Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Kato

Hirofumi Kato 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).

  • Publication number: 20240116228
    Abstract: Mold clamping conditions, including a predetermined mold gap, a predetermined mold clamping force, a predetermined back pressure for a movable mold, a predetermined mold closing pressure, and a predetermined mold closing pressure adjustment condition associated with the compression state of a molding material, are set beforehand. At the time of molding, an injection filling process for causing the injection device to inject and fill the molding material into a mold of a mold clamping device for which the mold clamping conditions have been set is performed, and, after completion of the injection filling process, a compression process is performed on the basis of the mold clamping conditions including the mold closing pressure adjustment condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: NISSEI PLASTIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi MURATA, Toshimi KATO, Hozumi YODA
  • Publication number: 20240101467
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a photosensitive glass in which a Li2SiO3 crystal is precipitated by exposure and heat treatment, in which the photosensitive glass has a value of Formula (A) described below of 0.50 or more and 0.75 or less, and the photosensitive glass has a dielectric loss tangent at 20° C. and 10 GHz of 0.0090 or less, [Li2O]/([Li2O]+[Na2O]+[K2O]) Formula (A), in Formula (A), [Li2O], [Na2O], and [K2O] respectively indicate contents of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O in the photosensitive glass in terms of mole percentage based on oxides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Takeyuki KATO, Yutaka KUROIWA, Nobuo INUZUKA, Hirofumi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240098891
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a circuit board for a high-frequency device, including: a glass substrate in which a crystal is precipitated and cuttable by etching, and which has a dielectric loss tangent at 20° C. and 10 GHz of 0.0090 or less, and relates to a high-frequency device including the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Takeyuki KATO, Yutaka KUROIWA, Nobuo INUZUKA, Hirofumi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240096377
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a housing, magnetic disks in the housing, and a printed circuit board attached to an outer surface of a bottom wall of the housing. The housing includes a base including a bottom wall and a side wall, and at least two base-side positioning portions provided on the bottom wall in a region overlapping the side wall. The printed circuit board includes at least two board-side positioning portions each engaged with the base-side positioning portion. One of the base-side positioning portion and the board-side positioning portion includes a pin extending substantially perpendicular to the bottom wall, and another includes a hole into which the pin is fitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi Minami, Shigeru Juman, Kouichi Toukairin, Yasuhiko Kato, Hirofumi Kuribara, Kenji Mizuochi
  • Publication number: 20240071128
    Abstract: A detection device includes a plurality of optical sensors arranged in a detection area, a light source configured to emit light that is emitted to an object to be detected and is detected by the optical sensors, and a processor configured to perform processing based on outputs from the optical sensors. The processor is configured to determine, based on the outputs of the respective optical sensors obtained at a cycle of a predetermined period, an optical sensor an output of which is to be employed from among the optical sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Hirofumi KATO, Makoto UCHIDA, Takanori TSUNASHIMA, Takashi NAKAMURA, Akio TAKIMOTO, Takao SOMEYA, Tomoyuki YOKOTA
  • Patent number: 11915096
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a detection system includes: a sensor provided with a plurality of photosensors in a detection area; a controller configured to control the sensor; and a data storage configured to store correction value data including correction values for detection values of the photosensors and identification codes of a plurality of the sensors in such a manner that the identification codes are associated one-to-one with the correction value data. The controller is configured to acquire the correction value data corresponding to the identification code of the sensor from the data storage and correct the detection values of the photosensors based on the acquired correction value data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kato
  • Patent number: 11914248
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a photo-alignment copolymer which makes it possible to produce a photo-alignment film having excellent solvent resistance and liquid crystal aligning properties, and a photo-alignment film and an optical laminate produced using the photo-alignment copolymer. A photo-alignment copolymer of the invention is a photo-alignment copolymer having a repeating unit A including a photo-alignment group represented by Formula (A) and a repeating unit B including a crosslinkable group represented by Formula (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Nozoe, Takashi Iizumi, Kazushige Nakagawa, Takahiro Kato, Miho Asahi, Hirofumi Omura, Yuki Hirai
  • Publication number: 20240046694
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a detection device includes: a plurality of optical sensors that are arranged in a detection area and each of which is configured to output a signal corresponding to light irradiating the optical sensor; a detection circuit configured to be supplied with the signals from the optical sensors; and a control circuit configured to output first data and second data for which detection conditions for acquiring the signals differ from each other. The control circuit is configured to output detection information data in which the detection conditions for the first data and the detection conditions for the second data are added as attribute information to a head of a data string in which the first data and the second data are sequentially arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Hirofumi KATO, Yoshitaka KOJIMA
  • Patent number: 11888080
    Abstract: A detection device is provided. The detection device includes a sensor base; a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that are provided in a detection area of the sensor base and are configured to receive light incident thereon and output signals corresponding to the received light; a plurality of switching elements provided in the respective photoelectric conversion elements; a plurality of gate lines that are coupled to the switching elements and extend in a first direction; a first light source configured to emit first light having a first maximum emission wavelength; and a second light source configured to emit second light having a second maximum emission wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kato, Takanori Tsunashima, Makoto Uchida, Takashi Nakamura, Akio Takimoto, Takao Someya, Tomoyuki Yokota
  • Patent number: 11854299
    Abstract: A detection device includes a plurality of optical sensors arranged in a detection area, a light source configured to emit light that is emitted to an object to be detected and is detected by the optical sensors, and a processor configured to perform processing based on outputs from the optical sensors. The processor is configured to determine, based on the outputs of the respective optical sensors obtained at a cycle of a predetermined period, an optical sensor an output of which is to be employed from among the optical sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kato, Makoto Uchida, Takanori Tsunashima, Takashi Nakamura, Akio Takimoto, Takao Someya, Tomoyuki Yokota
  • Publication number: 20230301125
