Patents by Inventor Haruki Hiranuma

Haruki Hiranuma 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).

  • Publication number: 20060193209
    Abstract: A watch is offered in which there is no danger that the waterproofness is impaired by manipulation of the crown. The watch permits replacements of parts around the crown in a case where the threadedly locking function has deteriorated. The watch is based on a watch in which the crown is threadedly locked to a stem pipe mounted to a barrel. The barrel is provided with a pipe installation hole and with a threaded hole rectangularly in communication with this installation hole. The stem pipe has an insertion portion and a barrel outside protruding portion. The insertion portion is inserted in the pipe installation hole such that the insertion portion can be withdrawn from outside the barrel. The barrel outside protruding portion is disposed outside the barrel and has an external thread to which the crown is removably threaded. An engaging recessed portion is formed in the outer surface of the insertion portion. Annular waterproof packing is sandwiched between the pipe installation hole and the insertion portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Inventors: Nobukazu Omori, Haruki Hiranuma
  • Publication number: 20060187766
    Abstract: A watch is offered in which the life of the threadedly engaged portion between the stem pipe and the crown can be improved and which has an internal thread capable of being machined relative to the crown easily and accurately. The watch is based on a watch in which the crown is threadedly locked to a stem pipe mounted to a barrel. The stem pipe has a barrel outside protruding portion provided with an external thread. The crown has a crown shaft and a crown ring having an internal thread removably threaded to the external thread, the ring being connected to the crown shaft. The crown shaft has a barrel insertion cylindrical portion which is smaller in diameter than the crown ring and inserted in the stem pipe and a ring connection portion mounted integrally with this cylindrical portion and connected to one end portion of the crown ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventors: Haruki Hiranuma, Nobukazu Omori
  • Publication number: 20060158967
    Abstract: To provide a portable timepiece capable of interchanging a part at a surrounding of a crown when a screw lock function is deteriorated. A premise is established by a portable timepiece screwing to lock a crown urged in a direction of separating from a case body by a coil spring (urging member) included in a winding stem pipe to the winding stem pipe attached to the case body. The winding stem pipe includes a winding stem pipe main body inserted into a pipe attaching hole of the case body and fixed in liquid tight by using a brazing member, and a ring fitted to a case body outside projected portion of the main body removably by being stopped to rotate and provided with a male screw portion to which the crown is removably screwed at an outer periphery thereof. A ring holding member is pinched between the ring and a holding portion of the case body outside projected portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2006
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: Haruki Hiranuma, Nobukazu Omori
  • Publication number: 20060158964
    Abstract: To provide a portable timepiece having high durability constructed by a constitution capable of promoting operability of attaching and detaching a crown and holding a crown in an unoperated state so as not to rotate the crown unpreparedly. In a winding stem pipe attached to a case body, a crown urged in a direction of separating from the case body by a coil spring (urging member) included in a crown cylinder portion of the pipe is removably provided to a case body outside projected portion of the winding stem pipe. An outer periphery of the case body outside projected portion is formed with a plurality of communicating grooves along a rotational direction of the crown, a plurality of attaching and detaching through grooves communicated to the communicating grooves and opened to an end face of the case body outside projected portion, and a plurality of holding grooves communicated with the communicating grooves and formed in a dead end state and contiguous to the through grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2006
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: Haruki Hiranuma, Nobukazu Omori
  • Publication number: 20060153012
    Abstract: To provide a wrist-portable equipment that may prevent malfunction of an internal rotational ring. There is provided a wrist-portable equipment including: a case, an internal rotational ring to be used as a display member for rotating independently and separately from a gear train of circumferential divisional hour/minute/second within the above-described case, an operating shaft that may be pushed into and drawn out of the above-described case, a clutch for transmitting the rotation of the above-described operating shaft to the above-described internal rotational ring and for releasing the transmission of the rotation by pushing in the above-described operating shaft; and a stem provided at one end portion of the above-described operating shaft and disposed on a side surface portion of the above-described case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventors: Nobukazu Oomori, Haruki Hiranuma
  • Patent number: 7072247
    Abstract: To provide a wrist watch capable of easily exchanging a bezel by a user per se. A wrist watch is locked in a state in which a case body packing is arranged between a main body of an inner case bodyl including a module including an electronic circuit realizing watch function and an outer case body, an upper end face of a peripheral edge of an inner face body main body is pressed by an inner wall face of a decorative bezel main body and a spring projected portion is fitted to a click hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Haruki Hiranuma, Koremoto Takeda
  • Patent number: 7052173
