Patents by Inventor Yasuyoshi Hirano

Yasuyoshi Hirano 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).

  • Distributed manufacturing with feedback
    Patent number: 6804569
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for assembling a device, such as a digital convergence monitor, at more than one site where data is supplied from a first site to a second site and then the data is used in assembly of the device at the second site. In one implementation, a method for assembling a device at more than one manufacturing site includes: at least partially assembling a device at a first manufacturing site; adjusting the device at the first manufacturing site, where the adjustment is recorded in data; sending the data from the first manufacturing site to a second manufacturing site; assembling the device at the second manufacturing site; storing the data in the device; and adjusting the device at the second manufacturing site, where the adjustment at the second manufacturing site is recorded in the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Hirano, Tokitaka Ito, Yukio Murakami, Joseph Freitas