Patents by Inventor Shinya Aoki
Shinya Aoki 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: 11677352Abstract: An oscillator includes a package having a plurality of external terminals disposed on a mounting surface, a circuit element housed in the package, and a resonator which is housed in the package, and is electrically coupled to the circuit element, wherein the circuit element is electrically coupled to the package with a plurality of pads each of which is bonded to the package via a bump member, the circuit element has a rectangular shape in a plan view, and at least three of closest ones to four corners of the circuit element out of the bump members are bonded to the package at respective positions overlapping the plurality of external terminals in the plan view.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Inventors: Shoichiro Kasahara, Shinya Aoki
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Publication number: 20230170846Abstract: An oscillator includes: a resonator element; a circuit element configured to output a clock signal; and a container accommodating the resonator element and the circuit element and including a substrate having a first surface. The substrate includes a first electrode provided on the first surface and electrically coupled to the resonator element, a second electrode electrically coupled to the resonator element, and an output electrode configured to output the clock signal. The first electrode and the second electrode are disposed side by side in a first direction. The output electrode is disposed adjacent to the first electrode in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. When an end portion of the first electrode on a side close to the second electrode is defined as a first end portion, the output electrode includes a first region disposed closer to the second electrode side than the first end portion in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Manabu Shiraki, Shinya Aoki
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Publication number: 20230170875Abstract: An oscillator includes: a resonator element; a circuit element electrically coupled to the resonator element and configured to output a clock signal; and a container accommodating the resonator element and the circuit element and including a substrate having a first surface on which the circuit element is mounted. The substrate includes a first electrode provided on the first surface and electrically coupled to the resonator element, a second electrode electrically coupled to the resonator element, and an output electrode configured to output the clock signal. The first electrode and the second electrode are disposed side by side in a first direction. The output electrode is disposed adjacent to the first electrode in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Manabu Shiraki, Shinya Aoki
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Publication number: 20230170847Abstract: An oscillator includes: a resonator element; a circuit element; and a container including a substrate mounted with the circuit element, in which the circuit element includes a first coupling terminal coupled to the resonator element, a second coupling terminal coupled to the resonator element and aligned in a first direction with the first coupling terminal in the first direction, and an output terminal disposed adjacent to the first coupling terminal in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, in the second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and in which the substrate includes a first surface mounted with the circuit element and a second surface, and the substrate includes a first coupling electrode provided on the first surface and coupled to the first coupling terminal, a second coupling electrode coupled to the second coupling terminal, an output electrode coupled to the output terminal, a first coupling wiring provided on the second surface and coupled to the first coupling electroType: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Manabu SHIRAKI, Shinya AOKI
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Patent number: 11662840Abstract: An electronic pen includes a housing, a core body having a front end that protrudes from an opening in a side of the housing, and a coupling member housing one or more components of the electronic pen. The housing includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion separated in an axial direction of the housing. The first housing portion includes an opening arranged such that the front end of the core body protrudes outside while the first housing portion is electrically separated from the core body. A protrusion portion formed on an outer peripheral surface of the coupling member electrically separates the first and second housing portions. One side of the cylindrical coupling member in the axial direction with respect to the protrusion portion is fitted to the first housing portion, and another side in the axial direction is fitted to the second housing portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hashimoto, Shinya Aoki
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Publication number: 20230155568Abstract: A vibrator device includes a base, a semiconductor element, and a vibrator. The semiconductor element is flip-chip mounted on the base, the vibrator is mounted on the semiconductor element via an adhesive, a first coupling wire is formed on the base, the semiconductor element and the first coupling wire are electrically coupled via a first bump, the first coupling wire and the vibrator are electrically coupled via a first wire, and the semiconductor element and the vibrator are covered by a mold portion placed on the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventor: Shinya Aoki
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Publication number: 20230155567Abstract: A vibrator device has a base, a semiconductor element having an oscillation circuit, and a vibrator having an excitation electrode sequentially stacked and includes a first wire electrically coupling between the excitation electrode and the semiconductor element, a second wire electrically coupling between a second external terminal as an external output terminal placed on the base and the semiconductor element, and a shield wire placed between at least a part of the first wire and at least a part of the second wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Shigenori Isozaki, Shinya Aoki
