Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Intellectual Property Group
  • Patent number: 8328371
    Abstract: An anti-reflection structure body comprises a base member which is made of glassy carbon and at a surface of which is formed an anti-reflection structure including a cluster of minute projections each having a diameter that contracts towards a tip thereof. The minute projections preferably have an average height of from 200 nm to 3000 nm and an average maximum diameter of from 50 nm to 300 nm, and an average pitch of from 50 nm to 300 nm. An anti-reflection structure body which is easily produced, capable of achieving an anti-reflection effect near to non-reflection, and capable of providing the minute structure even to a member having a high melting point such as quartz glass or the like by transfer or the like can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Tokyo University of Science Educational Foundation Administrative Organization
    Inventor: Jun Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 8324625
    Abstract: An electronic device including a first electrode that is provided on a substrate and includes an Mo—Nb alloy, an insulating film disposed on the first electrode, and a second electrode disposed on the first electrode with at least the insulating film interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a method for producing the electronic device are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Aburaya, Hiroyuki Yaegashi
  • Patent number: 8322514
    Abstract: An article configuration system comprising a first conveyor (90) for transferring articles (B) from an input and a second conveyor (88), disposed at a non-linear angle relative to the first conveyor, for transferring articles to an output. The article processing system comprises a mechanism (30) for transferring articles from the first conveyor (90) to the second conveyor (88). The mechanism (30) is structured and arranged to facilitate the reorganization of articles conveyed by the first conveyor such that when transferred to the second conveyor the articles are disposed in adjacent metered lanes (124a-124f) and wherein the number of adjacent metered lanes of articles conveyed by the second conveyor (88) is greater than the number of adjacent lanes of articles (100, 102) conveyed by the first conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Meadwestvaco Packaging Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Jean-Christophe Bonnain, Pascal Martini
  • Patent number: 8317312
    Abstract: The invention provides an ink composition including a pigment, water, a polymerizable compound having an acrylamide structure, a polymerization initiator and a wetting agent that is in the form of a solid at a temperature of 25° C. and an atmospheric pressure of 1 bar, the wetting agent being included in the ink composition in an amount of from 0.01% by mass to 400% by mass with respect to the polymerizable compound having an acrylamide structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasufumi Ooishi, Yuji Kume
  • Patent number: 8319189
    Abstract: A radiographic imaging assistance device is provided. An acquisition component acquires position information representing positions of defective pixels of an imaging device, the imaging device being plurally provided with pixels comprising detection elements which detect radiation that has passed through a subject of imaging, and the imaging device carrying out imaging by generating image information which represents a radiographic image in accordance with radiation amounts detected by the detection elements and storing the image information in a pre-specified storage region. A judgment component, based on detection region information, which represents a detection region with a size corresponding to the subject of imaging, and the acquired position information, judges whether or not an influence from the defective pixels in a detection region that is represented by the detection region information is within an acceptable level that accepts imaging a radiographic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keiji Tsubota, Yutaka Yoshida, Takeshi Kamiya, Naoyuki Nishino, Yasunori Ohta
  • Patent number: 8317026
    Abstract: A child-resistant package including two panels having one or more blister apertures and a particular manner of accessing the product within the blister apertures. One manner of accessing the product involves applying pressure to punch tabs defined by staggered perforations. Another manner of accessing the product uses tooled access slots designed to receive a tool to peel away tab strips to facilitate product access. Yet another manner of accessing utilizes tab strips, one or more folding lines and one or more crevice forming lines where the crevice forming lines are designed to receive a tool used to obtain access to the tab strips, and thus, facilitate access to the products. Still another uses dual tabs that need to be sequentially peeled away from the child resistant package housing to facilitate access to the product contained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: MeadWestvaco Corporation
    Inventors: Caleb S Loftin, William Roger Rigby
  • Patent number: 8319214
    Abstract: A TFT is provided which includes on a substrate, at least a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, an active layer containing an amorphous oxide semiconductor, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, wherein a mean square interface roughness between the gate insulating layer and the active layer is less than 2 nm, a carrier concentration of the active layer is 1×1015 cm?3 or more, and a film thickness of the active layer is 0.5 nm or more and less than 20 nm. A TFT is provided which has high field effect mobility and a high ON-OFF ratio, and is improved in environmental temperature dependency. Also, a display using the TFT is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Imai
  • Patent number: 8314396
    Abstract: A portable radiographic image capturing device has: an image capturing unit at which is provided a radiation surface onto which radiation is irradiated at a time of capturing a radiographic image, and that captures a radiographic image expressed by radiation irradiated onto the radiation surface, and that incorporates therein a radiation detector that outputs electric signals expressing a captured radiographic image; and a control unit that is connected to the image capturing unit, and that incorporates therein a controller that controls image capturing operations of the radiation detector, and that can be changed between an expanded state in which the radiation surface is exposed to an exterior and a housed state in which the control unit covers the radiation surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino, Naoto Iwakiri, Futoshi Yoshida, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa
  • Patent number: 8312993
    Abstract: A container is disclosed for housing a tray or blister pack. The container includes a shell (40) with an internal volume for holding the tray or blister pack, and a cover (10) with a base (11), hinge (13), and lid (12) for enclosing the shell (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: MeadWestvaco Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Sams, Anthony Fraser
  • Patent number: 8314050
