Patents by Inventor Shun Kayama
Shun Kayama 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: 9658694Abstract: A touch-sensitive sheet member contains a body having predetermined hardness and a sheet shape and a sense-of-touch-representing unit that represents a sense of touch. The sense-of-touch-representing unit has a predetermined size and is arranged at positions of the body or at a predetermined position of the body. The touch-sensitive sheet member also contains a medium-supplying unit that supplies medium to the sense-of-touch-representing unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignees: Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Sony CorporationInventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Shun Kayama, Takashi Sawada, Yukiko Shimizu, Tsutomu Takahashi
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Patent number: 9336969Abstract: A press detection sensor contains a base member having predetermined length and width and also having a predetermined shape, a first conductor having predetermined length and being arranged on the base member, and a second conductor that is arranged on the base member with the second conductor being faced to the first conductor. The press detection sensor also contains a conductive contact body that is arranged between the first conductor and the second conductor. The conductive contact body connects the first and second conductors electrically in response to an external force. The press detection sensor further contains a covering member that includes the contact body on the inside thereof. The covering member covers a top of the base member which includes the first and second conductors. The covering member contains at least one of flexibility and elasticity.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2008Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Shun Kayama, Yukiko Shimizu, Tsutomu Takahashi
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Publication number: 20160091973Abstract: A touch-sensitive sheet member contains a body having predetermined hardness and a sheet shape and a sense-of-touch-representing unit that represents a sense of touch. The sense-of-touch-representing unit has a predetermined size and is arranged at positions of the body or at a predetermined position of the body. The touch-sensitive sheet member also contains a medium-supplying unit that supplies medium to the sense-of-touch-representing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2015Publication date: March 31, 2016Inventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Shun Kayama, Takashi Sawada, Yukiko Shimizu, Tsutomu Takahashi
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Patent number: 9244531Abstract: A touch-sensitive sheet member contains a body having predetermined hardness and a sheet shape and a sense-of-touch-representing unit that represents a sense of touch. The sense-of-touch-representing unit has a predetermined size and is arranged at positions of the body or at a predetermined position of the body. The touch-sensitive sheet member also contains a medium-supplying unit that supplies medium to the sense-of-touch-representing unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Shun Kayama, Takashi Sawada, Yukiko Shimizu, Tsutomu Takahashi
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Patent number: 9223421Abstract: An input device includes an input-sensing unit that contains a capacitive input sensor and a sensitivity-sensing unit that contains a capacitive sensitivity sensor. The input-sensing unit senses position information obtained by touch operation of an operation body to the capacitive input sensor. The sensitivity-sensing unit senses sensitivity information obtained by touch operation of the operation body to the capacitive sensitivity sensor. The input device includes a control unit determining whether or not the output level of the position information from the input-sensing unit is adjusted based on the sensitivity information sensed by the sensitivity-sensing unit and a sensitivity-adjusting unit that adjusts an output level of the position information from the input-sensing unit based on a result of the determination of the control unit. The control unit controls the sensitivity-adjusting unit to adjust the output level of the position information received from the input-sensing unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2009Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Shun Kayama, Minoru Tomita, Yukiko Shimizu
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Patent number: 8861196Abstract: A heat dissipation structure includes a circuit board that is disposed inside an outer casing having a chassis formed with air inlet holes, and in which a first electronic component generating heat when driven and a second electronic component not generating heat when driven are mounted on one surface of a base plate, and a heat sink that releases the heat generated in the first electronic component. Here, in the heat sink, a heat dissipation unit positioned facing the base plate, an eaves portion protruding from the heat dissipation unit, and a pair of enclosing portions protruding from ends of the eaves portion in a direction perpendicular to a protruding direction from the heat dissipation unit, and at least one of the air inlet holes is formed in a position facing the eaves portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shun Kayama, Yukiko Shimizu
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Publication number: 20140168115Abstract: A touch-sensitive sheet member contains a body having predetermined hardness and a sheet shape and a sense-of-touch-representing unit that represents a sense of touch. The sense-of-touch-representing unit has a predetermined size and is arranged at positions of the body or at a predetermined position of the body. The touch-sensitive sheet member also contains a medium-supplying unit that supplies medium to the sense-of-touch-representing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Shun Kayama, Takashi Sawada, Yukiko Shimizu, Tsutomu Takahashi
