Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Muraoka

Yoshinori Muraoka 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).

  • Automatic ticket gate apparatus
    Patent number: 6749118
    Abstract: An automatic ticket gate apparatus comprising a box defining the passage for ticket checking and a communicating face inclined to the horizontal to the side of passage, which is provided on the top of box and is provided with a wireless communicator communicating with a wireless ticket, and a ticket checking unit, which performs the ticket checking process basing upon the result of communication with a wireless ticket through the wireless communicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takashi Kobayashi, Yoshinori Muraoka, Hisashi Yoshida
  • Automatic ticket gate apparatus
    Publication number: 20010017585
    Abstract: An automatic ticket gate apparatus comprising a box defining the passage for ticket checking and a communicating face inclined to the horizontal to the side of passage, which is provided on the top of box and is provided with a wireless communicator communicating with a wireless ticket, and a ticket checking unit, which performs the ticket checking process basing upon the result of communication with a wireless ticket through the wireless communicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Publication date: August 30, 2001
    Inventors: Takashi Kobayashi, Yoshinori Muraoka, Hisashi Yoshida
  • Automatic addfare machine
    Patent number: 5550360
    Abstract: An automatic addfare machine of the present invention receives plural passenger tickets inserted by a user for the fare adjustment, calculates a total amount of addfare amounts of respective passenger tickets and displays it to the user. The fare adjustment process is executed based on cash or a money card inserted by the user and the displayed total amount. After the addfare processing, this automatic addfare machine issues fare adjustment tickets corresponding to the number of tickets inserted to the user after the fare adjustment process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yoshinori Muraoka