Patents by Inventor Yukio Ito
Yukio Ito 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).
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Publication number: 20050043924Abstract: A service system for air conditioners is provided which offers a total solution to a wide range of fields, from the customer relationship management covering individual users, building owners and administrators and building management companies to the maintenance and management, manufacture, design, and development on the part of the manufacturer. The service system includes a monitoring center which has a the customer database, an operation information database for storing operation information of air conditioners for each customer, and a device information database having device information on the air conditioners related with each customer of the customer database. The monitoring center, upon deciding that there is anomaly in the operation information, sends to the cellular phone over the Internet the information representing the content of the anomaly and the customer information and device information associated with the operation information which was judged abnormal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2004Publication date: February 24, 2005Inventors: Makoto Ito, Tadashi Takai, Tomotsune Taira, Masanori Takagi, Yukio Ito
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Patent number: 6827347Abstract: A paper sheet processing device that accommodates various types of paper sheet performs a smooth accommodating action by accurately performing a full-state detection action in respect of the accommodated paper sheets. Full-state detecting unit 2 of the paper sheet container (paper money container) stores current values exceeding a reference value as detection signals a, b, c and, of the stored detection signals a, b, c, determines that the stacker 42 constituting a paper sheet accommodating section is full based on the detection signal c stored in the substantially latter half period K′ of the paper sheet accommodating action period T′ by the paper money guiding unit 43.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2002Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Yukio Ito, Yuichi Sakamoto, Tadahiro Iwai, Tetsuro Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20040238318Abstract: A banknote handling device capable of positioning and stopping a banknote at a constant position as accurately as possible without jamming of any banknote. A projection (32) is disposed so as to curve a side of the banknote carried in a slit (9) and the radius of curvature of the curve portion is gradually increased as the banknote (b) is carried toward the downstream side in the slit (9).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2004Publication date: December 2, 2004Inventors: Yukio Ito, Noboru Yamagishi
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Patent number: 6823288Abstract: A service system which includes the monitoring center which has a customer database, an operation information database for storing operation information of the air conditioners for each customer, and a device information database 203 having device information on the air conditioners related with each customer of the customer database. When the system decides that there is anomaly in the operation information, the monitoring center sends to the cellular phone over the Internet information representing the content of the anomaly and customer and device information associated with the operation information which was judged abnormal.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2003Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: Hitchi, Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Ito, Tadashi Takai, Tomotsune Taira, Masanori Takagi, Yukio Ito
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Patent number: 6708889Abstract: A bank-note processing device (51), which prevents bank-notes received in a stacker from projecting into a bank-note transfer passage interfering with the next processing and which has a bank-note reverse-flowing preventive lever (80) that includes, at least, a first lever (25) turnably supported through a first shaft (26) and having a length smaller than the outer diameter (21a) of a bank-note guide drum (21), a first urging device (28) for constantly urging the first lever (25) toward a bank-note transfer passage (4), a first stop (32) for preventing the first lever (25) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than at a predetermined angel of rotation, a second lever (79) turnably supported on the front end (25c) of the first lever (25) through a second shaft (74), a second stop (76) for preventing the second lever (79) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than a predetermined angle of rotation, and a second urging device (77) for constantly urginType: GrantFiled: December 10, 2002Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
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Publication number: 20040049320Abstract: An open network environment and a multi vendor system for an air conditioner is realized so that management and services can be made highly efficient. A management system for an air conditioner has a status database for storing collected running data, and a setting database for storing setting data of the air conditioner, the setting data including data. regarding a running stop state, a running mode, an air quantity and a temperature, respectively of the air conditioner, wherein the running data stored in the status database is read to monitor the air conditioner and the setting data is rewritten to control the air conditioner.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2003Publication date: March 11, 2004Inventors: Tadashi Takai, Masanori Takagi, Yukio Ito, Makoto Itoh