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Patent number: 11652467Abstract: A vibration device has a substrate, a mount disposed on the substrate, a vibration element having a base end and a tip end, the base end being disposed on the mount, and an adhesive fixing the mount and the vibration element. The mount has a first protrusion and a second protrusion disposed to be aligned in a first direction in which the base end and the tip end are aligned, and whose protrusion heights on the vibration element side differ from each other, the second protrusion is located on the base end side of the vibration element relative to the first protrusion, the vibration element is disposed on the first protrusion and the second protrusion, and a portion of the vibration element on the base end side relative to the second protrusion is separated from the substrate and the mount.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu Shiraki, Shinya Aoki
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Publication number: 20230108860Abstract: An electronic pen includes a cylindrical housing including an opening on one end of the housing in an axial direction of the housing, a core body attached inside of the housing such that an end of the core body protrudes from the opening on the one end of the housing, and a signal generation circuit which, in operation, generates a signal that is transmitted from the core body. The core body includes a core rod that is conductive and a protection member. The core rod includes a front portion that protrudes from the opening on the one end of the housing, a back portion, and an intermediate portion between the front portion and the back portion. The intermediate portion has a tapered shape narrowing from the front portion toward the back portion. The core rod receives the signal from the signal generation circuit. The protection member covers a side surface of the intermediate portion of the core rod.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Inventors: Yoshiyuki HASHIMOTO, Shinya AOKI, Noboru YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 11614808Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including a core body formed of a conductive material, the core body including a pen tip, and a tubular casing that is formed of a conductive material and has the core body disposed in a tip end part of the tubular casing. The tubular casing includes a plurality of tubular casings having a same axis. The tubular casing has a shortened state in which the tubular casings overlap each other. The tubular casing also has a lengthened state in which the tubular casings are extended and overlap each other less than the tubular casings overlap each other when the tubular casing has the shortened state.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinya Aoki, Naoya Nishizawa, Toru Eguchi
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Publication number: 20230077162Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including a rod-shaped core body having conductivity, a pen pressure transmitter which is connected to the core body and has conductivity and which, in operation, transmits a pen pressure applied to the core body to a pen pressure detector, and a signal transmitter which, in operation, generates a signal to be transmitted from the core body, in which the pen pressure transmitter includes a shock-absorbing mechanism which, in operation, when the pen pressure applied to the core body has a predetermined value or more, absorbs the pen pressure, and the signal from the signal transmitter, in operation, is supplied to the core body through the pen pressure transmitter and transmitted to an outside of the electronic pen through the core body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Ryuto SAKAMOTO, Shinya AOKI
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Publication number: 20230047870Abstract: A capacitive electronic pen includes a housing, a core body, and a peripheral electrode. In the capacitive electronic pen, the core body includes an electrode core formed of a conductor having a spherical section and a shaft center section. The spherical section of the electrode core is not surrounded by the peripheral electrode and is disposed on a tip (distal) end of the capacitive electronic pen protruding from one opening in the axial direction of the housing. The shaft center section of the electrode core has multiple portions that vary in thickness (a cross-section size) including a thin portion, which coupled with the spherical section, and a thick portion. When the core body is fitted to the core body holder, at least a portion of the shaft center section of the electrode core is thinner than the diameter of the spherical section of the electrode core.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Yoshiyuki HASHIMOTO, Shinya AOKI, Takenori KANEDA
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Patent number: 11569795Abstract: A resonator device includes a quartz crystal substrate, a resonator element including a first excitation electrode arranged on a first surface of the quartz crystal substrate, a second excitation electrode arranged on a second surface of the quartz crystal substrate in opposition to the first excitation electrode, and first and second pad electrodes that are arranged on the first surface and are coupled to the first and second excitation electrodes, a base including a substrate and first and second interconnects arranged on the substrate, a first bonding member bonding the first pad electrode to the first interconnect, and a second bonding member bonding the second pad electrode to the second interconnect. The first and second bonding members are arranged such that a first imaginary line that passes through a centroid of the resonator element and is parallel to an X axis is interposed between the first and second bonding members.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Atsushi Matsuo, Shinya Aoki, Byonhaku Yu, Ryuta Nishizawa
