Patents by Inventor Masahiro Gotoh

Masahiro Gotoh 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: 20100291210
    Abstract: There is provided a lipid peptide that is capable of forming a hydrogel with an extremely small amount thereof over a liquid property range from acidic to alkaline, and a hydrogel having high environmental suitability, biocompatibility and biodegradability. A lipid peptide represented by Formula (1): (where R1 represents an aliphatic group having 9 to 23 carbon atoms; R2, R3, R4 and R5 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 7 carbon atom(s) which optionally has a branched chain having 1 to 3 carbon atom(s), a phenylmethyl group, a phenylethyl group or a —(CH2)—X group, and at least one of R2, R3, R4 and R5 represents a —(CH2)n—X group; n represents the number of 1 to 4; X represents an amino group, a guanidine group, a —CONH2 group or a 5-membered ring, a 6-membered ring or a fused heterocyclic ring composed of a 5-membered ring and a 6-membered ring which optionally have 1 to 3 nitrogen atom(s); and in represents 1 or 2), and a hydrogel comprising the lipid peptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2008
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicants: Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd., Kyushu University
    Inventors: Nobuhide Miyachi, Takehisa Iwama, Masahiro Gotoh, Tatsuo Maruyama, Daisuke Koda
  • Publication number: 20100279955
    Abstract: There is provided a hydrogelator that is capable of forming a hydrogel with an extremely small amount thereof over a liquid property range from acidic to alkaline, and a hydrogel having high environmental suitability, biocompatibility and biodegradability. A hydrogelator comprising a lipid peptide represented by Formula (1): (where R1 represents an aliphatic group having 9 to 21 carbon atoms; R2, R3 and R4 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atom(s) which may have a branched chain having 1 or 2 carbon atom(s), a phenylmethyl group or a —(CH2)n—X group, and at least one of R2, R3 and R4 represents a —(CH2)n—X group; n represents the number of 1 to 4; X represents an amino group, a guanidino group, a —CONH2 group or a 5-membered ring, a 6-membered ring or a fused heterocyclic ring composed of a 5-membered ring and a 6-membered ring which may have 1 to 3 nitrogen atom(s)) or a salt thereof, and a hydrogel comprising the hydrogelator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicants: Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd., Kyushu University
    Inventors: Nobuhide Miyachi, Takehisa Iwama, Masahiro Gotoh, Tatsuo Maruyama, Daisuke Koda
  • Publication number: 20100258766
    Abstract: To provide a phosphor having an emission spectrum with a broad peak in a range from yellow color to red color (580 nm to 680 nm) and an excellent excitation band on the longer wavelength side from near ultraviolet/ultraviolet of excitation light to visible light (250 nm to 550 nm), and having an improved emission intensity. The phosphor is provided, which is given by a general composition formula expressed by MmAaBbOoNn:Z, (wherein element M is more than one kind of element having bivalent valency, element A is more than one kind of element having tervalent valency selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, In, Tl, Y, Sc, P, As, Sb, and Bi, element B is more than one kind of element having tetravalent valency, O is oxygen, N is nitrogen, and element Z is more than one kind of element selected from rare earth elements or transitional metal elements, satisfying m>0, a>0, b>0 o?0, and n=2/3m+a+4/3b?2/3o), and further containing boron and/or fluorine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicants: DOWA Electronics Materials Co., Ltd., Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Sakane, Akira Nagatomi, Masahiro Gotoh, Shuji Yamashita, Tetsuya Ikuta
  • Patent number: 7803286
    Abstract: To provide a phosphor having an emission spectrum with a broad peak in a range from yellow color to red color (580 nm to 680 nm) and an excellent excitation band on the longer wavelength side from near ultraviolet/ultraviolet of excitation light to visible light (250 nm to 550 nm), and having an improved emission intensity. The phosphor is provided, which is given by a general composition formula expressed by MmAaBbOoNn:Z, (wherein element M is more than one kind of element having bivalent valency, element A is more than one kind of element having tervalent valency selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, In, Tl, Y, Sc, P, As, Sb, and Bi, element B is more than one kind of element having tetravalent valency, O is oxygen, N is nitrogen, and element Z is more than one kind of element selected from rare earth elements or transitional metal elements, satisfying m>0, a>0, b>0 o?0, and n=2/3m+a+4/3b?2/3o), and further containing boron and/or fluorine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignees: Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd., Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Sakane, Akira Nagatomi, Masahiro Gotoh, Shuji Yamashita, Tetsuya Ikuta
  • Patent number: 7741973
