Patents Assigned to Citizen Electronics
  • Patent number: 8741820
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a lubrication kit which is capable of improving wear resistance and durability of a sliding portion mounted in a small electronic device and which is capable of reducing a sound generated during driving. [Solution] A lubrication kit used for a small electronic device having a sliding portion, according to the present invention comprises at least one lubricant selected from a lubricant (1) comprising an anti-wear agent and a base oil which contains a polyol ester oil and/or a paraffinic hydrocarbon oil and a lubricant (2) comprising an anti-wear agent, polytetrafluoroethylene particles, and a base oil which contains a polyol ester oil and/or a paraffinic hydrocarbon oil, and a surface-treating agent obtained from a fluorine type surfactant and a phosphoric ester having a hydrocarbon group in which a part or all of hydrogen atoms have been substituted with a fluorine atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Akao, Masahiro Furuya
  • Patent number: 8618573
    Abstract: A layered substrate includes a first substrate including an upper surface, a lower surface, a peripheral surface between peripheral edges of the upper surface and the lower surface, and a cut portion cut into the peripheral surface and passing through the upper surface and the lower surface, and a second substrate including an upper surface, a lower surface, and a peripheral surface between peripheral edges of the upper surface and the lower surface, and the lower surface of the second substrate layered on the upper surface of the first substrate and closing the cut portion of the first substrate from above. The second substrate includes a heat conductor that is thermally connected to an element to be mounted on the upper surface of the second substrate, the heat conductor configured to thermally extend to the cut portion of the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Miharu Sugiura, Junji Miyashita
  • Patent number: 8616749
    Abstract: A planar light-emitting device includes a first reflecting surface, a rectangular support disposed adjacent to the first reflecting surface, light sources each including a light-emitting surface and disposed along, at least one side portion of the rectangular support, and a lens including a light-receiving surface disposed to face the light-emitting surfaces of the light sources, and configured to introduce light emitted from the light sources into a space that is demarcated by at least the first reflecting surface and the rectangular support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Shimizu, Koichi Hada, Junji Miyashita, Kiyokazu Watanabe, Makoto Yasuhara
  • Patent number: 8596820
    Abstract: The present invention is an LED unit having a thermal-release structure including a base having high thermal conductivity, a circuit board which includes a wiring pattern and is provided on the base, at least one LED element which is electrically connected to the wiring pattern and disposed on the base, and a light-transmitting resinous body provided to cover above the base to seal the LED element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Fukasawa, Sadato Imai, Masayoshi Kanamori
  • Patent number: 8581285
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to the provision of a semiconductor light-emitting element that has an electrode formed with a desired thickness using a plated metal layer. A semiconductor light-emitting element for flip-chip mounting on a circuit substrate includes a semiconductor layer including a light-emitting layer, an N-side bump electrode for connecting the semiconductor layer to the circuit substrate, and a P-type bump electrode for connecting the semiconductor layer to the circuit substrate, wherein the N-side bump electrode and the P-type bump electrode each include an under-bump metal layer and a plated metal layer, the under-bump metal layer includes a high-reflectivity metal layer disposed on a side that faces the semiconductor layer and a metal layer disposed on a side opposite from the semiconductor layer, and the plated metal layer has a thickness not less than 3 ?m but not greater than 30 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignees: Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd., Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuaki Sorimachi
  • Patent number: 8558454
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a rectangular substrate, a through-holes that is in a shape of a quarter of circle provided in two corners or four corners of the substrate, a pair of electrodes provided along short sides of the substrate and electrically connected to the through-hole(s) that is adjacently disposed to each of the electrodes. Each of the through-holes is covered by a cover that is in a shape of a quarter of circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yu Kamijo
  • Patent number: 8556672
    Abstract: It is an object to produce a thin light-emitting device in an extremely simple method that does not include a substrate on which a light-emitting element is to be mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Imazu
  • Patent number: 8547027
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an LED drive circuit that can suppress the generation of harmonic noise. The LED drive circuit includes a rectifying circuit an LED array, and a current supply circuit which includes a capacitor and a time constant adjusting element, wherein the discharge time constant of the current supply circuit is set longer than the charge time constant of the current supply circuit, and wherein during a period of time when the magnitude of AC commercial power supply voltage is larger than the light emission threshold of the LED array, current to the light-emitting circuit is supplied mostly from the rectifying circuit, and during a period of time when the magnitude of AC commercial power supply voltage is not larger than the light emission threshold of the LED array, current to the light-emitting circuit is supplied from the current supply circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignees: Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd., Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Akiyama, Rintaro Takahashi, Hisashi Fukasawa, Ryoichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8517571
