Patents by Inventor Takeshi Nomura
Takeshi Nomura 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: 11011933Abstract: A contactless electric power supply device configured to widen a range in which power supply is possible to a moving body in a connection direction by supplying electric power from a supply coil to the moving body provided with the receiving coil in a contactless manner and connecting power supply modules provided with the supply coil, wherein, when at least one of the receiving coils is positioned to be able to receiver power from at least one of the supply coils, the contactless electric power supply device performs communication from the power supply module to an alternating module that supplies alternating current and performs communication from the alternating module to the power supply module, and causes a semiconductor switch provided on the power supply module to conduct electricity.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Nomura, Shinji Takikawa, Shinichi Kato
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Patent number: 11005295Abstract: A non-contact power feeding device includes multiple power feeding elements that are disposed spatially separated from one another in a movement direction, an AC power supply that supplies AC power to the power feeding elements, multiple power receiving elements that are provided in a moving body and that receive AC power in a non-contact manner, and a power receiving circuit that converts the AC power received by the power receiving elements and that outputs to an electrical load. When a length of the power feeding elements in the movement direction is LT, a separation distance between the power feeding elements is DT, a length of the power receiving elements in the movement direction is LR, and a separation distance between the power receiving elements is DR, the relationship DT?DR and the relationship (2×LR+DR)?LT are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Nomura, Shinji Takikawa, Masayuki Oki
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Publication number: 20210065607Abstract: A display driver includes a D/A converter circuit outputting a gradation voltage to an output line based on display data, an assist circuit including a capacitor group and a drive circuit outputting a drive signal group to a first end of the capacitor group based on the display data, the assist circuit being coupled to the output line and configured to perform assist driving of the output line, and an amplifier circuit configured to drive an electro-optical panel. The assist circuit includes an output switch provided between a second end of the capacitor group and the output line, the output switch being ON in an assist period, and an initialization switch including a first end coupled to the second end of the capacitor group and a second end to which an initialization voltage is input, and in an initialization period, the output switch and the initialization switch are ON.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi NOMURA
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Publication number: 20210014382Abstract: An image forming apparatus forms an image, and includes: an inputter that inputs image data; an image former that executes image forming processing to form an image on a sheet for each page with the image data inputted by the inputter; a controller that controls the image data processed at the image former; and a noise detector that detects noise, wherein the controller controls to perform, at the image former, image re-forming processing for a page corresponding to image data when the noise detector has detected noise when the image data is being processed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Yoshiki Nakazawa, Takeshi Nomura, Nobuhiro Matsuo
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Publication number: 20210012955Abstract: A contactless electric power supply device of the present invention is provided with: multiple supply coils and an alternating current power source arranged on a fixed section; multiple receiving coils and a receiving circuit provided on a moving body; and a face-to-face power supply section provided for each of the multiple supply coils and configured to supply alternating current power from the alternating current power source to the supply coils only when detecting a face-to-face state between the supply coil and the receiving coil; wherein separation distances and lengths in the moving direction of the multiple supply coils and multiple receiving coils are set to satisfy face-to-face conditions, and a receiving circuit converts alternating current power received by at least one of the receiving coils in the face-to-face state and generates a receiving voltage at least equal to a driving voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2015Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki OKI, Shinji TAKIKAWA, Takeshi NOMURA
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Publication number: 20210005147Abstract: An electro-optical device is provided with a plurality of data lines, a plurality of potential lines supplied with a predetermined potential, a driving transistor controlling a current level according to the voltage between the gate and the source, a first storage capacitor which holds the voltage between the gate and a source of the driving transistor, and a light-emitting element.. One data line among the plurality of data lines and one potential line among the plurality of potential lines are arranged to be adjacent to each other, and a second storage capacitor holding the potential of the one data line is formed by the one data line and the one potential line.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki KASAI, Takeshi NOMURA
