Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki Otsuki

Nobuyuki Otsuki 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: 20210203892
    Abstract: One aspect of a projector according to the present disclosure includes an exterior housing, a first fan, and a first circulator. The exterior housing has a first wall portion, a second wall portion located in a direction opposite to a first direction with respect to the first wall portion, and a third wall portion facing a second direction. The second wall portion has an introduction port, and the third wall portion has a discharge port. The first circulator connects the introduction port and a first suction port of the first fan to each other. A cooling target is located in the first circulator in a direction intersecting with a direction in which air flows from the introduction port to the first suction port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Masayuki OKOSHI, Junya HAYAKAWA, Nobuyuki OTSUKI
  • Publication number: 20210191242
    Abstract: A casing of a projector has a leg part provided at a first surface, and a recessed part located at the first surface. The leg part has a shaft part provided pivotally in relation to the casing, and a cover part fixed to the shaft part and pivoting with the shaft part. The shaft part protrudes from or is inserted in the casing according to the pivoting of the shaft part. The cover part has a sidewall part covering a part of the shaft part. The recessed part accommodates at least a part of the sidewall part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Nobuyuki OTSUKI, Junya HAYAKAWA
  • Patent number: 10754231
    Abstract: In a projector, a first fixation section and a second fixation section are formed at two places located at a distance in an optical axis direction in a lens barrel of a projection optical system. A holding member has contact with the first fixation section from an optical axis direction-rear side, and is fixed, an optical component housing of an illumination light guide optical system has contact with the holding member from the optical axis direction-rear side, and is fixed. A light modulating/combining optical system for generating image light has contact with the second fixation section from the optical axis direction-rear side and is fixed. In other words, the light modulating/combining optical system is directly fixed to the lens barrel without the intervention of the holding member for fixing the illumination light guide optical system to the lens barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori Fukuyama, Koji Shiokawa, Nobuyuki Otsuki
  • Publication number: 20200194917
    Abstract: A receptacle connector includes a receptacle including an insertion port into which a plug is inserted, a lid configured to open and close the insertion port and maintain, while the plug is inserted into the insertion port, a state in which the lid is opened by the plug, and a switch configured to change over according to the opening and closing of the lid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ke WANG, Nobuyuki OTSUKI, Takashi AKAHANE, Masatoshi TANAKA, Takeshi TAMURA
  • Patent number: 10394109
    Abstract: A projector suspension device includes a base fixed to a wall, a support member extending from the base and supporting the projector, and an adjustment mechanism that adjusts rotation and a position of the projector. The adjustment mechanism includes a first slide substrate that slides with respect to the support member in a first direction perpendicular to the wall and adjusts the position of the projector in the first direction, a substrate fixed to the first slide substrate, a first rotating substrate that rotates with respect to the substrate, a second rotating substrate that rotates with respect to the first rotating substrate about an axis parallel to the wall and perpendicular to the substrate, and a turning member that adjusts a rotation of the second rotating substrate and has a rotating pivot perpendicular to the base. The second rotating substrate rotates about the axis by rotation of the turning member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hirohisa Nakano, Toshimitsu Watanabe, Nobuyuki Otsuki
  • Publication number: 20190064641
    Abstract: In a projector, a first fixation section and a second fixation section are formed at two places located at a distance in an optical axis direction in a lens barrel of a projection optical system. A holding member has contact with the first fixation section from an optical axis direction-rear side, and is fixed, an optical component housing of an illumination light guide optical system has contact with the holding member from the optical axis direction-rear side, and is fixed. A light modulating/combining optical system for generating image light has contact with the second fixation section from the optical axis direction-rear side and is fixed. In other words, the light modulating/combining optical system is directly fixed to the lens barrel without the intervention of the holding member for fixing the illumination light guide optical system to the lens barrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori FUKUYAMA, Koji SHIOKAWA, Nobuyuki OTSUKI
  • Patent number: 10151969
    Abstract: A projector includes: an exterior housing configuring an exterior; a projection optical device which projects an image toward a projection surface; and a plurality of operation buttons which, being disposed in such a way as to be exposed to the outside of the exterior housing, an image opening for allowing the image projected from the projection optical device to pass through is formed in one sidewall, among sidewalls configuring the exterior housing, which intersects in a vertical direction, the projection optical device includes a reflecting mirror which reflects the image, and projects it through the image opening, and the plurality of operation buttons are disposed on a side of the one sidewall farther from the projection surface than the image opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Otsuki, Tetsu Nakayama, Genta Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20180292736
