Patents by Inventor Daisuke Tokunaga

Daisuke Tokunaga 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).

  • Publication number: 20240079479
    Abstract: To reduce defects in an oxide semiconductor film in a semiconductor device. To improve the electrical characteristics and the reliability of a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor film. In a semiconductor device including a transistor including a gate electrode formed over a substrate, a gate insulating film covering the gate electrode, a multilayer film overlapping with the gate electrode with the gate insulating film provided therebetween, and a pair of electrodes in contact with the multilayer film, a first oxide insulating film covering the transistor, and a second oxide insulating film formed over the first oxide insulating film, the multilayer film includes an oxide semiconductor film and an oxide film containing In or Ga, the first oxide insulating film is an oxide insulating film through which oxygen is permeated, and the second oxide insulating film is an oxide insulating film containing more oxygen than that in the stoichiometric composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Junichi KOEZUKA, Yukinori SHIMA, Hajime TOKUNAGA, Toshinari SASAKI, Keisuke MURAYAMA, Daisuke MATSUBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11650548
    Abstract: Provided is a watch, including: an exterior case having electroconductivity; an operating member having electroconductivity, which is inserted into the exterior case through an opening formed through the exterior case, and which is configured to accept an operation performed by a user; and an electrostatic motor including: an electret substrate having an electret surface on which electret films being electrically charged are provided; a counter substrate, on which electrodes to be arranged so as to be opposed to the electret films are provided; and a rotary shaft configured to rotate the electret substrate and the counter substrate relative to each other, wherein the operating member and the exterior case are electrically continuous with each other via a conduction path formed so as to avoid overlapping with the electret surface in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Shimoda, Yasuo Kitajima, Daisuke Tokunaga, Shinnosuke Sakata, Koki Mine, Yuta Furudate, Kazutaka Igarashi
  • Patent number: 11567454
    Abstract: Provided is an electromechanical transducer to be detachably attached to an electronic device, the transducer including: first and second plates; a rotor rotating around a rotating shaft supported by the plates; a fixed substrate disposed between the plates and facing the rotor; a charged portion having sub-regions disposed on the rotor at intervals in a rotating direction thereof so as to face the fixed substrate; an opposing electrode disposed on the fixed substrate so as to face the rotor; an adjusting unit for adjusting sliding properties of the rotating shaft, the adjusting unit being provided for at least one of the plates; and a gear train coupled to the rotating shaft. The gear train transmits motive power generated by the rotor rotated by electric power of the electronic device to the electronic device or transmits motive power generated by a change in orientation of the electronic device to the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kitajima, Kenji Shimoda, Shinnosuke Sakata, Daisuke Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 11260856
    Abstract: An information display device includes a surrounding environment detector, a vehicle information acquirer, a predictor, an avoidance path provider, and an information display. The surrounding environment detector detects position relevant information related to a position of at least a surrounding object in a surrounding environment of a vehicle. The vehicle information acquirer detects vehicle information including a speed and a steering direction of the vehicle. The predictor predicts a contact of the vehicle with the surrounding object, based on the position relevant information and the vehicle information. When the predictor has predicted that there is a possibility of the contact of the vehicle with the surrounding object, the avoidance path provider assumes an avoidance path for avoiding the contact, based on the position relevant information and the vehicle information. The information display displays the avoidance path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tokunaga, Nobuyuki Nakano, Toshiya Mori
  • Publication number: 20200293000
    Abstract: Provided is a watch, including: an exterior case having electroconductivity; an operating member having electroconductivity, which is inserted into the exterior case through an opening formed through the exterior case, and which is configured to accept an operation performed by a user; and an electrostatic motor including: an electret substrate having an electret surface on which electret films being electrically charged are provided; a counter substrate, on which electrodes to be arranged so as to be opposed to the electret films are provided; and a rotary shaft configured to rotate the electret substrate and the counter substrate relative to each other, wherein the operating member and the exterior case are electrically continuous with each other via a conduction path formed so as to avoid overlapping with the electret surface in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Kenji SHIMODA, Yasuo KITAJIMA, Daisuke TOKUNAGA, Shinnosuke SAKATA, Koki MINE, Yuta FURUDATE, Kazutaka IGARASHI
  • Publication number: 20200209809
