Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Nakamura

Hirofumi Nakamura 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: 20130313687
    Abstract: [Aim of Invention] Providing the effective semiconductor miniaturization and its higher-dense fine wiring with the through-hole and the buried via electrode structure of the lower resistivity and higher reliability material at the low cost manufacturing method. [Solution] Preparing the sedimentation layer 57 buried at first the dried-sintered-porous metal material of paste 56 in the through-hole 51 having a insulation layer 54 on the board structure 50, fully covered over the porous area top of the sedimentation layer 57 with the second metal paste and then full-filling the second metal into the porous area of the sedimentation layer 57.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: ZyCube Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Bonkohara, Hirofumi Nakamura, Qiwei He
  • Publication number: 20130316275
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a support; an undercoat layer which is provided on the support and contains at least a binder resin, metal oxide particles, and an electron-accepting compound having an anthraquinone structure, in which a content of the electron-accepting compound is from 0.5% by weight to 1.5% by weight with respect to the metal oxide particles and a contact angle of the metal oxide particles with respect to water is from 7° to 12°; and a photosensitive layer which is provided on the undercoat layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro KAWASAKI, Shigeto HASHIBA, Hirofumi NAKAMURA, Hidemi NUKADA, Satoya SUGIURA
  • Patent number: 8591163
    Abstract: To ensure that an abnormality in a closed state of a FOUP door serving as a lid of a FOUP can be detected quickly and reliably, a FOUP opener includes a port door attached detachably to an opening window in a port plate for separating the interior and exterior of a semiconductor processing device, and a dock unit for positioning the FOUP in a FOUP door attachment/detachment position. A suction disc mechanism and a lock mechanism for fixing the FOUP door to a FOUP main body and releasing the FOUP door are disposed on the port door. A FOUP door detection sensor for determining whether or not the FOUP door fixed to the FOUP main body, which is positioned in the FOUP door attachment/detachment position on the dock unit, is attached correctly to an opening portion of the FOUP main body is disposed on the port plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Hirata Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyoshi Toyoda, Hirofumi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8563971
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a first electrode, a conductor film, an organic layer having a light emitting layer made of an organic light emitting material provided therein, a semi-transmissive reflective film, a resistive layer, and a second electrode, all of which are laminated successively, wherein the conductor film transmits a part of light from the light emitting layer therethrough, the first electrode reflects the light having been transmitted through the conductor film, the second electrode transmits the light having been transmitted through the semi-transmissive reflective film therethrough, an average film thickness of the conductor film on the first electrode is from 1 nm to 6 nm, and an average film thickness of the semi-transmissive reflective film on the organic layer is from 1 nm to 6 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Nakamura, Seong-Hee Noh, Jiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20130252149
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate; an undercoat layer which is provided on the conductive substrate and includes a binder resin and metal oxide particles of which the surfaces are treated with at least two kinds of coupling agents of a first coupling agent having an electron-donating group and a second coupling agent having an electron-accepting group; and a photosensitive layer which is provided on the undercoat layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirofumi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20130252147
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive support, and an undercoat layer, a charge generation layer, and a charge transport layer that are provided in this order on the conductive support, wherein the undercoat layer includes at least metallic oxide particles, a reactive acceptor substance including an anthraquinone structure expressed by the following Formula 1, and a binder resin, the charge generation layer includes hydroxygallium phthalocyanine as a charge generation material, and a reflectance of incident light having a wavelength of 780 nm on a surface of the charge generation layer when the charge transport layer is removed is 17% or greater: wherein the anthraquinone structure expressed by Formula 1 is bonded to another structure at a position of *, and thus forms the reactive acceptor substance, and in Formula 1, n1 represents an integer of 1 to 7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoya SUGIURA, Shigeto HASHIBA, Kazuhiro KOSEKI, Hirofumi NAKAMURA, Kenta IDE, Akihiro NONAKA, Kosuke NARITA, Akihiro KAWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20130240857
