Patents by Inventor Masahiko Yoshino

Masahiko Yoshino 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: 7608200
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a high-efficiency red light emitting phosphor and white light emitting phosphor for using in a display or lighting which high-efficiently emits light in combination with a light source which emits light in the region from near-ultraviolet light to visible light. The present invention relates to a phosphor having a crystal phase having a specified chemical composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Takatoshi Seto, Naoto Kijima, Masahiko Yoshino, Masayoshi Mikami, Motoyuki Shigeiwa, Hiroyuki Imura
  • Publication number: 20090252442
    Abstract: A motion guide device is provided, which is able to not only lubricate rolling-element rolling surfaces with the use of a technique totally different from conventional lubricating techniques but also maintain a lubricating capability over a long period of time. The motion guide device for use in the vacuum environment a track member (1) having a rolling-element rolling part (1a), a moving member (2) having a rolling-element circulation passage containing a loaded rolling-element rolling part (2a) facing the rolling-element rolling part (1a) and being movable relatively to the track member (2), a plurality of rolling elements (3) placed in along the rolling-element circulation passage, and a lubricant storing member storing lubricant, which member is attached to the moving member (2) without contacting the track member (1). The lubricant storing member is exposed in a space formed between the track member (1) and the moving member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Michioka, Masahiko Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20090161996
    Abstract: A motion guide device that has a novel damping structure different from the conventional damping structure is provided. The present invention comprises a raceway member (1) having a rolling-element rolling part (1a); a moving member (2) having a loaded rolling-element rolling part (2a) facing the rolling-element rolling part (1a) and being allowed to make a linear or curved movement relatively to the raceway member (1); and a plurality of rolling elements (3) intervening between the rolling-element rolling part (1a) of the raceway member (1) and the loaded rolling-element rolling part (2a) of the moving part (2). A gap (16) between the raceway member (1) and the moving member (2) is filled with a layer of oil contacting the raceway member (1) and the moving member (2). Viscosity resistance of the oil is utilized to apply a braking force to the moving member (2) or the raceway member (1) in proportion to a speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Michioka, Masahiko Yoshino, Mitsuaki Homma, Satoru Nagai
  • Publication number: 20090148083
    Abstract: A movement guiding device for a vacuum environment is provided so that the device is able to suppress a base oil vaporized in the vacuum environment from leaking to the outside. The movement guiding device for a vacuum environment according to the present invention comprises a track member (1) having a rolling-element rolling part (1a), a moving member (2) having a rolling-element circulation passage containing a loaded rolling-element rolling part (2a) facing the rolling-element rolling part (1a) and being movable relatively to the track member (1), a plurality of rolling elements (3) arranged in the rolling-element circulation passage, clearance seals (5, 6) arranged with the moving member (2) and sealing a clearance formed between the track member (1) and the moving member (2) without coming in contact with the track member (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Michioka, Masahiko Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20090070078
    Abstract: Provided is a roller screw having an unloaded roller return path of new shape capable of moving rollers smoothly. The roller circulation path of the roller screw has the unloaded roller return path and a loaded roller rolling path. The unloaded roller return path 10 is twisted so that while each roller 4 moves in the unloaded roller return path 10 its central axis is inclined. In a cross sectional shape of the twisted part of the unloaded roller return path 10, each of paired side surface corresponding parts 25c and 25d facing respective side surfaces of the roller 4 is convex toward the inside of the unloaded roller return path 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.,
    Inventors: Soshi Miyahara, Masahiko Yoshino, Takashi Sakuyama
  • Publication number: 20090008663
    Abstract: A phosphor containing a crystal phase having a chemical composition expressed by the following general formula [1], and exhibiting an average variation rate of the emission intensity of 1.3 or less upon excitation with light having a peak in the wavelength range of 420 nm to 480 nm, the variation rate of the emission intensity being calculated by the following general formula [2]. (Ln1-a-bCeaTbb)3M5O12??[1] wherein Ln is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Y, Gd, Sc, Lu, and La, M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, and In, and a and b satisfy 0.001?a?0.3 and 0?b?0.5, respectively. Variation rate of emission intensity=[(I(?+1)?I(?))/I(?)]2??[2] wherein I(?) is the emission intensity of the phosphor at an excitation wavelength of ?nm, and I(?+1) is the emission intensity of the phosphor at an excitation wavelength of (?+1) nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: Mitshubishi Chemcial
