Patents by Inventor Hironobu Murata
Hironobu Murata 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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Patent number: 11964446Abstract: A continuous production system continuously produces a product from a raw material powder. The system includes a first processor that performs a first process on the raw material powder, a second processor that performs a second process on the powder on which the first process has been performed by the first processor, and a test chamber through which the powder being sent from the first processor to the second processor passes. A cleaner blows gas from an inlet side opening formed in the inner face of a channel connected to the test chamber from the first processor on the downstream side of an inlet side gate valve for opening and closing the channel toward a direction to form a swirling flow along the inner face of the channel.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Matsuki, Nobuhiro Tanaka, Katsuhiro Murata, Hironobu Takeda
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Patent number: 11944590Abstract: A continuous manufacturing system continuously manufactures a product from a powder of a raw material. The system includes a first processing device that performs first processing on the powder of the raw material; a second processing device that performs second processing on the powder on which the first processing device has performed the first processing; and an inspection and sorting device including an inspection chamber into which powder sent from the first processing device flows. When a prescribed amount of the powder has accumulated in the inspection chamber, the inspection and sorting device inspects the powder inside the inspection chamber after blocking a path connecting the first processing device to the inspection chamber. When the inspection ends, the inspection and sorting device removes the blocking after discharging the powder from inside the inspection chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Matsuki, Nobuhiro Tanaka, Katsuhiro Murata, Hironobu Takeda
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Patent number: 11910118Abstract: An image sensor includes a first photoelectric conversion unit that converts light incident through a first opening to an electric charge, a second photoelectric conversion unit that converts light incident through a second opening which is smaller than the first opening to an electric charge, and a signal output wiring that outputs a first signal generated by the electric charge converted by the first photoelectric conversion unit and a second signal generated by the electric charge converted by the second photoelectric conversion unit. The second photoelectric conversion unit is disposed between the second opening and the signal output wiring.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hironobu Murata
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Publication number: 20240031701Abstract: An imaging element comprising: an imaging unit that has: a plurality of groups each including at least one pixel; and a plurality of signal readout units that are each provided to each of the groups and read out a signal from the pixel; and a control unit that controls the signal readout unit in at least one group among the plurality of groups is provided. Each of the plurality of groups may include a plurality of the pixels. The control unit may select at least one group among the plurality of groups and control the signal readout unit by using a control parameter that is different from a control parameter that is used for another group among the plurality of groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi KURIYAMA, Hironobu MURATA, Shiro TSUNAI, Tetsuya KONISHI, Masahiro SUZUKI
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Patent number: 11825225Abstract: An imaging element comprising: an imaging unit that has: a plurality of groups each including at least one pixel; and a plurality of signal readout units that are each provided to each of the groups and read out a signal from the pixel; and a control unit that controls the signal readout unit in at least one group among the plurality of groups is provided. Each of the plurality of groups may include a plurality of the pixels. The control unit may select at least one group among the plurality of groups and control the signal readout unit by using a control parameter that is different from a control parameter that is used for another group among the plurality of groups.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Kuriyama, Hironobu Murata, Shiro Tsunai, Tetsuya Konishi, Masahiro Suzuki
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Publication number: 20230362507Abstract: An image sensor includes: a plurality of microlenses arranged in a two-dimensional pattern; and a plurality of pixels that are provided in correspondence to each of the microlenses and receive lights of different color components, respectively. Pixels that are provided at adjacent microlenses among the microlenses and that receive lights of same color components, are adjacently arranged.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hironobu MURATA
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Publication number: 20230276148Abstract: An imaging element includes: an imaging unit in which a plurality of pixel groups including a plurality of pixels that output pixel signals according to incident light are formed, and on which incident light corresponding to mutually different pieces of image information is incident; a control unit that controls, for each of the pixel groups, a period of accumulating in the plurality of pixels included in the pixel group; and a readout unit that is provided to each of the pixel groups, and reads out the pixel signals from the plurality of pixels included in the pixel group.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Shiro TSUNAI, Hironobu MURATA
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Publication number: 20230224610Abstract: An image sensor includes a first photoelectric conversion unit that converts light incident through a first opening to an electric charge, a second photoelectric conversion unit that converts light incident through a second opening which is smaller than the first opening to an electric charge, and a signal output wiring that outputs a first signal generated by the electric charge converted by the first photoelectric conversion unit and a second signal generated by the electric charge converted by the second photoelectric conversion unit. The second photoelectric conversion unit is disposed between the second opening and the signal output wiring.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hironobu MURATA
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Patent number: 11689832Abstract: An imaging element includes: an imaging unit in which a plurality of pixel groups including a plurality of pixels that output pixel signals according to incident light are formed, and on which incident light corresponding to mutually different pieces of image information is incident; a control unit that controls, for each of the pixel groups, a period of accumulating in the plurality of pixels included in the pixel group; and a readout unit that is provided to each of the pixel groups, and reads out the pixel signals from the plurality of pixels included in the pixel group.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Shiro Tsunai, Hironobu Murata
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Publication number: 20230171517Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a second image sensor having an organic photoelectric conversion film transmitting a specific light, and a first image sensor which is stacked in layers on a same semiconductor substrate as that of the second image sensor and which receives the specific light having transmitted the second image sensor, in which a pixel for focus detection is provided in the second image sensor or the first image sensor. Therefore, an AF method can be realized independently of a pixel for imaging.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hironobu MURATA
