Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Mihara
Hiroaki Mihara 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: 20240351331Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a print element substrate having an ejection port forming member including an ejection surface on which a plurality of ejection port arrays for ejecting liquid are formed and a protection member having an opening corresponding to one of the ejection port arrays, the protection member is provided with at least one recessed portion at an end parallel to a direction of the plurality of ejection port arrays in a direction orthogonal to the plurality of ejection port arrays and a projection portion projecting in the direction orthogonal to the plurality of ejection port arrays, the projection portion is provided inside the at least one recessed portion, and the ejection port forming member has a corresponding recessed portion corresponding to the projection portion in the direction orthogonal to the plurality of ejection port arrays.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Inventors: KOICHI ISHIDA, SHUZO IWANAGA, HIROAKI MIHARA, SATOSHI KIMURA, TOMOHIRO SATO
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Publication number: 20240217233Abstract: A liquid ejection head according to the present disclosure includes: a printing element substrate including an ejection surface provided with a first ejection orifice array in which an ejection orifice configured to be capable of ejecting a liquid is arranged in plurality in an array direction and a second ejection orifice array arranged in a direction intersecting with the array direction and the first ejection orifice array; and a protective member provided with a first opening corresponding to the first ejection orifice array and a second opening corresponding to the second ejection orifice array, wherein the protective member is arranged adjacent to the ejection surface of the printing element substrate via an adhesive arranged between the first ejection orifice array and the second ejection orifice array.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2023Publication date: July 4, 2024Inventors: TATSUROU MORI, SHUZO IWANAGA, HIROMASA AMMA, SHINGO OKUSHIMA, SATOSHI KIMURA, KOICHI ISHIDA, TOMOHIRO TAKAHASHI, HIROAKI MIHARA, YUHEI OIKAWA, TAKATOSHI NAKANO, YOSHIHIRO HAMADA, FUMI TANAKA
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Patent number: 11759756Abstract: In order to efficiently produce a liquid containing ultrafine bubbles of a desired gas, an ultrafine bubble-containing liquid producing apparatus includes a gas dissolving unit that dissolves a predetermined gas into a liquid, and a UFB generating unit that generates ultrafine bubbles in the liquid in which the predetermined gas is dissolved. A CPU performs control under a first condition in a case of causing the gas dissolving unit to operate in a circulation route passing through the dissolving unit. The CPU performs control under a second condition different from the first condition in a case of causing the UFB generating unit to operate in a circulation route passing through the UFB generating unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira Yamamoto, Masahiko Kubota, Akitoshi Yamada, Yoshiyuki Imanaka, Yumi Yanai, Hiroyuki Ishinaga, Teruo Ozaki, Toshio Kashino, Ikuo Nakazawa, Hiroaki Mihara, Hiroyuki Shimoyama
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Publication number: 20220331755Abstract: Provided is an ultra-fine bubble-containing liquid manufacturing apparatus that can suppress viable cell contamination inside a UFB generating unit. To this end, it is provided with an ultra-fine bubble generating unit that generates an ultra-fine bubble by making film boiling by a heating unit in a liquid in which a gas is dissolved, and a radiating unit that is capable of irradiating a wetted portion of the ultra-fine bubble generating unit with ultraviolet rays.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Hiroyuki Shimoyama, Masahiko Kubota, Hiroaki Mihara, Akira Yamamoto, Ikuo Nakazawa, Toshio Kashino
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Publication number: 20220323915Abstract: An ultra-fine bubble-containing liquid generating apparatus (UFB-containing liquid generating apparatus) includes a dissolving unit that generates a gas dissolving liquid and an ultra-fine bubble generating unit that generates ultra-fine bubbles in the gas dissolving liquid. Additionally, the UFB-containing liquid generating apparatus includes a temperature controlling unit that controls at least one of temperatures of the dissolving unit and the ultra-fine bubble generating unit such that the temperature of the ultra-fine bubble generating unit is equal to or lower than the temperature of the dissolving unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Hiroaki Mihara, Masahiko Kubota, Akira Yamamoto, Ikuo Nakazawa, Hiroyuki Shimoyama, Toshio Kashino
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Publication number: 20220323917Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus for a solidified matter of an ultra-fine bubble (UFB)-containing liquid includes: a UFB generating unit that generates the UFB-containing liquid; and a cooling unit that generates the solidified matter of the UFB-containing liquid by cooling the UFB-containing liquid. The cooling unit cools the ultra-fine bubble-containing liquid such that a first solidified portion and a second solidified portion at a lower ultra-fine bubble concentration than that of the first solidified portion are formed in the solidified matter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Toshio Kashino, Masahiko Kubota, Akira Yamamoto, Hiroaki Mihara, Hiroyuki Shimoyama, Ikuo Nakazawa
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Publication number: 20220288542Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a manufacturing apparatus of an ultra fine bubble-contained liquid that can be utilized effectively because high concentration ultra fine bubbles are maintained for a long time at the time of manufacturing of the ultra fine bubble-contained liquid. One embodiment of the present invention is a manufacturing apparatus of an ultra fine bubble-contained liquid, which includes: a container having a gas supply port through which gas is introduced and a liquid supply port through which a liquid is introduced; and a generation unit inside the container, which is configured to cause an ultra fine bubble to occur in the liquid in which the gas is dissolved.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Masahiko Kubota, Akira Yamamoto, Ikuo Nakazawa, Hiroaki Mihara, Hiroyuki Shimoyama, Toshio Kashino
