Patents by Inventor Ryoichi Watanabe

Ryoichi Watanabe 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: 8547027
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an LED drive circuit that can suppress the generation of harmonic noise. The LED drive circuit includes a rectifying circuit an LED array, and a current supply circuit which includes a capacitor and a time constant adjusting element, wherein the discharge time constant of the current supply circuit is set longer than the charge time constant of the current supply circuit, and wherein during a period of time when the magnitude of AC commercial power supply voltage is larger than the light emission threshold of the LED array, current to the light-emitting circuit is supplied mostly from the rectifying circuit, and during a period of time when the magnitude of AC commercial power supply voltage is not larger than the light emission threshold of the LED array, current to the light-emitting circuit is supplied from the current supply circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignees: Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd., Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Akiyama, Rintaro Takahashi, Hisashi Fukasawa, Ryoichi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20120312591
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a printed circuit board including: an insulating layer including a stopper layer for trench formation disposed in an inner portion thereof and trenches formed to expose the stopper layer for trench formation; and circuit patterns formed in the trenches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sun Uk Hwang, Ryoichi Watanabe, Kyung Don Mun
  • Publication number: 20120308718
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a multilayer printed circuit board includes forming a first circuit-forming pattern and a via-forming pattern on a first carrier, and forming a first insulation layer; repeatedly forming inner circuit patterns and inner insulation layers over the first insulation layer by forming circuit-forming patterns and imprinting, and forming inner vias connecting the inner circuit patterns positioned on different insulation layers; forming a second circuit-forming pattern on a second carrier and inserting the first circuit-forming pattern and the second circuit-forming pattern respectively into the first insulation layer and a second insulation layer; removing the first carrier and the second carrier; forming circuit-forming grooves by removing the first circuit-forming pattern and the second circuit-forming pattern, and forming via-forming indentations connected with the circuit-forming grooves; and forming outer circuit patterns and outer vias by filling the circuit-forming grooves and the via
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryoichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8262917
    Abstract: A fabrication method for a multilayer printed circuit board includes: forming a first circuit-forming pattern and a first insulation layer, into which the first circuit-forming pattern is inserted, on a first carrier; forming inner circuit patterns and inner insulation layers over the first insulation layer, and forming inner vias connecting the inner circuit patterns positioned on different insulation layers; forming a second circuit-forming pattern on a second carrier and inserting the second circuit-forming pattern into a second insulation layer on an outermost side; removing the first carrier and the second carrier; forming circuit-forming grooves by removing the first circuit-forming pattern and the second circuit-forming pattern, and forming via-forming indentations connected with the circuit-forming grooves; and forming outer circuit patterns and outer vias by filling the circuit-forming grooves and the via-forming indentations with a conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryoichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8254289
    Abstract: A train car-to-car communication device includes: a terminal; an intra-composition transmission line connected to the terminal within the same composition for transmitting information; a composition-to-composition communication relay unit connected to the intra-composition transmission line for receiving first information from the terminal within the composition and transmitting the first information to an adjacent composition, and receiving second information from the adjacent composition and transmitting the second information to the terminal within the composition of interest; and a composition-to-composition transmission line for connecting the composition-to-composition communication relay units of the adjacent compositions and transmitting the information, and the composition-to-composition communication relay unit determines a difference between composition directions of the composition as a transmission source of the received information and the composition to which the composition-to-composition comm
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo Tatsumi, Ryoichi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20120138336
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a printed circuit board and a method of manufacturing the same, in which a circuit pattern one end of which is embedded in a trench and the other end of which protrudes from an insulating layer is formed, so that the circuit pattern is not easily separated from the insulating layer and the separation problems of the circuit pattern due to undercutting are solved. Also, the adhesion between the insulating layer and the circuit pattern is enhanced, more stably forming a fine circuit pattern. Even when a plating resist is formed thin, it is possible to form the circuit pattern, resulting in a high-solution circuit pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoichi WATANABE, Going Sik KIM, Chang Sup RYU
  • Publication number: 20120077333