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Patent number: 11632511Abstract: An image sensor includes a first photoelectric conversion unit that converts light incident through a first opening to an electric charge, a second photoelectric conversion unit that converts light incident through a second opening which is smaller than the first opening to an electric charge, and a signal output wiring that outputs a first signal generated by the electric charge converted by the first photoelectric conversion unit and a second signal generated by the electric charge converted by the second photoelectric conversion unit. The second photoelectric conversion unit is disposed between the second opening and the signal output wiring.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hironobu Murata
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Patent number: 11588991Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a second image sensor having an organic photoelectric conversion film transmitting a specific light, and a first image sensor which is stacked in layers on a same semiconductor substrate as that of the second image sensor and which receives the specific light having transmitted the second image sensor, in which a pixel for focus detection is provided in the second image sensor or the first image sensor. Therefore, an AF method can be realized independently of a pixel for imaging.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hironobu Murata
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Patent number: 11418747Abstract: An imaging sensor comprising: an imaging chip in which a plurality of pixel are arranged in a matrix; and a signal processing chip that is each provided for one or more pixel columns or one or more pixel rows, has a device that performs signal processing on a pixel signal output from a pixel, and is stacked with the imaging chip is provided. For example, the device that performs signal processing is an A/D converter that converts a pixel signal output from the pixel into a digital signal, and when a pixel signal output from the pixel is converted into a digital signal, at least two or more A/D converters among the A/D converters are controlled in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hironobu Murata
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Publication number: 20220191421Abstract: An imaging element includes: an imaging unit in which a plurality of pixel groups including a plurality of pixels that output pixel signals according to incident light are formed, and on which incident light corresponding to mutually different pieces of image information is incident; a control unit that controls, for each of the pixel groups, a period of accumulating in the plurality of pixels included in the pixel group; and a readout unit that is provided to each of the pixel groups, and reads out the pixel signals from the plurality of pixels included in the pixel group.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2022Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Shiro TSUNAI, Hironobu MURATA
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Publication number: 20220150436Abstract: An image sensor includes a first photoelectric conversion unit that converts light incident through a first opening to an electric charge, a second photoelectric conversion unit that converts light incident through a second opening which is smaller than the first opening to an electric charge, and a signal output wiring that outputs a first signal generated by the electric charge converted by the first photoelectric conversion unit and a second signal generated by the electric charge converted by the second photoelectric conversion unit. The second photoelectric conversion unit is disposed between the second opening and the signal output wiring.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hironobu MURATA
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Patent number: 11317046Abstract: An imaging element includes: an imaging unit in which a plurality of pixel groups including a plurality of pixels that output pixel signals according to incident light are formed, and on which incident light corresponding to mutually different pieces of image information is incident; a control unit that controls, for each of the pixel groups, a period of accumulating in the plurality of pixels included in the pixel group; and a readout unit that is provided to each of the pixel groups, and reads out the pixel signals from the plurality of pixels included in the pixel group.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Shiro Tsunai, Hironobu Murata
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Patent number: 11272131Abstract: An image sensor includes a first photoelectric conversion unit that converts light incident through a first opening to an electric charge, a second photoelectric conversion unit that converts light incident through a second opening which is smaller than the first opening to an electric charge, and a signal output wiring that outputs a first signal generated by the electric charge converted by the first photoelectric conversion unit and a second signal generated by the electric charge converted by the second photoelectric conversion unit. The second photoelectric conversion unit is disposed between the second opening and the signal output wiring.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hironobu Murata
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Publication number: 20210388337Abstract: This document relates to materials and methods for using controlled radical polymerization (e.g., atom transfer radical polymerization) to generate protein-polymer conjugates in which two or more polymer molecules are attached to individual initiator molecules on the protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2019Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Hironobu Murata, Alan J. Russell
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Publication number: 20210358981Abstract: An image-capturing device includes an image sensor. The image sensor includes an upper layer pixel group and a lower layer pixel group that receives the light fluxes from the subject that have passed through each pixel in the upper layer pixel group. The lower layer pixel group includes fourth, fifth and sixth pixels having fourth, fifth and sixth spectral sensitivities, respectively, that are complementary to first, second, and third spectral sensitivities, respectively, of the upper layer pixel group, being arranged in a two-dimensional pattern. Positions of first, second and third pixels in the upper layer pixel group and positions of the fourth, fifth and sixth pixels in the lower layer pixel group are determined such that the fourth, fifth and sixth pixels receive light fluxes that pass through the first, second and third pixels, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hironobu MURATA
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Publication number: 20210335876Abstract: To provide an imaging element comprising: two first pixels that are arranged serially in a first direction and detect light of a first color; two second pixels that are arranged serially in a second direction intersecting the first direction, are adjacent to the two first pixels, and detect light of a second color; a plurality of first light-receiving regions that are arranged in the first pixels, receive light of the first color, and are divided in the first direction; and a plurality of second light-receiving regions that are arranged in the second pixels, receive light of the second color, and are divided in the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hironobu MURATA