Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Aiba

Toshiyuki Aiba 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: 7425672
    Abstract: An exterior structure for a keyboard instrument, which is capable of dramatically increasing the variation of producible types of keyboard instruments while suppressing the cost of molds. A lower case includes a front-side lower case LCf and a rear-side lower case LCr disposed rearward of the front-side lower case LCf in a side-by-side fashion. An upper case UC is disposed above the lower case. The front-side lower case LCf is fastened to the upper case UC, and the rear-side lower case LCr is fastened to the upper case UC, whereby the lower case is secured to the upper case UC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Haba, Yuji Sakurai, Masao Sato, Toshiyuki Aiba
  • Publication number: 20070173398
    Abstract: [OBJECTS] To provide an adsorbent with improved adsorbing capacity, easiness to shaping and appearance, by ordinary extrusion, and to provide a method of and an apparatus for making the adsorbent. [MEANS FOR ACHIEVEMENT] Outlet of an extruder (2) fits on a mold (3) having plural pins (31) of the same cross section as fluid channels (11). A narrow interstice (32) intervenes between the adjacent pins fixed upright on a base plate (33). A detour (35) conducting a fluidic raw material mixture (13) is defined inside a mantle (34) and around the base plate. The mixture composed of a carbonaceous powder and an inorganic powder with or without a binder and water to knead them is forced into the interstices so as to form an uncured product (14). Vestiges of the pins (31) remain as fluid channels (11) each surrounded by peripheral walls (12), and the uncured product is dried and then possibly sintered to render porous and rigid the peripheral walls thus congregated to give a solid mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Aiba
  • Patent number: 7238875
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic musical instrument which is capable of muting by a simple operation. A plurality of fret operating elements are provided on a fingerboard, for determining the pitch. Six stringed operating elements for determining sounding timing are provided on a string input section of the body of the electronic musical instrument. A tone generator and a sound system generate musical tones according to operations of the fret operating elements and the stringed operating elements. A mute fingerboard larger in transverse size than the transverse region over which the six stringed operating elements are arranged is disposed on an operating element holder protecting section engaged with latches of the operating elements. The mute fingerboard is located in the vicinity of operated ends of the stringed operating elements within the range where the stringed operating elements can be operated, and is exposed on a surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Aiba
  • Patent number: 7234272
    Abstract: Raising pots for vegetable seedlings are produced by molding a mixture including a boiled fiber material prepared by boiling bamboo fiber with fiber of a grass plant such as reed, an auxiliary material comprising at least one member selected from among a carbonized vegetable material prepared by carbonizing a tree-free material, a calcium-based waste powder such as bone metal and a chicken manure powder and a small amount of urea optionally together with a silicon dioxide powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Aiba
  • Patent number: 7234273
    Abstract: Molded pots for root crop seedlings are produced by molding a mixture comprising unboiled bamboo fiber, a boiled fiber material of a grass plant, lespedeza, etc., a carbonized vegetable material having been carbonized by heating and urea optionally together with a silicon dioxide powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Aiba
  • Publication number: 20060150499
    Abstract: Raising pots for root crop seedlings which are produced by molding a mixture comprising unboiled bamboo fiber, a boiled fiber material of a grass plant, lespedeza, etc., a carbonized vegetable material having been carbonized by heating and urea optionally together with a silicon dioxde powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Aiba
  • Publication number: 20060137509
    Abstract: An exterior structure for a keyboard instrument, which is capable of dramatically increasing the variation of producible types of keyboard instruments while suppressing the cost of molds. A lower case includes a front-side lower case LCf and a rear-side lower case LCr disposed rearward of the front-side lower case LCf in a side-by-side fashion. An upper case UC is disposed above the lower case. The front-side lower case LCf is fastened to the upper case UC, and the rear-side lower case LCr is fastened to the upper case UC, whereby the lower case is secured to the upper case UC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Applicant: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Haba, Yuji Sakurai, Masao Sato, Toshiyuki Aiba
  • Publication number: 20060086046
    Abstract: Raising pots for vegetable seedlings which are produced by molding a mixture comprising a boiled fiber material prepared by boiling bamboo fiber with fiber of a grass plant such as reed, an auxiliary material com-prising at least one member selected from among a carbonized vegetable material prepared by carbonizing a tree-free material, a calcium-based waste powder such as bon metal and a chicken manure powder and a small amount of urea optionally together with a silicon dioxide powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2002
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Aiba
  • Publication number: 20060003119
    Abstract: A food container formed by compressing a mixed material composed of unboiled bamboo fibers and mixed fibers prepared by mixing unboiled grass family vegetable fibers and unboiled legume family vegetable fibers such as lespedeza fibers. A food container formed by compressing a mixed material composed of the above mixed material, a small amount of water repellent, and a small amount of paper strength additive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2002
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Aiba
  • Publication number: 20040139847
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic musical instrument which is capable of muting by a simple operation. A plurality of fret operating elements are provided on a fingerboard, for determining the pitch. Six stringed operating elements for determining sounding timing are provided on a string input section of the body of the electronic musical instrument. A tone generator and a sound system generate musical tones according to operations of the fret operating elements and the stringed operating elements. A mute fingerboard larger in transverse size than the transverse region over which the six stringed operating elements are arranged is disposed on an operating element holder protecting section engaged with latches of the operating elements. The mute fingerboard is located in the vicinity of operated ends of the stringed operating elements within the range where the stringed operating elements can be operated, and is exposed on a surface of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2004
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Aiba
  • Patent number: 5331819
    Abstract: A superconducting rotating apparatus has a rotor constituted in a cryostat structure and comprising a cold rotor and a superconducting winding to be cooled by coolant, a heat shielding member for heat-shelding the cold rotor, a magnetic coupling device for coupling the cold rotor to a rotational shaft in a non-contact means by a magnetic force, a field current source for supplying field current to the superconducting winding, a stator disposed in space at a predetermined interval from the cold rotor and having an armature winding, and a refrigerator provided in the rotor to cool coolant introduced into the superconducting rotor and warmed up by cooling the superconducting winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1994
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takeshi Matsuda, Kenichi Suzuki, Toshiyuki Aiba
  • Patent number: 4415822
    Abstract: A stator of a dynamoelectric machine comprises an iron core formed by laminating irons sheets, armature coils received in slots of the iron core, a plurality of spacer blocks extending radially in contact with an end surface of the iron core, clamping end plates for clamping the iron core, and buffer boards located between the spacer blocks. The spacer blocks include long ones located between an outer periphery of the iron core and teeth portions thereof and short ones located between the outer periphery and the bottom portions of the slots. Each of the short spacer blocks is provided with a radially extending channel formed on the side surface facing to the end surface of the iron core and the channel has gas air outlet and one end opened on the side facing to the slot bottom to form an inlet for a cooling gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Aiba