Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Honda

Kazuhiro Honda 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: 11971633
    Abstract: An electrode structure includes: a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged separately from each other; and a plurality of dielectric layers laminated in a first direction with respect to the plurality of pixel electrodes, in which the plurality of dielectric layers includes: a first dielectric layer that spreads over the plurality of pixel electrodes in a direction intersecting with the first direction; and a second dielectric layer that includes dielectric material having a refractive index higher than that of the first dielectric layer, sandwiches the first dielectric layer together with the plurality of pixel electrodes, and has a slit at a position overlapping space between pixel electrodes adjacent when viewed from the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Sakairi, Tomoaki Honda, Tsuyoshi Okazaki, Keiichi Maeda, Chiho Araki, Katsunori Dai, Shunsuke Narui, Kunihiko Hikichi, Kouta Fukumoto, Toshiaki Okada, Takuma Matsuno, Yuu Kawaguchi, Yuuji Adachi, Koichi Amari, Hideki Kawaguchi, Seiya Haraguchi, Takayoshi Masaki, Takuya Fujino, Tadayuki Dofuku, Yosuke Takita, Kazuhiro Tamura, Atsushi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11974432
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of electrode films on a substrate, spaced from one another in a first direction. A charge storage film is provided on a side face the electrode films via a first insulating film. A semiconductor film is provided on a side face of the charge storage film via a second insulating film. The charge storage film includes a plurality of insulator regions contacting the first insulating film, a plurality of semiconductor or conductor regions provided between the insulator regions and another insulator region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamashita, Yuta Saito, Keiichi Sawa, Kazuhiro Matsuo, Yuta Kamiya, Shinji Mori, Kota Takahashi, Junichi Kaneyama, Tomoki Ishimaru, Kenichiro Toratani, Ha Hoang, Shouji Honda, Takafumi Ochiai
  • Publication number: 20240128620
    Abstract: A battery includes an electrode collector, two electrode active material layers, two solid electrolyte layers, two counter-electrode active material layers, and two counter-electrode collectors in this order, and includes a first insulating layer that covers side surfaces of the two counter-electrode collectors, the two counter-electrode active material layers, the two solid electrolyte layers, and the two electrode active material layers. A first region not covered with any of the two electrode active material layers is provided at ends of both principal surfaces of the electrode collector. A second region not covered with any of the two counter-electrode collectors is provided at an end of a principal surface of each of the two counter-electrode active material layers that faces toward a corresponding one of the counter-electrode collectors. The first insulating layer covers the second region. The electrode collector projects from an outer surface of the first insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: TSUTOMU KOSHIZUKA, KAZUHIRO MORIOKA, KAZUYOSHI HONDA
  • Patent number: 11929230
    Abstract: A large current electron beam is stably emitted from an electron gun of a charged particle beam device. The electron gun of the charged particle beam device includes: a SE tip 202; a suppressor 303 disposed rearward of a distal end of the SE tip; a cup-shaped extraction electrode 204 including a bottom surface and a cylindrical portion and enclosing the SE tip and the suppressor; and an insulator 208 holding the suppressor and the extraction electrode. A shield electrode 301 of a conductive metal having a cylindrical portion 302 is provided between the suppressor and the cylindrical portion of the extraction electrode. A voltage lower than a voltage of the SE tip is applied to the shield electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keigo Kasuya, Akira Ikegami, Kazuhiro Honda, Masahiro Fukuta, Takashi Doi, Souichi Katagiri, Aki Takei, Soichiro Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20240072392
    Abstract: A battery includes: a power generation element including battery cells each of which includes an electrode layer, a counter-electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer located between the electrode layer and the counter-electrode layer, and which are electrically connected in parallel and stacked; an insulating member covering an electrode layer at a side surface of the power generation element; and a terminal electrode covering the side surface and the insulating member, and electrically connected to a counter-electrode layer, in which the power generation element includes: a first parallel unit that includes first battery cells and has both ends in a stacking direction at each of which a counter-electrode layer is located; and a second parallel unit that includes second battery cells, has both ends in the stacking direction at each of which an electrode layers is located, and is stacked on the first parallel unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi HONDA, Eiichi KOGA, Koichi HIRANO, Akira KAWASE, Kazuhiro MORIOKA
  • Publication number: 20240072376
    Abstract: A battery includes battery cells. A battery cell includes a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode active material layer, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer. On a side surface of the battery cell, in a plan view of the side surface of the battery cell, striated cut marks which are inclined with respect to the thickness direction of the battery cell are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi HONDA, Koichi HIRANO, Akira KAWASE, Kazuhiro MORIOKA
  • Patent number: 11767269
