Patents by Inventor Daisuke Hattori
Daisuke Hattori 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: 11966075Abstract: There is provided an optical member that can achieve a backlight unit excellent in brightness uniformity. The optical member includes: a light guide plate having an end surface that light from a light source enters, an emitting surface from which the entered light is emitted, and a light extraction pattern arranged on a surface opposite to the emitting surface; and a reflective plate bonded to the light guide plate via a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film. An outer edge of the light guide plate is positioned outside an outer edge of the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film, and the outer edge of the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film is positioned outside an outer edge of the light extraction pattern.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Yoshikawa, Daisuke Hattori, Ryota Morishima, Atsushi Kishi
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Publication number: 20240101870Abstract: The present invention provides a void-containing layer in which a pressure-sensitive adhesive or an adhesive is less liable to penetrate into voids. A void-containing layer of the present invention, includes: particles chemically bonding to each other, wherein the void-containing layer has a void fraction of 35 vol % or more, the particle is an inorganic-organic composite particle in which an organic group is bonded to an inorganic compound, the organic group includes a R1 group which is a linear or branched alkyl group and a R2 group which is a group containing a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond, and a molar ratio of the R2 group relative to a sum of the R1 group and the R2 group is from 1 to 30 mol %.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Hattori, Ryota Morishima, Atsushi Kishi
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Patent number: 11921311Abstract: Provided is a lighting apparatus having high light entrance efficiency with respect to a light guide plate, and being excellent in tint of light emitted from the light guide plate. The lighting apparatus of the present invention includes: an LED package; a light guide plate, which includes a main surface serving as a light emission surface, and a side surface serving as a light entrance surface, and which is arranged so that the side surface is opposed to the LED package; and a low-refractive index layer arranged between the LED package and the light guide plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Yoshikawa, Daisuke Hattori, Ryota Morishima
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Publication number: 20240066582Abstract: A die support mechanism includes: a die holding member including a slit horizontally passing through the die holding member, wherein a lower side from the slit forms a die holding base configured to hold a blanking die having a punch hole, an upper side from the slit forms a ceiling portion having a ceiling hole concentric with the punch hole, a part of a sheet metal inserted in the slit is punched out as a blank by a blanking punch, and the ceiling portion separates the sheet metal from the blanking punch; a support base configured to horizontally slidably support the die holding member; and a guide portion formed on an inner surface of the ceiling hole and configured to come into sliding contact with the blanking punch and to slide the die holding member to a position where the punch hole is centered on the blanking punch.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: ASAHI-SEIKI MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro YANO, Daisuke HATTORI
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Patent number: 11912053Abstract: To provide a coating liquid for release layer with which a release layer having a small variation in the performance difference can be stably formed, to provide a method for producing a thermal transfer sheet using this coating liquid for release layer, and to provide a thermal transfer sheet having stable releasability. A thermal transfer sheet having a substrate, a release layer provided on the substrate, and a transfer layer provided on the release layer, wherein the transfer layer is provided peelably from the release layer, and the release layer contains a silsesquioxane.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuya Yoshida, Tomohiko Imoda, Yoshihiro Imakura, Yasuyuki Shouji, Daisuke Fukui, Ryoji Hattori, Koichiro Kuroda
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Patent number: 11913775Abstract: The present invention provides an intra-hoistway measurement system automatically measuring dimensions within an elevator hoistway prior to elevator installation to reduce labor of workers. An intra-hoistway measurement system according to the present invention includes: a reference laser device that is mounted to a structure on a ceiling or in an upper portion of the hoistway for an elevator and emits a laser beam toward a lowermost part; a mobile measuring device that has a plane measuring device to measure horizontal dimensions within the hoistway; and a moving device that is mounted to the structure on the ceiling or in the upper portion of the hoistway and moves the mobile measuring device up and down. The mobile measuring device has a reference laser detection device that detects the laser beam emitted from the reference laser device, and an attitude detection device that detects its own attitude.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: HITACHI BUILDING SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki Hatano, Daisuke Matsuka, Makoto Hattori, Yuta Hamada, Hirofumi Taguchi, Masato Itou
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Patent number: 11891549Abstract: There is provided an optical laminate with pressure-sensitive adhesive layers on both surfaces, which is suppressed damage from occurring to a low-refractive index layer in vacuum lamination while maintaining excellent characteristics of the low-refractive index layer. An optical laminate with pressure-sensitive adhesive layers on both surfaces according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a substrate; a low-retractive index layer formed on the substrate; a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer arranged so as to be adjacent to the low-refractive index layer; and a second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer serving as one outermost layer. The low-refractive index layer has a porosity of 50% or more, the first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a storage modulus of elasticity of from 1.3×105 (Pa) to 1.0×107 (Pa), and the second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a storage modulus of elasticity of 1.0×105 (Pa) or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Hattori, Atsushi Kishi, Ryota Morishima
