Patents by Inventor Kenichi Ninomiya

Kenichi Ninomiya 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: 20210117019
    Abstract: A highly reliable waterproof electronic pen includes a board holder in a board housing including a recessed portion having an opening over a lower surface of the recessed portion. A circuit board is housed in the recessed portion of the board housing. Circuit components easily affected by heat are installed on a first surface of the circuit board, and circuit components not easily affected by heat are installed on a second surface of the circuit board. A thermosetting resin formed over the second surface of the circuit board when the circuit board is housed in the recessed portion seals the opening over the lower surface of the recessed portion of the board housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Takayuki Arai, Kenichi Ninomiya, Takenori Kaneda
  • Publication number: 20210088398
    Abstract: A pressure detection element of a capacitive system includes a dielectric having two opposing surfaces including a first surface and a second surface, a conductor layer provided on the first surface of the dielectric, a conductive elastic member provided on the second surface of the dielectric, a spacer that positions the conductive elastic member at a predetermined distance from the second surface of the dielectric, and a pressing member configured to push the conductive elastic member toward the dielectric. An end surface of the pressing member that presses the conductive elastic member has a predetermined curvature, with an apex at a center of the end surface. A protrusion is provided at the apex at the center of the end surface of the pressing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Takenori Kaneda, Kenichi Ninomiya, Kohei Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210055807
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes a first casing, a second casing disposed within the first casing, and an electronic pen main body unit incorporating an electronic pen function disposed within the second casing, in which the electronic pen main body unit includes a side switch unit having an operating element exposed on a side surface of the second casing, and an operating opening portion is disposed in a side surface of the first casing, and the operating opening portion exposes the operating element exposed on the side surface of the second casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Mamoru Ogata, Kenichi Ninomiya
  • Publication number: 20210041964
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes an electrically conductive coil spring that expands and contracts, a core body having electrical conductivity, a writing pressure detector having a fitting part fitted to an end of the core body on a side of the core body that is opposite to a side of the core body that includes a pen tip, and an electronic circuit that includes an oscillating circuit. The electronic circuit, in operation, causes a detection result from the writing pressure detector to be included in a signal from the oscillating circuit. The core body penetrates through a center axis of the coil spring and is not biased by the coil spring, and a first end of the coil spring on a side of the coil spring adjacent to the pen tip is connected to the core body and a second end of the coil spring is connected to the electronic circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Kohei Tanaka, Kenichi Ninomiya, Ryuto Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20210018998
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes a casing, an opening portion formed on one side of the casing, a core body that projects outside of the casing through the opening portion, a circuit board, and a core body insertion member disposed in the casing and having a hollow space that houses the core body. The hollow space includes a hollow portion between the core body insertion member and the core body when the core body insertion member houses the core body, the hollow portion communicating, via the opening portion, with a first space external to the electronic pen, and the hollow portion separated from a second space in which the circuit board is disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Kenichi Ninomiya, Takayuki Arai, Kohei Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200356192
    Abstract: An electronic pen main body unit of an electronic pen having a function of a fountain pen includes an ink writing unit in which a cartridge housing liquid ink is fitted to a rear end portion of a pen core, and a pen body is disposed so as to be superposed on the pen core in a direction orthogonal to a coupling direction of the pen core and the cartridge, and an interaction circuit having an electronic part which, in operation, exchanges a signal with a tablet. The interaction circuit is disposed on a side of the pen core opposite the pen body in the direction orthogonal to the coupling direction of the pen core and the cartridge in a state in which the interaction circuit recedes to the cartridge side from a writing end of the pen body in the coupling direction of the pen core and the cartridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Kohei TANAKA, Kenichi NINOMIYA, Takenori KANEDA, Toshihiko HORIE
  • Publication number: 20200356705
    Abstract: A method for designing a part member of a custom-made furniture includes: producing a rectangular parallelepiped part member in a rectangular parallelepiped space; setting a XY coordinate system on six faces of the rectangular parallelepiped space using a corner of a rectangle of each face as an origin and two sides of a rectangle of each face as X axis and Y axis; setting one or more predetermined rules for determining positions of one or more machinings based on lengths p and q from a corner of the rectangle and designating a XY coordinate positions of the one or more machinings as a function of p and q; altering the dimensions of the rectangular parallelepiped space of the part member; calculating the positions of the machinings after the dimensions of the rectangular space are altered in accordance with the predetermined rules; and outputting the machining specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: Domans, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ninomiya, Hiroyuki Masuda
