Patents by Inventor Akira Inoue
Akira Inoue 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: 20250063889Abstract: A separation wall is provided in a frame-like shape along a peripheral edge of a through-hole in a non-display region which is defined to be in an island shape inside a display region and in which the through-hole is formed, the separation wall includes an inner metal layer provided in a frame-like shape on a first inorganic insulating film on a side of the through-hole, and a resin layer provided in a frame-like shape on the first inorganic insulating film and the inner metal layer, and the resin layer includes an inner protrusion portion provided in an eaves shape and protruding from the inner metal layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2024Publication date: February 20, 2025Inventors: TOHRU OKABE, RYOSUKE GUNJI, SHINSUKE SAIDA, SHINJI ICHIKAWA, HIROHARU JINMURA, YOSHIHIRO NAKADA, AKIRA INOUE, TAKESHI YANEDA
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Patent number: 12226705Abstract: A program recorded on a computer-readable recording medium causes a processor of a game apparatus to function as a game controller that executes a video game and generates video information indicative of a video of the video game; and an acquirer that acquires message information that is output from a terminal apparatus configured to display a distributed video that is based on the video information, the message information including a message related to at least one of the distributed video or the video game. The game controller incorporates the message included in the message information into the video of the video game, based on progress status information indicative of a progress status of the video game.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigeru Chiba, Junki Hirai, Kai Inoue, Akira Sakai, Tsuguo Shinpo, Toshiaki Kanahara
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Patent number: 12227003Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head, a supply path that supplies a liquid from a liquid supply source to the liquid discharge head, a pump configured to suck and exhaust air, an air suction path in communication with an air suction side of the pump, an air exhaust path in communication with an air exhaust side of the pump, a first storage portion having a portion formed of a flexible wall that is flexible, a first air chamber provided on a side opposite to the first storage portion across the flexible wall and having at least a portion facing the flexible wall and configured to be displaced, and a first switching portion configured to switch a path coupled to the first air chamber between the air suction path and the air exhaust path.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Akira Shinoto, Ken Inoue, Ryota Takahashi
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Patent number: 12230493Abstract: A microwave-excited light source device according to the present application comprises: a center electrode that extends in an axial direction; an annular electrode that is disposed concentrically with respect to the center electrode; an arc tube that is disposed in an annular space formed between the center electrode and the annular electrode and extends along the axial direction in an elongated shape: a connection end plate to which the other pole of a microwave generation source is electrically connected; a connector that electrically connects the annular electrode and the connection end plate; and a buffer that is elastically deformed when the arc tube is subjected to an external force, thereby suppressing stress to be applied to a contact surface between the annular electrode and the connector.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Akira Inoue, Seiro Yuge, Koji Ota, Akane Nomura
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Publication number: 20250056965Abstract: A display device includes: a base substrate; a thin-film transistor layer provided on the base substrate, a light-emitting element layer provided on the thin-film transistor layer, and a sealing film provided on the light-emitting element. Each of light-emitting elements includes: a first electrode; a functional layer, and a second electrode stacked on top of another in a stated order. The display device includes: a display region; a frame region; and a non-display region. The non-display region includes a through hole. The display device includes a separation wall shaped into a frame and provided to the non-display region along an edge of the through hole. The separation wall includes: a first resin layer, and a first metal layer provided on the first resin layer. The first metal layer includes a first protrusion shaped into a canopy, and protruding from the first resin layer toward the display region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Inventors: TOHRU OKABE, SHINSUKE SAIDA, RYOSUKE GUNJI, SHINJI ICHIKAWA, HIROHARU JINMURA, AKIRA INOUE, YOSHIHIRO NAKADA
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Patent number: 12220644Abstract: A watching system by which a game video is distributed to display devices of a plurality of watching users has: a computer; the computer accepting viewer operations by the plurality of watching users; the computer evaluating a mutual relationship of input of the viewer operation by each of the plurality of watching users; and the computer controlling an operation effect corresponding to the viewer operation so as to change based on evaluation result of the mutual relationship.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Uehara, Shigeru Chiba, Junki Hirai, Kai Inoue, Akira Sakai, Tsuguo Shinpo, Toshiaki Kanahara
