Patents by Inventor Masahiro Murata

Masahiro Murata 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: 11990497
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging element includes a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion unit. The first and second photoelectric conversion units are joined at joint surfaces facing each other, and include an upper electrode, a lower electrode, a photoelectric conversion film, and a storage electrode. The lower electrode of the first photoelectric conversion unit is connected to a charge storage unit via a first through electrode penetrating a semiconductor substrate. The lower electrode of the second photoelectric conversion unit is connected to the charge storage unit via: a second electrode provided on a joint surface of the second photoelectric conversion unit; a first electrode provided on a joint surface of the first photoelectric conversion unit; a second through electrode penetrating the first photoelectric conversion unit; and the first through electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Murata, Masahiro Joei, Yuta Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240164122
    Abstract: To provide a photoelectric conversion element that can improve image quality. Provided is a photoelectric conversion element including at least a first electrode, a work function control layer, a photoelectric conversion layer, an oxide semiconductor layer, and a second electrode in this order, and further including a third electrode, in which the third electrode is provided apart from the second electrode and is provided facing the photoelectric conversion layer via an insulating layer, and the work function control layer contains a larger amount of oxygen than an amount of oxygen satisfying a stoichiometric composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: SHINTAROU HIRATA, MASAHIRO JOEI, KENICHI MURATA, MASASHI BANDO, YOSUKE SAITO, RYOSUKE SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11985838
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: a first electrode; a charge storage electrode disposed at a distance from the first electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer in contact with the first electrode and above the charge storage electrode, with an insulating layer between the charge storage electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer; and a second electrode on the photoelectric conversion layer. The portion of the insulating layer between the charge storage electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer includes a first region and a second region, the first region is formed with a first insulating layer, the second region is formed with a second insulating layer, and the absolute value of the fixed charge of the material forming the second insulating layer is smaller than the absolute value of the fixed charge of the material forming the first insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Joei, Kenichi Murata
  • Publication number: 20240145517
    Abstract: Provided is a solid-state image capturing element including a semiconductor substrate and first and second photoelectric conversion parts configured to convert light into electric charge. The first and the second photoelectric conversion parts each have a laminated structure including an upper electrode, a lower electrode, a photoelectric conversion film sandwiched between the upper electrode and the lower electrode, and an accumulation electrode facing the upper electrode through the photoelectric conversion film and an insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi MURATA, Masahiro JOEI, Fumihiko KOGA, Iwao YAGI, Shintarou HIRATA, Hideaki TOGASHI, Yosuke SAITO, Shingo TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11974444
    Abstract: There is provided a solid-state image sensor, a solid-state imaging device, an electronic apparatus, and a method of manufacturing a solid-state image sensor capable of improving characteristics. There is provided a solid-state image sensor including a stacked structure that includes a semiconductor substrate, a first photoelectric converter provided above the semiconductor substrate and converting light into charges, and a second photoelectric converter provided above the first photoelectric converter and converting light into charges, where the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter include a photoelectric conversion stacked structure in which a common electrode, a photoelectric conversion film, and a readout electrode are stacked so that the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter are in a line-symmetrical relationship with each other with a vertical plane perpendicular to a stacking direction of the stacked structure as an axis of symmetry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Togashi, Iwao Yagi, Masahiro Joei, Fumihiko Koga, Kenichi Murata, Shintarou Hirata, Yosuke Saito, Akira Furukawa
  • Patent number: 11929589
    Abstract: A light-emitting component includes: a substrate; plural light-emitting elements that are disposed on the substrate and that emit light in a direction intersecting with a surface of the substrate; and plural thyristors that are stacked on the plural light-emitting elements and that are turned ON to drive the corresponding light-emitting elements so that the light-emitting elements emit light or an amount of light emitted from the light-emitting elements is increased. Each of the plural light-emitting elements includes a current confinement region which is oxidized via a hole provided in a multilayer structure. The multilayer structure is constituted by a corresponding light-emitting element and a corresponding thyristor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takashi Kondo, Michiaki Murata, Kenichi Ono, Masahiro Yoshikawa, Takehito Hikichi, Yuji Shirai