    Inventors: Etsuo Shimizu, Masahiko Yoshino, Naoto Kijima
  • Patent number: 7396488
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a light emitting device which can generate high-intensity light emission, using a fluorescent material containing a rare earth element ion complex and being excellent in durability and also provide the fluorescent material to be used therein. The present invention relates to a light emitting device comprising a semiconductor light emitting element which emits light within the region from near-ultraviolet light to visible light, and a fluorescent material which contains a rare earth element ion complex having an aromatic ring-containing Bronsted acid ion with a pKa value of 7 or less as a ligand and emits light by the action of light of the semiconductor light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Murayama, Akiko Yabe, Kanzi Shimizu, Takayuki Shoda, Masahiko Yoshino
  • Patent number: 7332106
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light-emitting device having an excitation source which emits a light having a wavelength of from 420 to 500 nm and a phosphor in combination, and having a high luminance. A light-emitting device having a first illuminant which emits a light having a wavelength of 420 to 500 nm and a second illuminant which emits a visible light when irradiated with the light from the first illuminant, characterized in that the second illuminant contains a phosphor, and the object color of the phosphor satisfies L*?90, ?22?a*??10, and b*?55, in the L*, a*, b* color system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Yoshino, Naoto Kijima
  • Patent number: 7282160
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a light emitting device which can generate high-intensity light emission, using a fluorescent material containing a rare earth element ion complex and being excellent in durability and also provide the fluorescent material to be used therein. The present invention relates to a light emitting device comprising a semiconductor light emitting element which emits light within the region from near-ultraviolet light to visible light, and a fluorescent material which contains a rare earth element ion complex having an aromatic ring-containing Bronsted acid ion with a pKa value of 7 or less as a ligand and emits light by the action of light of the semiconductor light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Murayama, Akiko Yabe, Kanzi Shimizu, Takayuki Shoda, Masahiko Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20070222369
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light-emitting device having an excitation source which emits a light having a wavelength of from 420 to 500 nm and a phosphor in combination, and having a high luminance. A light-emitting device having a first illuminant which emits a light having a wavelength of 420 to 500 nm and a second illuminant which emits a visible light when irradiated with the light from the first illuminant, characterized in that the second illuminant contains a phosphor, and the object color of the phosphor satisfies L*?90, ?22?a*??10, and b*?55, in the L*, a*, b* color system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko YOSHINO, Naoto Kijima
  • Publication number: 20070158614
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a high-efficiency red light emitting phosphor and white light emitting phosphor for using in a display or lighting which high-efficiently emits light in combination with a light source which emits light in the region from near-ultraviolet light to visible light. The present invention relates to a phosphor having a crystal phase having a specified chemical composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takatoshi Seto, Naoto Kijima, Masahiko Yoshino, Masayoshi Mikami, Motoyuki Shigeiwa, Hiroyuki Imura
  • Publication number: 20070085057
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a light emitting device which can generate high-intensity light emission, using a fluorescent material containing a rare earth element ion complex and being excellent in durability and also provide the fluorescent material to be used therein. The present invention relates to a light emitting device comprising a semiconductor light emitting element which emits light within the region from near-ultraviolet light to visible light, and a fluorescent material which contains a rare earth element ion complex having an aromatic ring-containing Bronsted acid ion with a pKa value of 7 or less as a ligand and emits light by the action of light of the semiconductor light emitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Murayama, Akiko Yabe, Kanzi Shimizu, Takayuki Shoda, Masahiko Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20060172148
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a light emitting device which can generate high-intensity light emission, using a fluorescent material containing a rare earth element ion complex and being excellent in durability and also provide the fluorescent material to be used therein. The present invention relates to a light emitting device comprising a semiconductor light emitting element which emits light within the region from near-ultraviolet light to visible light, and a fluorescent material which contains a rare earth element ion complex having an aromatic ring-containing Bronsted acid ion with a pKa value of 7 or less as a ligand and emits light by the action of light of the semiconductor light emitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Murayama, Akiko Yabe, Kanzi Shimizu, Takayuki Shoda, Masahiko Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20060145593
