Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Doi
Hiroyuki Doi 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).
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Patent number: 9263482Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus having a plurality of pixels, comprising: a substrate; a wiring layer formed on the substrate and including an insulating film and a plurality of wires; a plurality of lower electrodes formed on the wiring layer in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of pixels; a photoelectric conversion film formed covering the plurality of lower electrodes; a light-transmissive upper electrode formed on the photoelectric conversion film; and a shield electrode extending through a gap between each pair of adjacent lower electrodes among the plurality of lower electrodes, the shield electrode having a fixed potential and being electrically insulated from the plurality of lower electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Doi, Mitsuo Yasuhira, Ryohei Miyagawa, Yoshiyuki Ohmori
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Patent number: 9200524Abstract: There is provided a steam turbine rotor with high reliability and corresponding to increase in length of a high strength steel blade, in which only a low-pressure last stage is highly strengthened. The steam turbine rotor includes a steam turbine low-pressure last stage long blade made of a precipitation hardening type martensitic stainless steel containing, in mass, 0.1% or less of C, 0.1% or less of N, 9.0% to 14.0% inclusive of Cr, 9.0% to 14.0% inclusive of Ni, 0.5% to 2.5% inclusive of Mo, 0.5% or less of Si, 1.0% or less of Mn, 0.25% to 1.75% inclusive of Ti, 0.25% to 1.75% inclusive of Al, and the balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, and a disk having a specific alloy composition is joined to a last stage section of the turbine rotor made of a low-alloy steel.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2013Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Masahiko Arai, Hiroyuki Doi, Shinji Oikawa, Kenichi Murata
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Patent number: 9197830Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: an epilayer; pixel electrodes; a photoelectric converting film formed above the pixel electrodes and converting incident light into electric signals; a transparent electrode formed on the photoelectric converting film; charge accumulating regions of an n-type each (i) formed in the epilayer to correspond to one of the pixel electrodes, (ii) electrically connected to the one corresponding pixel electrode, and (iii) accumulating signal charges generated by the photoelectric converting film through the photo-electrically conversion; charge barrier regions of a p-type each formed in the epilayer to contact a bottom of a corresponding one of the charge accumulating regions; and charge draining regions of an n-type each formed in the epilayer to contact a bottom of a corresponding one of the charge barrier regions.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Mori, Yusuke Sakata, Yutaka Hirose, Ryohei Miyagawa, Hiroyuki Doi, Masafumi Tsutsui
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Patent number: 9062362Abstract: As a precipitate hardening stainless steel has excellent structure stability, strength, toughness, and corrosion resistance, requires no sub-zero treating and is excellent in terms of productivity, a long blade for a steam turbine uses the same. The following are provided: a precipitate hardening stainless steel, which comprises C at 0.05 mass % or less, N at 0.05 mass % or less, Cr at 10.0 mass % to 14.0 mass %, Ni at 8.5 mass % to 11.5 mass %, Mo at 0.5 mass % to 3.0 mass %, Ti at 1.5 mass % to 2.0 mass %, Al at 0.25 mass % to 1.00 mass %, Si at 0.5 mass % or less, and Mn at 1.0 mass % or less, and the balance is composed of Fe and inevitable impurities. The long blade for a steam turbine is composed of this precipitate hardening stainless steel.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Oikawa, Hideo Yoda, Masahiko Arai, Hiroyuki Doi
