Patents by Inventor Masahiro Kitamura
Masahiro Kitamura 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).
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Patent number: 10600589Abstract: A switch device capable of preventing an occurrence of contact noise and wobbling of a stabilizer member to a bearing is provided. The key switch includes the stabilizer member supported between a key top and a base plate. The stabilizer member includes a first shaft portion rotatably supported on the lower surface side of the key top and a second shaft portion, which has a rotation axis parallel to the rotation axis of the first shaft portion and is rotatably supported by a bearing provided on the upper surface side of the base plate. The membrane sheet has at least a lower contact sheet having a cut-out shaped portion in a position corresponding to a position in which the second shaft portion is provided in a plane view and an upper contact sheet placed in an upper layer than the lower contact sheet to cover the cut-out shaped portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTDInventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Mitsuo Horiuchi
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Patent number: 10596796Abstract: The present disclosure is aimed at providing a laminated film for decorating a three-dimensional molded product with which problems on a split, white turbidity and the like in the laminated film for decorating a three-dimensional molded product having a metallic tone design layer can be improved and an outer film having excellent characteristics with regard to scratch resistance, hardness, chemical resistance, and the like on the surface of the film after decorating can be formed. A laminated film for decorating a three-dimensional molded product, having an adhesion layer (A), a metallic tone design layer (B) constituted of a coating film layer (B-1) containing vapor-deposited aluminum or a vapor-deposited metal layer (B-2) composed of indium or tin, a clear coating film layer (C) composed of an energy ray-curable coating film, and a base material film layer (D).Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takakazu Hase, Masahiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 10593490Abstract: A switching device capable of receiving pressing operations for an electronic device is provided. The switching device includes a push button rotatably supported on an upper surface of a base member, and a detection switch that is pressed when the push button is pressed to rotate. Either the push button or the base member includes an engaging part and an elastic part, while the other one of the push button or the base member includes a rotational shaft with which the engaging part is rotatably engaged and a supporting shaft against which the elastic part is pressed. The push button rotates about an engaged portion between the engaging part and the rotational shaft with the elastic part being pressed against the supporting shaft, and presses the detection switch.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTDInventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Mitsuo Horiuchi, Satoshi Douzono
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Publication number: 20190326080Abstract: A keycap detachably provided on a guide mechanism of a key switch includes a cap main body having a front face pressed at the time of key input and a rear face on the opposite side to the front face; and a first engaging projection and a second engaging projection, both of which protrude from the rear face of the cap main body with a gap therebetween so that an engaging portion of the guide mechanism is detachably engaged into the gap. At least a part of an area around the first engaging projection and the second engaging projection in the cap main body has a thin part thinner than other parts of the cap main body. As a result, the falling off of the keycap can be prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Mitsuo Horiuchi, Satoshi Douzono
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Publication number: 20190311867Abstract: A push button device can stabilize an operation of a guide mechanism and can enhance product quality. A keyboard device includes the push button device and electronic apparatus includes the keyboard device. A key switch that is a push button device includes a key cap as a push button, a base plate, and a guide mechanism. The guide mechanism includes an outer frame member and an inner member. An outer frame member has a pair of inner surfaces opposed to each other with interposition of an opening in which the inner member is disposed, and each of the pair of inner surfaces is provided with a bearing hole to serve as a first engagement part. The inner member has a pair of outer surfaces opposed to the pair of inner surfaces of the outer frame member, and each of the pair of outer surfaces is provided with a rotation shaft to be a second engagement part. An outer peripheral surface of the rotation shaft has a tapered portion whose outer diameter gradually decreases in an insertion direction of the bearing hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2018Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: MASAHIRO KITAMURA, MITSUO HORIUCHI
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Publication number: 20190302852Abstract: A coupled structure capable of keeping the coupled state between coupled members without degrading the appearance, and an electronic device including such a coupled structure are disclosed. A coupled structure includes a keyboard unit coupled with a main body chassis. The coupled structure includes a hook mechanism which engages the keyboard unit with the main body chassis when the keyboard unit moves in one direction relative to the main body chassis, a locking part formed at the main body chassis, and an elastic part formed at the keyboard unit, and the elastic part biases the keyboard unit engaged with main body chassis in the one direction relative to the main body chassis when the locking part locks the elastic part.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2018Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Mitsuo Horiuchi, Satoshi Douzono
