Patents by Inventor Akihito Wada
Akihito Wada 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).
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Patent number: 8379337Abstract: A lens drive device may include a front side spring member which is connected between a movable body having a lens and a support body. The front side spring member includes a support body side connecting part, a movable body side connecting part and a arm part connected between the support body side connecting part and the movable body side connecting part. The support body includes a yoke having a yoke front plate part and the yoke front plate part is formed with a yoke opening part which is overlapped with at least a part of the front side spring member. Damper material having viscoelasticity is provided, for example, on a portion extending over the movable body side connecting part and the arm part and overlapped with the yoke opening part in the lens optical axis direction. Therefore, the damper material can be applied to the front side spring member through the yoke opening part in the final stage of assembling steps.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2011Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Nidec Sankyo CorporationInventors: Tatsuki Wade, Takeshi Sue, Akihito Wada
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Patent number: 8289638Abstract: A lens driving device may include a movable lens body which holds a lens, and a driving mechanism for moving the movable lens body in an optical axis direction. The driving mechanism includes coils attached to the movable lens body, and a magnet opposed to the coils. When a gap between the coils and the magnet is expressed as A, and the width of the coil is expressed as B, a conditional expression of 0.3B?A?B is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2008Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Nidec Sankyo CorporationInventors: Akihito Wada, Toshifumi Tsuruta
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Patent number: 8213100Abstract: A lens drive device may include a movable body holding a lens and a drive mechanism for driving the movable body in the optical axis direction. The drive mechanism may include a drive magnet part formed in a substantially triangular prism shape which is disposed at least one of four corners of the lens drive device, a drive coil wound around in a substantially triangular tube shape so that its inner peripheral face is oppositely disposed to an outer peripheral face of the drive magnet part through a gap space, and a magnetic member which is disposed on an object side with respect to the drive coil. The magnetic member is attracted toward an intermediate position of the drive magnet part in the optical axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2010Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Nidec Sankyo CorporationInventors: Tatsuki Wade, Akihito Wada
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Publication number: 20120120512Abstract: A lens drive device may include a front side spring member which is connected between a movable body having a lens and a support body. The front side spring member includes a support body side connecting part, a movable body side connecting part and a arm part connected between the support body side connecting part and the movable body side connecting part. The support body includes a yoke having a yoke front plate part and the yoke front plate part is formed with a yoke opening part which is overlapped with at least a part of the front side spring member. Damper material having viscoelasticity is provided, for example, on a portion extending over the movable body side connecting part and the arm part and overlapped with the yoke opening part in the lens optical axis direction. Therefore, the damper material can be applied to the front side spring member through the yoke opening part in the final stage of assembling steps.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2011Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuki WADE, Takeshi SUE, Akihito WADA
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Patent number: 8159764Abstract: A lens drive device may include a movable body holding a lens, a fixed body movably holding the movable body, and a drive mechanism for driving the movable body in the optical axis direction. The drive mechanism may include a drive magnet part formed in a substantially triangular prism shape and disposed at least in one of four corners of the lens drive device, a drive coil wound around in a substantially triangular tube shape and attached to the movable body, and a coil protection member attached to at least one of an object side and an opposite-to-object side of the drive coil. The coil protection member may include a first coil protection end part and a second coil protection end part which are superposed on an outer side end of the drive coil or protruded toward an outer side from the outer side end of the drive coil to prevent the drive coil from contacting with the fixed body such as a case body.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2010Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Nidec Sankyo CorporationInventors: Tatsuki Wade, Akihito Wada
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Patent number: 8040620Abstract: A lens drive device may include a movable body provided with a lens and a drive mechanism for driving the movable body in the optical axis direction. The drive mechanism may include a substantially triangular prism-shaped drive magnet part disposed in at least one of four corners of the lens drive device, and a drive coil wound around a substantially triangular tube shape and whose inner peripheral face is oppositely disposed to an outer peripheral face of the drive magnet part through a gap space. In at least another embodiment, a lens drive device may include a flat spring provided with a plurality of arm parts which connect a movable body fixed part with a fixed body fixed part. The arm part is formed with a low spring constant part whose spring constant is smaller than a spring constant of other portion of the arm part.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2009Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Nidec Sankyo CorporationInventors: Tatsuki Wade, Toshifumi Tsuruta, Akihito Wada
