Patents by Inventor Tokio Taguchi

Tokio Taguchi 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: 8673193
    Abstract: A roller nanoimprint apparatus is disclosed which is capable of preventing a workpiece film with nanostructures having been transferred from the mold roller from being uneven in thickness and allowing easy replacement of the mold roller. At least one embodiment of the present invention is directed to a roller nanoimprint apparatus including a mold roller and continuously transferring nanosized protrusions to a surface of a workpiece film by rotating the mold roller, wherein the mold roller is a cylindrical body having an outer circumference surface with nanosized recesses formed thereon, the roller nanoimprint apparatus further includes a fluid container having an elastic film inflatable by injecting fluid into the container, the fluid container being arranged in a region defined by an inner circumference surface of the mold roller, the mold roller is mounted or demounted when the elastic film is shrunken, and the mold roller is supported from the inside when the elastic film is inflated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuaki Yamada, Akiyoshi Fujii, Hidekazu Hayashi, Tokio Taguchi
  • Patent number: 8641884
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a motheye mold according to the present invention includes the steps of: (a) anodizing a surface of an aluminum film (10a) via an electrode (32a) that is in contact with the surface, thereby forming a porous alumina layer which has a plurality of very small recessed portions; (b) after step (a), allowing the porous alumina layer to be in contact with an etchant, thereby enlarging the very small recessed portions of the porous alumina layer; and (c) after step (b), further anodizing the surface to grow the plurality of very small recessed portions. The aluminum film is made of aluminum with a purity of 99.99 mass % or higher. The electrode includes a first electrode portion (32a1) which is made of aluminum with a purity of 99.50 mass % or lower and a second electrode portion (32a2) which is made of aluminum with a higher purity than the aluminum of the first electrode portion and which is interposed between the surface and the first electrode portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidekazu Hayashi, Tokio Taguchi, Kazuhiko Tsuda
  • Patent number: 8597767
    Abstract: To provide an optical element having excellent adhesion to a lamination film, a roller nanoimprint apparatus, and a production method of a mold roller are disclosed. In at least one embodiment of the present invention, an optical element includes a nanostructure film including recesses and protrusions in nanometer size formed continuously on a surface of the nanostructure film and a lamination film laminated on the nanostructure film. The nanostructure film includes a nanostructure-free region free from the recesses and protrusions in nanometer size in both ends along a longitudinal direction of the nanostructure film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuaki Yamada, Akiyoshi Fujii, Tokio Taguchi, Hidekazu Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20130302539
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display panel with a flat plate in which a member partially provided with a light blocking part is disposed in front of a display panel, and a curable resin therebetween is sufficiently cured even in an area behind the light blocking part. The display panel with a flat plate of the present invention includes: a flat plate provided with a light passing part and a light blocking part; a display panel; and an adhesive layer between the flat plate and the display panel, the adhesive layer being a cured resin layer obtainable by polymerization involving at least one reactive component selected from the group consisting of a (meth)acrylate oligomer, a bicyclic ring-containing (meth)acrylate monomer, and a hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate monomer, a peroxide component, and a primer as reaction materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicants: KYORITSU CHEMICAL & CO., LTD., SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Fujii, Tokio Taguchi, Chiaki Minari, Takashi Yoshizawa, Katsuhisa Senda, Kenta Ishino, Eishi Katakami, Tsubasa Shiine
  • Publication number: 20130286496
    Abstract: A display device in which an image with a wide color reproduction range and bright red can be displayed is provided. The display device is a display device such as, for example, a liquid crystal display device, a cathode ray tube, an organic electroluminescent display device, a plasma display panel, and a field emission display. The display device includes a display surface including a pixel having red, green, blue, and yellow sub-pixels, wherein the red sub-pixel preferably has the largest aperture area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Kozo NAKAMURA, Shun Ueki, Tokio Taguchi, Akiko Itou
  • Publication number: 20130242398
    Abstract: A method for making a stamper which has an uneven surface pattern, in which unit structures are arranged in x and y directions at respective periods that are both shorter than the shortest wavelength of an incoming light ray, on the surface of a substrate and satisfies the following Inequality (1): ? ? ? x , y ? m ? ? i ? ? n < 1 ni + ni · sin ? ? ? ? ? i ma ? ? x ( 1 ) where ?min is the shortest wavelength of the incoming light ray, ?imax is the largest angle of incidence of the incoming light ray, ni is the refractive index of an incidence medium, ?x is the period of the uneven surface pattern in the x direction, and ?y is the period of the pattern in the y direction. As a result, diffraction of short-wave light components can be reduced in a broad wavelength range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tokio TAGUCHI, Shun UEKI, Kozo NAKAMURA, Kazuhiko TSUDA
  • Patent number: 8497957
