Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Nakayama
Yoshiaki Nakayama 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: 5559552Abstract: A movie camera having: a strobe light for illuminating a subject; a shutter speed switching circuit for changing speeds of a shutter for the charge coupled device (CCD); a white balance switching circuit for adjusting the balance between color signals; an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit for adjusting amplifying gain for an image signal; a control circuit for energizing the shutter speed switching circuit so that a flash of the strobe light is terminated within the storing time of the CCD by changing the shutter speed to a higher speed, for energizing the white balance switching circuit so that the white balance is adjusted to coincide with the color temperature of the strobe light, and for fixing the gain of the AGC circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 1994Date of Patent: September 24, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Company, Ltd.Inventors: Masafumi Inuiya, Yoshiaki Nakayama
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Patent number: 5512357Abstract: The present invention relates to a polypropylene three-dimensional plexifilamentary fiber, a method of manufacturing same, and a nonwoven fabric composed of the above fiber.The plexifilamentary fiber in accordance with the present invention has a three-dimensional plexifilamentary structure, and is characterized in that the fiber has a microwave birefringence of 0.07 or more. As a result, a dimensional stability under heating of the plexifilamentary fiber in accordance with the present invention is extremely high. Moreover, it is possible to obtain a plexifilamentary fiber having a high spreadability by adding a spreading agent to the plexifilamentary fiber.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1993Date of Patent: April 30, 1996Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiko Shimura, Yoshiaki Nakayama
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Patent number: 5502615Abstract: A meter module assembly includes a combination meter panel implemented with meters/indicating lamps and a drive circuit thereof, an electric junction box integrating functional circuits to distribute and control power sources and input/output signals for vehicle-mounted electric equipment including the meters/indicating lamps, and a switch unit integrating switches for vehicle-mounted electric equipment. The combination meter panel, the electric junction box, and the switch unit are integrally united. The electric junction box is integrally combined with the switch unit at the rear surface of the unit being arranged side by side with the combination meter panel. The electric junction box is electrically connected with the combination meter panel by a flexible circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 1995Date of Patent: March 26, 1996Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Minoru Kubota, Keizo Nishitani, Yoshiaki Nakayama
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Patent number: 5494364Abstract: A printer which is compact, can accurately supply paper and has reduced noise characteristics. Additionally, the printer enables easy correction of paper jams and can be selectively operated in various modes according to the user's preference. The printer includes a paper feed roller which is pivotable between a paper feed position and a non-feeding position, a drive force transmitting mechanism for transmitting a drive force to the paper feed roller, a carriage reciprocatively movable along the width of the paper fed by the paper feed roller, and an intermediate transmission mechanism attached to the side of the carriage. Only when the carriage is in a stand-by position, the intermediate transmission mechanism couples with the drive force transmitting mechanism to transmit to the paper feed roller a paper-feed directional rotating force so as to rotate the paper feed roller to the paper feed position.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1994Date of Patent: February 27, 1996Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kenjiro Murakami, Toshikazu Kotaka, Hiroshi Ishida, Kiyoto Komura, Yoshiaki Nakayama, Nobuhito Takahashi, Satoshi Takehana
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Patent number: 5482390Abstract: A printer which is compact, can accurately supply paper and has reduced noise characteristics. Additionally, the printer enables easy correction of paper jams and can be selectively operated in various modes according to the user's preference. The printer includes a paper feed roller which is pivotable between a paper feed position and a non-feeding position, a drive force transmitting mechanism for transmitting a drive force to the paper feed roller, a carriage reciprocatively movable along the width of the paper fed by the paper feed roller, and an intermediate transmission mechanism attached to the side of the carriage. Only when the carriage is in a stand-by position, the intermediate transmission mechanism couples with the drive force transmitting mechanism to transmit to the paper feed roller a paper-feed directional rotating force so as to rotate the paper feed roller to the paper feed position.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1994Date of Patent: January 9, 1996Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kenjiro Murakami, Toshikazu Kotaka, Hiroshi Ishida, Kiyoto Komuro, Yoshiaki Nakayama, Nobuhito Takahashi, Satoshi Takehana
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Patent number: 5478162Abstract: A printer main body is provided having a print section therein for printing and a sheet feed inlet through which paper is supplied to the print section. An automatic sheet feeder is releasably mountable substantially at position for releasably mounting a manual sheet insertion guide so that each can feed paper through the sheet feed inlet. The manual sheet insertion guide is also releasably mountable on the automatic sheet feeder, preferable at an angle at which sheets can be fed through said sheet feed inlet.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1994Date of Patent: December 26, 1995Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Nakayama, Takeo Kishida, Tatsumi Tsuboki
