Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Nishikawa

Hiroshi Nishikawa 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: 20140024156
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device including a plurality of pixels each having a reflecting section and a transmitting section, the pixels each including a plurality of sub-pixels resulting from alignment division, the liquid crystal display device including: an element layer formed on a substrate; an insulating film formed on the substrate so as to cover the element layer; a pixel electrode formed on the insulating film so as to be connected to the element layer; a gap adjusting layer formed on the insulating film on the element layer including a region of connection between the element layer and the pixel electrode; and a dielectric formed on a connecting part for making an electric connection between the sub-pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display West Inc.
    Inventors: Takeo KOITO, Hiroshi NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20130346215
    Abstract: An advertisement distribution apparatus according to an embodiment includes a user information table, a determining unit, a request unit, and a distribution unit. The user information table stores user information about a user. When the advertisement distribution apparatus is accessed by a user terminal, the determining unit determines whether the user information of the user of the user terminal has been stored in the user information table. When the determining unit determines that the user information has not been stored in the storage unit, the request unit requests an information provision apparatus to transmit the user information. When the determining unit determines that the user information has not been stored in the storage unit, the distribution unit distributes advertisement content to the user terminal using the user information which is acquired from the information provision apparatus by the request unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Akira TAJIMA, Koji TSUKAMOTO, Hidehito GOMI, Hiroshi NISHIKAWA, Taisuke FUJIMOTO
  • Patent number: 8590218
    Abstract: Provided are frame members from which a structure can be efficiently assembled, and a structure using the frame members. On a surface of a vertical frame member 28, there are printed a position identification mark (sectional shape mark) showing the position where a horizontal frame member 34 is to be butted, a nut position identification mark N showing the mounting position of a nut 46 which is to be inserted into a guide groove 22, and a position identification mark showing the mounting position of a bracket 42. The frame members can be efficiently assembled to manufacture a structure, without referring to a drawing for assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: NIC Autotec, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nishikawa, Norio Nishio, Ryoichi Nomura, Akihiro Nosaku
  • Publication number: 20130305799
    Abstract: Generation of cavitation jet in air on a surface of a work roll provides a higher cleaning force than squirting of only high pressure fluid, so that sticking substances on the surface of the work roll are reliably removable. When a distance between a cleaning nozzle and the surface of the work roll and pressure of the high pressure fluid are controlled within a predetermined range, sticking substances are efficiently removable while roughness of the surface of the work roll is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicants: NS PLANT DESIGNING CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Muneshige Ogawa, Hisamoto Wakabayashi, Makoto Katsube, Hiroshi Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130293432
    Abstract: Provided is a MEMS module that includes a MEMS element having a first capacitor electrode that can be displaced, a second capacitor electrode that opposes the first capacitor electrode, and driving electrodes that cause the first capacitor electrode to be displaced. The driving electrodes are connected to a control unit that applies a driving voltage to the driving electrodes and monitor terminals for detecting power. Thus, an element for monitoring power is not needed and a MEMS module, a variable reactance circuit and an antenna device are provided that are capable of realizing smaller size and lower loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Kazunari KAWAHATA, Hiroshi NISHIDA, Hiroshi NISHIKAWA, Toshiya KAWATE
  • Patent number: 8576369
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device including a plurality of pixels each having a reflecting section and a transmitting section, the pixels each including a plurality of sub-pixels resulting from alignment division, the liquid crystal display device including: an element layer formed on a substrate; an insulating film formed on the substrate so as to cover the element layer; a pixel electrode formed on the insulating film so as to be connected to the element layer; a gap adjusting layer formed on the insulating film on the element layer including a region of connection between the element layer and the pixel electrode; and a dielectric formed on a connecting part for making an electric connection between the sub-pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Display West, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeo Koito, Hiroshi Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 8527314
