Patents by Inventor Akira Hasegawa

Akira Hasegawa 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: 20240116291
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge system that controls an operation of a liquid discharge head provided with a first nozzle for discharging a liquid, the liquid discharge system including: an acquisition section that acquires first information indicating a discharge state of the first nozzle; a reception section that receives second information on a determination reference for determining that the discharge state of the first nozzle is abnormal according to an operation of a user; and a determination section that determines presence or absence of a discharge abnormality of the first nozzle based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Toshiro MURAYAMA, Nobuaki ITO, Akira MIYAGISHI, Tomonaga HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240116294
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge system that controls an operation of a first liquid discharge head provided with a plurality of nozzles for discharging a liquid, the liquid discharge system including: a determination section that determines presence or absence of a discharge abnormality of a first nozzle among the plurality of nozzles; a reception section that receives designation information indicating complementary processing designated by a user among a plurality of complementary processing for complementing the discharge abnormality of the first nozzle when the first nozzle has a discharge abnormality, that is, among the plurality of complementary processing different from each other, according to an operation of the user; and an execution section that executes the complementary processing indicated by the designation information received by the reception section when the determination section determines that the first nozzle has the discharge abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Toshiro MURAYAMA, Nobuaki ITO, Akira MIYAGISHI, Tomonaga HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240103314
    Abstract: Provided is a display device in which warping of a display panel is sufficiently reduced or prevented. The display device includes: a display panel; and a polarizer, the polarizer being provided with at least one notch that extends inward from an outer edge of the polarizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ryosuke SAIGUSA, Akira SAKAI, Yuichi KAWAHIRA, Masahiro HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 11934069
    Abstract: An optical element includes, sequentially from a viewing surface side toward a back surface side: a viewing-surface-side polarizer; a retarder; and a back-surface-side polarizer, a transmission axis of the viewing-surface-side polarizer and a transmission axis of the back-surface-side polarizer being parallel to each other, the optical element having an average angle ? between an angle ?1 and an angle ?2 of greater than 0° and smaller than 90°, wherein the angle ?1 represents an angle formed by an optical axis of the retarder on a surface close to the back surface with the surface close to the back surface; and the angle ?2 represents an angle formed by an optical axis of the retarder on a surface close to the viewing surface with the surface close to the viewing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Sakai, Yuichi Kawahira, Masahiro Hasegawa, Ryosuke Saigusa
  • Patent number: 11927850
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device having high luminance and high CR in a front direction and especially useful as a head-mounted liquid crystal display device, for example. The liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel; an optical element; and a backlight, arranged in this order from a viewing surface side. The optical element includes a first polarizer, a retardation layer, and a second polarizer. The first polarizer, the retardation layer, and the second polarizer are arranged in this order from the viewing surface side. The first polarizer and the second polarizer are reflection polarizers. A reflection axis of the first polarizer and a reflection axis of the second polarizer are parallel to each other. In oblique directions at azimuths of 0°, 45°, and 90° at a polar angle of 60°, a polarization state of light incident on the first polarizer is elliptical polarization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Kawahira, Masahiro Hasegawa, Ryosuke Saigusa, Akira Sakai
  • Patent number: 11927775
    Abstract: Provided are 3D glasses capable of reducing crosstalk when disposed on the viewer side of a liquid crystal panel that is time-divisionally driven; an optical device including the 3D glasses; and a three-dimensional image display device including the optical device. The 3D glasses include a right-eye polarizer and a left-eye polarizer, the right-eye polarizer and the left-eye polarizer each including a polarizing plate and a first ?/4 plate, at least one of the right-eye polarizer or the left-eye polarizer including a phase difference layer on or behind a back surface side of the polarizing plate, wherein a phase difference introduced by the right-eye polarizer in a thickness direction at a wavelength of 550 nm is different from a phase difference introduced by the left-eye polarizer in the thickness direction at a wavelength of 550 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Hasegawa, Akira Sakai, Kiyoshi Minoura
  • Publication number: 20230157861
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a mouthpiece that has an excellent fit and that is not prone to breakage or deformation. This mouthpiece for solving the above problem has: a pair of mouthpiece body parts configured from an upper-jaw mouthpiece body part mounted to the upper jaw, and a lower-jaw mouthpiece body part mounted to the lower jaw; a positioning member for restricting rearward displacement of the lower-jaw mouthpiece body part; and a support part that is disposed between the positioning member and the body parts and that supports the positioning member, so as to cover a portion of a surface that faces a surface of the upper-jaw mouthpiece body part and/or the lower-jaw mouthpiece body part that is mounted to a tooth row, the support part including a material that has a different flexural modulus than the mouthpiece body parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi YUKITA, Yuki IWABUCHI, Akira HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230115532