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Publication number: 20150132144Abstract: It is an objective of the invention to provide a precipitation-hardening martensitic stainless steel having a far better balance between a high mechanical strength and a high toughness than conventional ones as well as having good corrosion resistance properties. There is provided a precipitation-hardening martensitic stainless steel throughout which precipitates of intermetallic compounds are dispersed, the martensitic stainless steel including: 0.1 mass % or less of C; 11 to 13 mass % of Cr; 7.5 to 11 mass % of Ni; 0.9 to 1.7 mass % of Al; 0.85 to 1.35 mass % of Mo; 1.75 to 2.75 mass % of W; and the balance including Fe and inevitable impurities, in which “[Mo content]+0.5×[W content]” is from 1.9 mass % to 2.5 mass %, and “[Mo content]/[W content]” is from 0.4 to 0.6.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2014Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: Shinji OIKAWA, Shinya IMANO, Hiroyuki DOI
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Patent number: 8956471Abstract: A nickel (Ni) based alloy for forging includes: 0.001 to 0.1 wt. % of carbon (C); 12 to 23 wt. % of chromium (Cr); 3.5 to 5.0 wt. % of aluminum (Al); 5 to 12 combined wt. % of tungsten (W) and molybdenum (Mo) in which the Mo content is 5 wt. % or less; a negligible small amount of titanium (Ti), tantalate (Ta) and niobium (Nb); and the balance of Ni and inevitable impurities.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2008Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Shinya Imano, Hiroyuki Doi, Jun Sato
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Publication number: 20150017015Abstract: A nickel (Ni) based alloy for forging includes: 0.001 to 0.1 wt. % of carbon (C); 12 to 23 wt. % of chromium (Cr); 3.5 to 5.0 wt. % of aluminum (Al); 5 to 12 combined wt. % of tungsten (W) and molybdenum (Mo) in which the Mo content is 5 wt. % or less; a negligible small amount of titanium (Ti), tantalate (Ta) and niobium (Nb); and the balance of Ni and inevitable impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Shinya Imano, Hiroyuki Doi, Jun Sato
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Publication number: 20140379280Abstract: A remaining life assessment method for a heat-resisting steel member to be used under a high temperature includes the steps of: determining a hardness of each of a simply heated material and a damaged portion from creep rupture tests and creep interruption tests of a heat-resisting steel material constituting the heat-resisting steel member under conditions of various heating temperatures, loaded stresses and heating periods, calculating a damage rate and a time-temperature parameter, and obtaining a relationship between the hardness of each of the simply heated material and the damaged portion, and the damage rate or the time temperature parameter; calculating a difference between the hardness of the simply heated material and the hardness of the damaged portion, and obtaining a relationship between the difference and the damage rate; measuring an initial hardness in an unused state of the heat-resisting steel member to be assembled into an actual machine; calculating an initial value of the time-temperatureType: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Masahiko ARAI, Hiroyuki DOI, Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Kenichi MURATA
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Publication number: 20140353018Abstract: An electrode connected to a TH pad requiring electric conduction is formed on a bonded surface of a first multilayer substrate having piercing TH to form a solder bump on the electrode. An electrode connected to the TH pad is formed on a bonded surface of a second multilayer substrate to be bonded having a piercing TH at a position opposite the electrode formed on the first multilayer substrate to form a solder bump on the electrode. A three-layered sheet is formed by applying an adhesive as a resin material that is not completely cured to both surfaces of a core material as the cured resin, and has holes at positions corresponding to the TH and the solder bump, respectively. The first and the second multilayer substrates are then laminated having the bonded surfaces facing each other while having the three-layered sheet positioned and interposed therebetween, and batch thermocompression bonded.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Akira SOEDA, Chiko YORITA, Shinichirou TOOYA, Takayuki ONO, Mitsuru TAKAHIRA, Yuuichi SEKINO, Akira GOTO, Yoshimasa TASHIRO, Hiroyuki DOI, Tsutomu SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 8883072Abstract: The present invention provides, in a ?? phase precipitation strengthening type Ni-base alloy, an alloy excellent in heat treatment capability and weldability and suitable for joint with a ferritic steel. Further, the present invention provides a welded turbine rotor having the strength, ductility, and toughness simultaneously over the whole welded structure when a precipitation strengthening type Ni-base alloy having a heatproof temperature of 675° C. or higher is joined to a ferritic steel. A Ni-base alloy according to the present invention contains cobalt, chromium, aluminum, carbon, boron, and at least either tungsten or molybdenum with the remainder being nickel and inevitable impurities, having an alloy composition including 12 to 25 percent by mass of Co, 10 to 18 percent by mass of Cr, 2.0 to 3.6 percent by mass of Al, 0.01 to 0.15 percent by mass of C, 0.001 to 0.03 percent by mass of B, the total amount of tungsten and molybdenum being 5.0 to 10 percent by mass.