Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Koyama

Kazuhiro Koyama 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: 20200251919
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to realize a voltage detection function in a power supply device having a wireless communication function. A power supply device 1 is attached in an external load device 11 alone or in series with another external power supply device 13. A cell holder 2 holds an internal cell in the housing 18, and includes an inner positive terminal and an inner negative terminal that are brought into contact with a positive terminal and a negative terminal of the held internal cell. An outer positive terminal 3 connected to the inner positive terminal is provided on the housing, and an outer negative terminal 4 connected to the inner negative terminal is provided on the housing. An output transistor 32 is interposed at least one of between the inner negative terminal and the outer negative terminal and between the inner positive terminal and the outer positive terminal. An RFIC 37 generates a control signal of the output transistor in accordance with a signal received via an antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro KOYAMA, Akihiro OKABE, Tetsuya NOBE
  • Publication number: 20200228885
    Abstract: A electric cell type powersupply device includes a battery housing that houses a battery for supplying electricity to a load device, an operation detecting unit that detects an operation of a manual operating unit based on a fluctuation in current flowing between the load device and the battery, and a first transmitting unit configured to, when the operation of the manual operating unit is detected, transmit operation data on the detection to a server apparatus. The server apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive the operation data from the electric cell type powersupply device, a storage unit configured to store the received operation data, an aggregation unit configured to aggregate operations of the manual operating unit based on the stored operation data and to create aggregation data, and a second transmitting unit configured to transmit the aggregation data to an external apparatus over a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventor: Kazuhiro KOYAMA
  • Patent number: 10666080
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to realize a voltage detection function in a cell type power supply device having a wireless communication function. A cell type power supply device 1 is attached to a cell box 12 of an external load device 11 alone or in series with another external cell 13. A housing 18 has a shape and dimensions based on a cell standard, and front and rear terminals of the external cell held in a cell holder 2 in the housing 18 are to be in contact with an inner positive terminal 5 and an inner negative terminal 6. An outer positive terminal 3 connected to the inner positive terminal is provided on a front end surface of the housing, and an outer negative terminal 4 connected to the inner negative terminal is provided on a rear end surface of the housing. An output transistor 32 is interposed at least one of between the inner negative terminal and the outer negative terminal and between the inner positive terminal and the outer positive terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: NOVARS INC.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Koyama, Akihiro Okabe, Tetsuya Nobe
  • Patent number: 10511339
    Abstract: A cell type power supply device includes: a housing having a shape and dimensions based on a cell standard; a cell holder including an inner positive terminal and an inner negative terminal that are brought into contact with front and rear terminals of the external cell held in the housing; an outer positive terminal connected to the inner positive terminal; an outer negative terminal connected to the inner negative terminal; an output transistor interposed between the inner negative terminal and the outer negative terminal or between the inner positive terminal and the outer positive terminal; a control circuit that generates a control signal of the output transistor in accordance with a signal received via an antenna; and a detection resister interposed between the inner negative terminal and the outer negative terminal or between the inner positive terminal and the outer positive terminal in parallel with the output transistor to change a voltage of the outer negative terminal or the outer positive termina
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: NOVARS INC.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Koyama, Akihiro Okabe, Tetsuya Nobe
  • Publication number: 20190020368
    Abstract: A cell type power supply device includes: a housing having a shape and dimensions based on a cell standard; a cell holder including an inner positive terminal and an inner negative terminal that are brought into contact with front and rear terminals of the external cell held in the housing; an outer positive terminal connected to the inner positive terminal; an outer negative terminal connected to the inner negative terminal; an output transistor interposed between the inner negative terminal and the outer negative terminal or between the inner positive terminal and the outer positive terminal; a control circuit that generates a control signal of the output transistor in accordance with a signal received via an antenna; and a detection resister interposed between the inner negative terminal and the outer negative terminal or between the inner positive terminal and the outer positive terminal in parallel with the output transistor to change a voltage of the outer negative terminal or the outer positive termina
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Koyama, Akihiro Okabe, Tetsuya Nobe
  • Publication number: 20180358817
