Patents by Inventor Hiroshige Nakamura

Hiroshige Nakamura 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: 20230409152
    Abstract: A conductive component includes a first electrode pattern made of metal thin wires, and includes a plurality of first conductive patterns that extend in a first direction alternating with first non-conductive patterns. Each first conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of the thin metal wires. The conductive component further includes a second electrode pattern made of thin metal wires, and includes a plurality of second conductive patterns that extend in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and alternating with second non-conductive patterns. Each second conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of thin metal wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshige NAKAMURA, Tadashi Kuriki
  • Patent number: 11782559
    Abstract: A conductive component includes a first electrode pattern made of metal thin wires, and includes a plurality of first conductive patterns that extend in a first direction alternating with first non-conductive patterns. Each first conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of the thin metal wires. The conductive component further includes a second electrode pattern made of thin metal wires, and includes a plurality of second conductive patterns that extend in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and alternating with second non-conductive patterns. Each second conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of thin metal wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshige Nakamura, Tadashi Kuriki
  • Publication number: 20230047806
    Abstract: A conductive component includes a first electrode pattern made of metal thin wires, and includes a plurality of first conductive patterns that extend in a first direction alternating with first non-conductive patterns. Each first conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of the thin metal wires, The conductive component further includes a second electrode pattern made of thin metal wires, and includes a plurality of second conductive patterns that extend in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and alternating with second non-conductive patterns. Each second conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of thin metal wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshige NAKAMURA, Tadashi KURIKI
  • Patent number: 11520447
    Abstract: A conductive component includes a first electrode pattern made of metal thin wires, and includes a plurality of first conductive patterns that extend in a first direction alternating with first non-conductive patterns. Each first conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of the thin metal wires. The conductive component further includes a second electrode pattern made of thin metal wires, and includes a plurality of second conductive patterns that extend in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and alternating with second non-conductive patterns. Each second conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of thin metal wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshige Nakamura, Tadashi Kuriki
  • Patent number: 11179915
    Abstract: A touch panel electrode includes two or more first electrode patterns; and two or more second electrode patterns, in which the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern overlap each other being insulated with a distance of equal to or less than 150 ?m, the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern extend perpendicular to each other, each of the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern is a combination of a plurality of cells formed by thin metal wires, and the area of an overlapping portion between the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern is greater than 1 mm2 and equal to or less than 8 mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshige Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210181895
    Abstract: A conductive component includes a first electrode pattern made of metal thin wires, and includes a plurality of first conductive patterns that extend in a first direction alternating with first non-conductive patterns. Each first conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of the thin metal wires. The conductive component further includes a second electrode pattern made of thin metal wires, and includes a plurality of second conductive patterns that extend in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and alternating with second non-conductive patterns. Each second conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of thin metal wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshige NAKAMURA, Tadashi KURIKI
  • Patent number: 10928963
    Abstract: A conductive component includes a first electrode pattern made of metal thin wires, and includes a plurality of first conductive patterns that extend in a first direction alternating with first non-conductive patterns. Each first conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of the thin metal wires. The conductive component further includes a second electrode pattern made of thin metal wires, and includes a plurality of second conductive patterns that extend in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and alternating with second non-conductive patterns. Each second conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of thin metal wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshige Nakamura, Tadashi Kuriki
  • Publication number: 20200229302
    Abstract: A conductive component includes a first electrode pattern made of metal thin wires, and includes a plurality of first conductive patterns that extend in a first direction alternating with first non-conductive patterns. Each first conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of the thin metal wires. The conductive component further includes a second electrode pattern made of thin metal wires, and includes a plurality of second conductive patterns that extend in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and alternating with second non-conductive patterns. Each second conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of thin metal wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshige NAKAMURA, Tadashi KURIKI
  • Publication number: 20200192504
    Abstract: A touch panel electrode includes two or more first electrode patterns; and two or more second electrode patterns, in which the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern overlap each other being insulated with a distance of equal to or less than 150 ?m, the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern extend perpendicular to each other, each of the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern is a combination of a plurality of cells formed by thin metal wires, and the area of an overlapping portion between the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern is greater than 1 mm2 and equal to or less than 8 mm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshige NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 10653008
    Abstract: A conductive component includes a first electrode pattern made of metal thin wires, and includes a plurality of first conductive patterns that extend in a first direction alternating with first non-conductive patterns. Each first conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of the thin metal wires. The conductive component further includes a second electrode pattern made of thin metal wires, and includes a plurality of second conductive patterns that extend in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and alternating with second non-conductive patterns. Each second conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of thin metal wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshige Nakamura, Tadashi Kuriki
  • Patent number: 10606426
    Abstract: A touch panel electrode includes a transparent base, two or more first electrode patterns, and two or more second electrode patterns. The first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern face each other being insulated, and overlap each other. Each of the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern is a combination of a plurality of cells formed by thin metal wires. The area of an overlapping portion between the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern is greater than 4 mm2 and less than 20 mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshige Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10551978
