Patents by Inventor Masanori Kasai

Masanori Kasai 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: 20140057167
    Abstract: A secondary battery using a polymer radical material and a conducting additive in which the performance of a conductive auxiliary layer is further improved and the internal resistance is reduced, thereby achieving a higher output. Specifically disclosed is a secondary battery in which at least one of a positive electrode and a negative electrode uses, as an electrode active material, a polymer radical material and a conducting additive having electrical conductivity. By providing a conductive auxiliary layer between a current collector and the polymer radical material/conducting additive electrode which is mainly composed of graphite, fibrous carbon or a granular carbon having a DBP absorption of not more than 110 cm3/100 g, the secondary battery with a higher output can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori KASAI, Hiroshi Isozumi, Takayoshi Obata, Shigeyuki Iwasa, Kentaro Nakahara, Masahiro Suguro
  • Patent number: 8658267
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a high-frequency dielectric attachment capable of suppressing a decrease in Q value of a high frequency circuit and achieving a great adjusting effect. The high-frequency dielectric attachment is a laminate of an insulating sheet layer, adhesive layer, and a dielectric sheet layer. The insulating sheet layer forms an outermost layer of the laminate, and the adhesive layer and dielectric sheet layer are arranged in sequence below the insulating sheet layer. The width of the dielectric sheet layer is smaller than each of the width of the insulating sheet layer and the width of the adhesive layer. The adhesive layer projects beyond the dielectric sheet layer in the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kengo Onaka, Takashi Ishihara, Masanori Kasai
  • Patent number: 8623478
    Abstract: Provided is an ink that is the most suitable for a method for forming an organic transistor by transferring a pattern using a liquid-repellent transfer substrate, for example, a microcontact printing method or a reverse printing method. Specifically, provided is an organic semiconductor ink composition which can provide a uniform ink coating film on a surface of a liquid-repellent transfer substrate and which can provide a dry ink film or a semi-dry ink film capable of being easily transferred from the transfer substrate to a transfer-receiving base material. Also provided is a method for forming an organic semiconductor pattern of an organic transistor, the method using the organic semiconductor ink composition. The organic semiconductor ink composition used for obtaining a desired pattern by transferring an ink layer formed on a liquid-repellent transfer substrate to a printing base material contains an organic semiconductor, an organic solvent, and a fluorine-based surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi Koutake, Masanori Kasai, Hisatomo Yonehara, Kiyofumi Takano
  • Publication number: 20140001338
    Abstract: A CMOS sensor has unit pixels each structured by a light receiving element and three transistors, to prevent against the phenomenon of saturation shading and the reduction of dynamic range. The transition time (fall time), in switching off the voltage on a drain line shared in all pixels, is given longer than the transition time in turning of any of the reset line and the transfer line. For this reason, the transistor constituting a DRN drive buffer is made proper in its W/L ratio. Meanwhile, a control resistance or current source is inserted on a line to the GND, to make proper the operation current during driving. This reduces saturation shading amount. By making a reset transistor in a depression type, the leak current to a floating diffusion is suppressed to broaden the dynamic range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiji MABUCHI, Eiichi FUNATSU, Masanori KASAI
  • Patent number: 8552089
    Abstract: There is provided an ink composition for forming a light shielding film in an organic semiconductor device which is capable of stably forming a fine pattern when forming a finely patterned light shielding film by the letterpress reverse printing method or microcontact printing method, which can be baked at a temperature equal to or less than the substrate heatproof temperature, and which is also capable of providing light shielding property and mechanical strength, the ink composition for forming a light shielding film in an organic semiconductor device which is an ink composition for forming a light shielding film in an organic semiconductor device comprising a black pigment; a resin component; a surface energy modifier; a quick-drying organic solvent; a slow-drying organic solvent; and a mold releasing agent, wherein the resin component comprises a solid resin that is in a solid state at 200° C. or less and a liquid resin that is in a liquid state at 10 to 50° C. at a ratio (solid resin/liquid resin) of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Etori, Hiroshi Isozumi, Masanori Kasai
  • Publication number: 20130242152
    Abstract: A device and method are provided to generate an image with a wide dynamic range, based on one photographed image. An exposure time control is executed in which different exposure times are set in units of rows of a pixel portion, in units of pixel regions, or similar, and different, multiple pixel information which are the pixel values of the pixels set with different exposures are obtained. For example, high sensitivity pixel information is obtained from long exposure pixels, low sensitivity information is obtained from short exposure pixels, and a pixel value for the output image is calculated based on the pixel information with these different sensitivities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masanori KASAI
  • Patent number: 8508611
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including: an image combination unit which generates combined images by combining photographed images having different exposure times; and a motion area detection unit which performs a comparison process on a plurality of the combined images generated by the image combination unit to acquire a pixel value difference and which performs a motion area detection process of comparing the pixel value difference with a predetermined threshold value and determining a pixel area, of which the pixel value difference is equal to or larger than the threshold value, to be a motion area where motion of a subject is estimated to have occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Kasai, Satoru Takeuchi, Shun Kaizu
