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).
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Patent number: 7911401Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 8, 2010Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Minoru Oozeki, Toshiyuki Imagawa
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Publication number: 20100141538Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2010Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Minoru Oozeki, Toshiyuki Imagawa
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Patent number: 7671813Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 12, 2004Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Minoru Oozeki, Toshiyuki Imagawa
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Publication number: 20070171134Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2004Publication date: July 26, 2007Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Minoru Oozeki, Toshiyuki Imagawa
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Patent number: 7236137Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 12, 2004Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Minoru Oozeki, Toshiyuki Imagawa
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Publication number: 20060071869Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2004Publication date: April 6, 2006Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Minoru Oozeki, Toshiyuki Imagawa
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Patent number: 6720924Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 5, 2002Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignees: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Sony CorporationInventors: Isao Tomomatsu, Takahiro Ueno, Toshiyuki Imagawa, Minoru Oozeki, Masayuki Ishiwa
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Patent number: 6693604Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 12, 2001Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignees: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Sony CorporationInventors: Takanori Washiro, Yoichi Iso, Toshiyuki Imagawa, Minoru Oozeki
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Patent number: 6630906Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 20, 2001Date of Patent: October 7, 2003Assignees: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Sony CorporationInventors: Isao Tomomatsu, Masayuki Ishiwa, Takahiro Ueno, Toshiyuki Imagawa, Minoru Oozeki
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Publication number: 20020149538Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2002Publication date: October 17, 2002Inventors: Isao Tomomatsu, Takahiro Ueno, Toshiyuki Imagawa, Minoru Oozeki, Masayuki Ishiwa
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Publication number: 20020027530Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2001Publication date: March 7, 2002Inventors: Isao Tomomatsu, Masayuki Ishiwa, Takahiro Ueno, Toshiyuki Imagawa, Minoru Oozeki
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Patent number: 6279396Abstract: 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 circuitType: GrantFiled: April 9, 1999Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Imagawa, Junichi Toyoda, Tatsuo Hakuta
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Patent number: 5293744Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 23, 1992Date of Patent: March 15, 1994Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Takaoka Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiyuki Imagawa, Hirohide Sakuma, Eihi Nawata
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Patent number: 4651483Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 4, 1983Date of Patent: March 24, 1987Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toshiyuki Imagawa
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Patent number: 4620315Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 5, 1985Date of Patent: October 28, 1986Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toshiyuki Imagawa
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Patent number: 4527281Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 24, 1983Date of Patent: July 2, 1985Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiyuki Imagawa, Kazuya Ohara
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Patent number: 4396242Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 25, 1980Date of Patent: August 2, 1983Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuyuki Kurano, Kunio Uchikawa, Toshiyuki Imagawa, Chuji Akasaka