Patents by Inventor Mamoru Ogata

Mamoru Ogata 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: 20250138652
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including a housing having an opening portion on a pen tip side of the housing on a first end in an axial direction, the opening portion having a pillar-shaped space with a predetermined length in the axial direction as a center line direction of the space, the housing including, inside, a hollow portion communicating with the pillar-shaped space of the opening portion, a pen pressure detector arranged in the hollow portion, and a core body including a tip portion on the first end in the axial direction, part of the tip portion protruding outside of the housing from an opening on a pen tip side of the pillar-shaped space of the opening portion of the housing, the core body being installed such that a second end in the axial direction, in operation, transmits, to the pen pressure detector, pen pressure applied to the tip portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Kenichi NINOMIYA, Mamoru OGATA, Masayuki MAEDA, Takayuki ARAI
  • Patent number: 12282614
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including a tubular housing having an opening at one end, a core body portion including a rod-shaped core body and a pressure member that holds a rear end of the core body and transmits a force applied to the core body, a writing pressure detector that detects a writing pressure applied to the core body, and a tubular holding member that accommodates and holds the core body portion. At least part of a side surface of the core body portion includes a flat surface portion parallel to an axial direction of the pen. An inner edge of the holding member has a cylindrical shape and at least part of the inner edge includes a protruding portion. With the core body portion mounted in the housing, the flat surface portion of the core body portion and the protruding portion of the holding member face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ninomiya, Mamoru Ogata
  • Publication number: 20250110586
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen that includes a circuit board including one or more push switches, a housing having a cylindrical body in which an electronic pen circuit including the circuit board is mounted, the housing including a side opening at a position corresponding to a range in which the one or more push switches are provided on the circuit board mounted at a predetermined position, a board protection member including a main body part and one or more depression parts, and a side attachment member including a plate part and one or more push parts. When one of the one or more push parts of the side attachment member is pushed down, a corresponding one of the one or more push switches on the circuit board is pushed down via a corresponding one of the one or more depression parts of the board protection member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Mamoru OGATA, Kenichi NINOMIYA
  • Patent number: 12197656
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen that includes a circuit board including one or more push switches, a housing having a cylindrical body in which an electronic pen circuit including the circuit board is mounted, the housing including a side opening at a position corresponding to a range in which the one or more push switches are provided on the circuit board mounted at a predetermined position, a board protection member including a main body part and one or more depression parts, and a side attachment member including a plate part and one or more push parts. When one of the one or more push parts of the side attachment member is pushed down, a corresponding one of the one or more push switches on the circuit board is pushed down via a corresponding one of the one or more depression parts of the board protection member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Ogata, Kenichi Ninomiya
  • Publication number: 20240319804
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an electronic pen that is excellent in portability by being reduced in size, that has a side switch functioning stably, and that is easy to maintain. A pusher part of an electronic pen body part is inserted into an insertion part of an operator, and the operator is thus attached to the pusher part of the electronic pen body part in a state of being fitted into an operator opening part of an outer casing. The operator opening part of the outer casing is formed in a side surface thereof at a position corresponding to a button switch of the electronic pen body part being loaded into the outer casing and placed at a fixed position. Therefore, the button switch can reliably be depressed through the operator, and the side switch of the electronic pen is realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Mamoru OGATA, Takenori KANEDA, Kenichi NINOMIYA, Takayuki ARAI, Kohei TANAKA
  • Patent number: 12032757
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an electronic pen that is excellent in portability by being reduced in size, that has a side switch functioning stably, and that is easy to maintain. A pusher part of an electronic pen body part is inserted into an insertion part of an operator, and the operator is thus attached to the pusher part of the electronic pen body part in a state of being fitted into an operator opening part of an outer casing. The operator opening part of the outer casing is formed in a side surface thereof at a position corresponding to a button switch of the electronic pen body part being loaded into the outer casing and placed at a fixed position. Therefore, the button switch can reliably be depressed through the operator, and the side switch of the electronic pen is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Ogata, Takenori Kaneda, Kenichi Ninomiya, Takayuki Arai, Kohei Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240176433
