Patents by Inventor Takehito Yamauchi

Takehito Yamauchi 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: 20240111335
    Abstract: A tape member of an electronic apparatus includes: double-sided adhesive tape having a releasable property by stretching; and a sheet-shaped handle member connected to the double-sided adhesive tape, a user holding the handle member when stretch-releasing the double-sided adhesive tape. The handle member is wound around the double-sided adhesive tape in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction of the double-sided adhesive tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: So Nakanishi, Satoshi Hosoya, Takehito Yamauchi, Keita Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11914270
    Abstract: A slide mechanism includes: a slider that is movable between a first position and a second position along an edge wall; a shield cover on the slider, the shield cover being located to cover the front of the camera when the slider is in the first position and located to be away from the front of the camera when the slider is in the second position; a movable magnet at the slider; and a fixed magnet at the chassis. The movable magnet and the fixed magnet are disposed to face each other so that when the slider is in the first position and the second position, the movable magnet and the fixed magnet attract to each other, and when the slider is located between the first position and the second position, the movable magnet and the fixed magnet repel each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Ishikawa, Masato Itoh, Tabito Miyamoto, Takehito Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20240045472
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a chassis member that has a standing wall; a display that is supported by the chassis member and has an outer peripheral edge portion surrounded by the standing wall; a control board that is connected to the display and controls display of the display; and a bezel member that is provided so as to straddle between the standing wall and the display, and is adhesively fixed to front surfaces of the standing wall and the display. A folded portion is provided between the display and the control board and is folded back to a back side of the display so as to wrap around one side of the outer peripheral edge portion of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kinoshita, Takehito Yamauchi, Shigehiro Horiuchi
  • Publication number: 20230407137
    Abstract: A tape member includes a double-sided adhesive tape that can be pulled and peeled off by pulling an end portion, and a handle member that is attached to the end portion and gripped when the double-sided adhesive tape is pulled and peeled off. The handle member includes a first and second adhesive sheets fixed to first and second adhesive surfaces of the double-sided adhesive tape. The end portion is provided with a stopper edge portion extending in a direction intersecting a pulling direction at the time of pulling and peeling off. The handle member includes a hooking portion in which the first adhesive sheet and the second adhesive sheet are bonded to each other on the back side of the stopper edge portion in the pulling direction, and that is hooked on the stopper edge portion at the time of pulling and peeling off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hosoya, Takehito Yamauchi, Keita Ishikawa, So Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20230367370
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a cover fixed with an adhesive tape along an edge of a first chassis, a female screw hole formed on a side wall, and a protruding portion protruding from an inner surface of the cover. The protruding portion has an inclined surface that is located on an extension of the female screw hole and of which a protrusion amount increases in a direction away from the side wall. A removal screw includes a head, a male screw portion protruding from the head and screwed into the female screw hole, a cylindrical portion having a diameter smaller than that of the male screw portion and further protruding from the male screw portion, and a spherical surface portion forming a tip end of the cylindrical portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kinoshita, Daisuke Takahashi, Tetsuya Sano, Takehito Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20230297144
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display having a folding region that is folded according to relative rotation of a first chassis and a second chassis and a sheet-shaped member fixed to cover a rear surface of the display. In the sheet-shaped member, a first slit row including a plurality of first slits arranged at equal intervals along a Y direction and a second slit row including a plurality of second slits arranged at equal intervals along an X direction are provided. A plurality of first slit rows and a plurality of the second slit row are provided at equal intervals along the X direction and the Y direction. In a first pattern formed by the first slit row and the second slit row, the first slit and the second slit form an intermittent lattice shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kinoshita, Takehito Yamauchi, Shigehiro Horiuchi, Takayuki Morino
  • Publication number: 20230300991
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display panel and a chassis member that are fixed by a tensile-peelable first adhesive tape, second adhesive tape, and third adhesive tape. The first adhesive tape is located along a first edge of the chassis member. The third adhesive tape is located along a third edge of the chassis member. The second adhesive tape is located between the first adhesive tape and the third adhesive tape and orthogonal to the first adhesive tape and the third adhesive tape. The first adhesive tape and the third adhesive tape respectively have a first tab and a third tab for tensile peeling operation extending to a second edge of the chassis member. The second adhesive tape has a second tab for tensile peeling operation extending from one end thereof to the second edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjin Niu, Takehito Yamauchi, Keita Ishikawa, Shigehiro Horiuchi, So Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20230288964
