Patents by Inventor Tomohiko Nishimura
Tomohiko Nishimura 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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Publication number: 20240128733Abstract: An attachment structure of a flat wire harness includes: an attachment target member; a flat wire harness; and an attachment part. In the flat wire harness, a through hole is formed in a part of a base material where a plurality of electrical wires are not disposed. The attachment part includes a rod-like part passing through the through hole, a fixing part provided to a first end portion of the rod-like part to fix the rod-like part to the attachment target member, and a retaining part provided to a second end portion of the rod-like part to prevent the rod-like part from coming out of the through hole. An outer size of the retaining part is larger than a dimension of the through hole, and the dimension of the through hole is equal to or larger than a thickness of the rod-like part.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicants: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsumi SATO, Kazuhiro NISHIMURA, Hirozumi OKANIWA, Tomohiko TATEISHI, Tatsuya AIDA, Mitsuhiro KATO, Akinori ISHIKAWA, Kazuhiro KUSUYAMA
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Publication number: 20240109503Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an attachment structure for attaching a wiring member to an instrument panel reinforcement, which is an attachment object, provided near an instrument panel. The wiring member includes a linear transmission member that transmits electricity or light, and a covering member that covers the linear transmission member. The wiring member attachment structure includes a rail member provided on the instrument panel reinforcement, and an insertion member that is provided on the covering member and inserted into the rail member. The wiring member is attached to the instrument panel reinforcement in a state in which the insertion member is inserted into the rail member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicants: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Tatsumi SATO, Kazuhiro Nishimura, Hirozumi Okaniwa, Tomohiko Tateishi, Tatsuya Aida, Yuji Kawamoto
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Publication number: 20210149539Abstract: Provided is a touch-panel-integrated display device that, even in a case where it is caused to operate in the wake-up mode, flicker does not occur when the device returns from the sleep state. The touch-panel-integrated display device includes a plurality of electrodes provided in the display area, and a plurality of lines that are connected with the electrodes, wherein a touch scan signal is supplied to the plurality of lines, and a touch operation is detected based on changes in capacitances of the electrodes. When a predetermined time has elapsed since the last time a touch operation was detected, an operation state is shifted to a sleep state in which updating of display in the display panel is stopped. When a touch operation is detected by a detection circuit in the sleep state, the updating of the display in the display panel is resumed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2017Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: KOSUKE NAGATA, MIKIHIRO NOMA, MASAYUKI HACHINODA, MASAYUKI HATA, YOSHITAKA ORITA, DAIJI KITAGAWA, TOMOHIKO NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 9666140Abstract: The invention provides a gate-in-panel display device capable of preventing deterioration of thin-film transistors during pause drive, as well as a method for driving the same. At the end of a drive period, an active clear signal is provided to thin-film transistors in unit circuits, each thin-film transistor being connected to either a first or second node at a gate terminal, thereby bringing the thin-film transistors into ON state. As a result, the voltages of the first and second nodes are set to a reference voltage. Thus, even if a pause period lasts for a long period of time, the gate terminals of the thin-film transistors are not subjected to sustained voltage application, leading to no threshold voltage shifts.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2013Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Jun Nakata, Masami Ozaki, Akihisa Iwamoto, Tomohiko Nishimura, Kohji Saitoh, Masaki Uehata
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Patent number: 9570030Abstract: A gate driver (24) which is provided by an IGZO-GDM and a level shifter circuit (13) are connected to each other via a first through a fifth wires (OL1 through OL5). Each wire (OL) is connected to a discharge unit (190). If an electric power supply to a first through a fifth output circuits (OC1 through OC5) in the level shifter circuit (13) becomes lower than a lower operation limit value during a power-off sequence which is supposed to remove a residual charge from inside a panel, outputs from the first through the fifth output circuits (OC1 through OC5) assume a high-impedance state, whereupon a potential on each wire (OL) is drawn by a discharge unit (190) into a ground potential. Therefore, residual charge inside the panel is removed quickly and stably when power supply is shut off.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2013Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihisa Iwamoto, Masami Ozaki, Tomohiko Nishimura, Kohji Saitoh, Masaki Uehata, Jun Nakata
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Patent number: 9530384Abstract: In a display device that can use a low frequency drive method, in the case of low frequency drive, in a data correction unit (23) of a display control circuit (200), a pixel grayscale value is set such that the differential value between the potential difference between the pixel electrode and the common electrode when a voltage of positive polarity is applied and the potential difference between the pixel electrode and the common electrode when a voltage of negative polarity is applied becomes larger than during normal drive. With this, a correction amount (shift amount) is made larger during low frequency drive than during normal drive, whereby flickers and ghosting during low frequency drive are prevented.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2013Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kohji Saitoh, Akihisa Iwamoto, Tomohiko Nishimura, Masaki Uehata, Jun Nakata, Masami Ozaki
