Patents by Inventor Akira Kohara

Akira Kohara 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).

  • Patent number: 12120927
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryosuke Gunji, Tohru Okabe, Shinsuke Saida, Hiroki Taniyama, Shinji Ichikawa, Akira Inoue, Yoshihiro Nakada, Hiroharu Jinmura, Koji Tanimura, Yoshihiro Kohara
  • Publication number: 20240295944
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a plurality of capturing sections, a combining section, a virtual viewpoint image generation section, a display section, a touch panel configured to receive input for changing a setting condition related to the virtual viewpoint on a virtual viewpoint image on the display section, and an image adjustment section configured to enable the virtual viewpoint to be set in the vehicle exterior or the vehicle interior and to move between the vehicle exterior and the vehicle interior, to adjust the virtual viewpoint image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: AKIRA SUGIE, NAOYUKI OKADA, KENJI KOHARA, HIDEAKI FURUSE, YUKI YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10734875
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor that rotates around a rotation axis serving as a center and has a plurality of salient poles protruding in directions perpendicular to the rotation axis, and a stator that includes an annular structural body disposed radially outside the rotor and surrounding the rotor, and 6×n windings provided along a circumferential direction of the structural body, a field signal for generating field magnetic flux and a drive signal for driving the rotor as a three-phase rotary electric machine being superimposed on each other to be input to each of the windings. n is a natural number equal to or larger than one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Hirata, Noboru Niguchi, Yuki Ohno, Akira Kohara, Masayuki Katoh, Hajime Ukaji, Teiichirou Chiba
  • Publication number: 20170093257
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor that rotates around a rotation axis serving as a center and has a plurality of salient poles protruding in directions perpendicular to the rotation axis, and a stator that includes an annular structural body disposed radially outside the rotor and surrounding the rotor, and 6×n windings provided along a circumferential direction of the structural body, a field signal for generating field magnetic flux and a drive signal for driving the rotor as a three-phase rotary electric machine being superimposed on each other to be input to each of the windings. n is a natural number equal to or larger than one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Katsuhiro HIRATA, Noboru NIGUCHI, Yuki OHNO, Akira KOHARA, Masayuki KATOH, Hajime UKAJI, Teiichirou CHIBA
  • Patent number: 8337791
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification catalyst, which is suitable as a three way catalyst for efficiently purifying carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC), and nitrogen oxides (NOx) in exhaust gas discharged from a gasoline automobile and exhaust gas purification apparatus using the same and an exhaust gas purification method. <The upper layer> A catalyst composition having an activated metal (A), a heat resistant inorganic oxide (B) and a cerium-zirconium-type composite oxide (C) containing a pyrochlore phase in a crystal structure, wherein the activated metal (A) is rhodium. <The lower layer> A catalyst composition having an activated metal (A), a heat resistant inorganic oxide (B) and a cerium-containing oxide (C?) having a cubic crystal and/or tetragonal crystal structure as a major crystal structure, wherein the activated metal (A) is palladium, or palladium and platinum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: Daiichi Kigenso Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd., N.E. Chemcat Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Kohara, Yoshiro Hirasawa, Takashi Yamada
  • Patent number: 8202819
    Abstract: A catalyst system to be used in an automobile exhaust gas purification apparatus which exerts excellent purification capability to a nitrogen oxide, even when hydrocarbon concentration varies, by subjecting exhaust gas discharged from an automotive internal engine to contacting with a catalyst, an exhaust gas purification apparatus using the same, and an exhaust gas purification method. A catalyst system etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignees: Daiichi Kigenso Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd., N.E. Chemcat Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Kohara, Yoshiro Hirasawa, Katsuaki Katoh
  • Patent number: 8187995
    Abstract: This invention relates to a cerium-zirconium-base composite oxide, which is useful, e.g., for the purification of exhaust gas discharged from combustion engines such as internal combustion engines and boilers and can release a high level of oxygen in a low temperature region, a method for producing the same, an oxygen storage/release component using the same, an exhaust gas purification catalyst, and an exhaust gas purification method. The cerium-zirconium-base composite oxide satisfies requirements (1) that the oxygen release initiation temperature is 380° C. or below, (2) that the oxygen release amount is not less than 485 ?mol/g, and further (3) that the oxygen release amount at 400° C. is not less than 15 ?mol/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignees: Daiichi Kigenso Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd., N.E. Chemcat Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Wakita, Akira Kohara, Yasuharu Kanno, Hiroaki Omoto
  • Publication number: 20110274603
