Patents by Inventor Yuichiro Takai

Yuichiro Takai 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: 8857276
    Abstract: A pressure detection unit includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are disposed in opposition to each other and subject to load from the outside, a pressure detection portion having a pair of electrodes provided between the first substrate and the second substrate and in the first substrate and the second substrate, and electrically conductive pressure-sensitive ink disposed between the pair of electrodes and having electrical characteristics which varies according to the load, and a load transmission member disposed between the first substrate and the pressure detection portion and/or between the second substrate and the pressure detection portion, the load transmission member transmitting the load to the pressure detection portion in a concentrated manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Suzuki, Yuko Endo, Yoshihiro Kai, Yuichiro Takai
  • Patent number: 8833184
    Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a pressure-sensitive sensor capable of layering a pressure-sensitive layer and electrodes with high productivity, facilitating control of contact between the pressure-sensitive layer and the electrodes by loading, achieving good reproducibility of a resistance value generated by loading between the pressure-sensitive ink layer and the electrodes, and measuring pressure with high accuracy. The pressure-sensitive sensor comprises a pair of electrodes 16a and 16b formed on a substrate film 31, and a pressure-sensitive ink layer 30 juxtaposed to the electrodes on the substrate, the pressure-sensitive ink layer being variable in electrical properties in response to an applied pressing force, wherein a portion of the substrate film 31 having the pressure-sensitive ink layer 30 formed thereon is bent inward to allow the pressure-sensitive ink layer 30 to come into contact with the pair of electrodes 16a and 16b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hoshino, Yuichiro Takai, Yoshihiro Kai
  • Patent number: 8749508
    Abstract: A pressure sensitive conductive member is arranged in a through hole of a base-material bonding layer so as to be in contact with a peripheral-switch upper electrode and a peripheral-switch lower electrode, and when a force applied to a peripheral switch is transmitted to the pressure sensitive conductive member through an upper electrode base material and the upper electrode, a current flows, so that the upper electrode and the lower electrode are electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Takai, Takao Hashimoto, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Kai, Yuko Endo
  • Patent number: 8698777
    Abstract: [Subject] To provide a mount structure of a touch input device having a pressure sensitive sensor in which visibility can be prevented from being lowered even when the pressure sensitive sensor is mounted, water-proofness and dust-proofness are excellent, and a pressure can be easily detected with high measurement accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuko Endo, Yuichiro Takai, Yoshihiro Kai, Takahiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8658919
    Abstract: A multi-touch panel includes a first substrate for receiving coordinate input, a second substrate provided to face the first substrate, a first conductive film formed on the first substrate; and a second conductive film formed on the second substrate. At least one of the first conductive film and the second conductive film is divided into a plurality of strip regions to configure a plurality of strip electrodes. At least one end of each of the strip electrodes has a narrowed width portion, and the strip electrodes have widths different from one another at the narrowed width portion in accordance with lengths of the drawing wires that are connected to the ends provided with the narrowed width portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuto Nakamura, Yuichiro Takai, Tomohiro Yamaoka, Seiko Hirai
  • Publication number: 20130333922
    Abstract: There is provided a spacerless input device that suppresses reflection at an interface, prevents generation of Newton's rings, improves visuality, does not operate erroneously even with no provision of a dot spacer, and has a pressure sensitive function even responsive to input with a solid matter. In an input device of a resistive film type accepting multiple touches, a pressure-sensitive conductive layer and an intermediate layer are filled in a gap between a surface provided with an upper transparent electrode group of an upper transparent electrode base member and a surface provided with a lower transparent electrode group of a lower transparent electrode base member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: NISSHA PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kai, Junpei Morita, Takao Hashimoto, Junichi Shibata, Yuichiro Takai, Yuko Endo
  • Patent number: 8502797
    Abstract: A gap between an upper transparent electrode base member (1) and a lower transparent electrode base member (2) is filled with a transparent adhesive layer (3) as a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, to eliminate an air layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Hashimoto, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Kai, Yuichiro Takai, Yuko Endo, Ryomei Omote
  • Patent number: 8482541
    Abstract: A gap between an upper transparent electrode base member and a lower transparent electrode base member is filled with a transparent adhesive layer as a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, to eliminate an air layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Hashimoto, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Kai, Yuichiro Takai, Yuko Endo, Ryomei Omote
  • Publication number: 20130169589
    Abstract: A pressure detection unit is disposed in a peripheral portion of a panel member of an information input device in order to detect a press operation to the panel member. The pressure detection unit includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate, pressure sensitive layers disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and a first electrode provided on the first substrate and a second electrode provided on the second substrate for detecting resistance change via the pressure sensitive layers, respectively, the first electrode and the second electrode being provided at positions not facing each other on normal lines of the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: NISSHA PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Suzuki, Yoshihiro Kai, Yuko Endo, Kazumasa Takahashi, Yuichiro Takai
  • Publication number: 20130063387
    Abstract: A pressure sensitive conductive member is arranged in a through hole of a base-material bonding layer so as to be in contact with a peripheral-switch upper electrode and a peripheral-switch lower electrode, and when a force applied to a peripheral switch is transmitted to the pressure sensitive conductive member through an upper electrode base material and the upper electrode, a current flows, so that the upper electrode and the lower electrode are electrically connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventors: Yuichiro Takai, Takao Hashimoto, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Kai, Yuko Endo
  • Publication number: 20120327023
