Patents by Inventor Tomomi Sano
Tomomi Sano 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: 9409085Abstract: An exemplary embodiment sets the game background image with surface objects (bricks, coins, item closed box baffles, monsters, and the like) arranged therein in the middle of the tennis court within a virtual space for executing a tennis game containing the motion of hitting the tennis ball according to an operation by the player, and scrolls the surface objects arranged in the game background image. Then, there is provided an effect corresponding to the type of the surface object (benefit object, the hit map switching object, scoring object, or the like) arranged in a position of the game background image, where the tennis ball shot in response to a player-operation has reached.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2012Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomomi Sano, Toshiharu Izuno, Tomohiro Yamamura, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Shugo Takahashi, Haruki Kodera, Shuji Shimizu
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Patent number: 9366876Abstract: A lens component 10 comprises K unit lenses 11, each extending in the X direction and having a common structure, arranged in parallel at a minimum period PL in the Y direction. Each unit lens 11 includes two partial lenses 121, 122 sectioned within the minimum period PL in the Y direction and a flat part 13 disposed between the partial lenses 121, 122. The partial lenses 121, 122 have respective optical axes different from each other but parallel to the Z direction and form images of a common point on an object surface onto an image surface A at respective positions different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2012Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Fine Polymer, Inc.Inventors: Michiko Takushima, Tomomi Sano, Jun Yorita, Masaya Nishi
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Patent number: 9366832Abstract: An optical connection structure comprising: a substrate including a main surface and an optical waveguide in which a beam is incident or emitted in a direction intersecting with the main surface; a receptacle including a first lens and a connector guide and disposed on the substrate such that the first lens and the optical waveguide are optically coupled; and an optical connector including a second lens and a guide unit and holding an optical fiber so as to be optically coupled with the second lens, wherein: the receptacle and the optical connector are configured to be detachably through the connector guide and the guide unit; and the first lens and the second lens are optically coupled by mounting the optical connector to the receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hajime Arao, Tomomi Sano, Sho Yakabe, Michiko Harumoto
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Patent number: 9360632Abstract: A ferrule 10 includes holding holes 16, a light incidence/emission plane 21 to pass light entering or emitted from optical fibers F2 respectively held at the holding holes 16, lenses 31 disposed on an optical axes between the respective holding holes 16 and the light incidence/emission plane 21, and two or more guide portions. A second optical axis L2 between the light incidence/emission plane 21 and the ferrule 10 on the other side is inclined relative to a Z direction. A positional relation between the guide portions is 180-degree rotationally symmetric around a reference axial line extending in the Z direction. The lenses 31 is disposed disproportionately in a direction opposite to an inclination direction of the second optical axis L2 from a position line-symmetric relative to a straight line crossing with the reference axial line and parallel to an X direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hajime Arao, Tomomi Sano, Dai Sasaki
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Patent number: 9316798Abstract: An optical assembly includes a circuit board including an electrically conductive path formed by printed wiring technology, a photoelectric conversion element connected to the circuit board via the electrically conductive path, a resin member made of light transmissive synthetic resin and attached to the circuit board, and a shielding member made of metal. The resin member includes a sleeve into which a ferrule attached to an end of an optical fiber is inserted and integrally includes a lens through which an optical path passes. The optical path extends between the sleeve and the photoelectric conversion element. The shielding member is connected to the circuit board and arranged to cover the photoelectric conversion element. The shielding member includes a window through which the optical path extends to the photoelectric conversion element.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2011Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kiyoshi Katou, Tomomi Sano, Yuji Nakura, Masayuki Inoue
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Publication number: 20160101354Abstract: An example system includes a server and multiple information processing apparatuses. The server includes a competition request acceptance unit accepting a competition request from the information processing apparatus, and an opponent decision unit deciding an opponent of a user concerning the request accepted by the competition request acceptance unit. The information processing system includes a history storage unit storing competition history information for a user in a tournament, an exchange processing unit performing processing of exchanging at least a part of the competition history information between competing users, based on the decision made by the opponent decision unit, and a competition processing unit performing processing concerning a competition between the users. The opponent decision unit decides an opponent based on at least a part of competition history information stored in the history storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Tomohiro YAMAMURA, Tomomi SANO, Toshiharu IZUNO, Hiroyuki TAKAHASHI, Shugo TAKAHASHI, Yusuke SUGIMOTO
