Patents Assigned to SMK Corporation
  • Patent number: 10426371
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a muscle condition measurement sheet that can quantitatively detect the amplitude and latency of an evoked electromyogram EMG or an evoked mechanomyogram MMG and correctly evaluate the state of activity of a muscle. A pair of stimulating electrodes and all myoelectric detection electrodes come into intimate contact with a body surface of a muscle, appearing on a back surface of an insulating sheet spaced at predetermined intervals; accordingly, the relative position between an electrical stimulation position and the myoelectric detection electrode is fixed and the amplitude and latency of the evoked electromyogram EMG can be quantitatively detected without depending on the stimulation position of an electrical stimulation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignees: SMK Corporation, Umemura Educational Institutions
    Inventors: Kohei Watanabe, Koichiro Ejiri, Haruhiko Kondo, Tsubasa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10424880
    Abstract: A shield connector is formed such that an electrical wire shield portion at an end of an electrical shield wire is removed to expose a plurality of single shield wires; connection terminals are each connected to the conductor at an end of each exposed single shield wire; the connection terminals are held in an inner housing; the inner housing and the single shield wires are sheathed with a shield shell; and an attachment piece integrated with the shield shell is fixedly attached to an end of the electrical shield wire. The shield shell is provided with a connector shield member, and the connector shield member is electrically connected to single wire shield portions of the exposed single shield wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Yoshiura, Katsuhisa Serizawa
  • Publication number: 20190286260
    Abstract: For example, a touch panel is efficiently manufactured. A touch panel includes: a base; a first transparent conductive sensor portion provided on a first major surface of the base; a first wiring portion connected to the first sensor portion and provided on the first major surface; a second transparent conductive sensor portion provided on a second major surface of the base, the second major surface being on a side opposite to the first major surface; and a second wiring portion connected to the second sensor portion and provided on the second major surface, each of the first and second wiring portions includes a plurality of wires partitioned by laser grooves, and the first and second wiring portions are provided respectively in positions that do not overlap with each other in a cross-sectional direction from the first major surface to the second major surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: SMK Corporation
    Inventor: Tsutomu INOUE
  • Patent number: 10390416
    Abstract: The respective proportionality constants of magnetic force by magnetic field producing portion for biasing the plug in the direction of insertion and resilient force by a spring mechanism for biasing the plug in the direction of extraction are adjusted in such a manner that the resilient force is greater than the magnetic force until the plug pin reaches an intermediate insertion position at which the plug pin comes into proximity to or separates from the socket contact, whereas the magnetic force is greater than the resilient force at a position at which the plug pin is inserted into a complete insertion position for a hot-line connection to the socket contact. The plug pin in the vicinity of the intermediate insertion position, at which there is a possibility of occurrence of an arc discharge, is ejected by the resilient force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Ejiri, Haruhiko Kondo
  • Patent number: 10379307
    Abstract: Provided is an optical-electrical composite cable in which, even if the entire optical-electrical composite cable having an optical fiber routed along flexible flat wiring boards is made thin, the optical fiber is not deformed or damaged by a large bending stress. A pair of the flexible flat wiring boards are disposed on a front surface side and a rear surface side of the optical fiber, and a covering member integrates the entirety thereof. Thus, even if the optical-electrical composite cable is made thin, the cable is not bent with a large curvature without deformation of the optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Tadahito Sasaki, Kohei Homma, Mitsuhiro Yoshida, Masayoshi Suzuki, Makoto Goto
  • Patent number: 10367291
    Abstract: Provided are a connector and a connector assembly which can be attached for use to a bendable object of interest such as clothing. A connector, which is mated with a mating connector, is provided with a plate-shaped housing, electrically conductive contacts arranged on the housing, and a plurality of retainer members formed from a magnetic metal and arranged in the housing. When the connector is mated with the mating connector, the retainer members are attracted to a magnet that the mating connector has so as to hold the mating state. The housing is formed from a bendable insulating rubber, and the plurality of retainer members are spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction (the X direction) parallel to a front surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Asai, Tomohito Okamura, Toshihiko Kato
  • Patent number: 10367293
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating housing; a conductive contact held by the housing, the conductive contact including connection portions exposed on a front side of the housing to be connected to a mating contact of a mating connector and terminal portions protruding from the housing; a cylindrical shell configured to contain the housing, the cylindrical shell including a front shell member and a rear shell member, the front shell member having a fitting portion open forward into which the mating connector is insertable, the rear shell member being provided at the rear of the front shell member so as to protrude the terminal portions therefrom, the rear shell member having a smaller diameter than the front shell member; and an elastically deformable seal member configured to be provided on an outer periphery of the rear shell member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventor: Naoyuki Ono
  • Patent number: 10348028
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating main housing including a main body portion that has a holding hole open rearward and a plate-shaped fitting portion that protrudes forward from the main body portion and fits to a mating connector; a shield member that covers the main housing; an insulating sub housing that is arranged in the holding hole; and a plurality of conductive terminals that include connection portions arranged on the fitting portion and terminal portions protruding from the holding hole, and are held by the sub housing. The sub housing includes a first sub housing that is inserted into the holding hole from behind in a state of holding a part of the plurality of terminals, and a second sub housing that is inserted into the holding hole from behind in a state of holding the terminals other than the part of the plurality of terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: SMK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Hayashi, Naoyuki Ono
