Patents by Inventor Keisuke Hatano

Keisuke Hatano 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).

  • Solid-state image pickup device and manufacturing method thereof
    Patent number: 10014350
    Abstract: There is provided a solid-state image pickup device that includes a functional region provided with an organic film, and a guard ring surrounding the functional region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Hatano, Tetsuji Yamaguchi, Shintarou Hirata
  • Endoscope
    Patent number: 9931024
    Abstract: An endoscope includes: an operation portion; an insertion portion pivotable relative to the operation portion; a pivot state switching instruction portion; a sliding member slidable in a longitudinal axis direction of the operation portion along with a switching operation of the pivot state switching instruction portion; a holding ring configured to hold the sliding member; and a pivot restriction switching device provided with a braking member on an end portion on pivot portion side of the sliding member, and configured to switch over a state of a pivot portion from a pivotable state to a pivot restricted state or from the pivot restricted state to the pivotable state, the braking member being pressed against and disposed on the pivot portion to apply braking force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keisuke Hatano
  • SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20170323932
    Abstract: There is provided a solid-state image pickup device that includes a functional region provided with an organic film, and a guard ring surrounding the functional region
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Keisuke Hatano, Tetsuji Yamaguchi, Shintarou Hirata
  • Solid-state imaging unit and electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 9786706
    Abstract: There is configured a solid-state imaging unit including: a semiconductor base 21 having one surface serving as a circuit formation surface and another surface serving as a light receiving surface; a photoelectric conversion section 22 provided in the semiconductor base 21; a reflection layer 24 provided on the circuit formation surface above the photoelectric conversion section 22; and an insulating section 23 arranged in the reflection layer 24.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Hatano, Atsushi Toda
  • BENDING OPERATION DEVICE AND ENDOSCOPE
    Publication number: 20170280973
    Abstract: A bending operation device includes a bending lever that is tiltably supported with an angle to a longitudinal direction of an operation section of an endoscope, a wire pulling member that includes a plurality of arm portions that are displaced according to tilting motion of the bending lever, a plurality of operation wires that are connected to the plurality of arm portions and that bend a bending portion provided in an insertion section of the endoscope according to displacement of the wire pulling member, and a plurality of pulleys that guide the plurality of operation wires to the plurality of arm portions, with the plurality of operation wires being substantially parallel to one another, when the bending lever is in a neutral position at which the bending portion is substantially straight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keisuke HATANO
  • ENDOSCOPE
    Publication number: 20170251906
    Abstract: An endoscope includes stays extending inside an operation section along a direction of a longitudinal axis, and a suction pipeline fixed to the operation section at a distal end side and a proximal end side so as to extend inside the operation section, along the stays and in the direction of the longitudinal axis, where an inside of the operation section is partitioned into a first space portion and a second space portion by the stays and the suction pipeline, each angle wire is disposed inside the first space portion, and long internal components, such as a signal cable and a light guide, are disposed inside the second space portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keisuke HATANO
  • SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170257587
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device, a method for driving the solid-state imaging device, and an electronic device capable of improving auto-focusing accuracy by using a phase difference signal obtained by using a photoelectric conversion film. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel including a photoelectric conversion portion having a structure where a photoelectric conversion film is interposed by an upper electrode on the photoelectric conversion film and a lower electrode under the photoelectric conversion film. The upper electrode is divided into a first upper electrode and a second upper electrode. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a solid-state imaging device or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Keisuke HATANO, Fumihiko KOGA, Tetsuji YAMAGUCHI, Shinichiro IZAWA
  • ENDOSCOPE
    Publication number: 20170245738
    Abstract: A dividing wall member is provided inside a specific bending piece selected from a plurality of bending pieces, an internal space of the bending piece is divided by the dividing wall member into a first space that opens corresponding to one rotating shaft, of rotating shafts that form a left and right pair, and a second space that is larger than the first space and opens corresponding to another rotating shaft, of the rotating shafts that form a left and right pair, and rotating shafts that form an upper and lower pair, a signal cable is inserted as a first internal component inside a first space, and a pair of light guides and a treatment instrument insertion channel are inserted as second internal components inside the second space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiwamu FUJITANI, Keisuke HATANO, Takayasu ITO, Eiji MATSUDA
  • Solid-state image pickup device and manufacturing method thereof
    Patent number: 9735205
    Abstract: There is provided a solid-state image pickup device that includes a functional region provided with an organic film, and a guard ring surrounding the functional region
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Hatano, Tetsuji Yamaguchi, Shintarou Hirata
  • ENDOSCOPE
    Publication number: 20170224194
    Abstract: An endoscope according to the present invention includes: a bending tube including ring-like members pivotally joined via pairs of pivots facing each other relative to a center axis, the bending tube being bendable; a pair of first pull wire guides projecting inward of a ring-like member; a forceps channel disposed so as to be contactable with the pair of first pull wire guides; and a pair of second pull wire guides being provided so as to project inward of the ring-like member and being disposed so that a distance between distal end portions extending toward an inner circumferential side of the ring-like member is a distance that is smaller than an outer diameter of the forceps channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiwamu FUJITANI, Keisuke HATANO
