Patents by Inventor Toshiyasu Ito

Toshiyasu Ito 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: 7852633
    Abstract: Provided is a connector for connection to a module board including an eject mechanism selectively ejecting a module from a module accommodating section. The eject mechanism includes a locking member that has a locking nib engageable with a recess of a case of the module. The locking member is rotatably supported by a sidewall section of a guide rail member, and thus can stay in an opening of the sidewall section. An eject button of the connector for connection to a module board has an operation section provided with a flange. The flange is pressed against the inner peripheral surface of a housing of an electronic device by a biasing force of coil springs all the time except for when the operation section is pushed in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiyasu Ito
  • Patent number: 7850488
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide each of pairs of transmission contact terminals in contact units are arranged between each of two adjacent ground contact terminals. A pair of shielding pieces of each of contact plate is formed to separate fixed terminal portions of the pair of transmission contact terminals of one of the contact unit from those of the adjacent one of the contact unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumihito Ikegami, Toshiyasu Ito, Shunsuke Morita, Hiroaki Kukita
  • Publication number: 20100297857
    Abstract: An electrode terminal supporting body fixed on a printed wiring board and an anisotropic conductive sheet which is positioned on the electrode terminal supporting body and on which a semiconductor device is placed are provided between first and second stiffening plates. The first and second stiffening plates are fastened by machine screws with the electrode terminal supporting body, the anisotropic conductive sheet, and the printed wiring board interposed therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventor: Toshiyasu Ito
  • Publication number: 20100244656
    Abstract: An antenna device is provided with a first connecting electrode, a first tunnel diode, a first antenna member and a fixed electrode. The first connecting electrode is configured to be connected to a fixed potential via a load. The first tunnel diode has a pair of electrodes. One of the electrodes of the first tunnel diode is connected to the first connecting electrode, and the other electrode of the first tunnel diode is connected to the first antenna member. The first antenna member has a conductive property and includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion of the first antenna member is connected to the other electrode of the first tunnel diode. The fixed electrode is connected to the second portion of the first antenna member. The fixed electrode is configured to be connected to the fixed potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO, TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Ito, Atsuto Okamoto, Tomoyoshi Motohiro, Tsuyoshi Nomura, Masahiro Hanazawa, Toshiyasu Ito, Takeshi Miyazaki, Yukihisa Ueno
  • Patent number: 7780474
    Abstract: Each of the ground contact terminals of a contact unit has a pair of bifurcated terminals located on opposite sides of a pair of transmission contact terminals formed adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiyasu Ito
  • Publication number: 20100068933
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide each of pairs of transmission contact terminals in contact units are arranged between each of two adjacent ground contact terminals. A pair of shielding pieces of each of contact plate is formed to separate fixed terminal portions of the pair of transmission contact terminals of one of the contact unit from those of the adjacent one of the contact unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventors: Fumihito Ikegami, Toshiyasu Ito, Shunsuke Morita, Hiroaki Kukita
  • Publication number: 20100022113
    Abstract: Provided is a connector for connection to a module board including an eject mechanism selectively ejecting a module from a module accommodating section. The eject mechanism includes a locking member that has a locking nib engageable with a recess of a case of the module. The locking member is rotatably supported by a sidewall section of a guide rail member, and thus can stay in an opening of the sidewall section. An eject button of the connector for connection to a module board has an operation section provided with a flange. The flange is pressed against the inner peripheral surface of a housing of an electronic device by a biasing force of coil springs all the time except for when the operation section is pushed in.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventor: Toshiyasu ITO
  • Publication number: 20100014813
    Abstract: A receptacle (20) detachably accommodating a connector plug (34) connected to optical fibers (32) is rotatably supported by a shaft (14) provided in an installation table (10). The receptacle (20) is biased by a leaf spring (16) for biasing opposite ends of the shaft (14) in one direction. A locking/unlocking mechanism for selectively locking or unlocking the receptacle (20) connected with the connector plug (34) relative to the installation table (10) and a locking mechanism fixing portion (12) includes a locking nib (30Ra) of a lock releasing button (30R), a locking nib (30La) of a lock releasing button (30L), locking nib receiving portions (12na, 12nb) and a coil spring (31).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: YAMAICHI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Ito, Hiromasa Tanobe, Yoshihisa Sakai, Masaru Kobayashi, Ryo Nagase
  • Publication number: 20090068887
    Abstract: Each of the ground contact terminals of a contact unit has a pair of bifurcated terminals located on opposite sides of a pair of transmission contact terminals formed adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventor: Toshiyasu Ito
  • Patent number: 7438598
    Abstract: The connector housing 30 is formed with a pair of guide grooves 50a, 50b and a pair of side walls 60. The guide grooves 50a, 50b support the both side edges of the upper body portion 21 of the thick first card 20 and also the both side edges of the card body 11 of the thin second card 10 and guide these cards as they are inserted or extracted. The side walls 60 define, below a space between the paired guide grooves 50a, 50b, a space in which to accommodate the lower body portion 23 of the first card 20. This construction ensures that, whichever of the first and second cards is inserted, the elastic displacements of the contact terminals 40 of a card connector 1 remain the same, allowing the card to be electrically connected stably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignees: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Ito, Masaaki Oya, Kazutaka Taguchi, Takashi Torii, Hideki Kawai
  • Patent number: 7273381
    Abstract: A plug connector for electrically connecting a printed wiring board with a card-edge connector includes a first connector-contact arrangement and a second connector-contact arrangement. The first connector-contact arrangement is inserted to the card-edge connector and includes a first blade with a front surface having a recessed surface partly recessed therefrom and a plurality of first contact components arranged parallel one with another in the first blade. The second connector-contact arrangement is inserted to a card-edge connector and includes a second blade with a front surface having a recessed surface partly recessed therefrom and a plurality of second contact components arranged parallel one with another in the second blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiyasu Ito