    Abstract: To provide a timepiece whose bezel can be easily attached and detached by a user without requiring a special-purpose tool. A male screw, an annular groove disposed downwardly away from the male screw and an annular clearance groove positioned between the annular groove and the male screw are provided on the outer periphery of an annular convex of a case band to which a cover glass is attached. A soft and resilient engagement ring is fitted to the annular groove such that the engagement ring projects out from the annular groove. A bezel includes on its inner periphery a female screw disposed within the clearance groove for releasably engaging with the male screw and an annular engagement convex having a stopper slope. The stopper slope is disposed below the female screw to tightly contact with the outer periphery of the ring. The bezel attached in a condition in which the ring tightly contacts with the stopper slope is rotated in a loosening direction of the bezel through a screw-engagement between the screws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Haruki Hiranuma, Nobukazu Omori, Hisamitsu Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 7025494
    Abstract: A wrist-portable apparatus has a case housing a rotational display member and an operational shaft for undergoing rotational movement and sliding movement relative to the case so that the operational shaft may be axially displaced between a pushed-in position, in which the operational shaft is pushed into the case, and a drawn-out position, in which the operational shaft is drawn out from the case. A clutch assembly transmits rotational movement of the operational shaft to the display member to rotate the display member when the operational shaft is displaced to the drawn-out position and releases the transmission of the rotational movement of the operational shaft to the display member when the operational shaft is displaced to the pushed-in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Nobukazu Oomori, Haruki Hiranuma
  • Publication number: 20050207285
    Abstract: To provide a watch which can assure a smooth rotation operation of a crown, and in which it is possible to improve a durability and a workability of a mesh part between a winding stem pipe and a crown, and a life of a tool working the mesh part. A wristwatch, in which a crown is thread-locked to a winding stem pipe having been attached to a case band and a seal packing seals between the winding stem pipe and the crown, is made a premise. It is characterized in that the seal packing is provided while interrupting an invasion path of dusts with respect to a mesh part where the winding stem pipe has been meshed with the crown.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Inventors: Nobukazu Omori, Haruki Hiranuma
  • Publication number: 20050207286
    Abstract: To obtain a degree of freedom in a design of a circumference part of a timepiece armor assembly, and provide a watch whose degree of freedom in a size of a dial is high. A timepiece armor assembly is formed of an armor case of one-piece structure in which a case bottom wall and a case band part provided with a crown have been monolithically molded and of an armor cover which has a transparent member and an edge member supporting a circumference edge of the former member and has been mounted to the case band part. In the armor assembly, a timepiece movement which has a movement main body and a winding stem attached to this main body so as to be capable of being inserted into or detached from it and connected to the crown, and a dial are built, and a winding stem attachment/detachment mechanism which makes an insertion/detachment of the winding stem into/from the main body possible is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Inventors: Haruki Hiranuma, Nobukazu Omori
  • Publication number: 20050207284
    Abstract: To provide a wristwatch in which a band can be easily attached to or detached from a timepiece armor assembly. In a band connection part of a timepiece armor assembly, there are provided respectively a connection groove which opens respectively to a back face 11a and an end face of this connection part and whose interior is formed wider than an open end of the end face, and an engagement groove opening to the former groove. A fit part having a shape coinciding with the connection groove and detachably fitted to the connection groove is provided in an end part of a band attached to or detached from the band connection part. An engagement member, which is protruded into or retracted form an opposed face facing on the engagement groove under a state that the fit part has been fitted to the connection groove and thereby inserted into or detached from the engagement groove, is attached to the fit part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Inventors: Haruki Hiranuma, Nobukazu Omori
  • Patent number: 6886975
    Abstract: To provide a watch in which, in case where a screw lock function has decreased, a part exchange around a crown is made possible while ensuring a waterproofness. To an outside winding stem pipe having a bridge portion and brazed to a case band there is passed an inside winding stem pipe having a male screw portion directed to an outside of the case band and a convex portion colliding against the bridge portion so as to be capable of being put in or out, the pipe is locked to the pipe by a lock means provided over both of the winging stem pipes, and the pipe is interposed between an attaching ring detachably meshing with the pipe and the convex portion, thereby positioning the pipe with respect to the former pipe in an axial direction. A crown is detachably meshed with the male screw portion of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Haruki Hiranuma, Hisamitsu Yoshikawa, Nobukazu Oomori
  • Publication number: 20050088920
    Abstract: To provide a portable watch in which a crown can be held so as not to be turned carelessly utilizing engagement of screws without being restricted by a function of a watch movement, durability is improved, and a screw lock operation for the crown is light. The present invention is premised on a portable watch in which a crown, which is connected to a winding stem transmitting a turning force to a watch movement in a case band, is engaged with a male screw section of a pipe attached to the case band, whereby a crown is held so as not to be turned. The crown includes: a crown shaft that moves the winding stem in association with the crown shaft; a crown head that turns the crown shaft in a state in which the engagement is released; and clutch. The crown head has a female screw section that is detachably engaged with the male screw section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Haruki Hiranuma, Nobukazu Oomori
  • Publication number: 20050013202
