Patents by Inventor Akira Murata
Akira Murata 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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Patent number: 11974444Abstract: There is provided a solid-state image sensor, a solid-state imaging device, an electronic apparatus, and a method of manufacturing a solid-state image sensor capable of improving characteristics. There is provided a solid-state image sensor including a stacked structure that includes a semiconductor substrate, a first photoelectric converter provided above the semiconductor substrate and converting light into charges, and a second photoelectric converter provided above the first photoelectric converter and converting light into charges, where the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter include a photoelectric conversion stacked structure in which a common electrode, a photoelectric conversion film, and a readout electrode are stacked so that the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter are in a line-symmetrical relationship with each other with a vertical plane perpendicular to a stacking direction of the stacked structure as an axis of symmetry.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Hideaki Togashi, Iwao Yagi, Masahiro Joei, Fumihiko Koga, Kenichi Murata, Shintarou Hirata, Yosuke Saito, Akira Furukawa
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Publication number: 20240126076Abstract: A head-up display device includes: an indicator dimmed by duty ratio control and configured to emit display light; a mirror member rotatable about a rotation shaft and configured to reflect the display light from the indicator to project a display image; a control unit configured to control the dimming of the indicator and the rotation of the mirror member; and a temperature sensor configured to output a signal corresponding to an ambient temperature around the indicator. The control unit includes: a temperature prediction unit configured to predict a temperature of the indicator, and a failure avoidance unit configured to execute lowering an upper limit of the duty ratio or rotation control of the mirror member for reducing the amount of sunlight that enters the indicator through the mirror member when the predicted temperature of the indicator is greater than or equal to a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Yusuke Sugiura, Akira Yamanaka, Yuta Miyake, Naohisa Murata, Hiroshi Sano
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Publication number: 20240111195Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel including in the following order an active matrix substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a counter substrate. The active matrix substrate includes in the following order a first electrode and a second electrode including a first linear electrode portion extending in a first direction. The counter substrate includes a third electrode including second linear electrode portions extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a fourth electrode including an island-shaped electrode portion as a floating electrode. The island-shaped electrode portion is disposed between the second linear electrode portions in a plan view, overlaps an optical aperture of one of two pixels adjacent to each other along the second direction, and does not overlap an optical aperture of the other of the two pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Koji MURATA, Akira HIRAI, Hiroshi TSUCHIYA, Takashi SATOH, Akira SAKAI, Shinji SHIMADA
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Patent number: 11943545Abstract: An image processing device includes: a circuit block in which an operation period is predetermined and intermittent operation is performed according to the operation period; a plurality of SRAMs; and a dummy control circuit configured to increase an intensity of a dummy operation of an unused SRAM among the plurality of SRAMs for a certain period of time before the operation period of the circuit block, and to decrease the intensity of the dummy operation of the unused SRAM among the plurality of SRAMs for a certain period of time after the operation period of the circuit block.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka Murata, Yoshinobu Tanaka, Atsushi Ishihara, Akira Ueno
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Publication number: 20240070463Abstract: Optimization of a compression algorithm to be applied is realized in subgraph units of a neural network. A preferred aspect of the present invention is an information processing device that selects an algorithm for compressing a neural network. The information processing device includes a subgraph dividing section which divides the neural network into subgraphs and an optimizing section which outputs a compression configuration in which one compression technique selected from a plurality thereof is associated with each of the subgraphs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Daichi MURATA, Akira KITAYAMA, Hiroaki ITO, Masayoshi KURODA
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Publication number: 20230393332Abstract: An optical fiber cable includes: optical fibers each including a glass portion including a core and a cladding surrounding the core, a primary covering layer covering the cladding, and a secondary covering layer covering the primary covering layer; and a sheath accommodating the optical fibers in an internal space. A value of a micro-bend loss characteristic factor F?BL_G?? is 1.2×10?9 or less when represented by F?BL_G??=F?BL_G×F?BL_??×Dc.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.Inventors: Miku Miyata, Akira Murata
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Publication number: 20230393359Abstract: An optical fiber cable includes: optical fibers each including a glass portion including a core and a cladding surrounding the core, a primary covering layer covering the cladding, and a secondary covering layer covering the primary covering layer; and a sheath accommodating the optical fibers in an internal space. A value of a micro-bend loss characteristic factor F?BL_GO is 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.Inventors: Miku Miyata, Akira Murata
