Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Nakano

Hirofumi Nakano 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: 5869903
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a circuit substrate having a first surface on which a high-frequency circuit is located; a first metal layer disposed on a second surface of the circuit substrate; bump wirings on the first surface of the circuit substrate and electrically connected to the high-frequency circuit; a metal wall disposed on the first surface of the circuit substrate surrounding the high-frequency circuit; a wiring substrate having one surface on which substrate wirings corresponding to the bump wirings are located, the wiring substrate being disposed on the circuit substrate so that the substrate wirings are electrically connected to the bump wirings, and in contact with the metal wall, sealing a region including the high-frequency circuit; and a second metal layer disposed on a second surface of the wiring substrate. An electromagnetic shielding effect sufficient for use in a high-frequency circuit is obtained and fabricating cost is considerably reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsunori Nakatani, Hirofumi Nakano
  • Patent number: 5857121
    Abstract: A camera includes an electronic viewfinder adapted to electrically display a photographing image, a visual line detection unit for detecting the position of a camera operator's visual line on a picture plane of the electronic viewfinder, and a display processing unit for displaying on the electronic viewfinder a photographing-related information involved in a camera photographing. In such a camera, the display processing unit controls a display position of the photographing-related information in accordance with an output of the visual line detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1999
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Arai, Hirofumi Nakano
  • Patent number: 5796132
    Abstract: On a semiconductor substrate with an active layer, a first-stage recess groove is formed by photolithography and wet or dry etching. On the semiconductor substrate and the surface of the first-stage recess groove, a surface passivation film a crystalline material such as i-GaAs or an insulating film of, e.g., SiON, is formed. The surface passivation film on an area where an ohmic electrodes is to be formed is removed and the ohmic electrode is formed on the area by vapor deposition. Thereafter, in the first-stage recess groove, a second-stage recess groove is formed by photolithography and wet or dry etching. A gate electrode is formed on the second-stage recess groove by sputtering or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirofumi Nakano, Osamu Ishihara
  • Patent number: 5763598
    Abstract: Disclosed are novel branched cyclodextrins having any of an N-acetylglucosamine group, a glucosaminyl group, an N-acetylgalactosaminyl group and a galactosaminyl group as bonded to the hydroxyl group of the cyclodextrin ring by .beta.-bonding therebetween, and their salts. The novel branched cyclodextrins are produced by reacting a solution containing a cyclodextrin and an N-acetylglucosamine or N-acetylgalactosamine with an N-acetylhexosaminidase, and optionally deacetylating the resulting product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Ensuiko Sugar Refining Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Hamayasu, Tetsuya Ito, Koki Fujita, Kozo Hara, Kyoko Koizumi, Toshiko Tanimoto, Hirofumi Nakano, Sumio Kitahata
  • Patent number: 5745174
    Abstract: A viewpoint detection apparatus includes a viewpoint detection unit for detecting the viewpoint of an operator on a display screen, a correction circuit for detecting and correcting any deviation between the actual viewpoint position of the operator and the viewpoint position detected by the viewpoint detection unit, and a storage circuit for storing correction information which is generated by the correction circuit and used for correcting the deviation. The apparatus has a mode of correcting the deviation based on the correction information stored in the storage circuit, and a mode of correcting the deviation by a calculation in the correction circuit without using the correction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirofumi Nakano
  • Patent number: 5728830
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a farnesyltransferase inhibitor and an antitumor agent comprising, as an active ingredient, a piperazinedione derivative represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently represent lower alkyl, lower alkoxyalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, or aralkyl; R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 independently represent mercapto, lower alkanoylthio, aroylthio, lower alkoxycarbonylthio, or aryloxycarbonylthio, or alternatively R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are combined together to form disulfide; and R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 independently represent hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxyalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, lower alkanoyloxyalkyl, aroyloxyalkyl, aralkyloxyalkyl, or aralkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kanda, Yutaka Saitoh, Kazuhito Akasaka, Tamio Mizukami, Hirofumi Nakano