    Abstract: A light-emitting element is provided. The light-emitting element includes a first half-transmitting/reflecting film and a second half-transmitting/reflecting film sequentially on an organic layer by physical vapor deposition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eisuke Negishi, Jiro Yamada, Mitsuhiro Kashiwabara, Hirofumi Nakamura, Seonghee Noh
  • Publication number: 20130236821
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive support, an undercoat layer that is provided on the conductive support and that has a thickness of from 15 ?m to 40 ?m and has light transmittance of 20% or less with respect to light having a wavelength of 450 nm when the thickness is at least 15 ?m, a charge generation layer that is provided on the undercoat layer, and a charge transport layer that is provided on the charge generation layer and that has a thickness of from 15 ?m to 40 ?m and has light transmittance of 30% or less with respect to light having a wavelength of 450 nm when the thickness is at least 15 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta IDE, Kosuke NARITA, Akihiro KAWASAKI, Satoya SUGIURA, Akihiro NONAKA, Hirofumi NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro KOSEKI, Shigeto HASHIBA
  • Publication number: 20130236822
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor, a charging unit charging the electrophotographic photoreceptor, an exposing unit exposing the charged electrophotographic photoreceptor to form an electrostatic latent image, a developing unit developing the electrostatic latent image to form a toner image, and a transferring unit transferring the toner image to a recording medium, but includes no erasing unit erasing the electrophotographic photoreceptor after the toner image is transferred and before the electrographic photoreceptor is charged. The electrophotographic photoreceptor has an undercoat layer and a photosensitive layer on a conductive substrate. The undercoat layer has metallic oxide particles and an electron-accepting compound. The electron-accepting compound is included at 1 part by weight to 5 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the metallic oxide particles. A volume resistivity of the undercoat layer is in a range of 1.0×109 ?m to 1.0×1010 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiko ONO, Kosuke NARITA, Hirofumi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20130236820
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes at least an electrophotographic photoreceptor having at least a conductive support, an undercoat layer, and a photosensitive layer; a charging device that charges the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor in a contact charging mode, in which only DC voltage is applied; an electrostatic latent image forming device that exposes the surface of the charged electrophotographic photoreceptor to form an electrostatic latent image; a developing device that develops the electrostatic latent image by a developer to form a toner image; and a transfer device that directly transfers the toner image from the electrophotographic photoreceptor to a transfer medium; and does not include an erasing device for erasing the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor after the toner image is transferred onto the transfer medium by the transfer device and before the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor is charged by the charging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta IDE, Kosuke NARITA, Hirofumi NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro KOSEKI, Akihiro KAWASAKI, Shigeto HASHIBA, Takahiro SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20130228761
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a first electrode, a conductor film, an organic layer having a light emitting layer made of an organic light emitting material provided therein, a semi-transmissive reflective film, a resistive layer, and a second electrode, all of which are laminated successively, wherein the conductor film transmits a part of light from the light emitting layer therethrough, the first electrode reflects the light having been transmitted through the conductor film, the second electrode transmits the light having been transmitted through the semi-transmissive reflective film therethrough, an average film thickness of the conductor film on the first electrode is from 1 nm to 6 nm, and an average film thickness of the semi-transmissive reflective film on the organic layer is from 1 nm to 6 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Nakamura, Seong-Hee Noh, Jiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 8524428
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes: a conductive substrate; a photosensitive layer including a charge-generating layer containing a charge-generating material and a charge-transporting layer containing a charge-transporting material, the charge-transporting layer having a hole mobility of about 5.0×10?6 (cm2/V·sec) or less at an electric field of 2 V/cm; and an overcoat layer that is provided on the photosensitive layer and contains a cured material of a charge-transporting material, wherein relational expression (1) Ip(OCL)>Ip(CTL)>Ip(CGL) is satisfied wherein Ip(CGL) represents an ionization potential (eV) of the charge-generating material contained in the charge-generating layer; Ip(CTL) represents an ionization potential (eV) of the charge-transporting material contained in the charge-transporting layer; and Ip(OCL) represents an ionization potential (eV) of the charge-transporting material contained in the overcoat layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8435829
