Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Ashizaki

Yoshihiro Ashizaki 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: 8717341
    Abstract: An image display apparatus is for correcting an input image signal and displaying an image on a display unit based on the corrected image signal, and includes: an illuminance detector for sequentially detecting illuminance values around the apparatus; an illuminance analyzer for sequentially outputting image settings for correction of the image signal depending on the detected illuminance values; a setting selector for outputting an image setting which has been output from the analyzer a number of times greater than a number of times any other image setting has been output, or an image setting determined by the statistic of the image settings output from the analyzer; and a setting application unit for changing the image setting used to correct the image signal to be equal to the image setting output from the selector, when a predetermined change occurs in the input image signal or when a predetermined time has come.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Yamagishi, Yoshitomo Nakamura, Hideki Tanizoe, Yoshihiro Ashizaki
  • Patent number: 8405686
    Abstract: A display device according to the present invention includes a display which is provided on a front surface of the display device and is a display surface on which images are displayed, an illuminance sensor which is provided on a rear surface of the display device and is a first measuring unit measuring illuminance on the rear surface, and a control unit which is a first control unit controlling brightness of the images displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Tanizoe, Yoshihiro Ashizaki, Nobuhiko Yamagishi, Yoshitomo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8253863
    Abstract: A receiver receives differential analog video signals from a long distance transmission line and converts them into unbalanced analog video signals to output to an analog video signal line that is internal wiring. A frequency response characteristics corrector inside the receiver corrects the frequency response characteristics attenuated mainly by the long distance transmission line, and a delay corrector corrects differences of propagation delay. A transmitter receives the unbalanced analog video signals form the analog video signal line and converts them into balanced differential analog video signals to transmit to a long distance transmission line as differential analog video signals. A video output circuit outputs the unbalanced analog video signals or unbalanced digital video signals to a video signal line as unbalanced video signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ashizaki, Hideki Tanizoe
  • Publication number: 20110254819
    Abstract: An image display apparatus is for correcting an input image signal and displaying an image on a display unit based on the corrected image signal, and includes: an illuminance detector for sequentially detecting illuminance values around the apparatus; an illuminance analyzer for sequentially outputting image settings for correction of the image signal depending on the detected illuminance values; a setting selector for outputting an image setting which has been output from the analyzer a number of times greater than a number of times any other image setting has been output, or an image setting determined by the statistic of the image settings output from the analyzer; and a setting application unit for changing the image setting used to correct the image signal to be equal to the image setting output from the selector, when a predetermined change occurs in the input image signal or when a predetermined time has come.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Yamagishi, Yoshitomo Nakamura, Hideki Tanizoe, Yoshihiro Ashizaki
  • Publication number: 20100201716
    Abstract: A display device according to the present invention includes a display which is provided on a front surface of the display device and is a display surface on which images are displayed, an illuminance sensor which is provided on a rear surface of the display device and is a first measuring unit measuring illuminance on the rear surface, and a control unit which is a first control unit controlling brightness of the images displayed on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventors: Hideki Tanizoe, Yoshihiro Ashizaki, Nobuhiko Yamagishi, Yoshitomo Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20100201884
    Abstract: A receiver receives differential analog video signals from a long distance transmission line and converts them into unbalanced analog video signals to output to an analog video signal line that is internal wiring. A frequency response characteristics corrector inside the receiver corrects the frequency response characteristics attenuated mainly by the long distance transmission line, and a delay corrector corrects differences of propagation delay. A transmitter receives the unbalanced analog video signals form the analog video signal line and converts them into balanced differential analog video signals to transmit to a long distance transmission line as differential analog video signals. A video output circuit outputs the unbalanced analog video signals or unbalanced digital video signals to a video signal line as unbalanced video signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ashizaki, Hideki Tanizoe
  • Patent number: 7420309
