Patents by Inventor Yoko Tonosaki

Yoko Tonosaki 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).

  • Method and apparatus for aiding of designing process
    Patent number: 5576965
    Abstract: In a design aiding method, a design aiding apparatus having the method, or a design aiding system possessing a plurality of such design aiding apparatuses for use in a field of computer software to facilitate a design process, there is determined, for a product having many variations of attributes and values thereof, an appropriate design procedure according to a state of design in a process of determining the attribute values of the product satisfying a request of a client. At occurrence of, for example, conflict during the design, the design procedure is guided for the user to obtain a design plan conforming to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Akasaka, Yoshinao Arai, Atsuhiro Ishida, Noriyuki Haga, Katsuyoshi Katsuta, Shoji Arino, Yoko Tonosaki, Tomoko Ogawa