  • Patent number: 8470204
    Abstract: The present invention provides phthalocyanine nanowires having a minor diameter of 100 nm or less and a ratio (length/minor diameter) of length to minor diameter of 10 or more, an ink composition characterized by containing, as essential components, the phthalocyanine nanowires and an organic solvent, a film including the phthalocyanine nanowires, and an electronic element including a film. Since by using an ink composition containing the phthalocyanine nanowires of the present invention a phthalocyanine film can be formed by a wet process such as coating or printing, a break-proof, lightweight, low-cost electronic element can be provided on a flexible plastic substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Etori, Hideyuki Murata, Norimasa Fukazawa, Shou Inagaki, Hiroshi Isozumi, Masanori Kasai
  • Patent number: 8431879
    Abstract: A CMOS sensor has unit pixels each structured by a light receiving element and three transistors, to prevent against the phenomenon of saturation shading and the reduction of dynamic range. The transition time (fall time), in switching off the voltage on a drain line shared in all pixels, is given longer than the transition time in turning of any of the reset line and the transfer line. For this reason, the transistor constituting a DRN drive buffer is made proper in its W/L ratio. Meanwhile, a control resistance or current source is inserted on a line to the GND, to make proper the operation current during driving. This reduces saturation shading amount. By making a reset transistor in a depression type, the leak current to a floating diffusion is suppressed to broaden the dynamic range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Keiji Mabuchi, Eiichi Funatsu, Masanori Kasai
  • Publication number: 20130056687
    Abstract: Provided is a conductive paste for screen printing, capable of being baked at a low temperature of 150° C. or lower and being printed on a plastic substrate that cannot be subjected to printing at high temperatures. The conductive paste for screen printing contains metal nanoparticles (Y) protected by an organic compound (X) containing a basic nitrogen atom; a deprotecting agent (A) for the metal nanoparticles; and an organic solvent (B), wherein an aliphatic monocarboxylic acid having 6 to 10 carbon atoms and/or an unsubstituted aliphatic dicarboxylic anhydride is used as the deprotecting agent (A) for the metal nanoparticles, and a polyalkylene glycol is used as the organic solvent (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shou Inagaki, Hideki Etori, Hiroshi Isozumi, Masanori Kasai
  • Publication number: 20130048920
    Abstract: A conductive paste for screen printing that can be fired at a low temperature of 150° C. or less and enables printing on a plastic substrate, printing on which is impossible at high temperature, is provided. A conductive paste for screen printing includes metal nanoparticles (Y) having an average particle diameter of 1 to 50 nm and protected with an organic compound (X) containing a basic nitrogen atom, metal particles (Z) having an average particle diameter of more than 100 nm and 5 ?m, a deprotecting agent (A) for the metal nanoparticles, and an organic solvent (B). An aliphatic monocarboxylic acid having 6 to 10 carbon atoms is used as the deprotecting agent (A) for the metal nanoparticles and a polyalkylene glycol is used as the organic solvent (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shou Inagaki, Hideki Etori, Hiroshi Isozumi, Masanori Kasai
  • Patent number: 8384805
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an image correction unit which receives a synthesized image and pseudo color pixel information indicating a pseudo color pixel position included in the synthesized image and executes pixel value correction. The image correction unit selects non-pseudo color pixels as reference pixels from a reference region set in a surrounding region of the pixel to be corrected, sets a similarity weight coefficient in which a large weight is set as a pixel value of the reference pixel that is close to a pixel value of the pixel to be corrected and a pixel position weight coefficient in which a large weight is set as the pixel value of the reference pixel that is near a pixel position of the pixel to be corrected, with respect to the reference pixels, and determines a correction pixel value of the pixel to be corrected by a weighted summation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Teppei Kurita, Yoshikuni Nomura, Shun Kaizu, Satoru Takeuchi, Masanori Kasai
  • Publication number: 20130010153
    Abstract: To provide an apparatus and method for realizing a processing with which a pixel gravity center control can be conducted when a pixel number reduction image is generated in an image pickup apparatus. A pixel unit configured to output a pixel addition signal obtained by adding output pixel signals from pixels having different sensitivities to each other and a pixel information synthesis unit configured to execute a weighted addition processing of multiplying plural pixel addition signals output from the pixel unit by a previously set gain and calculate a configuration pixel value of a pixel number reduction image where a total number of pixels is lower than a number of pixels of the pixel unit are provided. A control on gravity center positions for respective pixels constituting the pixel number reduction image is executed through the pixel addition signal generation processing by the pixel unit and the weighted addition processing by the pixel information synthesis unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masanori Kasai
  • Publication number: 20120321831
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a high-frequency dielectric attachment capable of suppressing a decrease in Q value of a high frequency circuit and achieving a great adjusting effect. The high-frequency dielectric attachment is a laminate of an insulating sheet layer, adhesive layer, and a dielectric sheet layer. The insulating sheet layer forms an outermost layer of the laminate, and the adhesive layer and dielectric sheet layer are arranged in sequence below the insulating sheet layer. The width of the dielectric sheet layer is smaller than each of the width of the insulating sheet layer and the width of the adhesive layer. The adhesive layer projects beyond the dielectric sheet layer in the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo Onaka, Takashi Ishihara, Masanori Kasai
