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).

  • Publication number: 20220376032
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Tohru OKABE, Shinsuke SAIDA, Shinji ICHIKAWA, Ryosuke GUNJI, Akira INOUE, Yoshihiro NAKADA, Hiroharu JINMURA
  • Publication number: 20220376129
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro TSUTSUI, Akira INOUE, Chinatsu SANDA, Katsumi ONO
  • Patent number: 11508792
    Abstract: In a display region, etching stopper layers are provided between a plurality of inorganic insulating films, openings are formed in the inorganic insulating films located closer to a light-emitting element than the etching stopper layers so as to expose the upper surfaces of the etching stopper layers, and flattening films are provided in the openings such that the openings are filed with the flattening films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Okabe, Ryosuke Gunji, Shinji Ichikawa, Kohji Ariga, Shinsuke Saida, Hiroki Taniyama, Hiroharu Jinmura, Yoshihiro Nakada, Koji Tanimura, Yoshihiro Kohara, Akira Inoue
  • Patent number: 11508749
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a first-conductivity-type well located in a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor active area region located adjacent to the a first-conductivity-type well, a first transistor including a source region, a drain region, a channel region located between the source region and the drain region, a gate dielectric layer located over the channel region and a gate electrode located over the gate dielectric layer, such that the transistor is located on the semiconductor active area region, and a cutoff gate electrode located over the semiconductor active area region, and between the first transistor and the first-conductivity-type well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Takuma Takimoto, Masayuki Hiroi, Akira Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220355657
    Abstract: A counter gear mechanism includes: a fifth gear in mesh with a third gear; a sixth gear in mesh with a fourth gear; and a seventh gear in mesh with a differential input gear. The seventh gear is disposed between the fifth gear and the sixth gear in an axial direction. A switching mechanism is disposed between the third gear and the fourth gear in the axial direction. The switching mechanism makes switching among: a state in which the third gear is coupled to a second input member; a state in which the fourth gear is coupled to the second input member; and a state in which the third gear and the fourth gear are decoupled from the second input member. This structure is able to make an entirety of an apparatus compact in size in the axial direction when the apparatus includes the switching mechanism to change the speed ratio between the second input member, which is drivingly coupled to an internal combustion engine, and output members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki KAWAMOTO, Mitsuhiro ICHIOKA, Tomoka YAMAMOTO, Akira INOUE, Hiroshi KATO
  • Patent number: 11460029
    Abstract: The compressor includes a rotor that applies rotational power to a compressor unit, wherein the rotor includes a rotor core and an upper rotor-end plate, the rotor core has a plurality of through-holes through which a refrigerant passes, the upper rotor-end plate covers the upper rotor-end face of the rotor core, where one end of each of the plurality of through-holes is formed, the upper rotor-end plate has a plurality of upper openings that allow communication of the plurality of through-holes with an internal space in a compressor container, the plurality of upper openings are adjacent to the plurality of through-holes in the upper rotor-end face, and a plurality of upper inner peripheral-side adjacent areas, which are on the inner peripheral-side closer to a rotation axis than the plurality of through-holes, are exposed to the internal space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenshi Ueda, Naoya Morozumi, Akira Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220293714
    Abstract: Contact holes related to routed wires electrically connected to data signal lines running through the corner portions of a display region are larger in number than contact holes related to routed wires electrically connected to data signal lines running through the center portion of the display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Ryosuke GUNJI, Shinsuke SAIDA, Shinji ICHIKAWA, Tohru OKABE, Akira INOUE, Yoshihiro NAKADA, Hiroharu JINMURA
  • Patent number: 11430857
    Abstract: The display device includes a non-display area. The non-display area includes: a slit formed in an edge cover; a first conductive layer formed in the same layer as an anode, and being in contact with a cathode; and a second conductive layer formed in the same layer as a capacitance electrode and provided to overlap the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Okabe, Shinsuke Saida, Shinji Ichikawa, Hiroki Taniyama, Ryosuke Gunji, Takeshi Yaneda, Yoshihiro Nakada, Hiroharu Jinmura, Akira Inoue
