Patents by Inventor Mikio Takenaka

Mikio Takenaka 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: 7710402
    Abstract: An information display device (1A) comprises a touch panel (TP), an information display panel (LCD) located under the touch panel (TP) and four strip-like piezoelectric elements (E), which are caused to be vibrated and displaced by a pressing force generated when the touch panel (TP) is pressed, being disposed at the outer peripheral portion of the touch panel (TP), wherein both end portions of each strip-like piezoelectric element (E) are supported by surface-like holders (112A, 112B) with twist resilient deformation structures and a rotary shaft (113) so that each strip-like piezoelectric element (E) may not be disturbed from being vibrated and displaced. In this touch panel type information device, both end portions of a plurality of strip-like piezoelectric elements are supported by the supporting member having the holders with the twist resilient deformation structure which do not disturb both end portions of the strip-like piezoelectric elements from being vibrated and displaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mikio Takenaka, Shigeaki Maruyama
  • Patent number: 7579758
    Abstract: There is provided a substrate supporting vibration structure which is a vibration structure for supporting a substrate. The substrate supporting vibration structure includes a spacer member, fixed between a first substrate and a second substrate, having at least one form selected from a pillar form and a long strip form; and a piezoelectric element, formed at a predetermined position between the first substrate and the second substrate or at a predetermined position of the long strip-form portion of the spacer member, having a vibration supporting portion and a vibration applying portion. In the structure, the vibration supporting portion and vibration applying portion of the piezoelectric element are disposed in the thicknesswise direction of the first and second substrates stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeaki Maruyama, Tomoyuki Takahashi, Mikio Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20080296072
    Abstract: A digital camera includes an input detection section, which has an input detection plane, that detects a touching position of a finger of an operator and a sliding speed of the finger, a controller that computes a vibration pattern based on the sliding speed detected by the input detection section, and a vibration section that vibrates the input detection plane based on the vibration pattern thus computed. The controller computes a vibration pattern of the input detection plane to generate vibrations from its low frequency and small amplitude to its high frequency and large amplitude, as the finger goes away from a position where it has touched the input detection plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichiro Takashima, Mikio Takenaka, Shigeaki Maruyama, Hiroto Kawaguchi, Junichi Sekine
  • Publication number: 20080122315
    Abstract: There is provided a substrate supporting vibration structure which is a vibration structure for supporting a substrate. The substrate supporting vibration structure includes a spacer member, fixed between a first substrate and a second substrate, having at least one form selected from a pillar form and a long strip form; and a piezoelectric element, formed at a predetermined position between the first substrate and the second substrate or at a predetermined position of the long strip-form portion of the spacer member, having a vibration supporting portion and a vibration applying portion. In the structure, the vibration supporting portion and vibration applying portion of the piezoelectric element are disposed in the thicknesswise direction of the first and second substrates stacked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeaki Maruyama, Tomoyuki Takahashi, Mikio Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20080055277
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a touch panel display including, a flat plate-shaped movable panel unit, a movable support member, an acoustic vibration unit, and a soft member, wherein the acoustic vibration unit includes, a sound generating member, an actuator, and a hard member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mikio Takenaka, Shigeaki Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20070035526
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a touch panel display apparatus including: a display panel; a movable panel unit including a touch panel and being flat plate-like in shape; a movable support section for supporting the movable panel unit on a support structure so as to permit the movable panel unit to be moved along a plane parallel to the panel surface of the movable panel unit; an actuator configured to drive the movable panel unit to vibrate; an actuator drive control section for outputting an actuator drive signal to drivingly control the actuator; an acoustic pressure generating member configured to generate an acoustic pressure by being driven by the actuator to vibrate; and a superposing section for superposing an acoustic signal on the actuator drive signal outputted by the actuator drive control section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Mikio Takenaka, Shigeaki Maruyama, Junichi Sekine
  • Publication number: 20050057527
    Abstract: An information display device (1A) comprises a touch panel (TP), an information display panel (LCD) located under the touch panel (TP) and four strip-like piezoelectric elements (E), which are caused to be vibrated and displaced by pressing force generated when the touch panel (TP) is pressed, being disposed at the outer peripheral portion of the touch panel (TP), wherein both end portions of each strip-like piezoelectric element (E) are supported by surface-like holders (112A, 112B) with twist resilient deformation structures and a rotary shaft (113) so that each strip-like piezoelectric element (E) may not be disturbed from being vibrated and displaced. In this touch panel type information device, both end portions of a plurality of strip-like piezoelectric elements are supported by the supporting member having the holders with the twist resilient deformation structure which do not disturb both end portions of the strip-like piezoelectric elements from being vibrated and displaced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mikio Takenaka, Shigeaki Maruyama
  • Patent number: 5827586
    Abstract: A packaging container for chemicals such as pesticides and the like and a laminated film for forming said container, wherein the inner layer of the laminated film is constituted of an inner bag made of a water-soluble polymer film and the outer layer of the laminated film is constituted of an outer bag made of a water-insoluble film, and at least in the seal part of the container, films constituting inner layer are bonded to each other and additionally the film constituting inner layer and the film constituting outer layer are bonded to each other, and the film constituting inner layer and the film constituting outer layer are releasable from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Japan Limited
    Inventors: Ryo Yamashita, Kenichi Kitagaki, Takahiro Matsubara, Mikio Takenaka