Patents by Inventor Yasuji Kusuda

Yasuji Kusuda 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: 20160152014
    Abstract: Provided is a transparent conductive sheet in which a silver nanowire is resistant to oxidation even if the silver nanowire is exposed to visible light. The transparent conductive sheet includes a base sheet, a silver nanowire holding layer laminated on the base sheet, a sacrificial reagent added into the silver nanowire holding layer, and a silver nanowire laminated on a surface of the silver nanowire holding layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Masashi MATSUMOTO, Katsumi TOKUNO, Yasuji KUSUDA, Koji OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8427820
    Abstract: In a protective panel with a touch input function of an electronic apparatus display window, with a built-in antenna being placed on a back side thereof, an upper electrode sheet and a lower electrode panel that constitute the protective panel with a touch input function are respectively provided with radio-wave transmitting sections with no conductor formed therein, within a frame area to be covered with a decorative layer, in association with the built-in antenna, and with respect to all the portion or most of the portion of a border relative to the conductor of the radio-wave transmitting section on the upper electrode sheet side, since a paste layer, used for bonding the upper electrode sheet to the lower electrode panel at peripheral edge portions thereof, is provided with a through hole in a manner so as to overlap with, at least, an area near the inside of the border, with air inside the through hole being allowed to flow in or flow out through an air bent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuji Kusuda, Mitsutoyo Toshihara
  • Patent number: 8279188
    Abstract: A protective panel having touch panel function is used for protecting a front surface of a display device that is disposed so as to be visually recognized from outside, and the protective panel is fitted in a panel fitting part of a casing provided with an opening such that an outer surface of the protective panel forms a flat plane identical with that of the casing with no gap formed therebetween. The protective panel includes: an upper electrode sheet having a decorative layer and upper electrodes provided thereon; and a lower electrode sheet having lower electrodes provided on an upper surface thereof, and the upper electrode sheet and the lower electrode sheet are disposed such that the respective electrodes thereof face with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuji Kusuda, Takao Hashimoto, Toshiyuki Iwai, Koji Okamoto, Jun Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8212791
    Abstract: There are included a protection panel main body configured by a transparent plate, a lower electrode sheet laminated onto an upper surface of the protection panel main body, an upper electrode sheet bonded to the lower electrode sheet at peripheral edges thereof with a gap being formed between electrodes, a decorative sheet laminated onto an upper surface of the upper electrode sheet, and an FPC that has an end inserted between the lower electrode sheet and the upper electrode sheet and is connected by thermal compression bonding to output ends of an upper circuit and a lower circuit. Further, the protection panel main body is provided with a thermal compression head inserting space at a portion corresponding to a portion bonded with the FPC by thermal compression so that a thermal compression heater is allowed to be brought closer to the lower electrode sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuji Kusuda, Takeshi Asakura, Koji Okamoto, Toshiyuki Iwai
  • Publication number: 20110151937
    Abstract: In a protective panel with a touch input function of an electronic apparatus display window, with a built-in antenna being placed on a back side thereof, an upper electrode sheet and a lower electrode panel that constitute the protective panel with a touch input function are respectively provided with radio-wave transmitting sections with no conductor formed therein, within a frame area to be covered with a decorative layer, in association with the built-in antenna, and with respect to all the portion or most of the portion of a border relative to the conductor of the radio-wave transmitting section on the upper electrode sheet side, since a paste layer, used for bonding the upper electrode sheet to the lower electrode panel at peripheral edge portions thereof, is provided with a through hole in a manner so as to overlap with, at least, an area near the inside of the border, with air inside the through hole being allowed to flow in or flow out through an air bent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Yasuji Kusuda, Mitsutoyo Toshihara
  • Publication number: 20100309152
    Abstract: There are included a protection panel main body configured by a transparent plate, a lower electrode sheet laminated onto an upper surface of the protection panel main body, an upper electrode sheet bonded to the lower electrode sheet at peripheral edges thereof with a gap being formed between electrodes, a decorative sheet laminated onto an upper surface of the upper electrode sheet, and an FPC that has an end inserted between the lower electrode sheet and the upper electrode sheet and is connected by thermal compression bonding to output ends of an upper circuit and a lower circuit. Further, the protection panel main body is provided with a thermal compression head inserting space at a portion corresponding to a portion bonded with the FPC by thermal compression so that a thermal compression heater is allowed to be brought closer to the lower electrode sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Yasuji Kusuda, Takeshi Asakura, Koji Okamoto, Toshiyuki Iwai
