Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Kimura
Kazuhiro Kimura 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: 11982900Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a camera, a liquid crystal panel including a display portion overlaid on the camera, a light guide having a first side surface and a main surface opposed to the liquid crystal panel and a first through hole, and a light source opposed to the first side surface. The camera is provided in the first through hole.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Akio Takimoto, Toshiki Kaneko, Takuo Kaitoh, Kazuhiro Nishiyama, Hiroyuki Kimura
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Publication number: 20240154485Abstract: A stator including, a stator core having a slot, a winding wire to be inserted into the slot; and an insulation sheet interposed between the slot and the winding wire and configured to electrically insulate an inner wall of the slot and the winding wire, wherein the insulation sheet includes an insulation paper, a first adhesive layer disposed on a front surface of the insulation paper facing the inner wall of the slot, and a second adhesive layer disposed on a back surface of the insulation paper facing the winding wire, a foaming adhesive to be thermally cured while foaming by heating is disposed on the first adhesive layer, and a non-foaming adhesive having lower viscosity than that of the foaming adhesive when unheated is disposed on the second adhesive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2021Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Masahide KIMURA, Tatsuya IMAI, Tomoyasu HIRAOKA, Kazuhiro HASEGAWA, Toshikazu UCHIDA
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Patent number: 11978481Abstract: A motor includes a shaft, a base portion, a stator, and a rotor. The shaft extends along a central axis extending in an axial direction. The base portion extends in a radial direction on one axial direction side of the shaft. The stator is located in another axial direction with respect to the base portion and surrounds the shaft. The rotor is rotatable around the central axis. The rotor includes a rotor tube portion, a magnet, and a rotor flange portion. The rotor tube portion surrounds the stator. The magnet is opposed to the stator in the radial direction. The rotor flange portion extends in a radially outer direction from one axial end portion of the rotor tube portion. The rotor tube portion includes a yoke tube portion and a hub tube portion. The yoke tube portion is located on a radially inside surface of the hub tube portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Nidec CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Kimura, Kazuhiro Sato, Tomoki Uchibori
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Publication number: 20240142840Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a camera, a first polarizer, a second polarizer, a liquid crystal panel, and a controller controlling the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel includes a first region and a second region. The controller controls a first opening mode of transmitting light through the first region and the second region, and a second opening mode of making a quantity of light transmitted through the first region smaller than a quantity of light transmitted through the second region.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Akio TAKIMOTO, Toshiki KANEKO, Takuo KAITOH, Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA, Hiroyuki KIMURA
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Patent number: 11954812Abstract: A preprocessing device includes processing circuitry configured to acquire coordinate information of respective vertexes of a polygon for inside/outside determination and the coordinate information of the respective vertexes of the polygon for inside/outside determination and rotate a coordinate to be determined and the polygon for inside/outside determination as preprocessing of determination processing of determining whether the coordinate to be determined exists inside or outside the polygon for inside/outside determination, and output coordinate information of respective vertexes of the rotated polygon for inside/outside determination and the rotated coordinate to be determined as rotated coordinate information.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Miyahara, Tatsuro Kimura, Ichibe Naito, Atsushi Isomura, Tomoya Ikeda
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Publication number: 20240098962Abstract: A semiconductor device including a first electrode, a second electrode, an oxide semiconductor disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a first oxide layer containing a predetermined element, oxygen, and an additional element and disposed between the first electrode and the oxide semiconductor, wherein the predetermined element is at least one of tantalum, boron, hafnium, silicon, zirconium, or niobium, and the additional element is at least one of phosphorus, sulfur, copper, zinc, gallium, germanium, arsenic, selenium, silver, indium, tin, antimony, tellurium, or bismuth.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Kioxia CorporationInventors: Daisuke WATANABE, Akifumi GAWASE, Takeshi IWASAKI, Kazuhiro KATONO, Yusuke MUTO, Yusuke MIKI, Akinori KIMURA
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Patent number: 11914258Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a camera, a first polarizer, a second polarizer, a liquid crystal panel, and a controller controlling the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel includes a first region and a second region. The controller controls a first opening mode of transmitting light through the first region and the second region, and a second opening mode of making a quantity of light transmitted through the first region smaller than a quantity of light transmitted through the second region.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Akio Takimoto, Toshiki Kaneko, Takuo Kaitoh, Kazuhiro Nishiyama, Hiroyuki Kimura