    Abstract: A method of producing a light-emitting element is provided. The method includes forming a first half-transmitting/reflecting film and a second half-transmitting/reflecting film sequentially on an organic layer by physical vapor deposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eisuke Negishi, Jiro Yamada, Mitsuhiro Kashiwabara, Hirofumi Nakamura, Seonghee Noh
  • Patent number: 8426847
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a first electrode, a conductor film, an organic layer having a light emitting layer made of an organic light emitting material provided therein, a semi-transmissive reflective film, a resistive layer, and a second electrode, all of which are laminated successively, wherein the conductor film transmits a part of light from the light emitting layer therethrough, the first electrode reflects the light having been transmitted through the conductor film, the second electrode transmits the light having been transmitted through the semi-transmissive reflective film therethrough, an average film thickness of the conductor film on the first electrode is from 1 nm to 6 nm, and an average film thickness of the semi-transmissive reflective film on the organic layer is from 1 nm to 6 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Nakamura, Seong-Hee Noh, Jiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20130050632
    Abstract: A display includes: a display substrate including a liquid crystal layer; a driving substrate driving the display substrate; and a damp-proof layer continuously provided along a top face and side faces of the display substrate, and a top face of the driving substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhide Yoneya, Hirofumi Nakamura, Toru Tanikawa, Satoshi Kumon
  • Publication number: 20130027854
    Abstract: There are provided a display in which a sealing section is prevented from being spread and the sealing section is allowed to be provided in a desired region, and an electronic unit including the display. The display includes: a substrate including a sealing region and a step section, the sealing region surrounding a display region, and the step section surrounding the sealing region from outside; a display layer provided in the display region; and a sealing section provided in the sealing region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Nakamura, Nobuhide Yoneya, Toru Tanikawa, Shota Nishi, Shin Akasaka, Satoshi Kumon
  • Patent number: 8334530
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes a first electrode, an organic layer with a light-emitting layer made of organic light-emitting material, a half-transmitting/reflecting film, a resistance layer, and a second electrode, which are sequentially laminated on top of the other. The first electrode reflects light from the light-emitting layer, the second electrode transmits light from the light-emitting layer. The half-transmitting/reflecting film includes a first half-transmitting/reflecting film and a second half-transmitting/reflecting film which are laminated in this order from a side of the organic layer. Also, the half-transmitting/reflecting film on the organic layer has an average thickness of 1 nm to 6 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eisuke Negishi, Jiro Yamada, Mitsuhiro Kashiwabara, Hirofumi Nakamura, Seonghee Noh
  • Publication number: 20120295016
    Abstract: A method of producing a light-emitting element is provided. The method includes forming a first half-transmitting/reflecting film and a second half-transmitting/reflecting film sequentially on an organic layer by physical vapor deposition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eisuke Negishi, Jiro Yamada, Mitsuhiro Kashiwabara, Hirofumi Nakamura, Seonghee Noh
  • Patent number: 8268521
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, an electrophotographic photoreceptor including a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer provided on a surface of the conductive substrate is provided. In the electrophotographic photoreceptor, an outermost layer of the photosensitive layer containing a crosslinked product formed from at least one charge transporting material having at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of —OH, —OCH3, —NH2, —SH, and —COOH, an acidic substance, and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following formula (A) and compounds represented by the following formula (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignees: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi Nukada, Hirofumi Nakamura, Mitsuhide Nakamura, Koji Bando, Kenny-tuan T Dinh, Giuseppa Baranyi, Nan-Xing Hu, Michael Zak
  • Publication number: 20120118083
    Abstract: [Objective] To provide a wafer carrier measuring jig which can measure a slot height of a wafer carrier placed on a load port and which can determine whether or not an arbitrary slot is horizontal, a collision preventing jig, and a collision preventing method using the collision preventing jig.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: HIRATA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichi Mori, Hirofumi Nakamura