    Abstract: A drive control device that includes: a driving circuit to drive a driving source; a condition detector to detect the condition of at least one of the driving source and the driving circuit to output a condition signal thereof; a controller to control the driving circuit based on the condition signal; an alarm detector to detect an occurrence of an alarm based on the condition signal; an alarm code generator to analyze the alarm detected by the alarm detector to generate an alarm code; and an alarm display to display the alarm code generated by the alarm code generator, in which the alarm display includes one or more lighting section to display the alarm code by a lighting pattern of the lighting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Sawaguchi, Hazime Endou, Masahiro Gotoh
  • Publication number: 20100013374
    Abstract: A light emitting device 10 includes: a lead frame 12a serving as a mounting portion having a cup 13; a light emitting element 14, mounted on the bottom face 13a of the cup, for emitting light having a predetermined peak wavelength; a layer of first phosphor particles 16, absorbed and formed on the light emitting element, for absorbing light emitted from the light emitting element and for emitting light having a longer peak wavelength than that of the light emitted from the light emitting element; second phosphor particles 18 for absorbing at least one of light emitted from the first phosphor particles and light emitted from the light emitting element and for emitting light having a longer peak wavelength than that of the at least one of the light emitted from the first phosphor particles and the light emitted from the light emitting element; and a sealing member 20, in which the second phosphor particles are dispersed, for sealing the light emitting element and the layer of first phosphor particles in the cup
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Maruyama, Masahiro Gotoh, Tetsuya Ikuta
  • Publication number: 20100013375
    Abstract: A light emitting device 10 includes: a lead frame 12a serving as a mounting portion having a cup 13; a light emitting element 14, mounted on the bottom face 13a of the cup, for emitting light having a predetermined peak wavelength; a layer of large phosphor particles 16, absorbed and formed on the light emitting element, for absorbing light emitted from the light emitting element and for emitting light having a longer peak wavelength than that of the light emitted from the light emitting element; small phosphor particles 18, which have a smaller particle diameter than that of the large phosphor particles, for absorbing at least one of light emitted from the large phosphor particles and light emitted from the light emitting element and for emitting light having a longer peak wavelength than that of the at least one of the light emitted from the large phosphor particles and the light emitted from the light emitting element; and a sealing member 20, in which the small phosphor particles are dispersed, for sealin
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Maruyama, Masahiro Gotoh, Tetsuya Ikuta
  • Publication number: 20100001631
    Abstract: To provide a phosphor given by a general composition formula expressed by MmAaBbOoNn:Z, (wherein element M is one or more kinds of elements having bivalent valency, element A is one or more kinds of elements having tervalent valency, element B is one or more kinds of elements having tetravalent valency, O is oxygen, N is nitrogen, and element Z is one or more kind of activating agent, satisfying m>0, a>0, b>0, o?0, and n>0), with a change rate of a ratio of element B atoms to the total numbers of atoms being smaller by 10% or the change rate of oxygen atoms to the total numbers of atoms being smaller by 40% in a range from a particle surface up to depth 2000 nm, having a broad emission spectrum in a range of blue color, having a broad flat excitation band in a range of near ultraviolet/ultraviolet, and having excellent emission efficiency, emission intensity, and luminance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Gotoh, Kenji Sakane
  • Publication number: 20100001234
    Abstract: To reduce impurity contents of carbon and oxygen not contributing to light emission, then suppress deterioration of emission intensity of a phosphor, and improve emission efficiency of this phosphor. Therefore, there is provided a firing method of nitride or oxynitride phosphors, wherein a crucible 11 made of nitride is used as a firing container, and firing is performed, with this crucible covered with a lid (container 10), to manufacture the phosphor. The phosphor is expressed by a general composition formula MABOoN3-2/3O:Z in which element M is one or more kinds of elements having bivalent valency, element A is one or more kinds of elements having tervalent valency, element B is one or more kinds of elements having tetravalent valency, O is oxygen, N is nitrogen, and element Z is an activating agent, satisfying o?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Gotoh, Kenji Sakane
  • Patent number: 7527748
    Abstract: To provide a phosphor for an electron beam excitation with a small deterioration in an emission efficiency and capable of maintaining a high luminance, even when an excitation density of an electron beam for a phosphor excitation is increased. As raw materials, Ca3N2(2N), AlN(3N), Si3N4(3N), and Eu2O3(3N) are prepared, and the raw materials thus prepared are measured and mixed, so that a molar ratio of each element becomes (Ca+Eu):Al:Si=1:1:1. Then, the mixture thus obtained is maintained and fired for at 1500° C. for 3 hours, and thereafter crushed, to manufacture the phosphor having a composition formula Ca0.985SiAlN3:Eu0.015.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignees: DOWA Electronics Materials Co., Ltd., Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Gotoh, Akira Nagatomi, Kenji Sakane, Shuji Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20090109652
