Patents by Inventor Toshiya Otani

Toshiya Otani 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).

  • Patent number: 9012797
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicular lever switch including an operational lever, a tubular case forming part of the operational lever, and a switch device provided in the tubular case to be operable in an axis Y direction. In addition, the switch device comprises an operational knob provided to be inserted into an opening formed in an operational component in the case, a push switch operated by the operational knob, and a knob holder provided in the case to support the operational knob to be movable forward and backward in the axis Y direction as an operational direction of the push switch. In this structure, the knob holder is fixed and supported to a side of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiya Otani
  • Publication number: 20110200945
    Abstract: An alignment mark having high precision and good visibility is formed in a simple manner without modification of a manufacturing line or a significant increase of man hours and a flat panel display is manufactured at low cost and with good productivity. To achieve this, the method includes a step of forming a photosensitive film on a substrate, a step of forming an alignment mark by exposing the photosensitive film by using an exposing mask, and a step of performing position alignment by recognizing the alignment mark in an undeveloped state of the photosensitive film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Eiichi Uriu, Motohiro Taniguchi, Tomohiro Murakoso, Toshiya Otani, Souji Yamamoto, Toshiaki Fujiwara, Takashi Sesei, Noriyuki Matsubara
  • Patent number: 7355434
    Abstract: A light inspection device for performing lighting inspection of a display panel contains a circuit board having a driving circuit for a lighting display panel; a conductive chassis that functions as the ground potential of the driving circuit; and a conductive support member fixed to the chassis for fixing the circuit board. The chassis and the support member are joined via soft metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuneo Ikura, Takao Wakitani, Toshiya Otani
  • Patent number: 7019226
    Abstract: To enable reduction of the number of components and weight, improvement of workability, and reduction of the costs, a switch contact structure is disclosed, which comprises a substrate 65, a movable block 73 disposed so as to be movable along the substrate 65, a fixed contact 67 mounted on the substrate 65, and a movable contact mounted on the movable block 73, wherein the movable contact is brought into and out of contact with the fixed contact 67 by the movement of the movable block 73 along the substrate 65, characterized in that the fixed contact 67 is formed of conductive wire material, and in that both ends 99a, 99b of the fixed contact 67 are fixed on the substrate 65.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Niles Parts Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiya Otani, Hideaki Akimoto
  • Publication number: 20060022684
    Abstract: Disclosed here is a light inspection device for performing lighting inspection of a display panel. With the use of the device, a display panel can be tested under the display condition equivalent to that of a finished panel as a product, which improves accuracy of inspection. The light inspection device contains circuit board (27) having a driving circuit for lighting display panel (21); conductive chassis (25) that functions as the ground potential of the driving circuit; and conductive support member (26) fixed to chassis (25) for fixing circuit board (27). Chassis (25) and support member (26) are joined via soft metal (28).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Inventors: Tsumeo Ikura, Takao Wakitani, Toshiya Otani
  • Publication number: 20050087431
    Abstract: To enable reduction of the number of components and weight, improvement of workability, and reduction of the costs, a switch contact structure is disclosed, which comprises a substrate 65, a movable block 73 disposed so as to be movable along the substrate 65, a fixed contact 67 mounted on the substrate 65, and a movable contact mounted on the movable block 73, wherein the movable contact is brought into and out of contact with the fixed contact 67 by the movement of the movable block 73 along the substrate 65, characterized in that the fixed contact 67 is formed of conductive wire material, and in that both ends 99a, 99b of the fixed contact 67 are fixed on the substrate 65.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Toshiya Otani, Hideaki Akimoto
  • Publication number: 20050066765
    Abstract: In an operation lever structure in which an operation lever 10 is rotatably supported by a support shaft 9 in a predetermined direction, a movable member 15 is engaged with a front end 12a of the operation lever 10, and the movable body 15 slidingly moves in a predetermined direction by a rotating operation of the operation lever 10, the operation lever 10 includes a lever main body 11 rotated in a predetermined direction by the support shaft 9, an arm 12 slidingly supported to the lever main body 11 a front end 12a of which is engaged in a concave section 15a of the movable member 15, and a compression coil spring 16 to regularly urge the arm 12 in the direction of the movable member, wherein an entire length of the arm 12 of the operation lever is varied corresponding to a rotating operation angle of the operation lever 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Inventors: Toshiya Otani, Yo Aoki