    Abstract: A material for pressure measurement is provided, the material having a substrate made of plastic, a color forming agent layer containing a colorless electron-donating dye precursor and a color developing agent layer containing an electron-accepting compound, the material for pressure measurement forming a color utilizing a color forming reaction between the colorless electron-donating dye precursor and the electron-accepting compound, wherein the colorless electron-donating dye precursor is included in a microcapsule containing an urethane bond, wherein at least one kind of the electron-accepting compound is a metal salt of salicylic acid having a substituent, and wherein the microcapsule satisfies a relation ?/D=from 1.0×10?3 to 2.0×10?2, where ? is a number-average wall thickness (?m) of the microcapsules, and D is a median diameter (?m) of microcapsules on a volume basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masanobu Takashima
  • Patent number: 8314397
    Abstract: A radiographic imaging device includes: a panel unit accommodating a radiation detection panel; a control unit accommodating a control section and a power source section; and a connection portion, a first end portion of the connection portion being attached to a side portion of the panel unit so as to be rotatable around a first axis that is substantially parallel to an irradiation surface of the panel unit, and a second end portion of the connection portion being attached to the control unit so as to be rotatable around a second axis that is substantially parallel to the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino, Naoto Iwakiri, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa
  • Patent number: 8298676
    Abstract: An electroconductive material has a support, at least one electroconductive layer on or above the support, and an adhesive layer containing at least two binder resins between the support and the electroconductive layer. Preferably, the electroconductive layer contains PEDOT and PSS, the support is composed of PET, and the adhesive layer contains a polyurethane resin and an acrylic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kato, Naoyuki Hayashi, Naoya Imamura
  • Patent number: 8298731
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dye-containing negative curable composition including a dye that is soluble in an organic solvent, a photopolymerization initiator, a photopolymerizable compound, and cyclopentanone; a color filter formed from the dye-containing negative curable composition; and a method of producing the color filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Fujimori
  • Patent number: 8299461
    Abstract: A thin film transistor includes: a substrate; and, on the substrate, an oxide semiconductor film which serves as an active layer and contains In, Ga, and Zn, a gate electrode, a gate insulating film, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, wherein, when a molar ratio of In, Ga, and Zn in the oxide semiconductor film is expressed as In:Ga:Zn=(2.0?x):x:y, wherein 0.0<x<2.0 and 0.0<y, the distribution of y in the thickness direction of the oxide semiconductor film is such that the oxide semiconductor film has a region at which a value of y is larger than that at a surface of the oxide semiconductor film at a side closer to the substrate and that at a surface of the oxide semiconductor film at a side farther from the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanaka, Takeshi Hama, Masayuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8299142
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ink composition having excellent ink ejection stability and stretching property, curable with a high sensitivity by irradiation of radiation rays, and capable of forming an image excellent in rubfastness and blocking resistance, an inkjet recording method using the ink composition, and a printed article. The ink composition includes (a) a polymer having a siloxane structure and a polymerizable group on a side chain thereof, (b) a polymerizable compound, and (c) a photopolymerization initiator, and the inkjet recording method includes a step of ejecting the ink composition onto a recording medium to be recorded with an inkjet recording apparatus and a step of curing the ink composition by irradiating active radiation rays on the ejected ink composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Yokoi
  • Patent number: 8293837
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pigment dispersion, including: (a) a pigment; and (b) a polymer compound as a dispersant for the pigment (a), wherein the polymer compound includes a urethane bond in a main chain, includes a pendant moiety containing a skeleton which is the same as a partial skeleton of the pigment (a), and further includes, at a side chain, at least one polymer chain selected from the group consisting of a polyester chain, a poly(meth)acrylate chain, and a polyalkylene oxide chain, and wherein the molecular weight of the skeleton which is the same as a partial skeleton of the pigment (a) is from 20 to 70% of the molecular weight of the pigment (a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Norihide Shimohara
  • Patent number: 8293343
    Abstract: An inkjet recording medium having a substrate and, on or above the substrate, an ink-receiving layer is disclosed. The ink-receiving layer contains at least one type of inorganic fine particles, at least one water-soluble resin, and at least one ethylene oxide adduct of an acetylene glycol compound having an HLB value of 6 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Ryoichi Nakano
  • Patent number: 8291734
    Abstract: A stowable vehicle seat, which is stowed by folding a seat back toward the side of a seat cushion, releasing a floor lock while the seat back is in a superposed state on the seat cushion, and lifting the vehicle seat up toward the vehicle body side. The vehicle seat is fixed by connecting a striker disposed on the back face of the seat back with a dragger unit disposed on the vehicle body side. After an operation to release locking of the dragger unit, separation of the striker from the dragger unit is estimated, and a dragger motor is driven so that a latch of the dragger unit is moved to the initial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Kan, Kazumutsu Azuma
  • Patent number: 8292504
    Abstract: A cassette accommodating device accommodates casings of a plurality of sizes. Each casing is detachably inserted with a cassette installed with a rechargeable battery and a radiation detection unit that is supplied with power from the rechargeable battery and generates a radiographic image according to an amount of received radiation. Each casing is provided on at least one of two connected side faces with a power receiving unit that receives power for charging the rechargeable battery. The device comprises a groove portion, formed with a sloping face that faces one of the two side faces of an accommodated casing, and a bottom face that faces the other of the two side faces of the accommodated casing. The bottom face is inclined such that the casing moves toward the sloping face when the casing is accommodated. A power supply unit is formed to the sloping face and/or the bottom face so as to supply power to the power receiving unit when the casing has been accommodated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akihito Bettouyashiki, Yoshiki Takeoka, Yutaka Yoshida, Keiji Tsubota, Shoji Takahashi, Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino
  • Patent number: 8293846
    Abstract: A composition including a polymer, the polymer having a non-dissociative functional group that interacts with a plating catalyst or a precursor thereof, a radical polymerizable group, and an ionic polar group; a method of producing a metal pattern material using the same: and a metal pattern material produced by the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeyoshi Kano, Masataka Sato, Takatsugu Kawano