Patents by Inventor Kanji Kimura

Kanji Kimura 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: 6457650
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a thin, low cost card with a display function in which the card display information is able to be rewritten within the card itself, without the use of an external rewriting apparatus. For this purpose, a card with a display function of the present invention comprises a data processing section and a display processing section, wherein the display processing section is equipped with a heating section and a thermosensitive section. By using a selection circuit, a plurality of heating elements of the heating section are heated selectively in accordance with stored data in a memory circuit. On sensing the thermal energy, the corresponding portions of the thermosensitive section undergo a variation in state, thereby displaying information corresponding to the stored data. Consequently, the rewriting of display information can be conducted automatically only within the body of the card itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: The Nippon Signal Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Suzuki, Shinichi Suzuki, Kanji Kimura