Patents by Inventor Shinichi Hirota

Shinichi Hirota 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: 11158471
    Abstract: Provided is a breaker capable of further downsizing without impairing rigidity and strength of a case. The breaker 1 comprises a fixed contact 21, a movable piece 4 having and pressing a movable contact 41 to the fixed contact 21, a thermally responsive element 5 for moving the movable piece 4 to separate the movable contact 41 from the fixed contact 21 by deformation thereof responding to temperature change, a case for containing the fixed piece 21, the movable piece 4 and the thermally responsive element 5, and a cover piece 8 attached on the case 7. The case 7 has an end face 72 on which the cover piece 8 is disposed, a containing recess 73 caved from the end face 72 and forming a space to which the movable piece 4 and the thermally responsive element 5 are contained, and a first protrusion protruding from the end face 72 and to which the cover piece 8 is fitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignees: BOURNS KK, POLYPLASTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Namikawa, Shinichi Hirota
  • Publication number: 20210210297
    Abstract: Provided is a breaker capable of further downsizing without impairing rigidity and strength of a case. The breaker comprises a fixed contact, a movable piece 4 having and pressing a movable contact to the fixed contact, a thermally responsive element for moving the movable piece to separate the movable contact from the fixed contact by deformation thereof responding to temperature change, a case for containing the fixed piece, the movable piece and the thermally responsive element, and a cover piece attached on the case. The case has an end face on which the cover piece is disposed, a containing recess caved from the end face and forming a space to which the movable piece and the thermally responsive element are contained, and a first protrusion protruding from the end face and to which the cover piece is fitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicants: Bourns KK, Polyplastics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi NAMIKAWA, Shinichi HIROTA
  • Patent number: 9076402
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pixel array substrate having signal lines and scan lines arranged in a matrix, and pixel circuits arranged at intersections of the signal and scan lines. A touch panel is attached on the counter substrate to draw pictures or characters on a display panel. A first voltage generation circuit generates an analog pixel voltage applied to the signal lines and a second voltage generation circuit generates a counter electrode voltage applied to the counter electrode. A settling adjustment circuit adjusts a settling time of at least one of the analog pixel voltage and the counter electrode voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Satoru Yamanaka, Shinichi Hirota, Kazuya Arima
  • Publication number: 20140263943
    Abstract: Provided is a technology for solving the drawback such as chipping of a heat-insulating layer which is caused by the contact of a heat-insulating layer formed on a first mold with a second mold at the mold parting surface. A mold divided into two or more is provided in which a heat-insulating layer is formed on a substantially entire surface of an inner wall surface of the mold, and the heat-insulating layer does not exist on a mold parting surface. For example, the mold is provided with a first mold occupying a majority of a cavity and a second mold which forms at least a part of the cavity together with the first mold, in which the first mold is provided with a flange part, and a part of a surface of the flange part constitutes a part of the mold parting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Polyplastics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Takayuki Miyashita, Shinichi Hirota
  • Publication number: 20140217638
    Abstract: Provided is a technology for suppressing, in a mold having a heat-insulating layer formed therein, a problem of chipping of the heat-insulating layer and the like even when a penetrating member is inserted through a through-hole provided in the mold. The mold is provided with a mold body having a convex part on an inner wall surface of the mold body, a heat-insulating layer arranged on the inner wall surface, and a through-hole which penetrates the convex part in a thickness direction of the mold body and through which the penetrating member can be inserted. An outer periphery of the through-hole is inside an outer periphery of a top surface of the convex part. A spacing between the outer periphery of the through-hole on the top surface of the convex part and the outer periphery of the top surface of the convex part is preferably 0.5 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: POLYPLASTICS CO., LTD., 973,
    Inventors: Takayuki Miyashita, Shinichi Hirota
  • Publication number: 20140035200
    Abstract: Provided is a technology that sufficiently suppresses dimensional change in the usage environment even without applying heat treatment in advance to a resin-molded article constituted of a crystalline thermoplastic resin. A resin composition constituted of a crystalline thermoplastic resin is injection-molded using a mold on the inner surface of which a heat-insulating layer is formed. It is preferable, in the present invention, to use a mold on which a heat-insulating layer is formed, the layer being constituted of porous zirconia formed by spraying method and having a thermal conductivity of 2 W/(m·K) or less and a thickness of no less than 200 ?m. The injection-molded article obtained by the manufacturing method of the present invention has a dimensional change rate of 0.2% or less when left for 2 hours in an environment of a mold temperature+20° C. where the mold temperature is that at the time of injection molding and is Tg+30° C. or more and Tg+80° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: POLYPLASTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Miyashita, Shinichi Hirota
  • Publication number: 20140031518
