Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Azuma

Yoshihiro Azuma 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: 11721506
    Abstract: An electromagnetic device includes a spool including a cylindrical body portion in which a through hole extending to a first direction is provided, a coil wound around the body portion, an iron core disposed in a through hole of the body portion, a yoke including a first member and a second member, the first member being connected to the iron core and the second member extending from the first member along an outer peripheral surface of the coil, and a movable iron piece, which has a plate shape, including a bent portion in a middle thereof. The yoke includes at least one positioning projection provided in a middle of the free end in the second direction. The movable iron piece includes a positioning recessed portion that accommodates and positions the positioning projection, the positioning recessed portion being provided in a middle between the pair of rotation supporting points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Azuma, Yoshikazu Tajiri
  • Publication number: 20220108857
    Abstract: An electromagnetic device includes a spool including a cylindrical body portion in which a through hole extending to a first direction is provided, a coil wound around the body portion, an iron core disposed in a through hole of the body portion, a yoke including a first member and a second member, the first member being connected to the iron core and the second member extending from the first member along an outer peripheral surface of the coil, and a movable iron piece, which has a plate shape, including a bent portion in a middle thereof. The yoke includes at least one positioning projection provided in a middle of the free end in the second direction. The movable iron piece includes a positioning recessed portion that accommodates and positions the positioning projection, the positioning recessed portion being provided in a middle between the pair of rotation supporting points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshihiro AZUMA, Yoshikazu TAJIRI
  • Patent number: 10476241
    Abstract: A DIN rail installing portion structure of an electrical appliance and a socket are provided. A back cover of a socket includes: a fitting groove, which is fitted to a DIN rail; and a claw portion, which is formed on a first side surface portion of both side surface portions of the fitting groove. A first edge portion of the DIN rail is clamped by the claw portion to hold the socket 1 on the DIN rail. The claw portion elastically presses a first edge portion of the DIN rail in a thickness direction. On the first edge portion side of the DIN rail, there is no claw of which a width of clamping the first edge portion in the thickness direction does not change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Azuma, Kiyokazu Matsunaga, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Keisuke Yano
  • Publication number: 20190123520
    Abstract: A DIN rail installing portion structure of an electrical appliance and a socket are provided. A back cover of a socket includes: a fitting groove, which is fitted to a DIN rail; and a claw portion, which is formed on a first side surface portion of both side surface portions of the fitting groove. A first edge portion of the DIN rail is clamped by the claw portion to hold the socket 1 on the DIN rail. The claw portion elastically presses a first edge portion of the DIN rail in a thickness direction. On the first edge portion side of the DIN rail, there is no claw of which a width of clamping the first edge portion in the thickness direction does not change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro AZUMA, Kiyokazu MATSUNAGA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Keisuke YANO
  • Publication number: 20190123458
    Abstract: Provided is a socket capable of efficiently and easily connecting an external wiring connection terminal and an electrical device terminal connection terminal and reducing manufacturing cost and the number of steps. The socket includes an external wiring connection terminal which is connected to an external wiring and an electrical device terminal connection terminal which is connected to an electrical device terminal. The external wiring connection terminal and the electrical device terminal connection terminal are electrically connected by a bar-shaped wire of which a shape is fixed to a predetermined shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro AZUMA, Kiyokazu MATSUNAGA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Keisuke YANO
  • Publication number: 20170154196
    Abstract: The problem of the present invention is to provide a tablet-type portable electronic device that can perform payment by way of a card, as well as having a compact size. A tablet-type portable electronic device of the present invention includes a plate-shaped housing having a front surface, a touch panel and display unit provided to the front surface of the housing, and reading units that perform reading processing of a card related to payment. The reading units are configured integrally with the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventor: Yoshihiro AZUMA
  • Publication number: 20170046774
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is for a user to be able to easily and immediately pay the price of a product without queueing at a register. In this payment assistance device, a product identification means monitors a video, and determines whether a new product has been inserted by a user. When a new product has been inserted, the product identification means identifies the inserted new product from the video. Next, a product price identification means identifies the product price from the identified product. If new products are inserted one after another, it is determined whether the user is inserting the new products, the act of identifying the identified product and product price is repeated, and a total management unit computes the cumulative total of the product prices. The identified products, identified product prices, and cumulative total amount are displayed at a payment terminal by means of an instruction from the total management unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventor: Yoshihiro AZUMA