  • Patent number: 7710400
    Abstract: A touch panel having a film/glass structure includes an upper electrode member including a transparent insulation film having upwardly-inclined end surfaces at each entire peripheral side. A touch panel having a film/film structure includes an upper electrode member including a transparent insulation film and a lower electrode member including a transparent insulation film, wherein the transparent insulation film and the transparent insulation film have upwardly-inclined end surfaces at each entire peripheral side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Yamada, Takao Hashimoto, Yasuji Kusuda, Daisuke Miura
  • Publication number: 20100103126
    Abstract: A protection panel with a touch input function for an electronic instrument display window, which is excellent in reliability in an FPC connection. The panel is constituted such that the outer side face can be fitted into a panel fitting part of a casing having an aperture and kept without a gap to form a leveled plane and is configured to protect a display device provided under it externally visibly through a transparent window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: NISSHA PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuto Nakamura, Takao Hashimoto, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Kai, Yasuji Kusuda, Takeshi Asakura, Hideyuki Muroi, Koji Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20100033442
    Abstract: A protective panel having touch panel function is used for protecting a front surface of a display device that is disposed so as to be visually recognized from outside, and the protective panel is fitted in a panel fitting part of a casing provided with an opening such that an outer surface of the protective panel forms a flat plane identical with that of the casing with no gap formed therebetween. The protective panel includes: an upper electrode sheet having a decorative layer and upper electrodes provided thereon; and a lower electrode sheet having lower electrodes provided on an upper surface thereof, and the upper electrode sheet and the lower electrode sheet are disposed such that the respective electrodes thereof face with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Inventors: Yasuji Kusuda, Takao Hashimoto, Toshiyuki Iwai, Koji Okamoto, Jun Shimizu
  • Patent number: 7554624
    Abstract: A protection panel for an electronic device display window provided with a protection panel main body is composed of transparent resin and has a decoration layer having a transparent window section, and a transparent lower electrode formed on an upper surface of the protection panel main body. The protection panel main body is bonded, in its peripheral portions, to a transparent resin film on a lower surface of which a transparent upper electrode is formed via an air layer in a position opposite to the transparent lower electrode. The decoration layer is formed on at least one surface of a transparent resin cover film bonded to an upper surface of the transparent resin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuji Kusuda, Takao Hashimoto, Jun Shimizu, Shinya Yamada
  • Publication number: 20080218951
    Abstract: To provide a low reflectance protection panel with decoration for a display window of an electronic apparatus, superior in productivity. A decorating film is laminated on the surface of a transparent protective plate: the decorating film forms at least a window forming layer having a transparent window portion on the surface of a hard coating film at the transparent protective plate side and is formed with a low reflectance processed layer on the opposite surface thereof: and a low reflectance processed layer is formed on the rear surface of the transparent protective plate. Or, a decorating film is laminated on a surface of an optical isotropic transparent protective plate being interposed by a polarizing plate, the decorating film forms at least a window forming layer having a transparent window portion on the surface of the hard coating film at the transparent protective plate side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Yasuji Kusuda, Takao Hashimoto, Jun Shimizu, Shinya Yamada
  • Patent number: 7268770
    Abstract: A touch-input type liquid crystal display device comprises an upper and lower polarizer, a transparent touch panel disposed between the polarizers and a liquid crystal display. The transparent touch panel comprises upper and lower optical phase difference films, a movable electrode portion and a stationary electrode portion. A space is interposed between the optical phase difference films. The transparent touch panel is disposed between the upper polarizer and the liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display is disposed between the transparent touch panel and the lower polarizer. The optical phase difference films are capable of providing a ΒΌ wavelength phase delay to light, incident thereon, having a center wavelength within a visible region. The movable electrode portion is disposed on a lower surface of the upper optical phase difference film. The stationary electrode portion is disposed on an upper surface of the lower optical phase difference film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Takahata, Takao Hashimoto, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Shinya Yamada, Yasuji Kusuda
  • Publication number: 20070181456
