Patents by Inventor Hidenori Mizuno
Hidenori Mizuno 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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Publication number: 20220416103Abstract: Reliability of a semiconductor device is improved. A solar battery includes: a solar battery element SB1 including an interface S1; a solar battery element SB2 including an interface S2 facing the interface S1; and a junction layer 120 being in contact with the interface S1 and the interface S2 and having light transmissivity. In this case, the junction layer 120 includes: a plurality of conductive nanoparticles 105 electrically connecting the solar battery element SB1 and the solar battery element SB2; and an adhesive material 116 filling gaps among the plurality of conductive nanoparticles 105. The interface S1 includes: a flat surface FT having concavity/convexity that is equal to or smaller than 2/3 times the minimum thickness of the junction layer 120; and a concave portion DIT having a depth that is equal to or larger than twice the minimum thickness of the junction layer 120 with respect to the flat surface FT.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Kikuo MAKITA, Yukiko KAMIKAWA, Takeyoshi SUGAYA, Hidenori MIZUNO
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Patent number: 10608136Abstract: [Problem] The present invention provides a method for bonding semiconductor elements while assuring excellent electric conductivity and transparency at an interface, and a junction structure according to the bonding method. The present invention also provides a method for bonding semiconductor elements wherein excellent electric conductivity is assured at an interface and optical characteristics favorable for element characteristics can be designed, and a junction structure according to the bonding method. [Solution] Electrically conductive nano particles which are not covered with organic molecules are arrayed on a surface of one semiconductor element without causing optical loss, and another semiconductor element is pressure-bonded thereagainst.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Hidenori Mizuno, Kikuo Makita
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Patent number: 9743656Abstract: A grain pest control apparatus includes an input unit adapted to accept input of grain; a heating unit adapted to heat the grain supplied from the input unit; and a removal unit adapted to remove heat from the grain heated by the heating unit, wherein the removal unit includes a cylindrical body provided with an air passage hole in a wall surface and adapted to receive the heated grain and a heat collecting chamber installed by surrounding the cylindrical body and connected to an exhaust channel, and removes heat from the heated grain by causing air supplied into the cylindrical body to pass through the air passage hole and escape via the heat collecting chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2013Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: SATAKE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo Kawashima, Hidenori Mizuno, Kazunobu Kajihara, Yoichiro Ogura, Yasunori Koike
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Patent number: 9578983Abstract: An object of this invention is to provide a parboiled rice manufacturing apparatus capable of efficiently manufacturing good-quality parboiled rice without increasing the overall size of the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Satake CorporationInventors: Hideaki Matsushima, Hidenori Mizuno, Keishi Wakabayashi, Akiko Nishimura, Naoya Uemuki
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Publication number: 20150351431Abstract: A method of obtaining whole-grain rice power with higher added value by using brown rice after GABA enriching treatment to unhulled rice, in which heated/humidified air is applied to the unhulled rice, treatment for enriching a GABA content contained in the unhulled rice is executed and then, the unhulled rice is dried to a predetermined moisture and subsequently, the unhulled rice is hulled to obtain brown rice, the brown rice is subjected to grain-sorting so as to extract immature rice, and the immature rice is milled to obtain the whole-grain rice powder, whereby a high added value can be given to immature rice which conventionally only had to be sold inexpensively.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2014Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Hidenori Mizuno, Tsuyoshi Fujishima
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Publication number: 20150113856Abstract: A grain pest control apparatus includes an input unit adapted to accept input of grain; a heating unit adapted to heat the grain supplied from the input unit; and a removal unit adapted to remove heat from the grain heated by the heating unit, wherein the removal unit includes a cylindrical body provided with an air passage hole in a wall surface and adapted to receive the heated grain and a heat collecting chamber installed by surrounding the cylindrical body and connected to an exhaust channel, and removes heat from the heated grain by causing air supplied into the cylindrical body to pass through the air passage hole and escape via the heat collecting chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Hideo Kawashima, Hidenori Mizuno, Kazunobu Kajihara, Yoichiro Ogura, Yasunori Koike
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Publication number: 20140251161Abstract: An object of this invention is to provide a parboiled rice manufacturing apparatus capable of efficiently manufacturing good-quality parboiled rice without increasing the overall size of the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2011Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: SATAKE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideaki Matsushima, Hidenori Mizuno, Keishi Wakabayashi, Akiko Nishimura, Naoya Uemuki
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Publication number: 20140238485Abstract: [Problem] The present invention provides a method for bonding semiconductor elements while assuring excellent electric conductivity and transparency at an interface, and a junction structure according to the bonding method. The present invention also provides a method for bonding semiconductor elements wherein excellent electric conductivity is assured at an interface and optical characteristics favorable for element characteristics can be designed, and a junction structure according to the bonding method. [Solution] Electrically conductive nano particles which are not covered with organic molecules are arrayed on a surface of one semiconductor element without causing optical loss, and another semiconductor element is pressure-bonded thereagainst.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2012Publication date: August 28, 2014Inventors: Hidenori Mizuno, Kikuo Makita
