Patents Represented by Attorney Solaris Intellectual Property Group, PLLC
  • Patent number: 8038089
    Abstract: The present invention provides a leader member in a recording tape cartridge that is excellent in terms of strength, rigidity, corrosion resistance, a low frictional property, and abrasion resistance, have excellent productivity, and is manufactured with a low cost, a manufacturing method thereof, and the recording tape cartridge. A leader member that is attached to a free end of a recording tape wound around a single reel accommodated in a case and that is pulled out from an opening formed in the case by an pull out member of a drive device is manufactured by die casting with one of a zinc alloy, an aluminum alloy, a magnesium alloy, or a copper alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hideaki Shiga
  • Patent number: 8039542
    Abstract: Disclosed is a pigment dispersion containing a polymer compound having a partial structure represented by the following formula (1) at a terminal end of a main chain of the polymer compound, and a pigment. In formula (1), R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent; R1 and R2 may form a ring by bonding with each other; and * represents a position that is directly or indirectly bonded to the main chain structure of the compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Yasuda
  • Patent number: 8021047
    Abstract: There is provided an image capturing control apparatus including: a communication unit which communicates with a radiographic imaging apparatus which captures a radiographic image represented by irradiated radiation and generates image information indicating the captured radiographic image; a radiation irradiating unit which is provided with a radiation source for generating the radiation and irradiates the radiation from the radiation source; a storage unit which stores correction information for correcting the radiographic image generated by the radiographic imaging apparatus; and a controller which controls an alarm unit to issue an alarm in a case where the radiation source provided to the radiation irradiating unit or a part which influences irradiation by the radiation source is replaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Yoshida, Keiji Tsubota, Takeshi Kamiya, Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino
  • Patent number: 7994579
    Abstract: The present invention provides a thin film field-effect transistor comprising a substrate having thereon at least a gate electrode, a gate insulating film, an active layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, wherein the active layer is an oxide semiconductor layer, a resistance layer having an electric conductivity that is lower than an electric conductivity of the active layer is provided between the active layer and at least one of the source electrode or the drain electrode, and an intermediate layer comprising an oxide comprising an element having a stronger bonding force with respect to oxygen than that of the oxide semiconductor in the active layer is provided between the active layer and the resistance layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yuichiro Itai
  • Patent number: 7982216
    Abstract: A TFT is provided which includes, on a substrate, at least a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, an active layer containing an amorphous oxide semiconductor, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, wherein a carrier concentration of the active layer is 3×1017 cm?3 or more and a film thickness of the active layer is 0.5 nm or more and less than 10 nm. A TFT is provided which has a low OFF current and a high ON-OFF ratio, and is improved in environmental temperature dependency. Also, a display using the TFT is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Imai
  • Patent number: 7975954
    Abstract: The invention provides a recording tape attaching method and a recording tape attaching apparatus for accurately attaching a recording tape to a reel hub. In the method and the apparatus for winding a recording tape around a hub of a reel, a hub is contacted with a recording tape retained by suction by a retaining member and rotated, thereby generating static electricity, and the recording tape is attached to the hub by attracting the recording tape to the hub by the generated static electricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7977214
    Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a top contact field-effect transistor including forming a protection layer on an active layer formed in a semiconductor layer forming process, forming a photoresist film on the protection layer and pattern exposing the same in an exposure process, and developing the photoresist film passing through the exposure process using an alkaline developing liquid to form a resist pattern and removing a region exposed by the resist pattern from the protection layer to etch the protection layer in a subsequent development process; a field-effect transistor, and a method of manufacturing a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tada, Naoki Koito
  • Patent number: 7977644
    Abstract: There is provided a portable radiation detector including: a housing; a wireless communication section accommodated in the housing, and carrying out wireless communication of image data of a detected radiation image; a cable whose one end portion is connected to the housing; a connector provided at another end portion of the cable, and able to be connected to an external device; and a connector holding mechanism provided at the housing, and holding the connector removably at the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Eiichi Kito
  • Patent number: 7974382
