Patents by Inventor Masahiro Haruta

Masahiro Haruta 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).

  • Plurality of beam producing means disposed in different longitudinal and lateral directions from each other with respect to a substrate
    Patent number: 4957061
    Abstract: A device for blowing fine particles is provided which comprises a plural number of upstream chambers for jetting out fine particles provided against a movable substrate. Each of the upstream chambers may be provided with a gas exciter, and also may be provided with an energy imparter for imparting energy to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1990
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Ando, Osamu Kamiya, Masao Sugata, Noriko Kurihara, Hiroyuki Sugata, Tohru Den, Toshiaki Kimura, Takashi Hamamoto, Masahiro Haruta, Kuniji Osabe
  • Optical element and device using same
    Patent number: 4952035
    Abstract: An optical element comprises a gel layer exhibiting a light scattering property when heated and exhibiting transparency when cooled, and the gel layer is sandwiched between a transparent substrate and a transparent protective plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1990
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Yuasa, Yukuo Nishimura, Masahiro Haruta, Yoko Yoshinaga, Hirohide Munakata
  • Optical recording device
    Patent number: 4933221
    Abstract: An optical recording device and an information memorizing device utilizing the same are provided. The optical recording device comprises an A-layer comprising a chromogenic compound which is usually colorless or pale colored, a B-layer comprising an auxochromic compound capable of making said chromogenic compound form color through contact with said chromogenic compound, and a light-absorbing layer, at least one of the three layers being constituted of a monomolecular film or a built-up film thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukuo Nishimura, Haruki Kawada, Masahiro Haruta, Yutaka Hirai, Noritaka Mochizuki, Takashi Nakagiri
  • Reaction apparatus which introduces one reacting substance within a convergent-divergent nozzle
    Patent number: 4909914
    Abstract: A reaction apparatus is provided which comprises a flow control system provided with a convergent-divergent nozzle. This nozzle is operated under the optimum expansion condition, and the differential coefficient of the streamline of the channel inside the nozzle varies continuously and reaches zero at a throat of the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Chiba, Kenji Ando, Tatsuo Masaki, Masao Sugata, Kuniji Osabe, Osamu Kamiya, Hiroyuki Sugata, Toshiaki Kimura, Masahiro Haruta
  • Optical element
    Patent number: 4900135
    Abstract: An optical element comprised a pair of plates between which an optical modulation liquid layer is sandwiched, the optical modulation liquid layer exhibiting a light scattering property caused by suspension of fine particle polymer when not heated and exhibiting transparency caused by dissolution of fine particle polymer when heated, the change of such light scattering property to transparency being reversible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Yuasa, Yukuo Nishimura, Yoko Yoshinaga, Hirohide Munakata, Masahiro Haruta
  • Thermal optical modulation method and device using alternating current
    Patent number: 4881798
    Abstract: An optical modulating method is provided which comprises heating a heat-sensitive medium comprising a polymeric substance and a liquid with a heat-generating resistor adjacent to the medium, thereby modulating the light incident on the medium at the heated region. The liquid may be heated to the critical solution temperature or higher of the constituent polymeric substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1989
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Yuasa, Hirohide Munakata, Yoko Yoshinaga, Masahiro Haruta, Yukuo Nishimura
  • Optical recording medium and method for conducting recording on said medium
    Patent number: 4873178
    Abstract: An optical recording medium is provided which comprises a substrate and a colored film formed by electrolytic polymerization on the substrate. The film may be formed on an electroconductive substrate, or it may be transferred onto a non-electroconductive substrates. A method for recording employing the electrolytically polymerized film is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Haruta, Yoko Kuwae, Hirohide Munakata, Satoshi Yuasa, Etsuko Sugawa
  • Optical element
    Patent number: 4832466
    Abstract: An optical element comprises a pair of plates between which an optical modulation liquid layer is sandwiched, the optical modulation liquid layer exhibiting a light scattering property caused by suspension of fine particle polymer when heated and exhibiting transparency caused by dissolution of fine particle polymer when not heated, the change of such light scattering property to transparency being reversible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukuo Nishimura, Satoshi Yuasa, Masahiro Haruta, Yoko Yoshinaga, Hirohide Munakata
  • Medium and process for image formation
    Patent number: 4818665
    Abstract: A medium for image formation which comprises a monomolecular film or monomolecular built-up film of a metal chelate compound and a process for image formation which comprises (1) manipulating the adsorption of a gas on a metal chelate compound and the desorption of the gas therefrom or (2) reducing metal ions in molecules of a metal chelate compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Haruta, Hiroshi Matsuda, Hirohide Munakata, Yukuo Nishimura
  • Optical recording medium and optical recording process using such medium
    Patent number: 4804613
