Patents by Inventor Manabu Shimaoka

Manabu Shimaoka 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: 20100118560
    Abstract: A plurality of detection electrodes, connection electrodes, and wires are integrally formed on one surface of a light guide to produce a capacitance-type sensor integral with the light guide. The electrodes are partially formed on a curved portion of the light guide. A resin layer allows an outer case and the light guide to be tightly secured to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi HAYAMA, Masami AIHARA, Manabu SHIMAOKA, Hisato SHIMOMURA, Katsumi MYOCHIN
  • Patent number: 5463198
    Abstract: There is provided a switching device in which the interval between a normal-close contact and a normal-open contact and the positions thereof can be arbitrarily set without any constraint of a common contact, and which can perform circuit switching at a desired timing. In the switching device, mounted on an inner bottom plane of a wafer is a common contact on which a good conductive return spring electrically connected to a movable contact for urging a slider in the direction reverse to the depressing direction is laid. A normal-close contact and a normal-open contact are arranged side by side on an inner wall of the wafer, and a resilient piece of the movable contact is in slidable contact with the inner wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1995
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Manabu Shimaoka