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Patent number: 9355606Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a data signal line; a scan signal line; a pixel electrode; a transistor connected to (i) the data signal line, (ii) the scan signal line, and (iii) the pixel electrode; and a common electrode, the liquid crystal display device being configured to turn on the transistor during a power-off sequence by causing a change in an electric potential of the scan signal line, the electric potential of the scan signal line reaching a first electric potential at a first timing after the change is initiated, and the common electrode being in an electrically floating state at a second timing which comes after the first timing.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kohji Saitoh, Akihisa Iwamoto, Masami Ozaki, Masaki Uehata, Jun Nakata, Tomohiko Nishimura
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Publication number: 20150332632Abstract: The invention provides a gate-in-panel display device capable of preventing deterioration of thin-film transistors during pause drive, as well as a method for driving the same. At the end of a drive period, an active clear signal is provided to thin-film transistors in unit circuits, each thin-film transistor being connected to either a first or second node at a gate terminal, thereby bringing the thin-film transistors into ON state. As a result, the voltages of the first and second nodes are set to a reference voltage. Thus, even if a pause period lasts for a long period of time, the gate terminals of the thin-film transistors are not subjected to sustained voltage application, leading to no threshold voltage shifts.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2013Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Jun NAKATA, Masami OZAKI, Akihisa IWAMOTO, Tomohiko NISHIMURA, Kohji SAITOH, Masaki UEHATA
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Publication number: 20150332650Abstract: Provided are a display device capable of preventing burning by suppressing occurrence of a VCOM shift which occurs when a liquid crystal panel is driven for a long period of time, and a drive method thereof. Since a source output voltage corresponding to each of tone levels from a tone value 0 to a tone value 224 agrees with a flicker regulation voltage, a shift amount from the flicker regulation voltage is set to 0 mV, and a source output voltage corresponding to a tone value 255 is obtained by further adding +40 mV as a shift amount to 4.05 V which is the flicker regulation voltage. In such a manner, a source output voltage, increased at a high tone level and in the vicinity thereof, is applied to source bus lines SL1 to SLm and written into each liquid crystal capacitance Ccl.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2013Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Kohji SAITOH, Akihisa IWAMOTO, Jun NAKATA, Masaki UEHATA, Tomohiko NISHIMURA, Ichiro UMEKAWA, Masami OZAKI
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Publication number: 20150279333Abstract: In a display device that can use a low frequency drive method, in the case of low frequency drive, in a data correction unit (23) of a display control circuit (200), a pixel grayscale value is set such that the differential value between the potential difference between the pixel electrode and the common electrode when a voltage of positive polarity is applied and the potential difference between the pixel electrode and the common electrode when a voltage of negative polarity is applied becomes larger than during normal drive. With this, a correction amount (shift amount) is made larger during low frequency drive than during normal drive, whereby flickers and ghosting during low frequency drive are prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2013Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Kohji Saitoh, Akihisa Iwamoto, Tomohiko Nishimura, Masaki Uehata, Jun Nakata, Masami Ozaki
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Publication number: 20150269900Abstract: A gate driver (24) which is provided by an IGZO-GDM and a level shifter circuit (13) are connected to each other via a first through a fifth wires (OL1 through OL5). Each wire (OL) is connected to a discharge unit (190). If an electric power supply to a first through a fifth output circuits (OC1 through OC5) in the level shifter circuit (13) becomes lower than a lower operation limit value during a power-off sequence which is supposed to remove a residual charge from inside a panel, outputs from the first through the fifth output circuits (OC1 through OC5) assume a high-impedance state, whereupon a potential on each wire (OL) is drawn by a discharge unit (190) into a ground potential. Therefore, residual charge inside the panel is removed quickly and stably when power supply is shut off.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2013Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihisa Iwamoto, Masami Ozaki, Tomohiko Nishimura, Kohji Saitoh, Masaki Uehata, Jun Nakata
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Publication number: 20150042636Abstract: The present invention is intended to make it unlikely that, in a case where a transistor is turned on in preparation for an operation to turn off a power source of a liquid crystal display device, a DC voltage becomes applied across a pixel even if potential variation (kickback) occurs at a pixel electrode in reaction to a change in status of the transistor from an on state to an off state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventors: Kohji Saitoh, Akihisa Iwamoto, Jun Nakata, Masaki Uehata, Tomohiko Nishimura, Masami Ozaki
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Publication number: 20150009195Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a data signal line; a scan signal line; a pixel electrode; a transistor connected to (i) the data signal line, (ii) the scan signal line, and (iii) the pixel electrode; and a common electrode, the liquid crystal display device being configured to turn on the transistor during a power-off sequence by causing a change in an electric potential of the scan signal line, the electric potential of the scan signal line reaching a first electric potential at a first timing after the change is initiated, and the common electrode being in an electrically floating state at a second timing which comes after the first timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2013Publication date: January 8, 2015Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kohji Saitoh, Akihisa Iwamoto, Masami Ozaki, Masaki Uehata, Jun Nakata, Tomohiko Nishimura
