Patents by Inventor Osamu Hamamoto
Osamu Hamamoto 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: 9673141Abstract: A mounting member includes a plurality of internal connecting portions, each of which is electrically connected to an electronic device, and a plurality of external connecting portions, each of which is soldered, wherein the plurality of external connecting portions include a first connecting portion in communication with at least any of the plurality of internal connecting portions, and a second connecting portion different from the first connecting portion, and surfaces of the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion include gold layers, and a thickness of the gold layer of the second connecting portion is smaller than a thickness of the gold layer of the first connecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2015Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ichiro Kataoka, Osamu Hamamoto, Kazuya Notsu, Koji Tamura, Kunihiko Minegishi
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Publication number: 20150255383Abstract: A mounting member includes a plurality of internal connecting portions, each of which is electrically connected to an electronic device, and a plurality of external connecting portions, each of which is soldered, wherein the plurality of external connecting portions include a first connecting portion in communication with at least any of the plurality of internal connecting portions, and a second connecting portion different from the first connecting portion, and surfaces of the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion include gold layers, and a thickness of the gold layer of the second connecting portion is smaller than a thickness of the gold layer of the first connecting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2015Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventors: Ichiro Kataoka, Osamu Hamamoto, Kazuya Notsu, Koji Tamura, Kunihiko Minegishi
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Publication number: 20090284810Abstract: In an illumination device, a light guide is adapted to emit the light from a face thereof and is provided with an area, on a face opposite to the light emitting face, for diffusing and/or reflecting the light introduced into the light guide from an end face thereof or is provided with uneven light emitting characteristics along the longitudinal direction of the light guide, and the center of the light source positioned at the end of the light guide is placed at a position aberrated from the normal line to the area, whereby attained are compactness, a low cost, a low electric power consumption, a high efficiency of utilization of the light emitted by the light source, and excellent and uniform illumination characteristics. An image reading device and an information processing apparatus can also be equipped with the above-mentioned illumination device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2009Publication date: November 19, 2009Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsundo Kawai, Osamu Hamamoto, Shinichi Takeda, Satoshi Itabashi, Toshimitsu Iso
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Patent number: 7593139Abstract: In an illumination device, a light guide is adapted to emit the light from a face thereof and is provided with an area, on a face opposite to the light emitting face, for diffusing and/or reflecting the light introduced into the light guide from an end face thereof or is provided with uneven light emitting characteristics along the longitudinal direction of the light guide, and the center of the light source positioned at the end of the light guide is placed at a position aberrated from the normal line to the area, whereby attained are compactness, a low cost, a low electric power consumption, a high efficiency of utilization of the light emitted by the light source, and excellent and uniform illumination characteristics. An image reading device and an information processing apparatus can also be equipped with the above-mentioned illumination device.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2006Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsundo Kawai, Osamu Hamamoto, Shinichi Takeda, Satoshi Itabashi, Toshimitsu Iso
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Patent number: 7421170Abstract: The invention provides a fiber plate formed by arranging in mutually adjacent manner plural individual fiber plates of a same thickness so as to provide a light guiding plane larger in area than the light guiding plane of the individual one fiber plate, and a radiation image pickup apparatus utilizing such fiber plate, in which: each of the plural individual fiber plates is composed of a group of optical fibers having mutually parallel axes, and lateral faces of the plural individual fiber plates are mutually so bonded that the axes of the optical fibers thereof become mutually parallel.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2006Date of Patent: September 2, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Kajiwara, Osamu Hamamoto
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Patent number: 7377701Abstract: The invention provides a fiber plate formed by arranging in mutually adjacent manner plural individual fiber plates of a same thickness so as to provide a light guiding plane larger in area than the light guiding plane of the individual one fiber plate, and a radiation image pickup apparatus utilizing such fiber plate, in which: each of the plural individual fiber plates is composed of a group of optical fibers having mutually parallel axes, and lateral faces of the plural individual fiber plates are mutually so bonded that the axes of the optical fibers thereof become mutually parallel.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2007Date of Patent: May 27, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Kajiwara, Osamu Hamamoto