    Abstract: To improve the stability of spray application of a monolithic refractory in which a water injector is disposed in a material carrier pipe extending from a material supply device to a distal spray nozzle, and application water is injected from the water injector into a spray material that is being carried through the material carrier pipe, a ratio of a flow volume of an application water carrier gas for carrying the application water to be introduced into the water injector to a flow volume of a spray material carrier gas for carrying the spray material is set to 0.07 to 2, and a compressibility index of the spray material is set to 32% or less. Alternatively, a ratio of a flow volume of an application water carrier gas for carrying the application water to be introduced into the water injector to an application water volume is set to 100 to 1,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: KROSAKIHARIMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Honda, Kazunori Seki, Yoshitaka Ishii, Takafumi Yamada, Norikazu Shirama, Tsubasa Nakamichi
  • Patent number: 11770986
    Abstract: A resistive switching memory stack, comprised of a bottom electrode, an oxide layer located on the bottom electrode; and a top electrode located on the oxide layer. The top electrode is comprised of a first layer, an intermediate layer located directly on the first layer, and a top layer located on top of the intermediate layer. Wherein the intermediate layer is comprised of a doped carbide active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Rozen, Marinus Hopstaken, Yohei Ogawa, Masanobu Hatanaka, Takashi Ando, Kazuhiro Honda
  • Publication number: 20230298845
    Abstract: A decelerating electrode of this energy filter comprises: an electrode pair that has an opening; and a cavity portion that provided in a rotationally symmetrical manner with the center of the opening as the optical axis. Voltages with electric potentials that are substantially the same as that of a charged particle beam are independently applied to the both sides of the decelerating electrode. When an electrical field protrudes into the cavity portion provided in the decelerating electrode, a saddle point having the same electric potential as that of incident charged particles is formed inside the decelerating electrode. The saddle point acts as a high pass filter for incident charged particles at an energy resolution of 1 mV or less. By analyzing charged particles which have been energy-separated, it is possible to measure the energy spectrum and ?E at the high resolution of 1 mV or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HONDA, Hiroyuki ITO, Takashi DOI, Soichiro MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20230238205
    Abstract: A charged particle source is provided that exhibits small energy dispersion for charged particle beams emitted under a high angular current density condition and allows stable acquisition of large charged particle currents even for a small light source diameter. The charged particle source has a spherical virtual cathode surface from which charged particles are emitted, and the virtual cathode surface for charged particles emitted from a first position on a tip end surface of an emitter and the virtual cathode surface for charged particles emitted from a second position on the tip end surface of the emitter match each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiro FUKUTA, Kazuhiro HONDA
  • Patent number: 11651929
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a charged particle source that exhibits small energy dispersion for charged particle beams emitted under a high angular current density condition and allows stable acquisition of large charged particle currents even for a small light source diameter. The charged particle source according to the present invention has a spherical virtual cathode surface from which charged particles are emitted, and the virtual cathode surface for charged particles emitted from a first position on a tip end surface of an emitter and the virtual cathode surface for charged particles emitted from a second position on the tip end surface of the emitter match each other (see FIG. 4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Fukuta, Kazuhiro Honda
  • Publication number: 20220344586
    Abstract: A resistive switching memory stack, comprised of a bottom electrode, an oxide layer located on the bottom electrode; and a top electrode located on the oxide layer. The top electrode is comprised of a first layer, an intermediate layer located directly on the first layer, and a top layer located on top of the intermediate layer. Wherein the intermediate layer is comprised of a doped carbide active layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: John Rozen, Marinus Hopstaken, Yohei Ogawa, Masanobu Hatanaka, Takashi Ando, Kazuhiro Honda
  • Publication number: 20220199349
    Abstract: A large current electron beam is stably emitted from an electron gun of a charged particle beam device. The electron gun of the charged particle beam device includes: a SE tip 202; a suppressor 303 disposed rearward of a distal end of the SE tip; a cup-shaped extraction electrode 204 including a bottom surface and a cylindrical portion and enclosing the SE tip and the suppressor; and an insulator 208 holding the suppressor and the extraction electrode. A shield electrode 301 of a conductive metal having a cylindrical portion 302 is provided between the suppressor and the cylindrical portion of the extraction electrode. A voltage lower than a voltage of the SE tip is applied to the shield electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
    Inventors: Keigo KASUYA, Akira IKEGAMI, Kazuhiro HONDA, Masahiro FUKUTA, Takashi DOI, Souichi KATAGIRI, Aki TAKEI, Soichiro MATSUNAGA
  • Patent number: 11293696
    Abstract: Provided is a thermal spray material capable of, when used in a thermal spray operation for repairing a furnace wall of an industrial furnace or for other purposes, maintaining good post-repetition bondability with respect to a target surface to thereby prevent peel-off of a resulting thermally sprayed deposit, and improving initial ignitability while suppressing dust-generating property. The thermal spray material comprised a basic compound comprising at least one of a Ca component and an Mg component, a metal Si powder, and a silica-based or alumina-silica based powder. A content rate of a fraction constituting the basic compound and having a particle size of 0.15 mm or less is 30 mass % or more with respect to 100 mass % of the basic compound, and a content rate of a fraction constituting the metal Si powder and having a particle size of 20 ?m or less is from 10 mass % to 25 mass % with respect to 100 mass % of the thermal spray material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: KROSAKIHARIMA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Honda
