Patents by Inventor Takakazu Yano

Takakazu Yano 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).

  • Publication number: 20030063230
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mounting structure for mounting a liquid crystal module to a cover of a mobile terminal. The mounting structure comprises: at least a pair of first and second engagement parts, wherein the first engagement part is provided on a side portion of the liquid crystal module, whilst the second engagement part is provided on a side portion of a structural member of the cover, so that the paired first and second engagement parts are engaged with each other only by fitting the liquid crystal module into the structural member of the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Kato, Masatake Baba, Michiaki Nishiyama, Fumihiko Fujishiro, Takakazu Yano, Toshihisa Ogawa, Tomoo Miwa, Yasuhiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20030058398
    Abstract: In a display apparatus, a display device and an integrated circuit for driving the display device are mounted on the same substrate and are interconnected by electrodes formed on the substrate, and the substrate is connected to an external circuit by a flexible printed circuit, wherein the integrated circuit has a rectangular shape whose first side is provided with a first output terminal group and whose second side opposite the first side is provided with an input terminal group and a second output terminal group. Further, some of the output terminals in the second output terminal group provided on the second side of the integrated circuit are designated as unconnected terminals that are not used, and an input electrode group corresponding to the input terminal group is formed in such a manner as to expand into an output electrode formation area originally reserved on the substrate for the unconnected terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takakazu Yano
  • Patent number: 6515645
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a scan substrate, a data substrate, an animation display area formed by liquid crystal provided between the scan substrate and the data substrate, and a picture-character display area. The animation display area is driven and displayed with time-sharing in accordance with scan signals which are applied to scan electrodes formed on the scan substrate and output from the scan circuit, and data signals which are applied to data electrodes formed on the data substrate and output from the data circuit. The picture-character area is driven and displayed in accordance with data signals which are applied to data picture-character electrodes formed on the data substrate and output from the data circuit, and data signals which are applied to scan picture-character electrodes formed on the scan substrate and output from the data circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takakazu Yano, Shigeru Morokawa
  • Publication number: 20020180542
    Abstract: A crystal oscillator circuit using CMOSFETs including an oscillator circuit that is constructed of a resonating section and an amplifying section having a CMOSFET, a reference current source circuit for generating a reference current which determines a bias current of the amplifying section, and a control signal generator circuit for controlling the reference current source circuit to make a bias current larger than that in the oscillation status when the oscillator circuit is in the non-oscillation status. As a result, the reference current source circuit constant-current biases the DC bias of the amplifying section without depending on the source voltage. Therefore, it can lower the driving source voltage of the oscillator circuit. Further, only the bias current of the amplifying section is increased during the oscillation starting period of the oscillator circuit, so that the oscillator circuit can provide a stable oscillation with low power, without variations in the source voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Applicant: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Aihara, Ryoji Iwakura, Takakazu Yano, Yukio Otaka, Shinichi Komine
  • Publication number: 20020159008
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a color liquid crystal display device which integrates a first partial display area (for example, an optional image display area) and a second partial display area (for example, a particular image display area) into one liquid crystal panel, and each having at least a different display specification, and has a different color filter pattern between the first partial display area and the second partial display area. In the present invention, for example, the color pitch of the color filter on the second partial display area is subdivided, rather than the color filter of the color filter on the first display area, such as into one-third, one-sixth and the like; each color of the color filter on the partial display area is provided in a zigzag arrangement or a delta arrangement; and the lead wire of each icon provided in the particular image display area is provided so as to be across each color of the color filter on the second partial display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Takeru Yoshino, Kosei Miyabe, Takakazu Yano
  • Publication number: 20020064036
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mounting structure for mounting a liquid crystal module having a display area. The mounting structure comprises: at least a frame member having a plurality of connecting members for connecting the frame member to the liquid crystal module substantially in parallel to each other, wherein each of the connecting members extends between the liquid crystal module and the frame member in a direction vertical to a surface of the frame member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 1999
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Inventors: TAKAKAZU YANO, TOMOO MIWA, YASUHIRO SATO, TOSHIHISA OGWA, MICHIAKI NISHIYAMA, MASATAKE BARA, HIKARU OKABE, FUMIHIKO FUJISHIRO, KATSUHIRO KATO, KAZUAKI MIKAMI, HIROKAZU FUKUYOSHI
  • Patent number: 6329969
    Abstract: A liquid crystal driving integrated circuit (101) mounted directly on a liquid crystal substrate, wherein the integrated circuit (101) comprises a plurality of power supply terminal arrays, each of which include a high voltage power input terminal (102), (112), a low voltage power input terminal (103), (113), and an intermediate voltage power input terminal (130), (131) and a plurality of signal input terminal arrays (104)-(108), (114)-(118). A substantially rectangular integrated circuit chip (101) containing the integrated circuit is divided into two halves along a line (123) intersecting, at right angles, the longer sides of the chip. A first power supply terminal array (102), (103), (130) and a first signal input terminal array (104)-(108) are provided on one half of the divided chip, and a second power supply terminal array (112), (113), (130) and a second signal input terminal array (114)-(118) are provided on the other half thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takakazu Yano
  • Publication number: 20010026336
    Abstract: A LCD device has a backlight unit disposed at the rear side of the display panel. The backlight unit includes a light-conductive plate, an elongate lamp for emitting light, an elongate reflecting member for reflecting the light toward the light-reception surface of the light-conductive plate. The reflecting member is formed as an L-shaped member having a front flange extending on the edge portion of the light-emission surface (26a) and a side flange abutting an extension of the reflection sheet extending from the rear surface of the light-conductive plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Publication date: October 4, 2001
    Inventor: Takakazu Yano
  • Patent number: 6023252
    Abstract: An LCD device comprising an LCD for changing the size of a displayed unit of pixels by electrically connecting a plurality of display electrodes in parallel with one another for time-sharing matrix driving liquid crystal pixels arranged as a matrix wherein image data is independently inputted into upper and lower half portions of the LCD, a display controller for outputting upper and lower side image data to be displayed on the upper and lower half portions of the LCD and synchronous signals. The LCD device further comprises an upper side image data-holding memory and a lower side image data-holding memory for dividing image data in a given display area from a screenful of image data outputted from the display controller into new upper and lower side image data to be written and held in the upper and lower side image data-holding memories. The upper and lower side image data held in the upper and lower side memories are read out to be repeatedly displayed on the upper and lower half portions of the LCD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takakazu Yano, Takahiko Sato, Rikoku Nakamura, Shigeru Morokawa
  • Patent number: 5864336
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can reduce the power consumption of the display device composed by liquid crystal in personal computers or word processors, and which is constructed such that the image display will not cut off when a user uses it. The liquid crystal device comprises a power source 109, a central processor 101, a liquid crystal display 107, a display image generator 103, a first image display storage 104, a display image data controller 106, an electric power consumption mode switch 108 and an external input 110.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takakazu Yano
  • Patent number: 5677746
    Abstract: The back light device for a liquid crystal display disclosed has a photoconductor, a light source, a reflection plate, and a pair of resin blocks. A case is placed at a back surface of the photoconductor for holding the reflection plate and fixing the photoconductor. In the case, a plurality of consecutive cutouts are provided at a portion that holds the reflection plate. The consecutive cutouts are perpendicular to an axis of the light source. This structure enables the dissipation of the heat accumulated in the reflection plate through the consecutive cutouts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takakazu Yano