Patents by Inventor Tadashi Masuda

Tadashi Masuda 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: 10583719
    Abstract: A roof structure includes: a roof panel 11; a sunroof unit 13; a roof lining 10; and a roof lamp 17. The roof panel 11 has a sunroof opening 12. The room lamp 17 has a cover part which is mounted on a vehicle body while penetrating an insertion hole 18 of the roof lining 10 and designed to cover an edge part of the insertion hole 18 from inside the vehicle compartment. The sunroof unit 13 has a sunroof frame 14 which is mounted so as to extend substantially along an edge part of the sunroof opening 12. The sunroof frame 14 is provided integrally with a displacement restriction part which is designed to restrict upward displacement of the edge part of the insertion opening 18 of the roof lining 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taiga Marukawa, Tadashi Masuda
  • Patent number: 10474005
    Abstract: An imaging unit includes: an attachment member that is attached to a mobile terminal which includes an imaging section and a lighting section; a lens section that is disposed at a position corresponding to the imaging section of the mobile terminal and closes up a target; and an optical member that guides illumination light from the lighting section, from the lighting section of the mobile terminal toward the target rather than an end of the lens section on a side of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiji Endo, Tadashi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20190001797
    Abstract: A roof structure includes: a roof panel 11; a sunroof unit 13; a roof lining 10; and a roof lamp 17. The roof panel 11 has a sunroof opening 12. The room lamp 17 has a cover part which is mounted on a vehicle body while penetrating an insertion hole 18 of the roof lining 10 and designed to cover an edge part of the insertion hole 18 from inside the vehicle compartment. The sunroof unit 13 has a sunroof frame 14 which is mounted so as to extend substantially along an edge part of the sunroof opening 12. The sunroof frame 14 is provided integrally with a displacement restriction part which is designed to restrict upward displacement of the edge part of the insertion opening 18 of the roof lining 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taiga Marukawa, Tadashi Masuda
  • Patent number: 10068145
    Abstract: Provided is a unit for photographing, including a holding member configured to hold a pill to be photographed by a photographing section, a supporting member configured to support the holding member so that the pill faces the photographing section at a position that is determined in advance from the photographing section, a fixing unit configured to fix the holding member, which is supported to the supporting member, with a magnetic force, and a switching unit configured to switch a fixed state in which the holding member is fixed by the fixing unit and a released state in which the fixing of the holding member by the fixing unit is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Masuda, Keiji Endo
  • Publication number: 20170199445
    Abstract: An imaging unit includes: an attachment member that is attached to a mobile terminal which includes an imaging section and a lighting section; a lens section that is disposed at a position corresponding to the imaging section of the mobile terminal and closes up a target; and an optical member that guides illumination light from the lighting section, from the lighting section of the mobile terminal toward the target rather than an end of the lens section on a side of the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiji ENDO, Tadashi MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20170192339
    Abstract: An imaging unit includes: an attachment member that is attached to a mobile terminal which includes an imaging section and a lighting section; an optical member that supplies illumination light from the lighting section to a part to be imaged of an imaging target which is imaged by the imaging section in an oblique direction; and a shading member that encloses a periphery of the optical member, wherein a first optical axis of light from the optical member enters the imaging target in a direction oblique to a second optical axis of an optical system of the imaging section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiji ENDO, Tadashi MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20170034406
    Abstract: Provided is an image capturing unit including an abutting member that abuts on an image capturing target which is inserted in a direction intersecting with an optical axis direction of an image capturing section which is included in a portable terminal, and makes a predetermined region of the image capturing target face the image capturing section, a facing member that faces the image capturing target which is abutted on the abutting member in the optical axis direction from an image capturing section side, and a pressing section that presses the image capturing target against the facing member along the optical axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadashi MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20170032206
    Abstract: Provided is a unit for photographing, including a holding member configured to hold a pill to be photographed by a photographing section, a supporting member configured to support the holding member so that the pill faces the photographing section at a position that is determined in advance from the photographing section, a fixing unit configured to fix the holding member, which is supported to the supporting member, with a magnetic force, and a switching unit configured to switch a fixed state in which the holding member is fixed by the fixing unit and a released state in which the fixing of the holding member by the fixing unit is released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi MASUDA, Keiji ENDO
  • Patent number: 8580053
    Abstract: A method for producing a Ta sputtering target including the following steps: (a) a step of forging a Ta ingot, comprising subjecting the Ta ingot to a forging pattern over at least 3 times, wherein each forging pattern is “a cold forging step comprising stamp-forging and upset-forging operations alternatively repeated over at least 3 times; (b) an in-process vacuum heat-treating step carried out between every successive two forging patterns to thus prepare a Ta billet; (c) a step of rolling the Ta billet to obtain a rolled plate; and (d) a step of vacuum heat-treating the rolled plate to obtain a Ta sputtering target. A sputtering target produced by the above method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Ulvac, Inc.
