Patents by Inventor Akira Fujita

Akira Fujita 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: 20150306831
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a pneumatic tire with surface fastener according to the present technology includes, while engaging a surface fastener provided with a plurality of first engaging elements and a sheet-shaped protective member provided with a plurality of second engaging elements that engage with the first engaging elements of the surface fastener, disposing the surface fastener in an unvulcanized tire so that a surface on a side opposite that of a surface on which the engaging elements are provided is closely fitted to an inner surface of the tire, and vulcanizing the unvulcanized tire provided with the surface fastener using a vulcanizer equipped with a vulcanization bladder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ayako Joza, Atsushi Tanno, Shiro Ogawa, Akira Fujita
  • Publication number: 20150115018
    Abstract: Provided are: a conductive paste in which sinterability of silver particles the conductive paste can be easily controlled by using silver particles having predetermined crystal transformation characteristics defined by an XRD analysis, and after a sintering treatment, excellent electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity can be stably obtained; and a die bonding method using the conductive paste. Disclosed is a conductive paste which includes silver particles having a volume average particle size of 0.1 to 30 ?m as a sinterable conductive material, and a dispersing medium for making a paste-like form, and in which when the integrated intensity of the peak at 2?=38°±0.2° in the X-ray diffraction chart obtainable by an XRD analysis before a sintering treatment of the silver particles is designated as S1, and the integrated intensity of the peak at 2?=38°±0.2° in the X-ray diffraction chart obtainable by an XRD analysis after a sintering treatment (250° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: KAKEN TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeo Hori, Hirohiko Furui, Akira Fujita
  • Patent number: 9018883
    Abstract: A motor drive circuit operates in a first mode in which the output current flowing to a first output terminal from a second output terminal is increasing or in a second mode in which the output current flowing to the first output terminal from the second output terminal is decayed. In the first mode, a first voltage signal is output from the first signal terminal and the ground voltage output from the second signal terminal and, in the second mode, a ground voltage is output from the first signal terminal and a second voltage signal is output from the second signal terminal. The motor drive circuit compares the signals output from the first and second signal terminals and output comparison results to a control unit for controlling the output current through the motor coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Taishi Shibataka, Akira Fujita
  • Publication number: 20150070602
    Abstract: A display device includes a front panel wholly bonded on a display part of a display module via OCR (a transparent optical elastomeric resin). If a dam for preventing the OCR from being infiltrated is overflowed, the OCR is inhibited from being infiltrated and diffused into an inside of the module. The display device includes a display module including upper and lower substrates, a case receiving the upper and lower substrates, and a bezel with an opened display part, mounted in the case part, and further including a front panel wholly bonded on a display part of the display module described above via a transparent optical elastomeric resin, and a resin dam disposed on a surface of the upper substrate along an open end of a reverse side of the bezel part, wherein at least a part of the resin dam is apart from the bezel part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventor: AKIRA FUJITA
  • Patent number: 8878075
    Abstract: Providing a connecting structure for connecting first electrodes formed on the upper surface of a first substrate to second electrodes formed on the upper surface of a second substrate glued on the upper surface of the first substrate by an electrically conductive member, wherein the second substrate is smaller in its outer size than the first substrate, the first electrodes are arranged on the first substrate around the periphery of the second substrate, a gap is formed between the first and second substrates at the peripheral edge of the second substrate, an insulating resin is arranged near the first electrodes so as to cover portions of the side surfaces of the second substrate and to fill the gap between the first and second substrates, and the electrically conductive member is arranged over regions leading from the first electrodes through the insulating resin to the second electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Fujita
  • Patent number: 8741070
    Abstract: Disclosed are a liquid processing method, a liquid processing apparatus, and a recording medium that can prevent convex portions of a target substrate from collapsing when a rinsing liquid is dried. A base surface of a target substrate is hydrophilized and the surfaces of convex portions become water-repellent by surface-processing the target substrate which includes a main body, a plurality of convex portions protruding from the main body, and a base surface formed between the convex portions on the substrate main body. Next, a rinsing liquid is supplied to the target substrate which has been subjected to the surface processing. Thereafter, the rinsing liquid is removed from the target substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Nobutaka Mizutani, Tsutae Omori, Takehiko Orii, Akira Fujita
  • Publication number: 20140111843
