through a tri-color separation and composition optical system. The separated color beams are irradiated on image forming devices provided correspondingly with Red, Green and Blue color images to read out color images respectively therefrom. Each of the reflected light beams from the image forming device carrying color image information impinges again on the tri-color separation and composition optical system to compose a composite image beam. The composite image beam is projected on the screen through an optical lens system comprising a first lens group, a second lens group and a third lens group disposed along an optical axis in order.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 1994Date of Patent: October 18, 1994Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Konno, Shintaro Nakagaki, Ighiro Negishi, Tetsuji Suzuki, Fujiko Tatsumi, Ryusaku Takahashi, Keiichi Maeno
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Spatial light modulator with photoconductor of hydrogenated amorphous silicon with 0.1-1.0 ppm boron
Patent number: 5353139Abstract: A spatial light modulator capable of providing high contrast ratio and resolution moving pictures without an after-image effect is disclosed. The spatial light modulator comprises a pair of transparent electrodes for forming a driving electric field therebetween, and at least one photo-modulation member and a photoconductive member laminated between the pair of transparent electrodes, where the photoconductive member comprises a hydrogenated amorphous silicon film having thickness of 10 .mu.m to 30 .mu.m, and is doped with boron as such that an amount of the boron in the hydrogenated amorphous silicon film in atomic ratio with respect to silicon therein is 0.1 ppm to 1 ppm.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1992Date of Patent: October 4, 1994Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Nozomu Ohkouchi, Hiromitsu Takenaka, Tadayuki Shimada, Shigeo Shimizu, Toshio Konno -
Patent number: 5327229Abstract: A clear color image having a high contrast ratio without particular coloration is displayed on a screen by improved display apparatus. Such display apparatus is comprised of a spatial light modulator including a photo-conductive layer, a photo-modulator layer and a dielectric mirror, a device for writing color images of different colors onto the spatial light modulator time-divisionally in a sequence of the different colors, a reading device for producing reading lights having different colors in synchronism with time-divisional writing of the color images, and for projecting the reading lights to the spatial light modulator, a driving device for supplying the spatial light modulator with different voltages and frequencies correspondingly with the reading light of different colors and in synchronism with time-divisional projections of the reading lights, and a device for projecting the color images read out from the spatial light modulator on the display device.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 1993Date of Patent: July 5, 1994Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Konno, Shintaro Nakagaki, Ichiro Negishi, Tetsuji Suzuki, Fujiko Tatsumi, Ryusaku Takahashi, Hiroyuki Bonde, Tsutomu Matsumura
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Patent number: 5325137Abstract: An overhead projector for irradiating a spatial light modulator with reading light to read out a subject image written in the spatial light modulator with writing light and projecting the subject image read out with the reading light, wherein the spatial light modulator consists of photoconductive layer for receiving the writing light coming from a subject to reproduce the subject image, light modulating layer formed by a liquid crystal of which molecules are arranged in a homeotropic orientation for modulating the reading light of which a waveband is limited to a prescribed range according to the subject image reproduced in the photoconductive layer, and a dielectric mirror having wavelength selectivity for reflecting the reading light with the waveband modulated by the light modulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1992Date of Patent: June 28, 1994Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Konno, Shintaro Nakagaki, Ichiro Negishi, Tetsuji Suzuki, Fujiko Tatsumi, Ryusaku Takahashi
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Patent number: 5304438Abstract: A charge image recording medium (RM) comprising a lamination of an electrode (E) and at least one of a light-modulation material layer (PMLQ) and an insulating polymer film or dielectric layer (IL), wherein said light-modulation material layer (PMLQ) comprises a polymer-dispersed liquid crystals film comprising a liquid crystal dispersed in a polymer. The insulating polymer film (IL) may be provided thereon with a thin film (CL) of a fatty acid or a thin film (CL) of a metal salt of a fatty acid.The light-modulation material layer (PMLQ) comprising a polymer-dispersed liquid crystals film comprising a liquid crystal dispersed in a polymer may also be provided thereon with a thin film (CL) of a fatty acid or a thin film (CL) of a metal salt of a fatty acid.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1992Date of Patent: April 19, 1994Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Konno, Tadayuki Shimada, Atsushi Nakano