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a trench substrate and a method of manufacturing the same. The trench substrate includes a base substrate, an insulating layer formed on one side or both sides of the base substrate and including trenches formed in a circuit region and a dummy region positioned at a peripheral edge of the trench substrate, and a circuit layer formed in the trenches of the circuit region through a plating process and including a circuit pattern and vias. Thanks to formation of the trenches in the dummy region and the cutting region, deviation in thickness of a plating layer formed on the insulating layer in a plating process is improved upon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Gwan KO, Ryoichi WATANABE, Sang Soo LEE
  • Publication number: 20120068616
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an LED drive circuit that can suppress the generation of harmonic noise. The LED drive circuit includes a rectifying circuit an LED array, and a current supply circuit which includes a capacitor and a time constant adjusting element, wherein the discharge time constant of the current supply circuit is set longer than the charge time constant of the current supply circuit, and wherein during a period of time when the magnitude of AC commercial power supply voltage is larger than the light emission threshold of the LED array, current to the light-emitting circuit is supplied mostly from the rectifying circuit, and during a period of time when the magnitude of AC commercial power supply voltage is not larger than the light emission threshold of the LED array, current to the light-emitting circuit is supplied from the current supply circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Inventors: Takashi Akiyama, Rintaro Takahashi, Hisashi Fukasawa, Ryoichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8072052
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a trench substrate and a method of manufacturing the same. The trench substrate includes a base substrate, an insulating layer formed on one side or both sides of the base substrate and including trenches formed in a circuit region and a dummy region positioned at a peripheral edge of the trench substrate, and a circuit layer formed in the trenches of the circuit region through a plating process and including a circuit pattern and vias. Thanks to formation of the trenches in the dummy region and the cutting region, deviation in thickness of a plating layer formed on the insulating layer in a plating process is improved upon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Gwan Ko, Ryoichi Watanabe, Sang Soo Lee
  • Patent number: 8065797
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a printed circuit board is disclosed. A method of fabricating a printed circuit board that includes: stacking an insulation layer on at least one surface of a core layer, on which an inner circuit is formed, and forming an outer circuit pattern; burying the outer circuit pattern in the insulation layer; removing the outer circuit pattern to form minute grooves and curing the insulation layer; and forming an outer circuit by filling metal in the minute grooves, makes it possible to readily form high-resolution fine-line circuits, as well as to reduce fabrication costs and increase productivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoichi Watanabe, Byoung-Youl Min, Je-Gwang Yoo, Joon-Sung Kim, Seung-Chul Kim, Myung-San Kang
  • Publication number: 20110089138
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a printed circuit board, including (A) forming a first circuit layer on a base substrate and forming a first insulating layer thereon, (B) forming trenches including dummy trenches and wiring trenches on the first insulating layer and plating the trenches, thus providing a trench circuit layer including a dummy circuit pattern and a wiring circuit pattern, (C) removing the dummy circuit pattern of the trench circuit layer, and (D) forming a second insulating layer on the trench circuit layer from which the dummy circuit pattern was removed. The method reduces deviation of plating thickness and thus realizes the design density of a trench circuit layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Young Gwan Ko, Ryoichi Watanabe, Sang Soo Lee, Hee Bum Shin, Se Won Park, Chil Woo Kwon
  • Publication number: 20110079421
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a printed circuit board, including: a base substrate; insulation layers which are formed on both sides of the base substrate and in which trenches are formed; and circuit layers including circuit patterns and vias formed in the trenches using a plating process. The printed circuit board is advantageous in that trenches are formed in both sides of a base substrate, so that a fine circuit pattern can be simultaneously formed on both sides thereof, thereby simplifying the manufacturing process thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventors: Young Gwan KO, Ryoichi Watanabe, Sang Soo Lee, Se Won Park
  • Publication number: 20100264549
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a trench substrate and a method of manufacturing the same. The trench substrate includes a base substrate, an insulating layer formed on one side or both sides of the base substrate and including trenches formed in a circuit region and a dummy region positioned at a peripheral edge of the trench substrate, and a circuit layer formed in the trenches of the circuit region through a plating process and including a circuit pattern and vias. Thanks to formation of the trenches in the dummy region and the cutting region, deviation in thickness of a plating layer formed on the insulating layer in a plating process is improved upon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Young Gwan KO, Ryoichi Watanabe, Sang Soo Lee
  • Patent number: 7675681