    Abstract: A user terminal is connected through the Internet to a server. On the basis of the identification information of the client inputted from the client terminal, the server extracts an service selected by the client from a database for user management, further, extracts calculated maintenance contents for each service from a database for service management and sends them to the user terminal. Thus, the user can collect maintenance contents, such as the staff capable of providing service, the time until the user receives a service, and the charge, so that the user can utilize the information as indications to select an optimal service such as maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nishikawa, Youichi Araki, Kiichi Hama
  • Patent number: 8503039
    Abstract: In an image reading apparatus, a white reference member for obtaining a reference value used in shading correction in the reading mechanism and an elastic member for cleaning a surface of the transparent member are provided such that respective positions of the white reference member and the elastic member with respect to the transparent member are variable. A controller controls the positions of these members with respect to the transparent member to alternately achieve movement of the white reference member to a position where the white reference member faces the transparent member and movement of the elastic member to a position where the elastic member faces the transparent member. The controller calculates the above reference value using a plurality of detection values read by the reading mechanism through the above positional control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 8431827
    Abstract: Circuit modules including identification codes and a method of managing them are provided. A module substrate includes signal input output terminals and outer ground terminals provided at the peripheral portions of a surface which becomes a mounting surface when the circuit module is completed. An inner-ground-terminal formation area surrounded by the signal input output terminals and the outer ground terminals includes a plurality of inner ground terminals arranged in a matrix of rows and columns. One of the edge portions is a direction identification area. The inner ground terminal is not provided in the direction identification area, and a first identification code having information about the position of the module substrate is provided in the direction identification area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nishikawa, Taro Hirai
  • Patent number: 8391745
    Abstract: A cleaning body includes: a shaft portion; and a porous member that is mounted to an outer periphery of the shaft portion at an incline with respect to an axial direction of the shaft portion, and in which plural cavities are formed, wherein the porous member has projecting portions that project toward a radial direction outer side of the shaft portion in a cross-section along the axial direction of the shaft portion, and the projecting portions contact a body to be cleaned and clean the body to be cleaned, and lengths, along a radial direction of the shaft portion, of the plural cavities are longer than lengths along the axial direction of the shaft portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nishikawa, Mikio Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8363290
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus that feeds a document over a reading glass and optically reads an image of the document at a reading position. A rotary brush type cleaner is located above the reading glass to face the reading position. The cleaner cleans the reading glass while rotating downstream in a document feeding direction. In accordance with a selected reading mode, the frequency of cleaning operations performed by the cleaner, and the rotation speed and the number of rotations of the cleaner are changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Shinno, Hiroshi Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20120281370
    Abstract: A circuit module and a manufacturing method for the same, reduce a possibility that a defect area where an electrically conductive resin is not coated may occur in a shield layer. A mother board is prepared. A plurality of electronic components are mounted on a principal surface of the mother board. An insulator layer is arranged so as to cover the principal surface of the mother board and the electronic components. The insulator layer is cut such that grooves and projections are formed in and on the principal surface of the insulator layer and the insulator layer has a predetermined thickness H. An electrically conductive resin is coated on the principal surface of the insulator layer to form a shield layer. The mother board including the insulator layer and the shield layer both formed thereon is divided to obtain a plurality of circuit modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi NISHIKAWA, Makoto FUJITA, Fumikiyo KAWAHARA
  • Patent number: 8287967
    Abstract: The present invention is a processing method for applying predetermined processing to a workpiece with said workpiece mounted on a mounting stage arranged in a process chamber in a depressurized atmosphere, in which when no workpiece is mounted on the mounting stage, an inactive gas is discharged from at least a heat transfer gas supply hole of the mounting stage in the process chamber so that a gas layer is formed on a mounting surface of the mounting stage. The present invention is also a processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20120255241