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Patent number: 8547341Abstract: A touch-sensitive sheet member contains a body having predetermined hardness and a sheet shape and a sense-of-touch-representing unit that represents a sense of touch. The sense-of-touch-representing unit has a predetermined size and is arranged at positions of the body or at a predetermined position of the body. The touch-sensitive sheet member also contains a medium-supplying unit that supplies medium to the sense-of-touch-representing unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2008Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Shun Kayama, Takashi Sawada, Yukiko Shimizu, Tsutomu Takahashi
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Patent number: 8493334Abstract: An optical input device has a display screen, a portion of the display screen being shielded from light by an operating member to implement input processing based on a plurality of input modes. The input device includes an input detection unit including a display unit that displays predetermined input information, and a control unit. The input detection unit detects an area and/or brightness of a light-shielded portion formed on the display screen by the operating member by approaching the display unit. The control unit provides display control of the display unit and input control on the basis of the detected area and/or brightness. The control unit compares the detected area and/or brightness with a predetermined threshold value to select a desired input mode from among the plurality of input modes.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2008Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Tsutomu Takahashi, Satoshi Kushima, Hideki Okii, Shun Kayama, Yukiko Shimizu, Takashi Sawada
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Patent number: 8382453Abstract: Disclosed is a piezoelectric pump. The piezoelectric pump includes a pump body, a drive unit, a detection section, and a control unit. The pump body includes a hole for introducing a fluid from outside thereinto and jetting the fluid from inside, a wall portion disposed so as to face the hole, and a piezoelectric body provided on the wall portion to vibrate the wall portion. The drive unit drives the piezoelectric body. The detection section detects a signal corresponding to a discharge rate of the fluid from the hole. The control unit controls a drive voltage and a drive frequency of the drive unit on the basis of the signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2008Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Minoru Tomita, Masahiro Suzuki, Shun Kayama, Yukiko Shimizu
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Publication number: 20130004708Abstract: A molding apparatus includes a cavity mold, a core mold, a core pin, and a cavity pin. After molten resin has been filled in a cavity, at least one of the core pin and the cavity pin is moved to be pressed onto the molten resin so that a part of the molten resin is compressed before the molten resin is cured, and a molded hole is formed by cutting off the compressed part of the molten resin by moving the core pin and the cavity pin.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shun Kayama, Yukiko Shimizu, Atsuhide Hanyu, Susumu Hoshino, Keisuke Kawamura
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Publication number: 20120326817Abstract: An operation device includes: a key top arranged so that part thereof is inserted into a key arrangement hole formed in a casing of an electronic apparatus and being movable in a given direction on the basis of an initial position at the time of operation; a movable magnet attached to the key top; a magnetic body fixed so as to face the movable magnet and giving a force to move the key top in a direction toward the initial position by absorptivity generated between the magnetic body and the movable magnet; a hall device detecting a movement state of the key top due to a magnetic field generated by the movable magnet; and a circuit substrate on which the hall device is mounted.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2012Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shun Kayama, Yukiko Shimizu
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Patent number: 8264463Abstract: An input device inputs information by a slide operation depending on an operation body. The device contains a housing having an operation surface, a detection unit that is provided in the housing and includes an electrostatic capacitance sheet member which detects a slide position of the operation body to output a position detection signal, and an operation unit that covers an entire surface of the detection unit and is slide-operated along the operation surface of the housing. The operation unit has a convex shape which becomes thicker along a sliding direction from one direction of the operation surface of the housing and also which becomes thinner toward the other direction of the operation surface thereof. The electrostatic capacitance sheet member includes a switch portion that is switched by a press-in operation of the operation body to the operation unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Seiji Muramatsu, Tsutomu Takahashi, Shun Kayama, Yukiko Shimizu, Takashi Sawada, Satoshi Kushima, Shinji Kanada, Minoru Tomita
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Patent number: 8231343Abstract: Provided is an axial fan apparatus including a housing and an axial-flow impeller. The axial-flow impeller is capable of rotating inside the housing and includes a plurality of axial-flow wings each having a negative pressure generation surface for generating a negative pressure, and an auxiliary vane standing on the negative pressure generation surface at an end portion of each of the plurality of axial-flow wings.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2008Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shun Kayama, Yukiko Shimizu, Kazutoshi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8223130Abstract: A touch-sensitive sheet member contains a first raw material member having predetermined hardness and a second raw material member that presents sense of touch. The second raw material member is disposed in the first raw material member. The second raw material member has hardness different from the hardness of the first raw material member.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2008Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Shun Kayama, Yukiko Shimizu, Takashi Sawada