  • Patent number: 5726468
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate; a first active layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate; a second active layer disposed on the first active layer; a first electrode including a lower stage disposed on the second active layer and an upper stage disposed on the lower stage and having an overhanging portion protruding from the lower stage; an insulating film continuously covering a surface of the second active layer, a side surface of the lower stage of the first electrode, and a lower surface and a side surface of the overhanging portion of the upper stage; and a second electrode disposed on the surface of the first active layer at opposite sides of the second active layer, self-aligned with the second active layer. The distance between the second electrode and the second active layer is minimized and the thickness of the second electrode can be about 7000 .ANG., minimizing the resistance of the first active layer and improving high frequency characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoki Oku, Hirofumi Nakano, Shinichi Miyakuni, Teruyuki Shimura, Ryo Hattori
  • Patent number: 5717110
    Abstract: This invention relates to UCH15 compounds of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydroxyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tamio Mizukami, Akira Asai, Yoshinori Yamashita, Hirofumi Nakano, Shingo Kakita, Youichi Uosaki, Keiko Ochiai, Tadashi Ashizawa, Akira Mihara
  • Patent number: 5686606
    Abstract: The present invention relates to UCF116 compounds represented by the formula (I) : ##STR1## wherein an example of Q.sup.1 representation is ##STR2## and an example of Q.sup.2 representation is ##STR3## which have antibacterial and antitumor activity and are useful as antibacterial and antitumor agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tamio Mizukami, Mikito Itoh, Mitsunobu Hara, Hirofumi Nakano, Yumiko Aotani, Keiko Ochiai, Shiro Akinaga, Akira Mihara
  • Patent number: 5670801
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes producing a collector layer, a base layer, and an emitter layer on a semiconductor substrate; producing a dummy emitter electrode on a region of the emitter layer; forming a first resist except where the dummy emitter electrode is present; completely removing the dummy emitter electrode to expose the surface of the emitter layer; depositing an emitter electrode material on the first resist and the emitter layer that is exposed by the removal of the dummy emitter electrode; forming a mask on a region of the emitter electrode material film where an emitter electrode is later produced; and etching the emitter electrode material film using the mask; and removing the first resist, thereby producing an emitter electrode layer, a peripheral side part extending upward from the bottom part, and an upper fringe part protruding outward from the peripheral side part perpendicular to the peripheral side part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirofumi Nakano
  • Patent number: 5656736
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the compound UCH9 represented by the following formula: ##STR1## which has antibacterial and anti-tumor activity, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Nakano, Harumi Ogawa, Yoshinori Yamashita, Ritsuko Katahira, Shigeru Chiba, Toshiaki Iwasaki, Tadashi Ashizawa
  • Patent number: 5648692
    Abstract: There is provided a stator yoke capable of improving magnetic characteristics and a rust-proofing effect of a stator yoke produced by using a Fe-Cr type alloy. When a stator yoke is produced by using a Fe-Cr type alloy, its magnetic characteristics can be improved, but when press working is made to obtain a predetermined shape, the magnetic characteristics drop. Annealing is carried out so as to recover the magnetic characteristics. This annealing generates the property change of a surface layer and a rust-proofing effect lowers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: FDK Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Watanabe, Hirofumi Nakano, Masakuni Kamiya, Kazutaka Honma, Takayuki Matsui, Akito Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5593869
