Patents by Inventor Koji Noguchi

Koji Noguchi 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: 20250047966
    Abstract: An electronic module has a flexible wiring member, a wiring circuit board, and a conductive connection member. The flexible wiring member has a flexible base, a first wiring layer formed on at least one face of the flexible base, and a first electrode formed of the first wiring layer at the end part that is not covered by a first insulating layer. The wiring circuit board has a base provided with a wiring, a second insulating layer having opening formed on at least one face of the base, and a second electrode formed in the opening. The conductive connection member connects the first electrode and the second electrode to each other. The end of the flexible wiring member is arranged above the opening in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: YUYA OKADA, KOJI NOGUCHI, MITSUTOSHI HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 12210312
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a developer container having an accommodating portion to accommodate developer, and a replenishment port for replenishing the accommodating portion with developer from an attachable replenishment container. A transfer portion transfers the developer image on an image bearing member onto a recording material, a supporting tray supports the recording material, and a discharge portion discharges the recording material on the supporting surface. The supporting tray has an opening portion opening with the replenishment port being exposed through the supporting surface, wherein an opening/closing member is movable between a closed position where it covers the replenishment port and serves as a part of the supporting surface and an open position where the replenishment port is exposed. Movement of the opening/closing member to the closed position is hindered by the replenishment container in a state it is attached to the developer container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomio Noguchi, Masaaki Sato, Kenji Matsuzaka, Koji Fujinaka, Takao Sameshima, Akitoshi Toyota, Yuichiro Inaba, Kenichi Iida
  • Patent number: 12160652
    Abstract: An electronic module has a flexible wiring member, a wiring circuit board, and a conductive connection member. The flexible wiring member has a flexible base, a first wiring layer formed on at least one face of the flexible base, and a first electrode formed of the first wiring layer at the end part that is not covered by a first insulating layer. The wiring circuit board has a base provided with a wiring, a second insulating layer having opening formed on at least one face of the base, and a second electrode formed in the opening. The conductive connection member connects the first electrode and the second electrode to each other. The end of the flexible wiring member is arranged above the opening in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuya Okada, Koji Noguchi, Mitsutoshi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20240345673
    Abstract: A display panel with a touch detection function, in which display operation is less affected by touch detection operation, a method of driving the display panel with a touch detection function, a driving circuit, and an electronic unit having the display panel with a touch detection function are disclosed. The display panel with a touch detection function includes: one or more display elements; one or more drive electrodes; one or more touch detection electrodes; and a drive section selectively applying a DC drive signal or an AC drive signal to the drive electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Yoshitoshi Kida, Koji Noguchi
  • Patent number: 12056303
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a touch detection device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate opposed to the first substrate; a cover base material opposed to the second substrate; a plurality of first electrodes overlapping a display region on a plane parallel with the first substrate; and a second electrode arranged at the cover base material and overlapping a frame region outside the display region. Proximity or contact of an object with respect to the frame region is detected based on capacitance between the first electrodes and the second electrode. The second electrode extends along a side of the frame region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Koji Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20240260167
    Abstract: A printed wiring board has a first conductive layer including a second electrode group bonded to a first electrode group of a flexible printed circuit board, and a second conductive layer, and a plane including the second conductive layer includes a first region including a reference region set in a bonded portion, a second region via a first boundary, and a third region via a second boundary, and a first boundary portion is positioned within a range of 0.5 times or more and 5 times or less a length of a short side of four sides in a prescribed direction, and a second boundary portion is positioned within a range of 0.5 times or more and 5 times or less the length of the short in a prescribed direction, and a density of the second conductive layer in the first region is higher than that in the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: KOJI NOGUCHI, MITSUTOSHI HASEGAWA, SATORU HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240256070