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Publication number: 20230302813Abstract: A technique for making the amount of ink to be calculated appropriate in accordance with the amount of ink to be ejected from heads is provided. An inkjet printing apparatus includes a supply tank, a return tank, a first connecting pipe, a second connecting pipe, a head, a pressure-difference producer, an ejection-amount predictor, and a pressure controller. The first connecting pipe transfers ink in the supply tank to the return tank. The second connecting pipe returns ink in the return tank to the supply tank. The head is interposed in the first connecting pipe. The pressure-difference producer sends ink from the supply tank to the return tank through the first connecting pipe. The ejection-amount predictor predicts the amount of ink to be ejected at a time to come after the present time from the head.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Tomonori Yasuda, Takanori TSUJI, Akira MURATA
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Patent number: 11699608Abstract: A substrate storage apparatus includes a stage on which a cassette that has a lid detachably mounted to an opening is disposed, a lid attaching/detaching plate that performs attaching/detaching of the lid to/from the opening of the cassette disposed on the stage, and is provided to be movable between a mounting position in contact with the lid disposed at a position of the opening and a retracted position not in contact with the lid disposed at the position of the opening, a lid holding sensor that detects whether the lid is being held by the lid attaching/detaching plate, and a controller that determines presence/absence of abnormality related to attachment/detachment of the lid based on a detection result of the lid holding sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Akihiro Matsumoto, Michiaki Matsushita, Akira Murata, Minoru Tashiro
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Patent number: 11322249Abstract: In a fee-setting system, an assessment unit assesses the degree of appropriateness in a medical facility regarding the use of a device relating to medical treatment used in the medical facility based on the degree of deviation and information regarding the medical facility, in which the degree of deviation that is obtained by comparing information indicating the usage status of the device that has been detected by a detection unit for detecting the usage status of the device with reference information regarding the method of using the device. A calculation unit calculates a fee to be charged to the medical facility based on the degree of appropriateness.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Suzuki, Takeshi Nishiyama, Akira Murata, Takashi Nagata
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Patent number: 11311176Abstract: An endoscope insertion observation apparatus includes a processor designed to perform functions including: detecting an insertion state of an insertion portion of an endoscope that is insertable into and extractable from a subject; determining whether or not the insertion portion has reached a second site in the subject from a first site in the subject and/or whether the insertion portion has reached the first site from the second site in the subject based on a detection result of the insertion state; and calculating a duration of movement of the insertion portion from the first site to the second site after determining that the insertion portion has reached the second site, or a duration of movement of the insertion portion from the second site to the first site after determining that the insertion portion has reached the first site.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Takechiyo Nakamitsu, Kensuke Miyake, Akira Murata, Isamu Nakajima
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Patent number: 11083105Abstract: A heat radiator for an aircraft, which cools a heat source installed in the aircraft, includes a heat radiating part in which a contact surface comes into contact with a main flow, the contact surface being formed with a concave portion or a convex portion in which a surface thereof directed upstream in a flow direction of the main flow is curved in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignees: IHI Corporation, National University Corporation Tokyo University of Agriculture and TechnologyInventors: Yoji Okita, Akira Murata
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Patent number: 10908373Abstract: An optical fiber ribbon is formed by connecting a plurality of optical fiber colored core wires to each other with a connector formed of a UV curable resin. Each of the optical fiber colored core wires includes: a bare optical fiber; a primary layer that comprises a UV curable resin that covers the bare optical fiber; a secondary layer that comprises a UV curable resin that covers the primary layer; and a colored layer disposed outside the secondary layer and that comprises a colored UV curable resin. The primary layer has a Young's modulus that is greater than or equal to 75% of a saturated Young's modulus of the primary layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.Inventors: Akira Murata, Mizuki Isaji, Tomoaki Kaji, Yoshie Sajima
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Patent number: 10838159Abstract: An optical fiber colored core wire includes: a bare optical fiber; a primary layer that comprises a UV curable resin that covers the bare optical fiber; a secondary layer that comprises a UV curable resin that covers the primary layer; and a colored layer disposed outside the secondary layer and that comprises a colored UV curable resin. The primary layer has a Young's modulus that is greater than or equal to 70% of a saturated Young's modulus of the primary layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.Inventors: Akira Murata, Yoshie Sajima, Mizuki Isaji, Tomoaki Kaji
