Patents by Inventor Akira Ando

Akira Ando 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: 10643794
    Abstract: A roll-up type capacitor includes a cylindrical part, a first external electrode, and a second external electrode. The cylindrical part is a rolled-up laminate in which a lower electrode layer, a dielectric layer and an upper electrode layer are laminated in this order. The first external electrode is electrically connected to the upper electrode layer, and the second external electrode is electrically connected to the lower electrode layer, and the first external electrode and the second external electrode are respectively located on opposed sides of the cylindrical part such that they face to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignees: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR SOLID STATE AND MATERIALS RESEARCH DRESDEN
    Inventors: Shoichiro Suzuki, Akira Ando, Koichi Banno, Oliver G Schmidt, Daniel Grimm
  • Publication number: 20190362969
    Abstract: A plasma sputtering device including one or a plurality of plasma generating devices each including an insulating tube having an expanding inner diameter and having a gas injection port formed in an end portion or a side portion thereof, a first electromagnet or a permanent magnet group which can apply a static magnetic field, and a high frequency antenna; a second electromagnet which is disposed in a region downstream of the plasma generating device(s) and which can form a curved magnetic force line structure; a target mechanism which includes a permanent magnet embedded therein and a cooling mechanism and which can apply a DC or high frequency voltage; a substrate stage facing the target mechanism; a second permanent magnet group around the substrate stage; and a heat insulating mechanism between a target material and the target mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kazunori TAKAHASHI, Jun FUKUSHIMA, Akira ANDO, Yasumasa SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20190360878
    Abstract: A stress sensor includes a stress detection layer including a laminated body including a first magnetic layer, a first non-magnetic layer, and a second magnetic layer that are laminated, wherein the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer have mutually different magnetoelastic coupling constants, such that a stress is detected by an electrical resistance dependent on a relative angle of magnetization between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer varying depending on the stress externally applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Daichi CHIBA, Akira ANDO
  • Publication number: 20190346779
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrophotographic photoreceptor which can prevent an increase in potential even using a fluorine resin in a charge transport layer, and can achieve both electrical properties and abrasion resistance, and present invention relates to a lamination type electrophotographic photoreceptor, in which a charge transport layer of the lamination type electrophotographic photoreceptor contains a compound having an E_homo of ?4.550 eV or more based on structure optimization calculation by density functional calculation B3LYP/6-31G (d, p) and fluorine resin particles, and a content of the fluorine resin particles is 3% by weight to 20% by weight based on a total mass of the charge transport layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo WADA, Wataru Miyashita, Takahiro Choda, Akira Ando, Hiroe Fuchigami
  • Patent number: 10353305
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising at least a photosensitive layer on a conductive substrate, wherein the photosensitive layer is a laminate having a charge transport layer and a charge generation layer, the charge transport layer contains four or more types of compounds each having a maximum absorption wavelength falling within a wavelength range of from 300 nm to 600 nm in a tetrahydrofuran solution at 25° C., and maximum absorption wavelengths falling within the wavelength range of at least four types of the compounds of said four or more types of the compounds are separated from each other by 10 nm or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Ando
  • Patent number: 9874824
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising at least a photosensitive layer on a conductive substrate, wherein the photosensitive layer is a laminate having a charge transport layer and a charge generation layer, the charge transport layer contains four or more types of compounds each having a maximum absorption wavelength falling within a wavelength range of from 300 nm to 600 nm in a tetrahydrofuran solution at 25° C., and maximum absorption wavelengths falling within the wavelength range of at least four types of the compounds of said four or more types of the compounds are separated from each other by 10 nm or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Ando
  • Publication number: 20180004101
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a single-layer type electrophotographic photoreceptor for positive charging, comprising: a conductive support; and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive support and comprising a binder resin, a charge generation material, a hole transport material and a specific electron transport material within the same layer, wherein the photosensitive layer contains a specific aromatic compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo WADA, Hiroe FUCHIGAMI, Akira ANDO