    Abstract: To provide a portable watch enabling components exchange around a crown while retaining the waterproof capability of a winding-stem-pipe attachment section when the screw lock capability is reduced. A winding stem pipe is screwed into a pipe-attachment hole of a case band for attachment in a removable manner. To an intracase-band end section of this winding stem pipe, provided is a screw section being a reverse screw to a first male screw section of the winding stem pipe screwed into the pipe-attachment hole. To this screw section, a clamp ring is screwed into in a removable manner. The case band is sandwiched by the ring and the extracase-band end section of the winding stem pipe screwed with the crown, and a waterproof gasket is sandwiched between the case band and the winding stem pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Inventors: Haruki Hiranuma, Hisamitsu Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20050013203
    Abstract: To provide a portable watch enabling component exchange around a crown when the screw lock capability is reduced. A case band is provided with a pipe-attachment hole opening toward an intracase-band plane and an extracase-band plane, and a pin-receiving groove opening toward this hole, the intracase-band plane, and the extracase-band plane. A winding stem pipe is provided with an intracase-band end section to be arranged inside of the case band including an engagement groove, an extracase-band end section to be arranged outside of the case band including a male screw section to be screwed together with a crown in a removal manner, and a pin-receiving groove opening toward the outer rim plane of the pipe and facing to a receiving groove. The pipe is playably inserted into the hole in a removable manner from the outside of the case band. A rotation-stop pin for preventing the pipe from rotating is placed across both receiving grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Inventors: Haruki Hiranuma, Hisamitsu Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20050013204
    Abstract: To provide a timepiece whose bezel can be easily attached and detached by a user without requiring a special-purpose tool. A male screw, an annular groove disposed downwardly away from the male screw and an annular clearance groove positioned between the annular groove and the male screw are provided on the outer periphery of an annular convex of a case band to which a cover glass is attached. A soft and resilient engagement ring is fitted to the annular groove such that the engagement ring projects out from the annular groove. A bezel includes on its inner periphery a female screw disposed within the clearance groove for releasably engaging with the male screw and an annular engagement convex having a stopper slope. The stopper slope is disposed below the female screw to tightly contact with the outer periphery of the ring. The bezel attached in a condition in which the ring tightly contacts with the stopper slope is rotated in a loosening direction of the bezel through a screw-engagement between the screws.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Inventors: Haruki Hiranuma, Nobukazu Omori, Hisamitsu Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20050007891
    Abstract: To provide a portable timepiece in which the maintenance of a winding stem pipe and its surroundings is facilitated. Basically provided is a portable timepiece comprising a winding stem pipe releasably screwed into a pipe attachment opening of a case band, in which portable timepiece an accidental rotation of a crown is avoided by bringing a crown head of the crown into screw-engagement with a pipe end of the winding stem pipe disposed outside of the case band such that the crown head caps the pipe end. A ring receiver is formed on one of the pipe attachment opening and an insert portion of the winding stem pipe screwed into the opening. A soft and resilient friction ring is supported on the other of the pipe attachment opening and the insert portion. The friction ring is resiliently brought into tight contact with the ring receiver to prevent a rotation of the winding stem pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Haruki Hiranuma, Nobukazu Omori, Hisamitsu Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 6821014
    Abstract: A rotating-type bezel apparatus has a case body and a bezel rotatably mounted on the case body and having alternately spaced recesses and projections. A first member is mounted on the case body and has an end portion elastically engageable with surface portions of the recesses and projections of the bezel to impart a click feel to the bezel during rotational movement thereof. A second member is movably mounted on the case body for movement between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the second member engages the first member to prevent a release of an elastic engagement between the front end portion of the main body of the first member and the surface portions of one recess and the two projections on either side of the one recess of the bezel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Haruki Hiranuma, Hisamitsu Yoshikawa, Nobukazu Oomori
  • Publication number: 20040184358
    Abstract: To provide a band link coupling pin capable of improving the operability of coupling and decoupling of any adjacent links, and capable of improving the reliability of coupling between the adjacent links. Provided is a link coupling pin in which a convex section (engagement section) including a second through hole is arranged in a concave section sandwiched by arm sections each including a first through hole to couple any adjacent links, and inserted into both first and second through holes. The coupling pin is made of a wire rod capable of changing in shape due to its elasticity to be smaller in diameter than the first and second through holes. At least one of each end section to be arranged in the first through hole of this pin and a middle part located in the second through hole forms an elastic deformation section being zigzag when viewed from the side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Haruki Hiranuma, Nobukazu Omori
  • Patent number: 6788623
    Abstract: To provide a wrist watch having a small rim width while ensuring the strength of a glass rim. A movement with hands and a dial plate is assembled into a barrel from a side of a glass rim. A water-proof packing is arranged between a glass rim and the barrel. Machine screws are mounted inside the water-proof packing to fix the barrel and the glass rim together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Haruki Hiranuma, Isao Ajiro, Nobukazu Oomori