  • Publication number: 20210296076
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a charged particle source that exhibits small energy dispersion for charged particle beams emitted under a high angular current density condition and allows stable acquisition of large charged particle currents even for a small light source diameter. The charged particle source according to the present invention has a spherical virtual cathode surface from which charged particles are emitted, and the virtual cathode surface for charged particles emitted from a first position on a tip end surface of an emitter and the virtual cathode surface for charged particles emitted from a second position on the tip end surface of the emitter match each other (see FIG. 4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Masahiro FUKUTA, Kazuhiro HONDA
  • Publication number: 20210195711
    Abstract: A reproduction apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology is a reproduction apparatus capable of executing synchronous reproduction of audio content with a different reproduction apparatus, the reproduction apparatus including: an illumination unit; an acquisition unit; a generation unit; a transmission unit; and a synchronization control unit. The acquisition unit acquires audio information. The generation unit generates illumination control information associated with the acquired audio information. The transmission unit transmits, to the different reproduction apparatus, synchronization control information that includes the audio information and the illumination control information. The synchronization control unit executes synchronous reproduction of the audio content with the different reproduction apparatus and synchronous control of the illumination unit, on the basis of the synchronization control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HONDA, Yasunori NAGATOMO, Mitsuru JIKEYA
  • Patent number: 10969721
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit, which is detachably mounted to the image forming apparatus. The image forming unit includes a storage unit configured to store a computer program for forming an image on the sheet; a detector configured to detect whether the image forming unit and the controller are connected to each other; a door to be opened to draw out the image forming unit from the image forming apparatus; and a locking unit configured to switch between a locked state and an unlocked state. The controller is configured to rewrite the computer program stored in the storage unit under a state in which the locking unit is in the locked state and the detector detects the connection between the image forming unit and the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Honda
  • Publication number: 20210017088
    Abstract: To improve the stability of spray application of a monolithic refractory in which a water injector is disposed in a material carrier pipe extending from a material supply device to a distal spray nozzle, and application water is injected from the water injector into a spray material that is being carried through the material carrier pipe, a ratio of a flow volume of an application water carrier gas for carrying the application water to be introduced into the water injector to a flow volume of a spray material carrier gas for carrying the spray material is set to 0.07 to 2, and a compressibility index of the spray material is set to 32% or less. Alternatively, a ratio of a flow volume of an application water carrier gas for carrying the application water to be introduced into the water injector to an application water volume is set to 100 to 1,000.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: KROSAKIHARIMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HONDA, Kazunori SEKI, Yoshitaka ISHII, Takafumi YAMADA, Norikazu SHIRAMA, Tsubasa NAKAMICHI
  • Publication number: 20210011408
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit, which is detachably mounted to the image forming apparatus. The image forming unit includes a storage unit configured to store a computer program for forming an image on the sheet; a detector configured to detect whether the image forming unit and the controller are connected to each other; a door to be opened to draw out the image forming unit from the image forming apparatus; and a locking unit configured to switch between a locked state and an unlocked state. The controller is configured to rewrite the computer program stored in the storage unit under a state in which the locking unit is in the locked state and the detector detects the connection between the image forming unit and the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Honda
  • Publication number: 20200353757
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a frame, a platen roller having a first end and a second end, each of the first and second ends being rotatably supported by the frame, a thermal head that faces the platen roller and that forms an image on a printing medium, the thermal head having a first end and a second end, a gear that is provided on the first end of the platen roller and that is rotated by a motor, the rotation of the gear causing the platen roller to rotate, and a pair of urging units that urges the first end and the second end of the platen roller or the thermal head, wherein an urging force generated by one of the pair of urging units on the first end is smaller than an urging force generated by the other of the pair of urging units on the second end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HONDA, Teru NISHIYAMA, Minoru TAKEUCHI, Masahiko KITAMURA, Takumi TOHATA, Akira YANAGIDA, Yoshibumi ABE, Munenari CHIBA, Takehiro KOBA