  • Publication number: 20230311536
    Abstract: A recording system includes a recording head including a plurality of nozzles configured to discharge liquid, and a control unit configured to control the recording head. The control unit is configured to control discharge of the liquid by the recording head based on a total discharge amount, of the liquid, corresponding to a color of input data, and perform control to discharge a peak total discharge amount of the liquid when a predetermined color belonging to a first range in a color space of the input data is input as the color of the input data, the peak total discharge amount is greater than the total discharge amount corresponding to a darkest portion of the color space, and the first range is a range of 1/25.5 or less excluding the darkest portion when the darkest portion is 0 and a brightest portion of the color space is 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventor: Masahiro MURATA
  • Publication number: 20230202166
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting device includes a liquid ejecting unit and a control unit configured to control ejection of liquid. A plurality of types of liquid include a first ink group that is capable of expressing a different color by mixing a plurality of color inks each other and a second ink capable of singly expressing a color of the same system as that of the different color. The control unit is capable of forming a first color mixture pattern and a second color mixture pattern that uses a greater amount of the first ink group than that of the first color mixture pattern to eject the first ink group, is capable of forming a monochrome pattern to eject the second ink, and forms a patch the second color mixture pattern that is adjacent to the first color mixture pattern and the monochrome pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventor: Masahiro MURATA
  • Patent number: 11646452
    Abstract: A secondary battery according to an embodiment includes an exterior material including an opening portion and including a bottom, a wound electrode group housed in the exterior material in order for an insertion direction to be perpendicular to a winding axis, and a lid attached to the opening portion of the exterior material and including at least a plate-like member, a positive electrode terminal, and a negative electrode terminal. When a minimum distance between the lid and the wound electrode group is AMIN, 0.5 mm<AMIN<2.0 mm is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasuaki Murashi, Masahiro Murata, Tatsuya Shinoda
  • Patent number: 11640509
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a head capable of discharging CMYK inks including a K ink, and a control unit configured to, based on image data to be printed, generate ink amount data for controlling an ink amount of each of the CMYK inks discharged by the head, and to control the head based on the ink amount data, wherein the control unit generates the ink amount data as ink amount data such that lightness of a composite color at least does not increase in a direction from a freely-selected coordinate point toward a black point, the composite color being formed by the CMY inks excluding the K ink based on ink amount data of each of the CMYK inks corresponding to a coordinate on a straight line from the freely-selected coordinate point toward the black point in a predetermined hue range of a color gamut of a color space of the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi Kojima, Tomoyuki Nakano, Masahiro Murata
  • Patent number: 11339672
    Abstract: A method for disassembling/assembling a gas turbine including a seal plate disposed on a first side of a rotor disc in an axial direction of the rotor disc, and a seal plate restraint part for restricting movement of the seal plate in a radial direction of the rotor disc. The method includes a seal-plate-restraint-state switching step of operating the seal plate restraint part from a second side in the axial direction via a clearance between a platform of a blade and a region of an outer peripheral surface of the rotor disc except a blade groove for receiving the blade to switch between a seal plate non-restraint state where the seal plate restraint part does not restrict movement of the seal plate in the radial direction and a seal plate restraint state where at least a part of the seal plate restraint part protrudes in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Murata, Eiichi Tsutsumi, Yoshimasa Takaoka, Shinya Hashimoto, Naoki Ikushima, Tetsuya Shimmyo
  • Publication number: 20220063290
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a head capable of discharging CMYK inks including a K ink, and a control unit configured to, based on image data to be printed, generate ink amount data for controlling an ink amount of each of the CMYK inks discharged by the head, and to control the head based on the ink amount data, wherein the control unit generates the ink amount data as ink amount data such that lightness of a composite color at least does not increase in a direction from a freely-selected coordinate point toward a black point, the composite color being formed by the CMY inks excluding the K ink based on ink amount data of each of the CMYK inks corresponding to a coordinate on a straight line from the freely-selected coordinate point toward the black point in a predetermined hue range of a color gamut of a color space of the image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Takayoshi KOJIMA, Tomoyuki NAKANO, Masahiro MURATA
