Patents by Inventor Takaharu Suzuki

Takaharu Suzuki 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: 20080308734
    Abstract: The radiation image conversion panel in accordance with the present invention has an aluminum substrate; an alumite layer formed on a surface of the aluminum substrate; a chromium layer covering the alumite layer; a metal film, provided on the chromium layer, having a radiation transparency and a light reflectivity; an oxide layer covering the metal film and having a radiation transparency and a light transparency; a protective film covering the oxide layer and having a radiation transparency and a light transparency; and a converting part provided on the protective film and adapted to convert a radiation image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Takaharu Suzuki, Yutaka Kusuyama, Masanori Yamashita, Kazuhiro Shirakawa, Toshio Takabayashi
  • Publication number: 20080308736
    Abstract: The radiation image conversion panel in accordance with the present invention has an aluminum substrate; an alumite layer formed on a surface of the aluminum substrate; a metal film, provided on the alumite layer, having a radiation transparency and a light reflectivity; a protective film covering the metal film and having a radiation transparency and a light transparency; and a converting part provided on the protective film and adapted to convert a radiation image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Takaharu Suzuki, Yutaka Kusuyama, Masanori Yamashita, Kazuhiro Shirakawa, Toshio Takabayashi
  • Publication number: 20080311484
    Abstract: The radiation image conversion panel in accordance with the present invention has an aluminum substrate, an alumite layer formed on a surface of the aluminum substrate, an intermediate film covering the alumite layer and having a radiation transparency and a light transparency, and a converting part provided on the intermediate film and adapted to convert a radiation image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Jun Sakurai, Ichinobu Shimizu, Gouji Kamimura, Takaharu Suzuki, Yutaka Kusuyama, Kazuhiro Shirakawa
  • Publication number: 20080308424
    Abstract: A magnesium alloy member includes a member main body formed of a magnesium alloy containing aluminum, and an anodic oxidation coating covering at least a portion of the member main body. The anodic oxidation coating includes a porous first layer and a second layer located between the first layer and the member main body and having a higher aluminum content than that of the first layer. The ratio of the thickness of the second layer with respect to the thickness of the anodic oxidation preferably is about 5% to about 20%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takaharu Suzuki, Junichi Inami, Toshikatsu Koike
  • Patent number: 7465932
    Abstract: The radiation image conversion panel in accordance with the present invention has an aluminum substrate; an alumite layer formed on a surface of the aluminum substrate; a chromium layer covering the alumite layer; a metal film, provided on the chromium layer, having a radiation transparency and a light reflectivity; an oxide layer covering the metal film and having a radiation transparency and a light transparency; a protective film covering the oxide layer and having a radiation transparency and a light transparency; and a converting part provided on the protective film and adapted to convert a radiation image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventors: Takaharu Suzuki, Yutaka Kusuyama, Masanori Yamashita, Kazuhiro Shirakawa, Toshio Takabayashi
  • Publication number: 20080272314
    Abstract: An Ag film as a light-reflecting film is formed on one surface of an a-C substrate of a scintillator panel. The entire surface of the Ag film is covered with an SiN film for protecting the Ag film. A scintillator having a columnar structure, which converts an incident radiation into visible light, is formed on the surface of the SiN film. The scintillator is covered with a polyparaxylylene film together with the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventors: Takuya Homme, Toshio Takabayshi, Hiroto Sato, Takaharu Suzuki, Yoshio Natsume
  • Publication number: 20080217549
    Abstract: A scintillator element 2 has a rod-like base material 11, and a scintillator 12 is formed by being vapor deposited radially onto a side face of the base material 11. A plurality of these scintillator elements 2 are aligned and bundled together to form a scintillator unit 1. By mounting a solid-state image pickup element 20 to an open face of a case 3 of the scintillator unit 1, an image sensor M, which serves as a radiation detector, is formed. The image sensor M can be adjusted in size by adjusting the number, etc., of the scintillator elements 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Hiroto Sato, Takaharu Suzuki, Kazuaki Okumura, Mayumi Okumura
  • Patent number: 7408177
    Abstract: An Ag film as a light-reflecting film is formed on one surface of an a-C substrate of a scintillator panel. The entire surface of the Ag film is covered with an SiN film for protecting the Ag film. A scintillator having a columnar structure, which converts an incident radiation into visible light, is formed on the surface of the SiN film. The scintillator is covered with a polyparaxylylene film together with the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventors: Takuya Homme, Toshio Takabayashi, Hiroto Sato, Takaharu Suzuki, Yoshio Natsume
  • Publication number: 20070040125
    Abstract: The stacked scintillator panel according to the present invention is comprised of stacking a plurality of panels 1, 2, 3, 4, having scintillator 1b, 2b, 3b, and 4b deposited by vapor deposition on substrates 1a, 2a, 3a, and 4a for crystal deposition. Each of the substrates 1a, 2a, 3a, and 4a is a light transmitting substrate that transmits at least a portion of the wavelength range of the light emitted from the corresponding scintillator 1b, 2b, 3b, or 4b upon radiation incidence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Inventors: Hiroto Sato, Takaharu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20060261286
    Abstract: An Ag film as a light-reflecting film is formed on one surface of an a-C substrate of a scintillator panel. The entire surface of the Ag film is covered with an SiN film for protecting the Ag film. A scintillator having a columnar structure, which converts an incident radiation into visible light, is formed on the surface of the SiN film. The scintillator is covered with a polyparaxylylene film together with the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Takuya Homme, Toshio Takabayashi, Hiroto Sato, Takaharu Suzuki, Yoshio Natsume