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Patent number: 10873219Abstract: Contactless power supply device of the present invention includes: contactless power supply section that supplies AC power in a contactless manner; contactless power receiving section that receives the AC power in a contactless manner; first DC transformer circuit that transforms, to DC load voltage, DC reception-power voltage obtained from the contactless power receiving section and supplies the DC load voltage to first electric load, and that has a reverse transfer function of transferring regenerative power generated by the first electric load in a reverse direction; and second DC transformer circuit that transforms the DC reception-power voltage to DC load voltage and supplies the DC load voltage to second electric load. Accordingly, the generated regenerative power is allocated and made available to the other electric load, and a power storage section is not necessary, which suppresses an increase in the weight and size of the power-receiving-side device.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Kato, Takeshi Nomura, Masayuki Oki
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Patent number: 10839767Abstract: A display driver includes an operational amplifier, a D/A conversion circuit, a resistance circuit, and a resistance element. The D/A conversion circuit includes first and second variable resistance circuits including one end to which first and second voltages are input and another end connected to an inverting input node. The resistance circuit is provided between the inverting input node and an output node. The resistor is provided between the output node and the inverting input node. A resistance value of the first variable resistance circuit is set based on upper bit data of display data. A resistance value of the second variable resistance circuit is set based on lower bit data of the display data.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Morita, Takeshi Nomura
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Patent number: 10810947Abstract: An electro-optical device is provided with a plurality of data lines, a plurality of potential lines supplied with a predetermined potential, a driving transistor controlling a current level according to the voltage between the gate and the source, a first storage capacitor which holds the voltage between the gate and a source of the driving transistor, and a light-emitting element. One data line among the plurality of data lines and one potential line among the plurality of potential lines are arranged to be adjacent to each other, and a second storage capacitor holding the potential of the one data line is formed by the one data line and the one potential line.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki Kasai, Takeshi Nomura
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Patent number: 10797523Abstract: A non-contact power supply device of the present invention includes a power supply element provided in a power supply unit, an AC power supply circuit for supplying AC power to the power supply element, a power receiving element provided in the power receiving, a power receiving circuit for outputting a received voltage, obtained by converting AC power received by the power receiving element, to an electric load, a resonance element connected to at least one of the power supply element and the power receiving element to form a resonance circuit; a power supply substrate configured to include the AC power supply circuit, a power receiving substrate configured to include the power receiving circuit, and a resonant substrate configured to include the resonant element. The non-contact power supply device having a versatile substrate configuration can be provided for multiple types of power supply elements and power receiving elements having different characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2016Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Takikawa, Takeshi Nomura, Masayuki Oki
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Publication number: 20200303962Abstract: A non-contact power feeding device includes multiple power feeding elements that are disposed spatially separated from one another in a movement direction, an AC power supply that supplies AC power to the power feeding elements, multiple power receiving elements that are provided in a moving body and that receive AC power in a non-contact manner, and a power receiving circuit that converts the AC power received by the power receiving elements and that outputs to an electrical load. When a length of the power feeding elements in the movement, direction is LT, a separation distance between the power feeding elements is DT, a length of the power receiving elements in the movement direction is LR, and a separation distance between the power receiving elements is DR, the relationship DT?DR and the relationship (2×LR+DR)?LT are satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi NOMURA, Shinji Takikawa, Masayuki Oki
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Publication number: 20200303957Abstract: A contactless electric power supply device configured to widen a range in which power supply is possible to a moving body in a connection direction by supplying electric power from a supply coil to the moving body provided with the receiving coil in a contactless manner and connecting power supply modules provided with the supply coil, wherein, when at least one of the receiving coils is positioned to be able to receiver power from at least one of the supply coils, the contactless electric power supply device performs communication from the power supply module to an alternating module that supplies alternating current and performs communication from the alternating module to the power supply module, and causes a semiconductor switch provided on the power supply module to conduct electricity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2016Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi NOMURA, Shinji TAKIKAWA, Shinichi KATO
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Patent number: 10783849Abstract: A display driver includes a first data voltage output terminal, a first amplifier circuit configured to output a gray scale voltage during a drive time, and to output a first amplifier precharge voltage during a first precharge period, a first precharge line configured to supply a first precharge line voltage, a first amplifier switching element disposed between the first amplifier circuit and the first data voltage output terminal, and a first precharge line switching element disposed between the first precharge line and the first data voltage output terminal.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Ishida, Takeshi Nomura, Akihiko Okuda