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2009Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Jun Sato, Shinya Imano, Hiroyuki Doi
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Patent number: 8864919Abstract: It is an objective of the invention to provide a Ni-based forged alloy having good large ingot formability and good hot formability as well as high mechanical strength at high temperature. There is provided a Ni-based forged alloy comprising: 0.001 to 0.1 mass % of C; 0.001 to 0.01 mass % of B; 16 to 22 mass % of Cr; 0.5 to 1.5 mass % of Al; 0.1 to 6.0 mass % of W; 3.5 to 5.5 mass % of Nb; 0.8 to 3.0 mass % of Ti; 16 to 20 mass % of Fe; 2.0 mass % or less of Mo; and the balance including Ni and unavoidable impurities, in which: a segregation parameter Ps defined by a formula of “Ps (mass %) =1.05×[Al concentration (mass %)]+0.6×[Ti concentration (mass %)]?0.8×[Nb concentration (mass %)]?0.3×[Mo concentration (mass %)]” satisfies a relationship of “Ps??3.0 mass %”; and a total amount of W and Mo is 1.75 atomic % or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Jun Sato, Shinya Imano, Hiroyuki Doi, Takashi Shibayama
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Publication number: 20140242030Abstract: Provided is a novel anti-HCV agent including as an active ingredient a peroxide derivative represented by the general formula (I). In the general formula (I), C represents an alicyclic hydrocarbon ring group which may be substituted, n represents an integer of from 1 to 6, and R represents a hydrogen atom or a hydroxyalkyl group. The peroxide derivative exhibits potent anti-HCV activity by remarkably suppressing HCV-RNA replication.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2012Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: National University Corporation Okayama UniversityInventors: Nobuyuki Kato, Masanori Ikeda, Yusuke Wataya, Hye-Sook Kim, Hiroyuki Doi
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Patent number: 8813361Abstract: In a gas turbine blade where a part of the ?? phase precipitation strengthened type Ni-based alloy base material is composed of a weld metal, the weld metal is a Ni-based alloy containing Ta from 4.8 to 5.3 wt. %, Cr from 18 to 23 wt. %, Co from 12 to 17 wt. %, W from 14 to 18 wt. %, C from 0.03 to 0.1 wt. %, Mo from 1 to 2 wt. %, and Al of 1 wt. % or less, in which the oxygen content is 0 to 30 ppm, the Ti content from 0 to 0.1 wt. %, and the Re content from 0 to 0.5 wt. %. A blade base metal is manufactured by the step of stripping, the step of solution heat treatment where the ?? phase is dissolved again, the step of welding in an inert gas chamber by a TIG method using a welding wire where the weld metal can be obtained, the step of HIP treatment at 1100° C. to 1150° C., and the step of an aging treatment at 835° C. to 855° C.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shinya Imano, Kunihiro Ichikawa, Hiroyuki Doi, Katsumi Tanaka
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Patent number: 8801373Abstract: A metal sealing material used in a sealing device which can reduce a gap between a stator and a rotor of a turbine. The metal sealing material used in a sealing device for a stator and a rotor of a turbine includes a surface layer and a lower layer composed of a porous metal layer, wherein the porosity of the surface layer is smaller than the porosity of the lower layer; the porosity of the surface layer is 60 to 65% and the porosity of the lower layer is 67 to 75% or less; and the porous metal layer has a thickness of 0.3 to 3.0 mm and may include, as a main component, an MCrAlY alloy where M is either one of Ni and Co or both thereof, and h-BN as a solid lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2010Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitaka Kojima, Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Hiroyuki Doi, Hajime Toriya, Kenjiro Narita
