Patents by Inventor Yukio Endo

Yukio Endo 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: 6690442
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display of the present invention includes: a first insulating substrate as an array substrate; display pixels formed in such a manner as to be arranged in array like shape on the first insulating substrate, said display pixels having pixel electrodes electrically connected to each other; a counter substrate formed on a second insulating substrate on which common electrodes are formed; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first insulating substrate and the second insulating substrate, the first insulating substrate and the second insulating substrate being bonded each other; a transfer electrode for supplying a common electrical potential to common electrodes on the second insulating substrate through a conductive material; wherein the transfer electrode is formed by patterning a conductive thin film that has been formed by the last conductive film forming process of the first insulating substrate; wherein a second conductive metal film, which has been formed in the second conductiv
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Advanced Display Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kohtaka, Takafumi Hashiguchi, Yukio Endo
  • Publication number: 20040007304
    Abstract: A tubeless pneumatic tire is provided including a carcass having a carcass cord web and topping rubber layers covering the opposite sides of the carcass cord web, the carcass extending from a tread portion through a sidewall portion to a bead portion and turned up around a bead core outwardly from the inside of the tire in the axial direction of the tire, wherein only the inner one of the topping rubber layers which faces the inside of the tire is made of a butyl-based rubber. The tubeless pneumatic tire is of lightened weight and exhibits anti-airleak property comparable or superior to that of conventional one even if it is provided with no inner liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Limited
    Inventors: Nobuaki Minami, Kazuya Suzuki, Yukio Endo
  • Patent number: 6642745
    Abstract: A semiconductor circuit includes: a first stage block including first stage dynamic circuits, configured to output a predischarged result to blocks cascade connected to later stages, each of the first stage dynamic circuit includes predischarge elements connected to dynamic nodes of the first stage dynamic circuits to predischarge the dynamic nodes, configured such that the dynamic nodes are precharged with a predetermined cycle; a predischarge signal generating circuit configured to generate a predischarge signal to actuate the respective predischarge elements before precharge timing of the dynamic nodes of the first stage dynamic circuits; and next stage blocks including next stage dynamic circuits, configured to output predischarge results to blocks cascade connected to later stages, each of the next stage dynamic circuit configured to input the predischarge result of the previous block so as to predischarge dynamic nodes, configured such that the dynamic nodes are precharged with a predetermined cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yukio Endo
  • Patent number: 6598646
    Abstract: A tubeless pneumatic tire is provided including a carcass having a carcass cord web and topping rubber layers covering the opposite sides of the carcass cord web, the carcass extending from a tread portion through a sidewall portion to a bead portion and turned up around a bead core outwardly from the inside of the tire in the axial direction of the tire, wherein only the inner one of the topping rubber layers which faces the inside of the tire is made of a butyl-based rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited
    Inventors: Nobuaki Minami, Kazuya Suzuki, Yukio Endo
  • Patent number: 6507365
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device with a variable (continuous) electronic shutter function comprises an imaging area where unit cells with photodiodes acting as pixels are arranged two-dimensionally, read lines for driving the read transistors in each pixel row, vertical selection lines for driving the vertical selection transistors in each pixel row, a vertical driving circuit for selectively driving vertical selection lines, vertical signal lines for outputting the signal from each unit cell in the pixel rows driven sequentially, and a row selection circuit for controlling the vertical driving circuit in such a manner that the vertical driving circuit drives the read transistors in each pixel row with the desired signal storage timing and signal read timing twice in that order and thereby drives the vertical selection transistors in the pixel row in synchronization with the signal read timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Nobuo Nakamura, Yoshitaka Egawa, Shinji Ohsawa, Yukio Endo, Yoshiyuki Matsunaga, Yoriko Tanaka, Fumio Izawa, Hiroki Miura, Ryohei Miyagawa, Ikuko Inoue, Tsuyoshi Arakawa, Yoshiyuki Tomizawa, Makoto Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20020153925
    Abstract: A semiconductor circuit includes: a first stage block including first stage dynamic circuits, configured to output a predischarged result to blocks cascade connected to later stages, each of the first stage dynamic circuit includes predischarge elements connected to dynamic nodes of the first stage dynamic circuits to predischarge the dynamic nodes, configured such that the dynamic nodes are precharged with a predetermined cycle; a predischarge signal generating circuit configured to generate a predischarge signal to actuate the respective predischarge elements before precharge timing of the dynamic nodes of the first stage dynamic circuits; and next stage blocks including next stage dynamic circuits, configured to output predischarge results to blocks cascade connected to later stages, each of the next stage dynamic circuit configured to input the predischarge result of the previous block so as to predischarge dynamic nodes, configured such that the dynamic nodes are precharged with a predetermined cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Yukio Endo
