Patents by Inventor Katsuhito Nakajima

Katsuhito Nakajima 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: 11976923
    Abstract: A physical quantity detection circuit includes: an analog/digital conversion circuit performing analog/digital conversion processing on an analog signal based on an output signal from a physical quantity detection element and outputting a first digital signal; a digital arithmetic circuit having the first digital signal inputted thereto, performing arithmetic processing on the first digital signal, and outputting a second digital signal; and a regulator circuit supplying a power-supply voltage to the analog/digital conversion circuit and the digital arithmetic circuit. The digital arithmetic circuit does not perform an arithmetic processing start operation to start the arithmetic processing and an arithmetic processing end operation to end the arithmetic processing, during an analog/digital conversion period when the analog/digital conversion is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanaka, Katsuhito Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11341080
    Abstract: An electronic part including an integrated circuit and a memory, the integrated circuit including a first clock terminal to which a clock signal is inputted, a first data terminal via which a first serial data signal is inputted and outputted, a second clock terminal via which the clock signal is outputted to the memory, a second data terminal via which a second serial data signal is inputted and outputted from and to the memory, and a first interface circuit including a control circuit that controls the communication state of the integrated circuit to be a first communication state in which the first serial data signal inputted to the first data terminal is outputted as the second serial data signal via the second data terminal or a second communication state in which the second serial data signal inputted to the second data terminal is outputted as the first serial data signal via the first data terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventor: Katsuhito Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11257556
    Abstract: A data transfer circuit includes: a one-time PROM storing first to m-th register addresses and first to m-th register data; first to n-th registers holding first to n-th data corresponding to first to n-th parameters controlling an operation of a functional element; and a data transfer control circuit acquiring the i-th register address and the i-th register data from the one-time PROM, transferring the i-th register data to the k-th register designated by the i-th register address, k being an integer equal to or greater than 1 and equal to or smaller than n, and updating the k-th data with the i-th register data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventor: Katsuhito Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20210285769
    Abstract: A physical quantity detection circuit includes: an analog/digital conversion circuit performing analog/digital conversion processing on an analog signal based on an output signal from a physical quantity detection element and outputting a first digital signal; a digital arithmetic circuit having the first digital signal inputted thereto, performing arithmetic processing on the first digital signal, and outputting a second digital signal; and a regulator circuit supplying a power-supply voltage to the analog/digital conversion circuit and the digital arithmetic circuit. The digital arithmetic circuit does not perform an arithmetic processing start operation to start the arithmetic processing and an arithmetic processing end operation to end the arithmetic processing, during an analog/digital conversion period when the analog/digital conversion is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi TANAKA, Katsuhito NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 11038460
    Abstract: A circuit apparatus includes an oscillation circuit that causes a resonator to oscillate to produce an oscillation signal, an oven control circuit that controls a heater provided in correspondence with the resonator, a non-volatile memory that stores control data, a holding circuit that holds the control data transferred from the non-volatile memory, and a processing circuit that carries out a process based on the control data held in the holding circuit. After a power source voltage is supplied, the processing circuit carries out the process of transferring the control data from the non-volatile memory to the holding circuit, and after the transfer of the control data is completed, the processing circuit causes based on a data transfer end signal the oven control circuit to start operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Inventors: Tomohiro Uno, Katsuhito Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20210083623
    Abstract: A circuit apparatus includes an oscillation circuit that causes a resonator to oscillate to produce an oscillation signal, an oven control circuit that controls a heater provided in correspondence with the resonator, a non-volatile memory that stores control data, a holding circuit that holds the control data transferred from the non-volatile memory, and a processing circuit that carries out a process based on the control data held in the holding circuit. After a power source voltage is supplied, the processing circuit carries out the process of transferring the control data from the non-volatile memory to the holding circuit, and after the transfer of the control data is completed, the processing circuit causes based on a data transfer end signal the oven control circuit to start operating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Tomohiro UNO, Katsuhito NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20200372964
    Abstract: A data transfer circuit includes: a one-time PROM storing first to m-th register addresses and first to m-th register data; first to n-th registers holding first to n-th data corresponding to first to n-th parameters controlling an operation of a functional element; and a data transfer control circuit acquiring the i-th register address and the i-th register data from the one-time PROM, transferring the i-th register data to the k-th register designated by the i-th register address, k being an integer equal to or greater than 1 and equal to or smaller than n, and updating the k-th data with the i-th register data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventor: Katsuhito NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20200341938
    Abstract: An electronic part including an integrated circuit and a memory, the integrated circuit including a first clock terminal to which a clock signal is inputted, a first data terminal via which a first serial data signal is inputted and outputted, a second clock terminal via which the clock signal is outputted to the memory, a second data terminal via which a second serial data signal is inputted and outputted from and to the memory, and a first interface circuit including a control circuit that controls the communication state of the integrated circuit to be a first communication state in which the first serial data signal inputted to the first data terminal is outputted as the second serial data signal via the second data terminal or a second communication state in which the second serial data signal inputted to the second data terminal is outputted as the first serial data signal via the first data terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventor: Katsuhito NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 10789333
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a digital signal processor (DSP) that performs first up-sampling processing of up-sampling up-sampling target data having a first sampling frequency from the first sampling frequency to a second sampling frequency by first interpolation processing, and an arithmetic circuit that performs second up-sampling processing of up-sampling data output from the DSP from the second sampling frequency to a third sampling frequency by second interpolation processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuhito Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10613234