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Publication number: 20140169973Abstract: A Ni-based heat resistant alloy has a composition of, by mass percent, carbon: 0.001 to 0.1%, chromium: 16 to 22%, aluminum: 0.5 to 1.5%, molybdenum: 0.1 to 2.0%, tungsten: 0.1 to 6.0%, niobium: 3.5 to 5.5%, titanium: 0.8 to 3.0%, iron: 16 to 20%, and the balance being nickel and inevitable impurities. A parameter Ps indicating a segregation tendency is in a range of Ps??3.5. The parameter Ps is represented by Formula (1). Ps=1.05×Al content+0.6×Ti content?0.8×Nb content?0.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2014Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Jun Sato, Shinya Imano, Hiroyuki Doi
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Patent number: 8747733Abstract: A precipitation hardenable martensitic stainless steel excellent in the stability of martensite, having the high strength, high toughness and high corrosion resistance is provided. The precipitation hardenable martensitic stainless steel contains at a mass rate, C: 0.05-0.10%, Cr: 12.0-13.0%, Ni: 6.0-7.0%, Mo: 1.0-2.0%, Si: 0.01-0.05%, Mn: 0.06-1.0%, Nb: 0.3-0.5%, V: 0.3-0.5%, Ti: 1.5-2.5%, Al: 1.0-2.3%, and the remainder consisting of Fe and an unavoidable impurity.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Oikawa, Hideo Yoda, Masahiko Arai, Hiroyuki Doi
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Publication number: 20140146211Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: an epilayer; pixel electrodes; a photoelectric converting film formed above the pixel electrodes and converting incident light into electric signals; a transparent electrode formed on the photoelectric converting film; charge accumulating regions of an n-type each (i) formed in the epilayer to correspond to one of the pixel electrodes, (ii) electrically connected to the one corresponding pixel electrode, and (iii) accumulating signal charges generated by the photoelectric converting film through the photo-electrically conversion; charge barrier regions of a p-type each formed in the epilayer to contact a bottom of a corresponding one of the charge accumulating regions; and charge draining regions of an n-type each formed in the epilayer to contact a bottom of a corresponding one of the charge barrier regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2014Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuyoshi MORI, Yusuke SAKATA, Yutaka HIROSE, Ryohei MIYAGAWA, Hiroyuki DOI, Masafumi TSUTSUI
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Patent number: 8723239Abstract: A solid-state imaging element includes a photodiode formed in an upper portion of a semiconductor substrate to perform a photoelectric conversion, a silicon dioxide film formed on the substrate to cover the photodiode, and a silicon nitride film formed on the silicon dioxide film. The silicon nitride film has a thinner portion smaller in thickness than at least an end portion of the silicon nitride film entirely or partly over the photodiode.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2008Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Doi, Ryohei Miyagawa, Hitoshi Kuriyama
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Publication number: 20140117486Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus having a plurality of pixels, comprising: a substrate; a wiring layer formed on the substrate and including an insulating film and a plurality of wires; a plurality of lower electrodes formed on the wiring layer in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of pixels; a photoelectric conversion film formed covering the plurality of lower electrodes; a light-transmissive upper electrode formed on the photoelectric conversion film; and a shield electrode extending through a gap between each pair of adjacent lower electrodes among the plurality of lower electrodes, the shield electrode having a fixed potential and being electrically insulated from the plurality of lower electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki DOI, Mitsuo YASUHIRA, Ryohei MIYAGAWA, Yoshiyuki OHMORI
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Publication number: 20140105753Abstract: A precipitation hardening martensitic stainless steel is provided with excellent mechanical property and corrosion resistance and contains, by mass, 0.1% or less of C; 0.1% or less of N; 10.0%˜15.0% of Cr; 10.0%˜15.0% of Ni; 0.5%˜2.5% of Mo; 1.0%˜3.0% of Al; 1.0% or less of Si; 1.0% or less of Mn, and the rest is Fe and inevitable impurities. A steam turbine long blade is made of the precipitation hardening martensitic stainless steel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shinji OIKAWA, Hideo YODA, Masahiko ARAI, Hiroyuki DOI