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Patent number: 5436074Abstract: A polypropylene three-dimensional plexifilamentary fiber having a microwave birefringence of 0.07 or more and an Mw/Mn of 4.3 or less. Although a spreading agent is not included in this fiber, the fiber has a superior fiber spreadability and dimensional stability. The fiber in accordance with the present invention can be spun from a dope composed of an isotactic polypropylene having an Mw/Mn of 4.3 or less and an MFR of 20 or less, and a halogenated hydrocarbon, by a flash spinning technique. Further, the present invention provides a spinning dope and a method of manufacturing the fiber which effectively prevent ozone layer destruction by using a 2,2-dichloro-1,1,1-trifluoroethane, a 1,2-dichlorotrifluoroethane or a solvent blended a dichloromethane with either of the above two solvents as the halogenated hydrocarbon.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1992Date of Patent: July 25, 1995Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiko Shimura, Yoshiaki Nakayama
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Patent number: 5434749Abstract: This invention concerns a hybrid printed circuit board which permits easy and reliable connection between small-current circuit conductors and large-current circuit conductors. The hybrid printed circuit board of this invention comprises: an insulating substrate of synthetic resin having fixing bosses erected thereon; a flexible printed circuit sheet having small-current circuit conductors; and busbars as large-current circuit conductors; wherein the flexible printed circuit sheet is stacked and arranged on the insulating substrate so that the fixing bosses erected on the insulating substrate pass through and above the flexible printed circuit sheet, the busbars as large-current circuit conductors are put in contact with the small-current circuit conductors, and the fixing bosses are heated and deformed to fix the busbars in place.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1994Date of Patent: July 18, 1995Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Yoshiaki Nakayama
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Patent number: 5397191Abstract: A printer which is compact, can accurately supply paper and has reduced noise characteristics. Additionally, the printer enables easy correction of paper jams and can be selectively operated in various modes according to the user's preference. The printer includes a paper feed roller which is pivotable between a paper feed position and a non-feeding position, a drive force transmitting mechanism for transmitting a drive force to the paper feed roller, a carriage reciprocatively movable along the width of the paper fed by the paper feed roller, and an intermediate transmission mechanism attached to the side of the carriage. Only when the carriage is in a stand-by position, the intermediate transmission mechanism couples with the drive force transmitting mechanism to transmit to the paper feed roller a paper-feed directional rotating force so as to rotate the paper feed roller to the paper feed position.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1992Date of Patent: March 14, 1995Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kenjiro Murakami, Toshikazu Kotaka, Hiroshi Ishida, Kiyoto Komuro, Yoshiaki Nakayama, Nobuhito Takahashi, Satoshi Takehana
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Patent number: 5369165Abstract: A halogen group solvent comprising a mixed solvent consisting essentially of bromochloromethane and/or 1,2-dichloroethylene and a co-solvent, wherein the co-solvent is at least one member selected from the group consisting of carbon dioxide, sulfur hexafluoride, difluorochloromethane, 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane, etc., and the content of said co-solvent in the mixed solvent is 3 to 65% by weight; a polyolefin solution using the solvent; and a process for producing a three-dimensional fiber of a polyolefin using the solution.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 1994Date of Patent: November 29, 1994Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Jinichiro Kato, Toshio Yoneyama, Kazuhiko Shimura, Yoshiaki Nakayama, Kenji Kanekiyo
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Patent number: 5357142Abstract: Disclosed is an electric connection box integral with an ignition switch to be incorporated into an instrument panel in an automobile. The electric connection box, which is to be disposed in an instrument panel, includes in its internal circuit protect parts such as a fuse and the like and a branch circuit (a bus bar circuit) having circuits respectively to be connected directly with an ignition circuit, thereby connecting the ignition circuit directly with the branch circuit, whereby an ignition switch and the circuit protect parts are integrated into the electric connection box.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1993Date of Patent: October 18, 1994Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Minoru Kubota, Yoshiaki Nakayama
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Patent number: 5353190Abstract: An electric junction box installed in an automotive instrument panel incorporates the meter board and its associated switch circuits as the internal circuit of the box. The electric junction box has an internal busbar circuit having branches that are directly connected to the meter board and the switch circuits so that they form an integral part of the internal circuit of the junction box.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1993Date of Patent: October 4, 1994Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Nakayama, Minoru Kubota
