Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Ichiza

Tomoyuki Ichiza 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: 20240072398
    Abstract: Unintentional damage of a power supply device during assembling of the device is avoided to increase workability of the assembling. The power supply device includes secondary battery cells each including an electrode terminal, a battery holder holding the cells, and a circuit board including a control circuit mounted thereon and electrically connected to the cells to control charging and discharging. A method of manufacturing the device includes connecting, to a board-side ground terminal disposed on the board, a battery-side ground terminal drawn outside from the holder as a ground of a total output of the cells electrically connected in series and/or parallel, mounting the board on a surface of the holder, and connecting, to respective one or more board-side intermediate terminals disposed on the board, one or more battery-side intermediate terminals disposed on the holder being electrically connected to at least one of the cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: NAOKI KAWAI, TAKAHIRO YAMASHITA, TOMOYUKI ICHIZA
  • Patent number: 11777182
    Abstract: In a power supply device, a plurality of battery modules are connected in series, the plurality of battery modules including fuse connected in series with battery. In the power supply device, fuse included in the plurality of battery modules is fast-blow fuse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ichiza, Osamu Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20220149493
    Abstract: In a power supply device, a plurality of battery modules are connected in series, the plurality of battery modules including fuse connected in series with battery. In the power supply device, fuse included in the plurality of battery modules is fast-blow fuse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: TOMOYUKI ICHIZA, OSAMU OHASHI
  • Patent number: 9219212
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus, wherein a holding frame includes a placing portion which protrudes in a direction substantially perpendicular to a back surface of a display panel (a liquid crystal panel 1), and is long in a direction along a side face of the display panel (the liquid crystal panel 1), such that a heat dissipater (a heat spreader) is placed on the placing portion in a longitudinal direction thereof, the substrate (a base substrate) has information (rank information) regarding the light emitting element (a white LED) described on the other surface thereof, and the heat dissipater (the heat spreader) has an opening portion (a window portion 46) formed in a surface thereof to which the substrate (the base substrate) is fixed at a position corresponding to a position in which the information (the rank information) is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Ichiza
  • Publication number: 20150362801
    Abstract: Provided is a flat-panel display for improving a structure of a shape of a through-hole of a backlight cover that is a resin-made member, which is passed through when making a PWB contact a metal plate member, so that a gasket can be mechanically fixed. This flat-panel display includes: a metal plate member (30) arranged on a rear side of a display panel; a non-conductive plate member (20) arranged so as to face a rear side of the metal plate member (30) and including a through-hole (42); a circuit board (50) arranged so as to face a rear side of the non-conductive plate member (20) ; and a gasket (90) arranged in the through-hole (42) and holding conduction of the metal plate member (30) and the circuit board (50), in which the non-conductive plate member (20) includes a gasket fixation portion (44) formed around the through-hole (42) in a convex shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki ICHIZA, Naoki FUKUDA, Sunao OHNISHI, Akihisa KANEKO, Junya YOSHINO, Toshiyuki KATOH
  • Patent number: 9204507
    Abstract: This LED lighting device makes a maximum current to minimum current flowing in an LED a target proportion regardless of LED driving circuit performance and without erroneous operation. An LED lighting device (1) is provided with: an LED circuit (5) that includes at least one LED (1-5); a bypass means (6a) inserted in parallel with the LEDs (1-5); and an LED driving circuit (4) that supplies current by duty control to the LEDs (1-5) and the bypass means (6a). When a prescribed minimum current flows in the LED circuit (5), the LED driving circuit (4) supplies current in which a portion of current flowing in the bypass means (6a) is added to this minimum current and carries out control of the added current by a switching element (TR1) connected in series to the LED circuit (5) and the bypass means (6a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shogo Fukuda, Tomoyuki Ichiza, Toshimasa Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20140368129
    Abstract: This LED lighting device makes a maximum current to minimum current flowing in an LED a target proportion regardless of LED driving circuit performance and without erroneous operation. An LED lighting device (1) is provided with: an LED circuit (5) that includes at least one LED (1-5); a bypass means (6a) inserted in parallel with the LEDs (1-5); and an LED driving circuit (4) that supplies current by duty control to the LEDs (1-5) and the bypass means (6a). When a prescribed minimum current flows in the LED circuit (5), the LED driving circuit (4) supplies current in which a portion of current flowing in the bypass means (6a) is added to this minimum current and carries out control of the added current by a switching element (TR1) connected in series to the LED circuit (5) and the bypass means (6a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Shogo Fukuda, Tomoyuki Ichiza, Toshimasa Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20140368744
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus, wherein a holding frame includes a placing portion which protrudes in a direction substantially perpendicular to a back surface of a display panel (a liquid crystal panel 1), and is long in a direction along a side face of the display panel (the liquid crystal panel 1), such that a heat dissipater (a heat spreader) is placed on the placing portion in a longitudinal direction thereof, the substrate (a base substrate) has information (rank information) regarding the light emitting element (a white LED) described on the other surface thereof, and the heat dissipater (the heat spreader) has an opening portion (a window portion 46) formed in a surface thereof to which the substrate (the base substrate) is fixed at a position corresponding to a position in which the information (the rank information) is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Ichiza
  • Patent number: 8860321
    Abstract: Provided are an LED control device and a liquid crystal display apparatus, wherein energy loss or noise (humming sound) to be generated upon switching the control of power supplying from a power supply device to a plurality of LED groups, between constant current control and constant voltage control, can be alleviated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Ide, Motoyuki Oniki, Tomoyuki Ichiza
  • Publication number: 20130057165
    Abstract: Provided are an LED control device and a liquid crystal display apparatus, wherein energy loss or noise (humming sound) to be generated upon switching the control of power supplying from a power supply device to a plurality of LED groups, between constant current control and constant voltage control, can be alleviated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Ide, Motoyuki Oniki, Tomoyuki Ichiza