Patents by Inventor Tsunehisa KOBAYASHI

Tsunehisa KOBAYASHI 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: 8957848
    Abstract: A data input device includes: an operation section including an electrostatic capacitance type touch sensor; and a control circuit section which determines if a data input operation is true or false and sends an output data corresponding to a sensed data only when the data input operation is determined as true. When one or more of the sensed data are entered into the control circuit section, a coordinate is identified which determines the data input operation as true based on invalidation determination region information previously prepared for each of coordinates corresponding to the sensed data, wherein while the sensed data for the coordinate indentified is entered, the data input operation, which is implemented to a coordinate other than the identified coordinate to determine the data input operation as true among a group aggregate of the coordinates corresponding to the sensed data within an invalidation determination region, is determined as false.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsunehisa Kobayashi, Kosuke Mizutani, Takamichi Kitano
  • Patent number: 8786573
    Abstract: A data input device for an electronic device includes: a operation section having a plurality of capacitive touch sensors to detect a input operation; and a control circuit section that outputs output information corresponding to detected information of the input operation input from the operation section to the electronic device when it is determined that the input operation is performed, wherein the control circuit section is configured to configure arbitrarily a detection sensitivity of the touch sensor before determining whether the input operation is performed, wherein the control circuit section determines whether the input operation is performed in response to a magnitude of an input value of the detected information, based on the configured detection sensitivity, wherein, when it is determined that the input operation is performed, the control circuit section updates the detection sensitivity configured for the touch sensors based on the magnitude of the input value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsunehisa Kobayashi, Kosuke Mizutani, Takamichi Kitano
  • Publication number: 20120249460
    Abstract: An input device for an electronic equipment includes: an input operation surface; an operation unit with a touch sensor detecting input operation on the input operation surface; and a control circuit unit to which detected signals from the touch sensor arranged in the operation unit are input. The input operation surface has at least one coordinate thereon; the control circuit unit includes a first decision information deciding a start of the input operation to a position designated by the coordinate based on a first regulation of the detected signals; the control circuit unit also includes a second decision information deciding a termination of the input operation to a position designated by the coordinate based on a second regulation of the detected signals; and presence of the input operation to the input operation surface is determined based on the decision of the start and the termination of the input operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke MIZUTANI, Tsunehisa KOBAYASHI, Takamichi KITANO
  • Publication number: 20120105368
    Abstract: A data input device for an electronic device includes: a operation section having a plurality of capacitive touch sensors to detect a input operation; and a control circuit section that outputs output information corresponding to detected information of the input operation input from the operation section to the electronic device when it is determined that the input operation is performed, wherein the control circuit section is configured to configure arbitrarily a detection sensitivity of the touch sensor before determining whether the input operation is performed, wherein the control circuit section determines whether the input operation is performed in response to a magnitude of an input value of the detected information, based on the configured detection sensitivity, wherein, when it is determined that the input operation is performed, the control circuit section updates the detection sensitivity configured for the touch sensors based on the magnitude of the input value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsunehisa KOBAYASHI, Kosuke MIZUTANI, Takamichi KITANO
  • Publication number: 20120105194
    Abstract: A data input device includes: an operation section including an electrostatic capacitance type touch sensor; and a control circuit section which determines if a data input operation is true or false and sends an output data corresponding to a sensed data only when the data input operation is determined as true. When one or more of the sensed data are entered into the control circuit section, a coordinate is identified which determines the data input operation as true based on invalidation determination region information previously prepared for each of coordinates corresponding to the sensed data, wherein while the sensed data for the coordinate indentified is entered, the data input operation, which is implemented to a coordinate other than the identified coordinate to determine the data input operation as true among a group aggregate of the coordinates corresponding to the sensed data within an invalidation determination region, is determined as false.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsunehisa KOBAYASHI, Kosuke MIZUTANI, Takamichi KITANO