Patents by Inventor Yoshiharu Matsumoto

Yoshiharu Matsumoto 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: 20240128786
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a battery pack, a charging circuit that charges the battery pack, a load device that operates with a power of the battery pack, a voltage sensor that detects a charge voltage and a discharge voltage of the battery pack, a current sensor that detects a charge current and a discharge current of the battery pack, and a control circuit. The control circuit calculates an internal resistance of the battery pack based on the charge voltage and the charge current, calculates an allowable power indicating a maximum power that is able to be acquired from the battery pack by the load device based on the discharge voltage, the discharge current, and the internal resistance, and sends a control signal to the load device to cause the load device to operate with a power less than or equal to the allowable power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu MASUDA, Yuri NISHIZUMI, Kazuyuki MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11960664
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen which communicates with a position detection sensor through electromagnetic induction, including a coil, a columnar magnetic core including a through hole in an axial direction of the magnetic core, a capacitor constituting a resonant circuit together with the coil, and a rod-shaped core body inserted through the through hole of the magnetic core, in which the magnetic core includes a front portion, a back portion, and a middle portion interposed between the front portion and the back portion, an outside diameter of the middle portion is smaller than an outside diameter of the front portion of the magnetic core and an outside diameter of the back portion of the magnetic core, and the coil is wound around the middle portion of the magnetic core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20230350505
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen which communicates with a position detection sensor through electromagnetic induction, including a coil, a columnar magnetic core including a through hole in an axial direction of the magnetic core, a capacitor constituting a resonant circuit together with the coil, and a rod-shaped core body inserted through the through hole of the magnetic core, in which the magnetic core includes a front portion, a back portion, and a middle portion interposed between the front portion and the back portion, an outside diameter of the middle portion is smaller than an outside diameter of the front portion of the magnetic core and an outside diameter of the back portion of the magnetic core, and the coil is wound around the middle portion of the magnetic core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventor: Yoshiharu MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11797109
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic pen including a casing having openings, a coil, a magnetic core having the coil wound therearound, and having a through hole extending in an axial direction of the electronic pen, a capacitor that forms a resonant circuit together with the coil, and a core body inserted through the through hole of the magnetic core. The electronic pen exchanges a signal having a frequency corresponding to a resonance frequency of the resonant circuit with a position detection sensor through electromagnetic inductive coupling. The core body includes a pen point portion and a tail portion forming magnetic poles on opposite sides, the pen point portion protruding outwardly from one of the openings of the casing of the electronic pen and being located away from an end of the magnetic core on a pen-point side in the axial direction of the electronic pen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20230273688
    Abstract: An electronic pen is configured to transmit and receive a signal to and from a position detection sensor by electromagnetic induction. The electronic pen includes a coil and a magnetic core around which the coil is wound. The magnetic core has a through-hole in an axial center direction. The electronic pen includes a capacitor that forms a resonant circuit with the coil. The electronic pen includes a central rod that is inserted in the through-hole of the magnetic core. The central rod has a magnet part and a yoke part that holds the magnet part at a pen tip part of the central rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventor: Yoshiharu MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230176623
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including a display element, a first position detection sensor of an electromagnetic induction type disposed on a back side of the display element, wherein the first position detection sensor, in operation, detects a position pointed to on a display screen of the display element, and a reinforcing plate interposed between the display element and the first position detection sensor and having a slit part corresponding to an entire surface of the display screen, the slit part having slits of a first type and of a second type, each of the first type of the slits extending in a vertical direction of the display screen and each of the second type of the slits extending in a horizontal direction of the display screen, the first and second types of the slits being provided uniformly in a manner having substantially the same opening dimensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventor: Yoshiharu MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220391033
    Abstract: A position detection sensor includes a base made of a flexible material. The base includes a terminal section having a plurality of terminal conductors disposed on a first surface of the base. The base includes a sensor pattern section including a plurality of electrode conductors arranged in predetermined patterns in an area that does not overlap with the terminal section on the first surface of the base. End portions of the plurality of electrode conductors are positioned so as to be connectable to corresponding ones of the terminal conductors in the terminal section. The first surface of the base includes a region of the terminal section, a region of the sensor pattern section, and a bendable region between these two regions. Each of the plurality of electrode conductors, which is electrically connected to each of the plurality of terminal conductors, is disposed so as to be extensible in the bendable region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventor: Yoshiharu MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220391032