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Publication number: 20250038314Abstract: A cylindrical lithium secondary battery including a battery case of a bottomed cylindrical shape having an opening, a wound electrode group and a nonaqueous electrolyte which are housed in the battery case, and a sealing member sealing the opening. The wound electrode group includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. At the negative electrode, lithium metal deposits during charging and dissolves in the nonaqueous electrolyte during discharging. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains an electrolyte salt, and a solvent. The solvent contains an ether compound as a major component. The amount of the nonaqueous electrolyte per 1 mAh of discharge capacity of the lithium secondary battery is 2.5 ?L or more and 6.5 ?L or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2023Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Kano, Takahiro Inoue
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Patent number: 12213268Abstract: Provided are a case having a structure with a high degree of freedom in the adjustment of natural vibration and capable of suppressing vibration without excessively increasing the weight, and an electronic device equipped with the same. A case 3 includes a case body 10 having an accommodating space 10b capable of accommodating a circuit substrate 2 and being opened to one side, and a cover 20 attached to the case body 10 so as to close the opening of the case body 10. The cover 20 includes an annular first region portion 21 in contact with the case body 10, a second region portion 22 located on an inner peripheral side of the first region portion 21, a third region portion 23 located between the first region portion 21 and the second region portion 22 and connected to the first region portion 21 and the second region portion 22, and a rib 25 extending on the third region portion 23 and connected to the second region portion 22.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Naoya Mitsuhashi, Akira Inoue, Masaru Kamoshida
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Publication number: 20250025973Abstract: A cutting machining device includes a head, a holding unit, and a controller. The holding unit includes a workpiece holding portion, a contact plug-that a tool fixed to the head is contactable, a cover having a box shape and having a first opening in which the contact plug-is detachably held in a position separated from a fixed section of the workpiece holding portion in a surrounding wall, and a touch sensor that detects contact of a tip portion of the tool with the contact plug. The controller includes a calculator that calculates a machining start position by the tool, based on an initial position of the head and a contact position of the head which is detected by using the touch sensor, when the tip portion of the tool comes into contact with the contact plug.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2022Publication date: January 23, 2025Inventors: Koji TANAKA, Shuhei MURAOKA, Hidekazu TSUJI, Ryosuke YAMAZOE, Kenji INOUE, Akira NISHIKOHRI
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Patent number: 12205406Abstract: An information processing device according to this disclosure is an information processing device that controls an iris recognition system, and the information processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires visual line information on a recognition target from an image captured by a first capture device; and a control unit that controls the iris recognition system so that a visual line direction obtained from the visual line information and a capturing direction of a second capture device, which captures an iris image used for iris recognition of the recognition target, face each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Akira Inoue
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Publication number: 20240412968Abstract: A microwave-excited light source device according to the present application comprises: a center electrode that extends in an axial direction; an annular electrode that is disposed concentrically with respect to the center electrode; an arc tube that is disposed in an annular space formed between the center electrode and the annular electrode and extends along the axial direction in an elongated shape: a connection end plate to which the other pole of a microwave generation source is electrically connected; a connector that electrically connects the annular electrode and the connection end plate; and a buffer that is elastically deformed when the arc tube is subjected to an external force, thereby suppressing stress to be applied to a contact surface between the annular electrode and the connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: December 12, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Akira INOUE, Seiro YUGE, Koji OTA, Akane NOMURA
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Patent number: 12167624Abstract: A display device includes: a base substrate; a thin-film transistor layer provided on the base substrate, a light-emitting element layer provided on the thin-film transistor layer; and a sealing film provided on the light-emitting element. Each of light-emitting elements includes: a first electrode; a functional layer; and a second electrode stacked on top of another in a stated order. The display device includes: a display region; a frame region; and a non-display region. The non-display region includes a through hole. The display device includes a separation wall shaped into a frame and provided to the non-display region along an edge of the through hole. The separation wall includes: a first resin layer: and a first metal layer provided on the first resin layer. The first metal layer includes a first protrusion shaped into a canopy, and protruding from the first resin layer toward the display region.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tohru Okabe, Shinsuke Saida, Ryosuke Gunji, Shinji Ichikawa, Hiroharu Jinmura, Akira Inoue, Yoshihiro Nakada