  • Publication number: 20020085751
    Abstract: A method for obtaining spectral sensitivity characteristics of a color image input device such as a color scanner or a like is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Applicant: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhito Matsushiro, Yukio Endo
  • Publication number: 20010050129
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a carcass ply extending between bead portions and turned up around a bead core in each bead portion to form two turnup portion and a main portion therebetween; each of the turnup portion extends radially outwardly and adjoins the main portion from a certain height above the bead core; a space surrounded by the carcass ply main portion, each turnup portion and the bead core is filled with a small size bead apex rubber or a gus; and the bead portion is provided between the carcass ply and the bead core with a bead core cover for preventing the carcass cords from direct contacting with the bead core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Publication date: December 13, 2001
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshio Ohara, Yukio Endo, Kiyoshi Ueyoko, Kazuki Numata, Ikuji Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20010050128
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a carcass ply extending between bead portions and turned up around a bead core in each bead portion to form two turnup portion and a main portion therebetween; each of the turnup portion extends radially outwardly and adjoins the main portion from a certain height above the bead core; a space surrounded by the carcass ply main portion, each turnup portion and the bead core is filled with a small size bead apex rubber or a gus; and the bead portion is provided between the carcass ply and the bead core with a bead core cover for preventing the carcass cords from direct contacting with the bead core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Publication date: December 13, 2001
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshio Ohara, Yukio Endo, Kiyoshi Ueyoko, Kazuki Numata, Ikuji Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20010014125
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a motion image coding and decoding devices which can make it possible to perform efficient motion image transmission even though a large inter-frame difference regardless of a zero motion vector. For respective small divided blocks, motion vectors are detected by an ME from motion image input data and local decoded motion image data of a previous frame stored in a frame memory. A GE detects a luminance gain which is a coefficient multiplied to luminance signal pixels of the local decoded motion image data of the previous frame, at which a sum of difference absolute values between the motion image input data and the local decoded motion image data is minimum. When the detected motion vector is a zero vector, gain-compensated motion image data obtained such that motion-compensated motion image data subjected to motion compensation by an MC is subjected to gain compensation by a luminance gain is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Publication date: August 16, 2001
    Inventor: Yukio Endo
  • Patent number: 6273162
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a carcass ply extending between bead portions and is turned up around a bead core in each bead portion to form two turnup portions and a main portion therebetween; each of the turnup portions extends radially outwardly and adjoins the main portion from a certain height above the bead core; a space is surrounded by the carcass ply main portion, and each turnup portion and the bead core is filled with a small size bead apex rubber or a gas; and the bead portion is provided between the carcass ply and the bead core with a bead core cover for preventing the carcass cords from direct contacting with the bead core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Ohara, Yukio Endo, Kiyoshi Ueyoko, Kazuki Numata, Ikuji Ikeda
  • Patent number: 6258189
    Abstract: Means for measuring deviation measures a vertical deviation of a green tire from circularity while the green tire is clamped by a green tire building drum. The green tire to be formed is shaped into a complete circle according to the measured value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakamoto, Takuya Mizuta, Seiki Yamada, Kazuya Suzuki, Susumu Tanaka, Yukio Endo, Toshihiko Omokawa
  • Publication number: 20010005227
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes unit cells, arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, each having a photodiode for photoelectrically converting incident light to store signal charges, a readout transistor Td for reading out the signal charges and amplifying transistor Tb for amplifying signals readout at a detection node, a plurality of vertical shift registers for generating signal charge readout pulses ESi, DRi, ROi and a voltage switching circuit for setting a voltage VDR of the readout pulse DRi for dynamic range control lower than voltages of both a readout pulse ESi for an electronic shutter and a usual readout pulse ROi. The solid-state imaging device provides excellent images without clipping from a small signal region to large signal region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Publication date: June 28, 2001
