Patents by Inventor Akihiro Shinohe

Akihiro Shinohe 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).

  • Patent number: 9798389
    Abstract: A holding structure for holding a vibration generator includes a first holding member that is in contact with the vibration generator, a second holding member that engages the first holding member, and an elastic member that is supported by the second holding member and urges the vibration generator toward the first holding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akihiro Shinohe
  • Publication number: 20160301292
    Abstract: A holding structure for holding a vibration generator includes a first holding member that is in contact with the vibration generator, a second holding member that engages the first holding member, and an elastic member that is supported by the second holding member and urges the vibration generator toward the first holding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventor: Akihiro Shinohe
  • Patent number: 7656314
    Abstract: An input device is provided. The input device includes an operation unit. A coordinate input unit capable of detecting that an operating body is in contact with the operation unit and detecting a position coordinate on the operation unit of a position where the operating body contacted the operation unit. A data processing unit outputs an operation processing signal on the basis of a detection signal received from the coordinate input unit. The data processing unit outputs an operation confirmation processing signal for the input operation after an input operation is performed while the operating body is contacting the operation unit, when tapping is performed on the operation unit, with the operating body kept in contact with the operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Muranaka, Akihiro Shinohe, Shuzo Ono
  • Publication number: 20070052688
    Abstract: An input device is provided. The input device includes an operation unit. A coordinate input unit capable of detecting that an operating body is in contact with the operation unit and detecting a position coordinate on the operation unit of a position where the operating body contacted the operation unit. A data processing unit outputs an operation processing signal on the basis of a detection signal received from the coordinate input unit. The data processing unit outputs an operation confirmation processing signal for the input operation after an input operation is performed while the operating body is contacting the operation unit, when tapping is performed on the operation unit, with the operating body kept in contact with the operation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Inventors: Tetsuo Muranaka, Akihiro Shinohe, Shuzo Ono
  • Patent number: 6697050
    Abstract: A mouse with a wheel, including a gear coaxially mounted to a rotary shaft of the wheel; a rocking member in which rocking arms extend from both sides thereof with a rocking shaft formed parallel to the rotary shaft as a center; a pawl member mounted to the rocking member and biased so as to engage the gear; and contact switches disposed at locations that allow them to contact the respective rocking arms, in which when one side of the rocking member rocks, a counter circuit at a side of the corresponding rocking arm is brought into a electrical conduction. The mouse has a non-photo- and simple structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Shinohe, Kouichi Ogino
  • Patent number: 6459058
    Abstract: An operating device to be used, for example, as an input portion for a game controller. The operating device comprises a housing, a push button, and a switch base comprising a switch portion and a support base. The housing is provided with a support member for supporting the switch base and is also provided with an anti-dislodgement retaining portion for preventing the push button from coming off to the exterior from the housing. The push button is provided with a retaining lug for engagement with the anti-dislodgement retaining portion of the housing and is also provided with a retaining lug for engagement with the support base in the switch base. The support base is provided with an anti-dislodgement retaining portion for engagement with the retaining lug of the push button and is also provided with a guide portion. With this guide portion, the movement of the push button is guided in its pushing direction and is prevented from wobbling in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Shinohe, Masahiro Soma
  • Patent number: 6042772
    Abstract: A roller stamp includes a stamp case and a stamp roller mounted to the stamp case for rotation. The stamp roller is made of foamed polyolefin having pores capable of being impregnated with ink. A stamp pattern is formed on the stamp roller after the stamp roller is mounted to the stamp case. After the stamp roller is mounted to the stamp case, a stamp pattern is formed on the stamp roller by using a thermal head to selectively heat and close the pores in accordance with the stamp pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Miyata, Akihiro Shinohe, Masahiro Soma
  • Patent number: 5944945
    Abstract: A thermal transfer device including a transfer roller and transporting portions that are spaced apart from and oppose each other; a heating member for heating surface of the transfer roller; a tray for placing thereon a member, being an optical recording-medium, to be subjected to transfer; and a transfer sheet with a transferring portion formed by printing, wherein the tray carrying the transfer sheet and the member to be subjected to transfer Such that the transferring portion faces the member is transported between the transfer roller and the transporting portions with the transfer sheet in contact with the transfer roller, whereby the transferring portion of the transfer sheet is thermally transferred onto the member. The thermal transfer device is capable of providing good quality printing at all times as a result of forming the transferring portion of the transfer sheet by printing, followed by thermal transfer of the transferring portion onto the member being an optical recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignees: Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Shinohe, Junichi Inamura, Shuichi Maeda, Fujio Matsuishi
  • Patent number: 5864098
    Abstract: A stylus pen wherein coordinate input or menu selection is performed by operating a switch incorporated in the stylus pen. The switch is mounted to a substrate in an opposed relation of a bottom of the switch to an edge portion of the substrate so that an operational direction of an operating portion of the switch and a moving direction of the substrate are substantially coincident with each other. As a cap is pushed, the substrate slides and the operating portion of the switch is pushed by an urging portion of an urging member to actuate the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiro Shinohe
  • Patent number: D405307
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiro Shinohe