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Patent number: 5286422Abstract: A halogen group solvent comprising a mixed solvent consisting essentially of bromochloromethane and/or 1,2-dichloroethylene and a co-solvent, wherein the co-solvent is at least one member selected from the group consisting of carbon dioxide, sulfur hexafluoride, difluorochloromethane, 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane, etc., and the content of said co-solvent in the mixed solvent is 3 to 65% by weight; a polyolefin solution using the solvent; and a process for producing a three-dimensional fiber of a polyolefin using the solution.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 1992Date of Patent: February 15, 1994Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Jinichiro Kato, Toshio Yoneyama, Kazuhiko Shimura, Yoshiaki Nakayama, Kenji Kanekiyo
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Patent number: 5128770Abstract: A video camera is disclosed in which a drive device for at least swinging or tilting a main body of the video camera is disposed within the video camera main body or within a grip arranged in the lower portion of the video camera main body.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1991Date of Patent: July 7, 1992Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuya Inana, Kenichi Hoshi, Yoshiaki Nakayama
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Patent number: 5124814Abstract: A video tape recorder includes an integrated camera. There is a title image data storage for storing a plurality of title image data items and audio data storage for storing audio data items associated with the titles. In response to a title indication supplied from the operator, this apparatus reads out title image data and audio data from the respective storage so as to record or to produce these data items together with a video signal obtained through an imaging operation. A title and a voice can be effectively inserted in a shooting operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1989Date of Patent: June 23, 1992Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kimihide Takahashi, Katsuya Inana, Yoshiaki Nakayama
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Patent number: 5092647Abstract: A wire harness mounting structure for a motor vehicle door comprising a door frame and planar mounting means, detachably attached to said door frame at an internal side of its motor vehicle, having a wire harness mounted thereon and extending in a plane generally parallel to the door frame. The mounting means is either in the form of a covering board, or a combination of the covering board and an internal side board mounted between the vehicle door frame and the covering board, and, is either integrally formed with the covering board or independently, rigidly formed as in the case of an internal side board.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 1990Date of Patent: March 3, 1992Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Shinichi Ueda, Michihiro Ohtaka, Yoshiaki Nakayama, Hiroaki Shinba, Hiroshi Ichikawa
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Patent number: 5050009Abstract: A helical scan video tape recorder includes a recording device having a head cylinder which carries magnetic heads therewith for rotating the head cylinder and applying incoming video signals to the magnetic heads to record the signals on a magnetic tape. A tape transport mechanism transports the tape while maintaining the tape in sliding contact with the head cylinder. A servo-lock sensing circuit senses a servo-locked condition in the recording device. A system controller responds to a record command entered on an operation board for controlling the tape transport mechanism to transport the tape in one direction to thereby record the video signals on the tape.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1988Date of Patent: September 17, 1991Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kimihide Takahashi, Yoshiaki Nakayama
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Patent number: 4999719Abstract: A magnetic recorder-reproducer capable of photographing under animation mode in a video system including a video camera, a video tape recorder and the like.The magnetic recorder-reproducer according to the present invention has a mechanism, wherein recording is ended after a lapse of a photographing time corresponding to one frame from the time of the succeeding recording, and thereafter, rewinding of the tape for a joining taking and stand-by for the succeeding taking are performed, so that photographing under the animation mode can be easily carried out.Furthermore, the magnetic recorder-reproducer according to the present invention has a warning device for issuing a warning in response to a signal indicating a state, where preparation for the photographing is completed, so that such a mistaken taking can be avoided that a hand or the like of the photographer are taken during the photographing under the animation taking mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1989Date of Patent: March 12, 1991Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katutoshi Tozaki, Yoshiaki Nakayama
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Patent number: 4984084Abstract: A video camera including an under grip which can be removably mount to the bottom portion of a main body of the video camera. In the video camera, on the side of the video camera main body, there is arranged photographing button of a double action type which instructs alternately the start and stop of photographing each time the button is operated and, on the side of the under grip, there is arranged a photographing button of a single action for instructing the start of photographing only while the button is being operated. In accordance with the mounting of the under grip to the video camera main body or in accordance with the electrical connection between the under grip and video camera main body, the start of photographing by the photographing button of a double action type is prohibited and the photographing button of a single action type is used preferentially.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1990Date of Patent: January 8, 1991Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidemi Sasaki, Yoshiaki Nakayama, Katsuya Inana, Kozo Kokubun, Kazuhiro Tokuda, Mikio Utsugi
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Patent number: D333153Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1990Date of Patent: February 9, 1993Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Noritaka Uchibori, Yoshiaki Nakayama