Patents by Inventor Kichiro Kikuchi

Kichiro Kikuchi 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: 20100119122
    Abstract: To provide a finger vein vein pattern input apparatus to be felt that one finger is put surely at a predetermined position during an authentication time, thereby a good convenience is attained. A finger vein pattern input apparatus for a personal authentication is constituted having a main body, a finger put stand installed on the main body, an irradiation means installed in an interior portion of the main body and for light irradiating a finger put on the finger put stand, and an imaging means for taking an image the light irradiated finger through an imaging window formed the finger put stand. To the finger put stand, an irradiation window arranged on a penetrated hole provided on the finger put stand and for passing through a light from the irradiation means is provided, and a hand touch feeling section having a smooth surface of a hand touch by approaching the imaging window and the irradiation window and by distinguishing from a peripheral rough surface having grains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Hisao Nakayama, Hiroto Nakai, Kichiro Kikuchi
  • Patent number: D569286
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Information & Control Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Noda, Kunihito Kawamura, Kichiro Kikuchi, Hiroto Nakai, Hisao Nakayama
  • Patent number: D602021
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Information & Control Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Noda, Kichiro Kikuchi, Hiroto Nakai, Hisao Nakayama