    Abstract: A display device in which an image with a wide color reproduction range and bright red can be displayed is provided. The display device is a display device such as, for example, a liquid crystal display device, a cathode ray tube, an organic electroluminescent display device, a plasma display panel, and a field emission display. The display device includes a display surface including a pixel having red, green, blue, and yellow sub-pixels, wherein the red sub-pixel preferably has the largest aperture area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kozo Nakamura, Shun Ueki, Tokio Taguchi, Akiko Itou
  • Publication number: 20130148053
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel is capable of displaying in a normally black mode. The liquid crystal display panel includes: a liquid crystal cell which includes a liquid crystal layer and a pair of substrates; a first polarizing plate provided on a rear surface side of the liquid crystal cell; a second polarizing plate provided on a viewer side of the liquid crystal cell; and an antireflection layer provided on a viewer side of the second polarizing plate, the antireflection layer having a moth-eye structure, wherein a transmission axis of the first polarizing plate is parallel to a vertical direction in a display plane, and a transmission axis of the second polarizing plate is parallel to a horizontal direction in the display plane. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a pale black state in oblique viewing angles is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Minoura, Akira Sakai, Tokio Taguchi
  • Patent number: 8451391
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a pixel defined by at least three sub-pixels including a blue sub-pixel, a backlight which emits, toward the liquid crystal display panel, light that brings a color temperature to a predetermined level when the pixel displays white, and a color tone correction circuit which corrects a color tone of a color displayed by the pixel. When the pixel displays a color containing at least one predetermined color component that is other than a white component and a blue component, the color tone correction circuit performs a correction to set a luminance of the blue sub-pixel lower than an original luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shun Ueki, Kozo Nakamura, Akiko Miyazaki, Tokio Taguchi
  • Patent number: 8431004
    Abstract: A method for making a stamper which has an uneven surface pattern, in which unit structures are arranged in x and y directions at respective periods that are both shorter than the shortest wavelength of an incoming light ray, on the surface of a substrate and satisfies the following Inequality (1): ? ? ? x , y ? min < 1 ni + ni · sin ? ? ? ? ? i max ( 1 ) where ?min is the shortest wavelength of the incoming light ray, ?imax is the largest angle of incidence of the incoming light ray, ni is the refractive index of an incidence medium, ?x is the period of the uneven surface pattern in the x direction, and ?y is the period of the pattern in the y direction. As a result, diffraction of short-wave light components can be reduced in a broad wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tokio Taguchi, Shun Ueki, Kozo Nakamura, Kazuhiko Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20130095339
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display panel equipped with a front plate and a display device, in each of which streak unevenness is sufficiently resolved in the periphery of a display area. The display panel equipped with a front plate of the present invention comprises: a display panel; a front plate; and a cured resin composition layer disposed between the display panel and the front plate, wherein the cured resin composition layer has a loss tangent of 2 or less at 0 to 70° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Fujii, Tokio Taguchi, Chiaki Minari, Takashi Yoshizawa, Katsuhisa Senda, Mitsutoshi Naito, Eishi Katakami, Tsubasa Shiine
  • Patent number: 8416380
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display panel which causes no gray scale inversion, even when obliquely viewed, and which realizes suppression of a gamma characteristics change and a chromaticity change. The liquid crystal display panel is made of a pair of substrates, at least one of which includes a plurality of pixel electrodes containing red, green and blue pixel electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the pair of substrates. The liquid crystal layer is divided for each pixel into a first region and a second region, which have liquid crystal molecules different in the directions of inclination from each other. Both of the liquid crystal molecules positioned in the first region and the second region are oriented either vertically or horizontally when the pair of substrates is viewed in the front direction, and are oriented obliquely with respect to the substrate surface and symmetrically of each other when the pair of substrates is viewed in the cross-sectional direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamamoto, Yusuke Nishihara, Iori Aoyama, Tokio Taguchi, Masumi Kubo
  • Patent number: 8405804
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of an embodiment of the present invention includes a liquid crystal layer, a specular reflection layer, the polarization layer disposed on the viewer's side, a retardation layer interposed between the liquid crystal layer and the polarization layer, and a light scattering layer disposed on the viewer's side of the polarization layer. The light scattering layer has a scattering surface. The scattering surface includes a macro uneven structure which has light scatterability and a micro uneven structure which is superimposedly formed over the macro uneven structure and which is smaller than visible light wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisashi Watanabe, Tokio Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20130057958
