Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Mimura

Yoshiaki Mimura 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: 12154740
    Abstract: An electronic component includes an internal component, an inner case, and an outer case. The inner case is hermetically sealed and houses the internal component. The outer case is arranged outside the inner case with a gap between the outer case and the inner case. The outer case includes an opening. The opening communicates the gap with an outside of the outer case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kasumi Horiuchi, Yoshiaki Mimura, Kazuhiro Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20220037102
    Abstract: An electronic component includes an internal component, an inner case, and an outer case. The inner case is hermetically sealed and houses the internal component. The outer case is arranged outside the inner case with a gap between the outer case and the inner case. The outer case includes an opening. The opening communicates the gap with an outside of the outer case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Kasumi HORIUCHI, Yoshiaki MIMURA, Kazuhiro TSUTSUI
  • Patent number: 9406469
    Abstract: An electromagnetic relay has a movable touch piece, a movable contact provided on the movable touch piece, and a fixed contact opposed to the movable contact. The movable touch piece is rotated by a movable iron piece that rotates based on magnetization and demagnetization of an electromagnet block, to make the movable contact come into contact with and separate from the fixed contact. Operation characteristics are made adjustable by a press-fitting amount at the time of press-fitting a fixed contact terminal provided with the fixed contact into a spool of the electromagnet block along a moving direction of the movable contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Mimura, Hironori Sanada, Hideto Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 9401238
    Abstract: A coil terminal has a winding section comprising an end of coiled wire wound therearound. The winding section is bent relative to a remaining section of the coil terminal. The winding section has a proximal wire engagement portion and a distal wire engagement portion spaced away from each other in a longitudinal direction of the winding section, and an intermediate region disposed between the proximal wire engagement portion and the distal wire engagement portion. The wire end is extended in the intermediate region without being wound around the intermediate region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Mimura, Hironori Sanada, Hideto Yamauchi, Akira Tsurusaki, Shintaro Wada
  • Patent number: 9324525
    Abstract: An electromagnetic relay has a base having an upper surface, an electromagnet block, formed by winding a coil around a spool with at least one end provided with a guard portion and inserting an iron core through a through hole of the spool, mounted on the upper surface of the base such that a shaft center of the iron core is parallel to the base, a movable contact, provided at a free end of a movable touch piece that rotates based on magnetization and demagnetization of the electromagnet block, that is brought into contact with or separated from a fixed contact, and a press-fitting portion that is press-fitted into a press-fitting hole provided at the edge of the outward surface of the guard portion along the shaft center of the iron core. The press-fitting portion extends to the lateral side from a fixed contact terminal that has the fixed contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hideto Yamauchi, Yoshiaki Mimura, Hironori Sanada
  • Publication number: 20150262743
    Abstract: A coil terminal has a winding section comprising an end of coiled wire wound therearound. The winding section is bent relative to a remaining section of the coil terminal. The winding section has a proximal wire engagement portion and a distal wire engagement portion spaced away from each other in a longitudinal direction of the winding section, and an intermediate region disposed between the proximal wire engagement portion and the distal wire engagement portion. The wire end is extended in the intermediate region without being wound around the intermediate region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Mimura, Hironori Sanada, Hideto Yamauchi, Akira Tsurusaki, Shintaro Wada
  • Patent number: 8955971
    Abstract: A fundus photographing apparatus comprises: an anterior-segment observation optical system arranged to image an anterior-segment illuminated with infrared light to obtain an anterior-segment image; a fundus photographing optical system arranged to image a fundus illuminated with visible light emitted from a light source to obtain a fundus image; a display controller arranged to selectively display the fundus image and the anterior-segment image on a monitor; a photographing switch for inputting a photographing start signal to start photographing using the fundus photographing optical system; and a time informing part arranged to inform an elapsed time after the photographing start signal is input with the photographing switch or an elapsed time after the visible light is emitted from the light source, wherein the display controller displays the elapsed time informed by the time informing part together with the anterior-segment image on the monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Ichikawa, Yoshiaki Mimura
  • Publication number: 20140253267
