Patents by Inventor Motoaki Nishimura

Motoaki Nishimura 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: 20230396237
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a control circuit configured to control a transistor current based on a detected temperature. The detected temperature is a temperature detected by a temperature sensor circuit that detects a temperature of a transistor. The transistor charges a load to which a power supply voltage is supplied. The transistor current is a current flowing through the transistor during charging. The control circuit reduces the transistor current when the detected temperature is higher than a first threshold value, and increases the transistor current when the detected temperature is lower than a second threshold value lower than the first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Takanori IWAWAKI, Motoaki NISHIMURA, Yoshihiko NIMURA, Katsumi INOUE
  • Patent number: 11799454
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a control circuit configured to control a transistor current based on a detected temperature. The detected temperature is a temperature detected by a temperature sensor circuit that detects a temperature of a transistor. The transistor charges a load to which a power supply voltage is supplied. The transistor current is a current flowing through the transistor during charging. The control circuit reduces the transistor current when the detected temperature is higher than a first threshold value, and increases the transistor current when the detected temperature is lower than a second threshold value lower than the first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventors: Takanori Iwawaki, Motoaki Nishimura, Yoshihiko Nimura, Katsumi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11632043
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a regulator, a charge pump circuit, an overvoltage detection circuit, and a control circuit. The regulator regulates a power supply voltage. The charge pump circuit outputs, a gate control voltage, to a gate node of an N-type transistor provided between a power supply node and a load, based on a regulated voltage. The overvoltage detection circuit detects an overvoltage of the regulated voltage. The control circuit controls to stop the charge pump circuit when the overvoltage is detected by the overvoltage detection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Inventors: Katsumi Inoue, Yusuke Sano, Motoaki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11606051
    Abstract: A motor driving circuit includes a stepping motor driving circuit that controls driving of a stepping motor, a DC motor driving circuit that controls driving of a DC motor, and a control circuit that controls the stepping motor driving circuit and the DC motor driving circuit. The control circuit, upon accepting a driving instruction for driving the stepping motor in the middle of the DC motor driving circuit performing driving of the DC motor, stops driving of the DC motor by the DC motor driving circuit, and starts driving of the stepping motor by the stepping motor driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoaki Nishimura, Haruo Hayashi, Makoto Katase, Yusuke Sano
  • Publication number: 20220384293
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes a heating element, and a control circuit configured to control flow of a current through the heating element. An outer shape of the integrated circuit device has a first side and a second side intersecting the first side. An outer shape of the heating element has a short side and a long side. A distance between the long side of the heating element and the first side of the integrated circuit device is larger than a distance between the short side of the heating element and the second side of the integrated circuit device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Takanori IWAWAKI, Motoaki NISHIMURA, Yoshihiko NIMURA, Katsumi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20220384294
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes a heating element, and a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the heating element. An outer shape of the integrated circuit device has a first side and a second side intersecting the first side, and when a direction along the first side of the integrated circuit device is set as an X direction and a direction along the second side is set as a Y direction, the heating element includes a first heating element, and a second heating element arranged adjacent to the first heating element along the Y direction with a region AR interposed therebetween. The temperature sensor is arranged at an arrangement position where a position in the X direction is a position between a center of the region AR and the second side, and a position in the Y direction is a position between the first heating element and the second heating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Takanori IWAWAKI, Motoaki NISHIMURA, Yoshihiko NIMURA, Katsumi INOUE
  • Patent number: 11482996
    Abstract: A circuit device includes an output terminal, an output transistor, and a gate voltage control circuit. The output transistor is provided between a first power supply node and the output terminal. The gate voltage control circuit changes a gate voltage of the output transistor at a first temporal voltage change rate after an input signal changes from a first logic level to a second logic level, changes the gate voltage at a second temporal voltage change rate smaller than the first temporal voltage change rate after the gate voltage reaches a first determination voltage, and changes the gate voltage at a third temporal voltage change rate greater than the second temporal voltage change rate after the gate voltage reaches a second determination voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Sakamoto, Motoaki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11476756
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a pulse signal output circuit and a driving circuit. The pulse signal output circuit, when a detection voltage has decreased below a reference voltage, changes a pulse signal to an active level at which a switching element is turned on. The pulse signal output circuit, after the detection voltage has decreased below the reference voltage, performs monitoring as to whether or not the detection voltage has exceeded the reference voltage, and upon detecting that the detection voltage has exceeded the reference voltage, changes the pulse signal to an inactive level at which the switching element is turned off. The driving circuit outputs a driving signal based on the pulse signal to the switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Katase, Haruo Hayashi, Motoaki Nishimura, Yusuke Sano, Yoshifumi Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20220321106
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a control circuit configured to control a transistor current based on a detected temperature. The detected temperature is a temperature detected by a temperature sensor circuit that detects a temperature of a transistor. The transistor charges a load to which a power supply voltage is supplied. The transistor current is a current flowing through the transistor during charging. The control circuit reduces the transistor current when the detected temperature is higher than a first threshold value, and increases the transistor current when the detected temperature is lower than a second threshold value lower than the first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Takanori IWAWAKI, Motoaki NISHIMURA, Yoshihiko NIMURA, Katsumi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20220321002
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a regulator, a charge pump circuit, an overvoltage detection circuit, and a control circuit. The regulator regulates a power supply voltage. The charge pump circuit outputs, a gate control voltage, to a gate node of an N-type transistor provided between a power supply node and a load, based on a regulated voltage. The overvoltage detection circuit detects an overvoltage of the regulated voltage. The control circuit controls to stop the charge pump circuit when the overvoltage is detected by the overvoltage detection circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Katsumi INOUE, Yusuke SANO, Motoaki NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 11404979
