Patents by Inventor Nobuo Kubo

Nobuo Kubo 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: 20080230968
    Abstract: A vibration isolating device includes an insulator for isolating the transmission of an inputted vibration by an elastic deformation. A principal vibration input portion is provided in a central area of a concave curved wall portion formed in the insulator. A thin wall portion and a thick wall portion are formed by relatively varying a thickness of the insulator around the vibration input portion, wherein the concave curved wall portion of the insulator is formed in a substantially circular shape when viewed in a principal vibration inputted direction. The thick wall portion is formed substantially in the shape of a belt of a predetermined width and extends across the concave curved wall portion in the diametrical direction thereof while passing the vibration input portion. A rigid body covering portion for covering a surface of a metallic member of the vibration input portion is provided in the central area of the thick wall portion. A thickness of the rigid body covering portion is at least 1.7 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., YAMASHITA RUBBER KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuo Kubo, Hiroshi Yanagase, Jun Saito
  • Publication number: 20080023881
    Abstract: A method of producing and optical film, comprises the steps of: mixing a resin and grains, heating a mixture of the resin and the grains and kneading the heated melted mixture, thereby preparing a mixture material of the resin and the grains; dissolving the mixture material in a solvent, thereby preparing a resin solution; and casting the resin solution so as to form an optical film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA OPTO, INC.
    Inventor: Nobuo KUBO
  • Publication number: 20070252293
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an optical film provided with a convexoconcave structure, comprises the steps of: coating a resin solution including a first resin solved by a solvent onto an endless or roll-like mold provided with a convexoconcave structure, and forming a resin solution layer on the mold; laminating a film substrate onto the resin solution layer to make a laminated film before the solvent in the resin solution layer is completely dried, the film substrate including a second resin, which is capable of absorving the solution or is soluble by the solvent; and peeling the laminated film from the mold before the solvent in the laminated film is completely dried.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA OPTO, INC.
    Inventors: Akira SATO, Masaru IWAGAKI, Hirokazu SATO, Shigeto OHMORI, Kazuhiro MIYAZAWA, Takashi MURAKAMI, Hirokazu KOYAMA, Nobuo KUBO, Koji TASAKA, Shigeki OKA
  • Publication number: 20070246929
    Abstract: A supporting structure for a fuel tank in a vehicle includes a suspension arm fixing structure provided under the floor of a vehicle body and having a statically sufficient rigidity, the fuel tank being located so as to partially overlap the suspension arm fixing structure in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and a supporting member provided under the fuel tank so as to extend in the lateral direction of the vehicle being detachably fastened to the suspension arm fixing structure to bring the fuel tank into pressure contact with the floor of the vehicle body by fixing the fuel tank. The supporting member serves also as a reinforcing member for imparting rigidity to the suspension arm fixing structure so that the suspension arm fixing structure can sufficiently sustain a dynamic load during running of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Isayama, Yasunori Oku, Nobuo Kubo, Takuya Yanagida
  • Publication number: 20070166484
    Abstract: An optically anisotropic film is disclosed. The film comprises a fatty acid cellulose ester film support having an acetyl group and a propionyl group, and a liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal compound, or a resin layer containing polyimide, polyamidoimide, polyamide, polyether imide, polyether ether ketone, polyether ketone, polyketone sulfide, polyether sulfone, polysulfone, polyphenylene sulfide, polyphenylene oxide, polyethylene terephthalate, polybutylene terephthalate, polyethylene naphthalate, polyacetal, polycarbonate, polyallylate, acrylic resin, polyvinyl alcohol, polypropylene, cellulose based plastics, epoxy resin, or phenol resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: KONICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki SHIBUE, Makoto HONDA, Nobuo KUBO, Noriyasu KUZUHARA, Hiroki UMEDA, Sota KAWAKAMI, Takatoshi YAJIMA
  • Patent number: 7218367