  • Patent number: 10332087
    Abstract: A POS payment terminal (1) using a mobile communication device (4), such as a mobile phone, is created over a temporary connection between the merchant's Sales Device (2) with the removable memory card (18), where the removable memory card (18) is inserted into the customer's slot of the mobile communication device (4). The Sales Device (2) contains a secure memory (6) with the POS terminal's identification data in the form of a SAM card or an ICC card (9) or directly in the form of a secure element on the circuit printed. The payment terminal (1) is created before or during the payment process over a temporary connection between a Sales Device (2) with a mobile communication device (4), which is held by the customer and which has a removable memory card that can have an independent communication element, especially of the NFC type. The payment cryptogram is of standard form, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Miroslav Florek, Michael Masaryk, David Alan Riffelmacher
  • Patent number: 10296153
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic capacitance touch panel with high manufacturing yield that can significantly decrease occurrence of defective product due to short circuit as compared with related art even if there is short circuit between a dummy pattern and an electrode included in an insulated area with wide width recognized as distinct from the electrode. Several first electrodes 20, several second electrodes 30, and a dummy pattern 50 made from the same material as or a material with the same refractive index as the electrode provided in an insulated area 40 between the adjacent first electrode 20 and the second electrode 30 are provided over the same surface of an insulating substrate 10. The dummy pattern 50 is segmented in the long direction of the insulated area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakase, Haruka Imai
  • Patent number: 10291447
    Abstract: During the contactless transfer of the data from PICC (1) to PCD (4) with the load modulation within PICC (1) the analog signal between the transmitting antenna (3) and the output of the driver (2) is demodulated. From the demodulated output the digital data are generated for the direction of the subsequent modification of the signal led to the PICC (1) antenna set. The digital data gather from the demodulated signal are used for the amplification and/or attenuation of the signal received on the side of the PCD (4) and/or for synchronization or other modification of the signal on the side of the PICC (1), whereby no further modification of the driver (2) is needed. The connection on the LA, LB outputs appears to the driver (2) by its characteristics, mainly by its impedance, in the same way as the connected antenna (3) of the original connection according to the prior state of the art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventor: Miroslav Florek
  • Publication number: 20190138136
    Abstract: An object of an aspect of the present invention is to provide a touch panel which does not need a region for thermocompression bonding with FPC. The touch panel includes: a sensor having a base material, a plurality of first electrodes provided on the base material and configured to detect electrostatic capacitance, and a plurality of connection pads connected to the plurality of the first electrodes and provided along a first outer peripheral portion of the base material all through the first outer peripheral portion; a substrate on which a plurality of second electrodes is provided along a second outer peripheral portion all through the second outer peripheral portion; and an anisotropic conductor interposed between the first outer peripheral portion of the sensor and the second outer peripheral portion of the substrate all through the first and second outer peripheral portions and contacting the plurality of the first electrodes and the plurality of the second electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: SMK Corporation
    Inventor: Naomi NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10261649
    Abstract: Possibility of erroneous operation caused by a conductive area as a tolerance margin is reduced and electrical properties are prevented from becoming poor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakase, Tsutomu Inoue
  • Patent number: 10217738
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a base region formed in the semiconductor substrate on a front surface side thereof, a gate trench extending from a front surface side of the base region and penetrating thorough the base region, and a dummy trench extending from the front surface side of the base region and penetrating thorough the base region, where a portion of the dummy trench that extends beyond a back surface of the base region is longer than a portion of the gate trench that extends beyond the back surface of the base region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuya Naito
  • Patent number: 10212388
    Abstract: In a video imaging apparatus, a camera module includes the imaging unit and an imaging control unit that controls the imaging operation of the imaging unit according to imaging control values, and the imaging apparatus main body connected to the camera module via a connection cable capable of bidirectional communication includes an image signal processing unit that outputs frame images of a video in sequence from the imaging signals and generates the imaging control values for controlling imaging operation of the imaging unit from the imaging signals. The imaging unit can determine whether the imaging control values input from the image signal processing unit via the connection cable are abnormal imaging control values under influence of noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutaka Motohashi, Motohiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 10199758
    Abstract: A contact includes a contact unit in contact with a terminal of a circuit board, to establish electric connection; and a barrel unit to contain the contact unit. The contact unit has a first contact point to come into contact with the terminal in an early stage of a relative slide operation in a connection direction when connected to the circuit board, and to be inclined according to the slide operation; a second contact point to swing toward the circuit board according to the inclination of the first contact point, and to be brought into contact with the terminal after a delay from the contact of the first contact point against the terminal; and a contact fulcrum portion. The barrel unit has protrusion support portions to support the contact fulcrum portion. Contact surfaces between the contact fulcrum portion and the protrusion support portions are each a rolled surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Suzuki, Mitsuhiro Yoshida, Shogo Uehara, Shinya Okumura
  • Patent number: D839831
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Yanase, Kiyoshi Asai, Fumio Osawa
  • Patent number: D850382
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Hisada, Yasuo Yoshiura
  • Patent number: D850383
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Kunieda, Ryutaro Takano
  • Patent number: D860945
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignees: DENSO Corporation, SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuaki Kanazawa, Kiyoshi Asai, Takeshi Horikawa