Patents by Inventor Kenichi Ninomiya

Kenichi Ninomiya 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: 12111986
    Abstract: A highly reliable waterproof electronic pen includes a board holder in a board housing including a recessed portion having an opening over a lower surface of the recessed portion. A circuit board is housed in the recessed portion of the board housing. Circuit components easily affected by heat are installed on a first surface of the circuit board, and circuit components not easily affected by heat are installed on a second surface of the circuit board. A thermosetting resin formed over the second surface of the circuit board when the circuit board is housed in the recessed portion seals the opening over the lower surface of the recessed portion of the board housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Arai, Kenichi Ninomiya, Takenori Kaneda
  • Publication number: 20240319804
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an electronic pen that is excellent in portability by being reduced in size, that has a side switch functioning stably, and that is easy to maintain. A pusher part of an electronic pen body part is inserted into an insertion part of an operator, and the operator is thus attached to the pusher part of the electronic pen body part in a state of being fitted into an operator opening part of an outer casing. The operator opening part of the outer casing is formed in a side surface thereof at a position corresponding to a button switch of the electronic pen body part being loaded into the outer casing and placed at a fixed position. Therefore, the button switch can reliably be depressed through the operator, and the side switch of the electronic pen is realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Mamoru OGATA, Takenori KANEDA, Kenichi NINOMIYA, Takayuki ARAI, Kohei TANAKA
  • Patent number: 12032757
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an electronic pen that is excellent in portability by being reduced in size, that has a side switch functioning stably, and that is easy to maintain. A pusher part of an electronic pen body part is inserted into an insertion part of an operator, and the operator is thus attached to the pusher part of the electronic pen body part in a state of being fitted into an operator opening part of an outer casing. The operator opening part of the outer casing is formed in a side surface thereof at a position corresponding to a button switch of the electronic pen body part being loaded into the outer casing and placed at a fixed position. Therefore, the button switch can reliably be depressed through the operator, and the side switch of the electronic pen is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Ogata, Takenori Kaneda, Kenichi Ninomiya, Takayuki Arai, Kohei Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240176433
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including a housing that is cylindrical and configured to incorporate an electronic pen function part that includes a circuit board. The housing has a side opening formed on a side surface of the housing. The side opening is configured to accommodate a side switch. The electronic pens also includes a side attachment member configured to be attached to the side opening of the housing. A first axial end of the side attachment member includes an engagement part that engages with the housing, and a second axial end of the side attachment member includes a pressed part. The housing incorporates a pressing mechanism part that presses the pressed part of the side attachment member attached to the side opening, toward the first axial end of the side attachment member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Mamoru OGATA, Kenichi NINOMIYA
  • Publication number: 20240176434
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen that includes a circuit board including one or more push switches, a housing having a cylindrical body in which an electronic pen circuit including the circuit board is mounted, the housing including a side opening at a position corresponding to a range in which the one or more push switches are provided on the circuit board mounted at a predetermined position, a board protection member including a main body part and one or more depression parts, and a side attachment member including a plate part and one or more push parts. When one of the one or more push parts of the side attachment member is pushed down, a corresponding one of the one or more push switches on the circuit board is pushed down via a corresponding one of the one or more depression parts of the board protection member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Mamoru OGATA, Kenichi NINOMIYA
  • Publication number: 20240160302
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including a tubular housing having an opening at one end, a core body portion including a rod-shaped core body and a pressure member that holds a rear end of the core body and transmits a force applied to the core body, a writing pressure detector that detects a writing pressure applied to the core body, and a tubular holding member that accommodates and holds the core body portion. At least part of a side surface of the core body portion includes a flat surface portion parallel to an axial direction of the pen. An inner edge of the holding member has a cylindrical shape and at least part of the inner edge includes a protruding portion. With the core body portion mounted in the housing, the flat surface portion of the core body portion and the protruding portion of the holding member face each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Kenichi NINOMIYA, Mamoru OGATA
  • Publication number: 20240151600
    Abstract: A pressure detection element of a capacitive system includes a dielectric having two opposing surfaces including a first surface and a second surface, a conductor layer provided on the first surface of the dielectric, a conductive elastic member provided on the second surface of the dielectric, a spacer that positions the conductive elastic member at a predetermined distance from the second surface of the dielectric, and a pressing member configured to push the conductive elastic member toward the dielectric. An end surface of the pressing member that presses the conductive elastic member has a predetermined curvature, with an apex at a center of the end surface. A protrusion is provided at the apex at the center of the end surface of the pressing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Takenori Kaneda, Kenichi Ninomiya, Kohei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11941188
