Patents by Inventor Rikio Inoue

Rikio Inoue 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: 11526006
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a half-mirror film for displaying a projection image having high adhesiveness, a laminated glass in which wrinkle generation of the half-mirror film is suppressed or furthermore has high adhesiveness, and an image display system using the laminated glass. The problem is solved by providing a half-mirror film for displaying a projection image including a transparent support; and a selective reflection layer reflecting light in a wavelength selective manner, in which the transparent support has an absolute value of 10 nm or less of an in-plane phase difference at a wavelength of 550 nm and a heat seal layer disposed on an opposite surface of a surface having the selective reflection layer, the heat seal layer contains a thermoplastic resin, and a mixed layer in which components of the transparent support and the heat seal layer are mixed is formed between the transparent support and the heat seal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Rikio Inoue, Shusuke Arita, Wataru Majima, Takao Taguchi, Yujiro Yanai, Taketo Otani
  • Patent number: 11522165
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic EL image display device including a reflecting layer, an organic electroluminescent layer group, a polarization separation layer, and a circularly polarizing plate in this order, in which the polarization separation layer includes polarization separation sites arranged in a matrix form corresponding to the organic electroluminescent layer group, the polarization separation site reflects light of one polarization state and transmits light of the other polarization state in light emitted from the corresponding organic electroluminescent layer, the polarization separation layer is divided by a visible light transmission region to form the polarization separation sites, and a wavelength range of the reflection is wider than a wavelength range of the light emission. The organic EL image display device according to the present invention has high brightness at the time of both front observation and oblique observation and little image blurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Kashiwagi, Rikio Inoue
  • Patent number: 11009754
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a decorative sheet exhibiting high lustrousness even when observed from a direction deviated from a specular reflection of illumination light, and a liquid crystal display device and an automobile interior material each using the decorative sheet. The object is achieved by a decorative sheet including a cholesteric liquid crystal layer having wavelength-selective reflectivity and satisfying Expression (1), R[?45,20](?1)/R[?45,20](?2)?5??Expression (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Ichihara, Yujiro Yanai, Rikio Inoue, Michio Nagai, Jun Takeda
  • Publication number: 20200333598
    Abstract: There are provided a screen image-displaying laminated glass that reduces the distortion of a projected display image, a method for producing the screen image-displaying laminated glass, and a screen image display system including the screen image-displaying laminated glass. The screen image-displaying laminated glass has a half-mirror film that has a transparent support and that has a selectively reflecting layer which wavelength-selectively reflects light, a first glass plate disposed on one surface of the half-mirror film, and a second glass plate disposed on the other surface of the half-mirror film. The longitudinal directions of bright and dark lines observed by a magic mirror method match each other at the first glass plate, the second glass plate, and the transparent support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Taketo OTANI, Yujiro YANAI, Wataru MAJIMA, Rikio INOUE
  • Patent number: 10758917
    Abstract: A control device for the coal pulverizing apparatus includes a first command value generation part for generating a command value of a first parameter including at least one of rotational speed of the table, pressing force of the roller to the table, or air supply amount in the air supply part, and a second command value generation part for generating a command value of a second parameter including a rotational speed of the rotary classifier. The first command value generation part is configured to determine the command value of the first parameter, based on a first preceding signal determined in accordance with at least load information of a combustion device which burns the pulverized coal from the coal pulverizing apparatus. The second command value generation part determines the command value of the second parameter, based on a second preceding signal determined in accordance with at least the load information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Rikio Inoue
  • Publication number: 20200209619
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a half-mirror film for displaying a projection image having high adhesiveness, a laminated glass in which wrinkle generation of the half-mirror film is suppressed or furthermore has high adhesiveness, and an image display system using the laminated glass. The problem is solved by providing a half-mirror film for displaying a projection image including a transparent support; and a selective reflection layer reflecting light in a wavelength selective manner, in which the transparent support has an absolute value of 10 nm or less of an in-plane phase difference at a wavelength of 550 nm and a heat seal layer disposed on an opposite surface of a surface having the selective reflection layer, the heat seal layer contains a thermoplastic resin, and a mixed layer in which components of the transparent support and the heat seal layer are mixed is formed between the transparent support and the heat seal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Rikio INOUE, Shusuke ARITA, Wataru MAJIMA, Takao TAGUCHI, Yujiro YANAI, Taketo OTANI
  • Publication number: 20200020888