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Publication number: 20200325329Abstract: The present invention provides a polyarylate resin which is excellent in heat-resisting properties, abrasion-resisting properties, solubility properties in non-halogenated organic solvents, a water vapor-barrier property, mechanical properties, liquid sag-resisting properties and deformation-resisting properties (such as adhesive properties). The present invention relates to a polyarylate resin comprising a dihydric phenol residue shown in general formula (1) and an aromatic dicarboxylic acid residue shown in general formula (2), a film comprising the same and a laminated product thereof: (wherein X represents a liner or branched bivalent hydrocarbon group having 4 to 8 carbon atoms.) (wherein R1 and R2 respectively and independently represent a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, which may be substituted by one or more halogen atoms, or a halogen atom, and p and q respectively and independently represent an integer of 0 to 4.).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2017Publication date: October 15, 2020Applicant: UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Akira MURATA, Takamasa AKIZUKI, Chiho MATSUMOTO, Keita HAGIWARA
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Patent number: 10689762Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus can suppress particle generation on a substrate, and can reduce a consumption amount of a processing liquid. A substrate processing apparatus 1 includes a processing chamber 30 having a processing space 31 in which a substrate W is processed; a vaporizing tank 60, configured to store the processing liquid therein, having a vaporization space 61 in which the stored processing liquid is allowed to be vaporized; a decompression driving unit 70 configured to decompress the vaporization space 61; and a control unit 18. The control unit 18 vaporizes the processing liquid into the processing gas by decompressing the vaporization space 61 without through the processing space 31, and then, vaporizes the processing liquid into the processing gas by decompressing the vaporization space 61 through the processing space 31, and supplies an inert gas into the vaporization space 61.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Akira Murata, Satoshi Kaneko, Kazuki Motomatsu, Kazunori Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20200082936Abstract: In a fee-setting system, an assessment unit assesses the degree of appropriateness in a medical facility regarding the use of a device relating to medical treatment used in the medical facility based on the degree of deviation and information regarding the medical facility, in which the degree of deviation that is obtained by comparing information indicating the usage status of the device that has been detected by a detection unit for detecting the usage status of the device with reference information regarding the method of using the device. A calculation unit calculates a fee to be charged to the medical facility based on the degree of appropriateness.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Akira SUZUKI, Takeshi NISHIYAMA, Akira MURATA, Takashi NAGATA
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Publication number: 20200058531Abstract: A substrate storage apparatus includes a stage on which a cassette that has a lid detachably mounted to an opening is disposed, a lid attaching/detaching plate that performs attaching/detaching of the lid to/from the opening of the cassette disposed on the stage, and is provided to be movable between a mounting position in contact with the lid disposed at a position of the opening and a retracted position not in contact with the lid disposed at the position of the opening, a lid holding sensor that detects whether the lid is being held by the lid attaching/detaching plate, and a controller that determines presence/absence of abnormality related to attachment/detachment of the lid based on a detection result of the lid holding sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Akihiro MATSUMOTO, Michiaki MATSUSHITA, Akira MURATA, Minoru TASHIRO
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Publication number: 20200026012Abstract: An optical fiber colored core wire includes: a bare optical fiber; a primary layer that comprises a UV curable resin that covers the bare optical fiber; a secondary layer that comprises a UV curable resin that covers the primary layer; and a colored layer disposed outside the secondary layer and that comprises a colored UV curable resin. The primary layer has a Young's modulus that is greater than or equal to 70% of a saturated Young's modulus of the primary layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2017Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Akira Murata, Yoshie Sajima, Mizuki Isaji, Tomoaki Kaji
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Publication number: 20200026013Abstract: An optical fiber ribbon is formed by connecting a plurality of optical fiber colored core wires to each other with a connector formed of a UV curable resin. Each of the optical fiber colored core wires includes: a bare optical fiber; a primary layer that comprises a UV curable resin that covers the bare optical fiber; a secondary layer that comprises a UV curable resin that covers the primary layer; and a colored layer disposed outside the secondary layer and that comprises a colored UV curable resin. The primary layer has a Young's modulus that is greater than or equal to 75% of a saturated Young's modulus of the primary layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2017Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Akira Murata, Mizuki Isaji, Tomoaki Kaji, Yoshie Sajima