Patents by Inventor Fumiaki Kunimoto

Fumiaki Kunimoto 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: 11428824
    Abstract: A scintillator module includes a substrate, a columnar scintillator crystal layer formed on the substrate, and a non-adhesive moisture-proof member having a given hardness and opposing a crystal growing side of the columnar scintillator crystal layer. The moisture-proof member ensures a void between the moisture-proof member and individual conic peak portions of columnar scintillator crystals forming the columnar scintillator crystal layer under vacuum sealing, and holds the columnar scintillator crystal layer in a moisture-proof state between a moisture-proof layer and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: YMIT Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumiaki Kunimoto, Satomi Onishi
  • Publication number: 20220043171
    Abstract: A scintillator module includes a substrate, a columnar scintillator crystal layer formed on the substrate, and a non-adhesive moisture-proof member having a given hardness and opposing a crystal growing side of the columnar scintillator crystal layer. The moisture-proof member ensures a void between the moisture-proof member and individual conic peak portions of columnar scintillator crystals forming the columnar scintillator crystal layer under vacuum sealing, and holds the columnar scintillator crystal layer in a moisture-proof state between a moisture-proof layer and the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: YASU MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiaki KUNIMOTO, Satomi ONISHI
  • Patent number: 11194060
    Abstract: An electromagnetic radiation detector of an embodiment includes a first scintillation detector that detects incidence of electromagnetic radiation and includes a first scintillator that outputs photons in response to the incidence of electromagnetic radiation; a second scintillation detector that detects scattered electromagnetic radiation exiting from the first scintillation detector, the scattered electromagnetic radiation that occurs inside the first scintillation detector due to Compton scattering of the electromagnetic radiation; and a multi-channel analyzer that performs multi-channel analysis of a result of the detection by the first scintillation detector, the result being other than results of the detection, timing of which is considered to coincide with timing of the detection by the second scintillation detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKA, YASU MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norio Ito, Fumiaki Kunimoto
  • Publication number: 20210173101
    Abstract: An electromagnetic radiation detector of an embodiment includes a first scintillation detector that detects incidence of electromagnetic radiation and includes a first scintillator that outputs photons in response to the incidence of electromagnetic radiation; a second scintillation detector that detects scattered electromagnetic radiation exiting from the first scintillation detector, the scattered electromagnetic radiation that occurs inside the first scintillation detector due to Compton scattering of the electromagnetic radiation; and a multi-channel analyzer that performs multi-channel analysis of a result of the detection by the first scintillation detector, the result being other than results of the detection, timing of which is considered to coincide with timing of the detection by the second scintillation detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicants: University Public Corporation Osaka, Yasu Medical Imaging Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio ITO, Fumiaki KUNIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10871581
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a scintillator module includes a moisture-proof welding layer and a resin case. The moisture-proof welding layer is formed of a material having a welding property and a moisture-proof property, and extends to a side surface of a fiber optic plate to cover, in a sealed state, a scintillator layer and a visible-light reflective layer laminated on the fiber optic plate. The resin case covers the moisture-proof welding layer while being pressed against the side surface of the fiber optic plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: YASU MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fumiaki Kunimoto
  • Publication number: 20190369270
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a scintillator module includes a moisture-proof welding layer and a resin case. The moisture-proof welding layer is formed of a material having a welding property and a moisture-proof property, and extends to a side surface of a fiber optic plate to cover, in a sealed state, a scintillator layer and a visible-light reflective layer laminated on the fiber optic plate. The resin case covers the moisture-proof welding layer while being pressed against the side surface of the fiber optic plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: YASU MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fumiaki KUNIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10208246
    Abstract: An additive containing an ion as a luminescence center is added to alkali halide powder as a base material. Mechanical energy for applying an impact force, a shearing force, a shear stress, or a friction force is applied so as to grind or mix the alkali halide powder and the additive. The ion as the luminescence center is doped into the alkali halide as the base material so as to obtain alkali halide-based scintillator powder. With this process, the alkali halide-based scintillator powder can be manufactured at a room temperature in the atmospheric air without any complicated condition control or any process at a high temperature under high vacuum and a large-sized scintillator sheet can be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignees: OSAKA PREFECTURE UNIVERSITY Public Corporation, YASU MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taketoshi Kawai, Fumiaki Kunimoto