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including a housing that is cylindrical and configured to incorporate an electronic pen function part that includes a circuit board. The housing has a side opening formed on a side surface of the housing. The side opening is configured to accommodate a side switch. The electronic pens also includes a side attachment member configured to be attached to the side opening of the housing. A first axial end of the side attachment member includes an engagement part that engages with the housing, and a second axial end of the side attachment member includes a pressed part. The housing incorporates a pressing mechanism part that presses the pressed part of the side attachment member attached to the side opening, toward the first axial end of the side attachment member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Mamoru OGATA, Kenichi NINOMIYA
  • Publication number: 20240176434
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen that includes a circuit board including one or more push switches, a housing having a cylindrical body in which an electronic pen circuit including the circuit board is mounted, the housing including a side opening at a position corresponding to a range in which the one or more push switches are provided on the circuit board mounted at a predetermined position, a board protection member including a main body part and one or more depression parts, and a side attachment member including a plate part and one or more push parts. When one of the one or more push parts of the side attachment member is pushed down, a corresponding one of the one or more push switches on the circuit board is pushed down via a corresponding one of the one or more depression parts of the board protection member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Mamoru OGATA, Kenichi NINOMIYA
  • Publication number: 20240160302
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including a tubular housing having an opening at one end, a core body portion including a rod-shaped core body and a pressure member that holds a rear end of the core body and transmits a force applied to the core body, a writing pressure detector that detects a writing pressure applied to the core body, and a tubular holding member that accommodates and holds the core body portion. At least part of a side surface of the core body portion includes a flat surface portion parallel to an axial direction of the pen. An inner edge of the holding member has a cylindrical shape and at least part of the inner edge includes a protruding portion. With the core body portion mounted in the housing, the flat surface portion of the core body portion and the protruding portion of the holding member face each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Kenichi NINOMIYA, Mamoru OGATA
  • Patent number: 11941188
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including an electronic pen main part including a first sealing member that covers circumference of a tip side of the electronic pen main part and a second sealing member disposed along an outer edge of the electronic pen main part at a position separate from a tip toward a rear end side of the electronic pen main part, and an inside body that is tubular and has an inner wall surface with which the first sealing member and the second sealing member come into contact through insertion of the tip side of the electronic pen main part into the inside body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Ogata, Takenori Kaneda, Kenichi Ninomiya, Takayuki Arai, Kohei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11803286
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen with a cylindrical housing including an opening at an end portion of the housing on a pen tip side of the housing, a cylindrical member disposed in the housing and fixed to the housing at a part on the pen tip side of the housing, and a core body formed in a rod shape by a material containing a pigment, the core body including a body portion inserted into the cylindrical member through the opening of the housing and a pull-out portion configured to enable the core body to be pulled out of the housing. A diameter of the body portion of the core body inserted into the cylindrical member is larger than a difference between an outer diameter of the cylindrical member and an inner diameter of the cylindrical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takenori Kaneda, Mamoru Ogata, Kenichi Ninomiya
  • Publication number: 20230324247
    Abstract: Disclosed is a characteristic adjustment system of pressure detection output including an input tool that, in operation, performs an input operation by being brought into contact with an input surface and that includes a pressure detector that, in operation, detects a pressure applied to a portion of the input tool in contact with the input surface, a detection device that, in operation, generates pressure detection output by acquiring information regarding the pressure detected by the pressure detector of the input tool, a load measurement device that, in operation, measures a load applied to the input tool, and an adjustment device that, in operation, adjusts the pressure detection output from the detection device such that the pressure detection output has characteristics in a predetermined relation to a load measurement result from the load measurement device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yuto MORI, Mamoru OGATA, Kenichi NINOMIYA
  • Publication number: 20230244331
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including an electronic pen main part including a first sealing member that covers circumference of a tip side of the electronic pen main part and a second sealing member disposed along an outer edge of the electronic pen main part at a position separate from a tip toward a rear end side of the electronic pen main part, and an inside body that is tubular and has an inner wall surface with which the first sealing member and the second sealing member come into contact through insertion of the tip side of the electronic pen main part into the inside body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Mamoru OGATA, Takenori KANEDA, Kenichi NINOMIYA, Takayuki ARAI, Kohei TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230205330
