Patents by Inventor Shinichi Tomooka
Shinichi Tomooka 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: 11852510Abstract: A sensor includes a base member and a sensor sheet, and the sensor sheet includes a sensor main body including sensor electrodes and a tail portion that includes wiring lines electrically connected to the sensor electrodes and that projects and extends with respect to the base member. The base member includes a joint surface portion that is fixed to the sensor main body and a separation portion that is disposed at a position facing a tail support portion of the tail support portion to which the tail portion is connected and that is not fixed to the tail support portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: SEKISUI POLYMATECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Tomooka, Yasushi Sakai
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Patent number: 11599230Abstract: To provide a touch sensor including a tail having a terminal protective layer that allows smooth insertion into or removal from a circuit board without causing any problem, which is likely to occur in a typical terminal protective layer provided on a terminal at a distal end of a tail of a touch sensor used for, for example, input operations of various electronic devices. A touch sensor having a plurality of sensor electrodes and a plurality of wires on a single substrate film includes a body including a flat portion and a deformed portion, which is three-dimensionally shaped relative to the flat portion surrounding the deformed portion and has an operation surface having the sensor electrodes, and a tail projecting from the body and having a terminal to connect the wires to a circuit board. The terminal has a terminal protective layer protecting the wires.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: SEKISUI POLYMATECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Tomooka, Yasushi Sakai
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Publication number: 20220269371Abstract: To provide a touch sensor including a tail having a terminal protective layer that allows smooth insertion into or removal from a circuit board without causing any problem, which is likely to occur in a typical terminal protective layer provided on a terminal at a distal end of a tail of a touch sensor used for, for example, input operations of various electronic devices. A touch sensor having a plurality of sensor electrodes and a plurality of wires on a single substrate film includes a body including a flat portion and a deformed portion, which is three-dimensionally shaped relative to the flat portion surrounding the deformed portion and has an operation surface having the sensor electrodes, and a tail projecting from the body and having a terminal to connect the wires to a circuit board. The terminal has a terminal protective layer protecting the wires.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: SEKISUI POLYMATECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Tomooka, Yasushi Sakai
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Patent number: 11392254Abstract: A sensor includes a base member and a sensor sheet. The sensor sheet includes a film sheet, a plurality of sensor electrodes laid on the film sheet, a plurality of wiring lines laid on the film sheet to conduct electricity to the plurality of sensor electrodes, and a detection part and a tail part. The detection part is held on the base member and includes the plurality of sensor electrodes. The tail part extends from the detection part in a manner so as to face a bottom surface of the base member and includes the plurality of wiring lines. The tail part includes a bent portion bent on a bottom surface periphery of the base member toward the bottom surface of the base member. The plurality of wiring lines extending through the bent portion are laid on an outer bent surface of the bent portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SEKISUI POLYMATECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinichi Tomooka
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Publication number: 20220090944Abstract: A sensor includes a base member and a sensor sheet, and the sensor sheet includes a sensor main body including sensor electrodes and a tail portion that includes wiring lines electrically connected to the sensor electrodes and that projects and extends with respect to the base member. The base member includes a joint surface portion that is fixed to the sensor main body and a separation portion that is disposed at a position facing a tail support portion of the tail support portion to which the tail portion is connected and that is not fixed to the tail support portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2019Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: SEKISUI POLYMATECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Tomooka, Yasushi Sakai
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Publication number: 20220019314Abstract: A sensor includes a base member and a sensor sheet. The sensor sheet includes a film sheet, a plurality of sensor electrodes laid on the film sheet, a plurality of wiring lines laid on the film sheet to conduct electricity to the plurality of sensor electrodes, and a detection part and a tail part. The detection part is held on the base member and includes the plurality of sensor electrodes. The tail part extends from the detection part in a manner so as to face a bottom surface of the base member and includes the plurality of wiring lines. The tail part includes a bent portion bent on a bottom surface periphery of the base member toward the bottom surface of the base member. The plurality of wiring lines extending through the bent portion are laid on an outer bent surface of the bent portion of the film sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2019Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: SEKISUI POLYMATECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinichi Tomooka
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Patent number: 10860157Abstract: A touch panel includes a insulator, X electrodes arranged on one insulator surface and each including X lines, Y electrodes arranged on another insulator and each including Y lines, X auxiliary lines each connecting adjacent X lines, and Y auxiliary lines each connecting adjacent Y lines. The auxiliary lines are located on diagonals of cells L, defined by the X lines and the Y lines and arranged in rows and columns. The X and Y auxiliary lines are arranged without overlapping or being superposed on each other. Each of the rows and columns includes at least one cell having either the X or Y auxiliary lines and at least one cell having neither the X or Y auxiliary lines. The rows include no row that has neither the X or Y auxiliary lines, and the columns include no column that has neither the X nor the Y auxiliary lines.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: SEKISUI POLYMATECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinichi Tomooka
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Publication number: 20200218401Abstract: A touch panel includes a insulator, X electrodes arranged on one insulator surface and each including X lines, Y electrodes arranged on another insulator and each including Y lines, X auxiliary lines each connecting adjacent X lines, and Y auxiliary lines each connecting adjacent Y lines. The auxiliary lines are located on diagonals of cells L, defined by the X lines and the Y lines and arranged in rows and columns. The X and Y auxiliary lines are arranged without overlapping or being superposed on each other. Each of the rows and the columns includes at least one cell having either the X or Y auxiliary lines and at least one cell having neither the X or Y auxiliary lines. The rows include no row that has neither the X or Y auxiliary lines, and the columns include no column that has neither the X nor the Y auxiliary lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: SEKISUI POLYMATECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinichi TOMOOKA
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Publication number: 20150070599Abstract: For a substrate sheet having a transparent electrode made of an electroconductive polymer and metal wiring connecting this transparent electrode and a connector junction on a translucent base and provided with a protective layer covering the transparent electrode and the metal wiring, a substrate sheet is provided that has its transparent electrode protected and its metal wiring protected from corrosion. The protective layer was made up of a laminate having a sulfuration-resistant resist layer that prevents the metal wiring from being sulfurated and a lightfast resist layer that absorbs ultraviolet light stacked on the base, and the sulfuration-resistant resist layer was a polyurethane-polyurea-based plastic layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2013Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: POLYMATECH JAPAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Tomooka, Soyoko Nikki, Yutaka Nakanishi