Patents by Inventor Yuri Inoue

Yuri Inoue 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).

  • Analog quartz timepiece
    Patent number: 4261048
    Abstract: An analog quartz timepiece having a manually operated external control member, and a correction signal generation circuit controlled by the external control member to generate low speed and high speed correction signals when the external control member is actuated for a short period of time and for a predetermined time interval, respectively, by which a stepping motor is driven at a selected speed to perform time correction. The timepiece also includes a click mechanism operative to shift an hours hand step-wise from any optional position without affecting a minutes hand and a seconds hand. The timepiece further includes a seconds zero-reset mechanism operative to reset the seconds hand to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1981
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Company Limited
    Inventors: Jinro Motoki, Singo Ichikawa, Kenzi Miyasaka, Hiroyuki Uematsu, Mitsuhiro Murata, Hideyuki Kawashima, Yuri Inoue, Masae Ohkubo, Mituo Oooka
  • Analog quartz timepiece
    Patent number: 4173863
    Abstract: An analog quartz timepiece having a manually operated external control member, and a correction signal generation circuit controlled by the external control member to generate low speed and high speed correction signals when the external control member is actuated for a short period of time and for a predetermined time interval, respectively, by which a stepping motor is driven at a selected speed to perform time correction. The timepiece alo includes a click mechanism operative to shift an hours hand step-wise from any optional position without affecting a minutes hand and a seconds hand. The timepiece further includes a seconds zero-reset mechanism operative to reset the seconds hand to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1979
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Company Limited
    Inventors: Jinro Motoki, Singo Ichikawa, Kenzi Miyasaka, Hiroyuki Uematsu, Mitsuhiro Murata, Hideyuki Kawashima, Yuri Inoue, Masae Ohkubo, Mituo Oooka