    Abstract: An optical compensation sheet comprising at least two optically anisotropic layers each formed by orienting an optically anisotropic compound, the orientation direction in the optically anisotropic layer plane of the optically anisotropic compound in the two optically anisotropic layers intersecting each other at an angle of from 80 to 100 degrees, wherein, viewing the two layers from one side of the sheet, one of the two layers, when the compound is uniaxial, is oriented so that a first angle of optic axis of the uniaxial optically anisotropic compound to the sheet plane increases continuously or stepwise in the thickness direction of the sheet, or when the compound is biaxial, is oriented so that a second angle of a direction giving maximum refractive index of the biaxial optically anisotropic compound to the sheet plane increases continuously or stepwise in the thickness direction of the sheet, and the other layer, when the compound is uniaxial, is oriented so that the first angle decreases continuously or
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Umeda, Noriyasu Kuzuhara, Nobuo Kubo, Sota Kawakami, Nobuyuki Takiyama, Koji Tasaka
  • Patent number: 7208205
    Abstract: A film for a liquid crystal display comprising a fatty acid cellulose ester film having an acetyl group and a propionyl group is disclosed. Sum of degree of acetyl substitution (DSac) and degree of propionyl substitution (DSpr) of the fatty acid cellulose ester film of the film is 2.8 or less, and a retardation value (Rt value) in the thickness direction define by Formula 1 is 60 to 300 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Shibue, Makoto Honda, Nobuo Kubo, Noriyasu Kuzuhara, Hiroki Umeda, Sota Kawakami, Takatoshi Yajima
  • Patent number: 7199848
    Abstract: An optical compensation film used for a liquid crystal display comprising a support and an optically anisotropic layer is disclosed. The optically anisotropic layer is a layer on which orientation of the liquid crystalline compound is fixed and the support is an optically biaxial cellulose ester film. A polarizing plate used for a liquid crystal display and a liquid crystal display employing the optical compensation film are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyasu Kuzuhara, Nobuo Kubo, Hiroki Umeda, Nobuyuki Takiyama, Takatoshi Yajima, Koji Tasaka
  • Publication number: 20070030417
    Abstract: An optical film manufactured by stretching a cellulose ester comprising needle-shaped particles and an additive selected from the group consisting of a polyester, a polyalcohol ester, a polycarboxylic acid ester and a polymer obtained by polymerizing an ethylenically unsaturated monomer, wherein the needle-shaped particles exhibit negative birefringency in a stretching direction of the optical film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Inventors: Nobuo Kubo, Masataka Takimoto, Shinichiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7158200
    Abstract: An optical compensation film used for a liquid crystal display comprising a support and an optically anisotropic layer is disclosed. The optically anisotropic layer is a layer on which orientation of the liquid crystalline compound is fixed and the support is an optically biaxial cellulose ester film. A polarizing plate used for a liquid crystal display and a liquid crystal display employing the optical compensation film are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyasu Kuzuhara, Nobuo Kubo, Hiroki Umeda, Nobuyuki Takiyama, Takatoshi Yajima, Koji Tasaka
  • Patent number: 7153552
    Abstract: A polarizing plate provided on a surface of a liquid crystal cell of a display, containing a polarizing element, Film A and Film B each provided on each of two surfaces of the polarizing element, wherein: (i) a surface of Film B has an adhesive layer which adheres the polarizing plate to the liquid crystal cell; and (ii) concentrations of a ultraviolet absorber and a stabilizer contained in Film A and Film B, and in-plane and out-of-plane retardation values of Film B, satisfy predetermined conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kubo, Noriyasu Kuzuhara
  • Publication number: 20060246232
    Abstract: An optical film comprising a resin and birefringent needle-shaped particles, the resin being added with the birefringent needle-shaped particles and being stretched to form the optical film (hereafter designated as Optical Film A), wherein (i) the resin exhibits a positive birefringence along a stretching direction when stretched; (ii) the birefringent needle-shaped particle exhibits a negative birefringence along the stretching direction of the optical film; and (iii) the optical film satisfies the following relationships: ny(a)<nz(a)<nz(a), 105 nm?Ro(a)?350 nm, 0.2<Nz<0.7, wherein Ro(a) and Nz are defined as follows: Equation (i) Ro(a)=(nx(a)?ny(a))×d, Equation (ii) Nz=(nx(a)?nz(a))/(nx(a)?ny(a)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Inventors: Nobuo Kubo, Masataka Takimoto, Shinichiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6979023
