Patents by Inventor Shingo Matsuzaki

Shingo Matsuzaki 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: 8667517
    Abstract: Provided is a compact-type objective lens (OBL) holder and the like provided with a bobbin making it possible to appropriately wind a coil therearound. An OBL holder of the present invention includes: a main surface portion provided with a fixing part on which an objective lens is fixed; and a first side-wall portion and a second side-wall portion provided with bobbins around which tracking coils for driving the OBL holder itself by using a magnetic effect are wound. Further, in the present invention, each bobbin includes a tubular portion and a through-hole penetrating the tubular portion in a thickness direction thereof. Thus, an adhesive can be supplied to the tracking coil through the through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunichi Morimoto, Noboru Tajiri, Shingo Matsuzaki, Mitsuhiko Uchida
  • Patent number: 8599659
    Abstract: Provided are an objective lens holder and the like which prevent a wire formed into tracking coils from being loosened. Tracking coils are respectively attached to bobbins provided to sidewalls of an OBL lens holder. In addition, a conducting wire hook portion is formed by projecting a part of a sidewall portion near one of the bobbins, and a conducting wire is hooked round this conducting wire hook portion. Similarly, another conducting wire hook portion is provided to a sidewall portion near another one of the bobbins, and the conducting wire formed into the corresponding tracking coil is hooked round this conducting wire hook portion. This prevents the conducting wire from being loosened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Noboru Tajiri, Mitsuhiko Uchida, Shingo Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 8599660
    Abstract: Provided are an objective lens driving device capable of strengthening the effective magnetic fluxes of the magnets while preventing increases in size and costs of the device; and an optical pickup apparatus including the same. The objective lens driving device of the invention includes an actuator frame for movably supporting an OBL holder. Four tracking coils are attached to sidewalls of the OBL holder, and four magnets are attached to the back yokes of the actuator frame to be opposed to the tracking coils, respectively. In addition, two of the tracking coils are placed tilting to one of the sidewalls of the OBL holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunichi Morimoto, Shingo Matsuzaki
  • Publication number: 20130160035
    Abstract: Provided is an objective lens holder, an objective lens driving device, an optical pickup device, and a method for manufacturing an objective lens driving device, in which an adhesive for fixing coils can be collectively applied to many housings. In the present invention, to collectively apply an adhesive to OBL holders, contact portions are provided to the upper portion and the lower portion of each OBL holder. Specifically, four contact portions are provided to a +Df side end portion of the OBL holder at positions near corner portions of a principal surface portion, respectively. Further, contact portions are provided to a ?Df side end portion of the OBL holder at positions overlapping with the above-described contact portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Shingo MATSUZAKI, Shunichi MORIMOTO, Noboru TAJIRI
  • Publication number: 20130107683
    Abstract: Provided are an objective lens holder and the like which prevent a wire formed into tracking coils from being loosened. Tracking coils are respectively attached to bobbins provided to sidewalls of an OBL lens holder. In addition, a conducting wire hook portion is formed by projecting a part of a sidewall portion near one of the bobbins, and a conducting wire is hooked round this conducting wire hook portion. Similarly, another conducting wire hook portion is provided to a sidewall portion near another one of the bobbins, and the conducting wire formed into the corresponding tracking coil is hooked round this conducting wire hook portion. This prevents the conducting wire from being loosened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Noboru TAJIRI, Mitsuhiko UCHIDA, Shingo MATSUZAKI
  • Publication number: 20130077455
    Abstract: Provided are an objective lens driving device capable of strengthening the effective magnetic fluxes of the magnets while preventing increases in size and costs of the device; and an optical pickup apparatus including the same. The objective lens driving device of the invention includes an actuator frame for movably supporting an OBL holder. Four tracking coils are attached to sidewalls of the OBL holder, and four magnets are attached to the back yokes of the actuator frame to be opposed to the tracking coils, respectively. In addition, two of the tracking coils are placed tilting to one of the sidewalls of the OBL holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventors: Shunichi MORIMOTO, Shingo Matsuzaki
