Patents by Inventor Akira Fujisawa
Akira Fujisawa 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).
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Publication number: 20240092962Abstract: A resin composition contains a preliminary reaction product (A) obtained by previously reacting a polyphenylene ether compound (a1) having a hydroxyl group in a molecule and an acid anhydride (a2) having an acid anhydride group in a molecule, and a curable resin (B) containing a reactive compound having an unsaturated double bond in a molecule, in which an equivalent ratio of the acid anhydride group in the acid anhydride (a2) to the hydroxyl group in the polyphenylene ether compound (a1) is 1.5 or less, and a content of the curable resin (B) is 20 to 85 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of a sum of the preliminary reaction product (A) and the curable resin (B).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Taichi NAKASHIMA, Hiroyuki FUJISAWA, Akira OTSUKA, Koichi ISAJI, Hajime OGUSHI
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Publication number: 20230406233Abstract: A sound absorbing member mount assembly includes a vehicular interior component and a sound absorbing member. The vehicular interior component includes a protrusion and the protrusion protrudes from a vehicular exterior side surface of the vehicular interior component and includes a support portion having a flat surface. The sound absorbing member is disposed on the vehicular interior component and includes a slit and a positioning portion that is adjacent to the slit. The positioning portion is to be bent and project toward a vehicular exterior side and is supported by the support portion of the protrusion. With the positioning portion being supported by the support portion, the sound absorbing member is positioned with respect to the vehicular interior component.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takenori KOHAMA, Akira FUJISAWA
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Patent number: 11069328Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a housing, a display section, a pressure-sensitive sensor, and a control section. The housing has a front surface and a sub-surface including an operation area and is capable of being held by a user. The display section is arranged on the front surface. The pressure-sensitive sensor detects a pressure value with respect to the sub-surface. The control section identifies a status that the operation area is operated by the user and a status that the operation area is held by the user on the basis of the pressure value, and executes predetermined processing on the basis of an operation by the user with respect to the operation area in a case where the status is determined that the operation area is operated.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Munetake Ebihara, Kimihiko Kogure, Akira Fujisawa, Ken Kobayashi, Tomoko Katsuhara, Tetsuro Goto, Fumiko Shiga
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Patent number: 11009986Abstract: An electronic device includes: a housing; a sensor provided on an inner surface of the housing and configured to detect deformation of the housing; and a control unit configured to control an operation of the electronic device on the basis of a detection result of the sensor. The sensor has a first sensing unit configured to detect a prescribed user operation and a second sensing unit configured to compensate for a malfunction.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomoki Kawabata, Yasushi Itoshiro, Toshiaki Nishikawa, Munetake Ebihara, Akira Fujisawa, Kei Tsukamoto, Hiroaki Yamana, Makoto Yamaguchi, Keisuke Kinokuni
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Patent number: 10706231Abstract: Provided is an input apparatus that can reduce incorrect inputs and improve the operability. The input apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a keyboard module and a control circuit. The keyboard module has a plurality of key areas, and a plurality of sensor devices capable of detecting pressures of keystroke operations for the plurality of key areas, respectively. The control circuit that makes a difference between input sensitivity to the keystroke operation of one key area and input sensitivity to the keystroke operation of a key area next to the one key area on the basis of a pressure information item about each of the key areas next to each other, the pressure information item being detected by the keystroke operation on the plurality of sensor devices at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiaki Kamata, Munetake Ebihara, Hideyoshi Wakimoto, Akira Fujisawa, Ichirou Higuchi
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Publication number: 20200168182Abstract: [Object] To provide a technology that prevents processing from being executed against a user's intention when the user holds a housing. [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a housing, a display section, a pressure-sensitive sensor, and a control section. The housing has a front surface and a sub-surface including an operation area and is capable of being held by a user. The display section is arranged on the front surface. The pressure-sensitive sensor detects a pressure value with respect to the sub-surface. The control section identifies a status that the operation area is operated by the user and a status that the operation area is held by the user on the basis of the pressure value, and executes predetermined processing on the basis of an operation by the user with respect to the operation area in a case where the status is determined that the operation area is operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2018Publication date: May 28, 2020Inventors: Munetake EBIHARA, Kimihiko KOGURE, Akira FUJISAWA, Ken KOBAYASHI, Tomoko KATSUHARA, Tetsuro GOTO, Fumiko SHIGA
