Patents by Inventor Hironori Hasei
Hironori Hasei 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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Patent number: 11799195Abstract: A portable electronic apparatus includes a case, a solar cell disposed in the case, a GPS antenna as an antenna section disposed in the case, including a base as a nonconductive member and a conductive body disposed on a surface of the nonconductive member, and adapted to receive a positioning satellite signal, and a circuit board disposed in the case, and electrically connected to the solar cell and the antenna section, and the antenna section overlaps the solar cell in a planar view viewed from a normal direction of light receiving surfaces of the solar cell.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori Hasei, Noriaki Hiraide
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Publication number: 20230297032Abstract: A dial decoration method of the present disclosure is a dial decoration method including a base formation step of forming a pattern shape on a base material and using the pattern shape as a base, and a printed layer formation step of forming a printed layer on a surface side of the base, and the printed layer formation step includes printing a pattern shape, to form the printed layer, by changing a density of dots of ink ejected by an inkjet method.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Toshinori NAKAZAWA, Hironori HASEI, Toshimitsu HIRAI, Hirofumi KUROSAWA
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Publication number: 20230297031Abstract: A timepiece component decoration method includes a base formation step of forming a pattern shape on a base material of a timepiece component and using the pattern shape as a base, a first light-transmissive layer formation step of forming, on a surface of the base, a first light-transmissive layer using a light-transmissive resin, a first liquid repellent treatment step of performing a liquid repellent treatment on a surface of the first light-transmissive layer, and a first printed layer formation step of, to form a first printed layer, ejecting ink and printing a pattern shape by an inkjet method on the surface of the first light-transmissive layer on which the liquid repellent treatment was performed, after the first liquid repellent treatment step.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Toshinori NAKAZAWA, Hironori HASEI, Toshimitsu HIRAI, Hirofumi KUROSAWA
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Patent number: 11754978Abstract: A method for manufacturing a watch component is a method for manufacturing a watch component that is formed of an austenitized ferritic stainless steel including a base portion formed by a ferrite phase and a surface layer formed by an austenitized phase obtained by austenitizing the ferrite phase. The method includes a first processing step for forming a thinned portion by providing a step in a base material formed of a ferritic stainless steel, a heat treatment step for performing nitrogen absorption treatment on the base material to form the surface layer on an outer surface side of the base portion, and a second processing step for providing a hole portion in the thinned portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Inventors: Hironori Hasei, Koki Takasawa
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Publication number: 20230240016Abstract: A method of forming a conductive pattern includes forming a conductive pattern by ejecting a liquid-state material containing conductive fine particles onto a porous base material, wherein the conductive fine particles have an average particle size of from 1 nm to 200 nm, and the porous base material is formed with a plurality of cavities and includes communication holes through which the plurality of cavities are in communication, an average diameter of the communication holes being less than or equal to the average particle size of the conductive fine particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Toshimitsu HIRAI, Hironori HASEI, Tatsuya FUJII
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Publication number: 20230068998Abstract: A portable electronic apparatus includes a case, a solar cell disposed in the case, a GPS antenna as an antenna section disposed in the case, including a base as a nonconductive member and a conductive body disposed on a surface of the nonconductive member, and adapted to receive a positioning satellite signal, and a circuit board disposed in the case, and electrically connected to the solar cell and the antenna section, and the antenna section overlaps the solar cell in a planar view viewed from a normal direction of light receiving surfaces of the solar cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori HASEI, Noriaki HIRAIDE
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Publication number: 20230057778Abstract: A watch includes an hour hand and a minute hand, a dial including a plurality of time graduations indicating time by being pointed by the hour hand and the minute hand, and a dial plate including a graduation for predetermined information different from the time, and supported by a rotary shaft, wherein in plan view from a normal direction of the dial, the rotary shaft overlaps with a pointing graduation, which is one of the time graduations, and the predetermined information is indicated by the graduation of the dial plate in an extension direction of the pointing graduation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Toshinori NAKAZAWA, Hironori HASEI
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Patent number: 11532872Abstract: A portable electronic apparatus includes a case, a solar cell disposed in the case, a GPS antenna as an antenna section disposed in the case, including a base as a nonconductive member and a conductive body disposed on a surface of the nonconductive member, and adapted to receive a positioning satellite signal, and a circuit board disposed in the case, and electrically connected to the solar cell and the antenna section, and the antenna section overlaps the solar cell in a planar view viewed from a normal direction of light receiving surfaces of the solar cell.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori Hasei, Noriaki Hiraide
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Publication number: 20220035960Abstract: A design generation method for a watch part includes the steps of: by an output terminal, transmitting, to a server, watch model information selected by a user and event data including at least a date/time entered by the user; by the server, generating, based on the model information received by the server, model data being component information of the watch part; by the server, generating, based on the event data received by the server, unique data and feature data that are a design element of the watch part; by the server, transmitting, to the output terminal, the model data, the unique data, and the feature data; and by the output terminal, displaying the model data, the unique data, and the feature data on a display unit of the output terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Kazunori HOSHINO, Hironori HASEI, Shogo KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20210278807Abstract: A method for manufacturing a watch component is a method for manufacturing a watch component that is formed of an austenitized ferritic stainless steel including a base portion formed by a ferrite phase and a surface layer formed by an austenitized phase obtained by austenitizing the ferrite phase. The method includes a first processing step for forming a thinned portion by providing a step in a base material formed of a ferritic stainless steel, a heat treatment step for performing nitrogen absorption treatment on the base material to form the surface layer on an outer surface side of the base portion, and a second processing step for providing a hole portion in the thinned portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Hironori HASEI, Koki TAKASAWA
