Patents by Inventor Yuzo Sato

Yuzo Sato 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: 9831615
    Abstract: A connector includes contacts arranged in a contact-arrangement plane and including a source contact and a signal contact, each of the contacts having a contact portion that comes into contact with a contact of a counter-connector, a ground plate made of metal disposed in parallel with the contact-arrangement plan, an insulator that holds the contacts and the ground plate, and a shell that covers an outer periphery of the insulator and is made of metal, the ground plate being disposed so as to face the contacts through a portion of the insulator with the contact portion of each contact being exposed, and having a cutout formed at an end of the ground plate adjacent to the contact portion of the source contact, and the insulator having a projection that fills the cutout of the ground plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignees: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited, Jae Europe Limited
    Inventors: Yuichi Saito, Yuzo Sato, Akihiro Matsunaga, Masaaki Takaku, Kouhei Ueda, Yohei Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20170222374
    Abstract: A connector includes contacts arranged in a contact-arrangement plane and including a source contact and a signal contact, each of the contacts having a contact portion that comes into contact with a contact of a counter-connector, a ground plate made of metal disposed in parallel with the contact-arrangement plan, an insulator that holds the contacts and the ground plate, and a shell that covers an outer periphery of the insulator and is made of metal, the ground plate being disposed so as to face the contacts through a portion of the insulator with the contact portion of each contact being exposed, and having a cutout formed at an end of the ground plate adjacent to the contact portion of the source contact, and the insulator having a projection that fills the cutout of the ground plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Yuichi SAITO, Yuzo SATO, Akihiro MATSUNAGA, Masaaki TAKAKU, Kouhei UEDA, Yohei YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9143753
    Abstract: A 3D image display has a display unit which is driven so as to emit light in a line-sequential or a block-sequential manner; a storage unit which stores characteristics information relating to temporal change in transmittance of a liquid crystal shutter glasses with respect to light of respective primary colors in the display unit; and a correction unit which corrects an input image signal of the respective primary colors using the characteristics information, so as to reduce color fluctuation between lines or between blocks in the observed image caused by differences in the temporal change of the transmittance of the liquid crystal shutter glasses in respect of each of the primary colors, wherein the display unit displays a corrected image based on a corrected image signal generated by the correction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Minoru Haga, Yuzo Sato
  • Patent number: 8864524
    Abstract: A connector capable of improving the durability and the contact reliability of a contact. In the contact, a pair of spring portions for pressing a contact portion against a card-type electronic component are formed continuous with the contact portion that is brought into contact with the card-type electronic component. A holding portion held by a housing is formed continuous with the spring portions A connection portion connected to a printed board is formed continuous with the holding portion. The spring portions are made elastically deformable independently of each other, and are bent such that part and the other part of each spring portion do not interfere with each other in a direction of height of the housing when the spring portion is elastically deformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Yuzo Sato
  • Publication number: 20130314408
    Abstract: A 3D image control apparatus is provided which prevents unevenness of luminance in an observed image on a screen caused in a 3D image viewing system including an impulse type display device and liquid crystal shutter glasses. The 3D image control apparatus includes an image processing unit configured to generate luminance signals for displaying a right eye image and a left eye image on the basis of an input image signal and output the signals to a display unit. The image processing unit performs arithmetic operation on an image signal corresponding to pixels on a predetermined number of vertical lines using correction values for increasing a luminance in accordance with the position of each vertical line so that a lack of transmittance for a rising period or falling period of shutters of liquid crystal shutter glasses is compensated for, thus generating luminance signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuzo Sato
  • Patent number: 8540534
    Abstract: A connector having a housing and terminals, mates with a mating connector having mating terminals. The housing has a side wall, a facing wall and a receiving depression between the side wall and the facing wall. Each terminal is installed in the receiving depression and has an attached portion attached to the housing, a first spring portion extending from the attached portion, an upward-extending portion extending from the first spring portion, an elastic support portion extending from the upward-extending portion, and a contact portion supported by the elastic support portion. The upward-extending portion has an abutting portion opposite the facing wall. The elastic support portion is bendable more easily than a spring formed with the first spring portion and the upward-extending portion. The contact portion contacts the mating terminal when the connector is mated with the mating connector and the abutting portion is pressed against the facing wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Yuzo Sato, Hiroaki Obikane
  • Patent number: 8531508
    Abstract: A 3D image control apparatus is provided which prevents unevenness of luminance in an observed image on a screen caused in a 3D image viewing system including an impulse type display device and liquid crystal shutter glasses. The 3D image control apparatus includes an image processing unit configured to generate luminance signals for displaying a right eye image and a left eye image on the basis of an input image signal and output the signals to a display unit. The image processing unit performs arithmetic operation on an image signal corresponding to pixels on a predetermined number of vertical lines using correction values for increasing a luminance in accordance with the position of each vertical line so that a lack of transmittance for a rising period or falling period of shutters of liquid crystal shutter glasses is compensated for, thus generating luminance signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuzo Sato
  • Publication number: 20130095687
