Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Imagawa

Toshiyuki Imagawa 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: 7911401
    Abstract: An earphone antenna is provided that can eliminate high-frequency adverse effects on a wireless device transmitted from a human body via an earphone. The earphone antenna can ensure receiver sensitivity required for a signal in a wide frequency range without any sensitivity control operation and can transmit audio signals from a television receiver to an earphone unit. Two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines (8La), (8Lb), (8Ra), and (8Rb) corresponding to the left and right earphone units (12L) and (12R) are connected to a balun (4). Terminals of the two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines remote from the balun are connected to the left and right earphone units (12L) and (12R) via loading coils (LLa), (LLb), (LRa), and (LRb). The Terminals of the two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines remote from the balun are further connected to each other by a pair of conductive lines (20a) and (20b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Minoru Oozeki, Toshiyuki Imagawa
  • Publication number: 20100141538
    Abstract: An earphone antenna is provided that can eliminate high-frequency adverse effects on a wireless device transmitted from a human body via an earphone. The earphone antenna can ensure receiver sensitivity required for a signal in a wide frequency range without any sensitivity control operation and can transmit audio signals from a television receiver to an earphone unit. Two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines (8La), (8Lb), (8Ra), and (8Rb) corresponding to the left and right earphone units (12L) and (12R) are connected to a balun (4). Terminals of the two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines remote from the balun are connected to the left and right earphone units (12L) and (12R) via loading coils (LLa), (LLb), (LRa), and (LRb). The Terminals of the two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines remote from the balun are further connected to each other by a pair of conductive lines (20a) and (20b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Minoru Oozeki, Toshiyuki Imagawa
  • Patent number: 7671813
    Abstract: An earphone antenna is provided in which two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines respectively corresponding to left and right earphone units are connected to a balun. The left and right earphone units are connected to terminals of the two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines remote from the balun via loading coils, respectively. The terminals of the two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines remote from the balun are further connected to each other by a pair of conductive lines via audio blocking means. The earphone antenna having such a structure can eliminate high-frequency adverse effects on a wireless device transmitted from a human body via an earphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Minoru Oozeki, Toshiyuki Imagawa
  • Publication number: 20070171134
    Abstract: An earphone antenna is provided in which two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines respectively corresponding to left and right earphone units are connected to a balun. The left and right earphone units are connected to terminals of the two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines remote from the balun via loading coils, respectively. The terminals of the two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines remote from the balun are further connected to each other by a pair of conductive lines via audio blocking means. The earphone antenna having such a structure can eliminate high-frequency adverse effects on a wireless device transmitted from a human body via an earphone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Minoru Oozeki, Toshiyuki Imagawa
  • Patent number: 7236137
    Abstract: An earphone antenna in which a balun is connected to one side and the other side having an audio/high-frequency dual-function signal connecting the earphone unit via a loading coil and wireless equipment connected to the balun, the loading coil selecting low impedance for fundamental frequency and selecting to obtain high impedance for higher frequencies, in order to integrate earphone and antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Minoru Oozeki, Toshiyuki Imagawa
  • Publication number: 20060071869
    Abstract: An earphone antenna in which a balun is connected to one side and the other side having an audio/high-frequency dual-function signal connecting the earphone unit via a loading coil and wireless equipment connected to the balun, the loading coil selecting low impedance for fundamental frequency and selecting to obtain high impedance for higher frequencies, in order to integrate earphone and antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Minoru Oozeki, Toshiyuki Imagawa
  • Patent number: 6720924
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus comprises a substrate, a chip antenna mounted on the substrate, and a ground pattern disposed on the substrate, at least a portion on the side of a power supply terminal of an antenna conductor in the chip antenna being overlapped with the ground pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignees: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Tomomatsu, Takahiro Ueno, Toshiyuki Imagawa, Minoru Oozeki, Masayuki Ishiwa
  • Patent number: 6693604
    Abstract: A small antenna comprises a first meander part formed in such a manner that a meander conductor travels to a first direction and having a first end and a second end, and a second meander part formed in such a manner that a meander conductor travels to a second direction different from the first direction and having a first end connected with the second end of the first meander part and a second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignees: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Washiro, Yoichi Iso, Toshiyuki Imagawa, Minoru Oozeki
  • Patent number: 6630906
    Abstract: A chip antenna comprises an antenna conductor, and a dielectric chip which stacks on a portion of the antenna conductor, in which a conductor exposed portion of the antenna conductor which is not overlapped on the dielectric chip is bent along the surface of the dielectric chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignees: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Tomomatsu, Masayuki Ishiwa, Takahiro Ueno, Toshiyuki Imagawa, Minoru Oozeki