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including an electronic pen main part including a first sealing member that covers circumference of a tip side of the electronic pen main part and a second sealing member disposed along an outer edge of the electronic pen main part at a position separate from a tip toward a rear end side of the electronic pen main part, and an inside body that is tubular and has an inner wall surface with which the first sealing member and the second sealing member come into contact through insertion of the tip side of the electronic pen main part into the inside body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Ogata, Takenori Kaneda, Kenichi Ninomiya, Takayuki Arai, Kohei Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240085996
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes a circuit board disposed such that an axial direction of a casing is aligned with a longitudinal direction of the circuit board, an electronic circuit on the circuit board, and a battery having a columnar shape disposed on a side of the circuit board opposite to a pen tip side of the circuit board inside a hollow portion of the casing such that positive and negative electrode conductors protruding from an end surface of the battery extend toward the circuit board. The battery is disposed such that a separation space is formed between the end surface and an end portion of the circuit board and such that tip portions of the positive and negative electrode conductors are in contact with the circuit board. The circuit board and the tip portions of the positive and negative electrode conductors are electrically connected to each other by soldered portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kohei TANAKA, Takayuki ARAI, Kenichi NINOMIYA, Takenori KANEDA
  • Publication number: 20240085997
    Abstract: A highly reliable waterproof electronic pen includes a board holder in a board housing including a recessed portion having an opening over a lower surface of the recessed portion. A circuit board is housed in the recessed portion of the board housing. Circuit components easily affected by heat are installed on a first surface of the circuit board, and circuit components not easily affected by heat are installed on a second surface of the circuit board. A thermosetting resin formed over the second surface of the circuit board when the circuit board is housed in the recessed portion seals the opening over the lower surface of the recessed portion of the board housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Takayuki Arai, Kenichi Ninomiya, Takenori Kaneda
  • Patent number: 11906384
    Abstract: A pressure detection element of a capacitive system includes a dielectric having two opposing surfaces including a first surface and a second surface, a conductor layer provided on the first surface of the dielectric, a conductive elastic member provided on the second surface of the dielectric, a spacer that positions the conductive elastic member at a predetermined distance from the second surface of the dielectric, and a pressing member configured to push the conductive elastic member toward the dielectric. An end surface of the pressing member that presses the conductive elastic member has a predetermined curvature, with an apex at a center of the end surface. A protrusion is provided at the apex at the center of the end surface of the pressing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takenori Kaneda, Kenichi Ninomiya, Kohei Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240036667
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes a casing, an opening portion formed on one side of the casing, a core body that projects outside of the casing through the opening portion, a pen module part, and a core body insertion member disposed in the casing and having a hollow space that houses the core body. The hollow space includes a hollow portion between an inner circumferential surface of the core body insertion member and an outer circumferential surface of the core body when the core body insertion member houses the core body, the hollow portion communicating, via the opening portion, with a first space external to the electronic pen. The hollow portion is separated from a second space in which the pen module part is disposed within the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Kenichi Ninomiya, Takayuki Arai, Kohei Tanaka, Takenori KANEDA
  • Patent number: 11853487
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes a circuit board disposed such that an axial direction of a casing is aligned with a longitudinal direction of the circuit board, an electronic circuit on the circuit board, and a battery having a columnar shape disposed on a side of the circuit board opposite to a pen tip side of the circuit board inside a hollow portion of the casing such that positive and negative electrode conductors protruding from an end surface of the battery extend toward the circuit board. The battery is disposed such that a separation space is formed between the end surface and an end portion of the circuit board and such that tip portions of the positive and negative electrode conductors are in contact with the circuit board. The circuit board and the tip portions of the positive and negative electrode conductors are electrically connected to each other by soldered portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei Tanaka, Takayuki Arai, Kenichi Ninomiya, Takenori Kaneda
  • Patent number: 11853484
