Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Maeda

Tsutomu Maeda 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).

  • Publication number: 20050038567
    Abstract: This invention provides a remote monitoring system for air conditioners installed respectively in a plurality of buildings for concentrically monitoring the operating state of the air conditioners from a distance. The system comprises data collectors 3 installed in the respective buildings, and a remote monitor 4 connected to the data collectors 3 of all the buildings via a communication network. Each of the data collectors 3 collects state data representing the operating state of the air conditioner installed in each building and transmits the collected state data to the remote monitor 4. The remote monitor 4 receives the state data collected by each data collector 3, diagnoses the operating state of the air conditioner installed in each building based on the received state data, and outputs the result of diagnosis. In this way, the air conditioners can be optimally adjusted within a short period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Publication date: February 17, 2005
    Inventors: Tsutomu Maeda, Tsuyoshi Kawai, Yoshio Ozawa
  • Patent number: 6839457
    Abstract: This invention relates to a bone measurement method for measuring a bone shape, structure and architecture on the basis of the tomographic images of a test bone or joint, in more detail, to a bone measurement method characterized by having a template image extraction step for obtaining a wholly continued template image of a bone inner portion surrounded by a cortical bone from the binary image of a test bone cross section, and separating a cortical bone and a cancellous bone by the product of said template image and said binary image, as a bone measurement method which enables the automatic, high-speed and repeatable separation of a cortical bone and a cancellous bone on the basis of the binary image of a test bone or joint cross section and by which a separated three-dimensional image of the cortical bone portion and the cancellous bone portion is obtained as the bases for a non-invasive analyses of three-dimensional bone structure, bone strength, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Azuma, Yoshifumi Harada, Norihiro Yamada, Tsutomu Maeda, Tomohiro Ohta
  • Publication number: 20040201536
    Abstract: An antenna device for installation on vehicles, which antenna device including a core made of a magnetic material, a holding portion provided by a dielectric film sheet wound around the core, a coil formed with a linear conductor wound around the holding portion, a case made of a dielectric resin material for housing the core, the holding portion and the coil, and a flexible dielectric resin filling the space within the case excluding the core, the holding portion and the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Masahiro Ohara, Akio Miyajima, Tsutomu Maeda, Takefumi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20040136583
    Abstract: A method enabling a destroyed part of a joint or joint cartilage to be extracted accurately and at a high speed with a good repeatability and enabling quantitative and simple 3D analysis of the joint and the destroyed part, that is, a method of 3D image processing comprising filling in a medullary cavity region, comprised of a hollow region inside a joint, of a digitalized image of a cross-section of the examined joint using the Expansion and Shrinkage method, performing 3D labeling by a 3D image obtained by stacking digitalized images of cross-sections of the examined joint generated at a step of extracting a contour of the cross-sectional image of the joint or digitalized images of cross-sections of the examined joint not pre-processed, and defining the joint image to be evaluated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Harada, Yoshiaki Azuma, Norihiro Yamada, Tsutomu Maeda
  • Patent number: 6450046
    Abstract: A pressure sensitive switch disposed in the seat of a vehicle and a seating detector having the pressure sensitive switch are provided. Loss in its production can be reduced for obtaining an inexpensive pressure sensitive switch. The pressure sensitive has a movable contact layer formed underneath a top sheet and a fixed contact layer formed over a bottom sheet. A mark showing the resistance characteristic of the contact layer in the pressure sensitive switch is indicated on the top surface of the top sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Maeda
  • Publication number: 20010048376
    Abstract: This invention provides a remote monitoring system for air conditioners installed respectively in a plurality of buildings for concentrically monitoring the operating state of the air conditioners from a distance. The system comprises data collectors 3 installed in the respective buildings, and a remote monitor 4 connected to the data collectors 3 of all the buildings via a communication network. Each of the data collectors 3 collects state data representing the operating state of the air conditioner installed in each building and transmits the collected state data to the remote monitor 4. The remote monitor 4 receives the state data collected by each data collector 3, diagnoses the operating state of the air conditioner installed in each building based on the received state data, and outputs the result of diagnosis. In this way, the air conditioners can be optimally adjusted within a short period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Publication date: December 6, 2001
    Inventors: Tsutomu Maeda, Tsuyoshi Kawai, Yoshio Ozawa
  • Patent number: 5043598