    Abstract: A conductive sheet for a touch panel having an active area includes a first conductive layer that is formed of a first thin metal wire disposed in the active area; and a second conductive layer that is formed of a second thin metal wire disposed to overlap with the first conductive layer in the active area, in which a mesh pattern is formed of the first thin metal wire and the second thin metal wire in a case where the conductive sheet is seen from a direction perpendicular to the active area, the mesh pattern is a random pattern, an average line width of the first thin metal wire and the second thin metal wire is 0.5 ?m to 3.5 ?m, and an opening ratio of the mesh pattern is (92.3+X×1.6)% to 99.6%. X represents the average line width of the first and the second thin metal wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Hara, Hiroshige Nakamura, Kensuke Katagiri, Masaya Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10528193
    Abstract: Provided are a conductive film in which the area of an intersection portion between a first electrode pattern and a second electrode pattern is defined and is suitable for a touch panel in terms of, for example, the accuracy of detection (S/N ratio), a touch panel including the conductive film, and a display device including the touch panel. The conductive film includes a transparent base, two or more first electrode patterns, and two or more second electrode patterns. The first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern face each other, with the transparent base interposed therebetween, and intersect each other. Each of the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern is a combination of a plurality of cells formed by thin metal wires. The area of an intersection portion between the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern is greater than 1 mm2 and less than 20 mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshige Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10528203
    Abstract: A method of designing a mesh pattern includes: a first step of tightly disposing a plurality of polygons having an arbitrary shape in an area to form a transparent active area; a second step of obtaining a circumcenter of each of the polygons; a third step of disposing one arbitrary point in each of the polygons to be positioned at a distance, which is less than ½ a radius of a circumscribed circle of the polygon, from the circumcenter; a fourth step of forming a pattern to form second cells by connecting two arbitrary points corresponding to two polygons that share each of sides of the polygons; and a fifth step of forming a pattern to form first cells using the polygons, in which the polygons having a random shape are disposed in the first step, and/or the arbitrary point is randomly disposed in the third step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Hara, Hiroshige Nakamura, Kensuke Katagiri, Masaya Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20190373722
    Abstract: A conductive component includes a first electrode pattern made of metal thin wires, and includes a plurality of first conductive patterns that extend in a first direction alternating with first non-conductive patterns. Each first conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of the thin metal wires. The conductive component further includes a second electrode pattern made of thin metal wires, and includes a plurality of second conductive patterns that extend in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and alternating with second non-conductive patterns. Each second conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of thin metal wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshige NAKAMURA, Tadashi KURIKI
  • Patent number: 10492295
    Abstract: A conductive component includes: a first electrode pattern which is made of metal thin wires, the first electrode pattern including a plurality of first conductive patterns that extend in a first direction. Each first conductive pattern includes, at least, inside thereof, a sub-nonconduction pattern that is electrically separated from the first conductive pattern. An area A of each first conductive pattern and an area B of each sub-nonconduction patterns satisfy a relation of 5%<B/(A+B)<97%. The conductive component may be included in a conductive sheet and a touch panel to provide a high detection accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshige Nakamura, Tadashi Kuriki
  • Publication number: 20190333414
    Abstract: A medical simulator has a human body model that simulates a human-body external shape at least from a head to a neck, an oral cavity portion, a nasal cavity portion, a pharynx portion, a larynx portion, a trachea portion, and an esophagus portion, thereby enabling at least training of an intubation procedure to be done. The medical simulator includes: a neck supporting portion that serves as a framework of the neck of the human body model and is provided so as to extend to the head; and a simulated thyroid cartilage portion that is connected by a first spring member to the neck supporting portion and is disposed in the larynx portion of the human body model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Toshiya NAKANO, Masaki SHIMIZU, Yasuaki HIYAMA, Masaaki MATSUOKA, Hiroshige NAKAMURA, Hiromi TAKEUCHI, Yoshimi INAGAKI
  • Patent number: 10437396
    Abstract: Provided is a conductive film for a touch panel including: an insulating substrate including a pair of surfaces facing each other; a detection electrode pattern portion which is formed of thin metal wires formed on at least one surface of the pair of surfaces of the insulating substrate; a wiring portion which is disposed on the same surface as the surface of the insulating substrate where the detection electrode pattern portion is formed, and includes a plurality of lead-out wirings formed of metal which are connected to the detection electrode pattern portion; and a shielding electrode formed of metal which is disposed on a surface on a side opposite to the surface of the insulating substrate where the wiring portion is disposed and at a position corresponding to the wiring portion, in which the shielding electrode includes a mesh-like pattern portion which is formed of metal wires respectively intersecting with the lead-out wirings of the wiring portion and has an opening ratio equal to or greater than 80%
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kuniaki Kyutoku, Hiroshige Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10433419
    Abstract: A conductive component includes a first electrode pattern made of metal thin wires, and includes a plurality of first conductive patterns that extend in a first direction alternating with first non-conductive patterns. Each first conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of the thin metal wires. The conductive component further includes a second electrode pattern made of thin metal wires, and includes a plurality of second conductive patterns that extend in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and alternating with second non-conductive patterns. Each second conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of thin metal wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshige Nakamura, Tadashi Kuriki
  • Patent number: 10386957
    Abstract: The conductive film is configured such that in a case in which a parameter Ca of a first-overlapped-portion in which a thin metal wire constituting a first-electrode and a thin metal wire constituting a second-electrode are superimposed in plan view is represented by Equation (1) of Ca=(A?wa*wb)/d, while setting an area of the first-overlapped-portion to A (?m2), line widths of the respective thin metal wires constituting the first-electrode and the second-electrode to wa and wb (?m), and a distance between the first-electrode and the second-electrode in a thickness direction of a substrate to d (?m), in a 5 mm×5 mm quadrangular region that is set to include a crossing region in which the first-electrode and the second-electrode cross each other in a conductive region, the parameter Ca of 90% or more of the first-overlapped-portions included in the region is 1.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshige Nakamura