    Abstract: A vehicle 2 is provided with an authentication system 4 which enables operating a user's terminal 3 as a key to the vehicle 2. The authentication system 4 performs authentication by means of near-field communication between the terminal 3 and a wireless authentication device 22 and operates a device 20. A determination unit 33 confirms the use state of the terminal 3 at the time when near-field communication was performed, and determines whether or not the confirmed use state of the terminal 3 satisfies a condition for stopping or restricting the key function. If the determination unit 33 has determined that the confirmed use state of the terminal 3 satisfies the condition for stopping or restricting the key function, then a processing unit 36 performs processing for stopping or restricting the key function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Masanori KOSUGI, Hideki KAWAI, Yohei NIWA, Shingo MOCHIZUKI, Haruki YAMAMURA, Akira HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230105883
    Abstract: Porous alumina having excellent heat resistance and coking resistance is provided. The porous alumina can include silica and barium oxide added to aluminum oxide, wherein a ratio of SiO2 addition amount to a total mass of aluminum oxide and SiO2 addition amount is defined as SiO2 addition ratio (mass %), a ratio of BaO addition amount to a total mass of aluminum oxide and SiO2 addition amount is defined as BaO addition ratio (mass %), when the SiO2 addition ratio is within a range of 3 mass % or less and the BaO addition ratio is within a range of 14 mass % or less, the silica and the barium oxide are respectively added to the aluminum oxide so that a specific surface area of the porous alumina measured by a measuring method after heat treatment is equal to or larger than a reference specific surface area of reference porous alumina.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicants: Renaissance Energy Research Corporation, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Akira HASEGAWA, Yoshihiro KADOMA, Osamu OKADA, Kana MOTOMURA, Shizuka OGASAWARA, Hiromi NAKAMURA, Tamotsu NONOUCHI, Kaori MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20230038776
    Abstract: A remote control system includes a first control device, a second control device, and a remote control device. The first control device performs an operation control on a first controlled device mounted on a moving body. The second control device performs an operation control on a second controlled device installed in a building. When one of the operation control on the first controlled device by the first control device and the operation control on the second controlled device by the second control device has been performed, the remote control device causes, by a remote control, an execution of an other of the operation control on the first controlled device by the first control device and the operation control on the second controlled device by the second control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yohei Niwa, Shingo Mochizuki, Haruki Yamamura, Akira Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11570901
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an aluminum circuit board including a step of spraying a heated metal powder containing aluminum particles and/or aluminum alloy particles to a ceramic base material, and of forming a metal layer on a surface of the ceramic base material. A temperature of at least a part of the metal powder is higher than or equal to a softening temperature of the metal powder and lower than or equal to a melting point of the metal powder at a time point of reaching the surface of the ceramic base material. A velocity of at least a part of the metal powder is greater than or equal to 450 m/s and less than or equal to 1000 m/s at the time point of reaching the surface of the ceramic base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE, DENKA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Seiji Kuroda, Hiroshi Araki, Akira Hasegawa, Makoto Watanabe, Atsushi Sakai, Yoshitaka Taniguchi, Suzuya Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220409426
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a mouthpiece having a shape that adequately conforms to the teeth rows, etc., of a user, the mouthpiece having an excellent feel during wearing; and a method for manufacturing the mouthpiece. A mouthpiece for solving the abovementioned problem includes a mouthpiece body part having a hard section, which has a groove for accommodating the teeth rows and/or the gums, and a soft section, which contains a material having a lower bending elasticity than that of the hard section. The proportion of the maximum thickness of the soft section to the minimum thickness of the soft section is 5 or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi YUKITA, Yuki IWABUCHI, Akira HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 11379310
    Abstract: An anomaly detector includes a writing unit that writes anomaly detection data readable by an external diagnostic device to an external memory when an anomaly is detected in an on-board device. Further, the anomaly detector includes a determination unit that determines whether a failure is occurring in a memory, which is used when a processor is operated during the writing unit performs the writing. Also, the anomaly detector includes a resetting unit that resets the memory by activating a specified one of reset functions of the processor when the determination unit determines that a failure is occurring in the memory. When the determination unit determines that a failure is occurring in the memory, the writing unit writes the anomaly detection data after the memory is reset by the specified one of the reset functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Akira Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11180405
    Abstract: Provided is a sheet glass production process for properly producing sheet glass having a convex shape in section in a width direction orthogonal to the advancing direction of a glass ribbon. A glass ribbon G2 advancing on molten metal 22 is heated so as to have both edge portions G2B heated more intensely than a central portion G2A in a width direction thereof in an upstream zone of the molten metal bath, and a plurality of rolls 23 are rotated in contact with both edge portions G2B of the glass ribbon G2 such that upstream rolls 23A in an advancing direction F1 have a lower peripheral speed than downstream rolls 23B in the advancing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Yamato, Kouhei Sunaga, Akira Hasegawa, Akira Sugahara
  • Patent number: D950066
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Yukita, Yuki Iwabuchi, Akira Hasegawa
  • Patent number: D970011
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Yukita, Yuki Iwabuchi, Akira Hasegawa
  • Patent number: D970012
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Yukita, Yuki Iwabuchi, Akira Hasegawa
  • Patent number: D983975
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi Yukita, Yuki Iwabuchi, Akira Hasegawa
  • Patent number: D1019955
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Ortho Solutions, LC
    Inventors: Takashi Yukita, Yuki Iwabuchi, Akira Hasegawa
  • Patent number: D1019956
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Ortho Solutions, LC
    Inventors: Takashi Yukita, Yuki Iwabuchi, Akira Hasegawa