    Abstract: A high voltage generating circuit which includes a switching circuit for switching a DC input, a fly-back transformer whose input coil is driven by pulses delivered from the switching actuation of the switching actuation of the circuit, a rectifier circuit for rectifying the fly-back voltage generated in the output coil of the fly-back transformer, a capacitor for smoothing the rectified output, and a voltage stabilizing circuit. A diode is electrically connected to one terminal of the output coil of the fly-back transformer on the low-voltage side thereof as compared with the ground, the diode being so determined as to position in the forward direction to the direction of rectification. The voltage stabilizing circuit is formed by a voltage sensing circuit for sensing a DC high voltage output, comparing it with a reference voltage applied from a reference voltage source and generating an output of a result of comparison and a control circuit connected between the anode of the diode and the ground terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Maeda, Kiyoshi Matsui, Michio Ishikawa, Takayuki Kanno, Yasushi Iwata
  • Patent number: 4918569
    Abstract: A discharge load driving circuit has a transformer with a low voltage coil and a high voltage coil wound around a magnetic core. The high voltage coil has a transformation ratio for setting a high self-resonance frequency value for the transformer to thereby output high voltage at a short rise time period. The discharge load driving circuit further includes a switching element connected to the transformer for switching on and off a d-c input supplied thereto through the low voltage coil of the transformer. The discharge load driving circuit further includes a driver circuit for driving a switching element driving pulse, a control circuit for controlling the driver circuit, a discharge load connected to the high voltage coil for discharging load by a high voltage output generated in the high voltage coil when the switching element is turned on, and a detector for detecting a flow of discharge current in the discharge load. The switching element repeats its on-off action in a predetermined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1990
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Maeda, Kiyoshi Matsui, Takayuki Kanno, Kunihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 4893105
    Abstract: In a transformer including a low-voltage input coil, a high-voltage output coil disposed coaxially of the low-voltage input coil, and a core for magnetically connecting both of the coils together; the improvement comprising a first bobbin around which the low-voltage input coil is wound which first bobbin has an inner-diameter hole, wherein the core comprises a rod portion to be inserted into the inner-diameter hole of the first bobbin and a flange portion provided at one axial end of the rod portion. In another aspect of the invention, the transformer further comprises a second bobbin around which the high-voltage output coil is wound, and a connector adapted to be connected to an ignition plug which connector is mounted on an end surface of the second bobbin on the opposite side of the flange portion of the core in such a manner that a mounting direction of the connector substantially coincides with an axial direction of the second bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1990
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Maeda, Kiyoshi Matsui, Takayuki Kanno, Kunihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 4841944
    Abstract: According to the present invention there is provided an ignition system having a direct current source, a primary voltage stabilizing power source for the generation of a stabilized voltage from the direct current source, a high-tension transformer which receives the voltage from the primary voltage stabilizing power source and applies a high voltage developed on its secondary side to a discharge load, and a switching element for controlling the primary current in the transformer. At least two of those components are integrally connected, or means for detecting an abnormal condition of the direct current source is disposed within the case containing the primary voltage stabilizing power source, whereby connection or insulation between components can be done easily and there are attained simplification of the assembling work, reduction of noise and improvement of maintainability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Inventors: Tsutomu Maeda, Kiyoshi Matsui, Takayuki Kanno, Kunihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 4841267
    Abstract: A deflection apparatus for cathode ray tube is provided, which comprises deflection yoke with guide grooves, deflection windings for scanning in one direction in said grooves, deflection windings for scanning in the other direction and an insulator between both types of windings. It attains high accuracy deflection with less distortion without any induced heating problem due to protuberances made relatively between grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Watabe, Isao Yokoyama, Tsutomu Maeda, Koichi Shibuya, Sumio Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4714908
    Abstract: An electromagnetic deflection-distortion corrector comprises a plurality of permanent magnets arranged around the tubular wall of a CRT display unit of the electromagnetic deflection type, and adjuster means for moving each permanent magnet forward and backward, toward and away from the CRT wall, while at the same time rotating the direction of its magnetization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1987
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Watabe, Isao Yokoyama, Masanori Sasaki, Yotaro Toyoshima, Sumio Takahashi, Tsutomu Maeda