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Publication number: 20200328504Abstract: A portable electronic apparatus includes a case, a solar cell disposed in the case, a GPS antenna as an antenna section disposed in the case, including a base as a nonconductive member and a conductive body disposed on a surface of the nonconductive member, and adapted to receive a positioning satellite signal, and a circuit board disposed in the case, and electrically connected to the solar cell and the antenna section, and the antenna section overlaps the solar cell in a planar view viewed from a normal direction of light receiving surfaces of the solar cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2020Publication date: October 15, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori HASEI, Noriaki HIRAIDE
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Patent number: 10734715Abstract: A portable electronic apparatus includes a case, a solar cell disposed in the case, a GPS antenna as an antenna section disposed in the case, including a base as a nonconductive member and a conductive body disposed on a surface of the nonconductive member, and adapted to receive a positioning satellite signal, and a circuit board disposed in the case, and electrically connected to the solar cell and the antenna section, and the antenna section overlaps the solar cell in a planar view viewed from a normal direction of light receiving surfaces of the solar cell.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori Hasei, Noriaki Hiraide
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Publication number: 20200221999Abstract: A wrist apparatus includes a case, a solar battery that is provided in the case, and an optical sensor unit as a biological information measurement unit that is provided in the case, measures biological information, and is disposed at a position overlapping the solar battery in a plan view of a light reception surface of the solar battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2020Publication date: July 16, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya HIRAIDE, Hironori HASEI, Noriaki HIRAIDE
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Patent number: 10631784Abstract: A wrist apparatus includes a case, a solar battery that is provided in the case, and an optical sensor unit as a biological information measurement unit that is provided in the case, measures biological information, and is disposed at a position overlapping the solar battery in a plan view of a light reception surface of the solar battery.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya Hiraide, Hironori Hasei, Noriaki Hiraide
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Patent number: 10613581Abstract: A wrist apparatus includes a case, a solar battery that is provided in the case, and a biological information measurement unit (optical sensor) that is provided in the case and measures biological information, in which the solar battery is disposed outside an outer edge of the biological information measurement unit in a plan view of a light reception surface of the solar battery.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya Hiraide, Hironori Hasei, Noriaki Hiraide
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Patent number: 10350456Abstract: An exercise content setting system includes a terminal apparatus that acquires and transmits the daily activity information of a user; and an exercise content setting apparatus that sets exercise content information indicating content of an exercise according to a preset purpose based on the activity information acquired from the terminal apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Jun Umetsu, Ryoma Shirouzu, Hironori Hasei
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Publication number: 20190129470Abstract: A mobile electronic device includes housing that is worn on a user's body; a solar-light power generation unit that has a first and second cell that are arranged with a gap in between; a display unit; a plurality of buttons on which an operation by user is applied; a circuit board is electrically connected to solar-light power generation unit and overlaps, in a plan view, with at least one portion of first area that is configured by connecting the plurality of buttons with straight lines; a wiring unit that is positioned in a second area which is different from first area and includes the gap; a biological sensor positioned in a position that overlaps with first area, and user's biological signal; and wiring unit that electrically connects between solar-light power generation unit positioned in a second area that includes the gap, which is different from first area, and circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori HASEI, Takehisa UEMURA, Noriaki HIRAIDE
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Publication number: 20190051975Abstract: A portable electronic apparatus includes a case, a solar cell disposed in the case, a GPS antenna as an antenna section disposed in the case, including a base as a nonconductive member and a conductive body disposed on a surface of the nonconductive member, and adapted to receive a positioning satellite signal, and a circuit board disposed in the case, and electrically connected to the solar cell and the antenna section, and the antenna section overlaps the solar cell in a planar view viewed from a normal direction of light receiving surfaces of the solar cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori HASEI, Noriaki HIRAIDE
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Publication number: 20190025876Abstract: A wrist apparatus includes a case, a solar battery that is provided in the case, and a biological information measurement unit (optical sensor) that is provided in the case and measures biological information, in which the solar battery is disposed outside an outer edge of the biological information measurement unit in a plan view of a light reception surface of the solar battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya HIRAIDE, Hironori HASEI, Noriaki HIRAIDE
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Publication number: 20190021661Abstract: A wrist apparatus as a portable electronic apparatus includes a case section having a rear surface as a second surface brought into contact with a user's body, a solar battery unit and a display unit provided side by side on a first surface side located on an opposite side to the second surface, a band portion used to mount the case section on the user's body, and a circuit board disposed in the case section and electrically connected to the solar battery unit and the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori HASEI, Noriaki HIRAIDE