    Abstract: To provide a phosphor having an emission spectrum with a broad peak in a range from yellow color to red color (580 nm to 680 nm) and an excellent excitation band on the longer wavelength side from near ultraviolet/ultraviolet of excitation light to visible light (250 nm to 550 nm), and having an improved emission intensity. The phosphor is provided, which is given by a general composition formula expressed by MmAaBbOoNn:Z, (wherein element M is more than one kind of element having bivalent valency, element A is more than one kind of element having tervalent valency selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, In, Tl, Y, Sc, P, As, Sb, and Bi, element B is more than one kind of element having tetravalent valency, O is oxygen, N is nitrogen, and element Z is more than one kind of element selected from rare earth elements or transitional metal elements, satisfying m>0, a>0, b>0 o?0, and n=2/3m+a+4/3b?2/3o), and further containing boron and/or fluorine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicants: DOWA Electronics Materials Co., Ltd., Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Sakane, Akira Nagatomi, Masahiro Gotoh, Shuji Yamashita, Tetsuya Ikuta
  • Patent number: 7514860
    Abstract: To provide a light emitting device having a phosphor mixture and a light emitting part, the phosphor mixture including a red phosphor and more than one kind of phosphor having an emission spectrum with a peak in a wavelength range from 500 nm to 630 nm, and emitting light having a sufficient luminance and excellent in color rendering properties not only in a white light with high correlated color temperature, but also in a warm white light with low correlated color temperature. CaAlSiN3:Eu manufactured as a red phosphor and and CaAl2Si4N8:Eu manufactured as an orange phosphor, and for example, commercial YAG:Ce as a yellow-green phosphor, are prepared, and emission spectra of these phosphors are measured when excited by excitation light in the wavelength range from 430 nm to 500 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignees: DOWA Electronics Materials Co., Ltd., Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Nagatomi, Masahiro Gotoh, Kenji Sakane
  • Publication number: 20090085010
    Abstract: To provide a phosphor having an emission characteristic such that a peak wavelength of light emission is in a range from 580 to 680 nm, and having a high emission intensity, and having a flat excitation band with high efficiency for excitation light in a broad wavelength range from ultraviolet to visible light (wavelength range from 250 nm to 550 nm). For example, Ca3N2(2N), AlN(3N), Si3N4(3N), Eu2O3(3N) are prepared, and after weighing and mixing a predetermined amount of each raw material, raw materials are fired at 1500° C. for 6 hours, thus obtaining the phosphor including a product phase expressed by a composition formula CaAlSiN3:Eu and having an X-ray diffraction pattern satisfying a predetermined pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicants: DOWA Electronics Materials Co., Ltd., Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Sakane, Akira Nagatomi, Masahiro Gotoh, Shuji Yamashita
  • Patent number: 7476337
    Abstract: To provide a phosphor having an emission characteristic such that a peak wavelength of light emission is in a range from 580 to 680 nm, and having a high emission intensity, and having a flat excitation band with high efficiency for excitation light in a broad wavelength range from ultraviolet to visible light (wavelength range from 250 nm to 550 nm). For example, Ca3N2(2N), AlN(3N), Si3N4(3N), Eu2O3(3N) are prepared, and after weighing and mixing a predetermined amount of each raw material, raw materials are fired at 1500° C. for 6 hours, thus obtaining the phosphor including a product phase expressed by a composition formula CaAlSiN3:Eu and having an X-ray diffraction pattern satisfying a predetermined pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignees: DOWA Electronics Materials Co., Ltd., Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Sakane, Akira Nagatomi, Masahiro Gotoh, Shuji Yamashita
  • Patent number: 7476338
    Abstract: To provide a phosphor having an emission spectrum with a broad peak in a range from yellow color to red color (580 nm to 680 nm) and an excellent excitation band on the longer wavelength side from near ultraviolet/ultraviolet of excitation light to visible light (250 nm to 550 nm), and having an improved emission intensity. The phosphor is provided, which is given by a general composition formula expressed by MmAaBbOoNn:Z, (wherein element M is more than one kind of element having bivalent valency, element A is more than one kind of element having tervalent valency selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, In, Tl, Y, Sc, P, As, Sb, and Bi, element B is more than one kind of element having tetravalent valency, O is oxygen, N is nitrogen, and element Z is more than one kind of element selected from rare earth elements or transitional metal elements, satisfying m>0, a>0, b>0 o?0, and n=2/3m+a+4/3b?2/3o), and further containing boron and/or fluorine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignees: DOWA Electronics Materials Co., Ltd., Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Sakane, Akira Nagatomi, Masahiro Gotoh, Shuji Yamashita, Tetsuya Ikuta