    Abstract: A display device includes a lens array unit, a display unit which is configured such that a first substrate is attached to a second substrate that is disposed between the first substrate and the lens array unit, the display unit having a display area composed of matrix-arrayed pixels, a gap control layer which forms a predetermined gap between the display unit and the lens array unit, and a support member which fixes the display unit and the lens array unit on an outside of the display area of the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Tomikawa, Ryoichi Watanabe, Takashi Sasabayashi
  • Patent number: 7663587
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a gradation display function of at least an n-number of gray levels and has a viewing angle characteristic of Mi/Mj?1.3 in a case where a display luminance range in a normal direction to a display surface in a gradation range of predetermined gray levels i to j is Li to Lj and a display luminance range in an oblique viewing-angle direction of 30° or more is Mi to Mj (where n, i and j are real numbers, and n?i>j?0). The liquid crystal display device has a display mode in which a display image is displayed with a display luminance range of the display image being limited to Li to Lj.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yamada, Ryoichi Watanabe, Masaki Kinoshita, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Sadayasu Fujibayashi, Norihiro Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20100020723
    Abstract: A train car-to-car communication device includes: a terminal; an intra-composition transmission line connected to the terminal within the same composition for transmitting information; a composition-to-composition communication relay unit connected to the intra-composition transmission line for receiving first information from the terminal within the composition and transmitting the first information to an adjacent composition, and receiving second information from the adjacent composition and transmitting the second information to the terminal within the composition of interest; and a composition-to-composition transmission line for connecting the composition-to-composition communication relay units of the adjacent compositions and transmitting the information, and the composition-to-composition communication relay unit determines a difference between composition directions of the composition as a transmission source of the received information and the composition to which the composition-to-composition comm
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Tatsumi, Ryoichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7537668
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a high density printed circuit board by applying a strippable adhesive layer on a reinforced substrate (rigid substrate or carrier film) used as a base substrate, forming a metal foil on the adhesive layer by means of plating, lamination or sputtering, and forming a high density circuit on the metal foil serving as a seed layer by means of pattern plating. Specifically, the method of the current invention includes the steps of attaching adhesive means to one surface of a reinforced substrate (rigid substrate or carrier film), forming a seed layer on the adhesive means and forming a circuit pattern on the seed layer, laminating an insulating layer on the circuit pattern and removing the reinforced substrate (rigid substrate or carrier film), and removing the seed layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryoichi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20090116116
    Abstract: A display device includes a lens array unit including a lens array layer, and a display unit configured such that a first substrate and a second substrate, which is disposed between the first substrate and the lens array unit, are attached, the display unit including a display area and an alignment mark outside the display area, wherein the lens array unit includes a window portion formed at a position on the lens array layer, which corresponds to the alignment mark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Masahiko TOMIKAWA, Takashi Sasabayashi, Keiichi Moriyama, Ryoichi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20090053897
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a circuit board is disclosed. The method includes: forming a trench in a base and forming an electroless plating layer over a surface of the base and an inner surface of the trench; providing a carrier, on one side of which a plating resist is coated; forming a transcribed part on the surface of the base by stacking the carrier onto the base and transcribing the plating resist onto the surface of the base; forming a pattern in the trench by plating, and removing the transcribed part; and removing portions of the electroless plating layer and the pattern. This method makes it possible to form circuit patterns with a uniform thickness and to provide high workability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryoichi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20090014411
    Abstract: A fabrication method for a multilayer printed circuit board includes: forming a first circuit-forming pattern and a first insulation layer, into which the first circuit-forming pattern is inserted, on a first carrier; forming inner circuit patterns and inner insulation layers over the first insulation layer, and forming inner vias connecting the inner circuit patterns positioned on different insulation layers; forming a second circuit-forming pattern on a second carrier and inserting the second circuit-forming pattern into a second insulation layer on an outermost side; removing the first carrier and the second carrier; forming circuit-forming grooves by removing the first circuit-forming pattern and the second circuit-forming pattern, and forming via-forming indentations connected with the circuit-forming grooves; and forming outer circuit patterns and outer vias by filling the circuit-forming grooves and the via-forming indentations with a conductive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryoichi Watanabe