Patents by Inventor Atsushi Okada

Atsushi Okada 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: 20110169790
    Abstract: The present invention eliminates, for CC driving based on line inversion driving, the appearance of lateral stripes in a first frame in which an image corresponding to a video signal starts to be displayed. The present invention includes: a gate line driving circuit (30) which outputs a gate signal for turning on switching element on a corresponding row for a corresponding one of horizontal scanning periods which are sequentially allocated to the respective rows; a source bus line driving circuit which outputs a source signal for switching between line inversion driving and frame inversion driving; and a CS bus line driving circuit (40) which outputs a CS signal having a potential which is, after the horizontal scanning period for the row, switched in a direction (that is, either (from the low level to the high level or from the high level to the low level) determined in accordance with the polarity of the source signal during the horizontal scanning period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Takayuki Yanagawa, Atsushi Okada, Yasushi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 7965274
    Abstract: A display apparatus is disclosed that includes two opposing substrates, an electrophoretic element arranged between the substrates; pixel electrodes that are arranged on one of the substrates and are divided into pixel groups including at least a first pixel group and a second pixel group, a common electrode that is arranged on the other substrate, and a control unit that controls frame display operations of the pixel groups. The control unit controls the first pixel group to start frame display operations for displaying a frame and then controls the second pixel group to start frame display operations for displaying another frame before the frame display operations of the first pixel group are completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Okada, Shin Aoki, Takao Inoue
  • Publication number: 20110141426
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal panel unit having a liquid crystal panel and a flexible printed circuit connected to each other and a method for inspecting the same with which continuity between an electrode terminal on a panel substrate of the liquid crystal panel and a wiring pattern of the flexible printed circuit can be checked with a simple and reliable method. A liquid crystal panel (3) that has a panel substrate (2) and an opposite substrate (1) disposed opposite the panel substrate (2) via a liquid crystal layer, and a flexible printed circuit (10) in which a connection portion (14) of a wiring pattern (13) is connected to an electrode terminal (4) formed on the panel substrate (2) are provided. The electrode terminal (4) has an electrode inspection region (8) that is exposed in a state where the flexible printed circuit (10) is connected, and an opening portion (17) that exposes the wiring pattern (13) is formed in a base film (11) of the flexible printed circuit (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventor: Atsushi Okada
  • Publication number: 20110053409
    Abstract: The joint of the present invention facilitates connection and disconnection of the motor unit to and from the power cords in the hose, and makes the connecting area between these two parts as compact as practicable. In the joint, the motor-unit-side connector is arranged projecting from the connecting-end opening of the motor casing 10, whereas the power-cord-side connector is arranged offset from the connecting-end opening of the end cap 20, so that the two connectors are connectable inside the end cap 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Shinichirou Muto, Atsushi Okada
  • Publication number: 20110019356
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, coupling capacitance in a state in which a first heat radiation member is arranged between parallel flat plates of a first capacitor formed by a surface of a housing opposed to one surface of a printed circuit board and the printed circuit board is smaller than coupling capacitance in a state in which an object having a relative dielectric constant of 5.8 is arranged solid between the parallel flat plates of the first capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takakatsu MORIAI, Toyokazu Eguchi, Atsushi Kaneko, Atsushi Okada
  • Publication number: 20100128009
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes: a gate line drive circuit that outputs, in a horizontal scanning period which is sequentially allocated to each one of rows, a gate signal for turning on the switching element on one row; a source bus line drive circuit that outputs a source signal of which polarity is reversed in sync with the horizontal scanning period for each of the rows and of which polarity is opposite in an adjacent horizontal scanning period on one and the same row; a CS bus line drive circuit that outputs, after the horizontal scanning period for each of the rows, a CS signal of which potential is switched along a direction (from low level to high level or from high level to low level) determined according to the polarity of the source signal in the horizontal scanning period concerned, wherein the CS bus line drive circuit outputs the CS signal in a first frame so that a potential of the CS signal at a time of on-to-off switching of the switching element on the one row is different f
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Atsushi Okada, Yasushi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20100018765
    Abstract: The production process of an electromagnetic wave shielding material of the present invention comprises screen printing a conductive paste containing conductive particles, binder and solvent in a geometrical pattern on the surface of a transparent porous layer of a transparent resin substrate provided with the transparent porous layer, the porous layer containing as a main component thereof at least one type selected from the group consisting of an oxide ceramic, a non-oxide ceramic and a metal, followed by forming a conductive portion in a geometrical pattern on the surface of the transparent porous layer by heat treatment. An electromagnetic wave shielding material produced according to this production process has high electromagnetic wave shielding effects and superior transparency and visibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals ,Inc.