  • Patent number: 7477009
    Abstract: To provide a phosphor mixture realizing a light emitting device having a phosphor and a light emission element, by which light emission is performed, with a small color shift due to a feeding current and having an excellent color rendering properties. CaAlSin3:Eu as a red phosphor and YAG:Ce as a yellow phosphor are manufactured, and emission spectra thereof are obtained. Meanwhile, the emission spectrum of an excitation light emitted by a light emitting part is obtained. From the emission spectra thus obtained, a relative mixing ratio of each phosphor is obtained by simulation, so that a correlated color temperature of the light emitting device becomes a target temperature. Then, based on the relative mixing ratio thus obtained, each phosphor is measured and mixed, and a phosphor mixture is thereby obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignees: DOWA Electronics Materials Co., Ltd., Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Nagatomi, Masahiro Gotoh, Kenji Sakane
  • Publication number: 20080303412
    Abstract: A phosphor having an excitation band relative to lights in the wide range of wavelengths from ultraviolet to visible light, and having an emission spectrum in the red range and so on, with a wide half value width, and an LED and a light source using the phosphor and emitting white and other color lights with good color rendering properties are provided. Powdered raw materials of Ca3N2 (2N), CaO (2N), AlN (3N), Si3N4 (3N), and Eu2O3 (3N) are prepared, and the respective raw materials are mixed to have a mole ratio of the respective elements of Ca:Al:Si:Eu=0.985:1:1:0.015. The mixed raw materials are fired at 1000° C. or higher in an inert atmosphere for three hours, and thereafter pulverized to obtain a phosphor having a composition of CaAlSiN2.83O0.25:Eu, which is one example of the phosphor satisfying the above described object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicants: DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD., NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Nagatomi, Masahiro Gotoh, Kenji Sakane, Shuji Yamashita
  • Patent number: 7432647
    Abstract: A phosphor having an excitation band relative to lights in the wide range of wavelengths from ultraviolet to visible light, and having an emission spectrum in the red range and so on, with a wide half value width, and an LED and a light source using the phosphor and emitting white and other color lights with good color rendering properties are provided. Powdered raw materials of Ca3N2 (2N), CaO (2N), AlN (3N), Si3N4 (3N), and Eu2O3 (3N) are prepared, and the respective raw materials are mixed to have a mole ratio of the respective elements of Ca:Al:Si:Eu=0.985:1:1:0.015. The mixed raw materials are fired at 1000° C. or higher in an inert atmosphere for three hours, and thereafter pulverized to obtain a phosphor having a composition of CaAlSiN2.83O0.25:Eu, which is one example of the phosphor satisfying the above described object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignees: DOWA Electronics Materials Co., Ltd., Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Nagatomi, Masahiro Gotoh, Kenji Sakane, Shuji Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20080117069
    Abstract: A drive control device that includes: a driving circuit to drive a driving source; a condition detector to detect the condition of at least one of the driving source and the driving circuit to output a condition signal thereof; a controller to control the driving circuit based on the condition signal; an alarm detector to detect an occurrence of an alarm based on the condition signal; an alarm code generator to analyze the alarm detected by the alarm detector to generate an alarm code; and an alarm display to display the alarm code generated by the alarm code generator, in which the alarm display includes one or more lighting section to display the alarm code by a lighting pattern of the lighting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: TOSHIBA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Sawaguchi, Hazime Endou, Masahiro Gotoh
  • Patent number: 7345418
    Abstract: A phosphor mixture containing four or more kinds of phosphors including a red phosphor, an orange phosphor, a blue phosphor, and a green phosphor, to produce emission having excellent color rendering of white light at a high color temperature, and emission in warm white which is low in color temperature, and a light emitting device including the phosphor mixture and a light-emitting section, CaAlSiN3:Eu and CaAl2Si4N8:Eu are manufactured as a red phosphor and an orange phosphor respectively, and ZnS:Cu, Al, and BAM:Eu are prepared as a green phosphor and a blue phosphor respectively. The emission spectrums of these phosphors are measured and a relative mixing ratio at which the correlated color temperature of the phosphor mixture becomes a targeted color temperature is determined from the emission spectrum by simulation, and a phosphor mixture is obtained by weighing and mixing the respective phosphors based on the simulation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Dowa Mining Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Nagatomi, Masahiro Gotoh, Kenji Sakane