    Inventors: Motonori Sato, Poong Kim, Manabu Ito, Tadashi Masuda
  • Patent number: 8470651
    Abstract: Provided is a metallic wiring film which is not peeled away even when exposed to a hydrogen plasma. A metallic wiring film is constituted by an adhesion layer containing copper, Ca, and oxygen and a low-resistance metal layer (a layer of a copper alloy or pure copper) having a lower resistance than the adhesion layer. When the adhesion layer is composed of a copper alloy, which contains Ca and oxygen, and a source electrode film and a drain electrode film adhering to an ohmic contact layer are constituted by the adhesion layer, even if the adhesion layer is exposed to the hydrogen plasma, a Cu-containing oxide formed at an interface between the adhesion layer and the ohmic contact layer is not reduced, so that no peeling occurs between the adhesion layer and a silicon layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Ulvac, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoru Takasawa, Satoru Ishibashi, Tadashi Masuda
  • Patent number: 8299529
    Abstract: A metallic wiring film, which is not exfoliated even when exposed to plasma of hydrogen, is provided. A metallic wiring film is constituted by an adhesion layer in which Al is added to copper and a metallic low-resistance layer which is disposed on the adhesion layer and made of pure copper. When a copper alloy including Al and oxygen are included in the adhesion layer and a source electrode and a drain electrode are formed from it, copper does not precipitate at an interface between the adhesion layer and the silicon layer even when being exposed to the hydrogen plasma, which prevents the occurrence of exfoliation between the adhesion layer and the silicon layer. If the amount of Al increases, since widths of the adhesion layer and the metallic low-resistance layer largely differ after etching, the maximum addition amount for permitting the etching to be performed is the upper limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Ulvac, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoru Takasawa, Satoru Ishibashi, Tadashi Masuda
  • Patent number: 8218122
    Abstract: A wiring film having excellent adhesion and barrier property and a low resistance value is formed. An oxygen gas is introduced into a vacuum chamber in which an object to be film formed is disposed; a sputtering target is sputtered in a vacuum ambience containing oxygen; and a first metallic film is formed on a surface of the object to be film formed. The first sputtering target includes copper as a major component and at least one kind of additive elements selected from an additive element group consisting of Mg, Al, Si, Be, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ra, Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb and Dy. Thereafter, a second metallic film is formed on a surface of the first metallic film by sputtering the sputtering target in a state in which the introduction of the oxygen gas into a vacuum ambience is stopped, and then a wiring film is formed by etching the first and second metallic films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Ulvac, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoru Takasawa, Masaki Takei, Hirohisa Takahashi, Hiroaki Katagiri, Sadayuki Ukishima, Noriaki Tani, Satoru Ishibashi, Tadashi Masuda
  • Patent number: 8186742
    Abstract: A vehicle sliding door structure includes an inner door panel, an outer door panel, a reinforcing bracket and a first bulkhead. The inner door panel has a vertically oriented sash section extending along an outboard facing surface thereof adjacent to a rearward side of an outer peripheral edge thereof. The sash section has a latch mechanism supporting part proximate a mid-region of the rearward side of the outer peripheral edge. The outer door panel is fixed to the outer peripheral edge of the inner door panel. The reinforcing bracket is fixedly attached to the outboard facing surface of the inner door panel along a region of the sash section that extends from below the latch mechanism supporting part to above the latch mechanism supporting part. The first bulkhead is fixedly attached to the reinforcing bracket and extends from the reinforcing bracket toward the outer door panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Naga A. Narayana, Erik Anderson, Micah P. Woolace, Tadashi Masuda
  • Patent number: 8186743
    Abstract: A vehicle sliding door structure includes an inner door panel, an outer door panel, a reinforcing bracket and a first bulkhead. The inner door panel has a vertically oriented reinforced section extending along an outboard facing surface thereof adjacent to a rearward side of an outer peripheral edge thereof. The reinforced section has a latch mechanism supporting part proximate a mid-region of the rearward side of the outer peripheral edge. The outer door panel is fixed to the outer peripheral edge of the inner door panel. The reinforcing bracket is fixedly attached to the outboard facing surface of the inner door panel along a region of the reinforced section that extends from below the latch mechanism supporting part to above the latch mechanism supporting part. The first bulkhead is fixedly attached to the reinforcing bracket and extends from the reinforcing bracket toward the outer door panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Anderson, Micah P. Woolace, Naga A. Narayana, Tadashi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20120119269
    Abstract: A technique is provided which prevents an increase in the resistivity of a conductive wiring film. A conductive layer containing Ca in a content rate of 0.3 atom % or more is provided on the surfaces of each of conductive wiring films which are to be exposed to a gas containing a Si atom in a chemical structure at a high temperature. When a gate insulating layer or a protection film containing Si is formed on the surface of the conductive layer, the Si atoms do not diffuse into the conductive layer and a resistance value does not increase, even if the conductive layer is exposed to the raw material gas containing Si in a chemical structure . Further, a CuCaO layer can be formed as an adhesive layer for preventing Si diffusion from a glass substrate or a silicon semiconductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: ULVAC, INC.