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Publication number: 20210129093Abstract: In order to efficiently produce a liquid containing ultrafine bubbles of a desired gas, an ultrafine bubble-containing liquid producing apparatus includes a gas dissolving unit that dissolves a predetermined gas into a liquid, and a UFB generating unit that generates ultrafine bubbles in the liquid in which the predetermined gas is dissolved. A CPU performs control under a first condition in a case of causing the gas dissolving unit to operate in a circulation route passing through the dissolving unit. The CPU performs control under a second condition different from the first condition in a case of causing the UFB generating unit to operate in a circulation route passing through the UFB generating unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Akira Yamamoto, Masahiko Kubota, Akitoshi Yamada, Yoshiyuki Imanaka, Yumi Yanai, Hiroyuki Ishinaga, Teruo Ozaki, Toshio Kashino, Ikuo Nakazawa, Hiroaki Mihara, Hiroyuki Shimoyama
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Patent number: 10363740Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a substrate including an energy generating element configured to generate energy used for ejecting a liquid, a flow channel member overlying the substrate and defining a flow channel through which a liquid is supplied, and an ejection opening member overlying the flow channel member and defining an ejection opening through which the liquid supplied through the flow channel is ejected by the energy from the energy generating element. The flow channel member contains a crosslinked cured product of a multifunctional epoxy resin and a polyhydric alcohol having a perfluoroalkyl group in the molecular structure, and the concentration of a component derived from the polyhydric alcohol in the flow channel member is lower on the side adjacent to the substrate than on the side adjacent to the ejection opening member.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Mihara, Shoji Shiba
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Publication number: 20180201018Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a substrate including an energy generating element configured to generate energy used for ejecting a liquid, a flow channel member overlying the substrate and defining a flow channel through which a liquid is supplied, and an ejection opening member overlying the flow channel member and defining an ejection opening through which the liquid supplied through the flow channel is ejected by the energy from the energy generating element. The flow channel member contains a crosslinked cured product of a multifunctional epoxy resin and a polyhydric alcohol having a perfluoroalkyl group in the molecular structure, and the concentration of a component derived from the polyhydric alcohol in the flow channel member is lower on the side adjacent to the substrate than on the side adjacent to the ejection opening member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2018Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: Hiroaki Mihara, Shoji Shiba
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Patent number: 9409397Abstract: A process for producing a liquid ejection head having a substrate and an ejection orifice forming member having an ejection orifice for ejecting liquid, including forming, on the substrate, a photocationically polymerizable resin layer which includes a photocationically polymerizable resin material and becomes the ejection orifice forming member; laminating, on the uncured photocationically polymerizable resin layer, a layer containing a condensation product of a hydrolyzable silane compound having a cationically polymerizable epoxy group and a hydrolyzable silane compound having a fluorine-containing group; laminating a water-repellent layer including a hydrolyzable silane compound having a perfluoropolyether group on the condensation-product-containing layer; subjecting the photocationically polymerizable resin layer, condensation-product-containing layer, and water-repellent layer to pattern exposure; collectively curing exposed portions of the photocationically polymerizable resin layer, condensation-prodType: GrantFiled: April 1, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Tsutsui, Etsuko Sawada, Ken Ikegame, Hiroaki Mihara, Yohei Hamade
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Patent number: 9394409Abstract: Provided is an ink jet recording head, including a member provided with an ejection orifice for ejecting ink, in which the ink jet recording head further includes a water-repellent layer including a cured product of a condensed product obtained by condensation of a hydrolyzable silane compound having an epoxy group and a hydrolyzable silane compound having a perfluoropolyether group on a surface of the member on a side on which the ejection orifice opens.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2016Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Etsuko Sawada, Hiroaki Mihara, Ken Ikegame, Satoshi Tsutsui, Yohei Hamade
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Publication number: 20160136954Abstract: Provided is an ink jet recording head, including a member provided with an ejection orifice for ejecting ink, in which the ink jet recording head further includes a water-repellent layer including a cured product of a condensed product obtained by condensation of a hydrolyzable silane compound having an epoxy group and a hydrolyzable silane compound having a perfluoropolyether group on a surface of the member on a side on which the ejection orifice opens.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2016Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Etsuko Sawada, Hiroaki Mihara, Ken Ikegame, Satoshi Tsutsui, Yohei Hamade
