Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Imai

Toshiaki Imai 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: 20230415635
    Abstract: A vehicle headlight control system, includes: an operation section configured to adopt a first position and a second position by being rotated with respect to a lever body; a biasing section that returns the operation section to the first position; and a processor coupled to a memory, the processor configured to enable control of vehicle sidelights and low-beam headlights; a first display portion that indicates a relative position of the operation section with respect to the lever body; and a second display portion that is adjacent to the first display portion in a case in which the operation section is at the first position, and that indicates either being in an automatic illumination state in which the illumination state of the vehicle sidelights and the low-beam headlights is switchable automatically or being in a vehicle sidelight illumination state in which the vehicle sidelights are illuminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventor: Toshiaki IMAI
  • Publication number: 20210374446
    Abstract: A switch device includes an operation button including an operation surface on which a push operation is performed, a guide recess portion that has an elongated shape surrounded by inclined surfaces and is provided on the operation surface to guide an operating finger, and a biometric information sensor including a reading surface for reading biometric information of the operating finger in contact therewith. The reading surface is exposed situated nearer an end surface of the guide recess portion in relation to a longitudinal center of the guide recess portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Toshiaki IMAI, Naoki KAMIYA, Takashi UENO
  • Patent number: 11189809
    Abstract: An organic EL device of the disclosure includes: a first electrode and a second electrode; and an organic layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic layer includes a light-emitting layer. The organic layer includes, between the first electrode and the light-emitting layer, a first layer that contains a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compound having orientation, and a second layer that contains a larger amount of nitrogen element than the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki Imai, Emiko Kambe, Hideki Kobayashi, Jiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 10859053
    Abstract: A switch device includes an operation button to be push-operated, and a sealing portion for sealing a gap between the operation button and an opening through which the operation button is inserted. The sealing portion may include a ring-shaped first seal that is in contact with the operation button and exhibits sealing properties, and a second seal that is harder than the first seal and is located on the outer side of the first seal. The first seal and the second seal may be integrated so as to form a frame of the sealing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Toshiaki Imai, Ryoji Takahashi, Shuichi Iwata
  • Patent number: 10743386
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel including a plurality of sub-pixels. Each of the plurality of sub-pixels includes: a light-emission region; and a non-light-emission region other than the light-emission region. The light-emission region includes one or more effective light-emitting parts in which a first electrode, a light emitting layer, and a second electrode are stacked in order, and a light guide provided on side of the one or more effective light-emitting parts on which light is extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Kaoru Abe, Kazuma Teramoto, Toshiaki Imai, Jiro Yamada, Takahide Ishii, Hideki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10598142
    Abstract: A switch device includes an operation button operated by a push operation on an operating surface, light sources arranged on a lighting substrate to illuminate an illumination target of the operation button, and a plurality of switches that are arranged on a switch substrate different from the lighting substrate so as to be located on an end portion side of the operation button and are turned on due to displacement of the operation button caused by the push operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Toshiaki Imai, Ryoji Takahashi, Shuichi Iwata
  • Patent number: 10590901
    Abstract: A switch device includes an operation button operated by a push operation on an operating surface including an opening, a biometric sensor that includes a reading surface exposed in the opening of the operating surface and reads, during the push operation, biometric information of an operator who touches the reading surface, and a packing arranged between the operation button and the biometric sensor to prevent extraneous matter from entering through the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Toshiaki Imai, Ryoji Takahashi, Shuichi Iwata
  • Publication number: 20190107094
    Abstract: A switch device includes an operation button operated by a push operation on an operating surface, light sources arranged on a lighting substrate to illuminate an illumination target of the operation button, and a plurality of switches that are arranged on a switch substrate different from the lighting substrate so as to be located on an end portion side of the operation button and are turned on due to displacement of the operation button caused by the push operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Toshiaki IMAI, Ryoji TAKAHASHI, Shuichi IWATA
  • Publication number: 20190107095
    Abstract: A switch device includes an operation button operated by a push operation on an operating surface including an opening, a biometric sensor that includes a reading surface exposed in the opening of the operating surface and reads, during the push operation, biometric information of an operator who touches the reading surface, and a packing arranged between the operation button and the biometric sensor to prevent extraneous matter from entering through the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Toshiaki IMAI, Ryoji TAKAHASHI, Shuichi IWATA
  • Publication number: 20190107097
    Abstract: A switch device includes an operation button to be push-operated, and a sealing portion for sealing a gap between the operation button and an opening through which the operation button is inserted. The sealing portion may include a ring-shaped first seal that is in contact with the operation button and exhibits sealing properties, and a second seal that is harder than the first seal and is located on the outer side of the first seal. The first seal and the second seal may be integrated so as to form a frame of the sealing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Toshiaki IMAI, Ryoji TAKAHASHI, Shuichi IWATA
