Patents by Inventor Masato Matoba
Masato Matoba 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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Publication number: 20240105406Abstract: A limit switch includes: a switch main body capable of being switched on and off; and an operation unit connected to the switch main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Kouhei YOSHIDA, Kazuyuki TSUKIMORI, Sho OGAWA, Mamoru ITO, Masato MATOBA
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Patent number: 11901135Abstract: A wireless switch includes a switch body, a push button connected to the switch body in a state of being movable along an approaching/separating direction between a non-operating position and an operating position, a signal output device accommodated in the switch body and configured to output a switch signal in response to a movement of the push button from the non-operating position to the operating position, and a restriction member that restricts the movement of the push button from the non-operating position to the operation position when the push button is located at the non-operating position.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu Takahashi, Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Kouhei Yoshida, Masao Nagase, Yukio Yoshibashi, Masahiro Ono, Masato Matoba, Tomofumi Kurashige
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Publication number: 20230282993Abstract: The present invention facilitates making electrical connections. In this terminal block, when an electric wire is inserted in a housing, the end of the electric wire pushes in a block part of a movable member, and a contact part of a locking member with the block part interposed therebetween, thereby releasing the locking of a leaf spring moving part by a hook part of the locking member, and the electric wire is secured by the leaf spring moving part, and the degree to which a display part of the movable member moving in conjunction with the block part is visible through a window part changes according to the change in position of the display part.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2020Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masao NAGASE, Taijiro FUJIWARA, Masato MATOBA, Hirokazu HOSHINO
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Publication number: 20220157539Abstract: A wireless switch includes a switch body, a push button connected to the switch body in a state of being movable along an approaching/separating direction between a non-operating position and an operating position, a signal output device accommodated in the switch body and configured to output a switch signal in response to a movement of the push button from the non-operating position to the operating position, and a restriction member that restricts the movement of the push button from the non-operating position to the operation position when the push button is located at the non-operating position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Manabu TAKAHASHI, Kazuyuki TSUKIMORI, Kouhei YOSHIDA, Masao NAGASE, Yukio YOSHIBASHI, Masahiro ONO, Masato MATOBA, Tomofumi KURASHIGE
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Patent number: 11101583Abstract: A terminal block includes a housing having insulation properties, the housing having a holding portion provided in the housing and a terminal connection surface, a first opening portion through which a conductor portion of an electric wire can be inserted and pulled out and a second opening portion that is adjacent to the first opening portion and through which a jig can be inserted and pulled out being arranged in series in an array direction on the terminal connection surface and each communicating with the holding portion, and an opening surface being provided on a side of the holding portion in a width direction intersecting the array direction and a direction intersecting the terminal connection surface, and a terminal electrode portion and a leaf spring portion arranged in the holding portion. The housing is provided with a first movement restriction portion that restricts the movement of the moveable portion of the leaf spring portion in the width direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masahiro Ono, Masato Matoba, Kiyotaka Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10978822Abstract: A connector is provided with a cable that includes a conductor and an insulation, connector bodies that are provided on one ends in an extending direction of the cable, and a cover unit that covers and integrates each of the one ends of the cable and each of the connector bodies. The cable includes a first cohesion unit provided on a surface of the insulation at each of one ends over an entire circumference around the extending direction of the cable, and fixed to the cover unit so as to be detachable by cohesive fracture.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Hirokazu Hoshino, Taijiro Fujiwara, Masato Matoba, Masaki Nakamura, Masaru Higuchi, Hiroshi Okuyama
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Patent number: 10944188Abstract: A terminal block includes a display-use moveable member which has a main body portion that can reciprocate in the direction intersecting a terminal connection surface and a contact moveable portion that extends along a guide surface, has a first end portion in an extension direction that is disposed so as to come into contact with a conductor portion in an electric wire passage portion and move in a first direction away from the terminal connection surface, and has a second end portion in the extension direction that is connected to the main body portion, and moves in an array direction in response to movement of the first end portion in the first direction to move the main body portion in a second direction toward the terminal connection surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masahiro Ono, Masato Matoba, Kiyotaka Hashimoto, Taijiro Fujiwara, Hirokazu Hoshino, Masao Nagase, Masami Nishida
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Publication number: 20200243988Abstract: A terminal block includes a housing having insulation properties, the housing having a holding portion provided in the housing and a terminal connection surface, a first opening portion through which a conductor portion of an electric wire can be inserted and pulled out and a second opening portion that is adjacent to the first opening portion and through which a jig can be inserted and pulled out being arranged in series in an array direction on the terminal connection surface and each communicating with the holding portion, and an opening surface being provided on a side of the holding portion in a width direction intersecting the array direction and a direction intersecting the terminal connection surface, and a terminal electrode portion and a leaf spring portion arranged in the holding portion. The housing is provided with a first movement restriction portion that restricts the movement of the moveable portion of the leaf spring portion in the width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2019Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masahiro ONO, Masato MATOBA, Kiyotaka HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20200243989Abstract: A terminal block includes a display-use moveable member which has a main body portion that can reciprocate in the direction intersecting a terminal connection surface and a contact moveable portion that extends along a guide surface, has a first end portion in an extension direction that is disposed so as to come into contact with a conductor portion in an electric wire passage portion and move in a first direction away from the terminal connection surface, and has a second end portion in the extension direction that is connected to the main body portion, and moves in an array direction in response to movement of the first end portion in the first direction to move the main body portion in a second direction toward the terminal connection surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2019Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masahiro ONO, Masato MATOBA, Kiyotaka HASHIMOTO, Taijiro FUJIWARA, Hirokazu HOSHINO, Masao NAGASE, Masami NISHIDA