    Abstract: An electromagnetic relay has a movable touch piece, a movable contact provided on the movable touch piece, and a fixed contact opposed to the movable contact. The movable touch piece is rotated by a movable iron piece that rotates based on magnetization and demagnetization of an electromagnet block, to make the movable contact come into contact with and separate from the fixed contact. Operation characteristics are made adjustable by a press-fitting amount at the time of press-fitting a fixed contact terminal provided with the fixed contact into a spool of the electromagnet block along a moving direction of the movable contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Mimura, Hironori Sanada, Hideto Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20140253266
    Abstract: An electromagnetic relay has a base having an upper surface, an electromagnet block, formed by winding a coil around a spool with at least one end provided with a guard portion and inserting an iron core through a through hole of the spool, mounted on the upper surface of the base such that a shaft center of the iron core is parallel to the base, a movable contact, provided at a free end of a movable touch piece that rotates based on magnetization and demagnetization of the electromagnet block, that is brought into contact with or separated from a fixed contact, and a press-fitting portion that is press-fitted into a press-fitting hole provided at the edge of the outward surface of the guard portion along the shaft center of the iron core. The press-fitting portion extends to the lateral side from a fixed contact terminal that has the fixed contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hideto Yamauchi, Yoshiaki Mimura, Hironori Sanada
  • Publication number: 20140253269
    Abstract: An electromagnetic relay has a base having an upper surface, an electromagnet block, formed by inserting an iron core through a through hole of a spool wound with a coil, mounted on the upper surface of the base such that a shaft center of the iron core is parallel to the base, and a casing fitted to the base to cover the electromagnet block. Guard portions provided on both sides of the spool are held between the base and the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hideto Yamauchi, Yoshiaki Mimura, Hironori Sanada
  • Patent number: 8362857
    Abstract: A contact switch structure has a touch piece, a movable contact disposed on the touch piece, a fixed contact disposed opposite the movable contact, and a guide unit that is provided in a side region with respect to an operating range of the movable touch piece to control an air flow. The movable contact is opened and closed with respect to the fixed contact by operating the movable touch piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Tsutsui, Jun Sasaki, Yoshiaki Mimura
  • Publication number: 20120224141
    Abstract: A fundus photographing apparatus comprises: an anterior-segment observation optical system arranged to image an anterior-segment illuminated with infrared light to obtain an anterior-segment image; a fundus photographing optical system arranged to image a fundus illuminated with visible light emitted from a light source to obtain a fundus image; a display controller arranged to selectively display the fundus image and the anterior-segment image on a monitor; a photographing switch for inputting a photographing start signal to start photographing using the fundus photographing optical system; and a time informing part arranged to inform an elapsed time after the photographing start signal is input with the photographing switch or an elapsed time after the visible light is emitted from the light source, wherein the display controller displays the elapsed time informed by the time informing part together with the anterior-segment image on the monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki ICHIKAWA, Yoshiaki MIMURA
  • Publication number: 20110221549
    Abstract: A contact switch structure has a touch piece, a movable contact disposed on the touch piece, a fixed contact disposed opposite the movable contact, and a guide unit that is provided in a side region with respect to an operating range of the movable touch piece to control an air flow. The movable contact is opened and closed with respect to the fixed contact by operating the movable touch piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Tsutsui, Jun Sasaki, Yoshiaki Mimura
  • Patent number: 7837329
    Abstract: A fundus camera favorably performing focusing on a fundus of an examinee's eye without a black dot plate in a target projection optical system comprises an illumination optical system comprising a light source and an objective lens, a photographing optical system comprising a focusing lens movable in the optical axis direction and a diopter correction lens to correct a diopter of severe ametropia, a first moving mechanism comprising a first driving unit moving the focusing lens, a focus detection optical system comprising a projection optical system comprising a light source and a photo-receiving optical system comprising a photodetector, a second moving mechanism comprising a second driving unit moving a part of the detection optical system including at least one of the projection light source and the photodetector in the optical axis direction, a monitor, and a control unit controlling the second unit in conjunction with movement of the focusing lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Yoshino, Yoshiaki Mimura, Akira Tawada, Naoki Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 7654670