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic EL image display device including a reflecting layer, an organic electroluminescent layer group, a polarization separation layer, and a circularly polarizing plate in this order, in which the polarization separation layer includes polarization separation sites arranged in a matrix form corresponding to the organic electroluminescent layer group, the polarization separation site reflects light of one polarization state and transmits light of the other polarization state in light emitted from the corresponding organic electroluminescent layer, the polarization separation layer is divided by a visible light transmission region to form the polarization separation sites, and a wavelength range of the reflection is wider than a wavelength range of the light emission. The organic EL image display device according to the present invention has high brightness at the time of both front observation and oblique observation and little image blurring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke KASHIWAGI, Rikio INOUE
  • Patent number: 10459290
    Abstract: A film of 15 to 45 ?m thick containing a cellulose acylate and an aromatic ester oligomer having a repeating unit derived from a dicarboxylic acid and a repeating unit derived from a diol, in which the repeating unit derived from a dicarboxylic acid has a ratio m/n of from 0/10 to 3/7, m and n represent a molar proportion of a repeating unit derived from an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid and an aromatic dicarboxylic acid, respectively, and the film satisfies |Rth(590)|?50 nm; has a good appearance and is free of deterioration in display performance when the film with a thin thickness is produced in the form of a roll, achieves a high pencil hardness by imparting a high Knoop hardness to the film, even with a hard coat layer provided, and is free of display unevenness on installing the film in a liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Hisakado, Masato Nagura, Yu Naito, Rikio Inoue, Yutaka Adegawa
  • Publication number: 20190324313
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fluid cell which can curb blending of a gas into a fluid layer even in a case where a plastic substrate is greatly deformed such that the plastic substrate stretches or shrinks, a three-dimensional fluid cell formed of the fluid cell, and a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional fluid cell. The fluid cell of the embodiment of the present invention is a fluid cell including a first plastic substrate, a first conductive layer, a fluid layer, a second conductive layer, and a second plastic substrate in this order, and further including a polymer layer between the first plastic substrate and the fluid layer, and a polymer layer between the second plastic substrate and the fluid layer, in which at least one of the first plastic substrate or the second plastic substrate is a heat-shrinkable film that satisfies a heat shrinkage rate of 5% to 75%, and a permeability coefficient of oxygen in the polymer layer is 50 cc·mm/m2·day·atm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yuzo FUJIKI, Hajime NAKAYAMA, Rikio INOUE
  • Publication number: 20190196245
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a decorative sheet exhibiting high lustrousness even when observed from a direction deviated from a specular reflection of illumination light, and a liquid crystal display device and an automobile interior material each using the decorative sheet. The object is achieved by a decorative sheet including a cholesteric liquid crystal layer having wavelength-selective reflectivity and satisfying Expression (1), R[?45,20](?1)/R[?45,20](?2)?5??Expression (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Ichihara, Yujiro Yanai, Rikio Inoue, Michio Nagai, Jun Takeda
  • Publication number: 20190168234
    Abstract: A control device for the coal pulverizing apparatus includes a first command value generation part for generating a command value of a first parameter including at least one of rotational speed of the table, pressing force of the roller to the table, or air supply amount in the air supply part, and a second command value generation part for generating a command value of a second parameter including a rotational speed of the rotary classifier. The first command value generation part is configured to determine the command value of the first parameter, based on a first preceding signal determined in accordance with at least load information of a combustion device which burns the pulverized coal from the coal pulverizing apparatus. The second command value generation part determines the command value of the second parameter, based on a second preceding signal determined in accordance with at least the load information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Rikio Inoue
  • Patent number: 9904099
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a front-side polarizing plate having a front-side polarizer; a liquid crystal cell; and a rear-side polarizing plate having a rear-side polarizer in this order, in which a distance D1 from a central portion of the front-side polarizer to a central portion of the liquid crystal cell and a distance D2 from a central portion of the rear-side polarizer to the central portion of the liquid crystal cell are different from each other, in which a ratio between an X value, and the distance D1 and a Y value, and the distance D2 rear-side polarizer is in a range of 1±0.12, a distance T1 between the front-side polarizing plate and the liquid crystal cell is 40 ?m or more, and a distance T2 between the rear-side polarizing plate and the liquid crystal cell is in a range of 0 to 30 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Satake, Megumi Sekiguchi, Yoji Ito, Ryo Nakamura, Rikio Inoue
  • Patent number: 9885910
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device in which the contrast is improved. The liquid crystal display device includes a first polarizing film, a second polarizing film, a twisted alignment mode liquid crystal and a backlight unit with a light-collecting prism sheet which is disposed on the back side of the liquid crystal cell, the first retardation film and the second retardation film each satisfy Formulae (I) and (II): 1 nm?Re(550)?50 nm??(I) 120 nm?Rth(550)?220 nm??(II); the liquid crystal cell has a depolarizing index (DI value) of 0.000800 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Ohno, Rikio Inoue
