Patents by Inventor Koichi ODAGAKI

Koichi ODAGAKI 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: 20240032190
    Abstract: A base member that is a molded part on which pattern wiring is directly formed, includes a projection projecting from a base surface of the base member. The pattern wiring is laid over a top of the projection, and protrusions are molded on both sides of an area at the top of the projection where the pattern wiring passes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: KOICHI ODAGAKI, YOSHIHIKO FUJISE
  • Patent number: 11874583
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a composite display device capable of switching between an electronic viewfinder function and a sighting device function. The composite display device includes an eye window and an object window, an organic EL panel that displays a sighting mark that is an indicator, and a photochromic mirror that is a reflective optical element for guiding the indicator to the eye window. A determination unit determines a subject, and a distance-measuring unit measures a distance to the subject. A body control unit controls the organic EL panel, and a photochromic mirror control unit controls a state and a shape of the photochromic mirror. The body control unit performs control for adjusting the projected position of the sighting mark on the basis of distance information of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichi Osada, Takashi Miyazaki, Koichi Odagaki
  • Patent number: 11843853
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of constantly providing a photographer with an appropriate display image even when a posture of the image pickup apparatus is changed is provided. An image pickup device and a main body including a display are connected by a hinge member rotatably about at least one axis. A first detector detects a rotation phase of the image pickup device about the one axis with respect to the main body. A second detector detects a posture of the image pickup device. A display controller performs a vertical inversion of a display of an image picked up by the image pickup device on the display in accordance with a detection result of the first detector and the second detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Miyazaki, Yoichi Osada, Koichi Odagaki
  • Patent number: 11815793
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a chassis unit, a movable section rotatably held by the chassis unit, and a circuit board assembly on which circuit components including a tall electronic component are mounted. The chassis unit includes a pan driving unit that drives the movable section, and a pan position detection unit that detects an amount of rotation of the movable section. The chassis unit and the circuit board assembly are arranged such that they are opposed to each other in a first direction perpendicular to an installation surface of the electronic apparatus. The tall electronic component is mounted on a mounting surface, opposed to the chassis unit, of the circuit board assembly, and mounted at a location where in a projection view in the first direction, the tall electronic component does not overlap the pan driving unit and the panning detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji Obana, Koichi Odagaki
  • Patent number: 11744016
    Abstract: An electronic device capable of suppressing a temperature rise of a heat generating component and reducing the size of the heat generating component. The electronic device comprising a first substrate on which a first electronic component that generates heat during operation and a first connector are mounted, a second substrate on which a second electronic component that generates heat during operation and a second connector are mounted, and a cable having one end connected to the first connector and the other end connected to the second connector. In the electronic device, the second substrate has a hole defining the second substrate into a first region and a second region, and the cable is inserted through the hole, and on the second substrate, the second connector is mounted in the first region, and the second electronic component is mounted in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Odagaki
  • Patent number: 11716530
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes an image display element, an eyepiece portion, an object window, and a reflection optical element disposed at a position between the eyepiece portion and the object window, the reflection optical element being configured to guide a picture displayed on the image display element to the eyepiece portion. The reflection optical element changes a state to a first state and a second state by changing a transmittance. In the first state, the picture displayed on the image display element is viewed via the eyepiece portion. In the second state, an image in which an image from the object window and an image displayed on the image display element are superimposed is viewed via the eyepiece portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Odagaki, Yoichi Osada, Takashi Miyazaki, Jiro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230070780
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a composite display device capable of switching between an electronic viewfinder function and a sighting device function. The composite display device includes an eye window and an object window, an organic EL panel that displays a sighting mark that is an indicator, and a photochromic mirror that is a reflective optical element for guiding the indicator to the eye window. A determination unit determines a subject, and a distance-measuring unit measures a distance to the subject. A body control unit controls the organic EL panel, and a photochromic mirror control unit controls a state and a shape of the photochromic mirror. The body control unit performs control for adjusting the projected position of the sighting mark on the basis of distance information of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Yoichi Osada, Takashi Miyazaki, Koichi Odagaki
