Patents by Inventor Hirohide Ito

Hirohide Ito 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: 9660193
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a material composition for a bulk-heterojunction-type organic photoelectric conversion layer having high photoelectric conversion efficiency and durability through formation of a stable phase-separated structure by drying in a short time with high productivity and to provide an organic photoelectric conversion element, a method of producing the organic photoelectric conversion element, and a solar cell. The material composition for an organic photoelectric conversion layer contains at least a p-type conjugated polymer semiconductor material being a copolymer having a main chain including an electron-donating group and an electron-withdrawing group, an n-type organic semiconductor material having electron acceptability, and a solvent. The solvent is represented by a general formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takagi, Hirohide Ito
  • Patent number: 9564610
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device in which permeation of water content and oxygen from a bonding part is decreased, and which is excellent in stability, and a method for manufacturing the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Hirohide Ito
  • Publication number: 20160155986
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device in which permeation of water content and oxygen from a bonding part is decreased, and which is excellent in stability, and a method for manufacturing the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Hirohide ITO
  • Publication number: 20160108282
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a means capable of further improving gas barrier capabilities and durability of gas barrier capabilities for a gas barrier film. [Solving Means] A gas barrier film having: a substrate; a first barrier layer that is arranged on at least one surface of the substrate, has a film density of 1.5 to 2.1 g/cm3, and includes an inorganic compound; and a second barrier layer that is formed on the surface of the substrate on the same side where the first barrier layer is formed and includes silicon atoms, oxygen atoms, and at least one added element selected from the group consisting of elements of Groups 2-14 of the long form of the periodic table (excluding silicon and carbon), the abundance ratio of oxygen atoms to silicon atoms (O/Si) being 1.4 to 2.2, and the abundance ratio of nitrogen atoms to silicon atoms (N/Si) being 0 to 0.4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventor: Hirohide ITO
  • Publication number: 20130291944
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a material composition for a bulk-heterojunction-type organic photoelectric conversion layer having high photoelectric conversion efficiency and durability through formation of a stable phase-separated structure by drying in a short time with high productivity and to provide an organic photoelectric conversion element, a method of producing the organic photoelectric conversion element, and a solar cell. The material composition for an organic photoelectric conversion layer contains at least a p-type conjugated polymer semiconductor material being a copolymer having a main chain including an electron-donating group and an electron-withdrawing group, an n-type organic semiconductor material having electron acceptability, and a solvent. The solvent is represented by a general formula (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takagi, Hirohide Ito
  • Publication number: 20020076661
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system of a digital color proof in which consistent images are obtained while minimizing density variation in spite of various variations of conditions due to the use of a silver halide light-sensitive color material, specifically, the present invention provides a method for forming proof images similar to printed images in terms of various characteristics such as the paper quality of silver halide light-sensitive materials, the dot gain, and the density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Applicant: KONICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomonori Kawamura, Shigeo Tanaka, Satoshi Nishino, Hirohide Ito, Naohito Naraoka, Naoyo Suzuki, Shinya Watanabe, Masataka Takimoto, Hideaki Sakata, Junichi Tanabe, Tetsuya Taniguchi, Naoki Nozaki, Yasushi Okubo, Koji Daifuku, Katsuji Kondo, Toshitsugu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20020027509
    Abstract: An object detection system is capable of easily detecting the objects which lie scattered widely by sending a radio signal of an MF band for the transmission of a control signal between the objects to be detected and a detecting device. An object detecting device arranged on the ground in the form of a ground device (1) and objects to be detected in the form of underground devices (2) buried in the underground are each constructed to perform the transmission and reception of radio signals therebetween. When the ground device (1) transmits instruction data (S1) for object detection, the underground devices (2) receive the instruction data (S1) and return response data (S2) to the ground device (1) if the electric field level of the instruction data (S1) received is equal to or greater than a prescribed regulated value. A signal carrier carrying the instruction data or the response data between the ground device (1) and the underground devices (2) adopts a radio signal of an MF band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Inventors: Kouichi Tanokura, Nobuki Mieda, Hirohide Ito, Hiroaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6117611
    Abstract: An image forming method of a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is exposed to a laser beam light, while said silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is conveyed with rollers at 15 to 100 mm/sec., and processed with a developer composition containing a developing agent represented by formula (A). The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material contains at least an organic contrast enhancing agent, the impedance of at least one side of said silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is from 4.times.10.sup.5 to 10.sup.20 .OMEGA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventor: Hirohide Ito
  • Patent number: 5985530
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having on one side the support photographic component layers, wherein at least one of the component layers contains a composite polymeric material comprising inorganic particles and a hydrophobic polymer, a silver halide emulsion layer comprising a silver halide emulsion containing silver halide grains having an average chloride content of not less than 60 mol % and containing a metal dopant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Ishikawa, Takehiro Kobayashi, Hirohide Ito
  • Patent number: 5753409
    Abstract: A silver halide black-and-white photographic light sensitive material is disclosed, comprising a support provided on one side thereof photographic component layers comprising at least two, first and second silver halide emulsion layers and optionally a nonlight-sensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer, the first emulsion layer being provided closer to the support than the second emulsion layer, wherein two or more layers of the component layers, each contains a hydrazine compound; and a molar ratio of a total hydrazine content of all layer(s) closer to the support from the first emulsion layer which include the first emulsion layer to that of all layer(s) farther from the support than the first emulsion layer which include the second emulsion layer is 0.2 to 0.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Takabayashi, Hirohide Ito
  • Patent number: 5571660
    Abstract: A method of forming an image is disclosed, comprising imagewise-exposing a silver halide photographic light sensitive material and developing the exposed photographic material to form a high contrast image, wherein said silver halide photographic material contains a spectral sensitizing dye represented by the following formula [S], and wherein said photographic material is developed with a developer having a pH of 10.9 or less, said developer being replenished by a developer-replenishing solution having a pH value of 10.9 or less in an amount of 300 ml or less per m.sup.2 of the photographic material. The photographic material further contains a hydrazine compound and a nucleation-accelerating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1996
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Hirohide Ito, Takeo Arai