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Publication number: 20070248306Abstract: The invention provides a fiber plate formed by arranging in mutually adjacent manner plural individual fiber plates of a same thickness so as to provide a light guiding plane larger in area than the light guiding plane of the individual one fiber plate, and a radiation image pickup apparatus utilizing such fiber plate, in which: each of the plural individual fiber plates is composed of a group of optical fibers having mutually parallel axes, and lateral faces of the plural individual fiber plates are mutually so bonded that the axes of the optical fibers thereof become mutually parallel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2007Publication date: October 25, 2007Inventors: Kenji Kajiwara, Osamu Hamamoto
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Publication number: 20070081776Abstract: The invention provides a fiber plate formed by arranging in mutually adjacent manner plural individual fiber plates of a same thickness so as to provide a light guiding plane larger in area than the light guiding plane of the individual one fiber plate, and a radiation image pickup apparatus utilizing such fiber plate, in which: each of the plural individual fiber plates is composed of a group of optical fibers having mutually parallel axes, and lateral faces of the plural individual fiber plates are mutually so bonded that the axes of the optical fibers thereof become mutually parallel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2006Publication date: April 12, 2007Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Kajiwara, Osamu Hamamoto
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Patent number: 7129458Abstract: An image pickup device has a plurality of photoelectric converter substrates carrying respective input/output terminals connected to the photoelectric converters. The device comprises leads connected to the input/output terminals and extending to the side opposite to the light receiving surfaces of the photoelectric converter substrates thorough the gaps separating the substrates.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2004Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Osamu Hamamoto, Yoshinori Shimamura, Noriyuki Kaifu, Kazuaki Tashiro, Tetsunobu Kochi, Osamu Yuki, Kenji Kajiwara
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Publication number: 20060119899Abstract: In an illumination device, a light guide is adapted to emit the light from a face thereof and is provided with an area, on a face opposite to the light emitting face, for diffusing and/or reflecting the light introduced into the light guide from an end face thereof or is provided with uneven light emitting characteristics along the longitudinal direction of the light guide, and the center of the light source positioned at the end of the light guide is placed at a position aberrated from the normal line to the area, whereby attained are compactness, a low cost, a low electric power consumption, a high efficiency of utilization of the light emitted by the light source, and excellent and uniform illumination characteristics. An image reading device and an information processing apparatus can also be equipped with the above-mentioned illumination device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2006Publication date: June 8, 2006Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsundo Kawai, Osamu Hamamoto, Shinichi Takeda, Satoshi Itabashi, Toshimitsu Iso
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Patent number: 7057778Abstract: There is disclosed an illumination device in which a light guide is adapted to emit the light from a face thereof and is provided with an area, on a face opposite to the light emitting face, for diffusing and/or reflecting the light introduced into the light guide from an end face thereof or is provided with uneven light emitting characteristics along the longitudinal direction of the light guide, and the center of the light source positioned at the end of the light guide is placed at a position aberrated from the normal line to said area, whereby attained are compactness, a low cost, a low electric power consumption, a high efficiency of utilization of the light emitted by the light source, and excellent and uniform illumination characteristics. There are also disclosed an image reading device and an information processing apparatus, equipped with the above-mentioned illumination device.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2002Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsundo Kawai, Osamu Hamamoto, Shinichi Takeda, Satoshi Itabashi, Toshimitsu Iso
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Patent number: 6971750Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes a display panel provided with first electrodes, a circuit board provided with a drive circuit including second electrodes for driving the display panel, a projection lens support provided with a projection lens for projecting an enlarged image onto a screen, and a holder provided with a connector for the first and second electrodes and with a positioning device for the holder and the projection lens support. The first electrodes of the display panel and the second electrodes of the circuit board are electrically connected by the connector of the holder, respectively. The projection lens support is positionally aligned and connected with the holder by the positioning device for optical alignment of the projection lens.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1999Date of Patent: December 6, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shunsuke Inoue, Osamu Hamamoto
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Patent number: 6965409Abstract: In order to satisfy all requirements for an apparatus, namely performance associated with high resolution and moving images, wide sensor effective area, and reductions in the size and cost of the apparatus, the apparatus includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices respectively having photoelectric conversion areas, and a light guide plate for guiding incident light to each photoelectric conversion device. Transmitting portions for driving the photoelectric conversion devices or/and connecting portions for connecting the photoelectric conversion devices so as to transmit electrical signals between the photoelectric conversion devices are formed on the light guide plate.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2000Date of Patent: November 15, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Osamu Hamamoto