  • Patent number: 11523494
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus that is improved in heat dissipation efficiency of a heat generating component while avoiding an increase in the size of the electronic apparatus. A first substrate has a heat generating component mounted thereon. A heat dissipation frame is arranged opposed to and in contact with a second substrate. A flexible printed circuit electrically connects the first and second substrates. A thermally conductive member is sandwiched between the heat generating component and the heat dissipation frame such that the flexible printed circuit is pressed against the heat generating component. As heat dissipation paths from the heat generating component to the heat dissipation frame, there are formed a first heat dissipation path via the thermally conductive member and a second heat dissipation path via the flexible printed circuit and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Odagaki
  • Publication number: 20220322531
    Abstract: A base member includes a via having a first hole and a second hole. When viewed from a direction in which a base surface extends, the first hole and the second hole have shapes becoming wider as getting closer to a first surface and a second surface of the base surface from a portion at which a lower end of the first hole and an upper end of the second hole are in contact with each other. When the first hole and the second hole are viewed from the direction in which the base surface extends, a smaller angle of angles formed by a generatrix of the first hole and a generatrix of the second hole is smaller in a thin region of the base member than in a thick region of the base member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Fujise, Koichi Odagaki
  • Publication number: 20220100060
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a chassis unit, a movable section rotatably held by the chassis unit, and a circuit board assembly on which circuit components including a tall electronic component are mounted. The chassis unit includes a pan driving unit that drives the movable section, and a pan position detection unit that detects an amount of rotation of the movable section. The chassis unit and the circuit board assembly are arranged such that they are opposed to each other in a first direction perpendicular to an installation surface of the electronic apparatus. The tall electronic component is mounted on a mounting surface, opposed to the chassis unit, of the circuit board assembly, and mounted at a location where in a projection view in the first direction, the tall electronic component does not overlap the pan driving unit and the panning detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Shinji Obana, Koichi Odagaki
  • Patent number: 11290627
    Abstract: A lighting device that can prevent the progress of minute cracks generated in a flexible substrate or the occurrence of minute cracks themselves, and the flexible substrate. A flexible substrate, that electrically connect a light emitting portion movable relative to a main body portion of the lighting device, has a soldering portion that is soldered to the light emitting portion at one end, a connection portion that is connected to the light emission control portion at another end, a communication portion that connects the soldering portion and the connection portion, and two xenon wires and two trigger wires that are arranged in the communication portion in a longitudinal direction. In the communication portion, of the four wires, the two xenon wires are arranged between the two trigger wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Odagaki, Jiro Yamamoto, Katsuhiro Doshin
  • Publication number: 20220030169
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes an image display element, an eyepiece portion, an object window, and a reflection optical element disposed at a position between the eyepiece portion and the object window, the reflection optical element being configured to guide a picture displayed on the image display element to the eyepiece portion. The reflection optical element changes a state to a first state and a second state by changing a transmittance. In the first state, the picture displayed on the image display element is viewed via the eyepiece portion. In the second state, an image in which an image from the object window and an image displayed on the image display element are superimposed is viewed via the eyepiece portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Koichi Odagaki, Yoichi Osada, Takashi Miyazaki, Jiro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20220030698
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus that is improved in heat dissipation efficiency of a heat generating component while avoiding an increase in the size of the electronic apparatus. A first substrate has a heat generating component mounted thereon. A heat dissipation frame is arranged opposed to and in contact with a second substrate. A flexible printed circuit electrically connects the first and second substrates. A thermally conductive member is sandwiched between the heat generating component and the heat dissipation frame such that the flexible printed circuit is pressed against the heat generating component. As heat dissipation paths from the heat generating component to the heat dissipation frame, there are formed a first heat dissipation path via the thermally conductive member and a second heat dissipation path via the flexible printed circuit and the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventor: Koichi Odagaki