  • Publication number: 20120293374
    Abstract: A dielectric block provided in a dielectric antenna is formed with an organic polymer material containing a liquid crystal polymer and polytetrafluoroethylene. The added amount of polytetrafluoroethylene is 2 to 15% by volume based on the volume of the dielectric block. Preferably, the liquid crystal polymer has a flow beginning temperature of no lower than 310° C. and no higher than 335° C. The dielectric block may further contain a dielectric inorganic filler and in this case, the added amount of dielectric inorganic filler is 45% by volume or less based on the volume of the dielectric block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masanori Kasai
  • Publication number: 20120287294
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including an HDR (High Dynamic Range) processing unit inputting images picked up while exposure control that changes an exposure time is being carried out with a predetermined spatial period and a predetermined temporal period on pixels that compose an image sensor, and carrying out image processing. The HDR processing unit generates a first combined image by combining pixel values of a plurality of images with different sensitivities generated by an interpolation process using a plurality of consecutively picked-up images, generates a second combined image by combining pixel values of a plurality of images with different sensitivities generated by an interpolation process that uses a single picked-up image, and generates an HDR image by executing a pixel value blending process on the first combined image and the second combined image in accordance with a blending ratio calculated in accordance with movement detection information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shun Kaizu, Tomoo Mitsunaga, Yasushi Saito, Masanori Kasai
  • Publication number: 20120104335
    Abstract: The present invention provides phthalocyanine nanowires having a minor diameter of 100 nm or less and a ratio (length/minor diameter) of length to minor diameter of 10 or more, an ink composition characterized by containing, as essential components, the phthalocyanine nanowires and an organic solvent, a film including the phthalocyanine nanowires, and an electronic element including a film. Since by using an ink composition containing the phthalocyanine nanowires of the present invention a phthalocyanine film can be formed by a wet process such as coating or printing, a break-proof, lightweight, low-cost electronic element can be provided on a flexible plastic substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Etori, Hideyuki Murata, Norimasa Fukazawa, Shou Inagaki, Hiroshi Isozumi, Masanori Kasai
  • Publication number: 20120100667
    Abstract: Provided is an ink that is the most suitable for a method for forming an organic transistor by transferring a pattern using a liquid-repellent transfer substrate, for example, a microcontact printing method or a reverse printing method. Specifically, provided is an organic semiconductor ink composition which can provide a uniform ink coating film on a surface of a liquid-repellent transfer substrate and which can provide a dry ink film or a semi-dry ink film capable of being easily transferred from the transfer substrate to a transfer-receiving base material. Also provided is a method for forming an organic semiconductor pattern of an organic transistor, the method using the organic semiconductor ink composition. The organic semiconductor ink composition used for obtaining a desired pattern by transferring an ink layer formed on a liquid-repellent transfer substrate to a printing base material contains an organic semiconductor, an organic solvent, and a fluorine-based surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi Koutake, Masanori Kasai, Hisatomo Yonehara, Kiyofumi Takano
  • Patent number: 8150201
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. An image input unit receives a long-time exposure image and a short-time exposure image. An image analysis unit detects a brightness-change pixel in which a brightness change has occurred during a photographic period on the basis of analysis of pixel values in the long-time exposure image and the short-time exposure image. A pixel value correction unit corrects a pixel value of the detected brightness-change pixel. In the pixel value correction unit, a combined image generator selectively combines pixel values in the long-time exposure image and pixel values in the short-time exposure image to generate a combined image; an intermediate image generator generates a blurred image of the combined image; and an output image generator determines a pixel value of the detected brightness-change pixel using a pixel value of a corresponding pixel in each of the combined image and the blurred image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Kasai, Yusuke Oike
  • Publication number: 20120032309
    Abstract: There is provided an ink composition for forming a light shielding film in an organic semiconductor device which is capable of stably forming a fine pattern when forming a finely patterned light shielding film by the letterpress reverse printing method or microcontact printing method, which can be baked at a temperature equal to or less than the substrate heatproof temperature, and which is also capable of providing light shielding property and mechanical strength, the ink composition for forming a light shielding film in an organic semiconductor device which is an ink composition for forming a light shielding film in an organic semiconductor device comprising a black pigment; a resin component; a surface energy modifier; a quick-drying organic solvent; a slow-drying organic solvent; and a mold releasing agent, wherein the resin component comprises a solid resin that is in a solid state at 200° C. or less and a liquid resin that is in a liquid state at 10 to 50° C. at a ratio (solid resin/liquid resin) of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Etori, Hiroshi Isozumi, Masanori Kasai