    Abstract: The light-quantity control apparatus includes a base member, and a light-quantity control blade having a light-quantity control portion to control a quantity of light passing through a fixed aperture and a supported portion rotatably supported with respect to the base member. The light-quantity control portion and the supported portion of the light-quantity control blade are each rotated along a plane parallel to the aperture face, an intermediate portion thereof formed between the light-quantity control portion and the supported portion has a tilt with respect to the aperture plane toward the optical axis direction so that the light-quantity control portion is disposed distant from the supported portion in the optical axis direction. Thereby a concave space facing the fixed aperture is formed inside in the radial direction than the light-quantity control blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: CANON DENSHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Kozu, Akira Fujita
  • Patent number: 8617656
    Abstract: A liquid processing apparatus processes an object to be processed W including a body part Wi and a plurality of projecting-shape parts Wm disposed on the body part Wi, with an inorganic film and a different film being laminated to each other. The liquid processing apparatus comprises: a support part 50 configured to support the body part Wi; a hydrophobic-liquid supply mechanism 30 configured to supply a hydrophobic liquid to the object to be processed W; and a rinse-liquid supply part 22 configured to supply a rinse liquid to the object to be processed W to which the hydrophobic liquid has been supplied. The hydrophobic-liquid supply mechanism 30 includes: a first hydrophobic-liquid supply part 32 configured to supply a first hydrophobic liquid for making hydrophobic the inorganic film; and a second hydrophobic-liquid supply part 37 configured to supply a second hydrophobic liquid for making hydrophobic the different film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Mitsunori Nakamori, Akira Fujita, Takayuki Toshima
  • Publication number: 20130306200
    Abstract: The present invention provides a non-oriented electrical steel sheet at low cost that has excellent magnetic properties and mechanical properties as well as excellent quality of steel sheet. The non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, Si: 5.0% or less, Mn: 2.0% or less, Al: 2.0% or less, and P: 0.05% or less, in a range satisfying formula (1), and furthermore, C: 0.008% or more and 0.040% or less; N: 0.003% or less, and Ti: 0.04% or less, in a range satisfying formula (2), with the balance composed of Fe and incidental impurities: 300?85[Si %]+16[Mn %]+40[Al %]+490[P %]?430??(1) 0.008?Ti*<1.2[C %]??(2), where Ti*=Ti?3.4[N %].
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Kohno, Yoshiaki Zaizen, Yoshihiko Oda, Akira Fujita
  • Publication number: 20130248071
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire manufactured by a method comprising: covering the engagement element groups on first sides of a two-side fasteners with a protective rubber layer made of an uncured rubber; making a cylindrical first formed body on a making drum, with the two-side fasteners covered with the protective rubber layer being intermittently attached to an inner circumferential surface of the first forming body in a circumferential direction thereof with the engagement element groups on second sides of the two-side fasteners being interposed in between; bonding the first formed body to an inner circumference of an annular second formed body by compression through expanding the first formed body into a toroidal shape, and thereby making the green tire; and curing the green tire inside a mold of a curing machine while pressing the green tire from its inside by a bladder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi TANNO, Shiro OGAWA, Akira FUJITA, Tomio YAMABE
  • Publication number: 20130249461
    Abstract: A motor drive circuit operates in a first mode in which the output current flowing to a first output terminal from a second output terminal is increasing or in a second mode in which the output current flowing to the first output terminal from the second output terminal is decayed. In the first mode, a first voltage signal is output from the first signal terminal and the ground voltage output from the second signal terminal and, in the second mode, a ground voltage is output from the first signal terminal and a second voltage signal is output from the second signal terminal. The motor drive circuit compares the signals output from the first and second signal terminals and output comparison results to a control unit for controlling the output current through the motor coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Taishi Shibataka, Akira Fujita
  • Patent number: 8444795
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire manufacturing method capable of improving the productivity of pneumatic tires each having surface fasteners in its tire inner surface, and of avoiding manufacturing a pneumatic tire having a deteriorated uniformity, as well as of preventing engagement elements of each surface fastener from being crushed. Also, provided is a pneumatic tire manufactured by the pneumatic tire manufacturing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Shiro Ogawa, Akira Fujita, Tomio Yamabe
  • Publication number: 20120292105
    Abstract: Providing a connecting structure for connecting first electrodes formed on the upper surface of a first substrate to second electrodes formed on the upper surface of a second substrate glued on the upper surface of the first substrate by an electrically conductive member, wherein the second substrate is smaller in its outer size than the first substrate, the first electrodes are arranged on the first substrate around the periphery of the second substrate, a gap is formed between the first and second substrates at the peripheral edge of the second substrate, an insulating resin is arranged near the first electrodes so as to cover portions of the side surfaces of the second substrate and to fill the gap between the first and second substrates, and the electrically conductive member is arranged over regions leading from the first electrodes through the insulating resin to the second electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Akira FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20120160273