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification catalyst, which is suitable as a Three Way Catalyst for efficiently purifying carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC), and nitrogen oxides (NOx) in exhaust gas discharged from a gasoline automobile, an exhaust gas purification apparatus using the same and an exhaust gas purification method. It is provided by an exhaust gas purification catalyst, wherein catalyst components for purifying hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) contained in exhaust gas are coated onto a honeycomb type structure as a catalyst composition layer, characterized in that the catalyst components comprise an activated metal (A), a heat resistant inorganic oxide (B) and a cerium-zirconium composite oxide (c) containing a pyrochlore phase in a crystal structure, in the same catalyst composition layer, and the activated metal (A) is a palladium and a rhodium and does not contain a platinum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicants: N.E. CHEMCAT CORPORATION, DAIICHI KIGENSO KAGAKU KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Kohara, Yoshiro Hirasawa, Takashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20110171092
    Abstract: This invention relates to a cerium—zirconium-base composite oxide, which is useful, e.g., for the purification of exhaust gas discharged from combustion engines such as internal combustion engines and boilers and can release a high level of oxygen in a low temperature region, a method for producing the same, an oxygen storage/release component using the same, an exhaust gas purification catalyst, and an exhaust gas purification method. The cerium—zirconium-base composite oxide satisfies requirements (1) that the oxygen release initiation temperature is 380° C. or below, (2) that the oxygen release amount is not less than 485 ?mol/g, and further (3) that the oxygen release amount at 400° C. is not less than 15 ?mol/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicants: DAIICHI KIGENSO KAGAKU KOGYO CO., LTD., N.E. CHEMCAT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Wakita, Akira Kohara, Yasuharu Kanno, Hiroaki Omoto
  • Publication number: 20110113754
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification catalyst, which is suitable as a Three way catalyst for efficiently purifying carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC), and nitrogen oxides (NOx) in exhaust gas discharged from a gasoline automobile, an exhaust gas purification apparatus using the same and an exhaust gas purification method. <The Upper Layer> A catalyst composition having an activated metal (A), a heat resistant inorganic oxide (B) and a cerium-zirconium-type composite oxide (C) containing a pyrochlore phase in a crystal structure, wherein the activated metal (A) is rhodium. <The Lower Layer> A catalyst composition having an activated metal (A), a heat resistant inorganic oxide (B) and a cerium-containing oxide (C?) having a cubic crystal and/or a tetragonal crystal as a major crystal structure, wherein the activated metal (A) is palladium, or palladium and platinum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicants: DAIICHI KIGENSO KAGAKU KOGYO CO., LTD., N.E. CHEMCAT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Kohara, Yoshiro Hirasawa, Takashi Yamada
  • Patent number: 7871956
    Abstract: This invention relates to a cerium-zirconium-base composite oxide, which is useful, e.g., for the purification of exhaust gas discharged from combustion engines such as internal combustion engines and boilers and can release a high level of oxygen in a low temperature region, a method for producing the same, an oxygen storage/release component using the same, an exhaust gas purification catalyst, and an exhaust gas purification method. The cerium-zirconium-base composite oxide satisfies requirements (1) that the oxygen release initiation temperature is 380° C. or below, (2) that the oxygen release amount is not less than 485 ?mol/g, and further (3) that the oxygen release amount at 400° C. is not less than 15 ?mol/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignees: Daiichi Kigenso Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd., N.E. Chemcat Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Wakita, Akira Kohara, Yasuharu Kanno, Hiroaki Omoto
  • Publication number: 20100061903
    Abstract: A catalyst system to be used in an automobile exhaust gas purification apparatus which exerts excellent purification capability to a nitrogen oxide, even when hydrocarbon concentration varies, by subjecting exhaust gas discharged from an automotive internal engine to contacting with a catalyst, an exhaust gas purification apparatus using the same, and an exhaust gas purification method. A catalyst system etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicants: DAIICHI KIGENSO KAGAKU KOGYO CO., LTD, N.E. CHEMCAT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Kohara, Yoshiro Hirasawa, Katsuaki Katoh
  • Publication number: 20070155624
    Abstract: This invention relates to a cerium-zirconium-base composite oxide, which is useful, e.g., for the purification of exhaust gas discharged from combustion engines such as internal combustion engines and boilers and can release a high level of oxygen in a low temperature region, a method for producing the same, an oxygen storage/release component using the same, an exhaust gas purification catalyst, and an exhaust gas purification method. The cerium-zirconium-base composite oxide satisfies requirements (1) that the oxygen release initiation temperature is 380° C. or below, (2) that the oxygen release amount is not less than 485 ?mol/g, and further (3) that the oxygen release amount at 400° C. is not less than 15 ?mol/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicants: DAIICHI KIGAKU KOGYO CO., LTD., N.E. CHEMCAT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Wakita, Akira Kohara, Yasuharu Kanno, Hiroaki Omoto