Patents by Inventor Hironori Kobayashi

Hironori Kobayashi 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: 20070181644
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for mounting electronic components that enables precise mounting of electronic components, such as deformation-prone thin IC chips or fine-pitch and high-pin-count IC chips, on a substrate. Thin IC chips, which conventionally tend to lose flatness because of warping that occurs during production or deformation that occurs when picked up with a suction nozzle, are pressed against a substrate (4) with a preset load using a suction nozzle with a flat suction surface (11b) so as to correct deformation; the suction nozzle (11) is controlled to move up to make up for a decrease in the distance between the oppositely spaced IC chip and the substrate (4) that is caused by thermal expansion due to the heating for melting solder bumps (1a) on the electrodes; and the suction nozzle (11) is controlled to move down to mitigate the effect of a pulling-apart force applied to the molten parts as the thermally expanded parts cool down and contract.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuharu Ueno, Makoto Morikawa, Shuichi Hirata, Hironori Kobayashi, Satoshi Shida
  • Publication number: 20070184364
    Abstract: The main object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a color filter, capable of having the surface of the pixel part flatly even in the case a pixel part is formed by an ink discharging method, and the thickness of each pixel part evenly. In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a method for manufacturing a color filter comprising at least a pixel part forming process of forming a pixel part of a plurality of colors in a predetermined pattern by adhering an ink on a transparent substrate by a discharging method, and the convex pixel part is formed in the pixel part forming process, wherein a pixel part flattening process of flattening the convex pixel part is executed after the pixel part forming process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Inventors: Akio Sonehara, Hironori Kobayashi, Norikatsu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7252923
    Abstract: A method of producing a pattern-forming body with high accuracy with no need for a post-exposure treatment and without allowing any photocatalyst to remain in the resultant pattern-forming body and whereby any problematic effect of the photocatalyst in the pattern-forming body is eliminated. The method includes providing a photocatalyst-containing layer-sided substrate and a pattern-forming body substrate having a characteristic-changeable layer, which is changed by the effect of the photocatalyst in the photocatalyst-containing layer, and a light-shading part formed as a pattern in such a manner that the photocatalyst-containing layer and the characteristic-changeable layer are brought into contact with each other, followed by exposure on the side of the pattern-forming body substrate to change the characteristics of the characteristic-changeable layer of the exposed part, followed by removing the photocatalyst-containing layer-sided substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hironori Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20070170069
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to obtain a low profile electrolytic copper foil with low surface roughness at the rough surface side (opposite side from the glossy side) in the electrolytic copper foil manufacture using a cathode drum, and particularly to obtain an electrolytic copper foil with excellent elongation and tensile strength that permits fine patterning. Another object is to obtain a copper electrolytic solution that allows uniform copper plating without pinholes on a 2-layer flexible substrate. This copper electrolytic solution comprises as an additive a compound having the specific skeleton represented by General Formula (1) below which is obtained by an addition reaction in which water is added to a compound having in a molecule one or more epoxy groups: wherein A is an epoxy compound residue and n is an integer of 1 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2005
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Tsuchida, Hironori Kobayashi, Masashi Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20070148762
    Abstract: A cell culture patterning substrate on which cells can be arranged regularly with high efficiency over a large area on a base material so as to attain formation of a tissue, etc. The cell culture patterning substrate includes: a base material; and a cell culture region which is formed on the base material, is a region for culturing a cell and contains a cell adhesive layer having adhesive properties to the cell. The cell culture region includes: a cell adhesion portion at which the cell adhesive layer is formed; and a cell adhesion auxiliary portion, formed in a pattern, which inhibits adhesion to the cell, and the cell adhesion auxiliary portion is formed such that, upon adhesion of the cell to the cell adhesion portion, the cells on two cell adhesion portions adjacent to the cell adhesion auxiliary portion can be bound to each other on the cell adhesion auxiliary portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Hideyuki Miyake, Hideshi Hattori, Hironori Kobayashi, Hidetsugu Tazawa
  • Publication number: 20070128738
    Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to provide a high quality pattern formed body, wherein only the target region is made liquid repellent with a high precision at the time of forming a pattern made of a lyophilic region and a liquid repellent region by use of plasma radiating; and a method for manufacturing the same. To achieve the object, the present invention provides a method for manufacturing a pattern formed body comprising a plasma radiating step of radiating plasma to a patterning substrate having: a base material; a photocatalyst containing layer formed on the base material and containing at least a photocatalyst; and a resin layer formed in a pattern form on the photocatalyst containing layer and containing at least a resin, wherein a fluorine compound is used as an introduction gas to radiate the plasma to make the upper face of the resin layer liquid repellent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Inventors: Hironori Kobayashi, Ayao Matsukawa
  • Publication number: 20070128552
    Abstract: A main object of the invention is to provide a a manufacturing method of a plurality of pattern formed bodies which makes it possible that even if the pattern formed bodies are continuously manufactured, their property varied patterns are each made into a target pattern form with high precision; and a pattern formed body manufacturing apparatus used in the manufacturing method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Inventors: Takashi Sawada, Kaori Yamashita, Hironori Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20070122901
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for culturing cells, which comprises the steps of: causing cells to adhere to the surface of a cell array substrate having a cell adhesiveness variation pattern that comprises regions having good cell adhesiveness and regions having inhibited cell adhesiveness patterned on a substrate; transferring the adhered cells to a cell culture substrate in such patterned state; and culturing the transferred cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2004
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Ikuo Morita, Makoto Nakamura, Hideyuki Miyake, Hideshi Hattori, Hironori Kobayashi, Masaaki Kurihara
  • Publication number: 20070123681
    Abstract: As a resin composition that solves the problems such as unpleasant odor encountered when a tertiary amine compound is used as a catalyst in a reaction of a polyol and a polyisocyanate, and that promotes the curing of these resins and improves adhesion to metals, inorganic materials, and organic materials, the present invention provides a resin composition containing the following components as essential components, (A) a polyol (B) a polyisocyanate (C) a silane coupling agent containing an imidazole group (here, the ratio NCO/OH of the number of isocyanate groups in the polyisocyanate (B) to the number of hydroxyl groups in the polyol (A) in the above composition is from 0.6 to 4.0, and the weight ratio of {(A)+(B)}:(C) is from 100:0.01 to 100:10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: NIKKO MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Kobayashi, Katsuyuki Tsuchida, Masashi Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20070122754
    Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to provide a manufacturing method of a plurality of pattern formed bodies which makes it possible that even if the pattern formed bodies are continuously manufactured, their property varied patterns are each made into a target pattern form with high precision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Kaori Yamashita, Takashi Sawada, Hironori Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20070077658
    Abstract: The tissue characteristic determination apparatus capable of determining the characteristics of the tissues collected from a living organism is described, a representative one of which includes: a first data obtainer for obtaining first data reflecting the activity of first cyclin-dependent kinase contained in samples prepared from the tissues, a second data obtainer for obtaining second data reflecting the expression level of the first cyclin-dependent kinase, and a tissue characteristics information obtainer for obtaining information on the characteristics of the tissues based on first values obtained from the first and second data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Hironori Kobayashi, Hideki Ishihara, Koichi Yamagata
  • Publication number: 20070072093
    Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to provide a manufacturing method of a pattern formed body which makes it possible to form property varied patterns having a desired line width, even when plural pattern formed bodies are manufactured. To achieve the object, the invention provides a manufacturing method of pattern formed bodies, comprising: a pattern-forming step of radiating vacuum-ultraviolet light onto a patterning substrate, a surface property of which is varied by the vacuum-ultraviolet light, through a photomask having at least a transparent substrate and a light shielding part to form a pattern formed body having a property varied pattern, in which the surface property of the patterning substrate is varied; and a step of repeating the pattern-forming step to manufacture a plurality of the pattern formed bodies, wherein an interval between the transparent substrate and the patterning substrate upon the pattern-forming step is set into the range of 0.1 ?m to 200 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Takashi Sawada, Masafumi Kamada, Kaori Yamashita, Hironori Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7190640