  • Publication number: 20170271609
    Abstract: An organic EL device of the disclosure includes: a first electrode and a second electrode; and an organic layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic layer includes a light-emitting layer. The organic layer includes, between the first electrode and the light-emitting layer, a first layer that contains a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compound having orientation, and a second layer that contains a larger amount of nitrogen element than the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: TOSHIAKI IMAI, EMIKO KAMBE, HIDEKI KOBAYASHI, JIRO YAMADA
  • Patent number: 9755149
    Abstract: An organic EL display unit includes a first organic EL device including a first light-emitting layer that emits first color light and a second organic EL device including a second light-emitting layer that emits second color light of a shorter wavelength than the first color light. The first light-emitting layer includes, as a host material, a polymer material that does not emit the first color light or does not mainly emit the first color light, and includes, as a dopant, a low-molecular-weight material or a polymer material that emits the first color light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: JOLED Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Imai, Tadahiko Yoshinaga
  • Publication number: 20170245342
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel including a plurality of sub-pixels. Each of the plurality of sub-pixels includes: a light-emission region; and a non-light-emission region other than the light-emission region. The light-emission region includes one or more effective light-emitting parts in which a first electrode, a light emitting layer, and a second electrode are stacked in order, and a light guide provided on side of the one or more effective light-emitting parts on which light is extracted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Kaoru ABE, Kazuma TERAMOTO, Toshiaki IMAI, Jiro YAMADA, Takahide ISHII, Hideki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9508781
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display including multilayer structures that are each formed in a respective one of pixel areas in an effective area of a substrate and are each formed by a lower electrode, an organic layer, and an upper electrode, the organic electroluminescence display having a common electrode that electrically connects the pixel areas, the method including the steps of: forming a protective electrode and an outer-peripheral electrode that are electrically connected to the common electrode; forming the multilayer structures; and carrying out film deposition treatment involving electrification of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimura, Mitsuru Asano, Toshiaki Imai
  • Publication number: 20150287926
    Abstract: An organic EL display unit includes a first organic EL device including a first light-emitting layer that emits first color light and a second organic EL device including a second light-emitting layer that emits second color light of a shorter wavelength than the first color light. The first light-emitting layer includes, as a host material, a polymer material that does not emit the first color light or does not mainly emit the first color light, and includes, as a dopant, a low-molecular-weight material or a polymer material that emits the first color light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki Imai, Tadahiko Yoshinaga
  • Patent number: 9136314
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display including multilayer structures that are each formed in a respective one of pixel areas in an effective area of a substrate and are each formed by a lower electrode, an organic layer, and an upper electrode, the organic electroluminescence display having a common electrode that electrically connects the pixel areas, the method including the steps of: forming a protective electrode and an outer-peripheral electrode that are electrically connected to the common electrode; forming the multilayer structures; and carrying out film deposition treatment involving electrification of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimura, Mitsuru Asano, Toshiaki Imai
  • Publication number: 20150243713
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display including multilayer structures that are each formed in a respective one of pixel areas in an effective area of a substrate and are each formed by a lower electrode, an organic layer, and an upper electrode, the organic electroluminescence display having a common electrode that electrically connects the pixel areas, the method including the steps of: forming a protective electrode and an outer-peripheral electrode that are electrically connected to the common electrode; forming the multilayer structures; and carrying out film deposition treatment involving electrification of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimura, Mitsuru Asano, Toshiaki Imai
  • Patent number: 9099406
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence display device includes: a light emission region including a plurality of pixels on a drive substrate, wherein each of the pixels includes, in order from a side close to the drive substrate, a first electrode, a functional layer, and a second electrode, the first electrode is provided for each of the pixels, and the functional layer includes at least an organic electroluminescence layer; a print pattern layer included in the functional layer and formed individually for each of the pixels; and a protrusion provided on the drive substrate and protruding further than any layer provided between the print pattern layer and the drive substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Matsumi, Toshiaki Imai
  • Publication number: 20150090977
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence unit includes: a plurality of light-emitting layers of different colors (14R, 14G, 14B); a first electrode (11) and a second electrode (16) applying a voltage to each of the plurality of light-emitting layers; and a charge transport layer disposed between one or more light-emitting layers of the plurality of light-emitting layers and the first electrode (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Toshiaki Imai, Kazunari Takagi, Tadahiko Yoshinaga, Tatsuya Matsumi, Makoto Ando
  • Patent number: 8994008
    Abstract: A reverse printing ink composition capable of realizing printing with a uniform film thickness and high-definition patterning, a printing method using the same, and a method of manufacturing a display unit using the same are provided. The reverse printing ink composition includes a solvent containing an aromatic carbon hydride and a straight-chain carbon hydride and a low-molecular material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Imai, Makoto Ando, Tadahiko Yoshinaga