Patents by Inventor Takao Miyazawa

Takao Miyazawa 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: 20130009647
    Abstract: A sensor device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a gap forming member and a functional element. The first electrode is composed of a first metallic material. The second electrode is spaced apart from the first electrode, and composed of a second metallic material. The gap forming member is arranged with a gap being formed between the gap forming member and a portion of a surface of the first electrode. The functional element is configured and arranged to measure a difference in electric potential between the first electrode and the second electrode so that a state of a measurement site to be measured is measured based on the difference in electric potential as measured by the functional element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takao MIYAZAWA, Juri KATO
  • Publication number: 20120286804
    Abstract: A sensor device includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a functional element. The first electrode includes a porous body having a connecting hole where adjacent holes communicate with each other with the porous body being in at least the vicinity of a surface of the first electrode. The second electrode is spaced apart from the first electrode. The functional element is configured to measure a difference in electric potential between the first electrode and the second electrode. The sensor device is configured to measure a state of a site to be measured based on the difference in electric potential as measured by the functional element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Juri KATO, Takao MIYAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20120242319
    Abstract: A sensor device includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a functional element. The first electrode includes a first metallic material in which either a first passivation film is formed on a surface thereof or the first passivation film present on the surface thereof is lost, in association with changes in an environment of a measurement site. The second electrode includes a second metallic material different from the first metallic material, the second electrode being spaced apart from the first electrode. The functional element is configured to measure a difference in electric potential between the first electrode and the second electrode that changes depending on presence or absence of the first passivation film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Juri KATO, Takao MIYAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20120242355
    Abstract: A sensor device includes first and second electrodes, a coating film and a functional element. The first electrode includes a first metallic material in which either a first passivation film forms on a surface thereof or the first passivation film present on the surface thereof is lost, in association with changes in the pH of a measurement site. The second electrode includes a second metallic material different from the first metallic material, and is spaced apart from the first electrode. The coating film includes a third metallic material different from the first and second metallic materials. The coating film covers at least the first or second electrode. The functional element is configured to measure a difference in electric potential between the first and second electrodes that changes depending on presence or absence of each of the first passivation film and the coating film in association with the changes in pH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Juri KATO, Takao MIYAZAWA
  • Patent number: 7956883
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: light-emitting elements whose luminous energy is controlled according to a current value and a pulse width of a driving signal; a storage unit that stores first and second coefficients for every light-emitting element; a pulse width determining unit that determines the pulse width of the driving signal supplied to each light-emitting element on the basis of the first coefficient, a current value determining unit that determines a current value of the driving signal supplied to each light-emitting element on the basis of the second coefficient, a driving unit that supplies the driving signal having the current value determined by the current value determining unit within the determined pulse width determined, to the light-emitting element, and a coefficient determining unit that calculates the first coefficient based on target values of a light amount and first peak light amounts of one of the light-emitting elements, and calculates the second coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takao Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 7948509
    Abstract: A line head, includes a light-emitting element row, having a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction; a plurality of feeding portions; a first power supply line for power supply, connected to a first feeding portion for a power supply of the feeding portions; and a second power supply line for ground, connected to a second feeding portion for a ground of the feeding portions. The light-emitting elements are respectively connected between the first power supply line and the second power supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunori Yamazaki, Takao Miyazawa, Akira Nakajima, Yujiro Nomura, Kiyoshi Tsujino
  • Patent number: 7944459
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements, each emitting light with a light amount according to a driving signal, a storage unit that stores first gray-scale data for assigning a gray-scale value of each of the plurality of light-emitting elements, a data processing unit that generates second gray-scale data from the first gray-scale data stored in the storage unit for each light-emitting element such that, as the gray-scale value assigned by the first gray-scale data is large, a gray-scale value assigned by the second gray-scale data is made small, and a driving unit that causes the individual light-emitting elements to emit light in a first period upon supply of a driving signal according to the first gray-scale data stored in the storage unit, and causes the individual light-emitting elements to emit light in a second period different from the first period upon supply of a driving signal according to the second gray-scale data generated by the data processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takao Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 7609285
    Abstract: An exposure device includes a first light source column, a second light source column, and a light converger. A distance along a first direction between the center of a first light source of the first light source column and the center of a second light source of the second light source column, which is located to a second direction relative to the first light source, is larger than a distance along the first direction between the center of a third light source of the first light source column, which is located farther from an optical axis of the light converger than the first light source and the center of a fourth light source of the second light source column, which is located to the second direction relative to the third light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takao Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 7576718
    Abstract: To provide a technology for preventing effect of precharging from becoming nonuniform when the threshold voltage of a driving transistor included in a current drive type pixel circuit is nonuniform. In the technology, before setting the internal state of each of current drive type pixel circuits, provided to corresponded to intersections of a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scanning lines, in accordance with light emission grayscales, precharge voltages as voltages to be applied to the data lines are specified. A predetermined current is supplied to the current drive type pixel circuits via the data lines. A precharge voltage is specified in accordance with voltages appearing in the data lines after the predetermined current is supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takao Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 7550702