  • Publication number: 20070099514
    Abstract: A plug connector for electrically connecting a printed wiring board with a card-edge connector includes a first connector-contact arrangement and a second connector-contact arrangement. The first connector-contact arrangement is inserted to the card-edge connector and includes a first blade with a front surface having a recessed surface partly recessed therefrom and a plurality of first contact components arranged parallel one with another in the first blade. The second connector-contact arrangement is inserted to a card-edge connector and includes a second blade with a front surface having a recessed surface partly recessed therefrom and a plurality of second contact components arranged parallel one with another in the second blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Inventor: Toshiyasu Ito
  • Patent number: 7131849
    Abstract: Embodiments of a connector (which may also be also referred to as a connector unit) are described. In accordance with one embodiment, the connector may comprise a case, first and second connectors, at least one stiffener bar, and at least one flexible circuit. The first connector may be located in a first opening of the case and the second connector may be located in a second opening of the case. The stiffener bar may be disposed in the case. The first connector may receive a first end of the flexible circuit while a second end of the flexible circuit may be interposed between the stiffener bar and the second connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Yamaichi Electronics U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Nishimura, Toshiyasu Ito, Kiyoshi Abe
  • Publication number: 20050287834
    Abstract: Embodiments of a connector (which may also be also referred to as a connector unit) are described. In accordance with one embodiment, the connector may comprise a case, first and second connectors, at least one stiffener bar, and at least one flexible circuit. The first connector may be located in a first opening of the case and the second connector may be located in a second opening of the case. The stiffener bar may be disposed in the case. The first connector may receive a first end of the flexible circuit while a second end of the flexible circuit may be interposed between the stiffener bar and the second connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Inventors: Takeshi Nishimura, Toshiyasu Ito, Kiyoshi Abe
  • Patent number: 6902407
    Abstract: There are provided for an improved card connector contacting structure featuring its compactness and simplicity in construction, higher reliability of contacting action and higher impact resistance. The contacting structure is designed as a card connector comprising a plurality of contact terminals which are arranged in parallel with one another; among the plurality of contact terminals, at least two are the terminals for connecting with the power source; at least two are the terminals for grounding; at least one is for detecting whether the IC card has been loaded securely into the card connector; among the plurality of contact terminals, one of the terminals for grounding comes into contact first with the corresponding external contact of the IC card, among the plurality of contact terminals, the terminal for detecting the card coming into contact last with the corresponding external contact of the IC card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignees: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Ito, Minoru Ohara
  • Patent number: 6875033
    Abstract: The card connector of the present invention is formed to have a hollow housing shape by combining two housing members with each other and an ejecting mechanism for ejecting a card, wherein the ejecting mechanism includes an ejecting member for ejecting the card and a spring member for elastically biasing the ejecting member, and a cam having a loop-like cam groove around the cam is provided on a lateral side of the ejecting member; one end of the a cam lever being held by one of the housing members and the other end of the cam lever being slidable along the cam groove formed around the cam. Thereby, the card connector can be to reduce a width thereof by providing a heart cam and to shorten a length of the ejecting member so that the card connector becomes small in size as a whole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Sato, Toshiyasu Ito
  • Patent number: 6848923
    Abstract: The write protect detection switch SW1 to detect the slide position of the write protect button 3 is arranged on the side wall portion of the connector housing and the card recognition switch SW2 to detect the presence or absence of the inserted card 1 is arranged inside the card abutment wall of the connector housing. This construction allows the write protect detection switch and the card recognition switch to be accommodated efficiently in a small space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihumi Takada, Toshiyasu Ito
  • Publication number: 20040113249
    Abstract: There are provided for an improved card connector contacting structure featuring its compactness and simplicity in construction, higher reliability of contacting action and higher impact resistance. The contacting structure is designed as a card connector comprising a plurality of contact terminals which are arranged in parallel with one another; among the plurality of contact terminals, at least two are the terminals for connecting with the power source; at least two are the terminals for grounding; at least one is for detecting whether the IC card has been loaded securely into the card connector; among the plurality of contact terminals, one of the terminals for grounding comes into contact first with the corresponding external contact of the IC card, among the plurality of contact terminals, the terminal for detecting the card coming into contact last with the corresponding external contact of the IC card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Ito, Minoru Ohara
  • Publication number: 20040043664
    Abstract: The card connector of the present invention is formed to have a hollow housing shape by combining two housing members with each other and an ejecting mechanism for ejecting a card, wherein the ejecting mechanism includes an ejecting member for ejecting the card and a spring member for elastically biasing the ejecting member, and a cam having a loop-like cam groove around the cam is provided on a lateral side of the ejecting member; one end of the a cam lever being held by one of the housing members and the other end of the cam lever being slidable along the cam groove formed around the cam. Thereby, the card connector can be to reduce a width thereof by providing a heart cam and to shorten a length of the ejecting member so that the card connector becomes small in size as a whole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Applicant: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Sato, Toshiyasu Ito
  • Patent number: 6652322
    Abstract: Each the contact terminal includes a plurality of contact units stacked with each other, wherein contact point sections of the respective contact units are distributed to disperse in lengthwise direction of the contact terminal within the corresponding contact pad. The distal end of the innermost contact unit in the plurality of stacked contact units extends to a position at which it is not entangled with the distal end of the adjacent contact unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Ito, Yasuhiro Ono