    Abstract: A lens member of obtaining light-collecting properties even if using a light source with a large light-emitting surface area has a first lens portion refracting light to exit outward in radial directions perpendicular to a central axis of the lens member and a second lens portion totally internally reflecting the light that exited through the first lens portion. The first lens portion has a light incident surface disposed to face a light source and a conical light exit surface centered at the central axis of the lens member and slanted so that the distance between the conical surface and the light incident surface increases as the distance from the central axis increases outward in the radial directions perpendicular to the central axis. The second lens portion has an inner circumferential surface receiving light from the first lens portion and an outer circumferential surface positioned outward of the inner circumferential surface in the radial directions perpendicular to the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Kayanuma
  • Patent number: 8475011
    Abstract: A lens member includes at least one of the annular prisms including a facet at an edge between an inner annular surface and an outer surface of the at least one of the annular prisms. The prisms with facets may be provided at a central portion of the lens member and the facets are configured to refract light toward a light-exit side of the lens member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Kayanuma
  • Patent number: 8476656
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode includes a circuit board, a pair of electrodes provided on the circuit board, at least one light-emitting diode element electrically connected to the pair of electrodes, a central electrode for heat-dissipation, provided between the pair of electrodes on the circuit board, and a heat-dissipation plate disposed on the central electrode for heat-dissipation and including a reflection surface. The central electrode for heat-dissipation includes an upper central electrode disposed on the upper surface of the circuit board and a lower central electrode disposed on the lower surface of the circuit board and the upper central electrode thermally connected to the lower central electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Norikazu Kadotani
  • Patent number: 8420414
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device includes forming a planar board that includes a plurality of first metallic plates and a plurality of second metallic plates continuously connected by a resin, by use of a positioning frame including a plurality of first concave portions and a plurality of second concave portions, mounting a plurality of light-emitting diode elements on the planar board, and sealing the light-emitting diode elements collectively, thereby producing a plurality of light-emitting devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Megumi Horiuchi, Shunichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8390760
    Abstract: A planar light-emitting device enabling reduction in the deflection of a sheet-shaped light-diffusing element includes a reflector having an upper surface serving as a light-reflecting surface, a partition provided on the reflector to extend upward to form a plurality of enclosed spaces over the upper surface of the reflector, light sources disposed in the enclosed spaces, respectively, and at least one sheet-shaped light-diffusing element supported on the upper edges of the partition to transmit and diffuse light from the light sources upward. The side surfaces of the partition that define the enclosed spaces are light-reflecting surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogihara, Daisaku Okuwaki, Makoto Yasuhara, Taku Kumasaka
  • Patent number: 8379166
    Abstract: A planar light-emitting device having a plurality of light units each including a light source and a lightguide member that guides light received from the light source through an end surface serving as a light-entrance surface disposed to face the light source and that emits the light from an upper surface and two mutually opposing side surfaces after changing the optical path of the light, and further has a reflecting member having a light-reflecting surface on which the light units are disposed. The lightguide member has an elongated shape. The light units are disposed in linear arrays each in which the light units are linearly disposed in series in the elongated direction of the lightguide member. The linear arrays extend in the elongated direction of the respective lightguide members. The linear arrays extend in parallel with each other and are spaced from each other in a width direction perpendicularly intersecting the elongated direction of the lightguide members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Shimura
  • Patent number: D676002
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yusuke Watanabe
  • Patent number: D694201
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Iino
  • Patent number: D694203
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Saito
  • Patent number: D696798
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Watanabe Masashi, Takashi Akiyama
  • Patent number: D690443
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Maki Takehara, Miho Satoh
  • Patent number: D690444
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Katoh, Hitoshi Saito