Patents Assigned to Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
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Patent number: 9291339Abstract: In accordance with a first aspect of the present inventive subject matter, a lighting device includes light-emitting elements arranged in lines that are extended in parallel with one another, the light-emitting elements being divided into groups each including the same number of light-emitting elements, a first connecting electrode is disposed adjacent to one end portion of the lines extended, a second connecting electrode is disposed adjacent to another end portion of the lines extended, and the light-emitting elements within each group are electrically connected in series with one another by metallic wires and electrically connected in series to the first connecting electrode and to the second connecting electrode. The groups each include the same number of light-emitting elements that are electrically connected in parallel between the first connecting electrode and the second connecting electrode.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2015Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takuya Funakubo
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Patent number: 9289871Abstract: To prevent entrance of swarf or cutting oil from a workpiece recovery opening, in a workpiece recovery unit, a cover 21 which covers an upper side and a lateral side of a workpiece recovery opening 19 opening in an upper side of a workpiece recovery section 18 disposed lateral to a holder 13 which holds a processed workpiece 1?, a workpiece transport path 23 from an entrance 22 opening in a lower side provided in the cover 21 to the recovery opening 19 is formed in a step-like shape, the holder 13 is supported so as to be movable in an up-and-down direction and a right-and-left direction, the workpiece 1? is moved along the transport path 23 by the holder 13, and is transported to the upper side of the recovery opening 19 from the entrance 22 so as to be recovered in the recovery opening 19.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2012Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignees: CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD., CITIZEN MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriyuki Asahara, Hiroshi Kasuya, Kyota Kotake, Yoshiki Sugimoto
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Patent number: 9293674Abstract: A semiconductor device has a light emitting element, and a resin layer; the light emitting element includes a semiconductor laminated body in which a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer are laminated in sequence, a second electrode connected to the second semiconductor layer on an upper surface of the second semiconductor layer that forms an upper surface of the semiconductor laminated body, and a first electrode connected to the first semiconductor layer on an upper surface of the first semiconductor layer in which a portion of the second semiconductor layer on one surface of the semiconductor laminated body is removed and a portion of the first semiconductor layer is exposed; and the resin layer is configured to cover at least a side surface of the light emitting element, and an upper surface of the resin layer is lower than the upper surface of the semiconductor laminated body.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignees: NICHIA CORPORATION, CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Kususe, Toshiaki Ogawa, Shunsuke Minato, Nodoka Oyamada
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Patent number: 9289139Abstract: A method employed in a prior art arm-worn blood pressure monitor to measure the height position of the heart has been an indirect method that merely estimates the position of the heart, and therefore has had the problems that the measurement accuracy and the reliability of the measurement are low, and that the measuring position is awkward and it is difficult to achieve correct position alignment. An arm-worn blood pressure monitor includes a cuff, a microwave transmitting unit for radiating a microwave onto a human subject, a microwave receiving unit for receiving a reflected wave Doppler-shifted relative to the radiated microwave due to a heartbeat of the subject, and a correct position detector for detecting, based on the reflected wave, whether the cuff worn around an arm of the subject is located in a correct position relative to the position of the heart of the subject.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2011Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignees: CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD., CITIZEN SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki Shimizu, Yuichi Kato
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Patent number: 9285601Abstract: A light source unit (110) emits linearly polarized laser light of a given wavelength. A wave plate (121) transmits the laser light emitted from the light source unit (110) and has a phase delay axis of which the direction is adjusted to about 0 degrees with respect to the polarization direction (101) of the laser light. A liquid crystal cell (123) transmits laser light that has passed through the wave plate (121) and by a switchable rotation amount, rotates the polarization direction (101) of the laser light transmitted through the liquid crystal cell (123). A wave plate (125) transmits laser light that has passed through the liquid crystal cell (123); and further has a phase delay axis of which the direction is adjusted to about 0 degrees with respect to the polarization direction (101) of the laser light.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masafumi Ide, Seiko Kato, Takaaki Takeishi
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Publication number: 20160070211Abstract: Damage caused to a transfer medium due to heat when partially using transfer material regions is suppressed. An image forming apparatus (1) includes a transporting unit (4A, 4B) which transports a belt-like transfer medium (4) on which transfer material regions (Y, M, C, OP) of a first size respectively corresponding to transfer materials are arranged in a predetermined order in a repeated manner along a longitudinal direction thereof, and an image forming unit (3) which transfers the transfer materials in sequence by heating the respective transfer material regions and thereby forms on a recording medium an image with the first size or an image with a second size which is not larger than one half the first size. When forming an image with the second size, the image forming unit either uses unused portions of transfer material regions that have already been used to form an image with the second size or uses new transfer material regions on the transfer medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicants: Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd., Citizen Systems Japan Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takeshi YAMAZAKI
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Patent number: 9277615Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an LED drive circuit that is capable of ameliorating insufficient lighting and improving power utilization efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignees: CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD., CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Keisuke Sakai, Takashi Akiyama, Satoshi Goto, Shigehisa Watanabe, Tatsuro Yamada
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Publication number: 20160053371Abstract: Provided is a decorative article including a black hard coating film which is excellently inhibited from suffering a deterioration of appearance quality such as a scratch due to use thereof, and which has excellent decorativeness. The decorative article according to the present invention is a decorative article including: a base; and a black hard coating film which is formed on the base, and which includes diamond-like carbon, wherein the hydrogen content of a surface, reverse to a surface closer to the base, of the black hard coating film is more than the hydrogen content of the surface, closer to the base, of the black hard coating film; and the hydrogen content of the surface, reverse to the surface closer to the base, of the black hard coating film is 30.0 to 75.0 atm %.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicants: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventor: Osamu TANAKA