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Publication number: 20200159359Abstract: An electronic device includes: a housing; a sensor provided on an inner surface of the housing and configured to detect deformation of the housing; and a control unit configured to control an operation of the electronic device on the basis of a detection result of the sensor. The sensor has a first sensing unit configured to detect a prescribed user operation and a second sensing unit configured to compensate for a malfunction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Tomoki KAWABATA, Yasushi ITOSHIRO, Toshiaki NISHIKAWA, Munetake EBIHARA, Akira FUJISAWA, Kei TSUKAMOTO, Hiroaki YAMANA, Makoto YAMAGUCHI, Keisuke KINOKUNI
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Patent number: 10409489Abstract: An input apparatus includes a keyboard module having a plurality of key areas, and having a plurality of sensor devices capable of detecting a pressure of a keying operation for each of the key areas; and a control circuit that adjusts a parameter of a processing relating to the keying operation of the keyboard module on a basis of information relating to a pressure detected by the sensor device for each of the key areas.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiaki Kamata, Munetake Ebihara, Hideyoshi Wakimoto, Akira Fujisawa, Ichirou Higuchi
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Publication number: 20190196434Abstract: A system design supporting device includes a file specification receiving unit, a file acquiring unit, and a parameter setting unit. The file specification receiving unit receives specification of a unique device information definition file from a plurality of unique device information definition files stored in the server. The file acquiring unit acquires, from the server, the unique device information definition file whose specification is received by the file specification receiving unit. The parameter setting unit sets a parameter for controlling operation of a unit, on the basis of the unique device information definition file.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2016Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Akira FUJISAWA, Yusuke KURODA
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Publication number: 20180275790Abstract: An input device includes a housing and a capacitive sensor provided in the housing, in which the sensor includes: a flexible conductive layer; two rows of sensing units provided in a manner facing the conductive layer; and a structural body which is provided between the two rows when viewed from a thickness direction of the sensor, and separates the conductive layer from the two rows of the sensing units.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2016Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventors: Yoshiteru TAKA, Takeshi KOIZUMI, Tomoki KAWABATA, Munetake EBIHARA, Akira FUJISAWA
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Publication number: 20180032501Abstract: To provide an input apparatus that can reduce the incorrect inputs and improve the operability and an information processing apparatus including the same, an input apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a keyboard module and a control circuit. The keyboard module has a plurality of key areas, and a plurality of sensor devices capable of detecting pressures of keystroke operations for the plurality of key areas, respectively. The control circuit is configured to make a difference between input sensitivity to the keystroke operation of one key area and input sensitivity to the keystroke operation of a key area next to the one key area on the basis of a pressure information item about each of the key areas next to each other, the pressure information item being detected by the keystroke operation on the plurality of sensor devices at the same time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2016Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: TOSHIAKI KAMATA, MUNETAKE EBIHARA, HIDEYOSHI WAKIMOTO, AKIRA FUJISAWA, ICHIROU HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20170364259Abstract: An input apparatus includes: a keyboard module having a plurality of key areas, and having a plurality of sensor devices capable of detecting a pressure of a keying operation for each of the key areas; and a control circuit that adjusts a parameter of a processing relating to the keying operation of the keyboard module on a basis of information relating to a pressure detected by the sensor device for each of the key areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2015Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventors: TOSHIAKI KAMATA, MUNETAKE EBIHARA, HIDEYOSHI WAKIMOTO, AKIRA FUJISAWA, ICHIROU HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20140208058Abstract: A storage device includes: a storage medium; and a control section configured to prompt a host apparatus to perform formatting of the storage medium in accordance with a change of a number of divisions of a storage area of the storage medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Akira Fujisawa, Tomonori Masumura
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Publication number: 20130238104Abstract: A system design device includes: a storage unit that stores therein configuration diagrams of FA devices designed by the device itself as design-target-unit configuration diagrams and stores therein configuration diagrams of a plurality of FA devices that are not designed by the device itself as a general-purpose-unit configuration diagram that is one configuration diagram; an input unit that has input thereto command information for specifying at least one of the design-target-unit configuration diagrams and the general-purpose-unit configuration diagram; a system-configuration-diagram creation unit that reads a design-target-unit configuration diagram and a general-purpose-unit configuration diagram from the storage unit according to command information input from the input unit and creates a system configuration diagram of the FA system; and a display unit that displays a system configuration diagram created by the system-configuration-diagram creation unit, thereby displaying the plurality of FA devices aType: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2010Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Fujisawa, Tomofumi Ishihara, Hiroyuki Nakata, Masayuki Ueno
