Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Washizu
Tomoyuki Washizu 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: 9336971Abstract: A switch has an actuating arm including an actuating portion and a driving portion, a base including a support that supports the actuating arm, and a recess having a first fixed electrode and a second fixed electrode arranged on the inner side face, and an electrically conductive elastic member that is housed within the recess of the base. The electrically conductive elastic member includes at least one driven part that is driven by the driving portion of the driving body and at least one stretching part that is extendable and compressible through input to the at least one driven part, at least one movable contacting member having a movable contact capable of being connected to the first fixed electrode, and at least one fixed contacting part having a fixed contact capable of being connected to the second fixed electrode.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masaru Morimoto, Tomoyuki Washizu, Takekazu Komori
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Patent number: 9281137Abstract: A switch has a base having a frame portion disposed integrally with an outer peripheral portion of an upper surface of the base, a common fixed contact disposed at a corner of inside surfaces of the frame portion, and a fixed contact disposed on an inside surface of the base opposite to the common fixed contact, a spring member having elastic arm portions extending respectively from both ends of a bellows-like spring portion, wherein a free end portion of one of the elastic arm portions serves as a sliding movable contact, wherein a free end portion of another of the elastic arm portions serves as a rotationally movable contact, and wherein the rotationally movable contact is positioned so as to be in contact with the common fixed contact of the base, and an operation lever including an operation rib.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Takeshi Arihara, Masaru Morimoto, Tomoyuki Washizu, Yutaka Okayasu
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Patent number: 9251970Abstract: A switch has a base having a recess, and a plurality of fixed contacts mounted in an inner side face of the recess, an electrically conductive actuator disposed within the recess of the base, the electrically conductive actuator having a pair of movable contact portions and an elastically deformable elastic portion, the movable contact portions having movable contacts capable of being connected to respective fixed contacts, at least one engagement convex portion disposed on one of the base and the electrically conductive actuator, and at least one engagement concave portion disposed on the other of the base and the electrically conductive actuator and engageable with the at least one engagement convex portion. The elastic portion of the electrically conductive actuator is elastically deformed to break an engagement between the engagement convex and concave portions when the actuator moves between a first position and a second position.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masaru Morimoto, Takeshi Arihara, Tomoyuki Washizu
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Patent number: 9224556Abstract: A switch has a base having a frame integrally formed on a periphery of an upper face of the base, a fixed contact formed on an inner side face of the frame, and a support protrusion that protrudes from the upper face of the base that is integrally formed so as to expose a common fixed contact, an electrically conductive spring member whose connecting part arranged at a center of a spiral spring is nonrotatably supported by the support protrusion and that extends a driving piece from the free end of the spiral spring, and an actuating lever whose one end is rotatably supported by the upper face of the base and that integrally forms an actuating trigger that presses the driving piece of the electrically conductive spring member.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Takeshi Arihara, Tomoyuki Washizu, Takekazu Komori, Masaru Morimoto
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Publication number: 20150060247Abstract: A switch has an actuating arm including an actuating portion and a driving portion, a base including a support that supports the actuating arm, and a recess having a first fixed electrode and a second fixed electrode arranged on the inner side face, and an electrically conductive elastic member that is housed within the recess of the base. The electrically conductive elastic member includes at least one driven part that is driven by the driving portion of the driving body and at least one stretching part that is extendable and compressible through input to the at least one driven part, at least one movable contacting member having a movable contact capable of being connected to the first fixed electrode, and at least one fixed contacting part having a fixed contact capable of being connected to the second fixed electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masaru Morimoto, Tomoyuki Washizu, Takekazu Komori
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Publication number: 20150047956Abstract: A switch has a base having a frame integrally formed on a periphery of an upper face of the base, a fixed contact formed on an inner side face of the frame, and a support protrusion that protrudes from the upper face of the base that is integrally formed so as to expose a common fixed contact, an electrically conductive spring member whose connecting part arranged at a center of a spiral spring is nonrotatably supported by the support protrusion and that extends a driving piece from the free end of the spiral spring, and an actuating lever whose one end is rotatably supported by the upper face of the base and that integrally forms an actuating trigger that presses the driving piece of the electrically conductive spring member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Inventors: Takeshi Arihara, Tomoyuki Washizu, Takekazu Komori, Masaru Morimoto