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Publication number: 20160053360Abstract: Provided is a hard decorative member excellent in scratch resistance. The hard decorative member according to the present invention includes a base and a hard decorative coating film layered on the base, in which the hard decorative coating film includes a gray-tone layer including a compound formed by a reaction of an alloy of Ti and one or two or more metals M2 selected from Nb, Ta, and V with a non-metallic element including at least carbon. It is preferable that the amount of carbon contained in the gray-tone layer is 30 to 70 atm % in a total of Ti, the metal M2, and the non-metallic element of 100 atm %.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicants: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventor: Kotaro TAKAZAKI
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Patent number: 9269873Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor light emitting device comprises steps of: arraying semiconductor light emitting elements on an adhesive sheet so that electrodes of the semiconductor light emitting elements face the adhesive sheet; forming a wafer thereof by filling spaces between side surfaces of the semiconductor light emitting elements arrayed on the adhesive sheet with a resin and curing the resin; peeling the adhesive sheet from the wafer; overlaying the wafer on a substrate from which numerous substrates can be obtained by subdivision into individual pieces and the electrodes of the semiconductor light emitting elements and electrodes formed on the large circuit substrate are joined; and subdividing the large circuit substrate, to which the wafer has been joined, into individual semiconductor light emitting devices so that the planar size of the semiconductor light emitting element and that of the circuit substrate are roughly equal.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignees: CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD., CITIZEN ELECTRINICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Imazu, Hirohiko Ishii
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Patent number: 9254543Abstract: A machine tool is provided with a tool mounting part mounting and holding a tool for working a workpiece, a motor rotating the tool mounting part such that an edge of the tool is inclined with respect to the workpiece, a control device holding the tool standby such that the edge of the tool is positioned at a working standby position proximal to a surface of the workpiece and starting a working movement from the working standby position. In the machine tool, the control device includes a working standby position correcting device to correct the working standby position to a corrected working standby position according to a diameter d of the tool and a rotational angle ? of the tool mounting part such that the tool does not interfere with the workpiece when the tool is held standby at the working standby position in a rotated state by the motor.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2011Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignees: CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD., CITIZEN MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichi Ueno, Yutaka Shibui
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Patent number: 9257141Abstract: A polarization conversion element includes a phase reversal element and a polarization plane rotation element including a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer has a plurality of regions disposed along circumferential direction with the intersection point of the polarization plane rotation element and the optical axis as the center with alignment directions different from each other. When electric voltage in accordance with the wavelength of linear polarization incident on the polarization plane rotation element is applied, each region rotates the polarization plane of the polarization component transmitted by each region, and thereby converts linear polarization to radial polarization. The phase reversal element reverses, among the first and the second annular portions alternately disposed along the radial direction with the optical axis as the center, the phase of light incident on the first annular portion relative to the phase of light incident on the second annular portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki Hashimoto, Makoto Kurihara, Kenji Matsumoto, Masafumi Yokoyama, Ayano Tanabe
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Patent number: 9257812Abstract: Provided is a laser module wherein any defective laser device can be isolated by performing burn-in on laser devices mounted on a mounting substrate. The laser module includes laser devices that emit laser light, a driver IC for driving the laser devices, a mounting substrate on which the laser devices and the driver IC are mounted, a common electrode terminal to which a common electrode of the laser devices is connected, individual electrode terminals to which individual electrodes of the laser devices are respectively connected, driver terminals to which the driver IC is connected, and test terminals which are respectively connected to the common electrode terminal and the individual electrode terminals, and to which an external power supply is to be connected when performing burn-in of the laser devices, wherein the number of the laser devices and the number of the test terminals are each larger than the number of the driver terminals.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2014Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masafumi Ide, Kaoru Yoda, Shinpei Fukaya
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Publication number: 20160018078Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus is provided which can improve the reflectance of light in the emission wavelength region of the LED. The light-emitting apparatus includes a mount board constituted by a metal support, a circuit board provided with an opening and fixed onto the mount board, a multi-layered film containing silver as a light-reflecting material, the multi-layered film being stacked on the mount board exposed in the opening, exclusive of a portion of the mount board onto which the circuit board is fixed, and an LED element mounted on the multi-layered film.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Applicants: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Katoh, Sadato Imai
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Patent number: 9241383Abstract: A light-emitting device (10) includes a plurality of light-emitting areas (10a, 10b and 10c), and each of the light-emitting areas (10a, 10b and 10c) includes a first light-emitting block (3) and a second light-emitting block (4). Each respective first light-emitting blocks (3) include a plurality of first light-emitting elements (A1, A2, or A3), which are connected in series, and each respective second light-emitting blocks (4) include a plurality of second light-emitting elements (B1, B2, or B3), which are connected in series. The number of first light-emitting elements in each respective first light-emitting blocks (3) is the same with one another of the first light-emitting blocks (3), and the number of second light-emitting elements in each respective second light-emitting blocks (4) is the same with one another of the second light-emitting blocks (4).Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2011Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takakazu Yano, Akio Yoshimura, Sadato Imai, Shinichi Miyashita
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Patent number: 9240671Abstract: A laser light source (100) includes a laser element (102) that emits a fundamental wave, a wavelength converting element (104) that performs wavelength conversion on the fundamental wave emitted from the laser element (102) and outputs the converted wave, and an optical waveguide (103) that guides the light output from the wavelength converting element (104). The optical waveguide (103) has a direction changing portion (113) that changes the travel direction of the guided light. The direction changing portion (113) has a function of transmitting the converted wave alone and of not transmitting the fundamental wave.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2012Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventor: Masafumi Ide
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Patent number: D750581Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Eguchi, Sadato Imai, Tatsuya Katoh
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Patent number: D751045Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shingo Kuriki
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Patent number: D751046Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shingo Kuriki
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Patent number: D751517Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shingo Kuriki