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).

  • Publication number: 20160013258
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a reflective layer, a light emitting element including a light emitting layer formed between an anode and a cathode, and a driving transistor configured to control a current flowing through the light emitting element. In the same layer as the reflective layer, a relay electrode included in a current path from the driving transistor to the anode is formed with a gap between the relay electrode and the reflective layer. A contact electrode electrically connecting the relay electrode and the anode is formed as a light shielding layer that blocks light entering the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi KOSHIHARA, Hisakatsu SATO, Takeshi NOMURA
  • Patent number: 9236425
    Abstract: There is provided a light emitting apparatus provided with a pixel circuit which is provided with a plurality of transistors including a first transistor and a light emitting element in which a current is supplied by the first transistor, in which, in at least one of the plurality of transistors, a wiring is connected to a gate electrode at a position overlapping a channel region in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Koshihara, Takeshi Nomura
  • Publication number: 20150379933
    Abstract: An electro-optical device comprises a substrate, a scanning line, a data line, a pixel circuit, and a first storage capacitor holding a first voltage corresponding to a data signal. The first storage capacitor includes a first portion and a second portion connected in parallel. The first portion and the second portion overlap when viewed from a direction orthogonal with respect to the first main surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiko KUBOTA, Takeshi NOMURA, Hitoshi OTA
  • Patent number: 9224908
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a scanning line and a data line intersecting each other, a pixel circuit provided at a position corresponding to an intersection of the scanning line and the data line, and a power supply wiring line that supplies a given potential. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element and a driving transistor configured to control a current flowing through the light emitting element. A gate electrode of the driving transistor is electrically connected via a first relay electrode to a given node. The first relay electrode is formed in the same layer as the power supply wiring line and the data line. The first relay electrode is surrounded on at least three sides by the power supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: SEIKO ESPON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Kitazawa, Takeshi Nomura
  • Patent number: 9208708
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a first pixel circuit provided so as to correspond to a first data line, a second pixel circuit provided so as to correspond to a second data line, a first storage capacitor of which one end is connected to the first data line and the other end is potential-shifted according to a current to be supplied to a light emitting element of the first pixel circuit, a second storage capacitor of which one end is connected to the second data line and the other end is potential-shifted according to a current to be supplied to a light emitting element of the second pixel circuit, and a constant potential line provided between the first storage capacitor and the second storage capacitor in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma Kitadani, Takeshi Nomura, Hitoshi Ota
  • Patent number: 9196195
    Abstract: A plurality of pixel circuits provided in a display apparatus respectively include light-emitting elements OLED, first transistors that supply driving currents to the light-emitting elements, second transistors that turn on and off connection between data lines and gates of the first transistors, and third transistors. The display apparatus has first holding capacitors that are respectively inserted and connected midway on the plurality of data lines and shift levels of driving voltages of the first transistors, and holding capacitors that respectively hold potentials of the plurality of data lines. N first holding capacitors are arranged in a column direction Y, each of the first holding capacitors having an electrode width that is smaller than a width of N pixel circuits arranged adjacent to each other in a row direction X, and that is equal to or larger than a width of one pixel circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Tamura, Takeshi Nomura
  • Patent number: 9184347
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a reflective layer, a light emitting element including a light emitting layer formed between an anode and a cathode, and a driving transistor configured to control a current flowing through the light emitting element. In the same layer as the reflective layer, a relay electrode included in a current path from the driving transistor to the anode is formed with a gap between the relay electrode and the reflective layer. A contact electrode electrically connecting the relay electrode and the anode is formed as a light shielding layer that blocks light entering the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Koshihara, Hisakatsu Sato, Takeshi Nomura
  • Patent number: 9164601
    Abstract: An electro-optical device comprises a substrate, a scanning line, a data line, a pixel circuit, and a first storage capacitor holding a first voltage corresponding to a data signal. The first storage capacitor includes a first portion and a second portion connected in parallel. The first portion and the second portion overlap when viewed from a direction orthogonal with respect to the first main surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiko Kubota, Takeshi Nomura, Hitoshi Ota
  • Publication number: 20150240762
    Abstract: An intake manifold for an internal combustion engine includes branch pipes, each of which is connected to one of intake ports and has an intake passage, valve cases, each of which is provided to one of the branch pipes and connected to the corresponding intake port, branch pipe bodies, each of which is connected to the upstream end of one of the valve cases, valves, each of which is provided in one of the valve cases to change the cross-sectional area of the intake passage of the corresponding branch pipe, and a coupling portion, which is located between downstream ends of each adjacent pair of the branch pipe bodies to couple the downstream ends to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20150236514
    Abstract: The present invention of an electrostatic coupling type contactless electric power supply device 1 has multiple electrodes for contactless electric power supply 41 and a high-frequency power source circuit 5 provided on a fixed section 2, multiple electrodes for contactless electric power reception 61 and an electric power reception circuit 7 on a movable section 3, wherein the electrode for contactless electric power supply 41 and the electrode for contactless electric power reception 61 have base sections 441, 611 with a perpendicular cross sectional shape to the moving direction of the movable section 3 and there are multiple extending tooth sections 412, 612, and fellow tooth sections 412, 612 are mutually alternating and separated to fit together in an interdigitated array electrode, furthermore, the electrode for contactless electric power reception 61 is an interdigitated array electrode with the outer surface of the tooth section 612 covered with a conducting layer 613 and the tooth section 612 intern
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Nomura, Naomichi Ishiura, Shinji Takikawa
  • Publication number: 20150206933
    Abstract: There is provided a light emitting apparatus provided with a pixel circuit which is provided with a plurality of transistors including a first transistor and a light emitting element in which a current is supplied by the first transistor, in which, in at least one of the plurality of transistors, a wiring is connected to a gate electrode at a position overlapping a channel region in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Takeshi KOSHIHARA, Takeshi NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20150068997