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Patent number: 11730718Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing an inhibitor for retinochoroidal disorders, in particular, an inhibitor for retinochoroidal scar formation and retinochoroidal atrophy in an epiretinal, intraretinal or subretinal tissue. This problem can be solved by preparing an inhibitor for retinochoroidal disorders which comprises, as an active ingredient, (E)-4-(2-{3-[(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)methyl]-5,5,8,8-tetramethyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydronaphthalene-2-yl}vinyl)benzoic acid, an ester thereof or a salt of the same. The inhibitor for retinochoroidal disorders can inhibit collagen atrophy of retinal pigment epithelium cells, fibroblasts, glial cells and the like and thus inhibit retinochoroidal disorders.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITYInventor: Kazuhiro Kimura
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Publication number: 20230255937Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a novel therapeutic agent for keratoconjunctive disorders. As a means for solving the problem, a therapeutic agent for keratoconjunctive disorders which contains a RAR? agonist as an active ingredient is provided. The therapeutic agent exhibits an excellent ameliorating effect in a keratoconjunctive disorder model, and is therefore useful as a therapeutic agent for keratoconjunctive disorders such as corneal ulcer, corneal epithelial abrasion, keratitis, dry eye, conjunctivitis, chronic superficial keratitis, corneal erosion, persistent corneal disorders, superficial punctate keratopathy, corneal epithelial defects, conjunctival epithelial defects, keratoconjunctivitis sicca, superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis, filamentary keratoconjunctivitis, infectious keratitis, noninfectious keratitis, infectious conjunctivitis and noninfectious conjunctivitis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2022Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventor: Kazuhiro KIMURA
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Publication number: 20230237118Abstract: In order to solve a conventional problem that it is not possible to manage partial content in a webpage as a block and execute processing on the block, a webpage processing apparatus 7 includes: a block information storage unit 711 in which one or more pieces of block information each having a block identifier for identifying a block, which is partial content in a webpage, and location identifying information for specifying a location of the block in the webpage are stored; a block processing unit 731 that executes block processing, which is processing regarding a block specified with block information, using location identifying information contained in any one of the one or more pieces of block information; and a result output unit 751 that outputs a block processing result, which is a result of the block processing. Accordingly, it is possible to manage a block, which is partial content in a webpage, and execute processing on the block.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2021Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Takahiro TOKUNAGA, Yuichi YABU, Takami YAMADA, Kazuhiro KIMURA, Ryosuke SUZUKI, Naoya MUTO, Hirofumi TANAHASHI, Minori TOKUDA
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Patent number: 11471440Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a novel therapeutic agent for keratoconjunctive disorders. As a means for solving the problem, a therapeutic agent for keratoconjunctive disorders which contains a RAR? agonist as an active ingredient is provided. The therapeutic agent exhibits an excellent ameliorating effect in a keratoconjunctive disorder model, and is therefore useful as a therapeutic agent for keratoconjunctive disorders such as corneal ulcer, corneal epithelial abrasion, keratitis, dry eye, conjunctivitis, chronic superficial keratitis, corneal erosion, persistent corneal disorders, superficial punctate keratopathy, corneal epithelial defects, conjunctival epithelial defects, keratoconjunctivitis sicca, superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis, filamentary keratoconjunctivitis, infectious keratitis, noninfectious keratitis, infectious conjunctivitis and noninfectious conjunctivitis.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITYInventor: Kazuhiro Kimura
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Patent number: 11378526Abstract: A faulted condition determination method is designed to detect a chromium content and a nickel content in a predetermined boundary region proximate to a boundary between a high-strength ferrite steel and a weld material in a welded joint in which the high-strength ferrite steel and another steel are welded together using the weld material containing nickel and to thereby determine the faulted condition of the predetermined boundary region based on the chromium content and the nickel content. Accordingly, it is possible to appropriately determine the faulted condition of welding of a replacement part in which a high-strength ferrite steel and another steel are welded together using a nickel-based weld material.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Nobuhiko Saito, Nobuyoshi Komai, Yuichi Hirakawa, Hiroaki Fukushima, Kota Sawada, Kazuhiro Kimura, Kaoru Sekido
