Patents Assigned to SMK Corporation
  • Publication number: 20160285191
    Abstract: An electrical connector including a metal plate including an insulating portion and an insulating portion; and a contact support portion including a hole portion that is extended in a thickness direction, of which a top end is blocked by a connection portion, and of which a bottom end exposes the insulating portion but not the metal plate, and a hole portion that is extended in the thickness direction, of which a bottom end opens to an outer surface and is blocked by a connection portion, and of which a top end exposes the insulating portion but not the metal plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: SMK Corporation
    Inventor: Naoyuki Ono
  • Patent number: 9436383
    Abstract: Provided is an operating device that suppresses differences in operational feeling resulting from the amount of sensitivity of a detection subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, SMK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takao Imai, Hiroaki Fukuoka, Osamu Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 9397446
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal locking structure for an electrical connector excellent in assembly even when the locking position of a lance of a terminal is restricted, wherein, in the terminal locking structure that locks a terminal into a housing of the electrical connector with a lance, the terminal includes the lance and a stabilizer on an outer circumference of a cylindrical part thereof, the housing includes: an insertion part into which the terminal is inserted; a lance locking part provided only at a predetermined position along an inner circumference of the insertion part; and a guide part for the stabilizer, the guide part being inserted along the insertion part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Takagi
  • Patent number: 9354746
    Abstract: A plurality of detection electrodes S(n) are allocated to any one of two or more detection electrode groups SG(k) so that the detection electrodes S(n) to be allocated to each of the detection electrode groups SG(k) are disposed at equal intervals and spaced apart from each other by at least one detection electrode S(n) in the direction of detection. In each of the two or more detection electrode groups SG(k), the detection electrodes S(n) allocated to the detection electrode group SG(k) are sequentially selected in the direction of detection so as to compare the detection voltage levels R(n) that each appear on a set of detection electrodes S(n) and S(n+1) that are adjacent to each other in the direction of detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignees: SMK Corporation, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Osamu Yoshikawa, Takao Imai, Syogo Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9342201
    Abstract: A capacitive touch input device capable of detecting two or more different input positions and detecting each input position within a short period of time is provided. One of two or more drive electrodes respectively belonging to drive electrode group DV(n) and a drive electrode group DV(n?) adjacent to each other is a common drive electrode arranged therebetween. A pitch between the drive electrodes arranged at equal intervals is set so that a change in a detection voltage level R(m,n) appears at a detection electrode S(m) arranged in the vicinity of an input operator when a drive control unit performs drive control of the drive electrode group DV(n) and the input operator is at a position distant from the drive electrode group DV(n) up to an intermediate position of the adjacent drive electrode group DV(n?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Seiya Murase, Osamu Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 9343857
    Abstract: There is provided a jack that can be easily applied to an electronic device adopting a design where an outer edge portion of a casing is formed in an arc or tapered shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9306317
    Abstract: There is provided a coaxial connector that can ensure high airtightness without using a costly hermetic sealing component. An airtight coaxial connector includes: a resin filling space portion formed more to a coaxial cable connection side than to an insulator in an outer shell; a resin inlet that is open more to a target connector connection side than to the insulator in the outer shell and communicates with the resin filling space portion; and an airtightness resin that is filled in the resin filling space portion through the resin inlet and seals between a central conductor and the outer shell and between a dielectric of a coaxial cable and the outer shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventor: Hironori Kunieda
  • Patent number: 9300848
    Abstract: A camera module with internal structural elements housed inside a housing space formed by joining two cases together achieves a sufficient joint strength between both cases even though the thickness of the case walls is reduced to make the outer shape smaller, as well as a size reduction of the camera module is enabled, when the two cases are joined together by ultrasonic welding. The joint surfaces where the two cases are joined together are inclined relative to a plane orthogonal to the optical axis direction of a lens unit housed inside the camera module. Thereby, the area of joint surfaces is increased as compared with the case where the joint surfaces are parallel to the plane orthogonal. Also, since interference between a horn for applying ultrasonic waves during ultrasonic welding and the external connection part is avoided, the camera module can be made smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Mano
  • Patent number: 9281610
    Abstract: Provided is a tray type card connector that is compatible with waterproof electronic devices and that can easily perform the insertion and removal of a card into/from the electronic devices. A tray type card connector includes a card tray; a housing having a tray insertion portion; a plurality of contacts arranged in the housing so as to project within the tray insertion portion; a front cover portion fitting in a casing opening portion opened at a lateral surface portion of a casing of an electronic device A, at a front end portion of the card tray; a ring-shaped cover water-sealing member made of an elastic material at an outer periphery portion of the front cover portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventor: Koichiro Ejiri