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Publication number: 20200176921Abstract: A connector is provided with a cable that includes a conductor and an insulation, connector bodies that are provided on one ends in an extending direction of the cable, and a cover unit that covers and integrates each of the one ends of the cable and each of the connector bodies. The cable includes a first cohesion unit provided on a surface of the insulation at each of one ends over an entire circumference around the extending direction of the cable, and fixed to the cover unit so as to be detachable by cohesive fracture.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2018Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Hirokazu HOSHINO, Taijiro FUJIWARA, Masato MATOBA, Masaki NAKAMURA, Masaru HIGUCHI, Hiroshi OKUYAMA
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Publication number: 20190116356Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an acquisition unit and a generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires setting information regarding projection of an image by an image projection apparatus. The generation unit generates a simulation image including a plurality of image projection apparatuses and respective display regions of a plurality of images projected by the plurality of image projection apparatuses on the basis of the acquired setting information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2017Publication date: April 18, 2019Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masato MATOBA, Tessho ISHIDA
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Patent number: 9172152Abstract: Embodiments of pressure welding terminals are provided including a pair of spring portions and a slit for press-fitting and retaining a conductive body disposed between the pair of spring portions by a fixed push-in amount. An upper edge of the conductive body is retained by the slit at a fixed position from an opening of the slit, and a region is provided where an area of a cross section of at least one of the spring portions on the lower side of the upper edge of the conductive body is smaller than an area of a cross section of the at least one spring portion at a position of the upper edge of the conductive body.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masato Matoba, Shunsuke Akahori
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Patent number: 9166332Abstract: The present invention provides a connector that has a function of enabling and facilitating a secure connection of an inserted substrate. A connector includes a housing, a contact point member, and a position determining member. The housing includes an insertion recessed portion into which a substrate is inserted. The contact point member includes a contact point portion connected electrically to a conductive portion of the substrate. The position determining member determines a position of the contact point member. The position is determined to connect the contact point portion to the conductive portion of the substrate and is driven by moving the contact point member to retract the contact point portion from the insertion recessed portion and inserting the substrate into the insertion recessed portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masato Matoba, Seiji Shimada
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Patent number: 8986031Abstract: The present invention provides a connector in which insertion of a substrate up to a proper position enables achievement of an electrical connection between the substrate and a contact point member. The connector includes a housing with an insertion recessed portion into which a substrate is to be inserted, a contact point member that includes a contact point portion which is installed in the housing, protrudes into an insertion recessed portion, and is electrically connected to a conductive portion of the substrate to be inserted, and position determining member which moves the contact point member, when the substrate is inserted into the insertion recessed portion of the housing, in such a manner that the contact point member is retracted from the insertion recessed portion and then protrudes into the insertion recessed portion to make an electrical connection to a conductive portion of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Masato Matoba, Seiji Shimada
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Publication number: 20130323988Abstract: A pressure welding terminal capable of pressure-welding and retaining a plurality types of electric wires having different diameters by a fixed push-in amount is provided. Therefore, in a pressure welding terminal in which a slit for press-fitting and retaining a conductive body is provided between a pair of spring portions and an upper edge of the conductive body retained by the slit is placed at a fixed position from an opening of the slit, a region where an area of a cross section of the spring portions arranged on the lower side of the upper edge of the conductive body, at least on one side is smaller than an area of a cross section of the spring portions at a position of the upper edge of the conductive body.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Masato Matoba, Shunsuke Akahori
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Publication number: 20130288511Abstract: The present invention provides a connector that has a function of enabling and facilitating a secure connection of an inserted substrate. A connector includes a housing, a contact point member, and a position determining member. The housing includes an insertion recessed portion into which a substrate is inserted. The contact point member includes a contact point portion connected electrically to a conductive portion of the substrate. The position determining member determines a position of the contact point member. The position is determined to connect the contact point portion to the conductive portion of the substrate and is driven by moving the contact point member to retract the contact point portion from the insertion recessed portion and inserting the substrate into the insertion recessed portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventors: Masato Matoba, Seiji Shimada
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Patent number: 8382504Abstract: A connector has a base having an opening formed at a front surface, to which a distal end of a flexible printed circuit is inserted, and insertion holes passing from the front surface to a rear surface arranged in a line, a connection terminal inserted into the insertion hole of the base, a support fitting arranged on both side edges of the base in which an elastic temporary holding portion is extended from one end to a first side and a lock long tongue piece is extended to a second side opposite the first side, and an operation lever for supporting a turning shaft portion arranged in a projecting manner from both side end faces on the same axis center at the base so as to be turnable, and including a lock cutout portion so as to communicate to a slit formed along an edge of the side end faces.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2011Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masato Matoba, Atsushi Yokoigawa
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Patent number: D673505Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2011Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Masato Matoba, Shunsuke Akahori
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Patent number: D677226Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2011Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masato Matoba, Shunsuke Akahori
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Patent number: D684123Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Masato Matoba, Shunsuke Akahori