Patents by Inventor Masaaki Matsunaga

Masaaki Matsunaga 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: 9353340
    Abstract: This invention provides an engine cleaning composition for removing sediment formed in an engine. Such engine cleaning composition comprises: a dispersant containing a carboxylic acid and an amine; a chelating agent; a glycol solvent; and a naphthenic oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kawai, Yoshiharu Hata, Takeo Sakurai, Hiroyuki Nishiura, Masayuki Ichiyanagi, Reika Ogawa, Shigehiko Sato, Masaaki Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20150259631
    Abstract: This invention provides an engine cleaning composition for removing sediment formed in an engine. Such engine cleaning composition comprises: a dispersant containing a carboxylic acid and an amine; a chelating agent; a glycol solvent; and a naphthenic oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidetoshi KAWAI, Yoshiharu HATA, Takeo SAKURAI, Hiroyuki NISHIURA, Masayuki ICHIYANAGI, Reika OGAWA, Shigehiko SATO, Masaaki MATSUNAGA
  • Patent number: 7271798
    Abstract: A color liquid crystal exposure apparatus includes a color light source for emitting a plurality of colored light beams, a liquid crystal shutter having a plurality of liquid crystal pixels arrayed in a direction orthogonal to the direction of the relative movement, and a driving circuit for switching the color light source from one color to another, and for driving the plurality of liquid crystal pixels. The plurality of liquid crystal pixels are divided into a plurality of pixel groups. The liquid crystal pixels in each pixel group are arrayed, one displaced from another by a prescribed distance, in the direction orthogonal to the direction of the relative movement. The driving circuit drives the plurality of liquid crystal pixels in time-division fashion so that the liquid crystal pixels having the same displaced position in the plurality of pixel groups are driven at one time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Masubuchi, Masafumi Yokoyama, Makoto Yasunaga, Masaaki Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 7002643
    Abstract: A liquid crystal shutter comprises a liquid crystal device including a nematic liquid crystal sealed in between a first transparent substrate and a second transparent substrate on whose inner surfaces are formed respective transparent electrodes, the liquid crystal device having a twisted angle equal to or greater than 180°; and a pair of polarizing plates between which are sandwiched the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate, the polarizing films having respective absorption axes (13, 14) which are substantially orthogonal to each other, the absorption axes (13, 14) of the polarizing films being angled within a range of ±40° to ±50°0 relative to a direction (12) in which intermediate liquid crystal molecules are orientated, the direction indicating a direction of orientation of the liquid crystal in the intermediate portion in the direction of thickness of the liquid crystal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Kaneko, Masaaki Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20050200614
    Abstract: In a color liquid crystal exposure apparatus equipped with a liquid crystal shutter comprising a single array of liquid crystal pixels, a cost reduction is achieved by reducing the number of control ICs required to control the liquid crystal pixels in the liquid crystal shutter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2003
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Inventors: Sadao Masubuchi, Masafumi Yokoyama, Makoto Yasunaga, Masaaki Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 6833887
    Abstract: A liquid crystal shutter comprises a liquid crystal device including a nematic liquid crystal sealed in between a first transparent substrate and a second transparent substrate on whose inner surfaces are formed respective transparent electrodes, the liquid crystal device having a twisted angle equal to or greater than 180°; and a pair of polarizing plates between which are sandwiched the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate, the polarizing films having respective absorption axes (13, 14) which are substantially orthogonal to each other, the absorption axes (13, 14) of the polarizing films being angled within a range of ±40° to ±50° relative to a direction (12) in which intermediate liquid crystal molecules are orientated, the direction indicating a direction of orientation of the liquid crystal in the intermediate portion in the direction of thickness of the liquid crystal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Kaneko, Masaaki Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20040090587
    Abstract: A liquid crystal shutter wherein three shutter rows corresponding to red, green and blue, respectively, are formed on a single liquid crystal shutter substrate. Each shutter row is configured of the liquid crystal held between at least one transparent substrate formed with a common electrode and another transparent substrate formed with cell electrodes corresponding to the cell rows of each of the two shutter rows, arranged in staggered fashion, and lead electrodes. The relation Q=NP holds, where Q is the pitch of the shutter rows, P the pitch of the two cell rows, and N a positive integer larger than 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Masaaki Matsunaga, Akira Shiota, Koichi Hoshino
  • Patent number: 6720986
    Abstract: An optical printer device which includes an exposure device which makes relative movements, in a predetermined direction, with respect to a photosensitive body. The optical printer also has a plurality of first, second and third light-emitting elements which emit lights of a first, second and third colors. These light-emitting elements are mounted on a first, second and third mounting substrates, independent of one another, which correspond to the first, second and third colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Masubuchi, Hideyuki Kawashima, Masafumi Yokoyama, Masaaki Matsunaga, Akira Shiota
  • Patent number: 6445403
    Abstract: In an optical printer apparatus designed so that an optical head (100) having an LED light source (110) therein is moved relatively to a sensitized sheet (500) and an image is formed by emitting a plurality of color light beams in regular order from the LED so that the light beams are focused at given spaces on the sensitized sheet, an image pitch P for the color light beams is substantially equal to an integer multiple of the maximum exposure distance D.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Masubuchi, Shigeru Futakami, Masaaki Matsunaga, Masafumi Yokoyama, Akira Shiota, Shinichi Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20020044194
    Abstract: An optical printer device comprises an exposure device which makes relative movements, in a predetermined direction, with respect to a photosensitive body. The optical printer also has a plurality of first, second and third light-emitting elements which emit lights of a first, second and third colors. These light-emitting elements are mounted on a first, second and third mounting substrates, independent of one another, which correspond to the first, second and third colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Inventors: Sadao Masubuchi, Hideyuki Kawashima, Masafumi Yokoyama, Masaaki Matsunaga, Akira Shiota