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light-emitting device having an excitation source which emits a light having a wavelength of from 420 to 500 nm and a phosphor in combination, and having a high luminance. A light-emitting device having a first illuminant which emits a light having a wavelength of 420 to 500 nm and a second illuminant which emits a visible light when irradiated with the light from the first illuminant, characterized in that the second illuminant contains a phosphor, and the object color of the phosphor satisfies L*?90, ?22?a*??10, and b*?55, in the L*, a*, b* color system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko Yoshino, Naoto Kijima
  • Publication number: 20060096397
    Abstract: A ball screw having a lubricant oil feeder constructed so as not to allow the lubricating oil in a ball rolling groove to leak outside. A ball screw having a lubricating oil feeding mechanism installed at the shaft end of a nut, and a seal disposed outside the same, wherein the lubricating oil feeding mechanism has an application with its front end held in slide contact with the ball rolling groove, is being arranged that the lubricating oil is fed to the ball rolling groove through the applicator, and an oil lip with its front end held in slide contact with the surface of the ball rolling groove is installed in the vicinity of the applicators with a predetermined spacing defined between the oil lip and the applicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Applicant: THK Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Michioka, Daisuke Yatsushiro, Masahiko Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20040029740
    Abstract: A lubricant supplying device for a guiding apparatus which can control as accurately as possible the amount per unit time of a lubricant to be supplied even when the amount per unit time of the lubricant to be supplied from lubricant accommodating chambers to lubricant coaters is very small, and stably can apply a predetermined amount of the lubricant to the rolling faces of a track shaft and/or a slide member from the lubricant coaters stably for a long period of time even when the feeder is made small in size. The lubricant stored in the lubricant accommodating chambers is lubricating grease which contains 0.05 to 4 wt % of a thickener in lubricating base oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Daisuke Yatsushiro, Masahiko Yoshino, Mitsuaki Honma
  • Patent number: 5665660
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a glass composition which has a sufficient bonding strength for bonding a fluorescent film with a glass tube, does not hinder decomposition of the binder and is effective as an adhesive material, and to provide a fluorescent lamp using the glass composition. The object can be achieved by a glass composition, represented by the general formula,xMO.yB.sub.2 O.sub.3.zM'.sub.2 O.sub.3.uM"O.sub.2.vM'".sub.2 O.sub.5in which M is at least one element of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba and Zn, M' is at least one element of Al, Sc, Y and lanthanoid elements, M" is at least one element of Ti, Zr, Hf, Th and Si, M'" is at least one element of Nb and Ta, x, y, z, u and v satisfy the relationships of 0<x.ltoreq.70, 15.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.80, 0.ltoreq.z.ltoreq.50, 0.ltoreq.u.ltoreq.30, 0.ltoreq.v.ltoreq.30, 0.5.ltoreq.u+v.ltoreq.50 and x+y+z+u+v=100, represented by mol %, and by a fluorescent lamp, in which the glass composition is incorporated in a phosphor layer in a proportion of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Kasei Optnix, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamawaki, Masahiko Yoshino, Yasuo Oguri, Masayuki Yamane
  • Patent number: 5195344
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a warm rolling facility suited to rolling of brittle strip coils such as high Si steels. The facility is provided with a rolling machine, tension reels disposed respectively at an inlet side and an outlet side of the rolling machine, deflector rolls between each of the tension reels and the rolling machine. The tension reels are positioned in warming furnaces having heating means, and the rolls and the deflector rolls are provided with means for heating the rolls. Further, the rolling machine is provided at its inlet and outlet with heating apparatuses for heating the strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1993
    Assignee: Nippon Kokan Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sadakazu Masuda, Fumio Fujita, Tadayoshi Murakami, Masahiko Yoshino, Ryuichi Yagi, Masamoto Kamata
  • Patent number: 5166456
    Abstract: A luminescent phosphor composition composed essentially of particles formed by fusion of a phosphor and a sulfate of alkaline earth metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1992
    Assignee: Kasei Optonix, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiko Yoshino
  • Patent number: 5006181
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lubricating method for warm rolling of high Si steel, where warm rolling is carried out on the high Si steel at temperatures between 200.degree. and 600.degree. C., while a lubricant is sprayed to working rolls or assistant rolls, the lubricant having been produced by mixing a solid lubricant endurable to rolling temperatures into a heat resistant grease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: Nippon Kokan Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sadakazu Masuda, Fumio Fujita, Tadayoshi Murakami, Masahiko Yoshino, Ryuichi Yagi, Masamoto Kamata