    Abstract: A pound or number sign shaped (#-shaped) die cast sub-frame includes first and second horizontal members and first and second vertical members. The sub-frame has four arm mounting portions provided at four corners thereof, respectively. The arm mounting portion is a die cast part obtained near a communication portion of a runner formed in a die casting machine. Generally triangular bulged portions are formed at junction portions where the first horizontal member meets the first and second vertical members. Each junction portion has increased width. The junction portion is a die cast obtained within a cavity of increased width of the die casting machine. The bulged portion is pierced to provide a hole. The bulged portion having the hole formed therein is to be mounted to a small vehicle component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuo Mikasa, Tsutomu Ogawa, Nobuo Kubo, Fumiaki Fukuchi, Haruyuki Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20050189572
    Abstract: In a semiconductor device, pining regions 105 are disposed along the junction portion of a drain region 102 and a channel forming region 106 locally in a channel width direction. With this structure, because the spread of a depletion layer from a drain side is restrained by the pining regions 105, a short-channel effect can be restrained effectively. Also, because a passage through which carriers move is ensured, high mobility can be maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: Akiharu Miyanaga, Nobuo Kubo
  • Publication number: 20050156209
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device that can effectively suppress the short channel effect without deterioration of carrier migration, an impurity ion is added from a direction of the <110> axis with respect to a silicon substrate on forming a punch through stopper under the gate electrode. In this invention, because the addition of the impurity is conducted by utilizing the principal of channeling, the impurity can be added with a small amount of scattering suppressing damage on the surface of the silicon substrate. A channel forming region having an extremely small impurity concentration and substantially no crystallinity disorder is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2005
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Inventors: Akiharu Miyanaga, Nobuo Kubo
  • Patent number: 6897526
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device that can effectively suppress the short channel effect without deterioration of carrier migration, an impurity ion is added from a direction of the <110> axis with respect to a silicon substrate on forming a punch through stopper under the gate electrode. In this invention, because the addition of the impurity is conducted by utilizing the principal of channeling, the impurity can be added a small amount of scattering suppressing damages on the surface of the silicon substrate. A channel forming region having an extremely small impurity concentration and substantially no crystallinity disorder is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akiharu Miyanaga, Nobuo Kubo
  • Publication number: 20050106334
    Abstract: A polarizing plate provided on a surface of a liquid crystal cell of a display, containing a polarizing element, Film A and Film B each provided on each of two surfaces of the polarizing element, wherein: (i) a surface of Film B has an adhesive layer which adheres the polarizing plate to the liquid crystal cell; and (ii) concentrations of a ultraviolet absorber and a stabilizer contained in Film A and Film B, and in-plane and out-of-plane retardation values of Film B, satisfy predetermined conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Nobuo Kubo, Noriyasu Kuzuhara
  • Patent number: 6877710
    Abstract: A vehicular power unit mount structure (33) having a first mounting member (51) for attachment to a power unit and a second mounting member (52) elastically connected to the first mounting member for attachment to a vehicle body includes at least one projection (66) protruding from a flange (62) of the second mounting member (52) toward the vehicle body and located at a position offset from a line connecting centers of attachment holes (64, 64) of the flange to ensure that the flange (62) of the second mounting member (52) and the vehicle body are forced together via the projection (66).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuya Miyahara, Shuji Otake, Nobuo Kubo
  • Patent number: D504632
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Nishiura, Koji Torii, Nobuo Kubo, Hiroshi Ogawa
  • Patent number: D524672
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Omron Healthcare Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamada, Nobuo Kubo, Jiazheng Jin, Yoshio Kusumi