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Publication number: 20190304718Abstract: A switch device capable of preventing an occurrence of contact noise and wobbling of a stabilizer member to a bearing is provided. The key switch includes the stabilizer member supported between a key top and a base plate. The stabilizer member includes a first shaft portion rotatably supported on the lower surface side of the key top and a second shaft portion, which has a rotation axis parallel to the rotation axis of the first shaft portion and is rotatably supported by a bearing provided on the upper surface side of the base plate. The membrane sheet has at least a lower contact sheet having a cut-out shaped portion in a position corresponding to a position in which the second shaft portion is provided in a plane view and an upper contact sheet placed in an upper layer than the lower contact sheet to cover the cut-out shaped portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Mitsuo Horiuchi
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Patent number: 10429900Abstract: A coupled structure capable of keeping the coupled state between coupled members without degrading the appearance, and an electronic device including such a coupled structure are disclosed. A coupled structure includes a keyboard unit coupled with a main body chassis. The coupled structure includes a hook mechanism which engages the keyboard unit with the main body chassis when the keyboard unit moves in one direction relative to the main body chassis, a locking part formed at the main body chassis, and an elastic part formed at the keyboard unit, and the elastic part biases the keyboard unit engaged with main body chassis in the one direction relative to the main body chassis when the locking part locks the elastic part.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Mitsuo Horiuchi, Satoshi Douzono
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Patent number: 10409334Abstract: Embodiments provide a keyboard device having high versatility and high waterproof performance and an electronic device having the keyboard device. A keyboard device has a base plate having a plurality of attachment holes through which a plurality of hook members provided in a body chassis of an electronic device can be passed or with which the plurality of hook members can be engaged in the lower surface, a reflection sheet, which is a sheet-like member covering the lower surface of the base plate, and a plurality of keytops provided on the upper surface of the base plate, in which the reflection sheet is provided with cut lines cut in the thickness direction at positions overlapping with the attachment holes in the vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Mitsuo Horiuchi
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Patent number: 10401920Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic apparatus has a board plate provided in a position apart from the operating direction of push buttons for receiving depressing operations. Detection switches for detecting the depressing operations of the push buttons are provided on the lower surface side of the board plate, and the push buttons are provided adjacent to the side part of the board plate and includes a vertically-movable operation surface part for receiving depressing operations and a detection arm, which protrudes from one edge part of the operation surface part to the lower surface side of the board plate and presses the detection switches by moving in the opposite direction to the direction of the vertical movement of the operation surface part.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTDInventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Mitsuo Horiuchi, Eiji Shinohara
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Patent number: 10394380Abstract: An apparatus for preventing malfunctions of a touchpad disposed near an antenna is provided. An NFC coil is disposed underneath a touchpad. In NFC, an NFC card approaches the surface of the touchpad. A touch controller sets the detection sensitivity of a finger to a reference value when an NFC module does not emit alternating magnetic fluxes. The touch controller reduces the detection sensitivity at the timing when the NFC coil starts the emission of the alternating magnetic fluxes. The touch controller returns the detection sensitivity to the reference value at the timing when the NFC coil stops the emission of the alternating magnetic fluxes. The NFC module directly transmits a signal with which the touch controller changes the detection sensitivity to the touch controller through a hardware line.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTDInventors: Hideto Horikoshi, Hidekazu Chujo, Masahiro Kitamura, Mitsuo Horiuchi
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Patent number: 10353437Abstract: A coupled structure is capable of suppressing breakage of a hook member and keeping the coupled state between members. An electronic device includes the coupled structure. A coupled structure is a keyboard unit coupled to a main body chassis. The coupled structure includes an engagement hole on the keyboard unit and a hook member that protrudes from an upper face of a support plate on the main body chassis and can be engaged with the engagement hole. The support plate has a plate spring capable of elastic displacement with respect to a peripheral part. The hook member is on the plate spring.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2018Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Mitsuo Horiuchi, Satoshi Douzono
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Patent number: 10329411Abstract: A resin composition, containing: (A) polyolefin; (B) a saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer having an ethylene content of from 20 to 65 mol % and a degree of saponification of vinyl acetate units of 96% or more; (C) a saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer having an ethylene content of from 68 to 98 mol % and a degree of saponification of vinyl acetate units of 20% or more; (D) a random copolymer consisting of ethylene and vinyl acetate; (E) a pigment comprising titanium oxide particles comprising a surface coated with a compound of a metal other than titanium or a silicon compound; and (I) a lubricant; wherein a mass ratio (AB) is from 3 to 99.5, a mass ratio (B/C) is from 1 to 100, a mass ratio of (D/C) is from 0.1 to 15, a mass ratio (E/C) is from 0.04 to 50, and a content of (C) is from 0.01 to 2.4 parts, particularly 0.33 to 1.5 parts, by mass based on 100 parts by mass of (A) and (B).Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeyuki Igarashi, Yasuhiko Haneda, Masahiro Kitamura, Shinji Tai