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Patent number: 7891568Abstract: A media processing device may include a frame with a transport passage in which information recording media are transported and a magnetic head for processing magnetic information signals on the information recording media. The magnetic head may be embedded in the frame and part of the frame may be interposed between the magnetic head and the transport passage.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2008Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Nidec Sankyo CorporationInventors: Masahiro Ikeda, Akihito Wada, Hideki Kanebako, Hiromi Fukasawa, Daisuke Higuchi
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Patent number: 7880982Abstract: A lens driving apparatus may include a movable body holding lenses; a support body for supporting said movable body to move in the optical axis direction of said lenses; and a drive mechanism for driving said movable body in the optical axis direction; wherein said movable body is provided with an extension portion that is extended toward the outer periphery, and a moving path and a movement-stopping portion are formed to at least a member of said drive mechanism mounted on the support body or to said support body, said moving path allowing said extension portion to move in the optical axis direction when said movable body is moved in the optical axis direction and said movement-stopping portion regulating the moving range of said movable body as said extension portion makes contact with said movement-stopping portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2007Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Nidec Sankyo CorporationInventors: Noboru Otsuki, Akihito Wada, Tsuneo Sato
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Patent number: 7798906Abstract: In a game management server that manages a network multiplayer game, a game-holding-prior-notice-receiving unit receives a date and time for a prospective multiplayer game being held, and conditions for holding the game, and the unit registers them into a database. An entry-reservation-receiving unit announces a prior notice of the meeting being held and calls for participants. A user who desires to participate requests the entry-reservation-receiving unit to make an entry reservation. When receiving the entry reservation, the entry-reservation-receiving unit registers the reservation into a database. When the date and time that the meeting is expected to be held arrives, the execution managing unit generates data necessary for executing the meeting and manages the execution of the meeting to be held. A result presenting unit presents the result of the meeting.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2008Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori Kotsugai, Akihito Wada
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Publication number: 20100188760Abstract: A lens drive device may include a movable body holding a lens and a drive mechanism for driving the movable body in the optical axis direction. The drive mechanism may include a drive magnet part formed in a substantially triangular prism shape which is disposed at least one of four corners of the lens drive device, a drive coil wound around in a substantially triangular tube shape so that its inner peripheral face is oppositely disposed to an outer peripheral face of the drive magnet part through a gap space, and a magnetic member which is disposed on an object side with respect to the drive coil. The magnetic member is attracted toward an intermediate position of the drive magnet part in the optical axis direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuki WADE, Akihito WADA
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Publication number: 20100188761Abstract: A lens drive device may include a movable body holding a lens, a fixed body movably holding the movable body, and a drive mechanism for driving the movable body in the optical axis direction. The drive mechanism may include a drive magnet part formed in a substantially triangular prism shape and disposed at least in one of four corners of the lens drive device, a drive coil wound around in a substantially triangular tube shape and attached to the movable body, and a coil protection member attached to at least one of an object side and an opposite-to-object side of the drive coil. The coil protection member may include a first coil protection end part and a second coil protection end part which are superposed on an outer side end of the drive coil or protruded toward an outer side from the outer side end of the drive coil to prevent the drive coil from contacting with the fixed body such as a case body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuki WADE, Akihito WADA
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Publication number: 20100149668Abstract: A lens drive device may include a movable body provided with a lens and a drive mechanism for driving the movable body in the optical axis direction. The drive mechanism may include a substantially triangular prism-shaped drive magnet part disposed in at least one of four corners of the lens drive device, and a drive coil wound around a substantially triangular tube shape and whose inner peripheral face is oppositely disposed to an outer peripheral face of the drive magnet part through a gap space. In at least another embodiment, a lens drive device may include a flat spring provided with a plurality of arm parts which connect a movable body fixed part with a fixed body fixed part. The arm part is formed with a low spring constant part whose spring constant is smaller than a spring constant of other portion of the arm part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2009Publication date: June 17, 2010Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuki WADE, Toshifumi TSURUTA, Akihito WADA