    Abstract: A connector capable of improving the durability and the contact reliability of a contact. In the contact, a pair of spring portions for pressing a contact portion against a card-type electronic component are formed continuous with the contact portion that is brought into contact with the card-type electronic component. A holding portion held by a housing is formed continuous with the spring portions A connection portion connected to a printed board is formed continuous with the holding portion. The spring portions are made elastically deformable independently of each other, and are bent such that part and the other part of each spring portion do not interfere with each other in a direction of height of the housing when the spring portion is elastically deformed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yuzo SATO
  • Patent number: 8408931
    Abstract: Provided is a technique of reducing a force required to couple a receptacle connector and a plug connector. A receptacle assistant fitting of the receptacle connector includes a cantilevered lock beam having a deflection part extending in a direction substantially parallel to a connector mounting surface of a receptacle side substrate and in the outside of a receptacle housing. A plug assistant fitting of the plug connector includes an engagement part that pushes aside the free end of the lock beam and rides over the free end of the lock beam so as to be engaged with the free end of the lock beam when the plug connector and the receptacle connector are coupled to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzo Sato, Hiroaki Obikane, Yasufumi Yahiro, Akira Kimura, Takayuki Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20120176373
    Abstract: A 3D image display has a display unit which is driven so as to emit light in a line-sequential or a block-sequential manner; a storage unit which stores characteristics information relating to temporal change in transmittance of a liquid crystal shutter glasses with respect to light of respective primary colors in the display unit; and a correction unit which corrects an input image signal of the respective primary colors using the characteristics information, so as to reduce color fluctuation between lines or between blocks in the observed image caused by differences in the temporal change of the transmittance of the liquid crystal shutter glasses in respect of each of the primary colors, wherein the display unit displays a corrected image based on a corrected image signal generated by the correction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minoru Haga, Yuzo Sato
  • Publication number: 20120113102
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, an apparatus which enables viewing of a 3D image, by controlling an impulse-type image to alternately display a left-eye image and a right-eye image in a time-division manner, and by alternately opening/closing a left shutter and a right shutter of shutter eyeglasses in synchronism with switch between the left-eye image and the right-eye image, and the apparatus includes an input unit configured to input an image signal for displaying an image as a 3D-image, and an image processing unit configured to generate a luminance signal for displaying the right-eye image and the left-eye image from the image signal, and outputs the signal to the image display, and the apparatus further includes a control unit configured to control the image processing unit to display a same image in the first sub-frame and the second sub-frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Sato, Yuzo Sato
  • Publication number: 20120094544
    Abstract: A connector having a housing and terminals, mates with a mating connector having mating terminals. The housing has a side wall, a facing wall and a receiving depression between the side wall and the facing wall. Each terminal is installed in the receiving depression and has an attached portion attached to the housing, a first spring portion extending from the attached portion, an upward-extending portion extending from the first spring portion, an elastic support portion extending from the upward-extending portion, and a contact portion supported by the elastic support portion. The upward-extending portion has an abutting portion opposite the facing wall. The elastic support portion is bendable more easily than a spring formed with the first spring portion and the upward-extending portion. The contact portion contacts the mating terminal when the connector is mated with the mating connector and the abutting portion is pressed against the facing wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuzo Sato, Hiroaki Obikane
  • Publication number: 20110261054
    Abstract: A 3D image control apparatus is provided which prevents unevenness of luminance in an observed image on a screen caused in a 3D image viewing system including an impulse type display device and liquid crystal shutter glasses. The 3D image control apparatus includes an image processing unit configured to generate luminance signals for displaying a right eye image and a left eye image on the basis of an input image signal and output the signals to a display unit. The image processing unit performs arithmetic operation on an image signal corresponding to pixels on a predetermined number of vertical lines using correction values for increasing a luminance in accordance with the position of each vertical line so that a lack of transmittance for a rising period or falling period of shutters of liquid crystal shutter glasses is compensated for, thus generating luminance signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuzo Sato
  • Publication number: 20110263140
    Abstract: Provided is a technique of reducing a force required to couple a receptacle connector and a plug connector. A receptacle assistant fitting of the receptacle connector includes a cantilevered lock beam having a deflection part extending in a direction substantially parallel to a connector mounting surface of a receptacle side substrate and in the outside of a receptacle housing. A plug assistant fitting of the plug connector includes an engagement part that pushes aside the free end of the lock beam and rides over the free end of the lock beam so as to be engaged with the free end of the lock beam when the plug connector and the receptacle connector are coupled to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventors: Yuzo Sato, Hiroaki Obikane, Yasufumi Yahiro, Akira Kimura, Takayuki Nishimura
  • Patent number: D641705
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Yuzo Sato, Hiroaki Obikane, Yasufumi Yahiro
  • Patent number: D642530
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Yuzo Sato, Hiroaki Obikane, Yasufumi Yahiro
  • Patent number: D642535
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Yuzo Sato, Hiroaki Obikane, Yasufumi Yahiro
  • Patent number: D643369
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Yuzo Sato, Hiroaki Obikane, Yasufumi Yahiro
  • Patent number: D684932
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Takayuki Nishimura, Hiroaki Obikane, Yuzo Sato
  • Patent number: D692833
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Takayuki Nishimura, Hiroaki Obikane, Yuzo Sato