    Abstract: Shelf parts of a rack apparatus for an automated warehouse include a hollow placement member and a stopper. The placement member is fixed to a rack main body and has a placement surface onto which an article is placed. The stopper is disposed at an end part of the placement member and restricts vibration of the article in a first horizontal direction. The stopper includes a base member fixed to the placement member, a projection member having a projection extending higher than the placement surface, and a viscoelastic member connecting the base member and the projection member within the placement member. The viscoelastic member generates a damping force when the viscoelastic member is deformed by the shear in the first horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Takeshi Nomura, Norifumi Hamamoto, Osamu Fukuta
  • Publication number: 20150009105
    Abstract: Provided is an active matrix display device using an organic EL panel including: a plurality of pixel circuits each including an organic light emitting diode arranged in a pixel region of the organic EL panel and a plurality of transistors configured to drive the organic light emitting diode; a plurality of scanning lines arranged along a first direction in the organic EL panel; and a plurality of data lines arranged along a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction. In at least one set of pixel circuits that are adjacent in the first direction, gate electrodes and impurity diffusion regions of the plurality of transistors have an axisymmetric layout. Gate electrodes of at least one set of transistors that are symmetrically arranged in the at least one set of pixel circuits are integrated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventor: Takeshi NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20140352644
    Abstract: In an intake air flow control valve device a flange formed in a housing of the intake air flow control valve device is bolted to a cylinder head via a first gasket and a second gasket along opening outer peripheries of a first intake air passage and a second intake air passage, which are opened to a mount surface of the flange between the flange and a mount surface of the cylinder head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicants: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junpei KATO, Takeshi NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20140284571
    Abstract: Provided is an electrooptical device, an electronic apparatus, and the like that can efficiently discharge static electricity compared to related art. An electrooptical device (100) includes a pad (300), a plurality of organic light-emitting diodes (215), a VCT electrode (250) that is electrically and mutually connected to cathodes of the organic light-emitting diodes (215), and a protection element (312) that is electrically connected to the pad (300) at one end and to the VCT electrode (250) at the other end. The pad (300) may be arranged along each of at least three sides out of outer peripheral sides of a substrate on which the electrooptical device (100) is formed, or may be arranged as one of a plurality of pads arranged along the outer peripheral sides of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20140285411
    Abstract: A plurality of pixel circuits provided in a display apparatus respectively include light-emitting elements OLED, first transistors that supply driving currents to the light-emitting elements, second transistors that turn on and off connection between data lines and gates of the first transistors, and third transistors. The display apparatus has first holding capacitors that are respectively inserted and connected midway on the plurality of data lines and shift levels of driving voltages of the first transistors, and holding capacitors that respectively hold potentials of the plurality of data lines. N first holding capacitors are arranged in a column direction Y, each of the first holding capacitors having an electrode width that is smaller than a width of N pixel circuits arranged adjacent to each other in a row direction X, and that is equal to or larger than a width of one pixel circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TAMURA, Takeshi NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20140285405
    Abstract: A latch circuit for outputting data for M pixels present in one line on a display panel in a time-division manner for each pixel, in order to drive each pixel from among the M pixels based on N-bit data, includes M×N 1-bit latch circuits in which N 1-bit latch circuits are arranged in the column direction Y and M 1-bit latch circuits are arranged in the row direction X, each circuit latching 1-bit data. Each 1-bit latch circuit includes a data latch unit circuit that latches data corresponding to any one bit of the N bits at different timings for each row, a line latch unit circuit that simultaneously latches data from the data latch unit circuit in each row, and an output enable element that outputs data from the line latch unit circuit based on an enable signal for selecting any one column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi NOMURA
  • Patent number: 8810860
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a image reader unit and a controller. The controller is configured to i) execute a detection operation of calculating a correction coefficient based on reference image data obtained by applying the light from a light source to a reference unit and receiving, by a photoelectric conversion unit, the reflected light from the reference unit to perform photoelectric conversion of the received light to the reference image data, ii) correct image density variations of the image data caused by orientation variations of the light source and pixel sensitivity of the photoelectric conversion unit based on the correction coefficient, iii) form an output image to be printed on output paper in accordance with an arrangement manner, based on the corrected image data, and iv) determine an interval at which the detection operation is executed, in accordance with a characteristic of the light source and the arrangement manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Honda, Takeshi Nomura, Akihito Takada
  • Publication number: 20140217432
    Abstract: There is provided a light emitting device including: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of pixel circuits that is disposed in a display region of the semiconductor substrate; a first wiring that is formed of a conductive material so as to be supplied with a predetermined electric potential; and a plurality of first contact portions that is formed of a conductive material so as to connect the semiconductor substrate and the first wiring. The plurality of first contact portions and the first wiring are provided in the display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi OTA, Ryoichi NOZAWA, Takeshi NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20130306996
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a scanning line and a data line intersecting each other, a pixel circuit provided at a position corresponding to an intersection of the scanning line and the data line, and a power supply wiring line that supplies a given potential. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element and a driving transistor configured to control a current flowing through the light emitting element. A gate electrode of the driving transistor is electrically connected via a first relay electrode to a given node. The first relay electrode is formed in the same layer as the power supply wiring line and the data line. The first relay electrode is surrounded on at least three sides by the power supply line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki KITAZAWA, Takeshi NOMURA