  • Patent number: 9709261
    Abstract: To provide a condensate flow rate control device and a control method for a power plant which improve responsiveness to frequency fluctuations or requested load changes and can suppress frequency fluctuations with precision or improve precision with which output power conforms to requested load instructions. A power plant to which a condensate flow rate control device is adapted includes a deaerator to which condensate generated by a condenser is supplied via a deaerator water level adjustment valve and into which bleed steam from a steam turbine is introduced. The condensate flow rate control device has a water level adjustment unit for executing condensate flow rate control, wherein the water level adjustment unit adjusts pressure in a condensate flow path extending from the deaerator water level adjustment valve to the deaerator so that inputted frequency fluctuations are suppressed or an output value of a generator conforms to inputted requested load changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Rikio Inoue, Koichi Takei, Yuichiro Deguchi, Takanori Tsutsumi, Yuji Ohta, Kanta Inoue
  • Publication number: 20170023825
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a front-side polarizing plate having a front-side polarizer; a liquid crystal cell; and a rear-side polarizing plate having a rear-side polarizer in this order, in which a distance D1 from a central portion of the front-side polarizer to a central portion of the liquid crystal cell and a distance D2 from a central portion of the rear-side polarizer to the central portion of the liquid crystal cell are different from each other, in which a ratio between an X value, and the distance D1 and a Y value, and the distance D2 rear-side polarizer is in a range of 1±0.12, a distance T1 between the front-side polarizing plate and the liquid crystal cell is 40 ?m or more, and a distance T2 between the rear-side polarizing plate and the liquid crystal cell is in a range of 0 to 30 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo SATAKE, Megumi SEKIGUCHI, Yoji ITO, Ryo NAKAMURA, Rikio INOUE
  • Publication number: 20150323824
    Abstract: A film of 15 to 45 ?m thick containing a cellulose acylate and an aromatic ester oligomer having a repeating unit derived from a dicarboxylic acid and a repeating unit derived from a diol, in which the repeating unit derived from a dicarboxylic acid has a ratio m/n of from 0/10 to 3/7, m and n represent a molar proportion of a repeating unit derived from an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid and an aromatic dicarboxylic acid, respectively, and the film satisfies |Rth(590)|?50 nm; has a good appearance and is free of deterioration in display performance when the film with a thin thickness is produced in the form of a roll, achieves a high pencil hardness by imparting a high Knoop hardness to the film, even with a hard coat layer provided, and is free of display unevenness on installing the film in a liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki HISAKADO, Masato NAGURA, Yu NAITO, Rikio INOUE, Yutaka ADEGAWA
  • Patent number: 9128321
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to reduce the occurrence of the light leaks from the periphery of the display flame at the originally black display time in high-temperature environments. Disclosed is a polarizing plate comprising a polarizer, a protective film on a side of the polarizer and a retardation film on the other side of the polarizer; wherein the polarizer has an absorption axis at 45° from any one of the long and short sides of the polarizing plate, the retardation film has an in-plane slow axis parallel or orthogonal to the absorption axis of the polarizer, and a difference ???abs in a dimensional change between the polarizing plate and the retardation film in the absorption axis direction of the polarizer satisfies the formula: |???abs|?0.10%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chie Shimpuku, Rikio Inoue
  • Publication number: 20150198742
    Abstract: There is provided an optical film which is a cellulose acylate film including a cellulose acylate and a sugar ester compound having at least one aromatic group, the film having a film thickness of 15 ?m to 35 ?m, in which a number density of the aromatic group of the sugar ester compound is 0.90×10?3 mol or more and 5.00×10?3 mol or less per 1 g of a solid component in the cellulose acylate film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki HISAKADO, Masato NAGURA, Rikio INOUE
  • Publication number: 20150168780
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device in which the contrast is improved. The liquid crystal display device includes a first polarizing film, a second polarizing film, a twisted alignment mode liquid crystal and a backlight unit with a light-collecting prism sheet which is disposed on the back side of the liquid crystal cell, the first retardation film and the second retardation film each satisfy Formulae (I) and (II): 1 nm?Re(550)?50 nm ??(I) 120 nm?Rth(550)?220 nm ??(II); the liquid crystal cell has a depolarizing index (DI value) of 0.000800 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro OHNO, Rikio INOUE
  • Patent number: 9013656
    Abstract: A polarizing plate according to the invention includes a first protective film; a polarizer; a second protective film; and an adhesive layer in this order, in which a moisture vapor permeability of the first protective film is less than or equal to 200 g/m2/24 hours, the second protective film contains cellulose acylate as a major component, a creep amount of the adhesive layer is less than 100 ?m, and a shrinkage force of the polarizing plate in an absorption axis direction thereof which is represented by the following expression (A) is lower than or equal to 2000 N/m. Expression (A) is the Shrinkage Force (N/m) of Polarizing Plate in Absorption Axis Direction=Elastic Modulus (GPa) of Polarizing Plate in Absorption Axis Direction×|Humidity Dimensional Change Rate (%) of Polarizing Plate in Absorption Axis Direction|×Thickness (?m) of Polarizing Plate×10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Hisanaga, Rikio Inoue, Makoto Ishiguro