Patents by Inventor Koji Inoue

Koji Inoue 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: 20240150861
    Abstract: A cold-workable mechanical structural steel may include: C: 0.30 to 0.45 mass %; Si: 0.10 to 0.40 mass %; Mn: 0.50 to 1.00 mass %; P: 0.050 mass % or less; S: 0.050 mass % or less; Cr: 0.80 to 1.30 mass %; Al: 0.01 to 0.10 mass %; and a balance of iron and inevitable impurity, the steel having an area percentage of pro-eutectoid ferrite of 10% or larger and 70% or smaller; containing at least one selected from the group consisting of bainite, martensite, and pearlite; and having a dislocation density of 3.5×1014 m?2 or larger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Koji YAMASHITA, Yuta INOUE, Masayuki SAKATA, Takuya KOCHI, Yosuke MATSUMOTO, Tatsunori UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240152025
    Abstract: In a nonlinear optical element, wavelength conversion efficiency is degraded by the heat generation caused when high-intensity converted waves are generated. Therefore, the present invention provides a wavelength conversion optical element that includes a periodically poled waveguide. In the wavelength conversion optical element, the periodically poled waveguide includes: a core that performs wavelength conversion on a fundamental wave that has entered the entrance end, and emits a converted wave from the exit end; and a cladding that covers the periphery of the core, and the structure of the element gradually changes so as to achieve quasi phase matching from the entrance end toward the exit end in the periodically poled waveguide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Takahiro Kashiwazaki, Takushi Kazama, Takeshi Umeki, Osamu Tadanaga, Koji Embutsu, Nobutatsu Koshobu, Asuka Inoue, Kei Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20240152023
    Abstract: Provided is a wavelength conversion module that can be downsized by reducing the width of the housing and can reduce the mounting space. The wavelength conversion module including a wavelength conversion element includes: a lens barrel that is provided on a side surface of a metal housing and accommodates a lens for optically coupling the wavelength conversion element to an optical fiber; and a ferrule collar that is provided on the lens barrel and fixes a metal ferrule accommodating the optical fiber, and an input port and an output port are different from each other in any of the length in the optical axis direction of a plurality of the lens barrels, the length of a plurality of the metal ferrules, or a sum length of the lens barrels and the metal ferrules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Koji Embutsu, Takeshi Umeki, Kei Watanabe, Osamu Tadanaga, Takushi Kazama, Nobutatsu Koshobu, Takahiro Kashiwazaki, Asuka Inoue
  • Publication number: 20240142375
    Abstract: A sample observation device includes a light source unit configured to output a pulse train in which multiple optical pulses with different center wavelengths are arranged at predetermined time intervals as excitation light; a measurement unit configured to perform time-resolved measurement on an optical response that is transmitted from the sample and corresponds to irradiation with the optical pulses included in the pulse train while scanning the sample with the excitation light, and to acquire measurement data with respect to the optical pulses; and a processing unit configured to perform linear unmixing processing on the measurement data with respect to the optical pulses on the basis of an excitation spectrum for every target included in the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Kyohei SHIGEMATSU, Koji TAKAHASHI, Takashi INOUE
  • Patent number: 11968861
    Abstract: An organic EL display (1) has a bend (B) where a slit (81) is bored in a base coat film (23), gate insulating film (27), first interlayer insulating film (31) and second interlayer insulating film (35). The bend is provided with a filler layer (83) filling the slit and covering both edges of the slit. The filler layer has a protrusion (85) overlapping each edge in the width direction of the slit. A routed wire (7) routed from the display region (D) and then routed over the filler layer to reach a terminal section (T) extends over the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji Ichikawa, Shinsuke Saida, Ryosuke Gunji, Hiroki Taniyama, Tohru Okabe, Akira Inoue, Hiroharu Jinmura, Yoshihiro Nakada, Koji Tanimura
  • Patent number: 11965109
    Abstract: Provided is a composition for forming a film for semiconductor devices, including: a compound (A) including a Si—O bond and a cationic functional group containing at least one of a primary nitrogen atom or a secondary nitrogen atom; a crosslinking agent (B) which includes three or more —C(?O)OX groups (X is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms) in the molecule, in which from one to six of three or more —C(?O)OX groups are —C(?O)OH groups, and which has a weight average molecular weight of from 200 to 600; and a polar solvent (D).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Kayaba, Hirofumi Tanaka, Koji Inoue
  • Patent number: 11960317
    Abstract: An intensity spectrum designing unit of a data generating device includes an initial value setting unit that sets a plurality of objects of a first generation of an intensity spectrum function A(?) and a phase spectrum function ?(?), an evaluation value calculating unit that calculates an evaluation value for each of a plurality of objects of an n-th generation, an object selecting unit that selects two or more objects used for generating a plurality of objects of an (n+1)-th generation among objects of the n-th generation on the basis of superiority of the evaluation value, and a next-generation generating unit that generates a plurality of objects of the (n+1)-th generation on the basis of the selected two or more objects. The evaluation value calculating unit, the object selecting unit, and the next-generation generating unit repeat processes while 1 is added to n until a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Koji Takahashi, Koyo Watanabe, Takashi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11961744
