Patents by Inventor Naoki Ban

Naoki Ban 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: 9587877
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device comprising a substrate, an organic electroluminescent element, and a photocatalyst layer, wherein the organic electroluminescent element includes: a first conductive layer provided on the substrate; an organic electroluminescent layer provided on the first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer provided on the organic electroluminescent layer, wherein the photocatalyst layer covers all or part of a light-emitting region of the organic electroluminescent element, and contains a photocatalyst and a co-catalyst, and wherein an absolute value of the difference (|R1?R2|) between the refractive index (R1) of the photocatalyst and the refractive index (R2) of the co-catalyst at a wavelength of 589 nm is 0 to 0.35.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Ozaki, Haruka Ona, Hideki Hayama, Naoki Ban, Akiko Mimoto, Takuya Fukumura, Ekambaram Sambandan, Rajesh Mukherjee
  • Publication number: 20160161178
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device comprising a substrate, an organic electroluminescent element, and a photocatalyst layer, wherein the organic electroluminescent element includes: a first conductive layer provided on the substrate; an organic electroluminescent layer provided on the first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer provided on the organic electroluminescent layer, wherein the photocatalyst layer covers all or part of a light-emitting region of the organic electroluminescent element, and contains a photocatalyst and a co-catalyst, and wherein an absolute value of the difference (|R1-R2|) between the refractive index (R1) of the photocatalyst and the refractive index (R2) of the co-catalyst at a wavelength of 589 nm is 0 to 0.35.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Takashi Ozaki, Haruka Ona, Hideki Hayama, Naoki Ban, Akiko Mimoto, Takuya Fukumura, Ekambaram Sambandan, Rajesh Mukherjee
  • Publication number: 20160045142
    Abstract: The device of the present invention contains a recording unit on which a plurality of words having possibilities of being misheard are recorded in a state of being classified on the basis of highness and lowness of the possibilities, a question output unit that outputs, by voice sound, a question sentence containing at least one of the words having possibilities of being misheard, an input unit that receives input of a response to the question sentence, a determining unit that determines at least whether the hearing ability of a respondent is decreased or not on the basis of the content of the response input into the input unit, and a result output unit that outputs a determination result determined by the determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Shigenori MORITA, Hideki HAYAMA, Naoki BAN, Akiko MIMOTO, Ryouichi MATSUSHIMA, Toshiaki MASAKI, Takahisa KUSUURA
  • Publication number: 20160038062
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a hearing test provision system capable of causing a person who has decreased hearing ability to be aware of the state in a natural way and, in consequence, capable of promoting the sale of hearing aids. The present invention contains a product presenting unit that presents products, an operating unit with which a product is selected from products presented on the product presenting unit, a database that records hearing aid affinity information which indicates affinity between a product selected by the operating unit and a hearing aid, a determining unit that determines whether to perform a hearing test on the basis of at least the hearing aid affinity information, and a hearing test conducting unit that conducts a hearing test on the basis of a determination result from the determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Shigenori MORITA, Hideki HAYAMA, Naoki BAN, Akiko MIMOTO, Ryouichi MATSUSHIMA, Toshiaki MASAKI, Takahisa KUSUURA
  • Publication number: 20150253364
    Abstract: An electric household appliance remote monitoring system including a smart tap to which one or two or more power plugs of electric equipment can be inserted, an electric household appliance incorporating a smart tap function, and a server is provided. The smart tap includes voltage waveform measuring means and/or current waveform measuring means and communication means. The server has a function of judging an operation state of each piece of connected electric equipment based on the voltage waveform and/or the current waveform received from the smart tap and, when detecting abnormality of the electric equipment, transmitting the detection to an external network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hieda, Naoki Ban, Ryoji Tsutsumiuchi