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Patent number: 9273187Abstract: Provided is an ink jet recording head, including a member provided with an ejection orifice for ejecting ink, in which the ink jet recording head further includes a water-repellent layer including a cured product of a condensed product obtained by condensation of a hydrolyzable silane compound having an epoxy group and a hydrolyzable silane compound having a perfluoropolyether group on a surface of the member on a side on which the ejection orifice opens.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Etsuko Sawada, Hiroaki Mihara, Ken Ikegame, Satoshi Tsutsui, Yohei Hamade
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Patent number: 9254660Abstract: A process for producing a liquid ejection head including a silicon substrate having a supply port to supply a liquid to a flow path, and an ejection-orifice-forming member forming the flow path between the ejection-orifice-forming member and the silicon substrate and having an ejection orifice to eject the liquid in the flow path. The process includes forming an etching protection film so as to cover the ejection-orifice-forming member; forming the supply port passing through the silicon substrate by anisotropic etching using an alkaline aqueous solution; and removing the etching protection film. The etching protection film includes an organic polymer material having a storage modulus at 80° C. of 1.0×106 Pa or higher.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2014Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Mihara, Etsuko Sawada, Shoji Shiba
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Patent number: 9150697Abstract: Provided is an ink jet recording head, including a member provided with an ejection orifice for ejecting ink, in which the ink jet recording head further includes a water-repellent layer including a cured product of a condensed product obtained by condensation of a hydrolyzable silane compound having an epoxy group and a hydrolyzable silane compound having a perfluoropolyether group on a surface of the member on a side on which the ejection orifice opens.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2013Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Etsuko Sawada, Hiroaki Mihara, Ken Ikegame, Satoshi Tsutsui, Yohei Hamade
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Publication number: 20150251419Abstract: Provided is an ink jet recording head, including a member provided with an ejection orifice for ejecting ink, in which the ink jet recording head further includes a water-repellent layer including a cured product of a condensed product obtained by condensation of a hydrolyzable silane compound having an epoxy group and a hydrolyzable silane compound having a perfluoropolyether group on a surface of the member on a side on which the ejection orifice opens.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2015Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventors: Etsuko Sawada, Hiroaki Mihara, Ken Ikegame, Satoshi Tsutsui, Yohei Hamade
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Patent number: 9044944Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a substrate including an energy generating element that generates energy used to discharge liquid and a discharge port member having a discharge port surface with a discharge port line including discharge ports, through which the liquid is discharged, arrayed in a first direction. The discharge port surface includes a groove portion disposed between the discharge port line and a first end of the discharge port member in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The groove portion extends along the discharge port line. The discharge port surface further includes an inclined surface disposed between an end of the discharge port line and a second end of the discharge port member in the first direction. The inclined surface is inclined toward the second end.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2014Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Omura, Shuichi Murakami, Toshikazu Nagatsuka, Keiji Tomizawa, Etsuko Sawada, Hiroaki Mihara, Yohei Hamade
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Patent number: 9029074Abstract: Provided is a method of water repellent treatment for a pattern surface, the method including the steps of agitatingly mixing a perfluoropolyether-group-containing silane water repellent, an organic acid, a fluorine-containing solvent capable of dissolving the perfluoropolyether-group-containing silane water repellent and the organic acid, and water to hydrolyze the perfluoropolyether-group-containing silane water repellent, thereby obtaining a partial hydrolysate solution; forming a photosensitive resin layer on a substrate; applying the partial hydrolysate solution onto the photosensitive resin layer to form a water-repellent film; performing patterning exposure to the photosensitive resin layer and the water-repellent film; performing heat treatment to collectively cure an exposed portion of the photosensitive resin layer and the water-repellent film; and removing a non-exposed portion of the photosensitive resin layer and the water-repellent film by development treatment to form a pattern.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yohei Hamade, Etsuko Sawada, Ken Ikegame, Hiroaki Mihara, Satoshi Tsutsui
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Patent number: 9004630Abstract: There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus which can perform stable ejection also in successive printing at high speed even in a case of performing printing in use of a print head provided with an ejection opening surface having hydrophilic properties. The inkjet printing apparatus comprises an inkjet print head wherein the control unit controls the print head such that, in a case where the ejection number of the ink ejected from the print head after removing the ink on the ejection opening surface by the ink removal unit is equal to or more than a threshold, a drive energy amount that is supplied for the preliminary ejection operation is larger than a drive energy amount that is supplied for the preliminary ejection operation in a case where the ejection number is less than the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshikazu Nagatsuka, Shuichi Murakami, Keiji Tomizawa, Atsushi Omura, Etsuko Sawada, Hiroaki Mihara, Yohei Hamade