    Abstract: Novel trehalase having the properties that it hydrolyzes .alpha.,.alpha.'-trehalose, 2,2'-dideoxy-.alpha.,.alpha.'-trehalose and 2-deoxy-.alpha.,.alpha.'-trehalose into the respective constituting sugars while it does not act on neotrehalose, lactose, maltose, celobiose and sucrose; its optimum pH is 5 to 6; its optimum temperature is 65.degree. C.; it is stable against heating up to 65.degree. C.; its molecular weight as measured by a gel filtration is 400,000 to 500,000 while the molecular weight of the subunit as measured by a sodium dodecylsulfate--polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is 180,000 to 250,000; its isoelectric point as measured by an isoelectricfocusing is 2.7; and it is a glycoprotein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignees: San-Ei Gen F.F.I, Osaka
    Inventors: Sumio Kitahata, Hirofumi Nakano, Tsutomu Washino, Masamitsu Moriwaki
  • Patent number: 5570156
    Abstract: A camera includes an electronic viewfinder adapted to electrically display a photographing image, a visual line detection unit for detecting the position of a camera operator's visual line on a picture plane of the electronic viewfinder, and a display processing unit for displaying on the electronic viewfinder a photographing-related information involved in a camera photographing. In such a camera, the display processing unit controls a display position of the photographing-related information in accordance with an output of the visual line detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Arai, Hirofumi Nakano
  • Patent number: 5565489
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an epoxycyclohexenedione derivative represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R is a straight-chain or branched alkanoyl group having 10 to 25 carbon atoms, a straight-chain alkenoyl group having 10 to 25 carbon atoms, or a group represented by formula (A): ##STR2## wherein n is an integer of 1 to 4; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.The compounds exhibit antimicrobial activity and antitumor activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1996
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Kaneko, Yutaka Saitoh, Shiro Akinaga, Masami Okabe, Kazuhito Akasaka, Hirofumi Nakano
  • Patent number: 5539227
    Abstract: A method of producing a multi-layer wiring, first kind layer wirings formed on a semiconductor substrate are covered by an insulating film, a part of a second kind layer wiring is formed at a prescribed region of the surface of the insulating film, and, thereafter, the remaining part of the second kind layer wiring and the third kind layer wiring are formed in the same process so that the remaining part of the second kind layer wiring and the first kind layer wiring cross each other in an airbridge structure and the third kind layer wiring and a part of the second kind layer wiring also cross each other in an airbridge structure. The portion of the second kind layer wiring other than the portion that crosses with the third kind layer wiring in an airbridge structure, is produced with the first kind layer wiring in an airbridge structure in the process of producing the third kind layer wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirofumi Nakano
  • Patent number: 5536850
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel substance DC114-A1 represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Nakano, Noboru Fujii, Tamio Mizukami, Youichi Uosaki, Katsunori Kita, Eiji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5529927
    Abstract: Novel trehalase having the properties that it hydrolyzes .alpha.,.alpha.'-trehalose, 2,2'-dideoxy-.alpha.,.alpha.'-trehalose and 2-deoxy-.alpha.,.alpha.'-trehalose into the respective constituting sugars while it does not act on neotrehalose, lactose, maltose, celobiose and sucrose; its optimum pH is 5 to 6; its optimum temperature is 65.degree. C.; it is stable against heating up to 65.degree. C.; its molecular weight as measured by a gel filtration is 400,000 to 500,000 while the molecular weight of the subunit as measured by a sodium dodecylsulfate--polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is 180,000 to 250,000; its isoelectric point as measured by an isoelectricfocusing is 2.7; and it is a glycoprotein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: San-Ei Gen F.F.I., Inc.
    Inventors: Sumio Kitahata, Hirofumi Nakano, Tsutomu Washino, Masamitsu Moriwaki
  • Patent number: 5510501
    Abstract: The present invention relates to Saintopin derivatives represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen and R.sup.2 is SO.sub.2 OH (UCE 1022), or R.sup.1 is acetyl and R.sup.2 is H (Saintopin E), which are useful as antibacterial and anti-tumor agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1996
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo, Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Nakano, Noboru Fujii, Yoshinori Yamashita, Yutaka Saitoh, Tsutomu Agatsuma, Katsuhiko Ando, Yasushi Nishiie, Katsunori Kita, Naoki Morishima, Katsushige Gomi
  • Patent number: D376381
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Oakley, Inc.
    Inventors: James H. Jannard, Hirofumi Nakano