Patents by Inventor Akira Sakai
Akira Sakai 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: 12147125Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal panel provided with a display region and a frame region and including a first substrate and a second substrate disposed facing the first substrate. In the display region, a liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. In the frame region, a sealing portion is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a first support substrate and a first substrate-side insulating layer contacting the first support substrate in order toward the liquid crystal layer side. The second substrate includes a protrusion protruding to the liquid crystal layer side. The first substrate-side insulating layer includes a first thickness portion having a flat surface on the liquid crystal layer side, and a second thickness portion protruding to the liquid crystal layer side relative to the first thickness portion and disposed to face the protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2024Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Hiromi Matsumoto, Takahiro Sasaki, Takashi Satoh, Akira Sakai
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Patent number: 12138555Abstract: A distribution system distributes a viewing video to a user terminal of each of plural users who are viewers, the distribution system having a computer receiving a user operation inputted from each user terminal, the computer selecting one or more pieces of distribution data from a distribution data group including plural pieces of distribution data in response to the user operation, and the computer distributing the distribution data selected by the computer to the user terminal from which the user operation has been inputted.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiko Narita, Shigeru Chiba, Akira Sakai, Kai Inoue, Tsuguo Shinpo, Toshiaki Kanahara, Junki Hirai
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Patent number: 12144122Abstract: In manufacturing a printed circuit board using a semi-additive method, a removal liquid that has been used in removing a nickel-chromium-containing layer (5) is regenerated by contacting the removal liquid with a chelate resin having a functional group represented by a following formula (1): where a plurality of Rs are identical divalent hydrocarbon groups having 1 to 5 carbons, and a portion of hydrogen atoms may be substituted with halogen atoms.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES. LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC: PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC., MEC COMPANY LTD.Inventors: Shoichiro Sakai, Ryuta Ohsuka, Koji Nitta, Yoshihito Yamaguchi, Masaharu Yasuda, Akira Tsuchiko, Koji Kasuya, Kenji Nishie, Yu Fukui
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Publication number: 20240345438Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal panel provided with a display region and a frame region and including a first substrate and a second substrate disposed facing the first substrate. In the display region, a liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. In the frame region, a sealing portion is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a first support substrate and a first substrate-side insulating layer contacting the first support substrate in order toward the liquid crystal layer side. The second substrate includes a protrusion protruding to the liquid crystal layer side. The first substrate-side insulating layer includes a first thickness portion having a flat surface on the liquid crystal layer side, and a second thickness portion protruding to the liquid crystal layer side relative to the first thickness portion and disposed to face the protrusion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2024Publication date: October 17, 2024Inventors: Hiromi MATSUMOTO, Takahiro SASAKI, Takashi SATOH, Akira SAKAI
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Publication number: 20240345434Abstract: A color filter includes a frame portion in which the reflectance of light incident from the transparent substrate side is less than the reflectance of light incident from the overcoat layer side and an opening portion in which the reflectance of light incident from the transparent substrate side is greater than the reflectance of light incident from the overcoat layer side. The color filter satisfies nbc×dbc<?×A2+?×A+?, where nbc is the refractive index of the transparent base coat layer, dbc nm is the film thickness of the transparent base coat layer, and A is the opening ratio of the color filter, and where A, ?, ?, and ? respectively satisfy A=(area of the opening portion)/(area of an active area), ?=436.7×nbc?837.2, ?=?315.8×nbc+523.7, and ?=?358.3×nbc+771.8.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2024Publication date: October 17, 2024Inventors: Yuichi KAWAHIRA, Masahiro Hasegawa, Ryosuke Saigusa, Jianeng Xu, Akira Sakai
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Patent number: 12117697Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. Each pixel includes a reflective region and a transmissive region. The first substrate includes a reflective layer, an interlayer insulating layer provided to cover the reflective layer, and a pixel electrode provided on the interlayer insulating layer in each pixel. The interlayer insulating layer has a recess portion which is defined by a bottom surface and an inclined side surface and at least a part of which is located in the transmissive region. A depth of the recess portion of the interlayer insulating layer is 0.5 ?m or more, and an inclination angle of the inclined side surface of the recess portion is 25° or less.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Mariko Honda, Nobuhiro Waka, Hiroyuki Hakoi, Takahiro Sasaki, Takashi Satoh, Akira Sakai, Seiji Maeda
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Patent number: 12117634Abstract: In a flexible display device, a transistor layer, a light-emitting element layer, a sealing layer, a first flexible substrate, a ?/4 layer, a linear polarizer, an overcoat layer, and a water repellent layer are provided in this order on a second flexible substrate, and the water repellent layer is provided so as to overlap with at least an end portion of the overcoat layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Miho Yamada, Masahiro Hasegawa, Akira Sakai