    Abstract: A gap between an upper transparent electrode base member (1) and a lower transparent electrode base member (2) is filled with a transparent adhesive layer (3) as a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, to eliminate an air layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Takao HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Kai, Yuichiro Takai, Yuko Endo, Ryomei Omote
  • Publication number: 20120293298
    Abstract: There is provided a multi-touch panel that includes equipotential line distortion correctors each for realizing an equipotential line with no distortion in a simple structure, even in a case where drawing wires have different length for respective input areas. The multi-touch panel includes a first conductive film and a second conductive film that are formed respectively on a first substrate 3 and a second substrate on surfaces facing each other. At least one of the first conductive film and the second conductive film is divided into a plurality of strip regions so as to configure a plurality of strip electrodes 5 (11). The strip electrodes each have a first end connected to a drawing wire 17 (19) that starts at the first end and ends at an external terminal 18 provided at a peripheral edge of the first or second substrate. The strip electrodes each have a second end connected to a drawing wire 17 (19) that starts at the second end and ends at the external terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventors: Kazuto Nakamura, Yuichiro Takai, Tomohiro Yamaoka, Seiko Hirai
  • Publication number: 20120256865
    Abstract: A gap between an upper transparent electrode base member (1) and a lower transparent electrode base member (2) is filled with a transparent adhesive layer (3) as a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, to eliminate an air layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventors: Takao Hashimoto, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Kai, Yuichiro Takai, Yuko Endo, Ryomei Omote
  • Publication number: 20120204657
    Abstract: A pressure detection unit includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are disposed in opposition to each other and subject to load from the outside, a pressure detection portion having a pair of electrodes provided between the first substrate and the second substrate and in the first substrate and the second substrate, and electrically conductive pressure-sensitive ink disposed between the pair of electrodes and having electrical characteristics which varies according to the load, and a load transmission member disposed between the first substrate and the pressure detection portion and/or between the second substrate and the pressure detection portion, the load transmission member transmitting the load to the pressure detection portion in a concentrated manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: NISSHA PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Suzuki, Yuko Endo, Yoshihiro Kai, Yuichiro Takai
  • Patent number: 8243225
    Abstract: An electronic device having a protection panel includes: a display device (3) having a display part (3A); a housing (2) for mounting the display device (3) therein which has a display window (2A) including an opening for allowing the display part (3A) to face externally and a supporting portion (2b) in a shape of a frame; a protection panel (4) fitted into the display window (2A), whose back side rim portion is supported by the supporting portion (2b); and a pressure-sensitive conductive print layer (30) which is disposed between the protection panel (4) and the supporting portion (2b) and configured to detect a pressing operation on the protection panel (4), and includes a resin having a glass-transition temperature (Tg) in a temperature range higher than room temperature as binder, and a conductive material dispersed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kai, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Yuichiro Takai
  • Publication number: 20120182249
    Abstract: [Subject] To provide a mount structure of a touch input device having a pressure sensitive sensor in which visibility can be prevented from being lowered even when the pressure sensitive sensor is mounted, water-proofness and dust-proofness are excellent, and a pressure can be easily detected with high measurement accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventors: Yuko Endo, Yuichiro Takai, Yoshihiro Kai, Takahiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120098767
    Abstract: An information input apparatus includes a panel member having a touch type information input function, a package having a support portion for supporting the panel member, a pressure detection portion provided between/across the panel member and the support portion for detecting a pressure operation force to the panel member, and an initial load applying portion provided between/across/across the panel member and the support portion and configured to draw the panel member and the support portion toward each other, thereby to apply an initial load to the pressure detection portion, so that an information input operation corresponding to a pressing force to the panel member can be performed speedily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: NISSHA PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Takai, Jun Shimizu, Seiko Hirai, Ryomei Omote, Yoshihiro Kai, Takahiro Suzuki, Yuko Endo
  • Patent number: 8094134
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a touch panel having a press detection function, which makes it possible to suppress degradation of visibility of a display unit of a display device even when mounted on an electronic device, and also to improve a pressure measuring precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Suzuki, Yoshihiro Kai, Yuko Endo, Yuichiro Takai, Jun Shimizu, Yoshitaka Yamaoka, Shuzo Okumura, Seiko Hirai, Yohko Imai
  • Publication number: 20110290038
    Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a pressure-sensitive sensor capable of layering a pressure-sensitive layer and electrodes with high productivity, facilitating control of contact between the pressure-sensitive layer and the electrodes by loading, achieving good reproducibility of a resistance value generated by loading between the pressure-sensitive ink layer and the electrodes, and measuring pressure with high accuracy. The pressure-sensitive sensor comprises a pair of electrodes 16a and 16b formed on a substrate film 31, and a pressure-sensitive ink layer 30 juxtaposed to the electrodes on the substrate, the pressure-sensitive ink layer being variable in electrical properties in response to an applied pressing force, wherein a portion of the substrate film 31 having the pressure-sensitive ink layer 30 formed thereon is bent inward to allow the pressure-sensitive ink layer 30 to come into contact with the pair of electrodes 16a and 16b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: NISSHA PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hoshino, Yuichiro Takai, Yoshihiro Kai
  • Publication number: 20110198712
    Abstract: A pressure sensor (40) comprises a pair of electrodes (16a), (16b), a base film (31) on which at least one electrode is disposed, an upper film (6) facing the base film (31), a pressure sensitive ink layer (30) disposed so as to be able to cover the pair of electrodes (16a, 16b) and having electrical characteristics changed by applied pressing force, and a spacer (10) having adhesive properties and interposed between the base film (31) and the upper film (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: NISSHA PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuzo Okumura, Ryomei Omote, Yoshihiro Kai, Yuichiro Takai