Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Sonoda

Yoshinori Sonoda 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: 7827572
    Abstract: A disk-clamping device includes a plurality of clamp pawls which project and pull in through a plurality of windows 6c formed on a turntable; a rotating and elevating member which, when it goes up, causes the clamp pawls to project and rotate through the windows, and, when it goes down, causes the clamp pawls to pull in into the windows; an urging member which pushes up and urges the rotating and elevating member; and clamp-releasing levers which move the rotating and elevating member in a direction of pushing down the member and in a direction of releasing the push down against an urging force; and the clamp-releasing levers being arranged to be driven by power of a driving source moving the mounting system of the turntable to a reproducing position and a retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Sonoda
  • Patent number: 7802271
    Abstract: A disk clamping device includes clamp pawls 3, which project from or retract into through holes 22 formed in a turntable 2 to be rotated and driven by a disk rotating-and-driving motor 1; a rotating-and-elevating member 3, disposed rotatably and in an ascendable and descendable manner in synchronism with the turntable 2, when going up, causing the clamping pawls 3 to project from the through holes 22, and when going down, causing the clamping pawls 3 to retract into the through holes 22; and clamp releasing levers 6, 7 pushing down the rotating-and-elevating member 3 against a pushing-up and urging force, wherein the turntable 2 has pawl-receiving part protrusions 24 forming clamp pawl receiving parts, which are protruded on the underside of the turntable and communicate with the through holes 22; and the rotating-and-elevating member 4 has protrusion receiving holes 42 formed thereon into which the pawl-receiving part protrusions 24 are fitted at the time of upward movement of the rotating-and-elevating memb
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Sonoda
  • Publication number: 20090077574
    Abstract: A disk clamping device includes clamp pawls 3, which project from or retract into through holes 22 formed in a turntable 2 to be rotated and driven by a disk rotating-and-driving motor 1; a rotating-and-elevating member 3, disposed rotatably and in an ascendable and descendable manner in synchronism with the turntable 2, when going up, causing the clamping pawls 3 to project from the through holes 22, and when going down, causing the clamping pawls 3 to retract into the through holes 22; and clamp releasing levers 6, 7 pushing down the rotating-and-elevating member 3 against a pushing-up and urging force, wherein the turntable 2 has pawl-receiving part protrusions 24 forming clamp pawl receiving parts, which are protruded on the underside of the turntable and communicate with the through holes 22; and the rotating-and-elevating member 4 has protrusion receiving holes 42 formed thereon into which the pawl-receiving part protrusions 24 are fitted at the time of upward movement of the rotating-and-elevating memb
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventor: Yoshinori Sonoda
  • Publication number: 20080313662
    Abstract: A disk-clamping device includes a plurality of clamp pawls which project and pull in through a plurality of windows 6c formed on a turntable; a rotating and elevating member which, when it goes up, causes the clamp pawls to project and rotate through the windows, and, when it goes down, causes the clamp pawls to pull in into the windows; an urging member which pushes up and urges the rotating and elevating member; and clamp-releasing levers which move the rotating and elevating member in a direction of pushing down the member and in a direction of releasing the push down against an urging force; and the clamp-releasing levers being arranged to be driven by power of a driving source moving the mounting system of the turntable to a reproducing position and a retracted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinori Sonoda
  • Patent number: 7039925
    Abstract: When a disk size selecting lever turns in a direction shown by an arrow A with an operation of ejecting a disk, its pushing surface pushes corner portion of a first slider rack in a state where it can not move, toward a direction shown by an arrow C. When the disk is completely ejected, the disk size selecting lever is returned in a direction shown by an arrow B by urging force of a coil spring and at the same time the first slider rack is forcibly returned to an original position by urging force of a coil spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Yoshinori Sonoda
  • Patent number: 7023656
    Abstract: A disk device having a disk loading mechanism including an elastic body retracting space which is formed by cutting away a corner portion of a support portion of a first selector lever that is positioned forward of an elastic body and is closer to a chassis, the elastic member retracting space is not so spacious as to receive a whole of the elastic body but is spacious enough for the elastic body to be displaced while being twisted to the elastic body retracting space when the elastic body is sunk under a protruding portion of the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshinori Sonoda
  • Publication number: 20040047069
    Abstract: A disk device having a disk loading mechanism including an elastic body retracting space which is formed by cutting away a corner portion of a support portion of a first selector lever that is positioned forward of an elastic body and is closer to a chassis, the elastic member retracting space is not so spacious as to receive a whole of the elastic body but is spacious enough for the elastic body to be displaced while being twisted to the elastic body retracting space when the elastic body is sunk under a protruding portion of the chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventor: Yoshinori Sonoda
  • Publication number: 20030227857
    Abstract: When a disk size selecting lever turns in a direction shown by an arrow A with an operation of ejecting a disk, its pushing surface pushes corner portion of a first slider rack in a state where it can not move, toward a direction shown by an arrow C. When the disk is completely ejected, the disk size selecting lever is returned in a direction shown by an arrow B by urging force of a coil spring and at the same time the first slider rack is forcibly returned to an original position by urging force of a coil spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Yoshinori Sonoda