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Publication number: 20240317449Abstract: A ceramic ball storage tray includes a storage portion that stores a ceramic ball. The storage portion of the ceramic ball storage tray has a protruding portion formed such that a center of a bottom surface portion of the storage portion is hollow. A height of an outer circumferential surface of the protruding portion relative to a diameter of the ceramic ball is within a range of 0.05 or more and 0.30 or less. A height of the storage portion relative to the diameter of the ceramic ball is preferably within a range of 1.05 or more and 2.00 or less. A height of an inner circumferential surface of the protruding portion relative to the diameter of the ceramic ball is preferably within a range of 0.01 or more and 0.10 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuhiko YAMADA, Ryo SAKAI, Shoya SANO, Haruhiko YAMAGUTI, Akihiro YAMADA, Akira SATO
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Patent number: 12101963Abstract: A display device includes an active matrix substrate including a transistor element and a light-emitting element layer provided on the active matrix substrate and including a first electrode, a second electrode, a function layer including a light-emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a sealing layer. The display device includes: a half mirror provided on a display surface side of the light-emitting element layer; and a first ?/4 plate, a reflective polarizer, and an absorbing polarizer which are provided in order from the light-emitting element layer side between the light-emitting element layer and the half mirror.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuzo Yuki, Kiyoshi Minoura, Kohzoh Nakamura, Akira Sakai
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Publication number: 20240301476Abstract: An analysis method according to the present disclosure includes: mixing a binding substance and a sample including a target substance. The binding substance includes a nucleic acid region composed of a nucleic acid and having activity to bind to the target substance; removing the binding substance not bound to the target substance; amplifying the nucleic acid region; and detecting a phenomenon caused by the amplification of the nucleic acid region. For example, the analysis method includes: forming a complex of a template nucleic acid including a sequence complementary to a 3? side sequence of the nucleic acid region; and amplifying the nucleic acid region by an action of a nucleic acid amplifying enzyme using the complex as a starting point.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Akira NUKAZUKA, Teppei SAKAI, Mana ASANO, Kei HAYAKAWA, Kazuhisa NAKAGAWA, Mai NIIMOTO
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Patent number: 12083434Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having instructions stored therein causes at least one processor of a game apparatus to: communicate with a distribution system configured to distribute videos to a plurality of terminal apparatuses; progress a computer game; generate, based on a progress of the computer game, video information that is used to play a video of the computer game indicating a state of a virtual space of the computer game; supply the video information to the distribution system; acquire spectator apparatus information from the distribution system, the spectator apparatus information relating to at least one spectator apparatus that is a part of the plurality of terminal apparatus, and receives a video based on the video information from the distribution system; and control display of an advertisement in the virtual space, based on the spectator apparatus information.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiaki Kanahara, Shigeru Chiba, Kai Inoue, Junki Hirai, Tsuguo Shinpo, Akira Sakai
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Patent number: 12078878Abstract: A viewing angle control liquid crystal panel includes: a first polarizer having a first absorption axis; a first liquid crystal panel including a first substrate, a first liquid crystal layer, and a second substrate; a second liquid crystal panel including a third substrate, a second liquid crystal layer, and a fourth substrate; and a third liquid crystal panel including a fifth substrate, a third liquid crystal layer, and a sixth substrate. The following equations are satisfied, where ?P1 is an azimuth angle of the first absorption axis and ?1, ?2, ?3, ?4, ?5, and ?6 are azimuth angles of directors of liquid crystal molecules on first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth substrate sides: 0°?|?1??2|?5° 0°?|?P1??1|?5° 0°?|?3??4|?5° 0°?|?5??6|?5°.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2024Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Koji Murata, Akira Hirai, Takashi Satoh, Akira Sakai, Kiyoshi Minoura
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Publication number: 20240290814Abstract: A first light-receiving device of an embodiment of the disclosure includes: a first semiconductor substrate having first and second surfaces opposed to each other, receiving application of a first potential, and including light-receiving elements arranged two-dimensionally in matrix; a second semiconductor substrate having third and fourth surfaces opposed to each other, with the first surface and the third surface being disposed to be opposed to each other, receiving application of a second potential lower than the first potential, and including a logic circuit that processes a light-receiving signal based on electric charge outputted from the plurality of light-receiving elements; and an interlayer insulating layer provided between the first and second semiconductor substrates, in which the second semiconductor substrate has a side surface recessed more inward than a side surface of the first semiconductor substrate, and the side surface of the second semiconductor substrate is coated with a protective filmType: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2022Publication date: August 29, 2024Inventors: TORU SHIRAKATA, HIKARU IWATA, MASANARI YAMAGUCHI, KAZUNOBU OTA, ATSUHIRO ANDO, DAIKI SAKAI, AKIRA MAEHARA