    Inventors: Wataru Suenaga, Atsushi Okada, Kohtaro Tanimura
  • Publication number: 20090282340
    Abstract: A display control apparatus which realizes display capable of providing an overview of a group of thumbnail images and which includes an object controller (52a) for performing control to, when a viewer (52) allocates images to be displayed to a predetermined number of image-frame objects (52g), in the case where the number of the images to be allocated to the individual image-frame objects exceeds the number of the image-frame objects (52g), allocate a plurality of images to at least some of the image-frame objects (52g) and, when the plurality of images are allocated to each image-frame object (52g), display all the images to be displayed within a certain time by switching the images to be displayed at predetermined time intervals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Atsushi Okada, Hideyuki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20090109145
    Abstract: When not receiving the next display-switch starting signal even after a specified time elapses from the application of a previous display driving voltage, a driving unit applies another preparatory driving voltage for generating a preparatory electric field capable of improving the response of colored particles to a driving electric field to an extent so as not to change the arrangement of the colored particles between pixel electrodes and a transparent electrode for a preparatory driving time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Atsushi Okada, Masahiro Yanagisawa, Yoshihisa Naijo
  • Publication number: 20080048968
    Abstract: A display apparatus is disclosed that includes two opposing substrates, an electrophoretic element arranged between the substrates; pixel electrodes that are arranged on one of the substrates and are divided into pixel groups including at least a first pixel group and a second pixel group, a common electrode that is arranged on the other substrate, and a control unit that controls frame display operations of the pixel groups. The control unit controls the first pixel group to start frame display operations for displaying a frame and then controls the second pixel group to start frame display operations for displaying another frame before the frame display operations of the first pixel group are completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: Atsushi OKADA, Shin Aoki, Takao Inoue
  • Publication number: 20070212536
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electromagnetic wave shielding material that has high electromagnetic wave shielding effects, excellent transparency, and excellent see-through property, and a simple and inexpensive production process for the electromagnetic wave shielding material. Specifically, the present invention provides a process for producing an electromagnetic wave shielding material, the process comprising screen-printing in a geometric pattern a conductive paste containing a particulate silver oxide, a tertiary fatty acid silver salt, and a solvent, onto a transparent porous layer surface of a transparent resin substrate having a transparent porous layer containing as a main component at least one member selected from the group consisting of oxide ceramics, non-oxide ceramics, and metals; and performing heat treatment to form a conductive region with a geometric pattern on the transparent porous layer surface; and an electromagnetic wave shielding material produced by the production process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2005
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Applicants: Gunze Limited, Fujikura Kasei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Okada, Akio Kiyohara, Hideki Tanaka, Toshiyuki Honda, Masafumi Ito, Junichi Kato, Noboru Toshima, Yasuhisa Nakao
  • Patent number: 7136825
    Abstract: A work assignment system for assigning and composing a work formed from a plurality of work standards to a plurality of stations. A display displays the names of the plurality of work standards as composition targets. A composition condition is input. The plurality of work standards are divided in accordance with the composition condition and one group of the divided work standards is assigned to a station. The assignment result of the work standards of each station to a work assignment file is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Araki, Atsushi Okada, Takashi Hirashima, Takashi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 7054826
    Abstract: An information management system includes a work standard creation subsystem, a standard manhour database, a standard manhour setting subsystem, and a work assignment subsystem. The information management system downloads a work standard group with manhour data from the standard manhour setting subsystem and divisionally composes the work standards of the work standard group to a plurality of stations on the basis of a composition condition input by the user into the work assignment subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Okada, Makoto Araki, Keiichiro Yokokawa, Hirotaka Mizuno, Yoshinori Sawamura, Tomoyuki Sonekawa
  • Patent number: 7036135
    Abstract: Disclosed is a centering device of a spindle motor. The centering device includes a body portion which is disposed on the rotor of the spindle motor, and which is provided with a central hole for accommodating the shaft of the spindle motor; and a plurality of centering elastic finger units, located along the periphery of the body portion. Each centering elastic finger unit includes at least two elastic fingers. Each elastic finger includes a free end which extends from the body portion in the circumferential direction of the rotor, and which has a contact portion adapted to urge against an optical disk to guide the centering of the optical disk with respect to the shaft of the spindle motor. Preferably, the contact portion is formed into an arc surface so as to reduce the contact area and thus the friction between the elastic fingers and the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jin-juh Hsu, Ming-tung Chuang, Atsushi Okada
  • Patent number: 6996578
    Abstract: In a work standard creation system, a work related to each work standard is described using an operation phrase representing an operation of the work, an object phrase representing a target of the operation, and a comment phrase representing auxiliary information related to the operation and/or object and input, and the three phrase data input for each work standard are stored in a memory together with identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Okada, Yoshinori Sawamura, Hiroyuki Shiiba, Tomonori Sawato
  • Publication number: 20050240390
    Abstract: In a work standard creation system, a work related to each work standard is described using an operation phrase representing an operation of the work, an object phrase representing a target of the operation, and a comment phrase representing auxiliary information related to the operation and/or object and input, and the three phrase data input for each work standard are stored in a memory together with identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2005
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Inventors: Atsushi Okada, Yoshinori Sawamura, Hiroyuki Shiiba, Tomonori Sawato
  • Patent number: 6934704
    Abstract: An automatic manhour setting system has a standard manhour database designed to be readable, in which a number of pairs each constituted by a work standard described by a standardized standard expression and a manhour corresponding to the work standard are registered in advance. For each target work standard to which a manhour is to be given, the system matches the expression of the target work standard with the standard expressions of the work standards in the standard manhour database, sets the standard manhour of the matching work standard in the database as the manhour of the target work standard, and outputs the set manhour file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Okada, Takashi Hirashima, Yoshinori Sawamura, Tomoyuki Sonekawa
  • Publication number: 20050150522
    Abstract: A method is provided for removing a resin layer of a resin-coated metal tube. The resin layer is removed with a laser beam. More particularly, the resin layer of a desired range is burned out by focusing the laser beam into a pinpoint without defocusing the sectional shape of the laser beam in the axial direction o the resin-coated metal tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicant: Usui Kokusai Sangyo Kaisha Limited
    Inventor: Atsushi Okada
  • Patent number: 6910018
    Abstract: In a client-server environment in which a plurality of clients are connected on a network, a manager of a company displays an approval request list window (07-01-00) in which a list of purchase-requested articles is displayed, on a client by a predetermined operation, selects a desired article from the articles displayed in the window, and clicks a software button “approval select” or “rejection select” in accordance with approval or rejection of the selected article. At this time, the article for which approval is selected can be formally ordered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Okada, Masayuki Sofue, Naotsugu Hiroki, Masahiro Yamamoto, Masaya Watanuki, Satoshi Takenaka
  • Patent number: D645965
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Nakanishi Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Muto, Atsushi Okada