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a first chassis member; a second chassis member that is adjacent to the first chassis member and relatively rotatably connected to the first chassis member; a first plate that is supported by the first chassis member; a second plate that is supported by the second chassis member and aligned with a gap between the first plate and the second plate; a display that is formed in a flexible sheet shape, and has a first region fixed to a front surface of the first plate, a second region fixed to a front surface of the second plate, and a folding region capable of being folded and provided to straddle a gap between the first region and the second region; and a first fastening portion that fixes the first plate to the first chassis member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Morino, Takehito Yamauchi, Shigehiro Horiuchi, Daisuke Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20230288960
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a first chassis which has a first frame member; a second chassis which has a second frame member which is adjacent to the first frame member and is adjacent to the first chassis; a display which is supported to the first chassis and the second chassis; and a hinge device which so connects the first chassis and the second chassis as to be rotationally movable relative to each other between a first posture that the first chassis and the second chassis are so folded as to mutually overlap in a surface normal direction and a second posture that the first chassis and the second chassis are mutually arrayed in a direction which is vertical to the surface normal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Morino, Daisuke Takahashi, Takehito Yamauchi, Yalu Liu
  • Publication number: 20230288967
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a first chassis member that has a first edge portion; a second chassis member that has a second edge portion adjacent to the first edge portion, and is adjacent to the first chassis member; a hinge device that connects the first chassis member and the second chassis member so as to be relatively rotatable between a first posture in which the first chassis member and the second chassis member are laminated so as to overlap each other in a surface normal direction and a second posture in which the first chassis member and the second chassis member are aligned in a direction perpendicular to the surface normal direction; and a cover component that is disposed so as to straddle the first edge portion and the second edge portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Takahashi, Takehito Yamauchi, Hiroaki Kinoshita, Takayuki Morino
  • Publication number: 20230292565
    Abstract: A display assembly includes: a display body that is formed in a flexible sheet shape, and includes an active region and a non-active region; a plate that is disposed on a side of a rear surface of the display body, and supports the display body on a first surface; a control board that performs display control of the display body; and a wire that connects the display body and the control board. The display body has an extended portion that extends a part of the non-active region, and a folded portion that is provided in a middle of the extended portion and folded back so as to wrap around an end surface of the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Morino, Shigehiro Horiuchi, Takehito Yamauchi, Hiroaki Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 11747862
    Abstract: A portable information device includes: a chassis; a decorative plate fixed to a part of an outer face of the chassis with stretch releasable double-sided adhesive tape; and a cover member that covers the outer face and the decorative plate. The double-sided adhesive tape has: an adhesive portion including adhesive layers on first and second faces of a substrate for adhesively fixing between the decorative plate and the outer face; and a tab including release paper partially covering the adhesive layers to let a user hold the tab for stretch release of the adhesive portion from between the decorative plate and the outer face. The double-sided adhesive tape has a first groove and a second groove on the first face and the second face, respectively, that are positioned not to overlap in a thickness direction of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Shigehiro Horiuchi, Takehito Yamauchi, Tetsuya Sano, Yuta Tsuganezawa
  • Publication number: 20230247851
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a chassis member having a standing wall; a display panel supported by the chassis member; a bracket having a support surface disposed between an edge portion of the display panel and the standing wall and attached to the display panel; and a bezel member provided in such a manner as to extend over and between the display panel and the standing wall, and fixed to each of the edge portion, the support surface, and the standing wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: So Nakanishi, Takehito Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 11594710
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display device that can prevent deformation of a flexible display is provided. A raw material sheet that serves as a metal sheet of the flexible display has a width that is greater than a width of the display body in Y direction and a plurality of holes are provided in a bent area of the raw material sheet over an entire width along a bent section of the display body. The method includes: mounting the display body on the raw material sheet such that the bent section and the bent area are aligned and that the display body avoids the end portions in the Y direction; applying pressure to the display body from a central part of the display body toward a periphery of the display body; and cutting the raw material sheet into a predetermined size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigehiro Horiuchi, Tatsuya Ushioda, Hiroaki Kinoshita, Takehito Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 11579654