  • Publication number: 20170371254
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising at least a photosensitive layer on a conductive substrate, wherein the photosensitive layer is a laminate having a charge transport layer and a charge generation layer, the charge transport layer contains four or more types of compounds each having a maximum absorption wavelength falling within a wavelength range of from 300 nm to 600 nm in a tetrahydrofuran solution at 25° C., and maximum absorption wavelengths falling within the wavelength range of at least four types of the compounds of said four or more types of the compounds are separated from each other by 10 nm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira ANDO
  • Publication number: 20170162333
    Abstract: A roll-up type capacitor includes a cylindrical part, a first external electrode, and a second external electrode. The cylindrical part is a rolled-up laminate in which a lower electrode layer, a dielectric layer and an upper electrode layer are laminated in this order. The first external electrode is electrically connected to the upper electrode layer, and the second external electrode is electrically connected to the lower electrode layer, and the first external electrode and the second external electrode are respectively located on opposed sides of the cylindrical part such that they face to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: SHOICHIRO SUZUKI, Akira Ando, Koichi Banno, Oliver G. Schmidt, Daniel Grimm
  • Publication number: 20160011528
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising at least a photosensitive layer on a conductive substrate, wherein the photosensitive layer is a laminate having a charge transport layer and a charge generation layer, the charge transport layer contains four or more types of compounds each having a maximum absorption wavelength falling within a wavelength range of from 300 nm to 600 nm in a tetrahydrofuran solution at 25° C., and maximum absorption wavelengths falling within the wavelength range of at least four types of the compounds of said four or more types of the compounds are separated from each other by 10 nm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira ANDO
  • Patent number: 9218907
    Abstract: A crystalline perovskite crystalline composite paraelectric material includes nano-regions containing rich N3? anions dispersed in a nano-grain sized matrix of crystalline oxide perovskite material, wherein (ABO3??)?-(ABO3????N?)1??. A represents a divalent element, B represents a tetravalent element, ? satisfies 0.005???1.0, 1?? satisfies 0.05?1???0.9, and 1?? is an area ratio between the regions containing rich N3? anions and the matrix of remaining oxide perovskite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ivoyl Koutsaroff, Shinichi Higai, Akira Ando
  • Publication number: 20150228408
    Abstract: A crystalline perovskite crystalline composite paraelectric material includes nano-regions containing rich N3? anions dispersed in a nano-grain sized matrix of crystalline oxide perovskite material, wherein (ABO3??)?-(ABO3????N?)1??. A represents a divalent element, B represents a tetravalent element, ? satisfies 0.005???1.0, 1?? satisfies 0.05?1???0.9, and 1?? is an area ratio between the regions containing rich N3? anions and the matrix of remaining oxide perovskite material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Ivoyl KOUTSAROFF, Shinichi HIGAI, Akira ANDO
  • Patent number: 9031459
    Abstract: An image forming device, including a cylindrical photoreceptor drum, an end member having a tubular body which is mounted at an end portion of the photoreceptor drum and which has an outer circumferential surface serving as a sliding surface, and a bearing configured to have a hole which defines an inner peripheral surface that corresponds to a sliding surface, the bearing supporting the tubular body of the end member by inserting the tubular body into the hole, wherein a difference between an outside diameter of a part provided with the sliding surface of the end member and a diameter of the hole of the bearing is equal to or more than 0.06 mm and equal to or less than 0.5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Ikeda, Akira Ando
  • Patent number: 8860874
    Abstract: For improving picture quality in auto-focus control, image processing device 10 adjusts output picture imaged by image pick-up element 4 and displayed by a display section, comprises storage section 13 for storing predetermined de-focus threshold value of variation amount of intensity value of output picture; first adder section 12 for calculating intensity value time difference variation amount between intensity value of output picture being input and intensity value of the predetermined-time previous output picture before the output picture is input; and variation amount comparison section 14 for comparing intensity value time difference variation amount and de-focus threshold value, wherein when variation amount comparison section determines that intensity value time difference variation amount is less than de-focus threshold value to be a comparison object, intensity value of output picture after being adjusted is calculated by subtracting intensity value time difference variation amount from intensity va