    Abstract: A display device is provided and includes signal line; pixel electrode; drive electrode opposed to pixel electrode; scanning lines; and display periods and a detection period in frame, wherein during one of display periods, common voltage is applied to drive electrode, scanning signal is applied to some scanning lines, pixel signal is applied to pixel electrode, wherein, during detection period, AC drive or pulse signal is applied to drive electrode, AC drive or pulse signal having pulses, wherein pulses during the detection period is less than number of some of scanning signal lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Yoshitoshi Kida, Kohei Azumi
  • Patent number: 12025875
    Abstract: A common electrode for a display, which is originally provided in a liquid crystal display element, is also used as one (drive electrode) of a pair of electrodes for a touch sensor, and the other (detection-electrode-for-the-sensor) of the pair of electrodes is newly formed. An existing common drive signal as a drive signal for display is used in common for a drive signal for the touch sensor. A capacitance is formed between the common electrode and the detection-electrode-for-the-sensor, and touch detection is performed by utilizing a change of this capacitance caused by a finger touch of a user. Thus, a display device with a touch sensor is also applicable to a mobile device in which electric potential of the user is inconstant in many cases. The newly-provided electrode is only the detection-electrode-for-the-sensor, and it is unnecessary to newly prepare a drive signal for the touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Daisuke Takama, Yoshitoshi Kida
  • Patent number: 12013990
    Abstract: Styluses, methods for communicating by a stylus with a device, and input systems including the device and the stylus are described. In an example, a stylus includes a first electrode for transmitting a first signal to the device, a second electrode used for transmitting a second signal to the device, and a third electrode used for receiving a third signal from the device. The first electrode is located at a tip portion of the stylus. The second electrode is located apart from the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20240183625
    Abstract: An aspect of a heat exchange unit of a refrigeration cycle device, includes a housing having openings, and gripping members attached to the openings. Each gripping member has a main body having an inner space that opens to an outside, and a plurality of claws that protrude from the main body and that hook to a circumferential edge of the openings. The plurality of claws include a plurality of first claw portions, and at least one second claw portion that is provided on an opposite side to the plurality of first claw portions in a predetermined direction that intersects the opening direction. At least one claw portion out of the plurality of first claw portions and the at least one second claw portion is an elastic claw that is cantilevered by the main body and is elastically deformable in the predetermined direction with respect to the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Mizuo SAKAI, Koji NOGUCHI, Yusuke TAKAHASHI, Nobukazu KATO, Shoko TSUMURA, Hirokazu MURAKAMI, Motoki OTSUKA, Yudai SAKABE
  • Patent number: 11966527
    Abstract: There are provided a display panel with a touch detection function, a drive circuit, and an electronic unit, which make it possible to realize many functions related to touch detection. The display panel includes: one or more display elements; one or more drive electrodes extending in one direction; an electrode drive section integrated into a chip, and applying a drive signal to the drive electrodes; and one or more touch detection electrodes extending in a direction intersecting the direction in which the drive electrodes extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshitoshi Kida, Koji Noguchi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kohei Azumi
  • Patent number: 11960672
    Abstract: A display device is provided and includes signal line; pixel electrode; drive electrode opposed to pixel electrode; scanning lines; and display periods and a detection period in frame, wherein during one of display periods, common voltage is applied to drive electrode, scanning signal is applied to some scanning lines, pixel signal is applied to pixel electrode, wherein, during detection period, AC drive or pulse signal is applied to drive electrode, AC drive or pulse signal having pulses, wherein pulses during the detection period is less than number of some of scanning signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Yoshitoshi Kida, Kohei Azumi
  • Publication number: 20240118778
    Abstract: There are provided a display panel with a touch detector that allows the touch detection electrodes to be less visible, a touch panel, and an electronic unit having the display panel with a touch detector. The display panel with a touch detector includes: a display layer including a plurality of display elements arranged side by side; and an electrode layer alternately segmented into first regions and second regions along a first direction, the electrode layer including a plurality of first slits arranged side by side to extend in a second direction, and a plurality of second slits each allowing an adjacent pair of the plurality of first slits in the second regions to be in communication with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Koji ISHIZAKI, Koji NOGUCHI, Masanobu IKEDA, Yasuyuki MATSUI
  • Patent number: 11933401