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an electronic pen that is excellent in portability by being reduced in size, that has a side switch functioning stably, and that is easy to maintain. A pusher part of an electronic pen body part is inserted into an insertion part of an operator, and the operator is thus attached to the pusher part of the electronic pen body part in a state of being fitted into an operator opening part of an outer casing. The operator opening part of the outer casing is formed in a side surface thereof at a position corresponding to a button switch of the electronic pen body part being loaded into the outer casing and placed at a fixed position. Therefore, the button switch can reliably be depressed through the operator, and the side switch of the electronic pen is realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Mamoru OGATA, Takenori KANEDA, Kenichi NINOMIYA, Takayuki ARAI, Kohei TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230104110
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen with a cylindrical housing including an opening at an end portion of the housing on a pen tip side of the housing, a cylindrical member disposed in the housing and fixed to the housing at a part on the pen tip side of the housing, and a core body formed in a rod shape by a material containing a pigment, the core body including a body portion inserted into the cylindrical member through the opening of the housing and a pull-out portion configured to enable the core body to be pulled out of the housing. A diameter of the body portion of the core body inserted into the cylindrical member is larger than a difference between an outer diameter of the cylindrical member and an inner diameter of the cylindrical member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Takenori KANEDA, Mamoru OGATA, Kenichi NINOMIYA
  • Patent number: 11550442
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen with a cylindrical housing including an opening at an end portion of the housing on a pen tip side of the housing, a cylindrical member disposed in the housing and fixed to the housing at a part on the pen tip side of the housing, and a core body formed in a rod shape by a material containing a pigment, the core body including a body portion inserted into the cylindrical member through the opening of the housing and a pull-out portion configured to enable the core body to be pulled out of the housing. A diameter of the body portion of the core body inserted into the cylindrical member is larger than a difference between an outer diameter of the cylindrical member and an inner diameter of the cylindrical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takenori Kaneda, Mamoru Ogata, Kenichi Ninomiya
  • Patent number: 11327579
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes a first casing, a second casing disposed within the first casing, and an electronic pen main body unit incorporating an electronic pen function disposed within the second casing, in which the electronic pen main body unit includes a side switch unit having an operating element exposed on a side surface of the second casing, and an operating opening portion is disposed in a side surface of the first casing, and the operating opening portion exposes the operating element exposed on the side surface of the second casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Ogata, Kenichi Ninomiya
  • Publication number: 20210405786
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen with a cylindrical housing including an opening at an end portion of the housing on a pen tip side of the housing, a cylindrical member disposed in the housing and fixed to the housing at a part on the pen tip side of the housing, and a core body formed in a rod shape by a material containing a pigment, the core body including a body portion inserted into the cylindrical member through the opening of the housing and a pull-out portion configured to enable the core body to be pulled out of the housing. A diameter of the body portion of the core body inserted into the cylindrical member is larger than a difference between an outer diameter of the cylindrical member and an inner diameter of the cylindrical member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Takenori KANEDA, Mamoru OGATA, Kenichi NINOMIYA
  • Publication number: 20210055807
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes a first casing, a second casing disposed within the first casing, and an electronic pen main body unit incorporating an electronic pen function disposed within the second casing, in which the electronic pen main body unit includes a side switch unit having an operating element exposed on a side surface of the second casing, and an operating opening portion is disposed in a side surface of the first casing, and the operating opening portion exposes the operating element exposed on the side surface of the second casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Mamoru Ogata, Kenichi Ninomiya
  • Patent number: 10540024
    Abstract: A stylus includes in a tubular casing a core body, a pressure detector that detects a pressure applied to the core body, a coupling fitted over the core body, the coupling transmitting the pressure to the pressure detector, and a core pressing controller that controls the coupling to press the core body axially in the tubular casing. The coupling includes a push bearer that bears a push from the core pressing controller, a presser having an axial end fitted in the pressure detector, a fitting region fitted over a portion of the core body remote from a pen tip end of the tubular casing, a receptacle in which another end of the presser remote from an axial end thereof is axially movably housed, and an elastic member disposed in the receptacle, the elastic member biasing the other end of the presser resiliently toward an axial pen tip end of the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Ogata, Kenichi Ninomiya, Kohei Tanaka