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing an injection-molded article, where the method is capable of obtaining a molded article having a high crystallinity while reducing the amount of flash generated and has excellent productivity. A polyarylene sulfide-based resin composition is injection-molded at a mold temperature of 100° C. or less using a mold on the inner surface of which a heat-insulating layer constituted of porous zirconia is formed. It is preferable that the heat-insulating layer is formed by a spraying method. Preferably, the heat-insulating layer has a thermal conductivity of 2 W/(m·K) or less. Preferably, the heat-insulating layer has a thickness of no less than 200 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Polyplastics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Miyashita, Shinichi Hirota, Masato Takashima
  • Patent number: 8577581
    Abstract: To reliably prevent a drop in the function of injectors resulting from a rise in the temperature of excess fuel in the injectors without having to add a new part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Bosch Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Hirota, Tomonori Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20130217855
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a mold for manufacturing a molded article, by which not only is the occurrence of flash suppressed but also the crystallization of the surface is sufficiently accelerated when the mold temperature during the molding of a crystalline thermoplastic resin is set at Tc2?100° C. or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: POLYPLASTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Takashima, Takayuki Miyashita, Shinichi Hirota
  • Publication number: 20100214261
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pixel array substrate having signal lines and scan lines arranged in a matrix, and pixel circuits arranged at intersections of the signal and scan lines. A touch panel is attached on the counter substrate to draw pictures or characters on a display panel. A first voltage generation circuit generates an analog pixel voltage applied to the signal lines and a second voltage generation circuit generates a counter electrode voltage applied to the counter electrode. A settling adjustment circuit adjusts a settling time of at least one of the analog pixel voltage and the counter electrode voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru YAMANAKA, Shinichi Hirota, Kazuya Arima
  • Patent number: 7742015
    Abstract: In order to prevent a gradation shift due to variations in the thickness of a film used to form an auxiliary capacitor, a detection capacitor having a layer structure similar to that of the auxiliary capacitor placed for each pixel is provided on an array substrate. Furthermore, the capacitor value of the detection capacitor as a representative of the plurality of auxiliary capacitors is detected, and the potential amplitude ?Vcs of a power supply line connected to the auxiliary capacitor is adjusted based on this detected value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Tada, Yoshiaki Nakazaki, Akihiko Saitoh, Hiroyuki Kimura, Shinichi Hirota
  • Publication number: 20100088009
    Abstract: To reliably prevent a drop in the function of injectors resulting from a rise in the temperature of excess fuel in the injectors without having to add a new part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: Shinichi Hirota, Tomonori Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20070091039
    Abstract: In order to prevent a gradation shift due to variations in the thickness of a film used to form an auxiliary capacitance, a detection capacitance having a layer structure similar to that of the auxiliary capacitance placed for each pixel is provided on an array substrate. Furthermore, the capacitance value of the detection capacitance as a representative of the plurality of auxiliary capacitances is detected, and the potential amplitude ?Vcs of a power supply line connected to the auxiliary capacitance is adjusted based on this detected value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Applicant: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Tada, Yoshiaki Nakazaki, Akihiko Saitoh, Hiroyuki Kimura, Shinichi Hirota
  • Publication number: 20050219193
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a scan line driver (12) to drive scan lines and a power source (14) to supply voltage to the scan line driver. The scan line driver and power source are formed directly on an array substrate of the liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display also includes a signal-line-driving IC (15) mounted on the array substrate. The IC incorporates a power source (DC voltage converter (1508) and voltage stabilizer (1509)) to supply voltage to a signal line driver (analog output circuit (1504) and the like). The power source in the IC is integrated according to a low-withstanding-voltage manufacturing process. With these configurations, the liquid crystal display is compact and is manufacturable at a low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Applicant: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Nagaoka, Shinichi Hirota, Koji Shigehiro, Toshinori Kanuma, Hiroyoshi Murata
  • Patent number: 6552705
    Abstract: A method of driving a flat-panel display device divides a frame into areas and makes the boundary of each area inconspicuous, to properly show images on the display. The method prepares compensation data whose voltages are substantially equal to those of video data provided at the start of a horizontal scan period and supplies the compensation data to video bus lines in a blanking period of the preceding horizontal scan period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Shinichi Hirota
  • Patent number: 5634200
    Abstract: In an antenna duplexer, one antenna is used by switching transmission signals and reception signals having different frequencies. The antenna duplexer includes a high-frequency switching circuit and a band-pass filter. The high-frequency switching circuit supplies the transmission signals from a transmission part to the antenna. The band-pass filter outputs the reception signals outputted from the antenna to the predetermined receiving circuit. In the band-pass filter, the frequency characteristic is selected and set to impress the frequency of the transmission signals, and simultaneously the reflected wave generated at the input end so that impedance increases at the frequency band of the transmission signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1997
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuto Kitakubo, Ryuji Oki, Shinichi Hirota, Sachio Iida