  • Patent number: 6366338
    Abstract: A line-scanning optical printer, which forms an image on a sensitized sheet (25) by projecting a linear light having a given width and length thereto while successively scanning individual lines in the direction of the width, comprises a casing (50) having light shielding properties and including a window portion for radiating the linear light to the outside, a light emitting element (60), which substantially functions as a point light source and is stored in the casing, an optical system (72, 71, 73) for guiding light from the light emitting element (60) as the linear light to the window portion, and a liquid crystal optical shutter (80) attached to the window portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Masubuchi, Shigeru Futakami, Masaaki Matsunaga, Masafumi Yokoyama, Akira Shiota, Maki Wakita, Kazunari Takahashi, Shinichi Nonaka, Chikara Aizawa
  • Publication number: 20010035925
    Abstract: A liquid crystal shutter comprises a liquid crystal device including a nematic liquid crystal sealed in between a first transparent substrate and a second transparent substrate on whose inner surfaces are formed respective transparent electrodes, the liquid crystal device having a twisted angle equal to or greater than 180°; and a pair of polarizing plates between which are sandwiched the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate, the polarizing films having respective absorption axes (13, 14) which are substantially orthogonal to each other, the absorption axes (13, 14) of the polarizing films being angled within a range of ±40° to ±50°0 relative to a direction (12) in which intermediate liquid crystal molecules are orientated, the direction indicating a direction of orientation of the liquid crystal in the intermediate portion in the direction of thickness of the liquid crystal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Applicant: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Kaneko, Masaaki Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 6275247
    Abstract: The present invention uses LEDs as the light source in a optical printer employing a line scanning method in which an image is produced by relative motion of the light to a photosensitive medium. LEDs are arranged on a mounting substrate with LED pairs, each pair being of the same color, disposed symmetrically as to the center point of the line. Similarly, the power supply lead wires for the LEDs are also disposed symmetrically. In mounting the components on the mounting substrate, a light-intercepting material is used for intercepting light from the side faces of the LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Masubuchi, Sigeru Futakami, Masaaki Matsunaga, Masafumi Yokoyama, Akira Shiota, Shinichi Nonaka, Chikara Aizawa
  • Patent number: 6262757
    Abstract: The present invention employs LEDs and a liquid crystal shutter driven in synchronization with the position of the photosensitive paper, thereby eliminating image distortion even where the head of the optical printer apparatus is subjected to unanticipated load during scanning by the head. A rotary encoder (320) is provided on the rotating shaft of the motor (310) that drives the optical head (100), and the drive timing for the LEDs (110) and the liquid crystal shutter (150) is synchronized with the output of the rotary encoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Masubuchi, Sigeru Futakami, Masaaki Matsunaga, Masafumi Yokoyama, Akira Shiota, Shinichi Nonaka, Maki Wakita, Chikara Aizawa
  • Patent number: 5109293
    Abstract: Disclosed in a ferroelectric liquid crystal display element in which oblique alignment layers are inclined with respect to a substrate surface and have opposite inclination directions which are formed on opposing surfaces of a pair of substrates having transparent electrodes. A ferroelectric liquid crystal is sandwiched between the substrates. The liquid crystal is injected into the space between the substrates only in a direction opposite to the inclination direction of the oblique alignment layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Matsunaga, Hiroshi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 5061044
    Abstract: There is disclosed a ferroelectric liquid crystal device which sandwiches a ferroelectric liquid crystal between a pair of substrates having transparent electrodes on opposing surfaces thereof, and in which the ferroelectric liquid crystal can take three stable states of a twisted aligned state, and two uniform aligned states, wherein alignment films are formed by oblique deposition of an inorganic insulating member so that inclination direction of each substrate is opposing, and a thickness of a liquid crystal layer between the substrates is set to fall within a range of 1.5 .mu.m to 4 .mu.m. There is also disclosed a method of driving the ferroelectric liquid crystal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1991
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaaki Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 4643526
    Abstract: An IC chip is connected to terminal portions of conductive films on a lower substrate of a liquid crystal display panel by face down bonding. The IC chip and conductive films are coated with resin to protect the IC chip and films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1987
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruo Watanabe, Eiichi Tajima, Masaaki Matsunaga, Toshihide Hirohara, Yoshio Iinuma, Naotake Ando, Shigeyuki Takahashi, Teruaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4561044
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel is hinged on a body comprising a case provided with an electric circuit therein. On the case, a mirror is provided for watching an image on the liquid crystal display panel by the light passing through the display panel. An electroluminescence device is detachably provided in a receptacle in the case. The electroluminescence device can be positioned at a position adjacent the liquid crystal display panel so as to light the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1985
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Ogura, Toshihide Hirohara, Masaaki Matsunaga, Kiyoshi Kamiya, Tetsuo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 4107249
    Abstract: An annular groove is formed in the periphery of thermoplastic pipe near an end thereof by combining the forces of a fluid under pressure and a rigid expandable core mold. A pipe is heated, softened and placed over a core mold having an extensible portion. The extensible portion is in the retracted state initially and presents no obstacle to the placement of the pipe on the core mold. A space is provided internally of the pipe and is sealed by parts of the core mold whereby the application of a fluid pressure pushes outwardly on the inner periphery of the pipe. At the same time or subsequently the extensible portion of the core mold is extended to provide additional pressure to and to shape the latter internal periphery of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1978
    Assignee: Sekisui Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sadao Murai, Nobuo Goto, Katsuhiko Tanioka, Masaaki Matsunaga, Riyoiti Isayama