  • Patent number: 9977138
    Abstract: A thermal neutron detecting device comprises a scintillator unit including a scintillator layer and a nuclear capture reaction layer, and an optical sensor array unit. The scintillator layer emits light upon receiving incident gamma ray or charged particles. The nuclear capture reaction layer is laminated on a side of the scintillator layer on which the gamma ray or the charged particles are incident, and includes first cell regions and second cell regions two-dimensionally, dispersedly arranged along an incidence plane of the gamma ray or the charged particles. The first cell regions contain a 6Li compound as a nuclear capture reaction material yielding nuclear capture reaction with incident thermal neutrons to generate the charged particles. The second cell regions contain no nuclear capture reaction material. The optical sensor array unit is capable of detecting a quantity of the emitted light in association with each of the first and second cell regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: YASU MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fumiaki Kunimoto
  • Publication number: 20170329028
    Abstract: A thermal neutron detecting device comprises a scintillator unit, and an optical sensor array unit. The scintillator unit includes a scintillator layer and a nuclear capture reaction layer. The scintillator layer emits light upon receiving incident gamma ray or charged particles. The nuclear capture reaction layer is laminated on a side of the scintillator layer on which the gamma ray or the charged particles are incident, and includes first cell regions and second cell regions two-dimensionally, dispersedly arranged along an incidence plane of the gamma ray or the charged particles. The first cell regions contain a 6Li compound as a nuclear capture reaction material that yields nuclear capture reaction with incident thermal neutrons to generate the charged particles. The second cell regions contain no nuclear capture reaction material. The optical sensor array unit is capable of detectable of a quantity of the emitted light in association with each of the first and second cell regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: YASU MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fumiaki KUNIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160280992
    Abstract: An additive containing an ion as a luminescence center is added to alkali halide powder as a base material. Mechanical energy for applying an impact force, a shearing force, a shear stress, or a friction force is applied so as to grind or mix the alkali halide powder and the additive. The ion as the luminescence center is doped into the alkali halide as the base material so as to obtain alkali halide-based scintillator powder. With this process, the alkali halide-based scintillator powder can be manufactured at a room temperature in the atmospheric air without any complicated condition control or any process at a high temperature under high vacuum and a large-sized scintillator sheet can be produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicants: OSAKA PREFECTURE UNIVERSITY Public Corporation, YASU MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taketoshi KAWAI, Fumiaki KUNIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20090221208
    Abstract: Provided is an adjusting method of a gap width of a laminated body composed of a color filter substrate and a TFT array substrate. A decompression chamber acting as a closed space communicating with a vacuum pump is decompressed, while a pressurization chamber that includes a decompression chamber is pressurized by driving a compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventors: Takeshi Kobayashi, Fumiaki Kunimoto, Nobuo Shimizu
  • Patent number: 7527083
    Abstract: Provided is an adjusting method of a gap width of a laminated body composed of a color filter substrate and a TFT array substrate. A decompression chamber acting as a closed space communicating with a vacuum pump is decompressed, while a pressurization chamber that includes a decompression chamber is pressurized by driving a compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Kobayashi, Fumiaki Kunimoto, Nobuo Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20040149379
    Abstract: Provided is an adjusting method of a gap width of a laminated body composed of a color filter substrate and a TFT array substrate. A decompression chamber acting as a closed space communicating with a vacuum pump is decompressed, while a pressurization chamber that includes a decompression chamber is pressurized by driving a compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Takeshi Kobayashi, Fumiaki Kunimoto, Nobuo Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20020069961
    Abstract: Provided is an adjusting method of a gap width of a laminated body composed of a color filter substrate and a TFT array substrate. A decompression chamber acting as a closed space communicating with a vacuum pump is decompressed, while a pressurization chamber that includes a decompression chamber is pressurized by driving a compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2001
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Applicant: IBM
    Inventors: Takeshi Kobayashi, Fumiaki Kunimoto, Nobuo Shimizu