  • Patent number: 9246250
    Abstract: Provided is an electrical connector without making the manufacturing process complicated and without increasing the size and the manufacturing cost, wherein, an electrical connector includes a holddown attached to a body part of a second insulating housing and fixed to a circuit board P. The holddown is formed of a single metal sheet, and includes a held part held by body part, leg parts extending from the held part, protruding from opposed faces facing the circuit board of the body part placed on the circuit board, and being fixed to the circuit board, and an extension part extending from the held part in a direction parallel to a direction in which a counterpart connector is engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Yoshiura, Ryo Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9233620
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a system for assisting a vehicle on the edge of battery exhaustion. An information providing device includes: an information acquiring part for acquiring the current location of a vehicle and the amount of power stored in a power storage unit of the vehicle from a plurality of vehicles; a vehicle selecting part for selecting one or more vehicles as available vehicles for power supply from the plurality of vehicles based on the respective current locations and the amounts of stored power of the plurality of vehicles, the one or more vehicles to be selected being capable of supplying charging power to a target vehicle requiring charge of its power storage unit; and a notifying part for notifying of an available vehicle for power supply selected by the vehicle selecting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuo Hara
  • Publication number: 20150379913
    Abstract: A touch-type input device includes a touch panel. Capacitors are formed at intersections of drive electrodes and sensor electrodes in the touch panel. A controller determines whether the touch panel has been touched from data values, each indicating a change amount in the capacitance from a reference value. When detecting from the data values a change in the capacitance to a reverse polarity differing from the polarity when a human body touches the touch panel, the controller determines that external noise caused the change and stops detecting touching of the touch panel. When the controller detects a change in the capacitance to the reverse polarity, at the same time, the location of where the capacitance of the reverse polarity is detected does not shift, the controller determines that the change in the capacitance is irrelevant to influence of external noise and continues to detect touching of the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, SMK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takao IMAI, Osamu YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20150379914
    Abstract: A touch-type input device includes a touch panel including drive electrodes and sensor electrodes. Capacitors are formed at intersections of the drive electrodes and sensor electrodes. A controller determines whether a conductive foreign matter exists on the touch panel from raw data values indicating changes in the capacitances of the capacitors from initial reference values. The controller determines touching of the touch panel from control data values indicating changes in the capacitances of the capacitors from control reference values changed when a conductive foreign matter exists. When the raw data values indicate existence of a conductive foreign matter, the controller sets the control reference value of each capacitor to a raw data reference value corresponding to the present raw data value. The controller updates the initial reference value when the touch-type input device is activated and updates the control reference value when the control reference value is erroneous.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SMK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takao IMAI, Toru UENO, Keiji MURASE, Yuji TAKAI, Hiroki NORITAKE, Hiroshi SHIKATA, Naoki KAMIYA, Osamu YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9218089
    Abstract: A touch input device includes a touch panel, a controller, and a cancellation electrode. The touch panel includes a sensor pattern and an operation surface arranged above the sensor pattern. The sensor pattern includes first electrodes and second electrodes insulated from one another and arranged in a grid. The controller applies a drive pulse signal to the sensor pattern and detects a touch location where the operation surface of the touch panel is touched based on changes in capacitance of the sensor pattern. A cancellation pulse signal is applied to the cancellation electrode during application of the drive pulse signal. The cancellation pulse signal has a phase inverted from that of the drive pulse signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, SMK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Syogo Yamaguchi, Osamu Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: D749518
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: SMK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshimitsu Takeda
  • Patent number: D750562
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Takanobu Makimura, Kohei Hayashi
  • Patent number: D753592
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: SMK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshimitsu Takeda
  • Patent number: D758315
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuo Yoshiura
  • Patent number: D761735
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Tadahito Sasaki, Toyokazu Yoshino, Mitsuhiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: D764414
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventor: Toshimitsu Takeda