  • Publication number: 20060263521
    Abstract: An auxiliary substrate 20 is overlapped onto a thin substrate 11, and substrate 11 and auxiliary substrate 20 are covered with an organic film 12. Thereafter, a scintillator 13 is formed on a scintillator forming portion 12A of organic film 12 that corresponds to substrate 11. Here, since thickness is added to substrate 11 by auxiliary substrate 20, the warping of substrate 11 is prevented and scintillator 13 is formed uniformly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Hiroto Sato, Takaharu Suzuki, Masahiro Suganuma
  • Publication number: 20060219337
    Abstract: A titanium alloy part has a compressive stress of approximately 270 MPa or more within a depth of about 100 ?m from a surface thereof. Since a large compressive stress exists in the area of the surface, the titanium alloy part exhibits a high fatigue strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takaharu Suzuki, Shuhei Adachi
  • Patent number: 7067817
    Abstract: An image sensor assembly is mounted and fixed on a mount substrate with an adhesive, and a light sensitive portion of the image sensor assembly is located so as to reach the vicinity of at least one peripheral region. A moisture-proof protective film to cover a scintillator layer of the image sensor assembly is laid so as to cover the scintillator layer over a side wall to which the light sensitive portion is in proximity, up to the back side of a substrate of the image sensor assembly, and this portion on the back side is sandwiched between the image sensor assembly and the mount substrate so as to be fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventors: Masahiro Suganuma, Takaharu Suzuki, Harumichi Mori, Masahiko Honda, Toshio Takabayashi
  • Patent number: 7064335
    Abstract: A radiation image sensor comprises (1) an image sensor 1 having a plurality of light receiving elements arranged one or two dimensionally, (2) scintillator 2 having columnar structure formed on the light-receiving surface of this image sensor 1 to convert radiation into light including wavelengths that can be detected by the image sensor 1, (3) a protective film 3 formed so as to cover and adhere to the columnar structure of the scintillator 2, and (4) a radiation-transmittable reflective plate 4 that has a reflective surface 42 disposed to face the image sensor across the protective film 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventors: Takaharu Suzuki, Takuya Homme
  • Patent number: 7034306
    Abstract: An Ag film as a light-reflecting film is formed on one surface of an a-C substrate of a scintillator panel. The entire surface of the Ag film is covered with an SiN film for protecting the Ag film. A scintillator having a columnar structure, which converts an incident radiation into visible light, is formed on the surface of the SiN film. The scintillator is covered with a polyparaxylylene film together with the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventors: Takuya Homme, Toshio Takabayashi, Hiroto Sato, Takaharu Suzuki, Yoshio Natsume
  • Publication number: 20060038131
    Abstract: An Ag film as a light-reflecting film is formed on one surface of an a-C substrate of a scintillator panel. The entire surface of the Ag film is covered with an SiN film for protecting the Ag film. A scintillator having a columnar structure, which converts an incident radiation into visible light, is formed on the surface of the SiN film. The scintillator is covered with a polyparaxylylene film together with the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Inventors: Takuya Homme, Toshio Takabayashi, Hiroto Sato, Takaharu Suzuki, Yoshio Natsume
  • Publication number: 20050167604
    Abstract: An image sensor assembly is mounted and fixed on a mount substrate with an adhesive, and a light sensitive portion of the image sensor assembly is located so as to reach the vicinity of at least one peripheral region. A moisture-proof protective film to cover a scintillator layer of the image sensor assembly is laid so as to cover the scintillator layer over a side wall to which the light sensitive portion is in proximity, up to the back side of a substrate of the image sensor assembly, and this portion on the back side is sandwiched between the image sensor assembly and the mount substrate so as to be fixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Masahiro Suganuma, Takaharu Suzuki, Harumichi Mori, Masahiko Honda, Toshio Takabayashi
  • Publication number: 20050156113
    Abstract: A radiation image sensor comprises (1) an image sensor 1 having a plurality of light receiving elements arranged one or two dimensionally, (2) scintillator 2 having columnar structure formed on the light-receiving surface of this image sensor 1 to convert radiation into light including wavelengths that can be detected by the image sensor 1, (3) a protective film 3 formed so as to cover and adhere to the columnar structure of the scintillator 2, and (4) a radiation-transmittable reflective plate 4 that has a reflective surface 42 disposed to face the image sensor across the protective film 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Inventors: Takaharu Suzuki, Takuya Homme
  • Patent number: 6891164
    Abstract: A radiation image sensor comprises (1) an image sensor 1 having a plurality of light receiving elements arranged in one or two dimensionally, (2) scintillator 2 having columnar structure formed on the light-receiving surface of this image sensor 1 to convert radiation into light that can be detected by the image sensor 1, (3) a protective film 3 formed so as to cover and adhere to columnar structure of scintillator 2, (4) a frame 6 disposed around the scintillator to set separation distance from the scintillator and fix the protective film onto the image sensor, and (5) a radiation-transmittable plate 4 fixed opposite to the image sensor 1 by the frame 6 to sandwich the protective film 3 therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventor: Takaharu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6867418
    Abstract: A radiation image sensor comprises (1) an image sensor 1 having a plurality of light receiving elements arranged one or two dimensionally, (2) scintillator 2 having columnar structure formed on the light-receiving surface of this image sensor 1 to convert radiation into light including wavelengths that can be detected by the image sensor 1, (3) a protective film 3 formed so as to cover and adhere to the columnar structure of the scintillator 2, and (4) a radiation-transmittable reflective plate 4 that has a reflective surface 42 disposed to face the image sensor across the protective film 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventors: Takaharu Suzuki, Takuya Homme