    Abstract: In a chamber, first processing is performed as preliminary processing. After the first processing has been finished, the temperature in a predetermined target region in the chamber is measured with a thermographic camera. Then, whether or not to start second processing on a substrate is determined in accordance with the acquired measured temperature information. If it is determined as a result that the second processing can be started, the second processing is performed. In this case, the second processing on the substrate can be started, with the temperature of the target region in the chamber having reached its stability. Accordingly, the second processing can be performed uniformly on a plurality of substrates. That is, it is possible to reduce variations in processing caused by temperature environments in the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Fukatsu, Koji Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Fujiki, Masafumi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20240115272
    Abstract: A cutting machining apparatus includes: a holding unit including a workpiece holder, a tool holder, and a unit body; a head positioned facing the holding unit and including a chuck holding a tool; an interior case of a box shape including, in a peripheral wall, a first opening through which the holding unit is inserted and a second opening through which the head is inserted and housing the workpiece holder, the tool holder, and the chuck disposed inside; a first cover occluding between the head and the outer periphery of the first opening of the interior case, a second cover occluding between the holding unit and the outer periphery of the second opening of the interior case, and a cooling source cooling the tool holder from within the unit body via a heat transfer member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Hidekazu Tsuji, Chiori Mochizuki, Kenji Inoue, Koji Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240116115
    Abstract: A workpiece holder 1 includes a holder head 11 and a holder body 12. The holder head 11 includes a chuck unit 13 for holding a workpiece W, a support pedestal 111 for supporting the chuck unit 13, and a hook 113 provided on a distal end portion of an arm 112 extending from the support pedestal 111. The holder body 12 includes a cylindrical body portion 121, a retained portion 123 that is arranged inside the body portion 121 and rotated around the cylinder axis J1 to be in either a retained state in which the retained portion 123 is retained by the hook 113 on the ?Z direction side or in the released state in which retaining by the hook 113 is released, and a disk spring 126 for biasing the retained portion 123 in the ?Z direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Koji Tanaka, Chiori Mochizuki, Shingo Funai, Kenji Inoue
  • Patent number: 11957014
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of control lines; a plurality of power supply lines; a plurality of data signal lines; an oxide semiconductor layer; a first metal layer; a gate insulation film; a first inorganic insulation film; a second metal layer; a second inorganic insulation film; and a third metal layer. The oxide semiconductor layer, in a plan view, contains therein semiconductor lines formed as isolated regions between a plurality of drivers and a display area. The semiconductor lines cross the plurality of control lines and the plurality of power supply lines, are in contact with the plurality of control lines via an opening in a gate insulation film, are in contact with the plurality of power supply lines via an opening in the first inorganic insulation film, and have a plurality of narrowed portions, such that thicker and thinner regions exist along the same line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Okabe, Shinsuke Saida, Shinji Ichikawa, Hiroki Taniyama, Ryosuke Gunji, Kohji Ariga, Yoshihiro Nakada, Koji Tanimura, Yoshihiro Kohara, Hiroharu Jinmura, Akira Inoue
  • Patent number: 11950462
    Abstract: A first conductive layer in the same layer as that of a first electrode is coupled to a third conductive layer and a second electrode in the same layer as that of a third metal layer through a slit formed in a flattening film of a non-display area. Second conductive layers in the same layer as that of a second metal layer are provided to overlap with the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Okabe, Shinsuke Saida, Shinji Ichikawa, Hiroki Taniyama, Ryosuke Gunji, Kohji Ariga, Yoshihiro Nakada, Koji Tanimura, Yoshihiro Kohara, Akira Inoue, Hiroharu Jinmura, Takeshi Yaneda
  • Patent number: 11939197
    Abstract: A forklift-truck remote operation system includes a forklift truck and a remote operation device. The forklift-truck remote operation system further includes: a camera mounted to the forklift truck and configured to capture an image of an area around the forklift truck; a display disposed in the remote operation device and configured to display the image captured by the camera; a pallet detector configured to perform image recognition processing of the image captured by the camera and detect a plurality of pallets; a display controller configured to control the display to display the image captured by the camera with an indication for pallet selection from the pallets detected by the pallet detector; and a travel controller configured to control the forklift truck to move to a position of the selected pallet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Junji Inoue, Koji Hika, Hironobu Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20240091597
