Patents by Inventor Takayuki Kikuchi

Takayuki Kikuchi 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: 20170126234
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes a substrate, a joining part provided on the substrate and joined to a vibrator, and a plurality of bonding pads provided on the substrate. The joining part includes an insulating protective film that covers a part of a surface of the substrate, and no insulating protective film is provided between the adjacent bonding pads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Kensaku Isohata, Takayuki Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20170117902
    Abstract: A package includes a base member and a first projecting portion that projects from one surface of the base member. The first projecting portion contacts a first substrate on which an electronic component is mounted, and has an insulating property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Kensaku Isohata, Takayuki Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9631926
    Abstract: A vibration element includes a vibrating portion, a support portion that supports the vibrating portion, and a suspension arm that couples the vibrating portion to the support portion. In addition, the suspension arm includes a meandering portion extending out the support portion and an inclination portion that couples the meandering portion to the vibrating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichiro Ogura, Keiichi Yamaguchi, Ryuta Nishizawa, Takayuki Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9599469
    Abstract: In an angular velocity sensor, when a width of a detection frequency band is set to f1 [Hz], a resonance frequency in a first rotational vibration mode in which a base portion rotates and vibrates around a detection axis with respect to fixing units in association with the deformation of beam portions is set to f2 [Hz], a detuning frequency is set to f3 [Hz], and a resonance frequency in a second rotational vibration mode, having a phase opposite to that of the first rotational vibration mode, in which the base portion rotates and vibrates around the detection axis with respect to the fixing units in association with the deformation of the beam portions is set to f4, a relation of f1<f2<f3<f4 or a relation of f1<f2<f4<f3 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuta Nishizawa, Takayuki Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20170040942
    Abstract: An oscillator includes an oscillation source, multiple temperature control elements, and a controller adapted to perform control to suppress an increase in current consumed in one or more of the temperature control elements during at least part of a period from when operation of the oscillation source initiates to when the oscillation source reaches a specified temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Kensaku Isohata, Takayuki Kikuchi, Takemi Yonezawa
  • Publication number: 20170016725
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a base; a support unit that includes first and second attaching portions disposed to be separated from each other in a first direction via a middle portion having a conductive pattern formed from a conductive member and is attached to the base in the first and second attaching portions; and a functional element that is supported by the support unit. The conductive pattern includes a broad width portion having a width W1 in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and a narrow width portion having a width W2 narrower than the width W1 in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Norifumi SHIMIZU, Takayuki KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 9547817
    Abstract: An RF tag includes an inlay comprising an IC chip and an antenna, a planar auxiliary antenna laminated on the inlay in an insulating state to the inlay, and a substrate on which the inlay and the auxiliary antenna are laminated. The auxiliary antenna is formed into a rectangular planar shape including long sides each having a length of substantially ΒΌ of a wavelength of a radio wave frequency of the inlay, and has a cutout part which divides one of the long sides into two parts each having a length of substantially ? of the wavelength of the radio wave frequency of the inlay. The cutout part is formed into a concave shape which is opened in an edge portion of the one of the long sides and has a predetermined width and depth to allow the IC chip of the inlay to be disposed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Akamatsu, Hironaga Shimizu, Takayuki Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9546869
    Abstract: A vibrator element includes a pair of first and second drive vibrating arms that extend in opposite directions from a base portion; a first weight that is spaced from a tip of at least one of the first and second drive vibrating arms toward the base portion and is provided in a first region of the at least one of the drive vibrating arms; and a second weight that is provided in a second region that is a region between a tip of the first weight and the tip of the at least one of the drive vibrating arms. When an area of the first region is represented as A1, a mass of the first weight is represented as B1, an area of the second region is represented as A2, and a mass of the second weight is represented as B2, B1/A1>B2/A2 is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Yamaguchi, Seiichiro Ogura, Takayuki Kikuchi, Ryuta Nishizawa, Seiji Osawa
  • Patent number: 9534895
    Abstract: A vibrating element includes a vibration portion including a first main surface, a second main surface, a first side surface, and a second side surface, and extending in a first direction. The vibration portion includes a first groove formed in the first main surface and a second groove formed in the second main surface, and in a plan view seen from a direction perpendicular to the first main surface, the first groove and the second groove are provided to shift in opposite directions from each other, in a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Ishii, Takayuki Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9529245
    Abstract: Provided is an image pickup apparatus including a lens apparatus and a focus operating apparatus. The lens apparatus includes a focus lens unit, a focus driving unit for driving the focus lens unit, and a drive control unit controlling to drive the focus driving unit and having a autofocus function. The focus operating apparatus includes a manual focus (MF) operating unit for manual focus adjustment and an MF command unit for outputting a command value based on an operation amount of the MF operating unit. When the MF operating unit is in operation, the drive control unit controls the focus driving unit based on the command value from the MF command unit. When the MF operating unit is not in operation, the drive control unit controls the focus driving unit to perform autofocus adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke Hirai, Takayuki Kikuchi, Shingo Isobe
  • Patent number: 9523578
    Abstract: A vibrating element includes a vibrating arm for detection. An electrode is provided on the vibrating arm for detection. A wiring line is connected to the electrode. The wiring line is arranged on a piezoelectric body of a base portion. At least a part of the wiring line is an electrode for adjustment. The electrode for adjustment generates an electrical signal with an opposite phase to an output signal of leak vibration of the vibrating arm for detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuta Nishizawa, Keiji Nakagawa, Takayuki Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20160322935