    Abstract: Provided is a position detecting sensor formed by adhering, to one surface of a substrate, by an adhesive, a sensor pattern section having electrode conductors each formed in a predetermined conductor pattern and made of a wire formed by insulatively coating a conductor. The sensor pattern section includes a first loop coil group including loop coils arranged in a first direction at predetermined intervals, the loop coils including the wire wound a predetermined number of times, and a second loop coil group including loop coils arranged at predetermined intervals in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. Each group of at least one loop coil of the first loop coil group and each group of at least one of loop coil of the second loop coil group are arranged in an alternately superposed manner, and are adhered to the substrate by the adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventor: Yoshiharu MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220137731
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic pen including a casing having openings, a coil, a magnetic core having the coil wound therearound, and having a through hole extending in an axial direction of the electronic pen, a capacitor that forms a resonant circuit together with the coil, and a core body inserted through the through hole of the magnetic core. The electronic pen exchanges a signal having a frequency corresponding to a resonance frequency of the resonant circuit with a position detection sensor through electromagnetic inductive coupling. The core body includes a pen point portion and a tail portion forming magnetic poles on opposite sides, the pen point portion protruding outwardly from one of the openings of the casing of the electronic pen and being located away from an end of the magnetic core on a pen-point side in the axial direction of the electronic pen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: Yoshiharu MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 10994394
    Abstract: The tightening tool includes: a main body configured to be able to be held by a worker and including a turn detector; a head having an approximately rod shape and provided in the main body, which can engage with a tightened member; a head pin configured to pivotally support the head in the main body to turn the main body with respect to the head; and a spring configured to restrict the main body from turning with respect to the head by a compressive force in a longitudinal direction of the head. When a tightening torque reaches a preset torque value, the turn detector is released from restriction by the spring to turn around the head pin in a first direction and then turn in a second direction, and therefore detects turns of the main body with respect to the head in the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: KYOTO TOOL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Yuki Okawa, Yoshiharu Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10960522
    Abstract: The tightening tool includes: a main body configured to be able to be held by a worker and including a turn detector; a head having an approximately rod shape and provided in the main body, which can engage with a tightened member; a head pin configured to pivotally support the head in the main body to turn the main body with respect to the head; and a spring configured to restrict the main body from turning with respect to the head by a compressive force in a longitudinal direction of the head. When a tightening torque reaches a preset torque value, the turn detector is released from restriction by the spring to turn around the head pin in a first direction and then turn in a second direction, and therefore detects turns of the main body with respect to the head in the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: KYOTO TOOL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Yuki Okawa, Yoshiharu Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20200070326
    Abstract: A tightening tool is configured to allow a worker to perceive that a tightening torque generated by tightening a tightened member by the worker reaches a preset torque value. The tightening tool includes a torque value setting unit configured to be able to set the preset torque value to a predetermined value by rotating a rotating member, and a rotation angle detector configured to detect a rotation angle of the rotating member, and output rotation angle information based on the detected rotation angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: KYOTO TOOL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YOSHIYUKI YAMAGUCHI, YUKI OKAWA, YOSHIHARU MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 10525573
    Abstract: There is provided a tightening operation analysis apparatus configured to analyze a tightening operation performed by a worker using a tightening tool. The tightening tool includes a head configured to be able to engage with a tightened member, and a main body configured to pivotally engage with the head and turn when a tightening torque for tightening the tightened member reaches a preset torque value. The tightening operation analysis apparatus includes a motion information acquisition unit configured to acquire motion information indicating a turning motion of the main body, from the tightening tool, and an analysis unit configured to output a result of analysis of a load condition of the tightened member during the tightening operation, based on the motion information acquired by the motion information acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: KYOTO TOOL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Yuki Okawa, Yoshiharu Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10474308