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Patent number: 8399037Abstract: Grain or legume having an increased content of a functional component (?-aminobutyric acid) is obtained by humidifying grain (such as rice, wheat or corn) or legume (such as soybean and adzuki bean) by forcing the grain into an air having a temperature of 50° C. or more and a relative humidity of 90% or more such that a moisture content thereof rises within the range of 16.0% to 18.5%, and thereafter, drying the grain or legume.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2008Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Satake CorporationInventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Hidenori Mizuno, Keishi Wakabayashi, Hou Qing Liu, Shinya Ochiai
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Patent number: 8342117Abstract: There is provided a coating apparatus capable of continuously producing coated rice having powdered coating material adhered to the grains and including a drying process to prevent the grains from being bonded to one another and make the grain surfaces smoother upon drying of the grains. The coating apparatus comprising a binder coating unit for applying liquid binder to the grains being conveyed through a coating and stirring chamber to coat the grain surfaces with the binder; a adhering unit for adding powder material to the grains conveyed through a adhering and stirring chamber to adhere the powdered material to the grain surface by the binder; and a drying unit including a drying and stirring chamber through which the grains are conveyed while being stirred, a blow passage for blowing hot air into the drying chamber to dry the grains, and an exhaust passage for exhausting the hot air from the drying chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Satake CorporationInventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Hidenori Mizuno, Syuji Morito, Hiroyuki Maehara, Keishi Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20110151086Abstract: Grain or legume having an increased content of a functional component (?-aminobutyric acid) is obtained by humidifying grain (such as rice, wheat or corn) or legume (such as soybean and adzuki bean) by forcing the grain into an air having a temperature of 50° C. or more and a relative humidity of 90% or more such that a moisture content thereof rises within the range of 16.0% to 18.5%, and thereafter, drying the grain or legume.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2011Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: SATAKE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Hidenori Mizuno, Hou Qing Liu
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Publication number: 20100242838Abstract: There is provided a coating apparatus capable of continuously producing coated rice having powdered coating material adhered to the grains and including a drying process to prevent the grains from being bonded to one another and make the grain surfaces smoother upon drying of the grains. The coating apparatus comprising a binder coating unit for applying liquid binder to the grains being conveyed through a coating and stirring chamber to coat the grain surfaces with the binder; a adhering unit for adding powder material to the grains conveyed through a adhering and stirring chamber to adhere the powdered material to the grain surface by the binder; and a drying unit including a drying and stirring chamber through which the grains are conveyed while being stirred, a blow passage for blowing hot air into the drying chamber to dry the grains, and an exhaust passage for exhausting the hot air from the drying chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2008Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: Satake CorporationInventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Hidenori Mizuno, Syuji Morito, Hiroyuki Maehara, Keishi Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20080286435Abstract: Grain or legume having an increased content of a functional component (?-aminobutyric acid) is obtained by humidifying grain (such as rice, wheat or corn) or legume (such as soybean and adzuki bean) by forcing the grain into an air having a temperature of 50° C. or more and a relative humidity of 90% or more such that a moisture content thereof rises within the range of 16.0% to 18.5%, and thereafter, drying the grain or legume.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2008Publication date: November 20, 2008Applicant: SATAKE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Hidenori Mizuno, Keishi Wakabayashi, Hou Qing Liu, Shinya Ochiai
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Publication number: 20070196559Abstract: By use of a device having a construction similar to that of a grain dryer, high-humidity air is applied to brown rice that is being transferred in a circulating manner through the device, the moisture of the brown rice is increased at water addition rates of 0.1 to 0.3%/hour in the range of 16.5 to 18.5% and the brown rice is thereafter left at rest in the device, in a state where blowing of air and circulated transfer of the brown rice are stopped. As a result, the functional component of ?-aminobutyric acid (GABA) contained in the brown rice is increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2007Publication date: August 23, 2007Applicant: SATAKE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Hou Qing Liu, Hidenori Mizuno, Motonobu Kawano
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Patent number: 6318000Abstract: The circulating type grain drying machine is provided in which, at the grain filling operation, a controller causes a first heated air generator to operate and a second heated air generator to stop operating, and also causes, according to the detected values of the outside air humidity from an outside air humidity detector, an airflow control section to operate so as to change the quantity of the airflow by an air exhaust section. Also, at the drying operation, the controller controls the first heated air generator and controls the temperature of the heated air supplied into each heating pipe according to the detected values of the grain water content value, and controls the second heated air generator and controls the temperature of the temperature of the heated air supplied into the drying section according to the detected values of the grain water content values and the grain filling amount.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2000Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Satake CorporationInventors: Satoru Satake, Hideaki Matsushima, Toshinori Matsumoto, Hidenori Mizuno