Patents by Inventor Yoji Inomata

Yoji Inomata 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: 7436676
    Abstract: A portable electronic device in which microswitches (12) controlled by operation buttons (11) are mounted on one side of a printed circuit board (13), and circuit elements accommodated in BGA packages (14), (15) and (16) are soldered on the other side of the printed circuit board. In the portable electronic device, a shield wall (22) for surrounding the BGA packages (14), (15) and (16) is mounted on the printed circuit board (13), a first protrusion portion (18b) for holding down the shield wall (22) on the printed circuit board (13) is protruded from a case (18) of the portable electronic device (10), and second protrusion portion (18c) for holding down surfaces of the BGA packages (14); (15) and (16) on the printed circuit board (13) is protruded from the case (18) of the portable electronic device (10). With such a construction, the BGA packages are prevented from being peeled off from the printed circuit board (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Higuchi, Shotaro Nagaike, Taku Yamada, Yoji Inomata
  • Patent number: 7113740
    Abstract: A portable radio apparatus has a radio circuit (9) provided on a printed circuit board (5), a speaker (8) provided on a rear cover (2), and a shield case (10) provided to cover the radio circuit (9). In the shield case (10), ventilation holes (10A) having a size that does not affect the shielding performance are provided in close proximity of the rear of the speaker (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Kuchiishi, Yoji Inomata, Toshihiro Higuchi, Hideo Haga, Takashi Ishihara
  • Patent number: 7043282
    Abstract: In order to enable both a back lid and a battery of a mobile electronic apparatus to be locked and unlocked with a single motion, the mobile electronic apparatus (10) in which the battery (11) is housed by opening the back lid (13) has such a structure that when a lock member (21) which is provided in a body of the mobile electronic apparatus so as to slide is slid to a locked position, the lock member (21) simultaneously locks both an engaging part (11a) provided in the battery (11) and an engaging part (13b) provided in the back lid (13), and when the lock member (21) is slid to an unlocked position, the lock member (21) simultaneously unlocks both the engaging parts (11a, 13b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoji Inomata, Yasunobu Ikeda, Toshihiro Higuchi
  • Patent number: 6968161
    Abstract: A portable telephone to which additional function units, such as a flip unit and a slide unit, that provide additional functions for the main body of a portable telephone, are easily mounted on the case of a basic unit that includes only the essential units required for speech. One or more of an LCD bezel 40, a flip cover 50, a keypad bezel 60, grips 70, a keypad slide cover 80 and a slide cover 90, which are additional function units, are mounted on a basic unit 20. Therefore, this arrangement can cope with a request from a user who desires to alter a portable telephone he or she purchased to obtain a model he or she favors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoji Inomata, Yasunobu Ikeda, Ryuichi Toyoda, Akira Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6942154
    Abstract: A card connector includes a base member and two sets of contact members which are provided on the base member. One ends of the contact members serve as joining portions with respect to a circuit board of a portable telephone. The other ends of the contact members serve as contact portions with respect to a card. The joining portions are respectively disposed at mutually opposite ends of the base member. The contact portions are bent in a chevron shape and have terminations in a card fitting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Haga, Koji Kuchiishi, Yoji Inomata, Toshihiro Higuchi, Yasunobu Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20040235538
    Abstract: A portable electronic device in which microswitches (12) controlled by operation buttons (11) are mounted on one side of a printed circuit board (13), and circuit elements accommodated in BGA packages (14), (15) and (16) are soldered on the other side of the printed circuit board. In the portable electronic device, a shield wall (22) for surrounding the BGA packages (14), (15) and (16) is mounted on the printed circuit board (13), a first protrusion portion (18b) for holding down the shield wall (22) on the printed circuit board (13) is protruded from a case (18) of the portable electronic device (10), and second protrusion portion (18c) for holding down surfaces of the BGA packages (14); (15) and (16) on the printed circuit board (13) is protruded from the case (18) of the portable electronic device (10). With such a construction, the BGA packages are prevented from being peeled off from the printed circuit board (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: Toshihiro Higuchi, Shotaro Nagaike, Taku Yamada, Yoji Inomata
  • Patent number: 6822706