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nishiguchi, Hideharu Ono, Akira Ando, Makoto Asuka
  • Patent number: 8848336
    Abstract: A crystalline perovskite crystalline composite paraelectric material includes nano-regions containing rich N3? anions dispersed in a nano-grain sized matrix of crystalline oxide perovskite material, wherein (ABO3-?)?-(ABO3-?-?N?)1-?. A represents a divalent element, B represents a tetravalent element, ? satisfies 0.005???1.0, 1-? satisfies 0.05?1-??0.9, and 1-? is an area ratio between the regions containing rich N3? anions and the matrix of remaining oxide perovskite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ivoyl Koutsaroff, Shinichi Higai, Akira Ando
  • Patent number: 8700732
    Abstract: A disc reproducing apparatus includes: program readout means for playing back a disc loaded therein to read a program recorded thereon; disc-content readout means for executing the read program to read a content recorded on the disc; network-content acquisition means for executing the read program to acquire a content stored in a device connected over a network; and display control means for executing the read program to control display of the content read from the disc, and the content acquired from the device connected over the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunari Fukuya, Akira Ando, Muneaki Osawa, Hiroshi Aruga, Eriko Matsumura, Fuyuki Matsuyama, Nobuhiro Inoue, Kazuo Yamaoka, Sadamichi Bamba, Yukiko Akiyama, Shinya Miyoshi
  • Publication number: 20140023395
    Abstract: An image forming device, including a cylindrical photoreceptor drum, an end member having a tubular body which is mounted at an end portion of the photoreceptor drum and which has an outer circumferential surface serving as a sliding surface, and a bearing configured to have a hole which defines an inner peripheral surface that corresponds to a sliding surface, the bearing supporting the tubular body of the end member by inserting the tubular body into the hole, wherein a difference between an outside diameter of a part provided with the sliding surface of the end member and a diameter of the hole of the bearing is equal to or more than 0.06 mm and equal to or less than 0.5 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi IKEDA, Akira Ando
  • Publication number: 20140022047
    Abstract: This electric power fuse has a fuse element that is formed continuously and integrally by a plurality of heat dissipating parts formed from a conductive film by the conductive film being formed on a ceramic substrate and a plurality of isolating parts. The conductive film is constituted of printed layers formed by printing one or more times on the surface of the ceramic substrate, and the number of laminations of printed layers formed in the heat dissipating parts is greater than or equal to the number of laminations of the printed layers constituting the isolating parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicants: National University Corporation Saitama University, Soshin Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Ando, Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8611736
    Abstract: For preventing frequent use of auto-focus control and also for acquiring stable in-focus positions for target-objects, this invention comprises system control section 60 having a second mode to drive magnification adjustment lens 11 or focus adjustment lens 12 upon a user command, and a third mode to transition to a first mode under pre-determined conditions in the second mode, and to set in-focus states of a lens group, wherein system control section 60 stores a reference target-object distance in reference target-object distance storage section 43 when focus adjustment lens 12 is driven by user commands in the second mode, drives focus adjustment lens 12 not based on a current target-object distance but the lens in-focus trajectory data to retain the reference target-object distance when the magnification adjustment lens 11 is driven by user commands, and re-transitions to the second mode without updating the reference target-object distance, after the third mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Ando, Toshiyuki Yokoyama, Tomoaki Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 8558639
    Abstract: Provided is a high frequency switch wherein first switch circuits, each of which includes a first PIN diode, are connected in parallel to one or more first ?/4 signal transmitting paths which transmit transmitting signals, and second switch circuits, each of which includes a second PIN diode, are connected in parallel to one or more second ?/4 signal transmitting paths which transmit receiving signals to a receiving terminal. A first control voltage is applied to the cathode of the first PIN diode, and a second control voltage is applied to the cathode of the second PIN diode. Furthermore, a biasing circuit which applies a constant bias voltage is connected to each anode of the first PIN diode and the second PIN diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Soshin Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Ando