    Abstract: Provided are frame members from which a structure can be efficiently assembled, and a structure using the frame members. On a surface of a vertical frame member 28, there are printed a position identification mark (sectional shape mark) showing the position where a horizontal frame member 34 is to be butted, a nut position identification mark N showing the mounting position of a nut 46 which is to be inserted into a guide groove 22, and a position identification mark showing the mounting position of a bracket 42. The frame members can be efficiently assembled to manufacture a structure, without referring to a drawing for assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: NIC AUTOTEC, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nishikawa, Norio Nishio, Ryoichi Nomura, Akihiro Nosaku
  • Publication number: 20120251193
    Abstract: A transfer device includes an endless member caused to circulate by a driving unit, plural transfer members coming in contact with a rear surface of the endless member and transferring toner images on image holding members to the endless member, a support member movably supporting a specific transfer member of the transfer members located at a position which is more upstream in a circulation direction of the endless member than a contact position where a recording medium comes in contact with the endless member and which is closest to the contact position, a regulation member regulating the movement of the specific transfer member in a state where the specific transfer member is disposed at a position where the toner image formed on the corresponding image holding member is transferred to the endless member, and a first impelling member impelling the support member to the regulation member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shiro OHASHI, Hiroshi NISHIKAWA, Hiroki SHIBA, Shinya KUMAGAI
  • Patent number: 8272500
    Abstract: A screw driven conveyance device has a conveyance carriage driven continuously and smoothly irrespective of the presence of an air space between adjacent screw shafts. Shorter auxiliary screw shafts have a pitch equal to a pitch of the screw shaft and are placed in juxtaposition with the screw shafts. The conveyance carriage has a follower roller engaged with the screw shaft and an auxiliary follower roller engaged with the auxiliary screw shaft by deviating a position in an axial direction of the screw shaft. While the follower roller moves through the air space, the auxiliary follower roller is engaged with the auxiliary screw shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nishikawa, Teruaki Nabeta
  • Publication number: 20120236177
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a camera, an image clipping unit, an information input unit, a recording unit and a display. The camera photographs an image. The image clipping unit clips a customer image from the image photographed by the camera. The information input unit inputs customer information which is made to correspond to the customer image. The recording unit records the customer image with the customer information. The display displays the customer image and the customer information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 8240035
    Abstract: A circuit module and a manufacturing method for the same, reduce a possibility that a defect area where an electrically conductive resin is not coated may occur in a shield layer. A mother board is prepared. A plurality of electronic components are mounted on a principal surface of the mother board. An insulator layer is arranged so as to cover the principal surface of the mother board and the electronic components. The insulator layer is cut such that grooves and projections are formed in and on the principal surface of the insulator layer and the insulator layer has a predetermined thickness H. An electrically conductive resin is coated on the principal surface of the insulator layer to form a shield layer. The mother board including the insulator layer and the shield layer both formed thereon is divided to obtain a plurality of circuit modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nishikawa, Makoto Fujita, Fumikiyo Kawahara
  • Patent number: 8173157
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising a phenylamidine derivative or a salt thereof, represented by a general formula, wherein R1 and R2 may be same or different, and represent an optionally substituted C3-4alkyl group; and one or more agents selected from azole antifungal agents, polyene antifungal agents, candin antifungal agents and fluoropyrimidine antifungal agents, and a method for combination use of the phenylamidine derivative or a salt thereof and the agents are useful for treating fungal infections caused by a fungal pathogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Toyama Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20110281377
    Abstract: [Problems] There are provided a chip separation method and a chip transfer method using features of dry etching. [Means for Solving the Problems] In the chip separation method, a multiple number of semiconductor devices or semiconductor integrated circuits are separated from a wafer 100 on which the multiple number of semiconductor devices or semiconductor integrated circuits are formed. The method includes forming, on a surface of the wafer 100, a mask layer through which a line-shaped pattern to be removed for separating the semiconductor devices or semiconductor integrated circuits is exposed; and etching the exposed pattern to a depth equal to or larger than about ? of a thickness of the wafer. One group of separated semiconductor devices or semiconductor integrated circuits has a distinguishable shape from another group of separated semiconductor devices or semiconductor integrated circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Kenya Iwasaki, Hiroshi Nishikawa