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to realize a voltage detection function in a cell type power supply device having a wireless communication function. A cell type power supply device 1 is attached to a cell box 12 of an external load device 11 alone or in series with another external cell 13. A housing 18 has a shape and dimensions based on a cell standard, and front and rear terminals of the external cell held in a cell holder 2 in the housing 18 are to be in contact with an inner positive terminal 5 and an inner negative terminal 6. An outer positive terminal 3 connected to the inner positive terminal is provided on a front end surface of the housing, and an outer negative terminal 4 connected to the inner negative terminal is provided on a rear end surface of the housing. An output transistor 32 is interposed at least one of between the inner negative terminal and the outer negative terminal and between the inner positive terminal and the outer positive terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiro KOYAMA, Akihiro OKABE, Tetsuya NOBE
  • Patent number: 10128889
    Abstract: A cell type power supply device includes: a housing having a shape and dimensions based on a cell standard; a cell holder including an inner positive terminal and an inner negative terminal that are brought into contact with front and rear terminals of the external cell held in the housing; an outer positive terminal connected to the inner positive terminal; an outer negative terminal connected to the inner negative terminal; an output transistor interposed between the inner negative terminal and the outer negative terminal or between the inner positive terminal and the outer positive terminal; a control circuit that generates a control signal of the output transistor in accordance with a signal received via an antenna; and a detection resister interposed between the inner negative terminal and the outer negative terminal or between the inner positive terminal and the outer positive terminal in parallel with the output transistor to change a voltage of the outer negative terminal or the outer positive termina
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: NOVARS INC.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Koyama, Akihiro Okabe, Tetsuya Nobe
  • Publication number: 20180315968
    Abstract: A cell type power supply device includes a housing having a shape and dimensions based on a cell standard such as to be attachable with a cell box of an external load device. A cell holder that holds an external cell in the housing includes an inner positive terminal and an inner negative terminal that are brought into contact with front and rear terminals of the held external cell. An outer positive terminal connected to the inner positive terminal is provided on a front end surface of the housing, and an outer negative terminal connected to the inner negative terminal is provided on a rear end surface of the housing. An output transistor is interposed between the inner negative terminal and the outer negative terminal. An RFIC generates a control signal of the output transistor in accordance with a signal received via an antenna. A detection resistance provided in series to the output transistor converts current flowing through the output transistor into voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Koyama, Akihiro Okabe, Tetsuya Nobe
  • Patent number: 10067480
    Abstract: An electronic device includes at least an acquisition unit, an input unit, a time correction amount calculation unit, and a transmitting unit. A timepiece includes at least a receiving unit, a power storage unit, a drive unit, and a control unit. The input unit receives an input of the time displayed by the display unit of the timepiece. The time correction amount calculation unit calculates a time correction amount for correcting the time of the timepiece from a difference between the time, the input of which is received by the input unit and the current time acquired by the acquisition unit. The transmitting unit transmits the time correction amount to the timepiece by using light. The receiving unit receives the time correction amount. The power storage unit stores electricity by using power converted from the light. The drive unit drives the indicating hand. The control unit corrects the time displayed by the indicating hand, based on the time correction amount received by the receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Kenji Ogasawara, Akira Takakura, Kazumi Sakumoto, Tamotsu Maesawa, Kazuhiro Koyama, Tomohiro Ihashi, Kosuke Yamamoto, Ayumi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10066938
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes a display unit, an altitude measurement unit that measures an altitude, a RAM that stores an ascent integrated altitude plan value which is a plan value of an ascent integrated altitude value, and a CPU that calculates the ascent integrated altitude value obtained by integrating an altitude variation amount during an ascent, based on an altitude measured by the altitude measurement unit, that calculates an ascent achievement ratio which is an achievement ratio of the ascent integrated altitude value with respect to the ascent integrated altitude plan value, and that causes the display unit to display the ascent achievement ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nomura, Kazuhiro Koyama, Hiroshi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20180198478
    Abstract: A cell type power supply device includes: a housing having a shape and dimensions based on a cell standard; a cell holder including an inner positive terminal and an inner negative terminal that are brought into contact with front and rear terminals of the external cell held in the housing; an outer positive terminal connected to the inner positive terminal; an outer negative terminal connected to the inner negative terminal; an output transistor interposed between the inner negative terminal and the outer negative terminal or between the inner positive terminal and the outer positive terminal; a control circuit that generates a control signal of the output transistor in accordance with a signal received via an antenna; and a detection resister interposed between the inner negative terminal and the outer negative terminal or between the inner positive terminal and the outer positive terminal in parallel with the output transistor to change a voltage of the outer negative terminal or the outer positive termina