  • Patent number: 11398542
    Abstract: In a step of forming a plurality of control lines composed of a first metal layer a first metal layer branch line is formed. In a step of forming a plurality of power source lines composed of a second metal layer a second metal layer connecting portion is formed that connects each power source line with the first metal layer branch line via an opening of a first insulating film. In a step of forming a plurality of data signal lines composed of a third metal layer that is formed on a second insulating film the first metal layer branch line formed in the opening of the first insulating and the second metal layer connecting portion formed in an opening of the second insulating film are etched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Okabe, Shinsuke Saida, Shinji Ichikawa, Hiroki Taniyama, Ryosuke Gunji, Kohji Ariga, Yoshihiro Nakada, Koji Tanimura, Yoshihiro Kohara, Hiroharu Jinmura, Akira Inoue
  • Patent number: 11384760
    Abstract: A lower end plate includes: bolt holes through which bolts penetrate; a lower discharge valve; a lower discharge-valve accommodating recessed portion into which the lower discharge valve is accommodated; and a lower discharge-chamber recessed portion. A lower end plate cover is provided with a bulging portion. A lower end-plate cover chamber is formed by the lower discharge-valve accommodating recessed portion, the lower discharge-chamber recessed portion, and the bulging portion. Refrigerant passage holes include main refrigerant passage holes provided on the lower discharge-chamber recessed portion, and sub-refrigerant passage holes provided between the bolt hole and the lower discharge-valve accommodating recessed portion away from the lower discharge-valve accommodating recessed portion. The bulging portion is, in a cross section orthogonal to a rotating shaft, formed so as to overlap with at least a part of each of the main refrigerant passage holes and the sub-refrigerant passage holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Akira Inoue, Kenshi Ueda, Shingo Yahaba, Yasuyuki Izumi
  • Publication number: 20220204127
    Abstract: A control device is provided for a human-powered vehicle. The control device includes an electronic controller that is configured to control a motor that assists in propulsion of the human-powered vehicle. The electronic controller is configured to control the motor in accordance with a pitch angle of the human-powered vehicle and information related to a user load applied by a user to the human-powered vehicle in a negative direction with respect to a propulsion direction of the human-powered vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Satoshi SHAHANA, Akira INOUE, Akinobu SUGIMOTO, Atsuhiro EMURA, Nobukatsu HARA, Hitoshi TAKAYAMA, Shingo SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20220204130
    Abstract: A control device is provided for controlling a human-powered vehicle. The control device includes an electronic controller configured to control a motor that applies a propulsion force to the human-powered vehicle. In a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, the electronic controller is configured to increase at least one of an assist level of the motor, a maximum value of an output of the motor, and the output of the motor. The predetermined condition includes a first condition in which deceleration of the human-powered vehicle in a traveling direction of the human-powered vehicle is greater than or equal to a first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Satoshi SHAHANA, Akira INOUE, Shingo SAKURAI
  • Patent number: 11373036
    Abstract: A control device (10) includes a spreadsheet process additional starting-up unit (162) and a spreadsheet process holding unit (163) configured to newly start up the spreadsheet software when the spreadsheet software has not been started up, and when the spreadsheet software has been started up configured to start up second spreadsheet software when spreadsheet software having been started up has been held such that the spreadsheet software is not terminated, a data entry unit (168) configured to enter information acquired by accessing to an information acquisition source in an information entry portion of a calculation sheet of the spreadsheet software, the calculation sheet being a calculation sheet in which a business logic is set for inter-cell computation on the calculation sheet, and a result acquisition unit (169) configured to acquire a determination result on the calculation sheet when a determination result for the information entered in the information entry portion is shown by the business logic re
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Nagatoshi Nawa, Akira Inoue, Koichi Yamada, Ikuko Takagi