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Publication number: 20100149667Abstract: A lens driving device may include a movable lens body which holds a lens, and a driving mechanism for moving the movable lens body in an optical axis direction. The driving mechanism includes coils attached to the movable lens body, and a magnet opposed to the coils. When a gap between the coils and the magnet is expressed as A, and the width of the coil is expressed as B, a conditional expression of 0.3B?A?B is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2008Publication date: June 17, 2010Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Akihito Wada, Toshifumi Tsuruta
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Patent number: 7697216Abstract: A lens drive device may include a movable lens body provided with a lens, a support body which movably supports the movable lens body through a plate spring in an optical axis direction, and a magnetic drive mechanism for driving the movable lens body in the optical axis direction. The plate spring may include an outer side connecting part connected with the support body, an inner side connecting part connected with the movable lens body, and an arm part which is connected with the inner side connecting part and the outer side connecting part through an inner connecting portion and an outer connecting portion. The arm part may include a meandering part which comprises a plurality of extending parts which is extended in a radial direction is serially connected through inner side turning portions and outer side turning portions.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2007Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Nidec Sankyo CorporationInventors: Akihito Wada, Tsuneo Sato
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Publication number: 20100060774Abstract: A lens drive device may include a movable lens body provided with a lens and a drive mechanism for moving the movable lens body in an optical axis direction of the lens. The drive mechanism may include a drive coil, a magnet comprised of a plurality of magnet pieces, and a holder body which holds the magnet. The magnet may be disposed so that predetermined gap spaces are formed between opposite end faces of the plurality of magnet pieces, and the respective magnet pieces may be adhesively bonded and fixed to the holder body by using a first adhesive means, and a second adhesive means may be disposed in the gap spaces and between the end faces of the magnet pieces.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2007Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Azuma, Ritsuko Tahara, Takeshi Sue, Akihito Wada
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Publication number: 20090088256Abstract: In a game management server that manages a network multiplayer game, a game-holding-prior-notice-receiving unit receives a date and time for a prospective multiplayer game being held, and conditions for holding the game, and the unit registers them into a database. An entry-reservation-receiving unit announces a prior notice of the meeting being held and calls for participants. A user who desires to participate requests the entry-reservation-receiving unit to make an entry reservation. When receiving the entry reservation, the entry-reservation-receiving unit registers the reservation into a database. When the date and time that the meeting is expected to be held arrives, the execution managing unit generates data necessary for executing the meeting and manages the execution of the meeting to be held. A result presenting unit presents the result of the meeting.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Inventors: Yoshinori KOTSUGAI, Akihito Wada
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Publication number: 20090059422Abstract: A media processing device may include a frame with a transport passage in which information recording media are transported and a magnetic head for processing magnetic information signals on the information recording media. The magnetic head may be embedded in the frame and part of the frame may be interposed between the magnetic head and the transport passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro IKEDA, Akihito WADA, Hideki Kanebako, Hiromi Fukasawa, Daisuke Higuchi
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Publication number: 20090015948Abstract: A lens drive device may include a movable lens body provided with a lens, a support body which movably supports the movable lens body through a plate spring in an optical axis direction, and a magnetic drive mechanism for driving the movable lens body in the optical axis direction. The plate spring may include an outer side connecting part connected with the support body, an inner side connecting part connected with the movable lens body, and an arm part which is connected with the inner side connecting part and the outer side connecting part through an inner connecting portion and an outer connecting portion. The arm part may include a meandering part which comprises a plurality of extending parts which is extended in a radial direction is serially connected through inner side turning portions and outer side turning portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2007Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Akihito Wada, Tsuneo Sato
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Publication number: 20080247063Abstract: A lens driving apparatus may include a movable body holding lenses; a support body for supporting said movable body to move in the optical axis direction of said lenses; and a drive mechanism for driving said movable body in the optical axis direction; wherein said movable body is provided with an extension portion that is extended toward the outer periphery, and a moving path and a movement-stopping portion are formed to at least a member of said drive mechanism mounted on the support body or to said support body, said moving path allowing said extension portion to move in the optical axis direction when said movable body is moved in the optical axis direction and said movement-stopping portion regulating the moving range of said movable body as said extension portion makes contact with said movement-stopping portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2007Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Noboru Otsuki, Akihito Wada, Tsuneo Sato