    Abstract: Without housing a bare chip type liquid crystal driver within a package, to surely shield or absorb the light which reaches the liquid crystal driver so that erroneous display due to the photoelectric effect can be prevented. A light shielding tape 109 is affixed to the top surface of an upper panel 101 of a liquid crystal display panel 10 at an area which is opposite to the mounting area of a liquid crystal driver 107 mounted on the bottom surface of the upper panel 101. The light shielding tape 109 serves to shield the outer light incident on the liquid crystal driver 107. A diffusion sheet 40 composed of a light diffusing area 401 and a light absorbing area 402 located on the outer periphery thereof is arranged below the liquid display panel 10. The light diffusing area 401 serves to diffuse illumination light from a light source 202 to the liquid crystal display panel 10, and the light absorbing area 402 serves to absorb the extraneous light incident on the liquid crystal driver 107.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mika Gomi, Yoji Inomata
  • Patent number: 6819377
    Abstract: Without housing a bare chip type liquid crystal driver within a package, to surely shield or absorb the light which reaches the liquid crystal driver so that erroneous display due to the photoelectric effect can be prevented. A light shielding tape 109 is affixed to the top surface of an upper panel 101 of a liquid crystal display panel 10 at an area which is opposite to the mounting area of a liquid crystal driver 107 mounted on the bottom surface of the upper panel 101. The light shielding tape 109 serves to shield the outer light incident on the liquid crystal driver 107. A diffusion sheet 40 composed of a light diffusing area 401 and a light absorbing area 402 located on the outer periphery thereof is arranged below the liquid display panel 10. The light diffusing area 401 serves to diffuse illumination light from a light source 202 to the liquid crystal display panel 10, and the light absorbing area 402 serves to absorb the extraneous light incident on the liquid crystal driver 107.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mika Gomi, Yoji Inomata
  • Patent number: 6798465
    Abstract: Without housing a bare chip type liquid crystal driver within a package, to surely shield or absorb the light which reaches the liquid crystal driver so that erroneous display due to the photoelectric effect can be prevented. A light shielding tape 109 is affixed to the top surface of an upper panel 101 of a liquid crystal display panel 10 at an area which is opposite to the mounting area of a liquid crystal driver 107 mounted on the bottom surface of the upper panel 101. The light shielding tape 109 serves to shield the outer light incident on the liquid crystal driver 107. A diffusion sheet 40 composed of a light diffusing area 401 and a light absorbing area 402 located on the outer periphery thereof is arranged below the liquid display panel 10. The light diffusing area 401 serves to diffuse illumination light from a light source 202 to the liquid crystal display panel 10, and the light absorbing area 402 serves to absorb the extraneous light incident on the liquid crystal driver 107.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mika Gomi, Yoji Inomata
  • Publication number: 20040048638
    Abstract: In order to enable both a back lid and a battery of a mobile electronic apparatus to be locked and unlocked with a single motion, the mobile electronic apparatus (10) in which the battery (11) is housed by opening the back lid (13) has such a structure that when a lock member (21) which is provided in a body of the mobile electronic apparatus so as to slide is slid to a locked position, the lock member (21) simultaneously locks both an engaging part (11a) provided in the battery (11) and an engaging part (13b) provided in the back lid (13), and when the lock member (21) is slid to an unlocked position, the lock member (21) simultaneously unlocks both the engaging parts (11a, 13b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventors: Yoji Inomata, Yasunobu Ikeda, Toshihiro Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20030013478
    Abstract: A portable radio apparatus has a radio circuit (9) provided on a printed circuit board (5), a speaker (8) provided on a rear cover (2), and a shield case (10) provided to cover the radio circuit (9). In the shield case (10), ventilation holes (10A) having a size that does not affect the shielding performance are provided in close proximity of the rear of the speaker (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: Koji Kuchiishi, Yoji Inomata, Toshihiro Higuchi, Hideo Haga, Takashi Ishihara
  • Patent number: 6366246
    Abstract: The invention is to provide an antenna holding device, capable of achieving easy assembly and enlarging freedom in the assembling process. An antenna can be held by a screw so as to be mounted onto an antenna holder. The antenna holder is mounted onto a main body case by the outserting mount method. The main body case is provided with a groove, capable of holding an antenna terminal by itself. According to the configuration, freedom in the order of assembling process can be enlarged, and the process can be divided into smaller steps. Furthermore, operativity in assembly can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Matshushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Syotaro Nagaike, Yoji Inomata
  • Patent number: 6320144
    Abstract: A cover plate is attached to a switch portion of a coaxial connector. With this construction, even when the rising of flux due to surface tension occurs during a surface-mounting operation by reflow soldering, the flux is prevented from reaching the switch portion, thus preventing a disadvantage that the contact resistance is increased by the flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoji Inomata