    Abstract: In a spindle motor in which teeth portions of a stator core formed by laminating magnetic plates are bent in order to increase the number of turns of the stator windings, a gap in the teeth portions between the magnetic plates is avoided and a precise attractive force adjustment becomes possible. The stator core is bent such that its teeth portions faces a surface of a rotor magnet at right angles, and the teeth portions and salient pole arm portions around which windings are wound are substantially parallel to each other. The salient pole arm portions locate approximately halfway between a lower surface of a hub and an upper surface of a base. Further, a thickness of a magnetic plate is set to be 0.5 to 0.9 times that of other portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Wakitani, Masahiro Jyono, Takao Yoshitsugu, Yoshihiro Ashizaki
  • Publication number: 20080129139
    Abstract: In a spindle motor in which teeth portions of a stator core formed by laminating magnetic plates are bent in order to increase the number of turns of the stator windings, a gap in the teeth portions between the magnetic plates is avoided and a precise attractive force adjustment becomes possible. The stator core is bent such that its teeth portions faces a surface of a rotor magnet at right angles, and the teeth portions and salient pole arm portions around which windings are wound are substantially parallel to each other. The salient pole arm portions locate approximately halfway between a lower surface of a hub and an upper surface of a base. Further, a thickness of a magnetic plate is set to be 0.5 to 0.9 times that of other portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Akihiko Wakitani, Masahiro Jyono, Takao Yoshitsugu, Yoshihiro Ashizaki
  • Patent number: 7321178
    Abstract: In a spindle motor in which teeth portions of a stator core formed by laminating magnetic plates are bent in order to increase the number of turns of the stator windings, a gap in the teeth portions between the magnetic plates is avoided and a precise attractive force adjustment becomes possible. The stator core is bent such that its teeth portions faces a surface of a rotor magnet at right angles, and the teeth portions and salient pole arm portions around which windings are wound are substantially parallel to each other. The salient pole arm portions locate approximately halfway between a lower surface of a hub and an upper surface of a base. Further, a thickness of a magnetic plate is set to be 0.5 to 0.9 times that of other portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Wakitani, Masahiro Jyono, Takao Yoshitsugu, Yoshihiro Ashizaki
  • Patent number: 7284908
    Abstract: An object of the present invention to provide a hydrodynamic bearing device and a motor having a high performance and reliability which prevents deterioration in a temperature property due to a difference in coefficients of linear expansion of a sleeve and a shaft and prevents abrasion of bearing surfaces of both the sleeve and the shaft. The sleeve is formed of a copper metal material or an iron metal material and is treated with electroless nickel plating at least on the surface which opposes the shaft. The shaft includes 0.2% by weight C, 0.3% by weight Si, 8% by weight Mn, 0.2% by weight S, 2.5% by weight Ni, and 14% by weight Cr, and a main component of the shaft is a manganese alloy steel including Fe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeyoshi Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Ashizaki
  • Publication number: 20070013255
    Abstract: In a spindle motor in which teeth portions of a stator core formed by laminating magnetic plates are bent in order to increase the number of turns of the stator windings, a gap in the teeth portions between the magnetic plates is avoided and a precise attractive force adjustment becomes possible. The stator core is bent such that its teeth portions faces a surface of a rotor magnet at right angles, and the teeth portions and salient pole arm portions around which windings are wound are substantially parallel to each other. The salient pole arm portions locate approximately halfway between a lower surface of a hub and an upper surface of a base. Further, a thickness of a magnetic plate is set to be 0.5 to 0.9 times that of other portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Inventors: Akihiko Wakitani, Masahiro Jyono, Takao Yoshitsugu, Yoshihiro Ashizaki
  • Patent number: 7116476
    Abstract: A Fresnel lens has a plurality of pitch areas in which a plurality of hybrid type prism portions are arranged. Each hybrid type prism portion has a refraction type prism portion and a total reflection type prism portion. In the refraction type prism portion, a ray of incident light Li1 of an incident angle “a” is refracted twice and goes out as a ray of outgoing light Lo1 of an outgoing angle “f”. In the total reflection type prism portion, a ray of incident light Li2 of the incident angle “a” is refracted, totally reflected and refracted in that order and goes out as a ray of outgoing light Lo2 parallel to the ray of outgoing light Lo1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suzuki, Kohei Teramoto, Yoshihiro Ashizaki, Shinsuke Sikama, Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Tadahiko Ryuugou, Kuniko Kojima
  • Publication number: 20060056750
    Abstract: An object of the present invention to provide a hydrodynamic bearing device and a motor having a high performance and reliability which prevents deterioration in a temperature property due to a difference in coefficients of linear expansion of a sleeve and a shaft and prevents abrasion of bearing surfaces of both the sleeve and the shaft. The sleeve is formed of a copper metal material or an iron metal material and is treated with electroless nickel plating at least on the surface which opposes the shaft. The shaft includes 0.2% by weight C, 0.3% by weight Si, 8% by weight Mn, 0.2% by weight S, 2.5% by weight Ni, and 14% by weight Cr, and a main component of the shaft is a manganese alloy steel including Fe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventors: Takeyoshi Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Ashizaki