  • Patent number: 10802616
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes: a tubular casing; a rod-shaped core body that projects outside of the casing through an opening of the casing, the opening being formed on one side in axial direction of the casing; a pen pressure detector disposed within a hollow portion of the casing, wherein the pen pressure detector, in operation detects a pen pressure applied to the core body; a core body insertion member disposed between the pen pressure detector and the opening of the casing within the hollow portion of the casing, the core body insertion member housing the core body movably in the axial direction of the casing and having a hollow space closed on a side of the pen pressure detector by a barrier; and a first sealing member that separates the hollow space of the core body insertion member from the hollow portion of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ninomiya, Takayuki Arai, Kohei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10761620
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes an ink writing section including a core body and an ink holding section configured to hold an ink that is supplied to the core body, a circuit board, a transmission section which, in operation, transmits a signal, a connection member including a first side that holds an end portion of the ink writing section, on a side of the ink writing section opposite to the core body, and a second side that holds a first end portion of the circuit board, a pen pressure detector provided adjacent to a second end portion of the circuit board, and a casing configured to accommodate the ink writing section, the connection member, the circuit board and the pen pressure detector such that a tip portion of the core body protrudes from the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takenori Kaneda, Kenichi Ninomiya, Kohei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10725565
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes a first casing that includes a side switch operating element that is operable by a user; an electronic pen main body that performs an electronic pen function, the electronic pen main body being housed within the first casing; and a second casing that encloses the electronic pen main body, the second casing including a contact or an operation receiving portion of a switch that is exposed on the second casing and that is operable by the side switch operating element of the first casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Yamada, Kenichi Ninomiya
  • Patent number: 10713395
    Abstract: A method of designing a furniture product includes displaying a first and a second part members on a screen such that a first face of the first part member and a second face of the second part member are in parallel; setting XY coordinate in which a corner of a rectangle of each face of the first and second part members is set as an origin, and two sides extending orthogonally from the corner are set as X axis and Y axis to designate a first position on the first face by the XY coordinate; perpendicularly projecting the first face of the first part member onto the second face of the second part member to calculate a position on the second face that corresponds to the first position and designating the calculated position on the second face as a second position by the XY coordinate on the second face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: DOMANS, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ninomiya, Hiroyuki Masuda
  • Publication number: 20200201455
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes a tubular casing, and a first coupling member and a second coupling member that are coupled to each other in a hollow portion of the casing in an axial direction of the casing. In the axial direction, the first coupling member and the second coupling member are coupled to each other while partially overlapping each other, and in a coupling portion between the first coupling member and the second coupling member, a welded portion that attaches the first coupling member and the second coupling member to each other is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Kohei TANAKA, Hiroyuki FUJITSUKA, Kenichi NINOMIYA, Takenori KANEDA, Gunji ISHIHARA, Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Taketoshi ITO, Shuanglei LI
  • Publication number: 20200174439
    Abstract: A furniture product is designed as a rectangular parallelepiped space such that dimension of the space can be altered. Shape and size of a plurality of kinds of machining to be provided on a face of a part member face is registered in a machining master. Toolpath of controlling a tool of a machining machine is produced by CAM for each machining in advance. Machining selected from the machining master is registered on a face of a rectangular parallelepiped space of the part member. Upon receiving the data of rectangular parallelepiped space of the part member having altered dimension, the machining machine can apply the selected machining at a position after alteration of the dimension by controlling the tool in accordance with the toolpath.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Kenichi NINOMIYA, Seiji YOKOYAMA, Shunichiro YUMIGETA
  • Patent number: 10579164
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes an electronic pen main body section coupled to a side of a housing that includes an opening. The electronic pen main body section includes: an axial portion that is put into a hollow portion of the housing via the opening; and a tip portion that is coupled to the axial portion and externally exposed from the opening of the housing. A diameter of the tip portion is larger than a diameter of the opening of the housing. A coupling side of the tip portion includes a second ring-shaped end face that comes into contact with a first ring-shaped end face on the side of the housing that includes the opening. The electronic pen main body section includes a stepped portion on a coupling area between the tip portion and the axial portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei Tanaka, Kenichi Ninomiya, Takenori Kaneda