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Publication number: 20210407865Abstract: According to one aspect of the technique, there is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including: (a) heating a heat insulating plate in a substrate retainer to a processing temperature by an electromagnetic wave, and measuring a temperature change of the heat insulating plate by a non-contact type thermometer until the processing temperature; (b) heating a test object provided with a chip that does not transmit a detection light of the thermometer and accommodated in the substrate retainer to the processing temperature, and measuring a temperature change of the chip by the thermometer until the processing temperature; (c) acquiring a correlation between the temperature change of the heat insulating plate and that of the chip based on measurement results; and (d) controlling a heater to heat the substrate based on the correlation and the temperature of the heat insulating plate measured by the thermometer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Kenji SHINOZAKI, Tetsuo YAMAMOTO, Yukitomo HIROCHI, Yoshihiko YANAGISAWA, Naoki HARA, Masaaki UENO, Hideto YAMAGUCHI, Hitoshi MURATA, Shuhei SAIDO, Kazuhiro KIMURA
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Patent number: 11198935Abstract: A heating part of covering and heating a gas pipe includes: a thermal insulation portion disposed outside a heat generation body; an enclosure configured to enclose the thermal insulation portion and the heat generation body; a fastening part installed outside the enclose and configured to fasten one end portion and the other end portion of the enclosure in a state in which the one end portion and the other end portion of the enclosure adjoin each other; and a temperature sensing part disposed at the side of the gas pipe with respect to the enclosure at a position facing a surface of the gas pipe and formed in a plate shape with a major surface thereof oriented toward the gas pipe.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinobu Sugiura, Yosuke Kuwata, Tomoyasu Miyashita, Atsushi Umekawa, Kazuhiro Kimura, Akihiko Hiratsuka, Kaoru Kataoka, Ryosuke Arai
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Publication number: 20210347642Abstract: A porous carbon material wherein a particle diameter is 10 ?m or more but 1 cm or less; wherein a bulk specific gravity is 0.20 g/cm3 or more; and wherein a mesopore volume is 0.10 cm3/g or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: Hirofumi TAKEKUMA, Shinichiro YAMADA, Kazuhiro KIMURA, Takuhiro ISHII, Katsuya TANBA
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Patent number: 11143233Abstract: A rolling bearing includes an inner ring, an outer ring, and a plurality of balls interposed between the inner ring and the outer ring. The inner ring and the outer ring are made of stainless steel. A raceway surface with which the ball is in rolling-contact in each of the inner ring and the outer ring and is a superfinished surface and a coating layer made of a solid lubricating film is formed on the superfinished surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuhiro Kimura
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Patent number: 11078095Abstract: [Solution] Provided is a water purification agent suitable for use in an automated purification treatment device, when a wastewater purification treatment using a plant-derived water purification agent is performed with the automated purification treatment device. The water purification agent is a granulated product containing a mixture of a plant powder and a polymer coagulant.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Dexerials CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Kimura, Koji Hirata
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Patent number: 11022172Abstract: A rolling bearing device includes a rotary shaft; a housing; a pair of rolling bearings; an outer ring spacer; an elastic member provided in a bottom side of the housing, the bottom side of the housing being a second axial side of the housing, and the elastic member being configured to urge the rolling bearings, the outer ring spacer, and the rotary shaft toward a first axial side; and a retaining ring that is fitted into a circumferential groove provided on an inner periphery in the first axial side of the housing, the retaining ring being in axial contact with the outer ring of the rolling bearing located on the first axial side, and the retaining ring including at least three arc members arranged in a circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Yui Tanaka, Kazuhiro Kimura, Masaaki Ohtsuki
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Publication number: 20210143003Abstract: Methods for depositing on a surface of a substrate are disclosed. Exemplary methods include depositing a silicon oxide material using a cyclical deposition process, and reflowing the material during one or more of the step of depositing and a post-deposition anneal step. Structures including a layer of the material are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2020Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventors: Hideaki Fukuda, Shinya Ueda, Kazuhiro Kimura
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Publication number: 20210121442Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing an inhibitor for retinochoroidal disorders, in particular, an inhibitor for retinochoroidal scar formation and retinochoroidal atrophy in an epiretinal, intraretinal or subretinal tissue. This problem can be solved by preparing an inhibitor for retinochoroidal disorders which comprises, as an active ingredient, (E)-4-(2-{3-[(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)methyl]-5,5,8,8-tetramethyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydronaphthalene-2-yl}vinyl)benzoic acid, an ester thereof or a salt of the same. The inhibitor for retinochoroidal disorders can inhibit collagen atrophy of retinal pigment epithelium cells, fibroblasts, glial cells and the like and thus inhibit retinochoroidal disorders.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventor: Kazuhiro KIMURA