    Abstract: A portable information device capable of supporting a display is described. The portable information device includes a first chassis member and a second chassis member connected mutually rotatable, a first support plate that supports a display on the side of the first chassis member, a second support plate that supports the display on the side of the second chassis member, a first locking member including a first fixing portion to be fixed to the rear face of the first support plate with adhesive, and a first locking piece projecting from one end face of the first support plate, the first locking piece being configured to come in contact with and separate from the rear face of the second support plate. The first support plate includes a first contact face with which the first locking member comes in contact and a first adhesive face that fixes the first locking member with the adhesive. The first adhesive face is recessed from the first contact face by a thickness of the adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Fumitake Mizoguchi, Takehito Yamauchi, Tatsuya Ushioda, Hiroaki Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 11579513
    Abstract: An information device has a camera cover unit that is fixed to an upper edge in the outside of a display device in a back cover. The camera cover unit includes a cover case that is fixed to the upper edge and a cover body that is housed in the cover case and is slidable between a first position and a second position. The cover body includes an end that is placed in the first position to cover the front of the camera and placed in the second position to avoid the front of the camera, and a leaf spring that is elastically deformable inward and outward of the frame of the upper edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjin Niu, Takehito Yamauchi, Sara Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20230004068
    Abstract: A slide mechanism includes: a slider that is movable between a first position and a second position along an edge wall; a shield cover on the slider, the shield cover being located to cover the front of the camera when the slider is in the first position and located to be away from the front of the camera when the slider is in the second position; a movable magnet at the slider; and a fixed magnet at the chassis. The movable magnet and the fixed magnet are disposed to face each other so that when the slider is in the first position and the second position, the movable magnet and the fixed magnet attract to each other, and when the slider is located between the first position and the second position, the movable magnet and the fixed magnet repel each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Ishikawa, Masato Itoh, Tabito Miyamoto, Takehito Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 11490185
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a chassis, a microphone hole penetrating an outer wall of the chassis, and a microphone module that faces the microphone hole. The microphone module has a microphone that obtains sound information outside the chassis through the microphone hole, a flexible substrate laminated on a back surface of the microphone, a metallic plate laminated on a back surface of the flexible substrate, and a sound hole opened in the back surface of the microphone and penetrating the flexible substrate and the metallic plate. The electronic device further includes a double-sided tape fastened to a first region, surrounding the sound hole, of a back surface of the metallic plate, and to an inner surface of the chassis, and that fixes the microphone module to the chassis, and a conductive member that electrically connects the second region of the metallic plate and the inner surface of the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenjin Niu, Jun Iwasaki, Toshikazu Horino, Toshinari Sumikawa, Shigehiro Horiuchi, Takehito Yamauchi, Yalu Liu, Keita Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11487327
    Abstract: A display assembly includes: a first plate having a first surface; a second plate having a second surface; and a display formed into one sheet shape and including a first region fixed to the first surface, a second region fixed to the second surface, and a third region as a region between the first region and the second region. The display assembly includes a flat plate form in which the first and second surfaces are lined up in a plane direction to be formed into a flat-plate shape, and a folded form in which the third region is so bent that the surface of the first plate and the surface of the second plate face each other. In the flat plate form, a tension is applied to the third region in a width direction toward the first region and the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigehiro Horiuchi, Tatsuya Ushioda, Hiroaki Kinoshita, Takehito Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 11455004
    Abstract: A portable information device includes: a first chassis; a second chassis disposed adjacently to the first chassis and coupled to the first chassis to be rotatable between a flat form and a stacked form; and a spine member disposed across adjacent end portions of the first and second chassis. In the flat form, the first and second chassis are side by side in a direction perpendicular to a surface direction of the first and second chassis. In the stacked form, the first and second chassis are stacked and overlap one another in the surface direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kinoshita, Takehito Yamauchi, Shigehiro Horiuchi, Tatsuya Ushioda