Patents by Inventor Takeshi Arai

Takeshi Arai 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: 8674644
    Abstract: A motor-drive circuit includes: a filter circuit to attenuate a frequency band including a resonance frequency of an actuator in a target-current signal, the target-current signal corresponding to a digital signal indicative of a target value of a driving current; a digital-analog converter to convert an output signal of the filter circuit into an analog signal, to be outputted as a current-control signal; and a driving circuit to supply the driving current to the voice-coil motor in accordance with the current-control signal, the filter circuit including: a digital notch filter; and a digital low-pass filter, wherein either one of the digital notch filter and the digital low-pass filter configured to be inputted with the target-current signal, the other one of the digital notch filter and the digital low-pass filter configured to be inputted with an output signal of the one of the digital notch filter or the digital low-pass filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Takeshi Arai, Akira Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140014962
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels formed in a matrix pattern by partition with a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines. The plurality of pixels are connected to the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines. At least a part of the plurality of pixels includes a transistor, a pixel electrode connected to the transistor, a common electrode arranged so as to be opposed to the pixel electrode, and a correction transistor portion. The correction transistor portion includes a gate electrode portion that is formed of a part of the common electrode and transmits visible light, a semiconductor active portion that transmits visible light, a drain electrode portion that forms a drain electrode, and a source electrode portion that forms a source electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Takeshi ARAI, Kunihiko WATANABE
  • Patent number: 8502201
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic thin-film light emitting device containing an organic compound represented by formula (1) and a donor compound. the light emitting device can achieve both of the low-voltage driving operation and high luminance efficiency. YA1-Ar)n1??(1) (Y represents either substituted or unsubstituted pyrene, or substituted or unsubstituted anthracene. A1 is selected from the group consisting of a single bond, an arylene group, and a hetero arylene group. Ar is selected from the group consisting of a carbazolyl group, a dibenzofuranyl group, and a dibenzothiophenyl group. These groups may be substituted or unsubstituted, and n1 is an integer of 1 to 3.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: TORAY Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Nagao, Takeshi Arai, Takeshi Ikeda, Tsuyoshi Tominaga, Daisaku Tanaka, Yasunori Ichihashi, Koji Ueoka
  • Patent number: 8350483
    Abstract: A light-emitting element driving circuit includes a PWM signal output circuit configured to output a plurality of PWM signals each having one logic level whose duty ratio corresponds to gradation data and each corresponding to each of a plurality of light-emitting elements, on the basis of the gradation data indicating brightness of each of the plurality of light-emitting elements. A driving signal output circuit is configured to change the duty ratio of each of the plurality of inputted PWM signals to output the plurality of changed PWM signals as a plurality of driving signals, on the basis of instruction data for changing the brightness of the plurality of light-emitting elements. A driving circuit is configured to drive the plurality of light-emitting elements on the basis of a duty ratio of each of the plurality of driving signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignees: Sanyo Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
    Inventor: Takeshi Arai
  • Patent number: 8216920
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a silicon epitaxial wafer by growing an epitaxial layer by placing a silicon substrate on a susceptor. The method includes at least a step of forming a silicon oxide film entirely on the rear surface of the silicon substrate; a step of removing the silicon oxide film formed at least on an edge section of the silicon substrate; and a step of placing the silicon substrate on the susceptor with the silicon oxide film in between. An epitaxial layer is grown on the silicon substrate, while holding the silicon substrate by the susceptor with the silicon oxide film in between. Thus, the silicon epitaxial wafer by which generation of particles can be reduced in a device manufacturing process and a method for manufacturing such silicon epitaxial wafer are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeshi Arai
  • Publication number: 20120161687
    Abstract: A motor-drive circuit includes: a filter circuit to attenuate a frequency band including a resonance frequency of an actuator in a target-current signal, the target-current signal corresponding to a digital signal indicative of a target value of a driving current; a digital-analog converter to convert an output signal of the filter circuit into an analog signal, to be outputted as a current-control signal; and a driving circuit to supply the driving current to the voice-coil motor in accordance with the current-control signal, the filter circuit including: a digital notch filter; and a digital low-pass filter, wherein either one of the digital notch filter and the digital low-pass filter configured to be inputted with the target-current signal, the other one of the digital notch filter and the digital low-pass filter configured to be inputted with an output signal of the one of the digital notch filter or the digital low-pass filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: ON Semiconductor Trading LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Arai, Akira Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120076343