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Publication number: 20230018530Abstract: An electronic pen includes a housing, a core body having a front end that protrudes from an opening in a side of the housing, and a coupling member housing one or more components of the electronic pen. The housing includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion separated in an axial direction of the housing. The first housing portion includes an opening arranged such that the front end of the core body protrudes outside while the first housing portion is electrically separated from the core body. A protrusion portion formed on an outer peripheral surface of the coupling member electrically separates the first and second housing portions. One side of the cylindrical coupling member in the axial direction with respect to the protrusion portion is fitted to the first housing portion, and another side in the axial direction is fitted to the second housing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hashimoto, Shinya Aoki
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Patent number: 11537220Abstract: An electronic pen includes a cylindrical housing including an opening on one end of the housing in an axial direction of the housing, a core body attached inside of the housing such that an end of the core body protrudes from the opening on the one end of the housing, and a signal generation circuit which, in operation, generates a signal that is transmitted from the core body. The core body includes a core rod that is conductive and a protection member. The core rod includes a front portion that protrudes from the opening on the one end of the housing, a back portion, and an intermediate portion between the front portion and the back portion. The intermediate portion has a tapered shape narrowing from the front portion toward the back portion. The core rod receives the signal from the signal generation circuit. The protection member covers a side surface of the intermediate portion of the core rod.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hashimoto, Shinya Aoki, Noboru Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20220385235Abstract: An electronic component package includes a lid, a first layer, a second layer disposed between the first layer and the lid and configuring a first frame, a third layer disposed between the second layer and the lid and configuring a second frame, a bonding member bonding the third layer to the lid, and a via wire electrically coupled to the lid and penetrating the second frame, in which, when an inner diameter of a first corner portion of the first frame is denoted by R1 and an inner diameter of a second corner portion of the second frame overlapping the first corner portion in a plan view is denoted by R2, R1<R2, and an inner surface of the second corner portion protrudes more than an inner surface of the first corner portion in a cross-sectional view.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventor: Shinya AOKI
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Patent number: 11513642Abstract: A capacitive electronic pen includes a housing, a core body, and a peripheral electrode. In the capacitive electronic pen, the core body includes an electrode core formed of a conductor having a spherical section and a shaft center section. The spherical section of the electrode core is not surrounded by the peripheral electrode and is disposed on a tip (distal) end of the capacitive electronic pen protruding from one opening in the axial direction of the housing. The shaft center section of the electrode core has multiple portions that vary in thickness (a cross-section size) including a thin portion, which coupled with the spherical section, and a thick portion. When the core body is fitted to the core body holder, at least a portion of the shaft center section of the electrode core is thinner than the diameter of the spherical section of the electrode core.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hashimoto, Shinya Aoki, Takenori Kaneda
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Patent number: 11481046Abstract: An electronic pen includes a housing, a core body having a front end that protrudes from an opening in a side of the housing, and a coupling member housing one or more components of the electronic pen. The housing includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion separated in an axial direction of the housing. The first housing portion includes an opening arranged such that the front end of the core body protrudes outside while the first housing portion is electrically separated from the core body. A protrusion portion formed on an outer peripheral surface of the coupling member electrically separates the first and second housing portions. One side of the cylindrical coupling member in the axial direction with respect to the protrusion portion is fitted to the first housing portion, and another side in the axial direction is fitted to the second housing portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hashimoto, Shinya Aoki
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Patent number: 11431343Abstract: In the oscillator, a quartz crystal resonator and an oscillation circuit formed in an IC incorporating an inductor are electrically coupled to each other with a resonator interconnection disposed on a surface of a substrate to form an oscillation loop. A conductor layer disposed as an intermediate layer of the substrate is disposed so as to overlap the resonator interconnection and not to overlap the inductor incorporated in the IC in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Inventors: Shoichiro Kasahara, Hisahiro Ito, Shinya Aoki
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Publication number: 20220269359Abstract: An electronic pen cartridge is replaceable with a refill of a stationery ballpoint pen such that the stationery ballpoint pen housing can be reused as the electronic pen housing. The electronic pen cartridge is of a capacitance type and includes a pen tip which is projectable from an opening on one side in an axial direction of the pen housing. Inside the tubular cartridge housing are an electronic circuit including a signal transmission circuit configured to generate a signal to be supplied to a position detection sensor, and a rechargeable power storage device configured to supply a power supply voltage to the electronic circuit. A coil is wound around a rear end portion of the cartridge housing on a side of the cartridge housing opposite from the pen tip side. The power storage device is charged by a current induced in the coil based on an externally supplied magnetic field.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Shinya AOKI, Takenori KANEDA, Yoshiyuki HASHIMOTO, Toru EGUCHI