    Abstract: Disclosed are a liquid processing method, a liquid processing apparatus, and a recording medium that can prevent convex portions of a target substrate from collapsing when a rinsing liquid is dried. A base surface of a target substrate is hydrophilized and the surfaces of convex portions are water-repellentized by surface-processing the target substrate which includes a main body, a plurality of convex portions protruding from the main body, and a base surface formed between the convex portions on the substrate main body. Next, a rinsing liquid is supplied to the target substrate which has been subjected to the surface processing. Thereafter, the rinsing liquid is removed from the target substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Nobutaka MIZUTANI, Tsutae OMORI, Takehiko ORII, Akira FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20120000588
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire including a hook-and-loop fastener which has a plurality of engaging elements provided at one surface of a base, in which the base of the hook-and-loop fastener is adhered to an inner surface of the tire so that the engaging elements are located near an inner cavity of the tire, and in which a protrusion is provided at one surface of the base of the hook-and-loop fastener to prevent the engaging elements from being crushed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Ayako Jyouza, Shirou Ogawa, Akira Fujita
  • Publication number: 20110171530
    Abstract: A cathode active material (1) of the present invention includes: a main crystalline phase (2) including a lithium-containing transition metal oxide containing manganese and having a spinel structure, and in the cathode active material used in a nonaqueous secondary battery, the main crystalline phase (2) includes a layer-shaped sub crystalline phase (3) which is different in elementary composition from that of the lithium-containing transition metal oxide but having an oxygen arrangement identical to that of the lithium-containing transition metal oxide and which has a spinel structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Shogo ESAKI, Motoaki NISHIJIMA, Takeshi YAO, Mitsuhiro HIBINO, Akira FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20100330283
    Abstract: A liquid processing apparatus processes an object to be processed W including a body part Wi and a plurality of projecting-shape parts Wm disposed on the body part Wi, with an inorganic film and a different film being laminated to each other. The liquid processing apparatus comprises: a support part 50 configured to support the body part Wi; a hydrophobic-liquid supply mechanism 30 configured to supply a hydrophobic liquid to the object to be processed W; and a rinse-liquid supply part 22 configured to supply a rinse liquid to the object to be processed W to which the hydrophobic liquid has been supplied. The hydrophobic-liquid supply mechanism 30 includes: a first hydrophobic-liquid supply part 32 configured to supply a first hydrophobic liquid for making hydrophobic the inorganic film; and a second hydrophobic-liquid supply part 37 configured to supply a second hydrophobic liquid for making hydrophobic the different film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Mitsunori NAKAMORI, Akira Fujita, Takayuki Toshima
  • Publication number: 20100150768
    Abstract: A pure iron powder of a diameter of 10 to 500 ?m and a purity of 99% by mass or more is heated to a temperature in the range of 600 to 1400° C., and a Si-concentrated layer is formed in regions within a depth of 5 ?m from the surfaces of the powder particles by gas-phase reaction at a temperature of that range. The average Si concentration in the regions within this depth is controlled in the range of 0.05% to 2% by mass. Thus, a dust core metal powder enhancing the adhesion of insulating material to the particle without degrading compressibility is produced. The resulting dust core maintains a high saturation magnetic flux density and exhibits a low iron loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Fujita, Tatsuhiko Hiratani, Toshio Maetani
  • Patent number: 7663146
    Abstract: An active matrix addressing LCD device having an active matrix substrate on which conductive lines are formed is provided, which suppress the AI hillock without complicating the structure of the lines and which decreases the electrical connection resistance increase at the terminals of the lines, thereby improving the connection reliability. The device comprises an active matrix substrate having a transparent, dielectric plate, thin-film transistors (TFTs) arranged on the plate, and pixel electrodes arranged on the plate. Gate electrodes of the TFTs and scan lines have a first multilevel conductive structure. Common electrodes and common lines may have the first multilevel conductive structure. Source and drain electrodes of the TFTs and signal lines may have a second multilevel conductive structures. Each of the first and second multilevel conductive structures includes a three-level TiN/Ti/Al or TiN/Al/Ti structure or a four-level TiN/Ti/AI/Ti structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tanaka, Akira Fujita, Shigeru Kimura, Akitoshi Maeda, Takasuke Hayase
  • Publication number: 20100002404
    Abstract: A display device includes a glass substrate having a display area and a peripheral area. A drive circuit component is mounted on the glass substrate by thermocompression bonding on the peripheral area, and a stress absorption region is provided within the glass substrate close to the circuit component so as to absorb stress produced by thermal deformation of the circuit component. A method of manufacturing the display device of the present invention includes a step of forming stress absorption region into the glass substrate so as to absorb the stress caused by thermocompression bonding of the the circuit component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: NEC LCD TECHNOLOGIES, LTD
    Inventors: Akira FUJITA, Yuji Kondo