  • Publication number: 20130051210
    Abstract: Provided are a small objective lens (OBL) holder in which coils can be easily incorporated, and the like. An OBL holder of the present invention includes: a main surface portion provided with a circular opening portion in which an objective lens is fixed; and four side wall portions integrally extending downward from a peripheral portion of the main surface portion. The side wall portions include: a first side-wall portion extending in a longitudinal direction of the OBL holder; a second side-wall portion opposed to the first side-wall portion; a third side-wall portion extending in a short-side direction of the OBL holder; and a fourth side-wall portion, which are provided on the rear, front, right and left sides in the drawing, respectively. Accommodation regions capable of accommodating focusing coils are arranged on one side and the other side of the objective lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo MATSUZAKI, Shunichi Morimoto, Noboru Tajiri
  • Publication number: 20130024877
    Abstract: Provided is an objective lens (OBL) holder and the like making it possible to easily supply an adhesive to a coil accommodated in an enclosure-shaped holder. An OBL holder of the present invention includes: a main surface portion provide with a fixing part on which an objective lens is fixed; and a first side-wall portion and a second side-wall portion provide with bobbins around each of which a tracking coil for driving the OBL holder itself by using a magnetic effect is wound. In the present invention, a communication hole provided in each of the bobbins penetrates the first side-wall portion and allows a region inside the OBL holder to communicate with the outside. A focusing coil is disposed in the region. This makes it possible to supply the adhesive to the focusing coil through the communication holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunichi MORIMOTO, Noboru Tajiri, Shingo Matsuzaki, Mitsuhiko Uchida
  • Publication number: 20130019255
    Abstract: Provided is a compact-type objective lens (OBL) holder and the like provided with a bobbin making it possible to appropriately wind a coil therearound. An OBL holder of the present invention includes: a main surface portion provided with a fixing part on which an objective lens is fixed; and a first side-wall portion and a second side-wall portion provided with bobbins around which tracking coils for driving the OBL holder itself by using a magnetic effect are wound. Further, in the present invention, each bobbin includes a tubular portion and a through-hole penetrating the tubular portion in a thickness direction thereof. Thus, an adhesive can be supplied to the tracking coil through the through-hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunichi MORIMOTO, Noboru TAJIRI, Shingo MATSUZAKI, Mitsuhiko UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 8315141
    Abstract: An objective-lens-driving apparatus comprising: a base opposed to a signal surface of an optical disc; an objective-lens holder including an objective lens, first and second focusing coils arranged across the objective lens in a tracking direction of the disc, first and second tracking coils arranged across the first-focusing coil in a tangential direction of the disc, and third and fourth tracking coils arranged across the second-focusing coil in the tangential direction, the objective-lens holder being supported on the base movably in a focusing direction of the disc and the tracking direction; and first to fourth magnets arranged on the base to be respectively opposed in the tangential direction to the first to fourth tracking coils, the first and second magnets each having two poles polarized in the tracking direction, magnetization widths of the two poles with respect to the first-focusing coil in the tracking direction being different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Onojima, Shingo Matsuzaki
  • Publication number: 20090238062
    Abstract: An objective-lens-driving apparatus comprising: a base opposed to a signal surface of an optical disc; an objective-lens holder including an objective lens, first and second focusing coils arranged across the objective lens in a tracking direction of the disc, first and second tracking coils arranged across the first-focusing coil in a tangential direction of the disc, and third and fourth tracking coils arranged across the second-focusing coil in the tangential direction, the objective-lens holder being supported on the base movably in a focusing direction of the disc and the tracking direction; and first to fourth magnets arranged on the base to be respectively opposed in the tangential direction to the first to fourth tracking coils, the first and second magnets each having two poles polarized in the tracking direction, magnetization widths of the two poles with respect to the first-focusing coil in the tracking direction being different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Onojima, Shingo Matsuzaki