    Abstract: A motor-drive circuit includes: a filter circuit to attenuate a frequency band including a resonance frequency of an actuator in a target-current signal, which is a digital signal indicating a target value of a driving current to be supplied to a voice-coil motor that drives the actuator; a digital-analog converter to convert an output signal of the filter circuit into an analog signal, to be outputted as a current-control signal; and a driving circuit to supply the driving current to the motor in accordance with the current-control signal, the filter circuit including: a digital-notch filter to attenuate a frequency band around the resonance frequency in the target-current signal; and a digital-low-pass filter to attenuate a frequency band greater than or equal to a predetermined frequency in the output signal of the digital-notch filter, the digital-low-pass filter having a sampling frequency higher than a sampling frequency of the digital-notch filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: ON SEMICONDUCTOR TRADING, LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Arai
  • Publication number: 20110304285
    Abstract: A motor drive circuit includes: a digital filter configured to attenuate amplitude in a frequency band including a resonance frequency of an actuator in a target current signal, the target current signal being a digital signal indicative of a target value of a drive current, the drive current being supplied to a voice coil motor configured to drive the actuator; a digital-analog converter configured to convert an output signal of the digital filter into an analog signal, and output the converted analog signal as a current control signal; and a drive circuit configured to supply the drive current to the voice coil motor according to the current control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: ON SEMICONDUCTOR TRADING, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Shimazaki, Akira Suzuki, Takeshi Arai
  • Patent number: 8035058
    Abstract: A region surrounded by two gate wiring and two drain wiring includes pixels and when there is a defect of short-circuit in adjacent pixel electrodes, the short-circuited portion is removed by irradiating a laser via a mask having a transmission pattern, which corresponds to a pattern of the gate wiring, drain wiring and pixel electrodes in the short-circuited portion. The above short-circuited portion is identified and removed in comparison to a normal pattern, by use of information from an inspection apparatus, and the pattern defect formed on the substrate is automatically repaired. By applying the above method to a manufacturing process of display apparatus, in particular, to a resist pattern forming process, a display apparatus having a highly qualified display property may be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nakasu, Kaoru Yamada, Yuichiro Tanaka, Takeshi Arai, Hideyuki Honoki, Kazushi Yoshimura, Tetsuya Kawamura, Masanori Okawa
  • Publication number: 20110121268
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic thin-film light emitting device containing an organic compound represented by formula (1) and a donor compound. the light emitting device ca achieve both of the low-voltage driving operation and high luminance efficiency. Y?A1-Ar)n1??(1) (Y represents either substituted or unsubstituted pyrene, or substituted or unsubstituted anthracene. A1 is selected from the group consisting of a single bond, an arylene group, and a hetero arylene group. Ar is selected from the group consisting of a carbazolyl group, a dibenzofuranyl group, and a dibenzothiophenyl group. These groups may be substituted or unsubstituted, and n1 is an integer of 1 to 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Kazumasa Nagao, Takeshi Arai, Takeshi Ikeda, Tsuyoshi Tominaga, Daisaku Tanaka, Yasunori Ichihashi, Koji Ueoka
  • Patent number: 7894029
    Abstract: Work is irradiated with polarized light generated by configuring in such a manner as to have a polarizer using a grating that separates polarized light from non-polarized light, a lamp and a condenser mirror that allow light to fall on the polarizer, a collimator lens that converts the incoming light into parallel beams, an integrator lens that uniformizes intensity distribution of light radiated from the polarizer, and a diffusion lens with functions to enlarge or contract the irradiated range to the work size, and by forming protrusions and recesses of the shape, material, and size that fit to the desired wavelength on a substrate such as quartz, etc. that transmit ultraviolet light, and by providing the light-polarizing performance by appropriately providing an incident angle. By carrying out this processing, the alignment film in the liquid crystal display element can be photo-aligned at high accuracy and uniformly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Arai, Yasuhiro Yoshitake, Shigeru Matsuyama
  • Publication number: 20100327415
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a silicon epitaxial wafer by growing an epitaxial layer by placing a silicon substrate on a susceptor. The method includes at least a step of forming a silicon oxide film entirely on the rear surface of the silicon substrate; a step of removing the silicon oxide film formed at least on an edge section of the silicon substrate; and a step of placing the silicon substrate on the susceptor with the silicon oxide film in between. An epitaxial layer is grown on the silicon substrate, while holding the silicon substrate by the susceptor with the silicon oxide film in between. Thus, the silicon epitaxial wafer by which generation of particles can be reduced in a device manufacturing process and a method for manufacturing such silicon epitaxial wafer are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU HANDOTAI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Arai
  • Publication number: 20100302360
    Abstract: Provided is a defect correcting device for an electronic circuit pattern, which is capable of making a defect seed obvious, and normalizing a pixel or forming a pixel into a semi-black spot. A defect correcting device for an electronic circuit pattern includes: an imaging unit for irradiating a defective portion of the electronic circuit pattern with irradiation light having a wavelength of a visible light region and a wavelength of an infrared light region, and receiving reflected light having the wavelength of the visible light region and the wavelength of the infrared light region from the electronic circuit pattern; a signal processing unit for extracting the defective portion from a picked-up image, and determining a correcting method; a laser irradiating unit for irradiating the defective portion with laser light; and a correction determining unit for determining success or failure of defect correction before and after laser irradiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Takeshi Arai, Nobuaki Nakasu
