Patents by Inventor Kanji Aoki

Kanji Aoki 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: 20220311346
    Abstract: A power supply control device that controls a switching element of a switching power supply apparatus which includes a transformer having a primary winding, a secondary winding, and an auxiliary winding, the switching element coupled to the primary winding, and a capacitor coupled to the auxiliary winding, includes: a power supply terminal coupled to one end of the capacitor; a switch and a resistor coupled in series between the power supply terminal and a ground; a first control circuit that controls the switch; and a second control circuit that controls the switching element, in which the first control circuit performs control to turn on the switch when a first voltage applied to the power supply terminal continuously exceeds a first reference voltage for a first time, and the second control circuit performs control to turn off the switching element when the first voltage exceeds a second reference voltage higher than the first reference voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Shinichiro Watanabe, Katsumi Inoue, Kanji Aoki
  • Patent number: 11437842
    Abstract: A power supply control device includes a charge circuit, a detection circuit, and a charge control circuit. The charge circuit charges a capacitor coupled to a power supply voltage node based on a full-wave rectified voltage. The charge control circuit enables a charge mode of the charge circuit when the detection circuit detects that a power supply voltage is less than a first threshold voltage. The charge control circuit disables the charge mode when the detection circuit detects that the power supply voltage reached a second threshold voltage. The charge control circuit sets a charge capacity of the charge circuit in a second charge mode period according to a length of a first charge mode period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsumi Inoue, Kanji Aoki
  • Patent number: 11183919
    Abstract: A power supply control device includes a charge circuit charging a capacitor coupled to a second node with a full-wave rectified voltage input into a first node when activated, a first detection circuit detecting if the first node is less than a first voltage, a second detection circuit detecting if the second node is less than a second voltage and if the second node is equal to or higher than a third voltage higher than the second voltage, a discharge circuit discharging an electric charge accumulated in the first node by activation, and a control circuit activating the charge circuit when the voltage of the first node is less than the first voltage, activates the discharge circuit when the second node is less than the second voltage, and deactivates the discharge circuit when the voltage of the second node is equal to or higher than the third voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsumi Inoue, Kanji Aoki
  • Publication number: 20200303941
    Abstract: A power supply control device includes a charge circuit, a detection circuit, and a charge control circuit. The charge circuit charges a capacitor coupled to a power supply voltage node based on a full-wave rectified voltage. The charge control circuit enables a charge mode of the charge circuit when the detection circuit detects that a power supply voltage is less than a first threshold voltage. The charge control circuit disables the charge mode when the detection circuit detects that the power supply voltage reached a second threshold voltage. The charge control circuit sets a charge capacity of the charge circuit in a second charge mode period according to a length of a first charge mode period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsumi INOUE, Kanji AOKI
  • Publication number: 20200304031
    Abstract: A power supply control device includes a charge circuit charging a capacitor coupled to a second node with a full-wave rectified voltage input into a first node when activated, a first detection circuit detecting if the first node is less than a first voltage, a second detection circuit detecting if the second node is less than a second voltage and if the second node is equal to or higher than a third voltage higher than the second voltage, a discharge circuit discharging an electric charge accumulated in the first node by activation, and a control circuit activating the charge circuit when the voltage of the first node is less than the first voltage, activates the discharge circuit when the second node is less than the second voltage, and deactivates the discharge circuit when the voltage of the second node is equal to or higher than the third voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsumi INOUE, Kanji AOKI
  • Patent number: 5905759
    Abstract: A data decoding circuit of the present invention can regenerate a bit synchronization signal from a data received by using a code such as a split-phase code and Manchester code in which a binary value can be detected through a transition of voltage at a central area of a bit cell and transform the received data into a serial binary data. The data decoding circuit includes an edge detection section for detecting a transition point in the received data; a pulse generating section for generating a phase comparing timing signal having a pulse width of substantially 1/(4.times.fs) when fs is a data transfer frequency and a received data regenerating signal having a pulse width of substantially 1(2.times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Ishida, Kanji Aoki
  • Patent number: 5780918
    Abstract: An input part of a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a fuse element formed from a metal wiring layer and connected between an input pad and a source line is formed from wiring material. The wiring material is aluminum, possibly doped with silicon. The fuse element is narrowed or thinned at a location remote from an internal circuit. The stability and certainty of the melting properties of the fuse element at the narrowed of thinned location is improved even when the device is sealed with resin, without interfering with the manufacturing process, and at the same time the desired fuse element properties are retained. Consequently, the operating characteristics of the internal circuit can be adjusted highly precisely and with certainty after the assembly of the integrated circuit into a package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kanji Aoki
  • Patent number: 5329441
    Abstract: A control device for hydraulic equipment where an oil pressure sensor provides an oil pressure output. The sensed pressure output is used in a table to derive a controlled variable limit which is then compared with a controlled variable input. The smaller of the input and limit are used to control hydraulic pressure supplied to the hydraulic oil line. However, also included is a correction device which adjusts the table depending upon whether the output is at a desired oil pressure value or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, MHI Sagami High Technology & Control Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kanji Aoki, Yukio Uchiyama, Toshiyuki Midorikawa
  • Patent number: 5309151
    Abstract: A current supplying integrated circuit which has multi-output for controlling current supply from a current source to a plurality of elements to be driven, such as LEDs, and comprises a plurality of switching devices for controllably supplying the current from the source to the corresponding elements to be driven wherein each of the switching devices has N unit switching elements arranged to be connected in parallel to each other to form a current synthesizing circuit. The unit switching elements have substantially the same current capacity. Each of the elements to be driven, such as LEDs, is supplied with a current whose intensity can be varied by N degrees by the synthesizing circuit. By varying the current intensity supplied to each of the elements, the unevenness in properties among them can be avoided or suppressed in an effective and simplified manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1994
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kanji Aoki
  • Patent number: 5238086
    Abstract: On a forklift equipped with a full free lift mast, a limit switch for detecting the maximum free lift of fork on an inner mast is installed in such a manner when the limit switch is turned on, the raising control of fork is stopped, by which a collision between the inner mast and the ceiling is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, MHI Sagami High Technology & Control Engineering Co.
    Inventors: Kanji Aoki, Yukio Uchiyama, Toshiyuki Midorikawa
  • Patent number: 5184699
    Abstract: In a control device for forklift on which a flow control signal is sent from a controller in accordance with a manipulated variable of work machine lever operated by the operator and this flow control signal regulates the degree of opening of an electromagnetic proportional control valve in an oil pipe line to control the working speed of lift cylinders, the degree of opening of the electromagnetic proportional control valve is regulated by a flow control signal having a characteristic such that the value of flow control signal changes in accordance with the load of lift cylinders in the inching zone where the manipulated variable of work machine lever is relatively small, which improves the operability in the inching zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1993
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, MHI Sagami High Technology & Control
    Inventors: Kanji Aoki, Yukio Uchiyama, Toshiyuki Midorikawa