    Inventors: Satoru TAKASAWA, Masanori Shirai, Satoru Ishibashi, Tadashi Masuda, Yasuo Nakadai
  • Patent number: 8174701
    Abstract: The optical tomographic imaging system includes a main body for acquiring an optical tomographic image, an optical probe having a rotary optical fiber for guiding the measuring and returning light, a measuring unit, and a sheath rotatably holding the rotary optical fiber and the measuring unit, a rotary drive unit for rotatably coupling the rotary optical fiber to a stationary optical fiber connected with the main body, an extra length handling mechanism for winding the optical probe into a loop having at least a minimum diameter and an attaching unit removably attaching the optical probe. The extra length handling mechanism winds an extra length of the optical probe by a length depending upon a length up to the location to be examined. The system eliminates the need to change the optical probe depending upon the location to be examined and the need to adjust the optical path length of reference light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Masuda
  • Patent number: 8119462
    Abstract: A conductive film having high adhesion and low specific resistance is formed. A target containing copper as a main component is sputtered in vacuum ambience while an oxygen gas introduced, and then, a conductive film containing copper as a main component and additive metals, such as Ti or Zr, is formed. Such a conductive film has high adhesion to a silicon layer and a glass substrate and is hardly peeled off from the substrate. Furthermore, the specific resistance is low and the contact resistance to a transparent conductive film is also low. Thus, no deterioration in the electric characteristics occurs even when the conductive film is used for an electrode film. Accordingly, the conductive film formed by the present invention suited for TFT, and electrode films and barrier films of semiconductor elements, in particular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Ulvac, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoru Takasawa, Masaki Takei, Hirohisa Takahashi, Hiroaki Katagiri, Sadayuki Ukishima, Noriaki Tani, Satoru Ishibashi, Tadashi Masuda
  • Patent number: 8091173
    Abstract: Wiper apparatus for wiping a window glass of a vehicle includes: an arm shank pivotably supported at its proximal end portion on a vehicle near a window glass and having an opening portion opposed to the window glass and an inner space located inwardly of the opening portion; an arm piece mounted to a distal end portion of the arm shank and having a wiper blade attached thereto; and a wind-noise preventing device provided between the arm piece and the proximal end portion of the arm shank and having a portion protruding through the opening portion toward the window glass so as to prevent traveling wind from entering the inner space through the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Masuda
  • Patent number: 8055107
    Abstract: The optical rotary adapter is used with an optical tomographic imaging system for acquiring an optical tomographic image of an object under measurement. The adapter includes a fixed sleeve, a stationary optical fiber supported by the fixed sleeve and having an inclined end face, a stationary collimating lens spaced a given distance from the inclined end face, a mounting cylinder carried rotatably with respect to the fixed sleeve, a rotary optical fiber mounted to the mounting cylinder and having an inclined end face, a rotary collimating lens mounted to the mounting cylinder and disposed with a given distance from the inclined end face, and a rotation actuating device for rotating said mounting cylinder. The central axes of the stationary and rotary optical fibers are offset from or inclined with respect to a central axis of rotation of the mounting cylinder to reduce attenuation of returning light from the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Masuda
  • Patent number: 8054469
    Abstract: An optical tomographic image production apparatus includes an optical probe, in which a light-transmitting area that transmits measurement light and a light-blocking area that blocks the measurement light are formed. The light-blocking area is provided at a start position and an end position of the light-transmitting area. A tomographic image processing means detects an interference signal or tomographic information when the light-blocking area is irradiated with the measurement light. Further, the tomographic image processing means detects, based on the detected interference signal or tomographic information, interference signals or tomographic information obtained when the light-transmitting area is irradiated with the measurement light to produce a tomographic image in the light-transmitting area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignees: FUJIFILM Corporation, Fujinon Corporation
    Inventors: Koki Nakabayashi, Tadashi Masuda