  • Publication number: 20010040657
    Abstract: Without housing a bare chip type liquid crystal driver within a package, to surely shield or absorb the light which reaches the liquid crystal driver so that erroneous display due to the photoelectric effect can be prevented. A light shielding tape 109 is affixed to the top surface of an upper panel 101 of a liquid crystal display panel 10 at an area which is opposite to the mounting area of a liquid crystal driver 107 mounted on the bottom surface of the upper panel 101. The light shielding tape 109 serves to shield the outer light incident on the liquid crystal driver 107. A diffusion sheet 40 composed of a light diffusing area 401 and a light absorbing area 402 located on the outer periphery thereof is arranged below the liquid display panel 10. The light diffusing area 401 serves to diffuse illumination light from a light source 202 to the liquid crystal display panel 10, and the light absorbing area 402 serves to absorb the extraneous light incident on the liquid crystal driver 107.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Publication date: November 15, 2001
    Inventors: Mika Gomi, Yoji Inomata
  • Patent number: 6304736
    Abstract: Without housing a bare chip type liquid crystal driver within a package, to surely shield or absorb the light which reaches the liquid crystal driver so that erroneous display due to the photoelectric effect can be prevented. A light shielding tape 109 is affixed to the top surface of an upper panel 101 of a liquid crystal display panel 10 at an area which is opposite to the mounting area of a liquid crystal driver 107 mounted on the bottom surface of the upper panel 101. The light shielding tape 109 serves to shield the outer light incident on the liquid crystal driver 107. A diffusion sheet 40 composed of a light diffusing area 401 and a light absorbing area 402 located on the outer periphery thereof is arranged below the liquid display panel 10. The light diffusing area 401 serves to diffuse illumination light from a light source 202 to the liquid crystal display panel 10, and the light absorbing area 402 serves to absorb the extraneous light incident on the liquid crystal driver 107.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mika Gomi, Yoji Inomata
  • Publication number: 20010024945
    Abstract: A portable telephone to which additional function units, such as a flip unit and a slide unit, that provide additional functions for the main body of a portable telephone, are easily mounted on the case of a basic unit that includes only the essential units required for speech. One or more of an LCD bezel 40, a flip cover 50, a keypad bezel 60, grips 70, a keypad slide cover 80 and a slide cover 90, which are additional function units, are mounted on a basic unit 20. Therefore, this arrangement can cope with a request from a user who desires to alter a portable telephone he or she purchased to obtain a model he or she favors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoji Inomata, Yasunobu Ikeda, Ryuichi Toyota, Akira Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20010024252
    Abstract: Without housing a bare chip type liquid crystal driver within a package, to surely shield or absorb the light which reaches the liquid crystal driver so that erroneous display due to the photoelectric effect can be prevented. A light shielding tape 109 is affixed to the top surface of an upper panel 101 of a liquid crystal display panel 10 at an area which is opposite to the mounting area of a liquid crystal driver 107 mounted on the bottom surface of the upper panel 101. The light shielding tape 109 serves to shield the outer light incident on the liquid crystal driver 107. A diffusion sheet 40 composed of a light diffusing area 401 and a light absorbing area 402 located on the outer periphery thereof is arranged below the liquid display panel 10. The light diffusing area 401 serves to diffuse illumination light from a light source 202 to the liquid crystal display panel 10, and the light absorbing area 402 serves to absorb the extraneous light incident on the liquid crystal driver 107.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Inventors: Mika Gomi, Yoji Inomata
  • Publication number: 20010024251
    Abstract: Without housing a bare chip type liquid crystal driver within a package, to surely shield or absorb the light which reaches the liquid crystal driver so that erroneous display due to the photoelectric effect can be prevented. A light shielding tape 109 is affixed to the top surface of an upper panel 101 of a liquid crystal display panel 10 at an area which is opposite to the mounting area of a liquid crystal driver 107 mounted on the bottom surface of the upper panel 101. The light shielding tape 109 serves to shield the outer light incident on the liquid crystal driver 107. A diffusion sheet 40 composed of a light diffusing area 401 and a light absorbing area 402 located on the outer periphery thereof is arranged below the liquid display panel 10. The light diffusing area 401 serves to diffuse illumination light from a light source 202 to the liquid crystal display panel 10, and the light absorbing area 402 serves to absorb the extraneous light incident on the liquid crystal driver 107.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Applicant: Matsushita Electronics Corporation.
    Inventors: Mika Gomi, Yoji Inomata