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Publication number: 20140267192Abstract: A stylus pen is obtained that allows accurate detection of a touched position regardless of the tilt of the stylus pen at a time of a touch operation on a capacitive touch panel. A stylus pen 100 comprises a pen body section 103 constituted of a non-conductive member and held by an operator, a pen tip section 102 formed, on one end of the pen body section 103, to taper toward the tip side, and a spherical member 101 constituted of a conductive member and mounted on a tip of the pen tip section, where a contact member is mounted on the pen body section such that a hand of an operator contacts the contact member when the operator holds the pen body section, and the contact member and the spherical member are connected by a conducting wire penetrating through the pen body section and the pen tip section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2012Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Matsuura, Shunsuke Nagasawa, Qian Yan, Tomohiko Nishimura, Shinichi Miyazaki
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Patent number: 8823671Abstract: Provided is a display device with a touch sensor that can avoid the influence of noise originating from the polarity inversion of a common voltage of the display device without using special circuitry. The display device with a touch sensor includes a sensor output readout circuit (21) that is sequentially connected to multiple sensor electrodes in a touch sensor unit (7) and outputs signal voltages that correspond to the electrical characteristics of the electrodes, a sensor control circuit (23) that supplies a control signal to the sensor output readout circuit (21), and a coordinate computation circuit (22) that detects a contact position based on the signal voltages.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohiko Nishimura, Jin Miyazawa
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Patent number: 8723829Abstract: In order to provide a touch sensor-equipped display device that is not susceptible to the effect of noise caused by a polarity reversal in a common voltage of a display device without using special circuitry, the disclosed touch sensor-equipped display device is provided with: a sensor output read circuit 21 that is sequentially connected to a plurality of sensor electrodes of a touch sensor part 7 and that outputs a signal voltage according to the electrical properties of each electrode; a sensor control circuit 23 that supplies a control signal to the sensor output read circuit 21; and a coordinate calculation circuit 22 that detects a contact position on the basis of the signal voltage.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2011Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohiko Nishimura, Jin Miyazawa
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Patent number: 8723828Abstract: Provided is a touch sensor-equipped display device that is not susceptible to the effect of noise caused by the reversal of polarity of the common voltage of the display device, without using special circuits. The touch sensor-equipped display device includes: a touch sensor unit 7 having a plurality of sensor electrodes; a sensor output read circuit 21 that is sequentially connected to the respective sensor electrodes and that outputs a signal voltage corresponding to the electrical characteristics of the sensor electrode connected thereto; a sensor control circuit 23 that supplies a control signal to the sensor output read circuit 21; and a coordinate calculation circuit 22 that detects a contact position on the basis of the signal voltage.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2011Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohiko Nishimura, Jin Miyazawa
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Publication number: 20140067558Abstract: The image display apparatus includes: a switch unit which receives a user control input; an advertisement storage for storing a first advertisement which is to be displayed upon receiving the user control input, and previously storing a second advertisement which is to be displayed at a next power-up of the image display apparatus and a third advertisement which is to be displayed upon receiving the user control input after the next power-up; an advertisement player which causes the first advertisement to be displayed on a screen upon receiving the user control input and causes the second advertisement to be displayed on the screen upon powering up the image display apparatus; and an advertisement manager which updates the first advertisement with the third advertisement upon powering up the image display apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki TANAKA, Tsuneki YASUHO, Daisuke KUSABA, Keisuke IWATA, Tomohiko NISHIMURA
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Publication number: 20130335362Abstract: A touch panel control circuit includes a switch signal generation circuit, a touch panel drive signal generation circuit that generates a touch panel drive signal, and a synchronizing signal generation circuit. The switch signal generation circuit generates a switch signal corresponding to a generation timing of the touch panel drive signal. The switch signal specifies a switching period during which a switching liquid crystal drive signal driving a switching liquid crystal panel is switched to a touch panel drive signal and supplied to a common board that is commonly used for a touch panel and a switching liquid crystal panel. The synchronizing signal generation circuit generates a synchronizing signal that starts switching from the switching liquid crystal drive signal to the touch panel drive signal at a predetermined period.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2012Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Jin Miyazawa, Atsushi Okada, Tomohiko Nishimura, Masashi Mayumi
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Publication number: 20130027338Abstract: In order to provide a touch sensor-equipped display device that is not susceptible to the effect of noise caused by a polarity reversal in a common voltage of a display device without using special circuitry, the disclosed touch sensor-equipped display device is provided with: a sensor output read circuit 21 that is sequentially connected to a plurality of sensor electrodes of a touch sensor part 7 and that outputs a signal voltage according to the electrical properties of each electrode; a sensor control circuit 23 that supplies a control signal to the sensor output read circuit 21; and a coordinate calculation circuit 22 that detects a contact position on the basis of the signal voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiko Nishimura, Jin Miyazawa