    Abstract: To improve repulsion performance when a ball is hit by a racket. Grommets each include a strip-shaped portion and a cylinder portion protruding from one surface of the strip-shaped portion. The cylinder portion includes a plurality of ribs extending along an extending direction of a central axis of a cylinder main body. The plurality of ribs is constituted of first ribs protruding from an outer peripheral surface of the cylinder main body toward both sides in the extending direction of the strip-shaped portion, and second ribs protruding from the outer peripheral surface of the cylinder main body toward both sides in a direction orthogonal to the extending direction of the strip-shaped portion. Two or more of the first ribs are formed on each of the both sides in the extending direction of the strip-shaped portion, and one or more of the second ribs are formed on each of the both sides in the direction orthogonal to the extending direction of the strip-shaped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: YONEX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi KATO, Hiroki NISHIYAMA, Koji NAGASAWA, Nao INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240076420
    Abstract: Provided is a photocurable resin composition including a reactive compound, and a photopolymerization initiator. A cured product of the photocurable resin composition has two or more glass transition points including a TgA and a TgB. The TgA is less than 25° C., and the TgB is 25° C. or more. An elongation at break in accordance with ASTM D638 of the cured product of the photocurable resin composition is 130% or more, and a breaking strength in accordance with ASTM D638 of the cured product of the photocurable resin composition is 3 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Koji WATANABE, Tatsuya INOUE
  • Patent number: 11886119
    Abstract: A material for forming an underlayer film according to the present invention is a material for forming an underlayer film which is used to form a resist underlayer film used in a multi-layer resist process, the material including a cyclic olefin polymer which has a repeating structural unit [A] represented by Formula (1) and a repeating structural unit [B] represented by Formula (2), in which a molar ratio [A]/[B] of the structural unit [A] to the structural unit [B] in the cyclic olefin polymer is greater than or equal to 5/95 and less than or equal to 95/5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Koji Inoue, Takashi Oda, Keisuke Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20230319403
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a position of an optical system based on an image signal, and a predicting unit configured to predict an in-focus position of the optical system based on the position acquired by the acquiring unit. The acquiring unit acquires the position of the optical system by performing interpolation processing in a range equal to or wider than an interval between first accumulation center time for a first frame in the image signal and second accumulation center time for a second frame in the image signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventor: KOJI INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230185195
    Abstract: A material for forming an underlayer film according to the present invention is a material for forming an underlayer film which is used to form a resist underlayer film used in a multi-layer resist process, the material including a cyclic olefin polymer which has a repeating structural unit [A] represented by Formula (1) and a repeating structural unit [B] represented by Formula (2), in which a molar ratio [A]/[B] of the structural unit [A] to the structural unit [B] in the cyclic olefin polymer is greater than or equal to 5/95 and less than or equal to 95/5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Koji INOUE, Takashi ODA, Keisuke KAWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230152783
    Abstract: A control system includes multiple industrial devices each belonging to one or more communication domains of multiple communication domains set in the same industrial communication network such that industrial devices belonging to the same communication domain communicate with each other. One or more industrial devices of the industrial devices include processing circuitry that stores domain information indicating whether or not the one or more communication domains to which the one or more industrial devices belong is a secure domain in which secure communication is performed, performs security processing related to the secure communication when the domain information indicates the secure domain, and performs the secure communication based on the security processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Naoya TAKI, Koji INOUE
  • Patent number: 11599025
    Abstract: Provided is a resin material for forming an underlayer film which is used to form a resist underlayer film used in a multi-layer resist process, the resin material including a cyclic olefin polymer (I), in which a temperature at an intersection between a storage modulus (G?) curve and a loss modulus (G?) curve in a solid viscoelasticity of the resin material for forming an underlayer film which is as measured under conditions of a measurement temperature range of 30° C. to 300° C., a heating rate of 3° C./min, and a frequency of 1 Hz in a nitrogen atmosphere in a shear mode using a rheometer is higher than or equal to 40° C. and lower than or equal to 200°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kawashima, Takashi Oda, Koji Inoue