Patents by Inventor Toshiyasu Iida

Toshiyasu Iida 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).

  • Switch operating device
    Patent number: 6492605
    Abstract: A switch operating device (50) is provided with: a mounting frame (4); a plurality of operating keys (10) each having a pressing portion (1) to be operated; a hinge portion (2) for elastically supporting each of the operating keys to the mounting frame; and a connecting portion (3), which is adapted to be elastically deformed and which is formed between the mounting frame and a vicinity of the pressing portion of each of the operating keys, for preventing an adjacent operating key or keys among the operating keys from moving slightly in response to an operation of one operating key among the operating keys which is adjacent to the adjacent operating key or keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiyasu Iida
  • Switch operating device
    Publication number: 20020092749
    Abstract: A switch operating device (50) is provided with: a mounting frame (4); a plurality of operating keys (10) each having a pressing portion (1) to be operated; a hinge portion (2) for elastically supporting each of the operating keys to the mounting frame; and a connecting portion (3), which is adapted to be elastically deformed and which is formed between the mounting frame and a vicinity of the pressing portion of each of the operating keys, for preventing an adjacent operating key or keys among the operating keys from moving slightly in response to an operation of one operating key among the operating keys which is adjacent to the adjacent operating key or keys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Applicant: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiyasu Iida
  • Disk player wherein a plurality of compact disks and a laser disk are rotated with a single motor
    Patent number: 5253235
    Abstract: Four compact disks (CDs) and one laser disk (LD) are placed in a tray having a plurality of disk receiving sections and moved through a disk supplying opening into a disk player housing. In accordance with the desired input to the disk player, a disk holder is directed to a desired disk receiving position via a swinging arm device which supports the disk holder and places the desired disk in the disk playing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1993
    Assignee: Pioneer Electronic Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Isobe, Shigeharu Furusawa, Masao Abe, Toshiyasu Iida, Kenjirou Ooizumi