Patents by Inventor Kunikazu Mochida

Kunikazu Mochida 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: 6072752
    Abstract: To provide a hand display-type electronic timepiece which is simply constructed, enables the manufacturer or the user of the analog electronic timepiece to easily and correctly accomplish synchronism between the hands and the timing counter, and does not require an operation for bringing the hands and the timing counter into synchronism when the cell is renewed by the user, eliminating the problems inherent in the aforementioned prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Igarashi, Kenji Fujita, Kunikazu Mochida
  • Patent number: 5331608
    Abstract: In a wrist watch equipped with a receiving device, an antenna 19 having an antenna winding 19b, wound around an antenna core 19a with the end thereof being fixed, and having a conductible antenna terminal sheet 19d secured to an antenna winding frame 19c is inserted from a notch 10k in a dial 10 and secured with a screw 35 to an antenna support plate 33 which is secured to a circuit substrate 22, there by conducting the antenna 19 and the watch module. The construction ensures simplification of the watch module structure and easy conduction and securing of the antenna and the watch module and secured, with little influence on the receiving performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Umemoto, Toshio Hiruta, Kunikazu Mochida
  • Patent number: 4783772
    Abstract: An electronic diving wristwatch having a pressure sensing depth meter provided in a projection on a case of the watch without interferring with the existing crown, pushbuttons, etc. The depth meter has a piezoelectric type sensing element which produces electrical output in response to the water pressure. The output is converted to a water depth which is displayed in a digital display window of the watch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1988
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Umemoto, Toshio Hiruta, Hideo Uehara, Masato Yamada, Kunikazu Mochida