  • Publication number: 20040169921
    Abstract: A Fresnel lens has a plurality of pitch areas in which a plurality of hybrid type prism portions are arranged. Each hybrid type prism portion has a refraction type prism portion and a total reflection type prism portion. In the refraction type prism portion, a ray of incident light Li1 of an incident angle “a” is refracted twice and goes out as a ray of outgoing light Lo1 of an outgoing angle “f”. In the total reflection type prism portion, a ray of incident light Li2 of the incident angle “a” is refracted, totally reflected and refracted in that order and goes out as a ray of outgoing light Lo2 parallel to the ray of outgoing light Lo1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, DAI Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suzuki, Kohei Teramoto, Yoshihiro Ashizaki, Shinsuke Sikama, Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Tadahiko Ryuugou, Kuniko Kojima
  • Patent number: 6726859
    Abstract: A Fresnel lens has a plurality of pitch areas in which a plurality of hybrid type prism portions are arranged. Each hybrid type prism portion has a refraction type prism portion and a total reflection type prism portion. In the refraction type prism portion, a ray of incident light Li1 of an incident angle “an” is refracted twice and goes out as a ray of outgoing light Lo1 of an outgoing angle “f”. In the total reflection type prism portion, a ray of incident light Li2 of the incident angle “a” is refracted, totally reflected and refracted in that order and goes out as a ray of outgoing light Lo2 parallel to the ray of outgoing light Lo1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suzuki, Kohei Teramoto, Yoshihiro Ashizaki, Shinsuke Sikama, Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Tadahiko Ryuugou, Kuniko Kojima
  • Publication number: 20030058532
    Abstract: A Fresnel lens has a pitch including a hybrid prism comprising a refraction prism unit (3A) for emitting an incident light (li1) of an incident angle (a) as an outgoing light (lo1) of an outgoing angle (f) by two refractions, and a total reflection prism unit (4A) for emitting an incident light (li2) of an incident angle (a) as an outgoing light (lo2) parallel to the outgoing light (lo1) by a refraction, a total reflection, and a refraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suzuki, Kohei Teramoto, Yoshihiro Ashizaki, Shinsuke Sikama, Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Tadahiko Ryuugou, Kuniko Kojima
  • Patent number: 6223027
    Abstract: An image data transmission system includes mobile transceivers having memories storing image data that is organized in sequential blocks. The mobile transceivers sequentially pass by a stationary transceiver and pause proximate the stationary transceiver. While pausing, a mobile transceiver transmits a block of the image data to the stationary transceiver, which receives and stores the transmitted data. Data transmission is interrupted by movement of the formerly pausing mobile transceiver. The stationary transceiver transmits a pointer signal to a paused mobile transceiver indicating which blocks of image data have been stored in the stationary transceiver so that the mobile transceivers transmit the blocks sequentially until all blocks have been received and stored by the stationary transceiver. The apparatus may be employed in a mass transit system, such as a subway or commuter train, in which the mobile transceivers are mounted in train cars and the stationary transceiver is located at a station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumitaka Ono, Junichi Sadamatsu, Hitoshi Kubota, Yoshihiro Ashizaki, Koji Kaneko, Akira Kotani, Toshiyuki Takahashi, Yoichi Tenda, Atsushi Tanaka, Kunio Ueda
  • Patent number: 4970423
    Abstract: A stepping motor having a non-touch rotation sensor includes rotor core 5 having magnetic pole teeth of a uniform angular pitch, a stator core 1 having plural magnetic pole teeth groups having magnetic pole teeth of the same angular pitch as the rotor core magnetic pole teeth pitch, and a rotor teeth sensor mounted on the stator core for detecting the rotor magnetic pole teeth and issuing polyphase electric signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1990
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tamae, Yoshihiro Ashizaki
  • Patent number: 4868485
    Abstract: A three-phase current output circuit for driving a three-phase brushless motor, the output circuit having a first current source and a second current source with positive temperature coefficients which are provided so as to negate a negative temperature coefficient which causes undesirable reduction of motor torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Ashizaki
  • Patent number: 4831344
    Abstract: According to the present invention, an output transistor on the power supply side Vcc is composed of an NPN type transistor whose base is driven by a PNP type transistor with a diode in its collector-to-emitter path to prohibit its saturation. Another output transistor on the power supply side GND is similarly composed of an NPN type transistor. The above two drive circuits are combined to set up an output circuit for pulse width modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1989
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ashizaki, Kazuyuki Takada