    Abstract: A projector suspension device includes a base fixed to a wall, a support member extending from the base and supporting the projector, and an adjustment mechanism that adjusts rotation and a position of the projector. The adjustment mechanism includes a first slide substrate that slides with respect to the support member in a first direction perpendicular to the wall and adjusts the position of the projector in the first direction, a substrate fixed to the first slide substrate, a first rotating substrate that rotates with respect to the substrate, a second rotating substrate that rotates with respect to the first rotating substrate about an axis parallel to the wall and perpendicular to the substrate, and a turning member that adjusts a rotation of the second rotating substrate and has a rotating pivot perpendicular to the base. The second rotating substrate rotates about the axis by rotation of the turning member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Hirohisa Nakano, Toshimitsu Watanabe, Nobuyuki Otsuki
  • Patent number: 10018897
    Abstract: A projector suspension device comprising a base fixed to a wall, a support member extending from the base and supporting the projector, and an adjustment mechanism that adjusts a tilt and position of the projector, the adjustment mechanism including a first member that slides with respect to the support member in a first direction perpendicular to the wall and adjusts the position of the projector in the first direction, a second member fixed to the first member, a third member connected to the second member, a fourth member connected to the third member and that rotates with respect to the third member about an axis parallel to the wall and perpendicular to the first direction, and a turning member that adjusts a rotation of the fourth member about the axis by rotation of the turning member, wherein a rotating pivot of the turning member is perpendicular to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hirohisa Nakano, Toshimitsu Watanabe, Nobuyuki Otsuki
  • Publication number: 20180059526
    Abstract: A optical projection apparatus including a refractive system and a reflective system includes a optical projection enclosure and a light transmissive plate, which transmits projection light. The optical projection enclosure includes a light transmissive plate holding section. An interposing member (a first interposing member, a second interposing member) having elasticity is provided between the light transmissive plate and the holding section, and the interposing member covers the entirety of divided portions of the holding section. The first interposing member is disposed in the holding section or on a side section of the light transmissive plate, and the second interposing member is disposed on an outer circumferential end surface of the light transmissive plate. The interposing member is pressed by the light transmissive plate and held in the light transmissive plate holding section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto TAKEHANA, Nobuyuki OTSUKI, Satoshi KOMATSU
  • Patent number: 9733552
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes an image pickup element which captures an image of a projection surface, an optical filter which has higher transmissivity for infrared light than for visible light, a visible light transmitting member whose transmissivity for visible light is higher than the corresponding transmissivity of the optical filter, and a switching unit which switches between a first condition where the optical filter is disposed on an optical path of light entering the image pickup element, and a second condition where the visible light transmitting member is disposed on the optical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Otsuki, Haiyan Zhou
  • Patent number: 9709879
    Abstract: A projector includes a projection optical apparatus including a projection lens that projects an image and a lens barrel that accommodates the projection lens, an exterior enclosure that accommodates the projection optical apparatus, and a lens cap that protects the projection lens. The lens cap has a body portion that covers at least part of the projection lens exposed through an opening formed in one of the exterior enclosure and a tab that is formed integrally with the body portion and engages with an inner circumferential edge of the opening to lock the lens cap in the opening, and the body portion has finger placement portions (first finger placement portion and second finger placement portion) on which fingers are placed in a direction roughly parallel to a direction in which the tab having engaged with the inner circumferential edge of the opening moves away from the inner circumferential edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Otsuki
  • Patent number: 9703184
    Abstract: A dimmer includes a pair of pivoting sections provided across an optical axis of a light beam and having pivot axes and a pair of light blocking sections held by the pair of pivoting sections and configured to pivot following pivoting of the pivoting sections to block the light beam. In a maximum light blocking state, positions in the optical axis direction of opposed ends on the optical axis side of the pair of light blocking sections are different from each other. In the maximum light blocking state, the opposed ends on the optical axis side of the pair of light blocking sections are arranged to overlap each other in a direction along the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenshi Sakai, Toshihiko Nagumo, Toshihiko Sakai, Nobuyuki Otsuki, Takuro Onota