    Abstract: There is provided a radiographic imaging system including: a radiographic imaging device including a generating section that captures a radiographic image expressed by irradiated radiation and generates image information expressing the captured radiographic image, and a first communication section that transmits, plural times and by wireless communication and even during a response wait time period, imaging start instructing information that instructs starting of imaging when preparations for capturing a radiographic image by the generating section have been completed; and a control device having a second communication section that can communicate by wireless communication with the first communication section, and a control section that controls a radiation irradiating section such that radiation is irradiated with respect to the radiographic imaging device in a case in which the second communication section receives any of the imaging start instructing information that are transmitted plural times from the f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kouichi Kitano, Keiji Tsubota, Yutaka Yoshida, Fumito Nariyuki, Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino
  • Patent number: 7956330
    Abstract: Closeness of a housing is maintained in a normal handling state, and electric power shortage is solved to perform prompt action by quick charge in emergency situations. Normally an electronic cassette is loaded in a cradle to charge a battery by a non-contact charging function. In a case of contact charge, a pair of electrodes and a pair of terminals are brought into contact with each other by removing a packing, and the battery is charged in a state where wiring is physically connected. Therefore, energy efficiency is better compared with the non-contact charge, and the charge can be performed in a short time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Naoyuki Nishino
  • Patent number: 7954750
    Abstract: A reel comprising a hub formed in the shape of a cylindrical tube with a base, on an outer peripheral surface of which a recording tape is wound; a base side flange portion that projects-out to a radial direction outer side of a base portion side of the hub; a flange member configured in a disc shape or an annular plate shape of a material with an elastic modulus at least equal to a material that constitutes the hub, the flange member being coaxially joined to an opening end portion of the hub; a metal plate formed in a circular plate shape or an annular plate shape, which is fixed coaxially to the base portion of the hub; and plate retention portions that are formed integrally with the base portion of the hub and touch an outer peripheral surface of the metal plate at at least four locations, which are at equal intervals in a circumferential direction of the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ren Ishikawa, Yosuke Sumiya, Shigeru Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 7944010
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an electromagnetic wave detecting element that can suppress a decrease in utilization efficiency of electromagnetic waves at sensor portions. An upper electrode of each of plural sensor portions, that are provided in correspondence with intersection portions of plural scan lines and plural signal lines disposed to intersect one another, is electrically connected to any other adjacent upper electrode. At each group of sensor portions whose upper electrodes are electrically connected, a common electrode line and the upper electrode of any sensor portion belonging to that group of sensor portions are connected by a contact pad via a contact hole formed in an insulating film and at a connection place of a number that is less than a number of sensor portions belonging to that group of sensor portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Okada
  • Patent number: 7943199
    Abstract: A method of producing a metal plated material, the method including: preparing a polymer solution containing a polymer; preparing a composition by mixing the polymer solution with a monomer at an amount of from 30% by mass to 200% by mass with respect to the polymer, at least one of the polymer or the monomer having a non-dissociative functional group that interacts with a plating catalyst or a precursor thereof, forming a cured layer on a substrate by applying the composition, drying the composition and curing the composition; applying the plating catalyst or the precursor thereof to the cured layer; and conducting plating with respect to the plating catalyst or the precursor thereof to form a plating film on the cured layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Takeyoshi Kano, Kazuki Yamazaki, Masataka Sato
  • Patent number: 7924980
    Abstract: A portable radiation image converting device has: an image data generating unit that is sensitive to radiation, and that generates image data expressing a radiation image manifested by radiation that is transmitted through a subject and is irradiated onto an image-receiving surface; a storage unit storing image data generated by the image data generating unit; and one or more projecting units projecting, to a device exterior, various types of information including a radiation image expressed by image data that is stored in the storage unit. Various types of information including a radiation image that is generated by radiation, that has been transmitted through a subject and irradiated onto an image-receiving surface, and is stored in a memory, are projected to a device exterior by a projecting device. A portable radiation image converting device at which confirmation of a stored radiation image is easy to carry out is thereby provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino
  • Patent number: 7918603
    Abstract: There is provided a radiographic imaging table including: a test object mounting plate capable of allowing radiation to penetrate therethrough, on which a test object is mounted; a detector mounting plate which is disposed under the test object mounting plate to movably mount a radiographic image detector which detects radiation penetrating the test object and the test object mounting plate, and which generates an image according to the detected radiation; and a connection device which is disposed on the detector mounting plate such that it is connectable to the radiographic image detector in order to perform at least one of charging the radiographic image detector mounted on the detector mounting plate or facilitating communication between the radiographic image detector and an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Ohta, Keiji Tsubota, Yutaka Yoshida, Naoyuki Nishino, Kazuyuki Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 7919545
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pigment dispersion containing at least a pigment at a concentration of from 2 to 50 mass % in the pigment dispersion, and a polymer having from 2 to 50 mass % of repeating units represented by the following formula (1) and from 2 to 40 mass % of repeating units represented by the following formula (2), and having a weight average molecular weight of 10,000 to 500,000. In formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, I represents —CO—, —COO—, etc., R2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms. In formula (2), R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, J represents —CO—, —COO—, etc., R5 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, etc., W represents a single bond or a bivalent linking group, and P represents a heterocyclic residue having a hetero ring contained in an organic pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Norihide Shimohara, Yuuichi Hayata, Koji Yasuda
  • Patent number: 7909510
    Abstract: A radiation photographing apparatus includes: a housing in which an opening portion for allowing ventilation of the inside of the housing with ambient air is formed at a side surface of the housing; a covering member provided at the side surface of the housing, that is made of an elastic material which absorbs impact acting from the outside of the housing, and covers the opening portion; and an opening and closing mechanism that opens and closes the covering member with respect to the opening portion is provided so deterioration of constituent components caused by external impact and heat is suppressed with a small number of components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino
  • Patent number: 7894575
    Abstract: A radiation image capturing system is provided. A radiation source control device includes a first timing component, and a control component that, when a time of the first timing component has reached a pre-specified exposure start time, controls a radiation source, which emits radiation, and performs control to cause radiation to be irradiated for a predetermined duration from the radiation source. A radiation image capturing device includes a second timing component that measures time, which is synchronized with the first timing component, a sensor portion that generates charges in accordance with irradiation of radiation and that is irradiated with the radiation from the radiation source, and a generation component that, after a time of the second timing component has passed through the predetermined duration from the exposure start time, reads out the charges generated at the sensor portion and generates image data representing a radiation image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keiji Tsubota, Yutaka Yoshida, Kouichi Kitano, Naoyuki Nishino, Yasunori Ohta
  • Patent number: 7857250
    Abstract: A recording tape cartridge includes a reel, a case where the reel is accommodated, an engagement gear that is provided in the reel, and a brake gear which is provided in the case side brake member and in which a mesh state with the engagement gear or a mesh release state with the engagement gear is switched by relative displacement of an axis line direction of the brake member with respect to the reel. In a piece taper tooth of the engagement gear, a mesh surface that is oriented in a winding rotation direction is approximately parallel to a reel axis line direction and an opposite mesh surface is inclined with respect to the reel axis line. A piece taper tooth of the brake gear is a taper tooth that is opposite to the piece taper tooth of the engagement gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Takenoshita, Teruo Ashikawa
  • Patent number: 7855369
    Abstract: A radiation imaging element that includes radiation sensors disposed in a matrix so as to output signal charges corresponding to radiation transmitted through a subject, and TFTs for readout of signals from the radiation sensors, wherein the TFT has at least a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, an active layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode, the active layer has at least a first region and a second region which has an electric conductivity larger than an electric conductivity of the first region, the second region is in contact with the gate insulating layer, and the first region is disposed so as to be electrically connected between the second region and at least one of the source electrode or the drain electrode. A radiation imaging element that effectively suppresses noise and also achieves a high quality image is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiro Takahashi