Patents by Inventor Kouji Morimoto

Kouji Morimoto 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: 9706657
    Abstract: A flexible board includes: a base film, on which a wiring pattern is formed; a first cover film, which is located on one surface of the base film; and a second cover film, which is located on the other surface of the base film. The bending portion, which is bent when mounting the flexible board on an electronic apparatus, includes both edges on which the first cover film is formed and a central portion from which the base film is exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Kengo Suzuki, Kouji Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20160105962
    Abstract: A flexible board includes: a base film, on which a wiring pattern is formed; a first cover film, which is located on one surface of the base film; and a second cover film, which is located on the other surface of the base film. The bending portion, which is bent when mounting the flexible board on an electronic apparatus, includes both edges on which the first cover film is formed and a central portion from which the base film is exposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Kengo SUZUKI, Kouji MORIMOTO
  • Patent number: 8233836
    Abstract: A drive transmitting device includes: a rotational shaft having peripheral surface with a cut-off surface extending along an axial direction of the rotational shaft; a bearing member for supporting the rotational shaft, the bearing member being in slide contact with the peripheral surface of the rotational shaft; and a spacer which is mounted in a clearance formed between an inner circumferential surface portion of the bearing member and the cut-off surface of the rotational shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corporation
    Inventor: Kouji Morimoto
  • Patent number: 8227744
    Abstract: An absolute position length measurement type encoder includes: a scale which has an ABS pattern based on a pseudorandom code and forms bright and dark patterns by the ABS pattern; a light-receiving element for receiving the bright and dark patterns; a binarization circuit for dividing a digital signal in accordance with a signal output from the light-receiving element into a mode having high brightness and a mode having lower brightness, carrying out a binarization process by a threshold value where dispersion with regard to the two modes is maximized, and decoding the pseudorandom code by the unit of minimum line width of the ABS pattern from the binarized values; and a position detection circuit for calculating the absolute position of the scale with respect to the light-receiving element by acquiring the correlation between the decoded pseudorandom code and the design value of the pseudorandom code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
    Inventors: Kouhei Kusano, Kouji Morimoto
  • Patent number: 8110792
    Abstract: An absolute position length measurement type encoder includes: a scale in which an ABS pattern based on a pseudorandom code is provided; a light-receiving element for receiving bright and dark patterns formed by the scale; and a signal processing circuit for processing signals subjected to output of the light-receiving element and measuring an absolute position of the scale to the light-receiving element, wherein the signal processing circuit includes a space-dividing number conversion circuit that obtains finer intervals D than the array interval PPDA of the ABS light-receiving element array of the light-receiving element, and simultaneously obtains and outputs a digital value for each of the intervals D subjected to output of the ABS light-receiving element array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
    Inventor: Kouji Morimoto
  • Patent number: 8039786
    Abstract: In an absolute position detection type photoelectric encoder devised so as to detect a pseudorandom pattern disposed on a main scale by means of a plurality of imaging optical systems, assembling of the absolute position detection type photoelectric encoder is facilitated and production cost thereof is reduced by providing: a single light-receiving array element disposed on the imaging surfaces of the imaging optical systems, which incorporates a greater light-receiving array portion in the length measurement direction than the light-receiving range of the respective imaging optical systems; a window signal storing portion for storing a window signal showing a light-receiving range of the respective imaging optical systems; and a window signal comparison portion for obtaining signals corresponding to individual imaging ranges by comparing scanning signals of the light-receiving array element with window signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
    Inventors: Kouhei Kusano, Kouji Morimoto
  • Patent number: 8022354
    Abstract: The absolute position length measurement type encoder is provided with a scale for forming bright and dark patterns by the ABS pattern based on a pseudorandom code; an edge position detection circuit for obtaining a position, at which an after-differentiated absolute value of a binarized value is locally maximized, for each of the minimum line width zones of the ABS pattern by binarizing a signal from the light-receiving element that receives the bright and dark pattern; a peak position detection circuit for obtaining the peak position from a histogram with respect to the position; a decoding circuit for decoding the pseudorandom code based on the binarized value; an absolute position detection circuit for calculating an absolute position by referencing the pseudorandom code to the design value; and a position data synthesizing circuit for correcting the absolute position by the peak position, whereby the absolute position can be calculated with a small arithmetic operation amount even if the pseudorandom cod
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
    Inventors: Kouhei Kusano, Kouji Morimoto
  • Patent number: 7982176