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Egawa, Shinji Ohsawa, Yukio Endo, Nobuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6148889
    Abstract: A tubeless pneumatic tire is provided including a carcass having a carcass cord web and topping rubber layers covering the opposite sides of the carcass cord web, the carcass extending from a tread portion through a sidewall portion to a bead portion and turned up around a bead core outwardly from the inside of the tire in the axial direction of the tire, wherein only the inner one of the topping rubber layers which faces the inside of the tire is made of a butyl-based rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Intdustries Limited
    Inventors: Nobuaki Minami, Kazuya Suzuki, Yukio Endo
  • Patent number: 6064246
    Abstract: A flip-flop circuit consists of a conventional pulse-drive flip-flop plus a clock driver and a local pulse generator that generates a pulse signal according to the output of the clock driver. The flip-flop circuits of this kind are used to form, for example, a shift register in which the clock drivers are connected in series from the last stage toward the first stage. The clock driver in the last stage receives a clock signal, which is successively supplied to the flip-flop circuits from the one in the last stage toward the one in the first stage. This arrangement prevents a data-pass-through problem, assures a sharp waveform of pulse signals, and reduces the size of each clock driver. This type of flip-flop circuits may be used to form logic circuits such as N-bit registers and N-bit shift registers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yukio Endo, Masato Nagamatsu
  • Patent number: 6037577
    Abstract: An amplifying solid-state image pickup device comprises an image pickup region formed by two-dimensionally arranging photosensitive cells, each of the photosensitive cells including photoelectric conversion means, signal charge storage means, signal charge ejection means, row select means, and amplification means on a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of vertical select lines arranged in the image pickup region in a row direction, vertical select means for driving the plurality of vertical select lines, a plurality of vertical signal lines arranged in the column direction to read the outputs of the amplification means, noise suppression means provided at the ends of the plurality of vertical signal lines to capture and deduct noises and signals appearing on the plurality of vertical signal lines at time differences, horizontal select lines arranged in a column direction, horizontal read means for relaying the outputs of the horizontal select lines and the noise suppression means, horizontal select means fo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yoriko Tanaka, Nobuo Nakamura, Natsue Sakaguchi, Yukio Endo, Yoshiyuki Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 6016174
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing electo-optic elements includes steps of: (a-1) forming gate electrodes of the gate line and the TFT by patterning the first metal thin film by the first photolithography process after forming the first metal thin film on the first insulating substrate, (a-2) patterning by dry etching the semiconductor active film and the ohmic contact film by the second photolithography process in the larger and continuous form than the portion in which the source line and the TFT are formed after forming the first insulating film, semiconductor active film, and ohmic contact film, (a-3) patterning the second metal thin film by the third photolithography process after forming the second metal thin film to form the source electrode and the drain electrode of the source line as well as the TFT and in addition, etch-removing by dry etching the ohmic contact film protruding from the source line, source electrode, and drain electrode, (a-4) patterning the second insulating film and the first insulating f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Advanced Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yukio Endo, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Ikuo Ogo
  • Patent number: 5971049
    Abstract: A tubeless pneumatic tire is provided including a carcass having a carcass cord web and topping rubber layers covering the opposite sides of the carcass cord web, the carcass extending from a tread portion through a sidewall portion to a bead portion and turned up around a bead core outwardly from the inside of the tire in the axial direction of the tire, wherein only the inner one of the topping rubber layers which faces the inside of the tire is made of a butyl-based rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Minami, Kazuya Suzuki, Yukio Endo
  • Patent number: 5882452
    Abstract: Means for measuring deviation measures a vertical deviation of a green tire from circularity while the green tire is clamped by a green tire building drum. The green tire to be formed is shaped into a complete circle according to the measured value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakamoto, Takuya Mizuta, Seiki Yamada, Kazuya Suzuki, Susumu Tanaka, Yukio Endo, Toshihiko Omokawa
  • Patent number: 5688343
    Abstract: A tubeless pneumatic tire is provided including a carcass having a carcass cord web and topping rubber layers covering the opposite sides of the carcass cord web, the carcass extending from a tread portion through a sidewall portion to a bead portion and turned up around a bead core outwardly from the inside of the tire in the axial direction of the tire, wherein only the inner one of the topping rubber layers which faces the inside of the tire is made of a butyl-based rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Minami, Kazuya Suzuki, Yukio Endo