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Koyama, Akihiro Okabe, Tetsuya Nobe
  • Patent number: 9939785
    Abstract: An object is to provide a pointer driving motor unit which can easily control driving of a pointer of a time piece by a stepping motor, a multifunctional electronic device, and a control method of a pointer driving motor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Koyama
  • Patent number: 9941733
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a solar cell, a secondary battery that is charged by the solar cell, and a control circuit that switches between a charging period during which the charging of the secondary battery from the solar cell is performed and a communication period during which an optical signal is received by the solar cell. The optical signal includes a synchronization signal indicating the transmission of data and the data, and the communication period is configured to detect the synchronization signal. The control circuit extends the communication period to enable the solar cell to receive the whole data included in the optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Kenji Ogasawara, Akira Takakura, Tamotsu Maesawa, Kazuhiro Koyama
  • Patent number: 9800333
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display part having a light source which transmits an optical signal, a direction detection part for detecting a direction of orientation of a display screen of the display part, and a controller for transmitting data by the optical signal from the display part to an electronic timepiece when the direction of orientation of the display screen detected by the detection part faces a predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Kenji Ogasawara, Akira Takakura, Kazumi Sakumoto, Tamotsu Maesawa, Kazuhiro Koyama, Tomohiro Ihashi, Kosuke Yamamoto, Ayumi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9763627
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a living-body signal receiver that receives a living-body signal, and a display information processor that calculates living-body information based on a living-body signal received by the living-body signal receiver, that measures and outputs internal measurement information, and that determines whether or not the living-body signal receiver receives the living-body signal. A display is configured to display the living-body information and the internal measurement information. A display controller performs a switching operation to switch between the living-body information and the internal measurement information for display on the display based on the result of the determination by the display information processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Takanori Hasegawa, Akira Takakura, Keisuke Tsubata, Kazuhiro Koyama
  • Patent number: 9709962
    Abstract: A time correction system includes a timepiece, and an electronic device that corrects the time of the timepiece. The electronic device includes a display unit, a time data acquisition unit, a control unit that causes the display unit to display an instruction time of the electronic timepiece, based on the current time, and that calculates a time correction amount from a difference between the current time and the instruction time, and a light source that transmits the time correction amount to the electronic timepiece. The electronic timepiece includes an input unit that receives an operation input for correcting the time displayed by a display unit, a solar cell that receives the time correction amount from the electronic device, and a control circuit that corrects the time displayed by an indicating hand of the display unit, based on the time correction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Kenji Ogasawara, Akira Takakura, Kazuhiro Koyama, Tamotsu Maesawa
  • Publication number: 20170192393
    Abstract: A pointer driving motor unit includes: a support body; a pointer which is rotatably supported by the support body; a stepping motor which rotates the pointer; an input portion into which an input signal is put from a main control portion connected to the support body from the outside of the support body; and a control portion which is disposed in the support body, and controls driving of the stepping motor in accordance with the input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Kenji OGASAWARA, Masayuki KAWATA, Kazuhiro KOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170192394
    Abstract: An object is to provide a pointer driving motor unit which can easily control driving of a pointer of a time piece by a stepping motor, a multifunctional electronic device, and a control method of a pointer driving motor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventor: Kazuhiro KOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170019246
    Abstract: A proposed electronic apparatus is capable of transmitting correct data by re-transmitting data without complicating communication processing even when a delay occurs in transmission processing of data in one-way communication. An electronic apparatus 10 transmits data to an electronic timepiece 20 as an optical signal by using a light source 103 which transmits the optical signal, determining whether a delay has occurred in transmission of the data or not, and re-transmitting the data by using the light source 103 when a delay has occurred. The electronic timepiece 20 enables data which has been normally received in the case where a solar cell 201 has received data from the electronic apparatus 10 plural times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Kazuhiro KOYAMA, Kenji OGASAWARA, Akira TAKAKURA
  • Patent number: D794816
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Koyama, Masahiro Sasajima