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Patent number: 10714046Abstract: A display driver includes a driving circuit, a first switch signal output circuit that outputs a first switch signal group to one end of a switch signal line group coupled to first to N-th demultiplexers, and a second switch signal output circuit that outputs a second switch signal group to the other end of the switch signal line group. The first switch signal output circuit sets an output terminal group of the first switch signal group to a high impedance state in a transition period of a voltage level of a switch signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Tomie, Takeshi Nomura
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Patent number: 10692640Abstract: A non-contact power feeding coil provided with a coil; and a core that forms a part of a circulating magnetic path that is interlinked to the coil, and used in at least one of a power feeding-side device and a power receiving-side device of a non-contact power feeding system, in which the core is configured to connect three or more core units in one row, and the core units include one or more interlinked core units that are interlinked to the coil and two non-interlinked core units that are not interlinked to the coil respectively disposed on both ends in the connection direction of the one or more interlinked core units. Thereby, it is possible to provide a non-contact power feeding coil that suppresses an increase in leakage flux.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Takikawa, Takeshi Nomura
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Publication number: 20200184917Abstract: A display driver includes an operational amplifier, a D/A conversion circuit, a resistance circuit, and a resistance element. The D/A conversion circuit includes first and second variable resistance circuits including one end to which first and second voltages are input and another end connected to an inverting input node. The resistance circuit is provided between the inverting input node and an output node. The resistor is provided between the output node and the inverting input node. A resistance value of the first variable resistance circuit is set based on upper bit data of display data. A resistance value of the second variable resistance circuit is set based on lower bit data of the display data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2019Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Akira MORITA, Takeshi NOMURA
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Patent number: 10672551Abstract: A power feeding coil that configures a non-contact power feeding system is provided. The power feeding coil is provided with a coil through which an AC current of a specific frequency flows, and a core that forms a section of a circulating magnetic path, which is interlinked with the coil. In the coil, a wire having an insulating covering is wound around a conductor, and a covering thickness of the insulating covering is set so that the influence of a proximity effect that occurs at the specific frequency between adjacent portions of the wire is a predetermined amount or less. According to this configuration, it is possible to freely adjust a separation distance between portions of the conductor by altering the covering thickness; and the occurrence of AC loss caused by a proximity effect may be appropriately suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2016Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Oki, Shinji Takikawa, Takeshi Nomura, Takahiro Jindo
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Patent number: 10616435Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a processor that performs: obtaining first information related to ambient electromagnetic radiation of the electronic apparatus in an environment having at least one other electronic apparatus; and controlling operation of either one or both of the electronic apparatus and the at least one other electronic apparatus with reference to the result of the comparison of a level of ambient electromagnetic radiation of the electronic apparatus to an allowable limit of electromagnetic radiation exposure of the electronic apparatus, the level of ambient electromagnetic radiation being included in the first information obtained by the processor.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Nobuhiro Matsuo, Takeshi Nomura, Yoshiki Nakazawa, Toshinori Inomoto
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Patent number: 10546541Abstract: A drive circuit of a display device includes a plurality of latch circuits that latch grayscale data for each block, a plurality of conversion circuits that convert grayscale data latched in a plurality of latch circuits into a plurality of analog grayscale signals, a plurality of transmission paths that transmit the plurality of analog grayscale signals, a selection circuit that generates a plurality of selection signals for selecting data lines in one block in sequence out of the plurality of data lines, and an output circuit connected between a plurality of transmission paths and the data lines in each block and that outputs the plurality of analog grayscale signals to the data lines in one block selected in sequence by the plurality of selection signals.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Tsuyoshi Tamura, Takeshi Nomura
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Publication number: 20200020284Abstract: An electro-optical device is provided with a plurality of data lines, a plurality of potential lines supplied with a predetermined potential, a driving transistor controlling a current level according to the voltage between the gate and the source, a first storage capacitor which holds the voltage between the gate and a source of the driving transistor, and a light-emitting element. One data line among the plurality of data lines and one potential line among the plurality of potential lines are arranged to be adjacent to each other, and a second storage capacitor holding the potential of the one data line is formed by the one data line and the one potential line.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki KASAI, Takeshi NOMURA