    Abstract: A vibrator includes a vibrator element and a base on which the vibrator element is installed. In addition, when n is set to a natural number equal to or greater than 2, and j is set to a natural number equal to or greater than 1 and equal to or less than n, the vibrator element includes n inherent vibration modes having resonance frequencies different from each other, and when a resonance frequency of a main vibration of the vibrator element in the n inherent vibration modes is set to ?1 in a relationship between an arbitrary integer kj and a resonance frequency ?j corresponding to each of the n inherent vibration modes, the following three expressions are all satisfied. ?? ? ( ? j = 2 n ? k j ? ? j - k 1 - ? 1 ) / ? 1 ? ? 1 ? ? 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinori YAMADA, Shuhei YOSHIDA, Takayuki KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 9477923
    Abstract: An RF tag has an inlay with an IC chip and an antenna, a planar auxiliary antenna laminated on the inlay in an insulating state, a dielectric constant regulation plate which becomes a base on which the inlay including the auxiliary antenna laminated thereon is mounted, and functions as a dielectric constant regulation layer for the mounted inlay, and a case which receives the dielectric constant regulation plate in a state where the inlay including the auxiliary antenna laminated thereon is mounted. The dielectric constant regulation plate is formed into a shape which allows the dielectric constant regulation plate to be attachably/detachably and non-movably engaged in the case and which allows the dielectric constant regulation plate to have a predetermined dielectric constant which regulates communication characteristics of the inlay including the auxiliary antenna laminated thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hironaga Shimizu, Shinya Akamatsu, Takayuki Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20160231110
    Abstract: A vibrating element includes a vibrating arm for detection. An electrode is provided on the vibrating arm for detection. A wiring line is connected to the electrode. The wiring line is arranged on a piezoelectric body of a base portion. At least a part of the wiring line is an electrode for adjustment. The electrode for adjustment generates an electrical signal with an opposite phase to an output signal of leak vibration of the vibrating arm for detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Ryuta NISHIZAWA, Keiji NAKAGAWA, Takayuki KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160223328
    Abstract: A vibrator element includes a pair of first and second drive vibrating arms that extend in opposite directions from a base portion; a first weight that is spaced from a tip of at least one of the first and second drive vibrating arms toward the base portion and is provided in a first region of the at least one of the drive vibrating arms; and a second weight that is provided in a second region that is a region between a tip of the first weight and the tip of the at least one of the drive vibrating arms. When an area of the first region is represented as A1, a mass of the first weight is represented as B1, an area of the second region is represented as A2, and a mass of the second weight is represented as B2, B1/A1>B2/A2 is established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Keiichi YAMAGUCHI, Seiichiro OGURA, Takayuki KIKUCHI, Ryuta NISHIZAWA, Seiji OSAWA
  • Patent number: 9379307
    Abstract: A gyro element as a vibrator element fulfills the relationship: |fd?fy1|>|fd?fy2|, where fd is a drive vibrational frequency of first through fourth drive vibration arms, fy1 is a y1-mode vibrational frequency of a y1 mode, in which a base section and the first through fourth drive vibration arms vibrate in the same direction along a first direction (a y-axis direction) in which the first drive vibration arm extends, and fy2 is a y2-mode vibrational frequency of a y2 mode in which the base section vibrates along the first direction and the first through fourth drive vibration arms vibrate along the first direction in an opposite direction to a direction in which the base section vibrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichiro Ogura, Takayuki Kikuchi, Keiichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9366535
    Abstract: A vibration gyro element includes drive vibrating arms and detection vibrating arms at the opposite side, and has a first detection mode in which the drive vibrating arms flexurally vibrate oppositely to each other in an out-of-plane direction in an opposite phase to an action direction of Coriolis force and the detection vibrating arms flexurally vibrate oppositely to each other in the out-of-plane direction in an opposite phase to that of the drive vibrating arms, and a second detection mode in which the drive vibrating arms flexurally vibrate oppositely to each other in the out-of-plane direction in the same phase as the action direction of the Coriolis force and the detection vibrating arms flexurally vibrate oppositely to each other in the out-of-plane direction in the same phase as that of the drive vibrating arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Shimura, Takayuki Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9362483
    Abstract: A vibration gyro device has a base part and a pair of drive vibrating arms and a pair of detection vibrating arms respectively extended from both ends in a Y-axis direction of the base part. Further, adjustment vibrating arms extended from respective ends of connecting parts respectively extended from both ends in an X-axis direction of the base part in parallel to the drive vibrating arms are provided. At the end sides of the respective adjustment vibrating arms, spindle parts as wider parts are provided. On principal surfaces of the respective adjustment vibrating arms, adjustment electrodes as membranes for adjustment of leakage output of the vibration gyro device are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichiro Ogura, Takayuki Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9354060
    Abstract: A vibrating element includes first and second pairs of vibrating arms extending in opposite directions from a base. A pair of first suspension arms extends from the base via first connecting parts and are connected to a fixed portion attached to a container for the vibrating element so that the base, the pair of first suspension arms and the fixed portion surround the pair of first vibrating arms. A pair of second suspension arms extends from the base via second connecting parts and are connected to the fixed portion so that the pair of second suspension arms is located outside of the pair of first vibrating arms and the pair of first suspension arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuta Nishizawa, Keiji Nakagawa, Takayuki Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9352937
    Abstract: An escalator step includes a tread having a body section on which a plurality of convex sections are arranged in parallel, a riser connected to a rear end portion of the tread and having thereon a plurality of convex sections and a plurality of concave sections formed between the adjacent convex sections, and a shock absorbing cleat provided on a corner at which the riser and tread are connected to each other. The shock absorbing cleat includes a plurality of long convex sections which are arranged in parallel and a plurality of short convex sections which are arranged in parallel between the adjacent long convex sections. The shock absorbing cleat is formed of a polymeric material having a Young's modulus of 1000 MPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: TOSHIBA ELEVATOR KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigeo Nakagaki, Kosei Kamimura, Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Hideo Takahashi, Takayuki Kikuchi, Satoshi Yamaguchi