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Publication number: 20120178866Abstract: The resin composition of the present invention is characterized by comprising (A) biodegradable resin, (B) at least one inorganic filler selected from a fibrous inorganic filler, a plate-like inorganic filler, a rod-like inorganic filler and a granular inorganic filler, or an organic filler having water repellency, and (C) a di- or higher functional compound or resin having an isocyanate group. The resin composition of the present invention comprises a biodegradable resin as a main resin component, but can provide molded articles excellent in hydrolysis resistance, mechanical characteristics, and dimensional stability.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2010Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicants: SHOWA DENKO K.K., SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shun Kayama, Minoru Tomita, Yukiko Shimizu, Terumitsu Kotani, Kei Takahashi
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Publication number: 20120062522Abstract: An information input device is provided which is to make input of information by operating a disk-shaped rotating member. The device includes the rotating member (36) which is rotatable with one main side thereof being operated, rotation detecting means (23, 32) for detecting a rotation of the rotating member (36), a central switch activator (26) provided at the center of rotation of the rotating member (36), a central switch (270) which is activated by operating the central switch activator (26), and a plurality of peripheral switches (27) which are turned on when a portion, apart from the center of rotation, of the rotating member (36) is pressed. Rotating the rotating member and pressing the apart portion makes input of information, and operating the central switch activator sets the information thus entered.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicants: Omron Corporation, Sony CorporationInventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Shun Kayama, Yasuhiro Kataoka, Hiroshi Azuma, Yoshihiro Tanabe, Tsuyoshi Uchida
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Publication number: 20120053258Abstract: A first resin composition of the present invention is characterized by comprising (A) at least one thermoplastic resin selected from polypropylenes, polystyrenes, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymers, polycarbonates, polyethylenes and thermoplastic elastomers, (B) filler such as a crushed shell material or the like, and (C) binder component. A second resin composition of the present invention is characterized by comprising (A?) thermoplastic resin such as an acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer or the like and (B?) crushed shell material, wherein the elastic modulus thereof is 1750 to 2950 MPa. A third resin composition of the present invention is characterized by comprising (A?) thermoplastic resin and (B?) crushed shell material, wherein the surface hardness thereof measured using a durometer is 12 to 85. The resin compositions of the present invention can provide molded bodies excellent in gloss, mechanical strength, and dimensional stability.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2010Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicants: SHOWA DENKO K.K., SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shun Kayama, Minoru Tomita, Yukiko Shimizu, Terumitsu Kotani, Kei Takahashi
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Publication number: 20110305565Abstract: An axial fan apparatus including an axial-flow impeller, a drive unit, and a housing. The axial-flow impeller is capable of rotating and includes a plurality of blades inclined with respect to a rotational axis direction. The drive unit rotates the axial-flow impeller. The housing is mounted with the drive unit, and includes a sidewall, and a plurality of slits that circulate gas. The sidewall is provided around the axial-flow impeller. The plurality of slits are provided to the sidewall and inclined with respect to the rotational axis direction in a direction opposed to a direction in which the plurality of blades incline.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2011Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shun Kayama, Yukiko Shimizu, Kazutoshi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8073138Abstract: An information input device is provided which is to make input of information by operating a disk-shaped rotating member. The device includes the rotating member (36) which is rotatable with one main side thereof being operated, rotation detecting means (23, 32) for detecting a rotation of the rotating member (36), a central switch activator (26) provided at the center of rotation of the rotating member (36), a central switch (270) which is activated by operating the central switch activator (26), and a plurality of peripheral switches (27) which are turned on when a portion, apart from the center of rotation, of the rotating member (36) is pressed. Rotating the rotating member and pressing the apart portion makes input of information, and operating the central switch activator sets the information thus entered.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2010Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignees: Sony Corporation, Omron CorporationInventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Shun Kayama, Yasuhiro Kataoka, Hiroshi Azuma, Yoshihiro Tanabe, Tsuyoshi Uchida