Patents by Inventor Masafumi Okada

Masafumi Okada 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: 20220003916
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light emitting device includes a light guide plate, a prism sheet, and a lenticular lens, wherein, a plurality of first protrusions of the light guide plate are arranged along a first direction and extend along a second direction intersecting the first direction, a plurality of second protrusions of the light guide plate extend along the first direction and are arranged along the second direction, the prism sheet includes a plurality of third protrusions extending along the first direction and arranged in the second direction, and the lenticular lens includes a plurality of fourth protrusions arranged along the first direction and extending along the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Masafumi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20210406226
    Abstract: At present, on the basis of microservice, capabilities and applications of a monolithic integrated system are transitioned to a component system and rebuilt. However, the application of microservice to a shared database has not sufficiently been under study. A system building assisting apparatus of the present invention uses, in building of a component system, access history aggregation table indicating access history of access to a database for a production control system corresponding to an integrated system to be analyzed, to classify data items constituting the database as “individual data” or “common data.” At this time, the system building assisting apparatus desirably uses a capability corresponding to an access source indicated by the access history to classify each of the data items as “individual data” or “common data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Eiji NISHIJIMA, Masafumi OKADA, Natsuhiko INAKI
  • Publication number: 20210318483
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display panel configured to transmit light; and an illumination device provided on a rear surface side of the display panel. The illumination device includes a plurality of light sources configured to emit light, and a light guiding member that has translucency and is arranged between the light sources on the rear surface side of the display panel. The light guiding member has a plurality of holes each of which opens in a first direction intersecting with a rear surface of the display panel and in each of which a corresponding one of the light sources is disposed, and a light guiding portion surrounding the holes. A rear surface of the light guiding portion is provided with a first inclined surface inclined with respect to the first direction and a plane orthogonal to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Koji HIRAMOTO, Masafumi OKADA, Hiroshi NAKAMOTO, Ken KAGABU, Ken SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210318575
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device of thin, low power consumption and small light distribution angle. The present invention takes the following structure to realize the above task: A lighting device comprising: a disc shaped light guide, having a main surface and a rear surface, including a first hole at a center, a disc shaped reflection sheet, disposed at the rear surface side of the light guide, including a second hole at a center, a prism sheet, disposed at the main surface side of the light guide, including a concentric first prism array, wherein a reflection mirror is set in the first hole of the light guide at the side near to the prism sheet, an LED is set opposing to the reflection mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Masafumi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20210311359
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light emitting device includes a light guide plate with a plurality of first protrusion parts arranged along a first direction and extending along a second direction which crosses the first direction, and a prism sheet, wherein a cross-sectional shape of each of the first protrusion parts along the first direction has an apex angle between 55 degrees and 65 degrees, inclusive, the light guide plate includes a plurality of second protrusion parts which extend along the first direction and are arranged along the second direction, and a cross-sectional shape of each of the second protrusion parts along the second direction has a base angle between 1 degree and 3 degrees, inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Masafumi OKADA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Makoto HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 10559528
    Abstract: This semiconductor device has a plurality of external terminals arranged in an array on a bottom surface of a package. The plurality of external terminals include a first external terminal group for receiving an input of a current from outside the device, and a second external terminal group for outputting a current to the outside of the device. The first external terminal group and the second external terminal group are laid out such that respective arrangement patterns thereof are interlocked with each other. The arrangement patterns may be comb-tooth shaped, cross-shaped, S-shaped, T-shaped, L-shaped, or may have a shape comprising a combination thereof. The plurality of external terminals may be pins, solder balls, or electrode pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Nagasato, Masafumi Okada
  • Publication number: 20180247889
    Abstract: This semiconductor device has a plurality of external terminals arranged in an array on a bottom surface of a package. The plurality of external terminals include a first external terminal group for receiving an input of a current from outside the device, and a second external terminal group for outputting a current to the outside of the device. The first external terminal group and the second external terminal group are laid out such that respective arrangement patterns thereof are interlocked with each other. The arrangement patterns may be comb-tooth shaped, cross-shaped, S-shaped, T-shaped, L-shaped, or may have a shape comprising a combination thereof. The plurality of external terminals may be pins, solder balls, or electrode pads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Nagasato, Masafumi Okada
  • Patent number: 9095996
    Abstract: A plurality of contacts are arranged in a first direction along a side wall of a housing. The housing has a plurality of ribs projecting in a second direction from the side wall and interposed between the contacts, respectively. Each rib has a tapered portion adjacent to the side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Masafumi Okada, Hiroshi Akimoto
  • Patent number: 8815065
    Abstract: A sensor body of an electrochemical gas sensor having no water reservoir is housed in a metal can including a sensing electrode on one surface of a proton-conducting membrane or a separator retaining an electrolyte and a counter electrode on the opposite surface thereof. The counter electrode is supported by and electrically connected to the metal can via a connecting member. The sensing electrode is connected to a diffusion control plate with the sensing electrode-side ring member, and the ring member is conductive and includes a hole at a center thereof that is connected to a hole of the diffusion control plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Figaro Engineering Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Masafumi Okada, Kuniyuki Izawa, Tomoyasu Honda