  • Patent number: 11149562
    Abstract: A method for disassembling/assembling a gas turbine including a seal plate disposed on a first side of a rotor disc in an axial direction of the rotor disc, and a seal plate restraint part for restricting movement of the seal plate relative to the rotor disc in a radial direction of the rotor disc includes a seal-plate-restraint-state switching step of moving the seal plate restraint part along the axial direction to switch between a seal plate non-restraint state where the seal plate restraint part does not restrict movement of the seal plate in the radial direction and a seal plate restraint state where at least a part of the seal plate restraint part protrudes in the axial direction from the seal plate and thereby restricts movement of the seal plate in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Murata, Eiichi Tsutsumi, Yoshimasa Takaoka, Shinya Hashimoto, Naoki Ikushima, Tetsuya Shimmyo
  • Patent number: 11111799
    Abstract: A method for disassembling/assembling a gas turbine including a seal plate disposed on a first side of a rotor disc in an axial direction of the rotor disc, and a seal plate restraint part for restricting movement of the seal plate relative to the rotor disc in a radial direction of the rotor disc includes a seal-plate-restraint-state switching step of operating the seal plate restraint part from a second side in the axial direction to switch between a seal plate non-restraint state where the seal plate restraint part does not restrict movement of the seal plate in the radial direction and a seal plate restraint state where at least a part of the seal plate restraint part protrudes toward the second side in the axial direction from the seal plate and thereby restricts movement of the seal plate in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Murata, Eiichi Tsutsumi, Yoshimasa Takaoka, Shinya Hashimoto, Naoki Ikushima, Tetsuya Shimmyo
  • Publication number: 20210184267
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery includes an external container, an electrode group, and a sealing plate. The electrode group includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode wound in a flat shape with an insulating layer interposed therebetween. Thicknesses TE of the positive and negative electrodes are each from 0.03 mm to 0.08 mm. A first direction is orthogonal to a winding axis direction of the electrode group. A second direction is parallel to the winding axis direction. The thicknesses TE of each electrode, a thickness TW of the electrode group in the third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions, and an innermost circumferential height HIC of the electrode group in the first direction satisfy 0.02?(TE×TW)/HIC?0.04.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masanori TANAKA, Tatsuya SHINODA, Yasuaki MURASHI, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Koichi TAKESHITA, Masahiro MURATA
  • Publication number: 20210135320
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a battery is provided. The battery includes a first lead clamping a current-collecting tab wound into multiple layers. The first lead includes: a joint plate portion electrically connected to the second lead; and a cover plate portion opposing the joint plate portion with the current-collecting tab wound into multiple layers interposed therebetween. The cover plate portion includes a first plate portion and a second plate portion extending continuously from the first plate portion. The second plate portion includes a protrusion protruding relative to the first plate portion along a direction in which the second lead extends. The protrusion is curved toward at least one end of the wound electrode group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masahiro MURATA, Yasuaki MURASHI, Tatsuya SHINODA
  • Publication number: 20200411910
    Abstract: A secondary battery according to an embodiment includes an exterior material including an opening portion and including a bottom, a wound electrode group housed in the exterior material in order for an insertion direction to be perpendicular to a winding axis, and a lid attached to the opening portion of the exterior material and including at least a plate-like member, a positive electrode terminal, and a negative electrode terminal. When a minimum distance between the lid and the wound electrode group is AMIN, 0.5 mm<AMIN<2.0 mm is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasuaki MURASHI, Masahiro MURATA, Tatsuya SHINODA
  • Patent number: 10844487
    Abstract: A film deposition method is provided for filling a recessed pattern formed in a surface of a substrate with a film. In the method, an adsorption blocking group is formed by adsorbing chlorine gas activated by plasma on a top surface of the substrate and an upper portion of the recessed pattern. A source gas that contains one of silicon and a metal, and chlorine, is adsorbed on a lower portion of the recessed pattern where the adsorption blocking group is not formed, by supplying the source gas to the surface of the substrate including the recessed pattern. A molecular layer of a nitride film produced by a reaction of the source gas and a nitriding gas is deposited on the lower portion of the trench by supplying the nitriding gas to the surface of the substrate including the recessed pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Yutaka Takahashi, Masahiro Murata, Hitoshi Kato
  • Patent number: D960833
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Murata, Eiichi Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: D975135
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Murata, Eiichi Tsutsumi