  • Patent number: 9569645
    Abstract: The problem of the present invention is to provide a tablet-type portable electronic device that can perform payment by way of a card, as well as having a compact size. A tablet-type portable electronic device of the present invention includes a plate-shaped housing having a front surface, a touch panel and display unit provided to the front surface of the housing, and reading units that perform reading processing of a card related to payment. The reading units are configured integrally with the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Azuma
  • Publication number: 20160132700
    Abstract: The problem of the present invention is to provide a tablet-type portable electronic device that can perform payment by way of a card, as well as having a compact size. A tablet-type portable electronic device of the present invention includes a plate-shaped housing having a front surface, a touch panel and display unit provided to the front surface of the housing, and reading units that perform reading processing of a card related to payment. The reading units are configured integrally with the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Yoshihiro AZUMA
  • Patent number: 9323961
    Abstract: The problem of the present invention is to provide a tablet-type portable electronic device that can perform payment by way of a card, as well as having a compact size. A tablet-type portable electronic device of the present invention includes a plate-shaped housing having a front surface, a touch panel and display unit provided to the front surface of the housing, and reading units that perform reading processing of a card related to payment. The reading units are configured integrally with the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Azuma
  • Publication number: 20160048776
    Abstract: Provided is a reservation system more convenient than conventional ones. In a reservation system, a store terminal (20) can accept and register a reservation with a combination of four or more elements including a time, a location, a seat, and a person from a user terminal (50). In this case, in addition to the four elements, various elements such as a menu are subject to the combination. Further, in the reservation system, the reservation is visualized. In other words, a seat layout or the like can be customized on the store terminal (20) side, and a user can perform a reservation operation while visually confirming the seat layout by means of the user terminal (50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventor: Yoshihiro AZUMA
  • Publication number: 20160042326
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to enable the equivalent value for products and services to be paid by means of corporate currency in every country in the world. A variable setting unit (201) variably sets the correspondence relationship between a key currency and a corporate currency according to prescribed conditions. On the basis of the correspondence relationship variably set by the variable setting unit (201), and a conversion rate between the key currency and an exchange currency at an activity location identified by an activity location identification unit (212), a corporate currency conversion unit (221) converts an amount in the exchange currency at the activity location, as recognized by an equivalent value recognition unit (213), into an amount in the corporate currency. A corporate currency management unit (222) uses corporate currency associated with a card medium (C) to execute a process for debiting the equivalent value amount after conversion to the corporate currency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventor: Yoshihiro AZUMA
  • Publication number: 20150339669
    Abstract: To increase the use of storage media associated with a proprietary currency by making it possible to safely distribute such storage media to an unspecified large number of people; also, to make it easy to for a wide variety of businesses to implement advertising campaigns using such storage media. The proprietary-currency management device in the present embodiment is provided with a validity management unit and a proprietary-currency management unit. On the basis of prescribed conditions, the validity management unit validates payments using a proprietary currency that has been associated in advance with each of one or more card media. The proprietary-currency management unit manages additions to and subtractions from the value of each of the card media with respect to the proprietary currency validated by the validity management unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventor: Yoshihiro AZUMA
  • Publication number: 20150317497
    Abstract: The problem of the present invention is to provide a tablet-type portable electronic device that can perform payment by way of a card, as well as having a compact size. A tablet-type portable electronic device of the present invention includes a plate-shaped housing having a front surface, a touch panel and display unit provided to the front surface of the housing, and reading units that perform reading processing of a card related to payment. The reading units are configured integrally with the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventor: Yoshihiro AZUMA
  • Patent number: D707678
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Azuma
  • Patent number: D724652
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Azuma
  • Patent number: D724653
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Azuma
  • Patent number: D725109
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Azuma
  • Patent number: D725180
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Azuma
  • Patent number: D725181
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Azuma