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Patent number: 12068106Abstract: In a solenoid valve, a length in an axial direction from a stator core end surface to a bottom portion of a yoke is equal to or longer than a total length in the axial direction of a shaft and a plunger. When the shaft and the plunger move to the bottom portion side, the stator core end surface and the spool end surface come into contact with each other so as to restrict a movement of a spool. A groove portion, which communicates a space formed by the stator core, the spool, and the shaft with an accommodating portion when the stator core end surface and the spool end surface come into contact with each other, is formed on at least one of the stator core end surface and the spool end surface, and a communication hole communicates an inside and an outside of the accommodating portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Akira Sakai
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Publication number: 20240272463Abstract: A viewing angle control liquid crystal panel includes: a first polarizer having a first absorption axis; a first liquid crystal panel including a first substrate, a first liquid crystal layer, and a second substrate; a second liquid crystal panel including a third substrate, a second liquid crystal layer, and a fourth substrate; and a third liquid crystal panel including a fifth substrate, a third liquid crystal layer, and a sixth substrate. The following equations are satisfied, where ?P1 is an azimuth angle of the first absorption axis and ?1, ?2, ?3, ?4, ?5, and ?6 are azimuth angles of directors of liquid crystal molecules on first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth substrate sides: 0°?|?1??2|?5° 0°?|?P1??1|?5° 0°?|?3??4|?5° 0°?|?5??6|?5°.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Koji Murata, Akira Hirai, Takashi Satoh, Akira Sakai, Kiyoshi Minoura
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Publication number: 20240241078Abstract: An ion sensor includes an ion detection element, a reference electrode that provides a reference point of a potential, and a solution in which an ion concentration can be changed in a sensing area of the ion detection element. The sensing area of the ion detection element is disposed in the solution. A method for detecting a target substance employs an ion sensor. The target substance bound to a label having a function of changing the amount of ions detectable by the ion sensor is introduced into the solution, and a change in the amount of ions is detected using the ion sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2024Publication date: July 18, 2024Inventors: Kazuhisa NAKAGAWA, Yuhei Shimizu, Daisuke Kobayashi, Masashi Suzuki, Akira Nukazuka, Teppei Sakai, Kei Hayakawa, Kazuhiko Kano, Mana Asano
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Publication number: 20240241300Abstract: Provided are an optical element that has a high diffraction efficiency and can be produced through a simple procedure, a method of producing the optical element, and a mask set for use in production of the optical element. The optical element of the present invention includes an optically anisotropic layer containing anisotropic molecules. The optically anisotropic layer includes a first region that is a region where the anisotropic molecules are not twist-aligned in a film thickness direction of the optically anisotropic layer, and a second region that is a region where the anisotropic molecules are twist-aligned in the film thickness direction of the optically anisotropic layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2023Publication date: July 18, 2024Inventors: Ryosuke SAIGUSA, Yuichi KAWAHIRA, Akira SAKAI
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Patent number: 12036315Abstract: Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for oral administration in which the solubility and/or dissolution properties of enzalutamide are improved and supersaturation is maintained. Also provided is a pharmaceutical composition for oral administration in which the oral absorbability of enzalutamide is improved. The pharmaceutical composition for oral administration comprises enzalutamide and polyvinyl alcohol.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Astellas Pharma Inc.Inventors: Yoshiaki Umemoto, Takatsune Yoshida, Sachie Namiki, Akira Takagi, Ryo Kojima, Toshiro Sakai, Shinsuke Oba, Hajime Aoki
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Publication number: 20240210721Abstract: Provided are an active retarder for 3D image display with an improved balance of display quality between the left and right eyes and with sufficiently reduced crosstalk, and a display device using the same. The active retarder for 3D image display, the active retarder including: an optical laminate that includes: a pair of substrates; a pair of electrodes disposed between the pair of substrates; a liquid crystal layer formed from a liquid crystal material containing liquid crystal molecules; columnar spacers; and light-blocking components each shielding the corresponding columnar spacer from light limitedly.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: June 27, 2024Inventors: Takahiro SASAKI, Hiromi MATSUMOTO, Takashi SATOH, Akira SAKAI
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Publication number: 20240184163Abstract: Provided is an optical element including a phase difference layer. The phase difference layer is a laminate of n first phase difference layers and m second phase difference layers. The n first phase difference layers each contain first anisotropic molecules with tilt angles different between a viewing surface side and a back surface side. The m second phase difference layers each contain second anisotropic molecules with tilt angles different between a viewing surface side and a back surface side. Slow axes of the n first phase difference layers are in a same orientation. Slow axes of the m second phase difference layers are in a same orientation. The slow axes of the n first phase difference layers and the slow axes of the m second phase difference layers are anti-parallel to each other and are parallel to or perpendicular to the transmission axis of the first polarizer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2023Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Yuichi KAWAHIRA, Masahiro HASEGAWA, Ryosuke SAIGUSA, Jianeng XU, Akira SAKAI