Patents by Inventor Fumio Shimano

Fumio Shimano 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: 11958783
    Abstract: A composition including a binder and a variable thermal conductivity material satisfying a conditional expression 1, wherein a content of the variable thermal conductivity material is from 300 parts by weight to 10,000 parts by weight with respect to a content of 100 parts by weight of the binder: ?max/?25?1.2??[conditional expression 1] (wherein, ?25 represents a thermal conductivity at 25° C., and ?max represents the maximum value of a thermal conductivity at 200° C. or 500° C.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Shimano, Atsunori Doi, Fumio Tamura
  • Publication number: 20170044436
    Abstract: A liquid-crystalline medium which contains at least one compound of the formula I, and at least one compound of the formula IA in which R1, R1*, R1A, R1A*, L1 and L2 have the meanings indicated in Claim 1. Uses of the medium in an active-matrix display or passive matrix display, for example based on the VA, PSA, PS-VA, PVA, MVA, PM-VA, PALC, FFS, UB-FFS, PS-FFS, IPS or PS-IPS effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Akihiro KOJIMA, Fumio SHIMANO
  • Patent number: 8349415
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium having high twist, to the use thereof for electro-optical purposes, and to displays containing this medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit Beschränkter Haftung
    Inventors: Akihiro Kojima, Fumio Shimano
  • Publication number: 20110315924
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium having high twist, to the use thereof for electro-optical purposes, and to displays containing this medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GmbH mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Akihiro Kojima, Fumio Shimano
  • Patent number: 7887717
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium having high twist, to the use thereof for electro-optical purposes, and to displays containing this medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft Mit Beschranker Haftung
    Inventors: Akihiro Kojima, Makoto Murakami, Fumio Shimano, Jeong-Hee Sung
  • Patent number: 7803434
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid-crystalline medium based on a mixture of polar compounds having negative dielectric anisotropy, which contains at least one compound of formula I and at least one compound of formula I*, and their use in an electro-optical display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Merck Patent GMBH
    Inventors: Akihiro Kojima, Fumio Shimano, Makoto Murakami, Jeong Hee Sung
  • Publication number: 20090225270
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium having high twist, to the use thereof for electro-optical purposes, and to displays containing this medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventors: Akihiro KOJIMA, Makoto Murakami, Fumio Shimano, Jeong-Hee Sung
  • Publication number: 20080191166
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid-crystalline medium based on a mixture of polar compounds having negative dielectric anisotropy, which contains at least one compound of formula I and at least one compound of formula I*, and their use in an electro-optical display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Akihiro Kojima, Fumio Shimano, Makoto Murakami, Jeong Hee Sung
  • Patent number: 6440506
    Abstract: The invention relates to supertwist liquid-crystal displays (STN-LCDs) having short switching times and good steepnesses and angle dependencies, and to the novel nematic liquid-crystal mixtures used therein, which comprise compounds having a 3,4,5-trifluorophenyl group together with compounds of formula I wherein R3 is an alkenyl group with 2 to 7 C atoms, R4 is an optionally fluorinated alkyl, alkoxy, alkenyl or alkenyloxy group with 1 to 12 C atoms, wherein one or two non-adjacent CH2 groups can be replaced by —O—, —CH═CH—, —CO—, —OCO— or —COO— in such a manner that O atoms are not directly adjacent to one another, or, in case m=1, R4 can also be Q—Y, Q is CF2, OCF2, CFH, OCFH or a single bond, Y is F or Cl, L1 and L2 are each independently H or F, and m is 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Akihiro Kojima, Fumio Shimano, Yukiko Fujii, Izumi Saito, Kazuo Totani
  • Patent number: 5827450
    Abstract: Liquid-crystalline medium based on a mixture of polar compounds having positive dielectric anisotropy, characterized in that it contains one or more compounds of the general formula I ##STR1## in which, R, A.sup.1, Z.sup.1, Y, ring B and m are as defined in claim 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Hiroshi Numata, Hideo Ichinose, Fumio Shimano