Patents by Inventor Yoshimoto Omura

Yoshimoto Omura 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: 4184688
    Abstract: A tone arm assembly for record players has first and second electro-magnetic motors operable for swinging a tone arm in vertical and horizontal directions, respectively, in respect to a record disc on a turntable, and a control circuit for controlling the first and second motors in such a manner that the tone arm is moved from a raised inoperative position to a lowered playing position, or from the lowered playing position to the raised inoperative position in response to control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1980
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimoto Omura, Hideo Hara, Isao Kawashima, Keisuke Sekiguchi, Kuninori Shino
  • Patent number: 4138121
    Abstract: A tone arm assembly for record players having a first motor for rotating a tone arm in the vertical direction, a second motor for rotating the tone arm in the horizontal direction with respect to a record disc, respectively, a detector for detecting low frequency vertical and horizontal vibrations of the tone arm during the reproduction of a record disc and feeding back an output signal of the detector to the motors so as to cancel the vibrations, whereby high fidelity reproduction of sounds can be performed. Further, the stylus pressure adjustment and elevation angle adjustment of the tone arm are also performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1979
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Heitaro Nakajima, Yoshimoto Omura, Isao Kawashima