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Patent number: 10180739Abstract: An input device having sufficient countermeasure against static electricity is disclosed. The input device includes a touch pad as an operation-input part that is movably supported above a metal base plate. The operation-input part includes a pad plate to receive an input operation, a board plate stacked below the pad plate to detect an input operation to the pad plate, and a resin housing plate stacked below the board plate. The base plate has an upper face, on which a protruding piece is disposed so as to be inserted between the board plate and the housing plate and come into contact with a ground line as a conductive part provided at the board plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTDInventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Mitsuo Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20180373355Abstract: A touchpad has a pad plate which is less expensive and has better surface feeling and oil resistance than a glass pad plate and a method for manufacturing the same. The touchpad has a resin base portion having electrical insulation properties, a photocurable resin layer laminated so as to cover the top of the base portion, and an anti-finger film laminated so as to cover the top of the photocurable resin layer, in which the anti-finger film is a touch operation surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2017Publication date: December 27, 2018Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Kazutoshi Sugisawa, Masahiro Kitamura
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Publication number: 20180364765Abstract: A keyboard device is provided. The keyboard device includes a baseplate, a set of keytops, a frame, and a set of plate members. The set of keytops is supported in a vertically movable manner on an upper surface side of the baseplate. The frame mounted on the upper surface side of the baseplate, and the frame includes a set of openings in which the keytops are inserted in a vertically movable manner. The set of plate members arranged along a longer direction within the baseplate, and bridges that connect adjacent plate members. The adjacent plate members are arranged with a gap provided between end surfaces thereof that, oppose each other and are relatively movable through at least the bridges in a direction in which the plate members are arranged.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Mitsuo Horiuchi, Satoshi Douzono
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Publication number: 20180345643Abstract: The present disclosure is aimed at providing a laminated film for decorating a three-dimensional molded product with which problems on a split, white turbidity and the like in the laminated film for decorating a three-dimensional molded product having a metallic tone design layer can be improved and an outer film having excellent characteristics with regard to scratch resistance, hardness, chemical resistance, and the like on the surface of the film after decorating can be formed. A laminated film for decorating a three-dimensional molded product, having an adhesion layer (A), a metallic tone design layer (B) constituted of a coating film layer (B-1) containing vapor-deposited aluminum or a vapor-deposited metal layer (B-2) composed of indium or tin, a clear coating film layer (C) composed of an energy ray-curable coating film, and a base material film layer (D).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2015Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takakazu HASE, Masahiro KITAMURA
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Patent number: 10096441Abstract: An electronic apparatus having a switch device capable of suppressing collision noise is disclosed. The switch device is equipped with a first fixed contact and a second fixed contact, and a metal dome that serves as a movable contact movable in a direction to be contacted with or separated from the first fixed contact. In a configuration in which the metal dome is moved to provide an electrical contact or a separation between the metal dome and the first fixed contact, whereby the first fixed contact and the second fixed contact are electrically connected therebetween, a conductive layer made of an anisotropic conductive sheet is provided between the first fixed contact and the metal dome.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTDInventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Takane Fujino, Mitsuo Horiuchi
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Patent number: 9958907Abstract: An electronic apparatus having an input device is disclosed. The input device is capable of reducing the sound generated when an operation-input part returns to its original position after being pressed. The input device includes a base plate having a hook standing towards the operation-input part. The operation-input part has an arm member that can come into contact with the hook. A contact of the arm member with the hook specifies an ascending limit of the operation-input part, and at least one of the arm member and the hook has elasticity in their contacting direction to reduce rebound sound.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTDInventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Mitsuo Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20180096804Abstract: A switching device capable of receiving pressing operations for an electronic device is provided. The switching device includes a push button rotatably supported on an upper surface of a base member, and a detection switch that is pressed when the push button is pressed to rotate. Either the push button or the base member includes an engaging part and an elastic part, while the other one of the push button or the base member includes a rotational shaft with which the engaging part is rotatably engaged and a supporting shaft against which the elastic part is pressed. The push button rotates about an engaged portion between the engaging part and the rotational shaft with the elastic part being pressed against the supporting shaft, and presses the detection switch.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: MASAHIRO KITAMURA, MITSUO HORIUCHI, SATOSHI DOUZONO