Patents by Inventor Hiromitsu Niwa
Hiromitsu Niwa 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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Publication number: 20250147617Abstract: A flexible wiring board includes an insulating board, a ground layer, and at least one first lightning arrester electrically connected to the ground layer. The first lightning arrester extends from the ground layer to a contour end of the insulating board positioned near a connection area. The first lightning arrester is configured so that one end is positioned at the contour end of the insulating board near the connection area.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2023Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiromitsu Niwa, Takafumi Adachi, Mitsuru Satou
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Patent number: 11977707Abstract: Each of first electrode sections forming a transmission electrode includes a first main line and a plurality of first auxiliary lines. Each of second electrode sections forming a reception electrode includes a second main line and a plurality of second auxiliary lines. With the transmission and reception electrodes and overlapping each other, the first main line and the second main line intersect with each other at one point, and a cell region is unclosed. The cell region is surrounded by two or more types of thin wires selected from a group consisting of the first main line, the first auxiliary lines, the second main line, and the second auxiliary lines.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiromitsu Niwa, Kota Araki, Akihiro Yamamura, Hiroaki Nishiono
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Publication number: 20240012526Abstract: Each of first electrode sections forming a transmission electrode includes a first main line and a plurality of first auxiliary lines. Each of second electrode sections forming a reception electrode includes a second main line and a plurality of second auxiliary lines. With the transmission and reception electrodes and overlapping each other, the first main line and the second main line intersect with each other at one point, and a cell region is unclosed. The cell region is surrounded by two or more types of thin wires selected from a group consisting of the first main line, the first auxiliary lines, the second main line, and the second auxiliary lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Hiromitsu NIWA, Kota ARAKI, Akihiro YAMAMURA, Hiroaki NISHIONO
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Patent number: 11294521Abstract: In a touch sensor, a wiring board has signal line portions electrically connected to a first sensor terminal of a first sensor board at a first end; a ground portion electrically insulated from the signal line portions; and an insulating layer covering the ground portion. The insulating layer has a plurality of through holes for passing through the insulating layer in a thickness direction of the wiring board and exposing the ground portion therethrough. The plurality of through holes are arranged at intervals. A line segment connecting two through holes of the plurality of through holes intersects the plurality of signal line portions.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiromitsu Niwa, Kenji Shibata, Akifumi Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20210048923Abstract: In a touch sensor, a wiring board has signal line portions electrically connected to a first sensor terminal of a first sensor board at a first end; a ground portion electrically insulated from the signal line portions; and an insulating layer covering the ground portion. The insulating layer has a plurality of through holes for passing through the insulating layer in a thickness direction of the wiring board and exposing the ground portion therethrough. The plurality of through holes are arranged at intervals. A line segment connecting two through holes of the plurality of through holes intersects the plurality of signal line portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Hiromitsu NIWA, Kenji SHIBATA, Akifumi HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20200249053Abstract: This touch sensor includes: a substrate having a plurality of edges; a sensor electrode unit disposed on the substrate; and an antistatic electrode unit disposed between the sensor electrode unit and the plurality of edges and including a first needle electrode electrically independent of the sensor electrode unit. A first edge which is one of the plurality of edges is along in the first direction, the first needle electrode is disposed between the first edge and the sensor electrode unit, and the first needle electrode extends toward the first edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2018Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Keishiro MURATA, Masakazu FUKUI, Itaru OOTANI, Hiromitsu NIWA
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Publication number: 20190272063Abstract: A touch panel includes transmission electrodes arranged in a first direction, and wirings each connected to respective one of the transmission electrodes. The transmission electrodes have strip shapes slenderly extending in a second direction crossing the first direction. The transmission electrodes include first and second transmission electrodes adjacent to each other in the first direction. The wirings include first and second wirings connected to the first and second transmission electrodes, respectively. One end of the first transmission electrode is connected to the first wiring. Another end of the first transmission electrode is an open end. One end of the second transmission electrode is connected to the second wiring. Another end of the second transmission electrode is an open end. The first and transmission electrodes are driven simultaneously by first and second signals input through the first and second wirings, respectively. The touch panel is preferable in detection accuracy.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2017Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventors: HIROMITSU NIWA, KENJI SHIBATA
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Patent number: 10353496Abstract: A touch panel includes a light-transmitting cover lens, a sensor portion, and a first adhesive layer. The first adhesive layer bonds the cover lens and the sensor portion to each other. The first adhesive layer has a storage elastic modulus at 90° C. of 68 kPa or more and 200 kPa or less. When a surface of the cover lens, being in contact with the first adhesive layer, is a bonding surface, a water contact angle on the bonding surface of the cover lens is more than 0° and 59° or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Keishiro Murata, Shoji Fujii, Hiromitsu Niwa
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Publication number: 20180181225Abstract: A touch panel includes a light-transmitting cover lens, a sensor portion, and a first adhesive layer. The first adhesive layer bonds the cover lens and the sensor portion to each other. The first adhesive layer has a storage elastic modulus at 90° C. of 68 kPa or more and 200 kPa or less. When a surface of the cover lens, being in contact with the first adhesive layer, is a bonding surface, a water contact angle on the bonding surface of the cover lens is more than 0° and 59° or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2017Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventors: Keishiro MURATA, Shoji FUJII, Hiromitsu NIWA
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Publication number: 20100182498Abstract: A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a metal plate having at least one of surfaces which consists of a planar surface and an image sensor directly mounted on the surface of the metal plate through an adhesive layer, wherein the metal plate is provided with a hole-shaped or notch-shaped positioning portion for performing positioning in a direction parallel to the surface consisting of the planar surface of the metal plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2009Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiromitsu Niwa, Ken Yoshida
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Patent number: 6493025Abstract: An image sensing system which includes an image sensing device, a driver, a timing controller, an analog signal processor, an A/D converter, a digital signal processor, a line memory circuit, and an interface controller. The image sensing device has a matrix of light-receiving pixels for receiving light reflected from a target object. The light-receiving pixels produce and retain information charges. The driver produces vertical and horizontal scan timings which cause the image sensing device to produce an analog image signal in proportion to an amount of information charges retained in the light-receiving pixels. The analog image signal is output from the image sensing device line-by-line. The line memory is connected to the digital signal processor for continuously storing the image data line-by-line. The components of the image sensing system are divided between a camera unit and the computer machinery.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1996Date of Patent: December 10, 2002Assignee: Sanyo Electronic Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinari Kiriyama, Hiromitsu Niwa
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Patent number: 5926219Abstract: A method of efficiently controlling an image sensing apparatus from a personal computer machine includes the steps of defining a control data file for storage of exposure data and image processing data to be supplied to the image sensing apparatus from the computer machine, storing initial values of the exposure data and the image processing data in the control data file, supplying the exposure data and the image processing data stored in the control data file to the image sensing apparatus, receiving the image data signals from the image sensing apparatus screen by screen and displaying the image data on a monitor screen, computing optimal values of the exposure data and the image processing data for each of a drive timing of the solid state image sensor and processing conditions of the image data signals based on the image data signals, and repeating the supply step, the display step, the computation step and the resetting step to display the image data on the monitor screen in a given period until a commanType: GrantFiled: November 27, 1996Date of Patent: July 20, 1999Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company, Ltd.Inventors: Akira Shimizu, Yoshinari Kiriyama, Hajime Mizukami, Hiromitsu Niwa