  • Publication number: 20020149538
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus comprises a substrate, a chip antenna mounted on the substrate, and a ground pattern disposed on the substrate, at least a portion on the side of a power supply terminal of an antenna conductor in the chip antenna being overlapped with the ground pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventors: Isao Tomomatsu, Takahiro Ueno, Toshiyuki Imagawa, Minoru Oozeki, Masayuki Ishiwa
  • Publication number: 20020027530
    Abstract: A chip antenna comprises an antenna conductor, and a dielectric chip which stacks on a portion of the antenna conductor, in which a conductor exposed portion of the antenna conductor which is not overlapped on the dielectric chip is bent along the surface of the dielectric chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Inventors: Isao Tomomatsu, Masayuki Ishiwa, Takahiro Ueno, Toshiyuki Imagawa, Minoru Oozeki
  • Patent number: 6279396
    Abstract: An ultrasonic-wave distance measuring apparatus of the separate transmission and reception type reflection system capable of making the measurable distance longer and improving the precision of the measuring, wherein a distance measurement calculation control circuit in an ultrasonic-wave transmitter starts counting a time simultaneously with the start of vibration of an ultrasonic-wave transmission sensor, the ultrasonic-wave emitted from the ultrasonic-wave transmission sensor is reflected at the object to be measured and detected by an ultrasonic-wave reception sensor, a distance measurement sensitivity correction circuit corrects the sensitivity of the signal from the ultrasonic-wave reception sensor based on sensitivity correction data predetermined in accordance with a type of object and a measurement distance, the signal after the sensitivity correction by the distance measurement sensitivity correction circuit is detected in a detection circuit, and the distance measurement calculation control circuit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Imagawa, Junichi Toyoda, Tatsuo Hakuta
  • Patent number: 5293744
    Abstract: An exhaust manifold muffler having an exhaust manifold portion 10 and a muffler portion 20 integral with the exhaust manifold portion 10. The exhaust manifold portion 10 includes a plurality of manifold pipes 11 having parallel downstream ends which are spaced from each other and are arranged in a row. Each manifold pipe is connected to a respective cylinder of an internal combustion engine such that exhaust presssure pulsations from the manifold pipes operate as reflected waves opposite in phase, so as to damp the pressure pulsations. The muffler portion 20 has a first muffler chamber 22 and a swirl pipe 29 installed in the first muffler chamber 22. The manifold pipes 11 extend tangentially into the first manifold chamber to produce a swirl in the first muffler chamber 22. Part of the swirl enters an upper inlet end of the swirl pipe. The swirl pipe 29 has a lower outlet end which is located between the downstream ends of the manifold pipes 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Takaoka Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Imagawa, Hirohide Sakuma, Eihi Nawata
  • Patent number: 4651483
    Abstract: In a construction of a door in a motor vehicle, at a position below a triangular portion located at the forward or rear end of the door where belt lines of a main body of the door and a door window frame intersect at an acute angle, flanges are projected from top portions of a door inner panel and a door outer panel outwardly and inwardly in the thickness-wise direction of the door, respectively, and these flanges are welded to each other. These flanges are formed as a pair of triangular flanges projecting from the door inner panel and the door outer panel with vertexes of the triangular flanges opposed to each other, and the triangular flanges are overlapped at least at portions close to the vertexes thereof and welded to each other at the portions thus overlapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1987
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Imagawa
  • Patent number: 4620315
    Abstract: An automatic frequency control circuit is used in an FM stereo radio receiver which includes an intermediate frequency amplifying and detecting circuit producing an output for driving a signal meter and includes a multiplexer, so that the multiplexer effects controls to reduce noises in stereophonic and monophonic reception responsively to the signal meter driving circuit by changing its separation ratio and attenuation ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1986
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Imagawa
  • Patent number: 4527281
    Abstract: The auto-scan changeover system for a two-band radio receiver employing first and second PLL frequency synthesizers comprises: first detecting circuit responsive to a tuning frequency scanning signal from the first or second PLL frequency synthesizer for detecting completion of a scanning operation of a broadcasting band by first or second auto-scanning circuit; first switching circuit responsive to a detection signal from the first detecting circuit for switching a power supply between first and second broadcasting band reception circuits so as to render one of the reception circuits operative for reception; second detecting circuit for detecting that the first switching circuit switched the power supply to the first or second broadcasting band reception circuit; and second switch responsive to a detection signal from the second detecting circuit for actuating first or second broadcasting band auto-scanning circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1985
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Imagawa, Kazuya Ohara
  • Patent number: 4396242
    Abstract: A connector assembly for a plug comprised of a metal pin connected to a core of a cable having a shielding sheath and an earth member shell insulated from the pin and connected to the shielding sheath of the cable, which device is characterized in that a metal sleeve for receiving the earth member therein so as to be in contact therewith in fixed and electrically connected to a casing of an electronic apparatus, a printed circuit board is disposed at a position opposite to the metal sleeve and a resilient member electrically connectable to the pin of the plug is provided on the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1983
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Kurano, Kunio Uchikawa, Toshiyuki Imagawa, Chuji Akasaka