    Abstract: An electric joystick mechanism for an ophthalmic apparatus which is capable of improving manipulation performance of a joystick and is simple in structure comprises a base, a joystick having a shaft, a driving unit having a motor for moving an ophthalmic examination unit horizontally, and a control unit for controlling the driving unit in response to tilting manipulation of the joystick by an examiner, wherein the control unit performs first control of finely moving the examination unit by controlling the driving unit based on a manipulation signal of the joystick, and second control of roughly moving the examination unit by controlling the driving unit when tilting condition of the joystick becomes a predetermined tilting condition, and in the second control, velocity of driving of the driving unit is controlled based on velocity of the tilting manipulation of the joystick in the first control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Mimura
  • Patent number: 7631971
    Abstract: To provide an ophthalmic apparatus by which an examiner can provide assistance such as lifting an examinee's eyelid while easily observing an observation image of an examinee's eye displayed on a monitor. The ophthalmic apparatus has a measurement part including a measurement optical system for examining or measuring the examinee's eye, a fixed support part which supports the measurement part to be movable, an observation optical system provided in the measurement part and having an image-pickup element, for observing an anterior segment of the eye, a monitor which displays an image of the anterior segment picked up by the element, and a holding unit which holds the monitor to be movable with respect to the measurement part or the fixed support part to change a placement position of the monitor between a first position where its screen is approximately vertical and a second position where the screen is approximately horizontal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Mimura
  • Publication number: 20090244483
    Abstract: A fundus camera favorably performing focusing on a fundus of an examinee's eye without a black dot plate in a target projection optical system comprises an illumination optical system comprising a light source and an objective lens, a photographing optical system comprising a focusing lens movable in the optical axis direction and a diopter correction lens to correct a diopter of severe ametropia, a first moving mechanism comprising a first driving unit moving the focusing lens, a focus detection optical system comprising a projection optical system comprising a light source and a photo-receiving optical system comprising a photodetector, a second moving mechanism comprising a second driving unit moving a part of the detection optical system including at least one of the projection light source and the photodetector in the optical axis direction, a monitor, and a control unit controlling the second unit in conjunction with movement of the focusing lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki YOSHINO, Yoshiaki MIMURA, Akira TAWADA, Naoki ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 7588336
    Abstract: An apparatus that includes an intraocular pressure measurement part having a blowing unit, an optical characteristics measurement part, a main body having the above measurement parts, a measurement part shifting unit bringing one of the measurement parts to a measurable state, a working distance detecting unit having a projection optical system and a photo-receiving optical system, a control part judging whether to continue shifting the intraocular pressure measurement part to the measurable state based on a detection result and controlling the shifting unit based on a judgment result, and a detection unit directly or indirectly detecting whether light photo-received on the photo-receiving optical system is target light reflected from a cornea, wherein when the light is not the target light, the control part judges it proper to continue shifting and controls the shifting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Honda, Yoshiaki Mimura
  • Patent number: 7524063
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus capable of performing smooth examination. The apparatus includes a chin rest on which a chin of an examinee is placed, a chin rest moving unit which puts the chin rest into up/down movement, an examination unit which has an examination optical system for examining an eye of the examinee, a first moving unit which puts the examination unit into up/down movement with respect to the eye, an alignment condition detection unit which detects an alignment condition of the examination unit with respect to the eye, and a control unit which drives and controls the chin rest moving unit based on at least any one of a possible range of the up/down movement and a limit position of the up/down movement of the examination unit as well as a detection result obtained by the alignment condition detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Mimura
  • Patent number: 7515321
    Abstract: A multifunction ophthalmic apparatus, capable of efficiently measuring and examining eye characteristics respectively, has an measurement part including a unit blowing fluid to a cornea via a nozzle for measuring intraocular pressure of an examinee's eye, a reflection member having a reflection surface, arranged insertably and removably between the eye and the nozzle, an examination part storing an optical system, which photo-receives reflection light from the eye reflected by the member for examination, a main body storing the parts, a first unit moving the body relative to the eye in working distance direction, a second unit moving the measurement part relative to the body in the direction, a third moving unit inserting and removing the member, a device for emitting a switching signal between a first mode for examination and a second mode for measurement, and a unit controlling driving of the second and third moving units on the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Nidek Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Mimura, Mikio Kurachi, Naoto Honda