  • BENDING OPERATION DEVICE AND ENDOSCOPE
    Publication number: 20170215697
    Abstract: A bending operation device, includes: a bending lever that is inclinably supported with respect to an operation section of an endoscope; an arm part that is provided in the bending lever and includes a distal end displaceable in conjunction with inclination operation of the bending lever; and an intermediate lever that is swingably supported with respect to the operation section, includes a force point at a middle of the intermediate lever, and includes a point of application at a position farther from a fulcrum (a shaft portion) than the force point, the force point being connected to the distal end of the arm part through an intermediate wire, and the point of application being connected to a bending wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke HATANO, Kiwamu FUJITANI
  • SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20170170240
    Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device includes at least two stacked first and second photoelectric conversion sections in each of a plurality of pixels. Sensitivity of the first photoelectric conversion section to a light incident angle is equivalent to sensitivity of the second photoelectric conversion section to a light incident angle, for each of the pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Keisuke Hatano, Atsushi Toda
  • SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20170162624
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state image pickup device, a manufacturing method, and an electronic apparatus, which can obtain high charge transfer efficiency from a photoelectric conversion unit to a floating diffusion layer. The floating diffusion layer is arranged in a rectangular shape so as to surround a gate electrode of a vertical transistor whose groove portion is rectangular. A reset drain is formed so as to be adjacent to the floating diffusion layer through a reset gate. A potential of the floating diffusion layer is reset to the same potential as that of the reset drain by applying a predetermined voltage to the reset gate. It is possible to apply the present disclosure to, for example, a CMOS solid-state image pickup device used in an image pickup device such as a camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Keisuke HATANO, Hideaki TOGASHI
  • Endoscope
    Patent number: 9636002
    Abstract: An endoscope includes: an operation portion grasped by an operator; an insertion portion pivotable relative to the operation portion; a switch portion provided on the operation portion and switchable by a grasping hand of the operator; a pulling/relaxing member pulled and relaxed by back and forth movement in the operation portion based on switch operation of the switch portion; and a braking unit that includes a deformation portion deformed by the pulling and the relaxing of the pulling/relaxing member and that restrains or allows rotation of the insertion portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keisuke Hatano
  • ENDOSCOPE OPERATION PORTION AND ENDOSCOPE
    Publication number: 20170105602
    Abstract: An endoscope operation portion includes: an operation portion body provided being connected to a grasping portion; a joystick-type bending operation lever provided on a back side of the operation portion body, including a lever shaft body, and configured to perform a bending operation of a bending portion; and a suction button provided on a front side of the operation portion body so that an angle formed by an operation axis in a pressing-down operation direction relative to a central axis of the lever shaft body is an obtuse angle, and an intersection point between the central axis and the operation axis is positioned inside the operation portion body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiwamu FUJITANI, Keisuke HATANO, Takayasu ITO
  • Solid-state image pickup device and electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 9601547
    Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device includes at least two stacked first and second photoelectric conversion sections in each of a plurality of pixels. Sensitivity of the first photoelectric conversion section to a light incident angle is equivalent to sensitivity of the second photoelectric conversion section to a light incident angle, for each of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Hatano, Atsushi Toda
  • ENDOSCOPE
    Publication number: 20170065151
    Abstract: An endoscope includes: an operation portion; an insertion portion pivotable relative to the operation portion; a pivot state switching instruction portion; a sliding member slidable in a longitudinal axis direction of the operation portion along with a switching operation of the pivot state switching instruction portion; a holding ring configured to hold the sliding member; and a pivot restriction switching device provided with a braking member on an end portion on pivot portion side of the sliding member, and configured to switch over a state of a pivot portion from a pivotable state to a pivot restricted state or from the pivot restricted state to the pivotable state, the braking member being pressed against and disposed on the pivot portion to apply braking force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keisuke HATANO
  • SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20170040383
    Abstract: There is provided a solid-state image pickup device that includes a functional region provided with an organic film, and a guard ring surrounding the functional region
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Keisuke Hatano, Tetsuji Yamaguchi, Shintarou Hirata
  • METHOD OF PRODUCING FILM
    Publication number: 20160325477
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of producing a film, the method being capable of suppressing formation of die lines in melt extrusion molding using a T die. A thermoplastic resin composition having a relaxation modulus of not less than 100 Pa and not more than 2,000 Pa is melted and kneaded, the relaxation modulus being measured under conditions of a temperature of 260° C., distortion of 1%, and a relaxation time of 1 second, and extrusion molding of the thermoplastic resin composition using the T die is performed to form the film. The thermoplastic resin composition may contain an acrylic resin and a rubber particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: Kaneka Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Hatano, Yutaka Fujiwara
  • OPTICAL THERMOPLASTIC RESIN AND FORMED BODY
    Publication number: 20160326289
    Abstract: An optical thermoplastic resin has a rate of reduction in melt viscosity of less than 20%, an orientation birefringence of ?1.7×10?4 to 1.7×10?4, a photoelastic constant of ?3.7×10?12 to 3.7×10?12 Pa?1, and, when formed into a 2 mm-thick formed body, has a haze of 1% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: Kaneka Corporation
    Inventors: Fuminobu Kitayama, Nobuyoshi Maizuru, Keisuke Hatano