  • Patent number: 7821199
    Abstract: A highly fine organic electroluminescent device is provided. A method for manufacturing the organic electroluminescent device is provided for patterning a very fine light emitting layer, and a deposition mask is provided to be used in the patterning. For deposition of the light emitting layer, a mask member is provided with apertures (effective apertures) for forming the light emitting layer to be used for light emitting pixel and apertures (dummy apertures) not to be used for forming the light emitting pixel around an area (effective aperture area) separated by the outer edge of a group of the apertures. The light emitting layer is deposited by using the deposition mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Arai, Shigeo Fujimori, Takeshi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20100156317
    Abstract: A light-emitting element driving circuit includes a PWM signal output circuit configured to output a plurality of PWM signals each having one logic level whose duty ratio corresponds to gradation data and each corresponding to each of a plurality of light-emitting elements, on the basis of the gradation data indicating brightness of each of the plurality of light-emitting elements. A driving signal output circuit is configured to change the duty ratio of each of the plurality of inputted PWM signals to output the plurality of changed PWM signals as a plurality of driving signals, on the basis of instruction data for changing the brightness of the plurality of light-emitting elements. A driving circuit is configured to drive the plurality of light-emitting elements on the basis of a duty ratio of each of the plurality of driving signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicants: Sanyo Electronic Co., Ltd., Sanyo Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeshi Arai
  • Publication number: 20100141690
    Abstract: A light-emitting element driving circuit comprising: an index data storage unit configured to store n-bit index data for each of a plurality of light-emitting elements included in a display device, the n-bit index data specifying a storage location of gradation data indicating brightness of a light-emitting element in the plurality of light-emitting elements: a gradation data storage unit configured to store the gradation data with m bits larger than n bits, corresponding to the index data; and a driving circuit configured to drive the light-emitting element on the basis of the gradation data corresponding to the index data so that the light-emitting element emits light at brightness according to the gradation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicants: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD., SANYO SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Arai
  • Patent number: 7691398
    Abstract: A hair treatment composition comprising an aqueous dispersion of composite particles, said particles comprising: i) a clay with a net surface charge, and ii) a charged organic molecule comprising at least 6, preferably at least 11, more preferably at least 17 carbon atoms, wherein the charge on the charged organic molecule is opposite to the net surface charge of the clay, said hair treatment composition further comprising one or more suitable hair treatment ingredients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Arai, Mark Edward Baker, Colin Christopher Giles
  • Publication number: 20100062182
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for repairing a display device according to which a wide variety of regions can be repaired in various ways using various materials, as well as an apparatus for the same. The present invention provides a repairing apparatus for repairing a pattern defect on a surface of a substrate in a display device where an electronic circuit pattern having the above described pattern defect is formed, characterized by having a plasma irradiation means for repairing the above described pattern defect through local irradiation of a region including the above described pattern defect with plasma.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: Takeshi ARAI, Nobuaki NAKASU, Tadao EDAMURA, Noriyuki OROKU
  • Patent number: 7671147
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flame-retardant epoxy resin composition characterized by containing (A) an epoxy resin containing 0.5-10 equivalent/kg of oxazolidone rings, (B) an epoxy group-containing phosphazene compound, (C) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of phosphates, condensed phosphates, quinone derivatives of phosphine compounds, and polyphenylene ethers, and (D) at least one curing agent selected from the group consisting of guanidine derivatives, phenol novolacs, bisphenol A novolacs, cresol novolacs and naphthol novolacs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Urakawa, Takeshi Arai
  • Patent number: 7562564
    Abstract: A scanning probe microscope capable of measuring accurate 3-D shape information of a sample with high through-put without damaging a sample. In a method for acquiring an accurate 3-D shape of a sample without imparting damage to the sample by bringing a probe into contact at only a measurement point, once pulling up and retracting the probe when it moves towards a next measurement point, moving the probe towards the next measurement point and allowing it to approach, a deflection signal of the probe and its twist signal area analyzed so that measurement can be made at a minimum necessary retraction distance. Control for minimizing residual oscillation at the time of transverse movement is made so that a measurement frequency can be raised and high speed measurement can be accomplished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Baba, Toshihiko Nakata, Masahiro Watanabe, Takeshi Arai