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Patent number: 9297963Abstract: An optical connector ferrule having a front end, a rear end, an upper surface, and a lower surface includes a window opening on the upper surface, a plurality of fiber holes passing through a portion between the front end and the window along a first direction and including small diameter portions on the front end side and large diameter portions on the window side, and fiber grooves extending from the large diameter portions along the first direction and having openings in a third direction, in which the plurality of fiber holes include a first fiber hole row arranged in a second direction on a lower surface side, and a second fiber hole row arranged in the second direction on the upper surface side, and the large diameter portion in the second fiber hole row is longer than the large diameter portion in the first fiber hole row.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masaki Ohmura, Takayuki Nakamura, Takao Fujiki, Tomomi Sano
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Publication number: 20160085030Abstract: A ferrule 10 includes holding holes 16, a light incidence/emission plane 21 to pass light entering or emitted from optical fibers F2 respectively held at the holding holes 16, lenses 31 disposed on an optical axes between the respective holding holes 16 and the light incidence/emission plane 21, and two or more guide portions. A second optical axis L2 between the light incidence/emission plane 21 and the ferrule 10 on the other side is inclined relative to a Z direction. A positional relation between the guide portions is 180-degree rotationally symmetric around a reference axial line extending in the Z direction. The lenses 31 is disposed disproportionately in a direction opposite to an inclination direction of the second optical axis L2 from a position line-symmetric relative to a straight line crossing with the reference axial line and parallel to an X direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Inventors: Hajime ARAO, Tomomi SANO, Dai SASAKI
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Publication number: 20160077284Abstract: An optical connector 1 includes a plurality of light incidence/emission portions 10 and a ferrule 20. Each of the plurality of light incidence/emission portions 10 includes a waveguide member 11 having a first optical axis L1, and a GRIN lens 12 including a second optical axis L2, and has one end 12a connected to an end portion 11a of the waveguide member 11 and the other end 12b provided with an incidence/emission plane 10a. The second optical axis L2 is offset relative to the first optical axis L1 at the end portion 11a of the waveguide member 11. The incidence/emission plane 10a is orthogonal to neither an optical axis of an optical beam emitted from the incidence/emission plane 10a nor an optical axis of an optical beam entering the incidence/emission plane 10a. The ferrule 20 includes guide portions 25, 26.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2015Publication date: March 17, 2016Inventors: Hajime ARAO, Tomomi SANO, Dai SASAKI
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Publication number: 20150319266Abstract: After presentation target information for presenting information of a predetermined content to a user has been newly received from a predetermined server, a first notification that urges the user to check the newly-arrived presentation target information is displayed. Thereafter, while the presentation target information has not yet been checked, a second notification that urges the user to check the unchecked presentation target information is displayed periodically or according to a predetermined time schedule. The presentation target information is displayed when an operation to check the presentation target information is performed to the first notification or the second notification has been performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2015Publication date: November 5, 2015Inventors: Tomohiro YAMAMURA, Tomomi SANO, Hiroyuki TAKAHASHI, Shugo TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20150286016Abstract: An optical connection structure comprising: a substrate including a main surface and an optical waveguide in which a beam is incident or emitted in a direction intersecting with the main surface; a receptacle including a first lens and a connector guide and disposed on the substrate such that the first lens and the optical waveguide are optically coupled; and an optical connector including a second lens and a guide unit and holding an optical fiber so as to be optically coupled with the second lens, wherein: the receptacle and the optical connector are configured to be detachably through the connector guide and the guide unit; and the first lens and the second lens are optically coupled by mounting the optical connector to the receptacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: October 8, 2015Inventors: Hajime ARAO, Tomomi SANO, Sho YAKABE, Michiko HARUMOTO
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Publication number: 20150247982Abstract: An optical connector ferrule having a front end, a rear end, an upper surface, and a lower surface includes a window opening on the upper surface, a plurality of fiber holes passing through a portion between the front end and the window along a first direction and including small diameter portions on the front end side and large diameter portions on the window side, and fiber grooves extending from the large diameter portions along the first direction and having openings in a third direction, in which the plurality of fiber holes include a first fiber hole row arranged in a second direction on a lower surface side, and a second fiber hole row arranged in the second direction on the upper surface side, and the large diameter portion in the second fiber hole row is longer than the large diameter portion in the first fiber hole row.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2015Publication date: September 3, 2015Inventors: Masaki OHMURA, Takayuki NAKAMURA, Takao FUJIKI, Tomomi SANO