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Patent number: 8093490Abstract: The present invention provides a thin film-forming method by which, even when a thin film containing a crystalline metal oxide as the main component is formed over a wide area within a short time utilizing a thermal decomposition method, the thickness of the thin film becomes relatively uniform. A thin film-forming method of the present invention includes forming a thin film using a raw material containing a chloride of a metal, and prior to the forming of the thin film, 1) disposing metal-containing particles on the substrate, or 2) forming, at a film deposition rate slower than a film deposition rate for the thin film, a metal-containing thin film on the substrate, and wherein, in the case of the step 2), the thin film containing the metal oxide as the main component is directly formed on the metal-containing thin film.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2002Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Akira Fujisawa, Yukio Sueyoshi, Masahiro Hirata, Toru Yamamoto, Koichiro Kiyohara, Kiyotaka Ichiki
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Patent number: 7846562Abstract: The present invention provides a transparent substrate with a transparent conductive film that is thin but has a surface with concavities and convexities of increased height. A manufacturing method of the present invention includes a process of forming a transparent conductive film containing crystalline metal oxide as its main component on a transparent substrate by a pyrolytic oxidation method. In the method, a gaseous material containing a metal compound, an oxidizing material, and hydrogen chloride is supplied onto the transparent substrate. The process includes sequentially: a first step in which a mole ratio of the hydrogen chloride to the metal compound in the gaseous material is 0.5 to 5; and a second step in which the mole ratio is 2 to 10 and is higher than the mole ratio to be employed in the first step.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2009Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Yasunori Seto, Hidemasa Yoshida, Akira Fujisawa, Yukio Sueyoshi
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Patent number: 7608294Abstract: The present invention provides a transparent substrate with a transparent conductive film that is thin but has a surface with concavities and convexities of increased height. A manufacturing method of the present invention includes a process of forming a transparent conductive film containing crystalline metal oxide as its main component on a transparent substrate by a pyrolytic oxidation method. In the method, a gaseous material containing a metal compound, an oxidizing material, and hydrogen chloride is supplied onto the transparent substrate. The process includes sequentially: a first step in which a mole ratio of the hydrogen chloride to the metal compound in the gaseous material is 0.5 to 5; and a second step in which the mole ratio is 2 to 10 and is higher than the mole ratio to be employed in the first step.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2004Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Yasunori Seto, Hidemasa Yoshida, Akira Fujisawa, Yukio Sueyoshi
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Publication number: 20090258205Abstract: The present invention provides a transparent substrate with a transparent conductive film that is thin but has a surface with concavities and convexities of increased height. A manufacturing method of the present invention includes a process of forming a transparent conductive film containing crystalline metal oxide as its main component on a transparent substrate by a pyrolytic oxidation method. In the method, a gaseous material containing a metal compound, an oxidizing material, and hydrogen chloride is supplied onto the transparent substrate. The process includes sequentially: a first step in which a mole ratio of the hydrogen chloride to the metal compound in the gaseous material is 0.5 to 5; and a second step in which the mole ratio is 2 to 10 and is higher than the mole ratio to be employed in the first step.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2009Publication date: October 15, 2009Applicant: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Yasunori SETO, Hidemasa YOSHIDA, Akira FUJISAWA, Yukio SUEYOSHI
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Patent number: 7585567Abstract: The present invention provides a transparent conductive substrate having optical transparency and conductivity that have been improved in a well-balanced manner. The transparent conductive substrate of the present invention includes a transparent base and a conductive metal oxide film formed on the base. This metal oxide film contains tin and fluorine. In a profile of the metal oxide film determined in the depth direction by SIMS, the value obtained by subtracting the minimum Imin of the ratio of sensitivity of the fluorine to that of the tin from the maximum Imax thereof is at least 0.15. The maximum Imax is higher than 1 while the minimum Imin is lower than 1. Furthermore, the position where the maximum Imax is obtained is closer to the surface of the metal oxide film as compared to the position where the minimum Imin is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2004Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Yasunori Seto, Akira Fujisawa, Yukio Sueyoshi
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Patent number: 7332226Abstract: A transparent conductive film wherein the height number distribution of projections present on the surface is expressed by a distribution function of ?2 type having a degree of freedom of 3.5 to 15 when the unit of the horizontal axis is a nanometer, the height/width ratio number distribution is expressed by a distribution function of ?2 type having a degree of freedom of 10-35?2, the projections having a height of 50-350 nm account for 70% of more, and the projections having a height/width ratio of 0.25-1.02 account for 90% or more.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2001Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Akira Fujisawa, Masatoshi Nara, Takahiro Asai, Yukio Sueyoshi, Kiyotaka Ichiki, Koichiro Kiyohara, Masahiro Hirata, Hiroki Ando