    Abstract: An optical recording medium and an optical recording process using such a medium are provided. The optical recording medium comprises a photo-polymerizable monomer having a hydrophilic group, a hydrophobic group, and at least one unsaturated bond in the molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1989
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsuda, Masahiro Haruta, Hirohide Munakata, Yoshinori Tomita, Takashi Hamamoto
  • System for purifying dye
    Patent number: 4802989
    Abstract: A system for purifying dye comprising a means for producing a dye solution and a means for treating the dye solution which captures metal ions in said dye solution by carrying out ion-exchange separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1989
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Haruta, Kunitaka Ozawa, Takashi Hamamoto
  • Method for producing composite materials
    Patent number: 4798694
    Abstract: A molded composite material comprising a plural number of constituents is provided in which at least two of the constituents are distributed with a relative existing ratio varying at least in one direction in the composite material. A process for producing the composite material is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1989
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sugata, Kouhei Nakata, Nobutoshi Mizusawa, Satoshi Yuasa, Masahiro Haruta, Takashi Hamamoto, Kuniji Osabe
  • Optical element for modulation of light by heating a monomolecular film
    Patent number: 4796981
    Abstract: Optical modulation is effected by heating a monomolecular film or a built-up film of monomolecular layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukuo Nishimura, Masahiro Haruta, Yutaka Hirai, Kunihiro Sakai, Hiroshi Matsuda
  • Optical device
    Patent number: 4779962
    Abstract: An optical device is provided which comprises a liquid layer containing a liquid-absorbable and releasable polymer that absorbs and releases a liquid under the action of an electric field and at least one pair of electrodes holding the liquid layer therebetween. The liquid may be colored, and alternatively the liquid-absorbable and releasable polymer may be colored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1988
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukuo Nishimura, Masahiro Haruta, Hirohide Munakata, Yoko Kuwae, Toshihiko Miyazaki, Satoshi Yuasa
  • Display method with fatly acid ester host molecule
    Patent number: 4773742
    Abstract: A display method comprises applying electrical energy to a display layer formed of a monomolecular film or a monomolecular-layer built-up film of a clathrate complex compound composed of a host molecule having a hydrophilic portion, a hydrophobic portion and a portion to enclose a guest molecule, and a guest molecule on a substrate, thereby making a display.The display may be made by color-forming or light emitting due to reduction of the guest molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsuda, Masahiro Haruta, Yutaka Hirai, Yukuo Nishimura, Ken Eguchi, Takashi Nakagiri
  • Display device with a biochemical luminous reaction system
    Patent number: 4771215
    Abstract: A display device is provided which comprises a medium includng a biochemical luminous reaction system and an electrode which controls electrochemically the concentration of at least one of reactants participating in said reaction system in a cell. The luminous reaction system may include an enzyme, and the electrode may be modified with a polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirohide Munakata, Satoshi Yuasa, Yoko Yoshinaga, Masahiro Haruta
  • Optical recording medium and optical recording process using such medium
    Patent number: 4766047
    Abstract: An optical recording medium and an optical recording process using such a medium are provided. The optical recording medium comprises a photopolymerizable monomer having a hydrophilic group, a hydrophobic group, and at least one unsaturated bond in the molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsuda, Masahiro Haruta, Hirohide Munakata, Yoshinori Tomita, Takashi Hamamoto
  • Recording liquid
    Patent number: 4756757
    Abstract: In a recording liquid comprising, as essential components, a colorant in an amount necessary to image formation, water, an a water-miscible organic solvent, said recording liquid is characterized in that the total number of colonies in the Ames test thereof is not more than four times that of the control test using sterilized water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1988
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Haruta, Masatsune Kobayashi, Tokuya Ohta
  • Film forming method, recording medium formed thereby and recording method therewith
    Patent number: 4753830
    Abstract: A film forming method, a recording medium formed thereby, and a recording method therewith are provided. The recording medium comprises a recording layer constituted of a monomolecular film or monomolecular-layer built-up film of a clathrate complex compound comprised of a host molecule and a guest molecule, said host molecule having a hydrophilic portion, a hydrophobic portion, and a portion capable of enclosing said guest molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1988
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsuda, Masahiro Haruta, Yutaka Hirai, Yukuo Nishimura, Ken Eguchi, Takashi Nakagiri
  • Optical recording medium
    Patent number: 4740449
    Abstract: An optical recording medium is provided which comprises an optical recording layer provided on a support, said optical recording layer containing a compound modifiable under light irradiation and gelled polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1988
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Yuasa, Masahiro Haruta, Yoko Yoshinaga, Hirohide Munakata, Kenji Saito, Yukuo Nishimura