    Abstract: The laminate of an embodiment is a laminate including an antireflection film and a protection film bonded onto the antireflection film, wherein the surface of the antireflection film includes a plurality of protrusions; the protection film includes a supporting film and an adhesive layer; the adhesive layer includes an adhesive agent, a copolymer, and a carboxyl group-containing monomer; the weight average molecular weight of the copolymer is 1000000 or more and 2000000 or less; the copolymer includes the (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester with the alkyl group having 4 or less carbon atoms in the largest weight proportion among the monomer components; the acid number of the copolymer is 16 mg KOH/g or more and 120 mg KOH/g or less; and the mixing amount of the epoxy cross-linking agent in relation to 100 parts by weight of the copolymer is 1.5 parts by weight or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicants: SOKEN CHEMICAL & ENGINEERING CO., LTD., SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Minoura, Takao Imaoku, Tokio Taguchi, Seiichi Shimizu, Ryuta Ooka
  • Patent number: 8384998
    Abstract: An antireflection film is provided in which a light scattering property is suppressed. In at least one example embodiment, the antireflection film includes, on a surface thereof, a moth-eye structure including a plurality of convex portions such that a width between vertices of adjacent convex portions is no greater than a wavelength of visible light. In at least one example embodiment of this antireflection film, the moth-eye structure does not include a sticking structure formed when tip end portions of the convex portions are joined to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tokio Taguchi, Takao Imaoku
  • Patent number: 8384862
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for efficiently producing a nanoimprint film with high-accurately formed nanostructures even if a base on which the nanoimprint film is formed is capable of absorbing UV light. The production method of at least one embodiment of the present invention is a production method of a nanoimprint film formed on a base, the nanoimprint film having a surface with nanosized protrusions and recesses formed thereon. In at least one embodiment, the production method includes a first step of applying a UV-curable resin on a base containing a UV-absorbing component to form a film; a second step of irradiating the film with UV light from a top-side surface of the film to form a semi-cured film; a third step of imprinting nanosized protrusions and recesses on the semi-cured film to form a film having a surface with protrusions and recesses formed thereon; and a fourth step of curing the film with protrusions and recesses to form a nanoimprint film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takao Imaoku, Tokio Taguchi, Hidekazu Hayashi, Kazuhiko Tsuda
  • Patent number: 8384856
    Abstract: A color filter substrate and a display device are each capable of reducing color separation of a straight line displayed with a mixed color and particularly color separation of a straight white line displayed with a mixed color on a black background. The color filter substrate is a color filter substrate including colored layers of at least four colors, arrayed inside a pixel region, wherein at least one pair of colored layers that are not next to each other when the colored layers of all the colors are arrayed in order of hue is adjacently arranged to each other inside the pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akiko Itou, Kohzoh Nakamura, Shun Ueki, Tokio Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20130011611
    Abstract: The present invention provides a laminate including an anti-reflection film and a protective film that is stuck on the surface of the anti-reflection film. The protective film is excellent in temporary adhesiveness and can be removed to leave few adhesives. The laminate of the present invention directs to a laminate comprising an anti-reflection film; and a protective film stuck on the anti-reflection film, wherein the surface of the anti-reflection film has multiple protrusions, the distance between two tips of adjacent protrusions being equal to or smaller than visible light wavelength, and the protective film includes a support film and an adhesive layer that is in contact with the anti-reflection film, the adhesive layer including an adhesive that contains a polymer having an olefin structure as a monomer unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventors: Tokio Taguchi, Takao Imaoku, Kiyoshi Minoura, Shigetaka Ikemoto, Kenji Hayakawa, Naoya Nishizaki, Yuhichi Yachiyama
  • Patent number: 8319791
    Abstract: A display device has a pixel that is defined by a plurality of sub-pixels. The sub-pixels include a red sub-pixel representing red, a green sub-pixel representing green, a blue sub-pixel representing blue and a yellow sub-pixel representing yellow. When the pixel represents white, the luminance of the red sub-pixel is lower than its luminance corresponding to the highest gray scale level. In one embodiment, when the pixel represents white, the luminance of the red sub-pixel is preferably in the range of 25% to 96% of its luminance corresponding to the highest gray scale level. Also, the color temperature of white represented by the pixel is preferably higher than 4200 K, more preferably higher than 5000 K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shun Ueki, Kozo Nakamura, Tokio Taguchi, Akiko Itou
  • Patent number: 8300185
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes: a liquid crystal display panel; and first and second light diffusing layers, each of which has a first major surface and a second major surface and each of which is arranged such that the first major surface opposes a viewer side surface of the liquid crystal display panel. Each of the first and second light diffusing layers includes a first region formed of a first substance which has a first refractive index N1 and a plurality of second regions formed of a second substance which has a second refractive index N2(<N1). The plurality of second regions are arranged in the first region at a predetermined pitch P in one direction in a plane parallel to the second major surface. Each of the plurality of second regions forms a plurality of interfaces with the first region, the interfaces being inclined by ?° from the normal of the second major surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yusuke Nishihara, Iori Aoyama, Tokio Taguchi, Akihiro Yamamoto, Masumi Kubo