    Abstract: A terminal, in which terminal conductors are disposed, is preliminarily formed on one surface of a substrate. Electrode conductors including covered lead wires are disposed in a region on the one surface of the substrate that does not overlap the terminal, the electrode conductors being bonded to the substrate by an adhesive material to form a predetermined conductor pattern, whereby a sensor pattern is disposed on the substrate. The lead wires of the electrode conductors are exposed due to the covering being removed at ends of the covered lead wires, the exposed lead wires are disposed while being aligned with and connectable to the corresponding terminal conductors of the terminal. The terminal conductors of the terminal and respective exposed lead wires of the electrode conductors of the sensor pattern are then electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: WACOM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10444001
    Abstract: A position detection sensor includes a plurality of position detection loop coils formed on a board made of resin through a thermal process by forming a wiring path pattern made of copper paste that includes copper powder and a binder. Each of the position detection loop coils includes a plurality of first portions that extend on a first surface of the board in a first direction and a plurality of second portions that extend on a second surface of the board in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction. The wiring path pattern is disposed on the first surface and the second surface in a connector section that connects the position detection loop coils to external circuitry. The position detection sensor is capable of maintaining accuracy even though the loop coils are formed on the board by the thermal treatment using copper paste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: WACOM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20190061123
    Abstract: The tightening tool includes: a main body configured to be able to be held by a worker and including a turn detector; a head having an approximately rod shape and provided in the main body, which can engage with a tightened member; a head pin configured to pivotally support the head in the main body to turn the main body with respect to the head; and a spring configured to restrict the main body from turning with respect to the head by a compressive force in a longitudinal direction of the head. When a tightening torque reaches a preset torque value, the turn detector is released from restriction by the spring to turn around the head pin in a first direction and then turn in a second direction, and therefore detects turns of the main body with respect to the head in the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki YAMAGUCHI, Yuki OKAWA, Yoshiharu MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190061122
    Abstract: There is provided a tightening operation analysis apparatus configured to analyze a tightening operation performed by a worker using a tightening tool. The tightening tool includes a head configured to be able to engage with a tightened member, and a main body configured to pivotally engage with the head and turn when a tightening torque for tightening the tightened member reaches a preset torque value. The tightening operation analysis apparatus includes a motion information acquisition unit configured to acquire motion information indicating a turning motion of the main body, from the tightening tool, and an analysis unit configured to output a result of analysis of a load condition of the tightened member during the tightening operation, based on the motion information acquired by the motion information acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki YAMAGUCHI, Yuki OKAWA, Yoshiharu MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 10054466
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electromagnetic induction sensor that is used with a position indicator and includes coils for electromagnetic coupling with the position indicator. The electromagnetic induction sensor includes: a sensor board main body that includes an insulating substrate and a surface sheet attached to a side of a first surface of the insulating substrate, on which side a position is indicated by the position indicator; at least part of conductors forming the coils being formed on a second surface of the insulating substrate opposite from the first surface; and an overlay member that includes a magnetic powder material layer and is adhered to the side of the second surface of the sensor board main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: WACOM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20180059828
    Abstract: A terminal, in which terminal conductors are disposed, is preliminarily formed on one surface of a substrate. Electrode conductors including covered lead wires are disposed in a region on the one surface of the substrate that does not overlap the terminal, the electrode conductors being bonded to the substrate by an adhesive material to form a predetermined conductor pattern, whereby a sensor pattern is disposed on the substrate. The lead wires of the electrode conductors are exposed due to the covering being removed at ends of the covered lead wires, the exposed lead wires are disposed while being aligned with and connectable to the corresponding terminal conductors of the terminal. The terminal conductors of the terminal and respective exposed lead wires of the electrode conductors of the sensor pattern are then electrically connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20180010900
    Abstract: A position detection sensor includes a plurality of position detection loop coils formed on a board made of resin through a thermal process by forming a wiring path pattern made of copper paste that includes copper powder and a binder. Each of the position detection loop coils includes a plurality of first portions that extend on a first surface of the board in a first direction and a plurality of second portions that extend on a second surface of the board in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction. The wiring path pattern is disposed on the first surface and the second surface in a connector section that connects the position detection loop coils to external circuitry. The position detection sensor is capable of maintaining accuracy even though the loop coils are formed on the board by the thermal treatment using copper paste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Matsumoto