Patents by Inventor Youhide Kido

Youhide Kido 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: 7401342
    Abstract: In order to prevent any scratches from occurring at a back-end edge of a disk when a feeding roller finishes ejecting the disk and a user tries to grab and draw out the disk, a second ridge disposed on a side of an opening for inserting the disk of two ridges located on both sides of the feeding roller is made up of a straight part without any gradient for a specified range in a central part, a first tapered part with a sharp gradient within a specified range on both sides thereof, and a second tapered part with a gentle gradient on both sides further thereto. When the disk is drawn out for ejecting, only the back-end circumferential periphery of the disk point-contacts the first tapered part with a sharp gradient and accordingly it is possible to prevent any damage to the disk due to any possible line contact between the disk and the ridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kasama, Youhide Kido
  • Patent number: 7308692
    Abstract: A problem that carriage of a disk by a feed roller cannot be smoothly accomplished depending on a type of the disk is to be solved. To achieve the object, the feed roller has an overall shape of expanding in diameter, and has floating roller parts movably fitted to a roller shaft in a central part and fixed roller parts pressed in and fixed in its two sides. A rotational force transmitted from a disk carrying motor causes a downward force to work on the feed roller through a roller gear. Even when a pressing force on the disk weakens, the fixed roller parts on the two sides can serve to carry the disk smoothly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kasama, Youhide Kido
  • Publication number: 20050114873
    Abstract: A problem that carriage of a disk by a feed roller cannot be smoothly accomplished depending on a type of the disk is to be solved. To achieve the object, the feed roller has an overall shape of expanding in diameter, and has floating roller parts movably fitted to a roller shaft in a central part and fixed roller parts pressed in and fixed in its two sides. A rotational force transmitted from a disk carrying motor causes a downward force to work on the feed roller through a roller gear. Even when a pressing force on the disk weakens, the fixed roller parts on the two sides can serve to carry the disk smoothly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kasama, Youhide Kido
  • Publication number: 20050091676
    Abstract: In order to prevent any scratches from occurring at a back-end edge of a disk when a feeding roller finishes ejecting the disk and a user tries to grab and draw out the disk, a second ridge disposed on a side of an opening for inserting the disk of two ridges located on both sides of the feeding roller is made up of a straight part without any gradient for a specified range in a central part, a first tapered part with a sharp gradient within a specified range on both sides thereof, and a second tapered part with a gentle gradient on both sides further thereto. When the disk is drawn out for ejecting, only the back-end circumferential periphery of the disk point-contacts the first tapered part with a sharp gradient and accordingly it is possible to prevent any damage to the disk due to any possible line contact between the disk and the ridges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kasama, Youhide Kido