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Publication number: 20040044502Abstract: A service system for air conditioners is provided which offers a total solution to a wide range of fields, from the customer relationship management covering individual users, building owners and administrators and building management companies to the maintenance and management, manufacture, design, and development on the part of the manufacturer. The service system includes the monitoring center 1 which has the customer database 207, the operation information database 206 for storing operation information of the air conditioners 101 for each customer, and the device information database 203 having device information on the air conditioners 101 related with each customer of the customer database 207.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2003Publication date: March 4, 2004Inventors: Makoto Ito, Tadashi Takai, Tomotsune Taira, Masanori Takagi, Yukio Ito
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Patent number: 6682157Abstract: A panel driving device turns an openable panel inside out by rotating the openable panel by 180° about a rotation center shaft and moving the rotation center shaft upward or downward during a specific period while the openable panel is rotated. The panel driving device is provided with a rotating mechanism for supporting the openable panel on a rotatable end of a rotary arm and rotating the openable panel, and a torque converting mechanism for converting part of a driving force of the rotating mechanism into a rotating force for rotating the rotary arm only during the specific period to rotate the rotary arm upward or downward. The openable panel can be turned inside out by a simple construction.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2002Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Yukio Ito
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Patent number: 6647317Abstract: An open network environment and a multi vendor system for an air conditioner is realized so that management and services can be made highly efficient. A management system for an air conditioner has a status database for storing collected running data, and a setting database for storing setting data of the air conditioner, the setting data including data regarding a running stop state, a running mode, an air quantity and a temperature, respectively of the air conditioner, wherein the running data stored in the status database is read to monitor the air conditioner and the setting data is rewritten to control the air conditioner.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2001Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Inventors: Tadashi Takai, Masanori Takagi, Yukio Ito, Makoto Itoh
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Patent number: 6643611Abstract: A service system for air conditioners is provided which offers a total solution to a wide range of fields, from the customer relationship management covering individual users, building owners and administrators and building management companies to the maintenance and management, manufacture, design, and development on the part of the manufacturer. The service system includes the monitoring center 1 which has the customer database 207, the operation information database 206 for storing operation information of the air conditioners 101 for each customer, and the device information database 203 having device information on the air conditioners 101 related with each customer of the customer database 207.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2000Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Inventors: Makoto Ito, Tadashi Takai, Tomotsune Taira, Masanori Takagi, Yukio Ito
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Patent number: 6641047Abstract: A bank-note processing device (51), which prevents bank-notes received in a stacker from projecting into a bank-note transfer passage interfering with the next processing and which has a bank-note reverse-flowing preventive lever (80) that includes, at least, a first lever (25) turnably supported through a first shaft (26) and having a length smaller than the outer diameter (21a) of a bank-note guide drum (21), a first urging device (28) for constantly urging the first lever (25) toward a bank-note transfer passage (4), a first stop (32) for preventing the first lever (25) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than at a predetermined angel of rotation, a second lever (79) turnably supported on the front end (25c) of the first lever (25) through a second shaft (74), a second stop (76) for preventing the second lever (79) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than a predetermined angle of rotation, and a second urging device (77) for constantly urginType: GrantFiled: December 10, 2002Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
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Patent number: 6628204Abstract: A highly reliable odor communication system which cannot be influenced by the natural condition and phenomenon and does not have a limit of the distance for sending odor signals. In the odor communication system, a data transmission system has an odor analysis unit for measuring humidity, temperature, mass, and odor constituents of an odor source and a data receiving unit has an odor emission unit for emitting an odor based on humidity, temperature, mass, and constituents of the odor, information of which is transmitted from the data transmission system.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2001Date of Patent: September 30, 2003Assignee: ITO Engineering Inc.Inventor: Yukio Ito
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Patent number: 6609661Abstract: A bank-note processing device (51), which prevents bank-notes received in a stacker from projecting into a bank-note transfer passage interfering with the next processing and which has a bank-note reverse-flowing preventive lever (80) that comprises, at least, a first lever (25) turnably supported through a first shaft (26) and having a length smaller than the outer diameter (21a) of a bank-note guide drum (21), a first urging means (28) for constantly urging the first lever (25) toward a bank-note transfer passage (4), a first stop (32) for preventing the first lever (25) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than at a predetermined angel of rotation, a second lever (79) turnably supported on the front end (25c) of the first lever (25) through a second shaft (74), a second stop (76) for preventing the second lever (79) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than a predetermined angle of rotation, and a second urging means (77) for constantly urgingType: GrantFiled: May 31, 2000Date of Patent: August 26, 2003Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