  • Publication number: 20220194515
    Abstract: A bicycle pedal is provided with a pedal shaft, and a body part and an end cap. The pedal shaft has a center axis. The body part is rotatably supported by the pedal shaft around the center axis. The body part has a pedal shaft receiving bore with a first opening and a second opening. The first opening receives the pedal shaft along the center axis. The end cap is adjustably attached to the body part at the second opening to adjust a position of the pedal shaft within the pedal shaft receiving bore in an axial direction with respect to the center axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Akira INOUE, Tatsuya WATANABE, Atsuhiro EMURA
  • Publication number: 20220199947
    Abstract: A display device (50a) includes a non-display region (N) shaped in an island and provided inside a display region. The non-display region (N) includes a through hole (H) framed to penetrate the non-display region (N) along a thickness of a resin substrate (10a). In the non-display region (N), a first inorganic insulating film (11, 13, 15, 17) includes an opening (M) provided to surround the through hole (H) and penetrating the first inorganic insulating film (11, 13, 15, 17). A second inorganic insulating film (36) of a sealing film (40) is in contact with the resin substrate (10a) exposed through the opening (M) from the first inorganic insulating film (11, 13, 15, 17).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: TOHRU OKABE, SHINJI ICHIKAWA, HIROKI TANIYAMA, RYOSUKE GUNJI, SHINSUKE SAIDA, HIROHARU JINMURA, AKIRA INOUE, YOSHIHIRO NAKADA
  • Publication number: 20220171264
    Abstract: A projector includes a cooling fan, and a processor, and the processor executes, in a case in which the cooling fan is operating in a first revolution speed mode, a control of switching an operation mode of the cooling fan to a second revolution speed mode whose revolution speed is faster than that of the first revolution speed mode in a case in which an obtained temperature detection value reaches a first threshold, and executes, in a case in which the cooling fan is operating in the second revolution speed mode, a control of switching the operation mode of the cooling fan to a revolution speed mode whose revolution speed is slower than that of the second revolution speed mode in a case in which an obtained temperature detection value decreases below a second threshold which differs from the first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoyuki UEDA, Tetsuro NARIKAWA, Toshifumi KASE, Akira INOUE
  • Publication number: 20220172286
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention comprising: a determination unit that determines a creditworthiness of a traveler based on history information regarding a first travel of the traveler; and an output unit that outputs information regarding a second travel based on the creditworthiness associated with identification information of the traveler who is scheduled for the second travel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Akira INOUE, Atsushi IWATA, Kunio FUDEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220165823
    Abstract: An organic EL display (1) has a bend (B) where a slit (81) is bored in a base coat film (23), gate insulating film (27), first interlayer insulating film (31) and second interlayer insulating film (35). The bend is provided with a filler layer (83) filling the slit and covering both edges of the slit. The filler layer has a protrusion (85) overlapping each edge in the width direction of the slit. A routed wire (7) routed from the display region (D) and then routed over the filler layer to reach a terminal section (T) extends over the protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: SHINJI ICHIKAWA, SHINSUKE SAIDA, RYOSUKE GUNJI, HIROKI TANIYAMA, TOHRU OKABE, Akira INOUE, Hiroharu JINMURA, Yoshihiro NAKADA, Koji TANIMURA
  • Patent number: 11333149
    Abstract: A recessed part is provided in a position, in which an upper vane and a lower vane slide, in an outer peripheral part of an intermediate partition plate in a rotary compressor. Double of eccentric amounts in an upper eccentric part and a lower eccentric part of a rotating shaft is 30% or more of entire lengths in a sliding direction of the upper vane and the lower vane respectively. A width W of the recessed part in a circumferential direction of the intermediate partition plate is larger than a thickness T of each of the upper vane and the lower vane. When a depth of the recessed part is D and an entire length of each of the upper vane and the lower vane is L, D?0.1×L . . . Expression 1 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Akira Inoue, Junya Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220149121
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: TOHRU OKABE, RYOSUKE GUNJI, SHINSUKE SAIDA, SHINJI ICHIKAWA, HIROHARU JINMURA, YOSHIHIRO NAKADA, AKIRA INOUE, TAKESHI YANEDA