    Abstract: A correction value determining method for each of a plurality of electro optical elements whose light intensity is controlled in accordance with a gray scale value and a correction value, the method comprising the steps described below. (a) Measuring a light intensity of the each electro optical element when the same gray scale value is specified to each of the electro optical elements. (b) Determining the correction value for each of the plurality of electro optical elements so that a light intensity after correction of one of the electro optical elements when a predetermined gray scale value is specified thereto whose light intensity measured in step (a) is a first light intensity exceeds a light intensity after correction of another one of the electro elements when the predetermined gray scale value is specified thereto whose light intensity measured in step (a) is a second light intensity which exceeds the first light intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takao Miyazawa
  • Publication number: 20090141113
    Abstract: A line head, includes a light-emitting element row, having a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction; a plurality of feeding portions; a first power supply line for power supply, connected to a first feeding portion for a power supply of the feeding portions; and a second power supply line for ground, connected to a second feeding portion for a ground of the feeding portions. The light-emitting elements are respectively connected between the first power supply line and the second power supply line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunori YAMAZAKI, Takao MIYAZAWA, Akira NAKAJIMA, Yujiro NOMURA, Kiyoshi TSUJINO
  • Patent number: 7499067
    Abstract: A line head, includes a light-emitting element row, having a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction; a plurality of feeding portions; a first power supply line for power supply, connected to a first feeding portion for a power supply of the feeding portions; and a second power supply line for ground, connected to a second feeding portion for a ground of the feeding portions. The light-emitting elements are respectively connected between the first power supply line and the second power supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunori Yamazaki, Takao Miyazawa, Akira Nakajima, Yujiro Nomura, Kiyoshi Tsujino
  • Publication number: 20080080898
    Abstract: An exposure device includes a first light source column, a second light source column, and a light converger. A distance along a first direction between the center of a first light source of the first light source column and the center of a second light source of the second light source column, which is located to a second direction relative to the first light source, is larger than a distance along the first direction between the center of a third light source of the first light source column, which is located farther from an optical axis of the light converger than the first light source and the center of a fourth light source of the second light source column, which is located to the second direction relative to the third light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takao MIYAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20080055296
    Abstract: Provided herein is an electro-optical device including electro-optical elements whose gradation levels are controlled according to driving signals; and a driving circuit which generates the driving signals in which unit pulses, each having a pulse width including a basic period having a predetermined time length and a correction period having a time length which varies according to a correction value of the corresponding electro-optical element, are arranged in a number according to each of gradation values specified by the electro-optical elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takao Miyazawa
  • Publication number: 20080042045
    Abstract: A correction value determining method for each of a plurality of electro optical elements whose light intensity is controlled in accordance with a gray scale value and a correction value, the method comprising the steps described below. (a) Measuring a light intensity of the each electro optical element when the same gray scale value is specified to each of the electro optical elements. (b) Determining the correction value for each of the plurality of electro optical elements so that a light intensity after correction of one of the electro optical elements when a predetermined gray scale value is specified thereto whose light intensity measured in step (a) is a first light intensity exceeds a light intensity after correction of another one of the electro elements when the predetermined gray scale value is specified thereto whose light intensity measured in step (a) is a second light intensity which exceeds the first light intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takao MIYAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20080012925
    Abstract: A line head, includes a light-emitting element row, having a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction; a plurality of feeding portions; a first power supply line for power supply, connected to a first feeding portion for a power supply of the feeding portions; and a second power supply line for ground, connected to a second feeding portion for a ground of the feeding portions. The light-emitting elements are respectively connected between the first power supply line and the second power supply line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsunori Yamazaki, Takao Miyazawa, Akira Nakajima, Yujiro Nomura, Kiyoshi Tsujino
  • Patent number: 7286147
    Abstract: A line head, includes a light-emitting element row, having a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction; a plurality of feeding portions; a first power supply line for power supply, connected to a first feeding portion for a power supply of the feeding portions; and a second power supply line for ground, connected to a second feeding portion for a ground of the feeding portions. The light-emitting elements are respectively connected between the first power supply line and the second power supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunori Yamazaki, Takao Miyazawa, Akira Nakajima, Yujiro Nomura, Kiyoshi Tsujino
  • Publication number: 20070109231
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements, each emitting light with a light amount according to a driving signal, a storage unit that stores first gray-scale data for assigning a gray-scale value of each of the plurality of light-emitting elements, a data processing unit that generates second gray-scale data from the first gray-scale data stored in the storage unit for each light-emitting element such that, as the gray-scale value assigned by the first gray-scale data is large, a gray-scale value assigned by the second gray-scale data is made small, and a driving unit that causes the individual light-emitting elements to emit light in a first period upon supply of a driving signal according to the first gray-scale data stored in the storage unit, and causes the individual light-emitting elements to emit light in a second period different from the first period upon supply of a driving signal according to the second gray-scale data generated by the data processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takao MIYAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20070097040
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a plurality of light-emitting elements whose luminous energy is controlled according to a current value and a pulse width of a driving signal; a storage unit that stores first and second coefficients for every light-emitting element; a pulse width determining unit that determines the pulse width of the driving signal supplied to each light-emitting element on the basis of the first coefficient for the corresponding light-emitting element stored in the storage unit and a grayscale value designated for the corresponding light-emitting element by grayscale data; a current value determining unit that determines a current value of the driving signal supplied to each light-emitting element on the basis of the second coefficient for the corresponding light-emitting element stored in the storage unit; and a driving unit that supplies the driving signal having the current value determined by the current value determining unit within the pulse width determined by the pulse width determ
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takao MIYAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20050146593
    Abstract: A line head, includes a light-emitting element row, having a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction; a plurality of feeding portions; a first power supply line for power supply, connected to a first feeding portion for a power supply of the feeding portions; and a second power supply line for ground, connected to a second feeding portion for a ground of the feeding portions. The light-emitting elements are respectively connected between the first power supply line and the second power supply line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Katsunori Yamazaki, Takao Miyazawa, Akira Nakajima, Yujiro Nomura, Kiyoshi Tsujino