    Abstract: In a protection panel for electronic device display window provided with a protection panel main body composed of transparent resin and with a decoration layer having a transparent window section, a transparent lower electrode is formed on an upper surface of the protection panel main body. The protection panel main body is bonded, in its peripheral portions, to a transparent resin film on a lower surface of which a transparent upper electrode is formed via an air layer in a position opposite to the transparent lower electrode. The decoration layer is formed on at least one surface of a transparent resin cover film bonded to an upper surface of the transparent resin film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Inventors: Yasuji Kusuda, Takao Hashimoto, Jun Shimizu, Shinya Yamada
  • Patent number: 7071926
    Abstract: A wide range-inputable touch panel is provided which allows a larger amount of input operations to be made with one display operation on a screen, in which at least one bus bar and a transparent electrode on a conductive panel fronting the bus bar though spaces formed in an adhesive layer cut out from an outer edge side thereof face each other so as to be capable of making electrical contact with each other by a press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuji Kusuda, Jun Shimizu, Hideyuki Muroi, Naoto Yakida
  • Publication number: 20060132450
    Abstract: A touch panel (8) having a film/glass structure includes an upper electrode member (1) including a transparent insulation film (11) having upwardly-inclined end surfaces (11a) at the entire peripheral sides thereof. A touch panel (8A) having a film/film structure includes an upper electrode member (1) including a transparent insulation film (11) and a lower electrode member (2) including a transparent insulation film (22), wherein the transparent insulation film (11) and the transparent insulation film (22) have upwardly-inclined end surfaces (11a, 22a) at the entire peripheral sides thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Shinya Yamada, Takao Hashimoto, Yasuji Kusuda, Daisuke Miura
  • Patent number: 6814452
    Abstract: Provided is a touch panel, which has a light-shielding effect in its peripheral portion and is able to improve the visibility of its screen at low cost and also cope with the thickness reduction of a product provided with an LCD with a touch panel. In an analog resistive film system touch panel, where conductive panels (1, 2) are arranged opposite to each other with transparent electrodes (12, 22) formed by a whole or a part of a transparent conductive film and wiring lines formed on one-side surfaces of transparent insulative substrates (11, 21) and one or more resin layers (4, 28, 15) are provided for various purposes in the peripheral portion located between the transparent insulative substrates, at least one layer of the resin layers additionally has a light-shielding function by being colored black.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuji Kusuda
  • Publication number: 20030090803
    Abstract: Provided is a touch panel, which has a light-shielding effect in its peripheral portion and is able to improve the visibility of its screen at low cost and also cope with the thickness reduction of a product provided with an LCD with a touch panel. In an analog resistive film system touch panel, where conductive panels (1, 2) are arranged opposite to each other with transparent electrodes (12, 22) formed by a whole or a part of a transparent conductive film and wiring lines formed on one-side surfaces of transparent insulative substrates (11, 21) and one or more resin layers (4, 28, 15) are provided for various purposes in the peripheral portion located between the transparent insulative substrates, at least one layer of the resin layers additionally has a light-shielding function by being colored black.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventor: Yasuji Kusuda
  • Patent number: 6559902
    Abstract: An upper electrode sheet having a transparent electrode formed on a transparent film of polyethylene terephthalate and a lower electrode sheet having a transparent electrode formed on a transparent film of polycarbonate are arranged opposite to each other via a plurality of spacers of an insulating substance between the electrodes, with a transparent hold plate of a polycarbonate plate being bonded over an entire face to a lower face of the lower electrode sheet via a transparent adhesion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuji Kusuda, Jun Shimizu, Shinya Yamada, Takao Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20030058225
    Abstract: There is provided a wide range-inputable touch panel and allowing a larger amount of input operations to be made with one display operation on a screen, in which at least one bus bar and a transparent electrode on a conductive panel fronting the bus bar though spaces formed in an adhesive layer cut out from an outer edge side thereof face each other so as to be capable of making electrical contact with each other by a press.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: Yasuji Kusuda, Jun Shimizu, Hideyuki Muroi, Naoto Yakida
  • Patent number: 6380497
    Abstract: In a resistance film type touch panel (8), an upper electrode sheet (1) having upper electrodes (111) on one face of a flexible transparent film (9) and a hard coat layer (12) on the other face of the film, and a lower electrode sheet (2) having lower electrodes (121) confronting the upper electrodes on one face of a glass substrate (10) are arranged to face each other over a distance maintained by spacers (13) between the upper electrodes and the lower electrodes. Respective peripheries of the upper electrodes and the lower electrodes confronting the upper electrodes are bonded by an adhesive layer (3), with the transparent film and the hard coat layer being fused at respective end parts thereby constituting a compressive stress layer (10a) at a surface layer part of each side end face of the glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Hashimoto, Yasuji Kusuda