    Abstract: Provided is a plunger including: a plunger body; a first surface configured to come into contact with an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical member; a second surface disposed on a base end side relative to the first surface, the second surface having an outer diameter that is smaller than that of the first surface; an outer stepped surface disposed between the first surface and the second surface; a first housing disposed in an area at least partly corresponding to the second surface in the recess, the first housing being provided for housing a tip part of the pin; a second housing disposed on the base end side relative to the first housing, the second housing having an inner diameter that is smaller than a largest inner diameter of the first housing; and an inner stepped surface disposed between the first housing and the second housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Shigeru Uemura
  • Publication number: 20240086018
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electrostatic capacitance-type sensor-equipped display device includes a display panel with a display surface which displays an image. The sensor includes a plurality of detection electrodes disposed in a matrix, the detection electrodes being mutually electrically independently provided above the display surface and being configured to detect a variation in electrostatic capacitance, and a plurality of lead lines provided above the display surface, connected to the detection electrodes in a one-to-one correspondence, and formed of a metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Koji NOGUCHI, Koji ISHIZAKI, Hayato KURASAWA
  • Publication number: 20240069681
    Abstract: A touch panel, a display panel, and a display unit achieving prevention of erroneous detection caused by external noise. The touch panel includes: a plurality of detection scan electrodes extending in a first direction and a plurality of detection electrodes facing the plurality of detection scan electrodes and extending in a second direction which intersects the first direction. The one or more selected detection scan electrodes are selected, in a desired unit, from the plurality of detection scan electrodes, to be supplied with a selection pulse, and each of the first and the second detection electrodes is selected from the plurality of detection electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakanishi, Koji Noguchi, Koji Ishizaki, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takeya Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20240061522
    Abstract: A display device is provided and includes a first substrate comprising first and second areas, first and second terminals located in the first area, and first wiring electrically connects the first terminal with the second terminal; a second substrate comprising a detection electrode for sensing and a third terminal electrically connected to the detection electrode; and connecting member comprising a base layer, and a conductive member electrically connects first and third terminals, wherein the first area is an area in which the second substrate does not overlap the first substrate, the second area is an area in which the first substrate and the second substrate overlap each other, the connecting member does not extend outside first substrate, the conductive member is provided on an undersurface of the base layer, and the undersurface is opposed to the first surface and the third surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Koji NOGUCHI, Masaki MURASE, Yasushi NAKANO, Koji ISHIZAKI
  • Patent number: 11907459
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a touch detection device includes: drive electrodes, a drive signal being input to each of the drive electrodes; and a first drive electrode included in the drive electrodes and divided into subdivided electrodes. An arrangement pitch of the subdivided electrodes is finer than an arrangement pitch of the drive electrodes, the drive electrodes are configured to perform a touch detection in a first sensing period and in a second sensing period, and the subdivided electrodes are driven collectively in the first sensing period and driven individually in the second sensing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Koji Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11893193
    Abstract: There are provided a display panel with a touch detector that allows the touch detection electrodes to be less visible, a touch panel, and an electronic unit having the display panel with a touch detector. The display panel with a touch detector includes: a display layer including a plurality of display elements arranged side by side; and an electrode layer alternately segmented into first regions and second regions along a first direction, the electrode layer including a plurality of first slits arranged side by side to extend in a second direction, and a plurality of second slits each allowing an adjacent pair of the plurality of first slits in the second regions to be in communication with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Koji Noguchi, Masanobu Ikeda, Yasuyuki Matsui
  • Patent number: 11895793
    Abstract: An image pickup unit includes: a printed wiring board provided with an image pickup element and having a first electrode on a surface layer; a flexible wiring substrate having a base member having first and second faces, a conductive layer provided on the first face, and an insulating layer provided on the conductive layer, wherein the conductive layer has a second electrode in which the insulating layer is not provided to one longitudinal end part; a conductive connection member that connects the first electrode to the second electrode; and a reinforcement member provided on the base member on the second face side, wherein the reinforcement member continuously covers an end part of the insulating layer on a side closer to the second electrode and an end part of the conductive connection member on a side closer to the insulating layer of a portion connected to the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABU SHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Yuya Okada, Mitsutoshi Hasegawa