  • Patent number: 6872897
    Abstract: To enable reduction of the number of components and weight, improvement of workability, and reduction of the costs, a switch contact structure is disclosed, which comprises a substrate 65, a movable block 73 disposed so as to be movable along the substrate 65, a fixed contact 67 mounted on the substrate 65, and a movable contact mounted on the movable block 73, wherein the movable contact is brought into and out of contact with the fixed contact 67 by the movement of the movable block 73 along the substrate 65, characterized in that the fixed contact 67 is formed of conductive wire material, and in that both ends 99a, 99b of the fixed contact 67 are fixed on the substrate 65.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Niles Parts Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiya Otani, Hideaki Akimoto
  • Patent number: 6765166
    Abstract: To reduce the number of components for facilitating assembly and parts management, and to ensure prevention of rattling of the movable block, a switch contact structure is disclosed, which comprises a substrate 63, a movable block 67 disposed so as to be movable along the substrate 63, a fixed contact 89 mounted on the substrate 63, and a movable contact mounted on the movable block 67, the movable contact being brought into and out of contact with the fixed contact 89 by the movement of the movable block 67 along the substrate 63, wherein the movable block 67 is provided with a resin spring portion 107 formed integrally therewith for urging the movable block 67 toward the substrate 63, and the movable contact plated or printed on the surface facing toward the substrate 63.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Niles Parts Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiya Otani, Takeshi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20040060805
    Abstract: To enable reduction of the number of components and weight, improvement of workability, and reduction of the costs, a switch contact structure is disclosed, which comprises a substrate 65, a movable block 73 disposed so as to be movable along the substrate 65, a fixed contact 67 mounted on the substrate 65, and a movable contact mounted on the movable block 73, wherein the movable contact is brought into and out of contact with the fixed contact 67 by the movement of the movable block 73 along the substrate 65, characterized in that the fixed contact 67 is formed of conductive wire material, and in that both ends 99a, 99b of the fixed contact 67 are fixed on the substrate 65.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Toshiya Otani, Hideaki Akimoto
  • Publication number: 20030075422
    Abstract: To reduce the number of components for facilitating assembly and parts management, and to ensure prevention of rattling of the movable block, a switch contact structure is disclosed, which comprises a substrate 63, a movable block 67 disposed so as to be movable along the substrate 63, a fixed contact 89 mounted on the substrate 63, and a movable contact mounted on the movable block 67, the movable contact being brought into and out of contact with the fixed contact 89 by the movement of the movable block 67 along the substrate 63, wherein the movable block 67 is provided with a resin spring portion 107 formed integrally therewith for urging the movable block 67 toward the substrate 63, and the movable contact plated or printed on the surface facing toward the substrate 63.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventors: Toshiya Otani, Takeshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 6441327
    Abstract: A lever switch is provided having an operating first knob 14 and a lever rod 3. The lever rod 3 has one end pivotally disposed in a case 6 and the other end disposed to project from the case. The first knob 14 and a boot 22 are disposed side by side. The first knob 14 has a first opening 14a that opposes a second opening 22c of the boot 22. As a result of this construction, the first opening, lever rod, and wire harness of the lever switch cannot be seen from outside, and the lever switch has an operating portion of good appearance in its entirety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Niles Parts Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Shibata, Toshiya Otani, Yasuo Miyase
  • Patent number: 6054972
    Abstract: A passive matrix liquid crystal display device which can display high-quality gradation by reducing cross-talk and improving contrast is attained. A driving apparatus comprises a field memory of picture image data for storing picture images being input from outside; a readout circuit of picture image data for reading out each element in a specific column of a matrix of picture image data; a calculation circuit of gradation correction term for calculating a gradation correction term from the readout picture image data; a memory of scan data for storing scan data in advance; a readout circuit of scan data for reading out specific scan data from the memory of scan data; an operation circuit of each element for operating a matrix of signal data based on picture image data of a specific column being read out from the field memory of picture image data and scan data being read out from the memory of scan data; and a field memory of signal data for storing data after being operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiya Otani, Masahito Matsunami, Kazuhiro Nakanishi