    Abstract: An absolute position length measurement type encoder includes: a scale in which an ABS pattern based on a pseudorandom code is provided; a light-receiving element for receiving bright and dark patterns formed by the scale; and a signal processing circuit for processing signals subjected to output of the light-receiving element and measuring an absolute position of the scale to the light-receiving element, wherein the signal processing circuit includes a space-dividing number conversion circuit that obtains finer intervals D than the array interval PPDA of the ABS light-receiving element array of the light-receiving element, and simultaneously obtains and outputs a digital value for each of the intervals D subjected to output of the ABS light-receiving element array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
    Inventor: Kouji Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20090294637
    Abstract: In an absolute position detection type photoelectric encoder devised so as to detect a pseudorandom pattern disposed on a main scale by means of a plurality of imaging optical systems, assembling of the absolute position detection type photoelectric encoder is facilitated and production cost thereof is reduced by providing: a single light-receiving array element disposed on the imaging surfaces of the imaging optical systems, which incorporates a greater light-receiving array portion in the length measurement direction than the light-receiving range of the respective imaging optical systems; a window signal storing portion for storing a window signal showing a light-receiving range of the respective imaging optical systems; and a window signal comparison portion for obtaining signals corresponding to individual imaging ranges by comparing scanning signals of the light-receiving array element with window signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouhei Kusano, Kouji Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20090283667
    Abstract: An absolute position length measurement type encoder includes: a scale in which an ABS pattern based on a pseudorandom code is provided; a light-receiving element for receiving bright and dark patterns formed by the scale; and a signal processing circuit for processing signals subjected to output of the light-receiving element and measuring an absolute position of the scale to the light-receiving element, wherein the signal processing circuit includes a space-dividing number conversion circuit that obtains finer intervals D than the array interval PPDA of the ABS light-receiving element array of the light-receiving element, and simultaneously obtains and outputs a digital value for each of the intervals D subjected to output of the ABS light-receiving element array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kouji Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20090272886
    Abstract: The absolute position length measurement type encoder is provided with a scale for forming bright and dark patterns by the ABS pattern based on a pseudorandom code; an edge position detection circuit for obtaining a position, at which an after-differentiated absolute value of a binarized value is locally maximized, for each of the minimum line width zones of the ABS pattern by binarizing a signal from the light-receiving element that receives the bright and dark pattern; a peak position detection circuit for obtaining the peak position from a histogram with respect to the position; a decoding circuit for decoding the pseudorandom code based on the binarized value; an absolute position detection circuit for calculating an absolute position by referencing the pseudorandom code to the design value; and a position data synthesizing circuit for correcting the absolute position by the peak position, whereby the absolute position can be calculated with a small arithmetic operation amount even if the pseudorandom cod
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouhei Kusano, Kouji Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20090256065
    Abstract: An absolute position length measurement type encoder includes: a scale which has an ABS pattern based on a pseudorandom code and forms bright and dark patterns by the ABS pattern; a light-receiving element for receiving the bright and dark patterns; a binarization circuit for dividing a digital signal in accordance with a signal output from the light-receiving element into a mode having high brightness and a mode having lower brightness, carrying out a binarization process by a threshold value where dispersion with regard to the two modes, is maximized, and decoding the pseudorandom code by the unit of minimum line width of the ABS pattern from the binarized values; and a position detection circuit for calculating the absolute position of the scale with respect to the light-receiving element by acquiring the correlation between the decoded pseudorandom code and the design value of the pseudorandom code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouhei KUSANO, Kouji MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20090036221
    Abstract: A drive transmitting device includes: a rotational shaft having peripheral surface with a cut-off surface extending along an axial direction of the rotational shaft; a bearing member for supporting the rotational shaft, the bearing member being in slide contact with the peripheral surface of the rotational shaft; and a spacer which is mounted in a clearance formed between an inner circumferential surface portion of the bearing member and the cut-off surface of the rotational shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kouji Morimoto
  • Patent number: 5343316
    Abstract: A red-emitting phosphor represented by a general formula (Y.sub.1-x-y Cr.sub.x Gd.sub.y).sub.3 (Al.sub.1-z Ga.sub.z).sub.5 O.sub.12 with the provide that 0.0005.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.0.05, O.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.1, O.ltoreq.z.ltoreq.1, providing red- and infrared emitting luminescence, using alone or in a mixture with other phosphors in a cathode ray tube, having a constant main emission peak even if excited by a high current density, having a satisfactory luminescence efficiency, and causing less brightness saturation in proportion as a current density increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: Nichia Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouji Morimoto, Miyuki Sumitomo, Katsunori Uchimura