    Abstract: A highly reliable waterproof electronic pen includes a board holder in a board housing including a recessed portion having an opening over a lower surface of the recessed portion. A circuit board is housed in the recessed portion of the board housing. Circuit components easily affected by heat are installed on a first surface of the circuit board, and circuit components not easily affected by heat are installed on a second surface of the circuit board. A thermosetting resin formed over the second surface of the circuit board when the circuit board is housed in the recessed portion seals the opening over the lower surface of the recessed portion of the board housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Arai, Kenichi Ninomiya, Takenori Kaneda
  • Patent number: 11829685
    Abstract: A method for designing a part member of a custom-made furniture includes: producing a rectangular parallelepiped part member in a rectangular parallelepiped space; setting a XY coordinate system on six faces of the rectangular parallelepiped space using a corner of a rectangle of each face as an origin and two sides of a rectangle of each face as X axis and Y axis; setting one or more predetermined rules for determining positions of one or more machinings based on lengths p and q from a corner of the rectangle and designating a XY coordinate positions of the one or more machinings as a function of p and q; altering the dimensions of the rectangular parallelepiped space of the part member; calculating the positions of the machinings after the dimensions of the rectangular space are altered in accordance with the predetermined rules; and outputting the machining specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Domans, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ninomiya, Hiroyuki Masuda
  • Patent number: 11809645
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes a casing, an opening portion formed on one side of the casing, a core body that projects outside of the casing through the opening portion, a pen module part, and a core body insertion member disposed in the casing and having a hollow space that houses the core body. The hollow space includes a hollow portion between an inner circumferential surface of the core body insertion member and an outer circumferential surface of the core body when the core body insertion member houses the core body, the hollow portion communicating, via the opening portion, with a first space external to the electronic pen. The hollow portion is separated from a second space in which the pen module part is disposed within the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ninomiya, Takayuki Arai, Kohei Tanaka, Takenori Kaneda
  • Patent number: 11803286
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen with a cylindrical housing including an opening at an end portion of the housing on a pen tip side of the housing, a cylindrical member disposed in the housing and fixed to the housing at a part on the pen tip side of the housing, and a core body formed in a rod shape by a material containing a pigment, the core body including a body portion inserted into the cylindrical member through the opening of the housing and a pull-out portion configured to enable the core body to be pulled out of the housing. A diameter of the body portion of the core body inserted into the cylindrical member is larger than a difference between an outer diameter of the cylindrical member and an inner diameter of the cylindrical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takenori Kaneda, Mamoru Ogata, Kenichi Ninomiya
  • Publication number: 20230324247
    Abstract: Disclosed is a characteristic adjustment system of pressure detection output including an input tool that, in operation, performs an input operation by being brought into contact with an input surface and that includes a pressure detector that, in operation, detects a pressure applied to a portion of the input tool in contact with the input surface, a detection device that, in operation, generates pressure detection output by acquiring information regarding the pressure detected by the pressure detector of the input tool, a load measurement device that, in operation, measures a load applied to the input tool, and an adjustment device that, in operation, adjusts the pressure detection output from the detection device such that the pressure detection output has characteristics in a predetermined relation to a load measurement result from the load measurement device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yuto MORI, Mamoru OGATA, Kenichi NINOMIYA
  • Patent number: 11734465
    Abstract: A method for designing a part member of a custom-made furniture includes: producing a rectangular parallelepiped part member in a rectangular parallelepiped space; setting a XY coordinate system on six faces of the rectangular parallelepiped space using a corner of a rectangle of each face as an origin and two sides of a rectangle of each face as X axis and Y axis; setting one or more predetermined rules for determining positions of one or more machinings based on lengths p and q from a corner of the rectangle and designating a XY coordinate positions of the one or more machinings as a function of p and q; altering the dimensions of the rectangular parallelepiped space of the part member; calculating the positions of the machinings after the dimensions of the rectangular space are altered in accordance with the predetermined rules; and outputting the machining specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Domans, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ninomiya, Hiroyuki Masuda
  • Publication number: 20230244331
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including an electronic pen main part including a first sealing member that covers circumference of a tip side of the electronic pen main part and a second sealing member disposed along an outer edge of the electronic pen main part at a position separate from a tip toward a rear end side of the electronic pen main part, and an inside body that is tubular and has an inner wall surface with which the first sealing member and the second sealing member come into contact through insertion of the tip side of the electronic pen main part into the inside body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Mamoru OGATA, Takenori KANEDA, Kenichi NINOMIYA, Takayuki ARAI, Kohei TANAKA