  • Publication number: 20140083852
    Abstract: A sensor body of an electrochemical gas sensor having no water reservoir is housed in a metal can including a sensing electrode on one surface of a proton-conducting membrane or a separator retaining an electrolyte and a counter electrode on the opposite surface thereof. The counter electrode is supported by and electrically connected to the metal can via a connecting member. The sensing electrode is connected to a diffusion control plate with the sensing electrode-side ring member, and the ring member is conductive and includes a hole at a center thereof that is connected to a hole of the diffusion control plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: FIGARO ENGINEERING INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro YAMAMOTO, Masafumi OKADA, Kuniyuki IZAWA, Tomoyasu HONDA
  • Patent number: 8556622
    Abstract: The pin mounting hole used to insert and mount the pin member having a pin-like shape is formed on, among the inner wall surfaces of the cavity, the second side-wall surface that is an inner wall surface other than the inner wall surfaces perpendicular to the mold-removal direction of the injection-molded article. On the second side-wall surface, the protruding portion protruding from the second side-wall surface is formed in the surface area located on the opposite side in the mold-removal direction with respect to the pin mounting hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohei Kimita, Masafumi Okada, Hiroshi Akimoto
  • Patent number: 8382527
    Abstract: A plurality of contacts are arranged in a first direction along a side wall of a housing. The housing has a plurality of ribs projecting in a second direction from the side wall and interposed between the contacts, respectively. Each rib has a tapered portion adjacent to the side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Masafumi Okada, Hiroshi Akimoto
  • Publication number: 20120177776
    Abstract: The pin mounting hole used to insert and mount the pin member having a pin-like shape is formed on, among the inner wall surfaces of the cavity, the second side-wall surface that is an inner wall surface other than the inner wall surfaces perpendicular to the mold-removal direction of the injection-molded article. On the second side-wall surface, the protruding portion protruding from the second side-wall surface is formed in the surface area located on the opposite side in the mold-removal direction with respect to the pin mounting hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohei KIMITA, Masafumi Okada, Hiroshi Akimoto
  • Publication number: 20110092110
    Abstract: A plurality of contacts are arranged in a first direction along a side wall of a housing. The housing has a plurality of ribs projecting in a second direction from the side wall and interposed between the contacts, respectively. Each rib has a tapered portion adjacent to the side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Masafumi Okada, Hiroshi Akimoto
  • Publication number: 20080196798
    Abstract: Spherical particles having curvatures larger than those of irregularities, crystal grain boundaries, lattice defects or the like (referred to collectively as irregularities, hereinafter) on the surface of a conductive metal material are ejected at high speeds to make the particles collide against the surface of the conductive metal material, thereby repeatedly causing rapid melting and cooling at the minute points of impact of the particles, thereby changing the surface into amorphous. Then, spherical particles having curvatures smaller than those of irregularities on the surface subjected to the treatment described above collide against the surface, thereby changing the surface into amorphous and planarizing the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Limited
    Inventors: Ryoji Kaku, Masafumi Okada
  • Patent number: 7396591
    Abstract: In a wiring substrate having a metal wiring pattern that is formed on a substrate and includes a contact portion for providing connection to an external element, an organic thin film containing silane is formed to cover the metal wiring pattern and the contact portion is electrically connected to the external element through the organic thing film. Unlike conventional wiring substrates in which a contact portion is uncovered by ripping open or cutting away a protective resin film formed on the contact portion, the wiring substrate can be electrically connected with an external element having a low contact pressure, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Limited
    Inventors: Takuya Miyashita, Masafumi Okada, Kenji Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 7273488
    Abstract: Provided is a forceps tip assembly capable of supporting a forceps tip with high rigidity in order to realize a laparoscopic surgery requiring a significant power with the forceps tip, such as an organ removal surgery which has been heretofore difficult to be performed by a robot for medical use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Nakamura, Masafumi Okada, Shingo Chiyoda
  • Publication number: 20060292354
    Abstract: In a wiring substrate having a metal wiring pattern that is formed on a substrate and includes a contact portion for providing connection to an external element, an organic thin film containing silane is formed to cover the metal wiring pattern and the contact portion is electrically connected to the external element through the organic thing film. Unlike conventional wiring substrates in which a contact portion is uncovered by ripping open or cutting away a protective resin film formed on the contact portion, the wiring substrate can be electrically connected with an external element having a low contact pressure, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Limited
    Inventors: Takuya Miyashita, Masafumi Okada, Kenji Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20060222883
    Abstract: Spherical particles having curvatures larger than those of irregularities, crystal grain boundaries, lattice defects or the like (referred to collectively as irregularities, hereinafter) on the surface of a conductive metal material are ejected at high speeds to make the particles collide against the surface of the conductive metal material, thereby repeatedly causing rapid melting and cooling at the minute points of impact of the particles, thereby changing the surface into amorphous. Then, spherical particles having curvatures smaller than those of irregularities on the surface subjected to the treatment described above collide against the surface, thereby changing the surface into amorphous and planarizing the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Limited
    Inventors: Ryoji Kaku, Masafumi Okada
  • Patent number: 6948400
    Abstract: A backlash comprises a first rotation member and a second rotation member, each of which is provided rotatably-about the same axis, and which are engageable together in a rotating direction of the members by driving contact between respective radial extension surfaces thereof,and where a backlash gap is provided between the respective radial extension surfaces of the first and the second rotation members to permit fee rotation between the first and second rotation members in a range of the backlash gap in the rotating direction of the members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Nakamura, Masafumi Okada, Tatsuya Goto