Patents by Inventor Kensaku Isohata

Kensaku Isohata 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: 9236868
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a resonator provided with a heating element, and a circuit component opposed to the heating element, and provided with at least an oscillating amplifier element, and a distance between the heating element and the circuit component is in a range not smaller than 0 mm and no larger than 1.5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kensaku Isohata
  • Publication number: 20150280719
    Abstract: A method of adjusting a frequency of a resonation device including a resonator element and a heating element includes performing the frequency adjustment of the resonator element while heating the resonator element by the heating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventor: Kensaku ISOHATA
  • Publication number: 20150180445
    Abstract: An electronic component includes a wiring substrate, a heating element, a first support, a second support, and a container. The heating element, the first support, and the second support are electrically connected to the wiring substrate. The wiring substrate is disposed within the container through the first support and the second support which penetrate the container. Each of the first support and the second support includes a protrusion portion protruding outside the container, and the protrusion portion of the second support is shorter than the protrusion portion of the first support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventor: Kensaku ISOHATA
  • Publication number: 20150180481
    Abstract: An oscillator includes: an integrated circuit including a circuit for oscillation; a resonator element; a circuit element; a heating element, and a container. The integrated circuit, the resonator element, and the heating element are arranged inside the container. The circuit element is arranged outside the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventor: Kensaku ISOHATA
  • Publication number: 20150123742
    Abstract: A resonator includes: a package; a support section that is provided on a surface of the package; and a vibration element in which an attachment section, which is disposed between an outer edge of a vibration substrate, in which excitation electrodes are provided on main surfaces thereof, and an outer edge of the excitation electrode, is attached to the support section through a conductive adhesive. The attachment section is disposed in a region S obtained by rotating a virtual line which connects the center of the vibration element and one end of the vibration element, in a range of ?35° to +35° of a rotation angle ? about the center, and an attachment area becomes 0.7 mm2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Matsutaro NAITO, Manabu KONDO, Kensaku ISOHATA
  • Publication number: 20140320222
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a resonator provided with a heating element, and a circuit component opposed to the heating element, and provided with at least an oscillating amplifier element, and a distance between the heating element and the circuit component is in a range not smaller than 0 mm and no larger than 1.5 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kensaku ISOHATA
  • Publication number: 20140292423
    Abstract: An oscillator includes an oscillation element; an oscillation circuit which causes the oscillation element to oscillate; a heat generation element which heats the oscillation element; a temperature control circuit which controls the heat generation element; and a temperature correction circuit which corrects frequency-temperature characteristics of an output signal of the oscillation circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensaku ISOHATA, Atsushi KIYOHARA
  • Publication number: 20140145559
    Abstract: A quartz crystal vibrator includes a quartz crystal resonator element, a thermistor adapted to detect the temperature, and a package adapted to incorporate the quartz crystal resonator element and the thermistor, a plurality of electrode pads adapted to support the quartz crystal resonator element is disposed on an inner bottom surface of the package, to which the quartz crystal resonator element and the thermistor are installed, and a wiring pattern, which is extracted from at least one electrode pad, and has a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of a package base of the package including the inner bottom surface, overlaps the thermistor in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kensaku Isohata
  • Publication number: 20130313332
    Abstract: A temperature information generation circuit includes a temperature sensor (a first temperature detection section), a high-sensitivity temperature sensor (one or plural second temperature detection sections) having higher sensitivity than that of the temperature sensor, an output selection circuit, and a control section. The output selection circuit and the control section select a detection signal of the high-sensitivity temperature sensor upon supply of a power supply voltage, and then perform switching so as to select a detection signal of the temperature sensor at a predetermined timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kensaku ISOHATA, Katsuyoshi TERASAWA
  • Patent number: 8314662
    Abstract: A temperature compensation method for a piezoelectric oscillator including a piezoelectric vibrator having a frequency temperature characteristic with a hysteresis characteristic, and an oscillation circuit which oscillates the piezoelectric vibrator and outputs an oscillation signal, wherein, to a temperature compensation circuit which can calculate a quantity of temperature compensation using frequency temperature information indicating a temperature characteristic of an oscillation frequency of the piezoelectric vibrator and temperature information of the piezoelectric vibrator at the time of oscillation of the oscillation signal, the oscillation signal and the frequency temperature information are outputted, includes: calculating, as the frequency temperature information, an intermediate value between elevated-temperature frequency temperature information of the piezoelectric vibrator that is generated in the case where ambient temperature of the piezoelectric vibrator is elevated, and lowered-temperature
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kensaku Isohata, Masayuki Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20110210796
    Abstract: An oscillation circuit includes: an oscillator that includes a vibrator and outputs an oscillation signal; an F/V converter that converts the oscillation signal into a voltage corresponding to a frequency of the oscillation signal; and a memory circuit that stores frequency correcting information for correcting the frequency of the oscillation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki ISHIKAWA, Kensaku ISOHATA, Takehiro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20110121909
    Abstract: A temperature compensation method for a piezoelectric oscillator including a piezoelectric vibrator having a frequency temperature characteristic with a hysteresis characteristic, and an oscillation circuit which oscillates the piezoelectric vibrator and outputs an oscillation signal, wherein, to a temperature compensation circuit which can calculate a quantity of temperature compensation using frequency temperature information indicating a temperature characteristic of an oscillation frequency of the piezoelectric vibrator and temperature information of the piezoelectric vibrator at the time of oscillation of the oscillation signal, the oscillation signal and the frequency temperature information are outputted, includes: calculating, as the frequency temperature information, an intermediate value between elevated-temperature frequency temperature information of the piezoelectric vibrator that is generated in the case where ambient temperature of the piezoelectric vibrator is elevated, and lowered-temperature
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensaku ISOHATA, Masayuki ISHIKAWA