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a detection device includes: a light source configured to emit light to an object to be detected; a plurality of photodiodes arranged in a detection area; one or more detection circuits; and a coupling switching circuit configured to switch coupling of one or more of the photodiodes to one or more of the detection circuits. The coupling switching circuit is configured to change the number of the detection circuits coupled to one or more of the photodiodes based on an output value from one or more of the photodiodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Makoto HAYASHI, Hirofumi KATO, Yoshitaka KOJIMA, Yuta HAGA, Ayato KITAMURA, Yoshiyuki TERADA
  • Publication number: 20230280865
    Abstract: A detection device includes: optical sensors; switching elements, gate lines, and signal lines corresponding to the optical sensors; a detection circuit that is supplied with signals from the optical sensors through the signal lines; and a signal line selection circuit for switching a coupling state between the signal lines and the detection circuit. A drive signal is supplied to the gate lines row by row to bring the switching elements belonging to a predetermined row into a coupled state. The signal line selection circuit couples the signal lines to the detection circuit column by column in a predetermined order in a reading period of the predetermined row. A reset potential is supplied to the optical sensors and the signal lines belonging to the predetermined row after completion of the reading period of the predetermined row and before start of the reading period of a row next to the predetermined row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Hirofumi KATO, Ayato KITAMURA
  • Patent number: 11719573
    Abstract: Provided are a substrate, an organic material layer provided above the substrate at a position overlapping at least a detection region, a plurality of detection electrodes provided between the substrate and the organic material layer in a direction orthogonal to the substrate, a first switching element provided to each of the detection electrodes, a plurality of gate lines coupled with some first switching elements and extending in a first direction, a plurality of signal lines coupled with some first switching elements and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a drive circuit configured to supply gate drive signals having potentials determined for the respective gate lines based on a predetermined code to the respective first switching elements through the gate lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Tanaka, Masahiro Tada, Takashi Nakamura, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Fumitaka Gotoh, Hirofumi Kato
  • Publication number: 20230212385
    Abstract: Provided is an epoxy resin composition containing an epoxy resin (A), a curing agent (B) and an imidazole adduct-type curing accelerator (C), in which the curing agent (B) contains a compound (B-1) represented by formula (B-1) [R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a methoxy group or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms] and a compound (B-2) represented by formula (B-2) [R2 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a methyl group or a methoxy group] and the content of the compound (B-2) is 2 parts by mass or more and 5 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of the epoxy resin (A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenichi TAKEUCHI, Hirofumi KATO
  • Patent number: 11687196
    Abstract: A detection device includes: optical sensors; switching elements, gate lines, and signal lines corresponding to the optical sensors; a detection circuit that is supplied with signals from the optical sensors through the signal lines; and a signal line selection circuit for switching a coupling state between the signal lines and the detection circuit. A drive signal is supplied to the gate lines row by row to bring the switching elements belonging to a predetermined row into a coupled state. The signal line selection circuit couples the signal lines to the detection circuit column by column in a predetermined order in a reading period of the predetermined row. A reset potential is supplied to the optical sensors and the signal lines belonging to the predetermined row after completion of the reading period of the predetermined row and before start of the reading period of a row next to the predetermined row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kato, Ayato Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20230056997
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a detection system includes: a sensor provided with a plurality of photosensors in a detection area; a controller configured to control the sensor; and a data storage configured to store correction value data including correction values for detection values of the photosensors and identification codes of a plurality of the sensors in such a manner that the identification codes are associated one-to-one with the correction value data. The controller is configured to acquire the correction value data corresponding to the identification code of the sensor from the data storage and correct the detection values of the photosensors based on the acquired correction value data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventor: Hirofumi KATO
  • Publication number: 20230015361
    Abstract: A detection device includes: optical sensors; switching elements, gate lines, and signal lines corresponding to the optical sensors; a detection circuit that is supplied with signals from the optical sensors through the signal lines; and a signal line selection circuit for switching a coupling state between the signal lines and the detection circuit. A drive signal is supplied to the gate lines row by row to bring the switching elements belonging to a predetermined row into a coupled state. The signal line selection circuit couples the signal lines to the detection circuit column by column in a predetermined order in a reading period of the predetermined row. A reset potential is supplied to the optical sensors and the signal lines belonging to the predetermined row after completion of the reading period of the predetermined row and before start of the reading period of a row next to the predetermined row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Hirofumi KATO, Ayato KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220338352
    Abstract: A detection device includes a sensor substrate provided with a plurality of photosensors, a control board provided with a control circuit configured to control the photosensors, and a flexible printed circuit board provided with wiring configured to electrically couple the sensor substrate to the control board. The flexible printed circuit board is provided with a plurality of cutting indication lines for changing a length between the sensor substrate and the flexible printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Hirofumi KATO, Yoshitaka KOJIMA
  • Patent number: 11436859
    Abstract: A fingerprint detection device includes a substrate, a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that are provided to the substrate and each output a signal corresponding to light emitted thereto, a plurality of signal lines coupled to the photoelectric conversion elements, a detection circuit that is electrically coupled to the photoelectric conversion elements through the signal lines, and a signal line selection circuit that switches the number of the signal lines to be coupled to the one detection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Nakamura, Makoto Uchida, Takanori Tsunashima, Hirofumi Kato, Akio Takimoto
  • Patent number: 11386860
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a display area where first drive areas and second drive areas are alternately disposed, and display function layers which include first display function layers and second display function layers and which are changed to a transparent state and a scattering state, and a control unit. The control unit applies a drive voltage to the first display function layers, in a first field period. The control unit applies the drive voltage to the second display function layers, in a second field period. A polarity of the drive voltage in the first field period is different from a polarity of the drive voltage in the second field period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kato