    Abstract: Provided is an electromechanical transducer to be detachably attached to an electronic device, the transducer including: first and second plates; a rotor rotating around a rotating shaft supported by the plates; a fixed substrate disposed between the plates and facing the rotor; a charged portion having sub-regions disposed on the rotor at intervals in a rotating direction thereof so as to face the fixed substrate; an opposing electrode disposed on the fixed substrate so as to face the rotor; an adjusting unit for adjusting sliding properties of the rotating shaft, the adjusting unit being provided for at least one of the plates; and a gear train coupled to the rotating shaft. The gear train transmits motive power generated by the rotor rotated by electric power of the electronic device to the electronic device or transmits motive power generated by a change in orientation of the electronic device to the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yasuo Kitajima, Kenji Shimoda, Shinnosuke Sakata, Daisuke Tokunaga
  • Publication number: 20190389460
    Abstract: An information display device includes a surrounding environment detector, a vehicle information acquirer, a predictor, an avoidance path provider, and an information display. The surrounding environment detector detects position relevant information related to a position of at least a surrounding object in a surrounding environment of a vehicle. The vehicle information acquirer detects vehicle information including a speed and a steering direction of the vehicle. The predictor predicts a contact of the vehicle with the surrounding object, based on the position relevant information and the vehicle information. When the predictor has predicted that there is a possibility of the contact of the vehicle with the surrounding object, the avoidance path provider assumes an avoidance path for avoiding the contact, based on the position relevant information and the vehicle information. The information display displays the avoidance path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: DAISUKE TOKUNAGA, NOBUYUKI NAKANO, TOSHIYA MORI
  • Patent number: 7384037
    Abstract: A sheet housing part of a sheet handling machine is provided with a guide member for adjusting a size of a housing space of the sheet housing part. A tip end part of the guide member is made pivotable, and is provided with a biasing member for swinging the tip end part in a direction of a side wall of the sheet housing part. A gap provided between the guide member and an inner wall of the sheet housing part is closed with this construction, and thereby, a foreign matter is prevented from entering this gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi-Omron Terminal Solutions, Corp.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Sawayama, Daisuke Tokunaga, Shunsuke Hayashi, Sho Mizuno
  • Patent number: 7243914
    Abstract: Proposed is a paper gathering and feeding method, a device therefor, and a rotation member acting sufficiently also on any deformed notes at the time of gathering, and at the time of feeding, feeding is not prevented irrespective of the plasticity deformation, and an object thereof is to reduce the exchange frequency and maintenance of the rotation member, extend the continuous operation time of the paper gathering and feeding device, and realize comprehensive reduction of production cost, service cost, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Tokunaga, Hideyuki Sawayama
  • Publication number: 20050200072
    Abstract: A sheet housing part of a sheet handling machine is provided with a guide member for adjusting a size of a housing space of the sheet housing part. A tip end part of the guide member is made pivotable, and is provided with a biasing member for swinging the tip end part in a direction of a side wall of the sheet housing part. A gap provided between the guide member and an inner wall of the sheet housing part is closed with this construction, and thereby, a foreign matter is prevented from entering this gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2005
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Inventors: Hideyuki Sawayama, Daisuke Tokunaga, Shunsuke Hayashi, Sho Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20040135304
    Abstract: Proposed is a paper gathering and feeding method, a device therefor, and a rotation member acting sufficiently also on any deformed notes at the time of gathering, and at the time of feeding, feeding is not prevented irrespective of the plasticity deformation, and an object thereof is to reduce the exchange frequency and maintenance of the rotation member, extend the continuous operation time of the paper gathering and feeding device, and realize comprehensive reduction of production cost, service cost, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Daisuke Tokunaga, Hideyuki Sawayama
  • Publication number: 20010025249
    Abstract: A monitoring contract with regard to software and/or hardware which are installed in a terminal is concluded by an access from the above-mentioned terminal connectable to a network to a home page set up by a partner of the contract such as makers or information buyers and the like. After concluding the monitoring contract, utilization information with regard to the software and/or the hardware designated as objects of the monitoring contract in the users' terminal is automatically transferred from the above-mentioned terminal to a predetermined node of the partner of the monitoring contract via the above-mentioned network in real time during utilization of the above-mentioned software and/or hardware by a control program accompanying with the above-mentioned monitoring contract distributed by the above-mentioned partner of the contract installed and installed in the above-mentioned terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Inventor: Daisuke Tokunaga