  • Patent number: 9632400
    Abstract: A projector includes a projection lens having a plurality of lenses and projects modulated light from a light modulator, a receiver that externally receives an optical signal, and an exterior enclosure that forms the exterior of the projector. The projection lens has a front-side lens disposed in a most downstream position in an optical path among the plurality of lenses and having a diameter larger than the diameters of the other lenses. The exterior enclosure has an upper surface portion. The upper surface portion has a swelling portion that swells in such a way that the swelling portion covers part of a circumferential edge portion of the front-side lens. The receiver is disposed in the swelling portion and so oriented that the receiver receives the optical signal incident from a side opposite to a side where the light is projected through the projection lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Otsuki, Haiyan Zhou
  • Patent number: 9632616
    Abstract: An interactive system includes a transmitter (light-emitting pen) configured to transmit an optical signal and a projector. The projector includes a signal-intensity setting unit in which intensity information of a synchronization signal is set, a signal-intensity control unit (light-emission control unit) configured to control the intensity of the synchronization signal on the basis of the setting of the signal-intensity setting unit, a synchronization-signal transmitting unit (infrared-light emitting unit) configured to transmit the synchronization signal, and an image pickup unit configured to pick up an image of the optical signal transmitted from the transmitter. The transmitter includes a receiving unit (pen reception unit) configured to receive the synchronization signal and an optical-signal transmitting unit (pen control unit and a light-emitting diode) configured to transmit the optical signal in synchronization with the synchronization signal received by the receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kobayashi, Takaaki Koyama, Nobuyuki Otsuki, Masahiro Horiguchi, Yukihiro Karasawa
  • Patent number: 9618832
    Abstract: A projector suspension device for a projector comprises a base to be fixed to a surface on which the projector projects an image, a support member extending from the base and configured to support the projector, and an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a tilt of the projector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hirohisa Nakano, Toshimitsu Watanabe, Nobuyuki Otsuki
  • Publication number: 20160342074
    Abstract: A projector suspension device comprising a base fixed to a wall, a support member extending from the base and supporting the projector, and an adjustment mechanism that adjusts a tilt and position of the projector, the adjustment mechanism including a first member that slides with respect to the support member in a first direction perpendicular to the wall and adjusts the position of the projector in the first direction, a second member fixed to the first member, a third member connected to the second member, a fourth member connected to the third member and that rotates with respect to the third member about an axis parallel to the wall and perpendicular to the first direction, and a turning member that adjusts a rotation of the fourth member about the axis by rotation of the turning member, wherein a rotating pivot of the turning member is perpendicular to the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Hirohisa Nakano, Toshimitsu Watanabe, Nobuyuki Otsuki
  • Patent number: 9494848
    Abstract: A projector includes: an external housing that includes a projection opening and an exhaust port arranged on the same side as the projection opening; an axial-flow fan that causes air to flow therein with the rotation of blades and delivers the air flowing therein; and a plurality of slats that are arranged at the exhaust port and guide the air delivered from the axial-flow fan to an outside. The plurality of slats include an elongated slat that is disposed in, among four exhaust areas arranged side by side in the exhaust port, one of the two exhaust areas on the side close to the projection opening and whose length in a direction in which the air is guided corresponding to a rotational direction of the blade is longer than that of the slats disposed in the other areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Matsumiya, Nobuyuki Otsuki
  • Publication number: 20160306267
    Abstract: A projector suspension device for a projector comprises a base to be fixed to a surface on which the projector projects an image, a support member extending from the base and configured to support the projector, and an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a tilt of the projector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Hirohisa Nakano, Toshimitsu Watanabe, Nobuyuki Otsuki
  • Patent number: 9400417
    Abstract: A projector suspension device for a projector comprises a base to be fixed to a surface on which the projector projects an image, a support member extending from the base and configured to support the projector, and an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a tilt of the projector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hirohisa Nakano, Toshimitsu Watanabe, Nobuyuki Otsuki