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Publication number: 20030136845Abstract: A bank-note processing device (51), which prevents bank-notes received in a stacker from projecting into a bank-note transfer passage interfering with the next processing and which has a bank-note reverse-flowing preventive lever (80) that comprises, at least, a first lever (25) turnably supported through a first shaft (26) and having a length smaller than the outer diameter (21a) of a bank-note guide drum (21), a first urging means (28) for constantly urging the first lever (25) toward a bank-note transfer passage (4), a first stop (32) for preventing the first lever (25) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than at a predetermined angel of rotation, a second lever (79) turnably supported on the front end (25c) of the first lever (25) through a second shaft (74), a second stop (76) for preventing the second lever (79) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than a predetermined angle of rotation, and a second urging means (77) for constantly urgingType: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
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Publication number: 20030137096Abstract: A paper sheet processing device that accommodates various types of paper sheet performs a smooth accommodating action by accurately performing a full-state detection action in respect of the accommodated paper sheets. Full-state detecting unit 2 of the paper sheet container (paper money container) stores current values exceeding a reference value as detection signals a, b, c and, of the stored detection signals a, b, c, determines that the stacker 42 constituting a paper sheet accommodating section is full based on the detection signal c stored in the substantially latter half period K′ of the paper sheet accommodating action period T′ by the paper money guiding unit 43.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yuichi Sakamoto, Tadahiro Iwai, Tetsuro Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20030137095Abstract: In a paper-like piece handling apparatus, a same drive (M2) is shared between a stacker mechanism (11) for storing an inserted paper-like piece (P) into a cumulative paper-like piece storage section (20) and a shutter (10) for opening/closing a predetermined transport path (4). The shared use of the drive (M2) can reduce the number of necessary component parts and overall cost of the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Yukio Ito, Hideo Tanaka, Shigeru Yasuda
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Publication number: 20030102368Abstract: A bank-note processing device (51), which prevents bank-notes received in a stacker from projecting into a bank-note transfer passage interfering with the next processing and which has a bank-note reverse-flowing preventive lever (80) that comprises, at least, a first lever (25) turnably supported through a first shaft (26) and having a length smaller than the outer diameter (21a) of a bank-note guide drum (21), a first urging means (28) for constantly urging the first lever (25) toward a bank-note transfer passage (4), a first stop (32) for preventing the first lever (25) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than at a predetermined angel of rotation, a second lever (79) turnably supported on the front end (25c) of the first lever (25) througn a second shaft (74), a second stop (76) for preventing the second lever (79) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than a predetermined angle of rotation, and a second urging means (77) for constantly urgingType: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2002Publication date: June 5, 2003Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
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Patent number: 6543763Abstract: A bank-note processing device wherein disposed between a pair of rotary drums (22, 23) is a stacker lever (53) that presses that portion of the bank-note (31) inserted in bank-note guide slits (22b, 23b) which is positioned on the side of a bank-note reverse-flowing-preventive lever (32) toward a stacker (20) in operative association with the movement of a stacker chute (51), whereby even if a large number of wrinkled bank-notes are received in the stacker, jamming of bank-notes is minimized.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2001Date of Patent: April 8, 2003Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
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Patent number: 6521822Abstract: In an electronic device having a solar cell and a unit driven by a power generated by the solar cell, the solar cell 10 includes a transparent substrate 12; a plurality of conductive portions 14a to 14d provided around the transparent substrate 12 and connected in series; and a plurality of photocells 18, each having a thin-line shape, formed at proper intervals on the transparent substrate 12 and connected to the conductive portions 14a to 14d. By forming a transparent electrode film 80 on the transparent substrate 12 and by connecting the transparent electrode film 80 to the ground, an adverse influence of static electricity is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2001Date of Patent: February 18, 2003Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Ito, Junsuke Kashikie, Teruhiko Fujii
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Patent number: 6508700Abstract: A coin processing device (1) comprises a first sorting component (35) disposed downstream from a coin detaining component (30), for sorting into a return passage (70) and a coin storage component (91) any coins A that have been temporarily detained by the coin detaining component (30), and a second sorting component (51) disposed downstream from the first sorting component (35), for sorting into the coin storage component (91) and a cashbox any coins A that have been sorted into the coin storage component (91) by the first sorting component (35).Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2001Date of Patent: January 21, 2003Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon ConluxInventors: Yoshikazu Mori, Mitsugu Mikami, Yukio Ito, Kenji Nakajima, Takahiro Hayashi, Masato Yagi