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Patent number: 11853992Abstract: A settlement device includes a packing unit located near a reading unit to pack a commodity, a symbol of which is read by a reading unit, a measuring unit to measure the packed commodity, a light emitting unit, determining means for determining, using data of weight measured, whether the commodity, the symbol of which is read, is packed, and light-emission controller for, if determining that the commodity, the symbol of which is read, is packed, causing the light emitting unit to emit light in a first form and, if determining that the commodity, the symbol of which is read, is not packed, causing the light emitting unit to emit light in a second form.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Kawaguchi, Hidehiro Naito, Shinsuke Yajima, Daisuke Hattori, Masaki Ito, Takahiro Saitou, Kota Suzuki
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Publication number: 20230350129Abstract: A backlight unit includes: a light source; a light guide plate arranged to face the light source, having an end surface that light from the light source enters; and an emitting surface from which the entered light is emitted; a reflective plate bonded to a back surface side of the light guide plate via a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film; and a casing having a front portion and a back portion, the casing configured to store the light source, the light guide plate, and the reflective plate. The backlight unit is configured so that light from the light source is free from entering a space between the low-refractive index layer and the reflective plate, or so that light that has entered the space between the low-refractive index layer and the reflective plate from a light source is free from being emitted from the emitting surface of the light guide plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro YOSHIKAWA, Daisuke HATTORI, Ryota MORISHIMA, Atsushi KISHI
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Publication number: 20230312991Abstract: An optical laminate includes: a low-refractive index layer; a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer arranged adjacent to the low-refractive index layer; and a second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer serving as one outermost layer. The low-refractive index layer has a porosity of 40 vol % or more; the first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a storage modulus of elasticity at 23° C. of from 1.0×105 (Pa) to 1.0×107 (Pa); the second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a storage modulus of elasticity at 23° C. of 1.0×105 (Pa) or less; a ratio of a thickness of the low-refractive index layer to a total thickness of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layers present in the optical laminate with pressure-sensitive adhesive layers on both surfaces is from 0.10% to 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2021Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Hattori, Ryota Morishima, Takahiro Yoshikawa, Atsushi Kishi
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Patent number: 11674004Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a laminated film including a void-provided layer achieving both a high proportion of void space and a high film strength. The laminated film of the present invention includes a void-provided layer 21 and a resin film 10, the void-provided layer 21 being stacked on the resin film 10. The laminated film is produced by a production method, including steps of forming a void-provided structure 20?, which is a precursor of the void-provided layer 21 on the resin film; and causing a crosslinking reaction in the precursor 20? after the precursor forming step. The precursor 20? contains a substance that generates a basic substance by light irradiation or heating, the basic substance is not generated in the precursor forming step, the basic substance is generated by light irradiation or heating in the crosslinking reaction step, and the crosslinking reaction step has multiple stages.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Hattori, Hiromoto Haruta, Kozo Nakamura, Hiroyuki Takemoto
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Publication number: 20230152509Abstract: Provided is an optical member, which is suppressed from causing a reduction in display quality due to wear or a flaw resulting from its vibration while maintaining the excellent characteristics of its low-refractive index layer. The optical member includes: a light guide plate having an end surface that light from a light source enters and an emitting surface from which the entered light is emitted; and a reflective plate bonded to a side of the light guide plate opposite to the emitting surface via a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film. The double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film includes a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, a low-refractive index layer, and a second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer from the light guide plate side. The optical member further includes a surface-treated layer formed on a side of the reflective plate opposite to the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Yoshikawa, Daisuke Hattori, Ryota Morishima, Atsushi Kishi
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Publication number: 20230145275Abstract: Provided is a lighting apparatus having high light entrance efficiency with respect to a light guide plate, and being excellent in tint of light emitted from the light guide plate. The lighting apparatus of the present invention includes: an LED package; a light guide plate, which includes a main surface serving as a light emission surface, and a side surface serving as a light entrance surface, and which is arranged so that the side surface is opposed to the LED package; and a low-refractive index layer arranged between the LED package and the light guide plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Yoshikawa, Daisuke Hattori, Ryota Morishima