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a phase comparator that performs phase comparison between an input signal based on an oscillation signal and a reference signal, a processor that performs a signal process, and an oscillation signal generation circuit that generates the oscillation signal having an oscillation frequency which is set on the basis of frequency control data from the processor. The circuit device also includes at least one of a first register that stores phase comparison result data, a second register in which one of offset adjustment data for GPS and offset adjustment data for UTC is set, and a third register in which offset adjustment data for adjusting a phase difference is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhito Nakajima, Kentaro Seo
  • Patent number: 10348309
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a phase comparator that performs phase comparison between an input signal based on an oscillation signal and a reference signal, a processor that performs a digital signal process on phase comparison result data which is a result of the phase comparison so as to generate frequency control data, and an oscillation signal generation circuit that generates the oscillation signal having an oscillation frequency which is set on the basis of the frequency control data. The processor performs the digital signal process by using data used when a hold-over state is ended in a case where the hold-over state occurs due to the absence or the abnormality of the reference signal, and then the hold-over state is ended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsuhito Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20190197085
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a digital signal processor (DSP) that performs first up-sampling processing of up-sampling up-sampling target data having a first sampling frequency from the first sampling frequency to a second sampling frequency by first interpolation processing, and an arithmetic circuit that performs second up-sampling processing of up-sampling data output from the DSP from the second sampling frequency to a third sampling frequency by second interpolation processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventor: Katsuhito NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 10171094
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a phase comparator that performs phase comparison between an input signal based on an oscillation signal and a reference signal, a processor that performs a signal process on frequency control data based on a result of the phase comparison, and an oscillation signal generation circuit that generates the oscillation signal having an oscillation frequency which is set on the basis of frequency control data having undergone the signal process. The phase comparator includes a counter that performs a count operation by using the input signal, and performs the phase comparison by comparing a count value in the counter inn (where n is an integer of 2 or more) cycles of the reference signal with an expected value of the count value in integers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsuhito Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10113874
    Abstract: A detection device includes: a drive circuit that receives a feedback signal from a vibrator and drives the vibrator; a detection circuit that performs detection based on a signal from the vibrator and outputs detection data; and a digital signal processing unit that performs digital filtering for the detection data from the detection circuit. The digital signal processing unit performs band elimination filtering for attenuating a component of a detuning frequency ?f=|fd?fs| corresponding to a difference between a drive side resonance frequency fd and a detection side resonance frequency fs of the vibrator for the detection data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhito Nakajima, Katsuhiko Maki
  • Patent number: 10022070
    Abstract: An IC for a sensor includes a detection unit which detects an angular velocity signal of a moving object based on a signal from a sensor element, an AD conversion unit which converts an analog signal from the detection unit into a digital signal, and a posture variation calculating unit which calculates a variation in posture of the moving object during a predetermined period based on the signal from the AD conversion unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhito Nakajima, Katsuhiko Maki, Shunichi Mizuochi
  • Publication number: 20170307762
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a phase comparator that performs phase comparison between an input signal based on an oscillation signal and a reference signal, a processor that performs a signal process, and an oscillation signal generation circuit that generates the oscillation signal having an oscillation frequency which is set on the basis of frequency control data from the processor. The circuit device also includes at least one of a first register that stores phase comparison result data, a second register in which one of offset adjustment data for GPS and offset adjustment data for UTC is set, and a third register in which offset adjustment data for adjusting a phase difference is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhito NAKAJIMA, Kentaro SEO
  • Publication number: 20170310330
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a phase comparator that performs phase comparison between an input signal based on an oscillation signal and a reference signal, a processor that performs a signal process on frequency control data based on a result of the phase comparison, and an oscillation signal generation circuit that generates the oscillation signal having an oscillation frequency which is set on the basis of frequency control data having undergone the signal process. The phase comparator includes a counter that performs a count operation by using the input signal, and performs the phase comparison by comparing a count value in the counter inn (where n is an integer of 2 or more) cycles of the reference signal with an expected value of the count value in integers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsuhito NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20170310326
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a phase comparator that performs phase comparison between an input signal based on an oscillation signal and a reference signal, a processor that performs a digital signal process on phase comparison result data which is a result of the phase comparison so as to generate frequency control data, and an oscillation signal generation circuit that generates the oscillation signal having an oscillation frequency which is set on the basis of the frequency control data. The processor performs the digital signal process by using data used when a hold-over state is ended in a case where the hold-over state occurs due to the absence or the abnormality of the reference signal, and then the hold-over state is ended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsuhito NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 9720876
    Abstract: A serial communication circuit includes a receiving unit configured to serially receive input data including a command and a synchronization identification code that is different from the command and a determining unit configured to receive the synchronization identification code from the receiving unit and when the synchronization identification code coincides with a slave selection value, to instruct a start of response processing based on the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masataka Kazuno, Katsuhito Nakajima, Takashi Aoyama
  • Patent number: 9644964
    Abstract: A IC for sensor includes a detector which detects an angular velocity signal based on a signal from a sensor element, an AD converter which converts an analog signal from the detector into a digital signal, and a DC component detector which detects a DC component from the digital signal output from the AD converter within a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Maki, Katsuhito Nakajima