  • Publication number: 20200050298
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes a core body including a tip portion having a tip and a tapered side surface tapered toward the tip and having a recessed section recessed toward a tip side of the core body from a side of the core body that is opposite to the tip side of the core body, and including a core rod that passes through a center axis of the recessed section from a side of the tip portion that includes the tip and extends away from the tip; and a tubular casing in which a pen-pressure detector is installed, the core body being attached to the tubular casing in an axially movable manner such that the core rod is pressable against the pen-pressure detector, and the tubular casing having a surface that is adjacent to an inner or outer surface of the recessed section of the core body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Kohei TANAKA, Kenichi NINOMIYA
  • Patent number: 10540024
    Abstract: A stylus includes in a tubular casing a core body, a pressure detector that detects a pressure applied to the core body, a coupling fitted over the core body, the coupling transmitting the pressure to the pressure detector, and a core pressing controller that controls the coupling to press the core body axially in the tubular casing. The coupling includes a push bearer that bears a push from the core pressing controller, a presser having an axial end fitted in the pressure detector, a fitting region fitted over a portion of the core body remote from a pen tip end of the tubular casing, a receptacle in which another end of the presser remote from an axial end thereof is axially movably housed, and an elastic member disposed in the receptacle, the elastic member biasing the other end of the presser resiliently toward an axial pen tip end of the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Ogata, Kenichi Ninomiya, Kohei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10503281
    Abstract: A pen pressure detection device includes: a pressure sensor including electrodes that output electrical information corresponding to an applied pressure; and a holder configured to electrically connect the pressure sensor to a circuit board having a circuit that detects the applied pressure based on the electrical information output from the pressure sensor. The holder includes a first portion that retains the pressure sensor and a second portion that engages with the circuit board, and the holder has a surface on which wiring is formed, the wiring extending from the first portion to the second portion, and the electrodes of the pressure sensor being electrically connected to the circuit board via the wiring when the holder and the circuit board are engaged with each other. The pen pressure detection device can be easily assembled and maintain a connection to the circuit board when the applied pressure is high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fujitsuka, Takenori Kaneda, Takayuki Arai, Kenichi Ninomiya, Kohei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10427449
    Abstract: A writing instrument includes a cylindrical outer housing, one end of the outer housing having an outer opening, and an electronic pen body stored in the outer housing. The electronic pen body includes a stylus, one end of the stylus in an axial direction of the stylus serving as a pen tip, and a cylindrical inner housing storing the stylus, the one end of the stylus serving as the pen tip extending from an inner opening at a distal end of the inner housing, the inner opening of the inner housing defining one axial end of a hole extending axially forming a stylus guide that enables the stylus to move axially. In operation, the pen tip of the stylus and a distal portion of the inner housing having the inner opening extend from the outer opening of the outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: WACOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takenori Kaneda, Kenichi Ninomiya, Hiroyuki Fujitsuka, Kohei Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20190294269
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes: a tubular casing; a rod-shaped core body that projects outside of the casing through an opening of the casing, the opening being formed on one side in axial direction of the casing; a pen pressure detector disposed within a hollow portion of the casing, wherein the pen pressure detector, in operation detects a pen pressure applied to the core body; a core body insertion member disposed between the pen pressure detector and the opening of the casing within the hollow portion of the casing, the core body insertion member housing the core body movably in the axial direction of the casing and having a hollow space closed on a side of the pen pressure detector by a barrier; and a first sealing member that separates the hollow space of the core body insertion member from the hollow portion of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Kenichi Ninomiya, Takayuki Arai, Kohei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10365733
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes: a tubular casing; a rod-shaped core body that projects outside of the casing through an opening of the casing, the opening being formed on one side in axial direction of the casing; a pen pressure detector disposed within a hollow portion of the casing, wherein the pen pressure detector, in operation detects a pen pressure applied to the core body; a core body insertion member disposed between the pen pressure detector and the opening of the casing within the hollow portion of the casing, the core body insertion member housing the core body movably in the axial direction of the casing and having a hollow space closed on a side of the pen pressure detector by a barrier; and a first sealing member that separates the hollow space of the core body insertion member from the hollow portion of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: WACOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ninomiya, Takayuki Arai, Kohei Tanaka