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Patent number: 12167633Abstract: A separation wall is provided in a frame-like shape along a peripheral edge of a through-hole in a non-display region which is defined to be in an island shape inside a display region and in which the through-hole is formed, the separation wall includes an inner metal layer provided in a frame-like shape on a first inorganic insulating film on a side of the through-hole, and a resin layer provided in a frame-like shape on the first inorganic insulating film and the inner metal layer, and the resin layer includes an inner protrusion portion provided in an eaves shape and protruding from the inner metal layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tohru Okabe, Ryosuke Gunji, Shinsuke Saida, Shinji Ichikawa, Hiroharu Jinmura, Yoshihiro Nakada, Akira Inoue, Takeshi Yaneda
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INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND DISPLAY METHOD
Publication number: 20240380722Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires group content information regarding a content of a conversation in at least one or more groups among a plurality of groups in which a plurality of users participating in a remote meeting are divided and can have a conversation in each group; and an output unit that outputs plural group list information that displays the group content information in association with a corresponding group together with the plurality of groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: YOSHINORI MAEDA, YASUHARU ASANO, KEIICHI YAMADA, AKIRA INOUE -
Patent number: 12132139Abstract: A solar panel manufacturing apparatus includes a stage on which a substrate is placed, a pressing plate to press an adhesive applied on the substrate and thereby spread the adhesive via a solar cell arranged at a predetermined position on the adhesive, and to retain the position of the solar cell relative to the substrate, and a curing unit to cure only a part of the adhesive spread between the substrate and the solar cell, while the pressing plate is pressing the adhesive and retaining the position of the solar cell relative to the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Tsutsui, Akira Inoue, Chinatsu Sanda, Katsumi Ono
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Patent number: 12120927Abstract: A TFT layer and an organic EL element layer are provided in this order on a resin substrate layer, the TFT layer includes source wiring lines, high-level power source wiring lines, conductive portions including connection wiring lines between TFTs, and a flattening film covering the conductive portions provided on the interlayer insulating film, a frame region is provided with a bending portion including a portion where a slit is formed in an inorganic insulating film including the interlayer insulating film, and a flattening auxiliary film is provided between each adjacent ones of the conductive portions, formed of a material identical to a material of the frame flattening film that fills the slit of the bending portion, in a layer identical to a layer of the frame flattering film, and covered with the flattening film together with the conductive portions.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryosuke Gunji, Tohru Okabe, Shinsuke Saida, Hiroki Taniyama, Shinji Ichikawa, Akira Inoue, Yoshihiro Nakada, Hiroharu Jinmura, Koji Tanimura, Yoshihiro Kohara
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Patent number: 12089463Abstract: A display device according to an aspect of the disclosure includes a first metal protrusion being in contact with a first power-source trunk wire, and a second metal protrusion being in contact with a second power-source trunk wire. A first bank defining the end of an organic sealing film includes the first metal protrusion, the second metal protrusion, and a first resin protrusion. The first resin protrusion overlaps the first and second metal protrusions. The first resin protrusion has a frame shape.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tohru Okabe, Shinsuke Saida, Shinji Ichikawa, Ryosuke Gunji, Akira Inoue, Yoshihiro Nakada, Hiroharu Jinmura
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Patent number: 12080152Abstract: A projection processing device comprises a processor control unit that acquires, in response to acceptance of input information, projection position information associated with the input information, and instructs a projector to emit light or project an image enabling a user to identify a position based on the acquired projection position information.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Oda, Hiroshi Saito, Akira Inoue
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Patent number: 12082449Abstract: A separation wall is provided in a frame shape along a circumferential edge of a through-hole in a non-display region, in which the through-hole is formed, defined in an island shape inside a display region. The separation wall includes a wall base portion provided in a frame shape by a part of a second interlayer insulating film and a resin layer provided in an eave shape on the wall base portion to extend to a through-hole side and a display region side. Opening portions opening upward are provided on peripheries of the wall base portion on the through-hole side and the display region side in the second interlayer insulating film.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinsuke Saida, Shinji Ichikawa, Ryosuke Gunji, Tohru Okabe, Akira Inoue, Yoshihiro Nakada, Hiroharu Jinmura
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Publication number: 20240264045Abstract: In example implementations described herein, there are systems and methods for performing predictive maintenance which can include collecting vibration data related to an operation of a first machine during a first time period, computing sound data related to the operation of the first machine during the first time period based on the collected vibration data, and predicting, based on the computed sound data, at least one value associated with a maintenance of the first machine. In some aspects, the systems and methods may further include measuring an acoustic transfer function relating the vibration data related to the operation of the first machine to one or more of the sound pressure data or the particle velocity data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2023Publication date: August 8, 2024Inventor: Akira INOUE