  • Publication number: 20220015223
    Abstract: An electronic device capable of suppressing a temperature rise of a heat generating component and reducing the size of the heat generating component. The electronic device comprising a first substrate on which a first electronic component that generates heat during operation and a first connector are mounted, a second substrate on which a second electronic component that generates heat during operation and a second connector are mounted, and a cable having one end connected to the first connector and the other end connected to the second connector. In the electronic device, the second substrate has a hole defining the second substrate into a first region and a second region, and the cable is inserted through the hole, and on the second substrate, the second connector is mounted in the first region, and the second electronic component is mounted in the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventor: Koichi Odagaki
  • Publication number: 20210314492
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of constantly providing a photographer with an appropriate display image even when a posture of the image pickup apparatus is changed is provided. An image pickup device and a main body including a display are connected by a hinge member rotatably about at least one axis. A first detector detects a rotation phase of the image pickup device about the one axis with respect to the main body. A second detector detects a posture of the image pickup device. A display controller performs a vertical inversion of a display of an image picked up by the image pickup device on the display in accordance with a detection result of the first detector and the second detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi Miyazaki, Yoichi Osada, Koichi Odagaki
  • Publication number: 20200228687
    Abstract: A lighting device that can prevent the progress of minute cracks generated in a flexible substrate or the occurrence of minute cracks themselves, and the flexible substrate. A flexible substrate, that electrically connect a light emitting portion movable relative to a main body portion of the lighting device, has a soldering portion that is soldered to the light emitting portion at one end, a connection portion that is connected to the light emission control portion at another end, a communication portion that connects the soldering portion and the connection portion, and two xenon wires and two trigger wires that are arranged in the communication portion in a longitudinal direction. In the communication portion, of the four wires, the two xenon wires are arranged between the two trigger wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Koichi Odagaki, Jiro Yamamoto, Katsuhiro Doshin
  • Patent number: 10623590
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a USB connector compliant with a USB standard, and is configured to be electrically connectable to a device including an adaptor apparatus via the USB connector. The imaging apparatus includes a system control circuit that detects whether the adaptor apparatus is electrically connected via the USB connector, and a switch that performs processing for changing a signal group to be assigned to terminals of the USB connector, according to a result of detection by the system control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Odagaki, Shinga Nakashima, Katsuhiro Doshin
  • Publication number: 20180205836
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a USB connector compliant with a USB standard, and is configured to be electrically connectable to a device including an adaptor apparatus via the USB connector. The imaging apparatus includes a system control circuit that detects whether the adaptor apparatus is electrically connected via the USB connector, and a switch that performs processing for changing a signal group to be assigned to terminals of the USB connector, according to a result of detection by the system control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Koichi Odagaki, Shinga Nakashima, Katsuhiro Doshin
  • Patent number: 9521749
    Abstract: A circuit substrate which is capable of decreasing the possibility that the amount of solder in the overall mounting land is uneven and reducing formation of a solder void even when a mounting terminal has a large soldering area. An electronic component having the mounting terminal is mounted on the circuit substrate. A mounting land is connected to the mounting terminal of the electronic component by soldering, and the mounting land has a protruding portion of an insulating material formed so as to protrude from an outer side of the mounting land toward an inner side of the mounting land, and the protruding portion does not divide the mounting land into a plurality of areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Odagaki, Shuichi Kato
  • Patent number: 9253384
    Abstract: In an accessory shoe member placed on top of a base member, a pair of engagement portions is formed in a first direction perpendicular to an attachment direction of an external accessory device, and a plurality of fastening holes is formed side by side in the first direction. A plurality of fastening members is inserted into the plurality of fastening holes with the accessory shoe member placed on top of the base member, thereby fastening the base member and the accessory shoe member to an imaging apparatus. In the accessory shoe member, a joining portion joining the pair of engagement portions is formed. The accessory shoe member is formed by bending a plate metal material into a loop shape so that a joint is located between the plurality of fastening holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Odagaki