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Publication number: 20150027866Abstract: A switch has a base having a recess, and a plurality of fixed contacts mounted in an inner side face of the recess, an electrically conductive actuator disposed within the recess of the base, the electrically conductive actuator having a pair of movable contact portions and an elastically deformable elastic portion, the movable contact portions having movable contacts capable of being connected to respective fixed contacts, at least one engagement convex portion disposed on one of the base and the electrically conductive actuator, and at least one engagement concave portion disposed on the other of the base and the electrically conductive actuator and engageable with the at least one engagement convex portion. The elastic portion of the electrically conductive actuator is elastically deformed to break an engagement between the engagement convex and concave portions when the actuator moves between a first position and a second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2013Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Masaru Morimoto, Takeshi Arihara, Tomoyuki Washizu
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Publication number: 20150021150Abstract: A switch has a base having a frame portion disposed integrally with an outer peripheral portion of an upper surface of the base, a common fixed contact disposed at a corner of inside surfaces of the frame portion, and a fixed contact disposed on an inside surface of the base opposite to the common fixed contact, a spring member having elastic arm portions extending respectively from both ends of a bellows-like spring portion, wherein a free end portion of one of the elastic arm portions serves as a sliding movable contact, wherein a free end portion of another of the elastic arm portions serves as a rotationally movable contact, and wherein the rotationally movable contact is positioned so as to be in contact with the common fixed contact of the base, and an operation lever including an operation rib.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Arihara, Masaru Morimoto, Tomoyuki Washizu, Yutaka Okayasu
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Patent number: 8143981Abstract: An input device has a housing having an operation hole formed therein, an operation member supported in a slidably moving manner in multi-directions within the operation hole, and at least two magnetic sensors, arranged at a periphery of the operation member, for detecting change in magnetic property by displacement of the operation member. The operation member includes a holder having a circular ring-shaped magnet incorporated in a fit-in hole and a central push button having a disc plate made of magnetic material integrated at a lower surface. The central push button is fitted in the circular ring-shaped magnet to adsorb, in a separable manner, the disc plate to the circular ring-shaped magnet and position-regulate the central push button.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Tomoyuki Washizu, Masahiro Abe, Takeshi Miyasaka, Masayuki Murota
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Publication number: 20110261520Abstract: An input device includes a print substrate having a plurality of electrostatic electrodes arranged on an upper surface at a periphery of a fit-in hole and a rotation operating body turnably assembled by being fitted to the fit-in hole of the print substrate. A rotation plate of the rotation operating body elastically deforms in a plate thickness direction when the rotation plate is pushed, and returns when pushing is released.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2008Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Washizu, Takeshi Miyasaka, Masayuki Murota
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Publication number: 20100079225Abstract: An input device has a housing having an operation hole formed therein, an operation member supported in a slidably moving manner in multi-directions within the operation hole, and at least two magnetic sensors, arranged at a periphery of the operation member, for detecting change in magnetic property by displacement of the operation member. The operation member includes a holder having a circular ring-shaped magnet incorporated in a fit-in hole and a central push button having a disc plate made of magnetic material integrated at a lower surface. The central push button is fitted in the circular ring-shaped magnet to adsorb, in a separable manner, the disc plate to the circular ring-shaped magnet and position-regulate the central push button.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2009Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Washizu, Masahiro Abe, Takeshi Miyasaka, Masayuki Murota
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Publication number: 20030116004Abstract: A hole punch has a punching unit with a rotatable punch for punching a hole through a paper sheet, a die which is rotatable in synchronism with the punch and a paper transporting device for transporting the paper sheet from an upstream side to a downstream side generally in a specified direction of paper transportation. The transporting device includes a paper supplying device and a paper discharging device respectively on the upstream and downstream side of the punching unit for supplying and discharging the paper sheet towards and away from the punching unit. The paper supplying device has a clamping device for clamping the paper sheet at a distance x1 away from the punching position where a hole is punched by the punch. The paper discharging device has another clamping device at a distance x2 away from the punching position. At least one of the distances x1 and x2 is made smaller than the distance of the first hole punched through the paper sheet by the punching unit from the front edge of the paper sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2002Publication date: June 26, 2003Inventors: Masayuki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Onitsuka, Koji Kirino, Tomoyuki Washizu, Masaaki Sumi, Takeshi Arihara
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Patent number: D607851Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2008Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Takeshi Miyasaka, Tomoyuki Washizu, Masayuki Murota
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Patent number: D615049Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2008Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Takeshi Miyasaka, Tomoyuki Washizu, Masayuki Murota