    Abstract: A motor driving circuit includes a first motor driving circuit that controls driving of a first motor is disposed, a second motor driving circuit that controls driving of a second motor is disposed, and a constant current generation circuit that generates a constant current is disposed, and the constant current generation circuit is disposed at a position deviating from between the first motor driving circuit and the second motor driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruo Hayashi, Motoaki Nishimura, Makoto Katase, Yusuke Sano
  • Publication number: 20220045678
    Abstract: A circuit device includes an output terminal, an output transistor, and a gate voltage control circuit. The output transistor is provided between a first power supply node and the output terminal. The gate voltage control circuit changes a gate voltage of the output transistor at a first temporal voltage change rate after an input signal changes from a first logic level to a second logic level, changes the gate voltage at a second temporal voltage change rate smaller than the first temporal voltage change rate after the gate voltage reaches a first determination voltage, and changes the gate voltage at a third temporal voltage change rate greater than the second temporal voltage change rate after the gate voltage reaches a second determination voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Sakamoto, Motoaki Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20210135607
    Abstract: A motor driving circuit includes a first motor driving circuit that controls driving of a first motor is disposed, a second motor driving circuit that controls driving of a second motor is disposed, and a constant current generation circuit that generates a constant current is disposed, and the constant current generation circuit is disposed at a position deviating from between the first motor driving circuit and the second motor driving circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Haruo Hayashi, Motoaki Nishimura, Makoto Katase, Yusuke Sano
  • Publication number: 20210135610
    Abstract: A motor driving circuit includes a stepping motor driving circuit that controls driving of a stepping motor, a DC motor driving circuit that controls driving of a DC motor, and a control circuit that controls the stepping motor driving circuit and the DC motor driving circuit. The control circuit, upon accepting a driving instruction for driving the stepping motor in the middle of the DC motor driving circuit performing driving of the DC motor, stops driving of the DC motor by the DC motor driving circuit, and starts driving of the stepping motor by the stepping motor driving circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Motoaki Nishimura, Haruo Hayashi, Makoto Katase, Yusuke Sano
  • Publication number: 20210126530
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a pulse signal output circuit and a driving circuit. The pulse signal output circuit, when a detection voltage has decreased below a reference voltage, changes a pulse signal to an active level at which a switching element is turned on. The pulse signal output circuit, after the detection voltage has decreased below the reference voltage, performs monitoring as to whether or not the detection voltage has exceeded the reference voltage, and upon detecting that the detection voltage has exceeded the reference voltage, changes the pulse signal to an inactive level at which the switching element is turned off. The driving circuit outputs a driving signal based on the pulse signal to the switching element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Makoto Katase, Haruo Hayashi, Motoaki Nishimura, Yusuke Sano, Yoshifumi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 10991344
    Abstract: A display controller 100 includes an interface circuit 120 that receives abnormal display line detection information from a display driver 300 that drives an electro-optical panel 460, and a processing circuit 130 that controls the display driver 300. The processing circuit 130 performs determination on an abnormal display area based on the abnormal display line detection information. If a specific display pattern is displayed in the abnormal display area, the processing circuit 130 outputs, via the interface circuit 120, image data for displaying the specific display pattern in a destination display area that is a display area different from the abnormal display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Ogawa, Akihiko Ito, Masahiko Miura, Motoaki Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20200135153
    Abstract: A display controller 100 includes an interface circuit 120 that receives abnormal display line detection information from a display driver 300 that drives an electro-optical panel 460, and a processing circuit 130 that controls the display driver 300. The processing circuit 130 performs determination on an abnormal display area based on the abnormal display line detection information. If a specific display pattern is displayed in the abnormal display area, the processing circuit 130 outputs, via the interface circuit 120, image data for displaying the specific display pattern in a destination display area that is a display area different from the abnormal display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki OGAWA, Akihiko ITO, Masahiko MIURA, Motoaki NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 10504454
    Abstract: The scan line drive circuit outputs selection signals GV3 and GV4 to select scan lines in the display panel. Assuming that a period in which a data voltage SV1 after being subjected to inversion of the polarity thereof is supplied to a data line in the display panel is a first period TSD, and that a period in which the data voltage SV1 after not being subjected to inversion of the polarity thereof is supplied to the data line is a second period TSC, the period TPD from the start of the first period TSD until the selection signal GV4 is activated is longer than the period TPC from the start of the second period TSC until the selection signal GV3 is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoaki Nishimura, Akihiko Ito
  • Patent number: 10152907
    Abstract: A display panel has a first pixel group selected by a first scan line, and second pixel group selected by second scan line. A data line is shared by pixel in the first pixel group and a pixel in the second pixel group. In first scanning period, a driving unit in a circuit device outputs a data voltage with first polarity to the first data line, and outputs data voltage with second polarity, which is polarity opposite to the first polarity, to the second data line. In second scanning period, the driving unit outputs a data voltage with third polarity to the first data line, and outputs a data voltage with fourth polarity, which is polarity opposite to the third polarity, to the second data line. A polarity setting unit in the circuit device sets the first polarity, the second polarity, the third polarity, and the fourth polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoaki Nishimura, Akihiko Ito
  • Patent number: 9997129
    Abstract: A circuit device includes a grayscale voltage generation circuit that generates a plurality of grayscale voltages, a data processing unit that performs data processing of first color component display data to third color component display data, and a drive unit that drives a display panel based on the first color component display data to the third color component display data that are subjected to the data processing and the plurality of grayscale voltages that are used in common for the first color component display data to the third color component display data. The data processing unit performs grayscale correction processing on at least one color component display data of the first color component display data to the third color component display data in a grayscale correction range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoaki Nishimura, Akihiko Ito