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Publication number: 20230129382Abstract: A backlight unit includes: a light source; a light guide plate having an end surface that is arranged to face the light source, and that light from the light source enters, and an emitting surface from which the entered light is emitted; a casing having a front portion and a back portion, the casing being configured to store the light source and the light guide plate; and an optical pressure-sensitive adhesive film arranged between the front portion of the casing on a light source side and the light guide plate, the optical pressure-sensitive adhesive film being bonded to the light guide plate. The optical pressure-sensitive adhesive film includes a light-absorbing layer, a substrate, a low-refractive index layer, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in the stated order from a front portion side of the casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Hattori, Takahiro Yoshikawa, Ryota Morishima, Atsushi Kishi
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Publication number: 20230110580Abstract: There is provided an optical member that can achieve a backlight unit excellent in brightness uniformity. The optical member includes: a light guide plate having an end surface that light from a light source enters, an emitting surface from which the entered light is emitted, and a light extraction pattern arranged on a surface opposite to the emitting surface; and a reflective plate bonded to the light guide plate via a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film. An outer edge of the light guide plate is positioned outside an outer edge of the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film, and the outer edge of the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film is positioned outside an outer edge of the light extraction pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Yoshikawa, Daisuke Hattori, Ryota Morishima, Atsushi Kishi
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Patent number: 11618807Abstract: A film is provided with void spaces having a porous structure with less cracks and a high proportion of void space as well as having strength. The film with void spaces includes one kind or two or more kinds of structural units that form a structure with minute void spaces, wherein the structural units are chemically bonded through catalysis. For example, the abrasion resistance measured with BEMCOT® is in the range from 60% to 100%, and the folding endurance measured by the MIT test is 100 times or more. The film with void spaces can be produced by forming the precursor of the silicone porous body using sol containing pulverized products of a gelled silicon compound and then chemically bonding the pulverized products contained in the precursor of the silicone porous body. The chemical bond among the pulverized products is preferably a chemical crosslinking bond among the pulverized products.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Hattori, Hiromoto Haruta, Kozo Nakamura, Kazuki Uwada, Hiroyuki Takemoto, Nao Murakami
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Publication number: 20230032651Abstract: A self-checkout apparatus of an embodiment has: a display unit that displays information to inform an operator; a reading unit that is positioned in a lateral side of the display unit and receives input of information of a product by reading a code symbol; and a housing base that is positioned below the display unit, the housing base for placing the product after information reception by the reading unit and for placing a housing tool for housing the product; wherein the reading unit is positioned between the display unit and the housing base in a height direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Yuki KAWAGUCHI, Hidehiro NAITO, Shinsuke YAJIMA, Daisuke HATTORI, Masaki ITO, Takahiro SAITOU, Kota SUZUKI
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Patent number: 11536877Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a laminated optical film achieving both a high proportion of void space (porosity) and superior abrasion resistance. The laminated optical film of the present invention includes: a void-provided layer; a resin film; and a cover layer, wherein the void-provided layer is formed on the resin film, the cover layer is formed directly on the void-provided layer, and the void-provided layer has a contact angle with water of 90° or more and a proportion of void space of 30 vol % or more.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Hattori, Kozo Nakamura, Kazuhito Hosokawa
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Patent number: 11524481Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a low refractive index layer that can attain both a low refractive index and a high mechanical strength even when it has a large thickness. The low refractive index layer of the present invention is a low refractive index layer in the form of a void-containing layer, wherein hollow particles each having a void space inside are further contained in the void-containing layer, and the low refractive index layer has a refractive index of 1.25 or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2016Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Hattori, Kazuhito Hosokawa
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Publication number: 20220383288Abstract: A product reading device of an embodiment that reads a code symbol attached to a product, the product reading device includes a first reading unit that forms a reading region, in which the code symbol can be read, on a side where an operator is located; a second reading unit that is provided at a position different from that of the first reading unit, and forms the reading region on the side where the operator is located; and a controller that reads code information held in the code symbol from a reading result of the first reading unit or the second reading unit, wherein the reading region of the first reading unit and the reading region of the second reading unit at least partially overlap.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Shinsuke YAJIMA, Hidehiro NAITO, Masaki ITO, Yuki KAWAGUCHI, Daisuke HATTORI, Takahiro SAITOU, Kota SUZUKI