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Publication number: 20150247983Abstract: An optical connector ferrule having a front end, a rear end, an upper surface, and a lower surface includes a window opening on the upper surface, a plurality of fiber holes passing through a portion between the front end and the window along a first direction and including small diameter portions on the front end side and large diameter portions on the window side, and fiber grooves extending from the large diameter portions along the first direction and having openings in a third direction, in which the width of the opening is smaller than the diameter of the large diameter portion, and the depth of the fiber groove is smaller than the radius of the large diameter portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2015Publication date: September 3, 2015Inventors: Masaki OHMURA, Takayuki NAKAMURA, Tomomi SANO
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Patent number: 9075207Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optical module includes the steps of applying the invisible light onto the resin member and the optical device, observing, with use of a camera, a part of the resin member located at the optical fiber coupling plane and an image formed at the optical fiber coupling plane by the optical device active layer while applying the invisible light onto the resin member and the optical device, aligning positions of the resin member and the circuit board with respect to each other while observing the part of the resin member located at the optical fiber coupling plane and the image formed at the optical fiber coupling plane, and fixing the resin member to the circuit board while maintaining the aligned positions of the resin member and the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2012Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Tateishi, Yuji Nakura, Tomomi Sano, Kiyoshi Kato, Mitsuaki Nishie
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Patent number: 8985875Abstract: An optical connector includes a housing, a photoelectric conversion circuit board on which a photoelectric conversion element is mounted, and a resin member made of a light transmissive synthetic resin and arranged on a plate surface of the photoelectric conversion circuit board so as to cover the photoelectric conversion element. The photoelectric conversion circuit board is housed in the housing. The resin member includes a sleeve to which a ferrule attached to an end of an optical fiber is fitted. The sleeve of the resin member is arranged such that an axial direction thereof is substantially perpendicular to the plate surface of the photoelectric circuit board. The resin member integrally includes a lens on an axial line of the sleeve such that the lens faces the photoelectric conversion element.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2011Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi Kato, Tomomi Sano, Yuji Nakura
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Patent number: 8872891Abstract: A computer-readable storage medium having stored therein an information processing program to be executed by a computer is provided. The information processing program causes the computer to function as: preferential display object placing means for placing a preferential display object in an imaging range of a virtual stereo camera in a virtual three-dimensional space; stereoscopically visible image rendering means for taking the virtual three-dimensional space using the virtual stereo camera, and rendering a stereoscopically visible image of the virtual three-dimensional space; and display control means for causing the display apparatus to display the stereoscopically visible image rendered by the stereoscopically visible image rendering means.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2011Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoru Takizawa, Shingo Watanabe, Nagako Ikuta, Tomohiro Yamamura, Tomomi Sano
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Patent number: 8823150Abstract: A method to manufacture an optical module is disclosed, wherein the optical module has an optically active device on a lead frame and a lens co-molded with the active device and the lead frame by a transparent resin as positioning the lens with respect to the lead frame. The molding die of the present invention has a positioning pin to support the lens during the molding. Because the lead frame is aligned with the molding die, the precise alignment between the active device on the lead frame and the lens is not spoiled during the molding.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kazunori Tanaka, Kazuaki Mii, Toshio Takagi, Tomomi Sano, Keitaro Koguchi
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Patent number: D755905Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2015Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: EPOCH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Tomomi Sano
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Patent number: D757185Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: EPOCH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Tomomi Sano
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Patent number: D760325Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2015Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: EPOCH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Tomomi Sano