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Patent number: 6928218Abstract: Disclosed is a technology for obtaining a large area fiber plate suited for downsizing a radiation imaging apparatus and reducing its cost and excellent of workability in the manufacturing process. A multi-fiber is manufactured by bundling and drawing a plurality of fibers to take a polygonal shape in section so that the multi-fibers can be air-tightly stacked without any air gap, a multi-fiber aggregate is manufactured by bundling and drawing the multi-fibers to take other polygonal shape in section that enables air-tight stacking with no air gap so as to be analogous to or different from the one polygonal shape in section, and there is manufactured a fiber plate configured by air-tightly bonding the multi-fiber aggregates to each other with a bonding agent without the air gap in a state of keeping the one or other polygonal shape in section after being drawn.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2003Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kohei Nakata, Noriyuki Kaifu, Osamu Hamamoto
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Patent number: 6909173Abstract: The invention concerns a flexible substrate comprising an inner lead connected to an external connection terminal formed on a substrate, and a base film formed on the lead. The base film area above the substrate and closest to the terminal is thinner than the terminal. The invention also provides a semiconductor device comprising an inner lead connected to an external connection terminal formed on a substrate, and a base film formed on the lead. The base film area above the substrate and closest to the terminal is thinner than the terminal. The invention also provides for a manufacturing method a semiconductor device comprising a substrate, an external connection terminal, and an inner lead with a base film. Further, the invention provides a semiconductor device with a substrate with a chamfered corner between the connection and side faces. By the invention, connection of an inner lead or a flexible substrate is made easier.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2002Date of Patent: June 21, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Osamu Hamamoto, Koji Sato, Kenji Kajiwara
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Publication number: 20050023438Abstract: An image pickup device has a plurality of photoelectric converter substrates carrying respective input/output terminals connected to the photoelectric converters. The device comprises leads connected to the input/output terminals and extending to the side opposite to the light receiving surfaces of the photoelectric converter substrates thorough the gaps separating the substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2004Publication date: February 3, 2005Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu Hamamoto, Yoshinori Shimamura, Noriyuki Kaifu, Kazuaki Tashiro, Tetsunobu Kochi, Osamu Yuki, Kenji Kajiwara
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Publication number: 20040252955Abstract: The invention provides a fiber plate formed by arranging in mutually adjacent manner plural individual fiber plates of a same thickness so as to provide a light guiding plane larger in area than the light guiding plane of the individual one fiber plate, and a radiation image pickup apparatus utilizing such fiber plate, in which:Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Kajiwara, Osamu Hamamoto
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Patent number: 6800857Abstract: A fiber optic plate is formed by arranging, in a mutually adjacent manner, a number of individual fiber plates of a same thickness so as to provide a light guiding plane for use in a radiation image pickup apparatus. Each of the individual fiber plates is composed of a group of optical fibers having mutually parallel axes, and the lateral faces of the individual fiber plates are mutually bonded so that the axes of the optical fibers thereof become mutually parallel.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2001Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Kajiwara, Osamu Hamamoto
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Patent number: 6800836Abstract: An image pickup device has a plurality of photoelectric converter substrates carrying respective input/output terminals connected to the photoelectric converters. The device comprises leads connected to the input/output terminals and extending to the side opposite to the light receiving surfaces of the photoelectric converter substrates thorough the gaps separating the substrates.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2001Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Osamu Hamamoto, Yoshinori Shimamura, Noriyuki Kaifu, Kazuaki Tashiro, Tetsunobu Kochi, Osamu Yuki, Kenji Kajiwara
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Publication number: 20030164453Abstract: Disclosed is a technology for obtaining a large area fiber plate suited for downsizing a radiation imaging apparatus and reducing its cost and excellent of workability in the manufacturing process. A multi-fiber is manufactured by bundling and drawing a plurality of fibers to take a polygonal shape in section so that the multi-fibers can be air-tightly stacked without any air gap, a multi-fiber aggregate is manufactured by bundling and drawing the multi-fibers to take other polygonal shape in section that enables air-tight stacking with no air gap so as to be analogous to or different from the one polygonal shape in section, and there is manufactured a fiber plate configured by air-tightly bonding the multi-fiber aggregates to each other with a bonding agent without the air gap in a state of keeping the one or other polygonal shape in section after being drawn.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2003Publication date: September 4, 2003Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kohei Nakata, Noriyuki Kaifu, Osamu Hamamoto