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).

  • Patent number: 11614808
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Aoki, Naoya Nishizawa, Toru Eguchi
  • Publication number: 20230077162
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Ryuto SAKAMOTO, Shinya AOKI
  • Publication number: 20230047870
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki HASHIMOTO, Shinya AOKI, Takenori KANEDA
  • Patent number: 11569795
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsuo, Shinya Aoki, Byonhaku Yu, Ryuta Nishizawa
  • Publication number: 20230018530
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hashimoto, Shinya Aoki
  • Patent number: 11537220
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hashimoto, Shinya Aoki, Noboru Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220385235
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventor: Shinya AOKI
  • Patent number: 11513642
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hashimoto, Shinya Aoki, Takenori Kaneda
  • Patent number: 11481046
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hashimoto, Shinya Aoki
  • Patent number: 11431343
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Inventors: Shoichiro Kasahara, Hisahiro Ito, Shinya Aoki
  • Publication number: 20220269359
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Shinya AOKI, Takenori KANEDA, Yoshiyuki HASHIMOTO, Toru EGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220261098
    Abstract: In a case in which an electronic pen main unit made into a cartridge is held movably in a casing, electrical connections between the electronic pen main unit and electronic circuit components of the casing are reliably established. The electronic pen main unit is fitted to a fitting part disposed in a casing of an electronic pen in which the pen tip side is made to be an opening and is housed in a state of being movable in a hollow part of the casing by a movement mechanism that moves the fitting part in the axial center direction of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Shinya AOKI, Yoshiyuki HASHIMOTO, Takenori KANEDA
  • Publication number: 20220262297
    Abstract: A peripheral image display device is configured to: acquire wheel speeds of a vehicle; determine a slip state or a non-slip state of a wheel of the vehicle based on the acquired wheel speeds; acquire multiple camera images from respective cameras; store, as a past image, the camera image indicating a range in a traveling direction of the vehicle; generate a peripheral image indicating a periphery of the vehicle by synthesizing the camera images, display the peripheral image on a display. In the non-slip state, the peripheral image display device displays a transparent image showing, in a transparent manner, a portion under a floor of the vehicle using the past image selected based on current wheel speeds is. In the slip state, the peripheral image display device deactivates the display of the transparent image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: SHINYA AOKI, YOSHITSUGU YAMASHITA, AKIRA SUGIE, TOMOKI MIYATA, JUN KAMISHIMA, YAMATO YORIFUJI, KOHEI MAEJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220244798
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including an electronic pen body portion, an electronic pen housing being a cylindrical body housing the electronic pen body portion, a connector portion including a connector substrate, and a terminal portion including a base portion raised from the connector substrate in a direction crossing an axial direction and a contact portion extended to a back end side from a position separated from the connector substrate on a back end surface of the base portion, and a connector housing being a cylindrical body housing the connector portion and connected to a back end side of the electronic pen housing. A cross section of the connector housing in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction is substantially triangular. An axial center of the connector substrate coincides with an axial center of the electronic pen body portion when the connector housing is attached to the electronic pen housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Shinya AOKI, Yoshiyuki HASHIMOTO, Takenori KANEDA
  • Publication number: 20220197411
    Abstract: A thin electronic pen main body is provided to enable a position detection sensor operated by a capacitance method to reliably detect pointed positions. There is provided an electronic pen main body that houses an electronic pen in a cylindrical housing in such a manner that at least a pen tip of the electronic pen may be projected from one opening of the cylindrical housing in an axial direction. The electronic pen main body includes a conductive center electrode, of which one end in the axial direction forms the pen tip, and a peripheral electrode disposed around the center electrode except at least for the pen tip, wherein the peripheral electrode is insulated from the center electrode. When the one end of the center electrode forming the pen tip is projected to the outside from the opening of the cylindrical housing upon use, a portion of the pen tip side of the peripheral electrode is also projected to the outside from the opening of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Shinya AOKI, Yoshiyuki HASHIMOTO, Takenori KANEDA
  • Publication number: 20220166378
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Shoichiro KASAHARA, Shinya AOKI
  • Publication number: 20220166404
    Abstract: 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 overlaps at least one of the external terminals in a plan view, and each of the bump members is bonded to the package at a position where at least a part of the bump member does not overlap the plurality of external terminals in the plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Shoichiro KASAHARA, Shinya AOKI
  • Patent number: 11311642
    Abstract: Disclosed are: a composition for hard tissue repair with excellent penetrability to an adherend such as a cancellous bone and excellent adhesion to an adherend, which comprises a monomer (A), a polymer powder (B) comprising 54% by mass or more of a polymer powder (b1) having a volume mean particle diameter of 27 to 80 ?m and a polymerization initiator (C); and a kit for hard tissue repair comprising members in which the components of the monomer (A), the polymer powder (B) and the polymerization initiator (C) contained in this composition for hard tissue repair are encased in three or more divided groups in an optional combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Kengo Goto, Shinya Aoki, Takashi Miura, Tetsuya Hamada, Ayako Bando
  • Patent number: 11290081
    Abstract: A resonator element includes a quartz crystal substrate including a supporting section, a resonating section, and a coupling section coupling the supporting section and the resonating section and having thickness smaller than the thickness of the supporting section, the supporting section including a first principal plane and a first side surface coupling the first principal plane and the coupling section, a first excitation electrode disposed in the resonating section, a second excitation electrode disposed in the resonating section and overlapping the first excitation electrode via the resonating section, and first and second pad electrodes including portions disposed on the first principal plane, the first and second pad electrodes being electrically coupled to the first and second excitation electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Aoki, Byonhaku Yu, Atsushi Matsuo
  • Patent number: D958143
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hashimoto, Takenori Kaneda, Shinya Aoki