    Abstract: An electronic equipment having an electronic equipment body, and first and second operation units. The first operation unit includes a display device and a control CPU. The second operation unit includes a display device and a control CPU. The electronic equipment body includes system CPU, a power source for display device for the first operation unit, a power source for control CPU for supplying a power source to the control CPU, a power source for display device for the second operation unit, and a power source for control CPU for supplying a power source to the control CPU, and further includes a position detection part for detecting positions of the operation units. The power source for display device is cut off and then the power source for control CPU is cut off based on the positions of the first and second operation units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Matumoto, Hironori Kobayashi, Norifumi Nishida, Makoto Fukuya
  • Patent number: 7183023
    Abstract: The main object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a color filter, capable of having the surface of the pixel part flatly even in the case a pixel part is formed by an ink discharging method, and the thickness of each pixel part evenly. In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a method for manufacturing a color filter comprising at least a pixel part forming process of forming a pixel part of a plurality of colors in a predetermined pattern by adhering an ink on a transparent substrate by a discharging method, and the convex pixel part is formed in the pixel part forming process, wherein a pixel part flattening process of flattening the convex pixel part is executed after the pixel part forming process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Sonehara, Hironori Kobayashi, Norikatsu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20070041000
    Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to provide a pattern formed body capable of forming highly precise functional parts on various base materials, and a method for manufacturing the same. To achieve the object, the present invention provides a method for manufacturing a pattern formed body, having a plasma radiating step of radiating plasma to a patterning substrate having: a base material; an intermediate layer formed on the base material and containing a silane coupling agent or a polymer of the silane coupling agent; and a resin layer formed in a pattern form on the intermediate layer, wherein a fluorine gas is used as an introduction gas to radiate the plasma from the resin layer side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Inventor: Hironori Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20070003438
    Abstract: A column is described, as representative one of which includes: a disposable column used in a measuring sample preparator, comprising: a support immobilized a substance capable of conjugating a protein, a support holding part for holding the support, a fluid connecting part for connecting to the sample preparator, and a liquid storing part for receiving a liquid through the support held by the support holding part and storing the liquid to be collectively from the top.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Hironori Kobayashi, Hideki Ishihara, Koichi Yamagata, Satoshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 7148740
    Abstract: A boost circuit includes: level shifters 3 and 4 for shifting a high level of a clock signal; a first boost means which contains transistors QP3 and QP4 for conducting switching in accordance with the clock signal whose high level has been shifted and capacitors C1 and C2 and, thereby, generates a power source potential VDC2 by conducting a charge pump operation; level shifters 1 and 2 for shifting a high level of a clock signal; inverters IV41 to IV52 for shifting a low level of the clock signal whose high level has been shifted; and a second boost means which contains transistors QP1 and QP2 for conducting the switching in accordance with the clock signal whose high level and low level have been shifted and capacitors C3 and C4 and, thereby, generates a power source potential VDC3 by conducting the charge pump operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Kobayashi, Hisashi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20060267639
    Abstract: A voltage generation circuit includes a voltage divider circuit which generates first to Mth (M is an integer of two or more) divided voltages using a first power supply voltage and a second power supply voltage lower than the first power supply voltage and outputs the generated first to Mth divided voltages, and first to Mth impedance conversion circuits which perform impedance conversion of the first to Mth divided voltages, each of the first to Kth (K<M) impedance conversion circuits and the Lth (K<L<M) to Mth impedance conversion circuits including an operational amplifier of a first type, which is a rail-to-rail type, of which an operational range is set in a range between the first power supply voltage and the second power supply voltage, and each of the (K+1)th to (L?1)th impedance conversion circuits including an operational amplifier of a second type of which an operational range is set in a range between a third voltage which is lower than the first power supply voltage and a fourth voltage
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hironori Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7134877
    Abstract: A demonstration system of an electronic equipment. The electronic equipment includes first and second operation units which are arranged on a front panel of the electronic equipment. In the first operation unit, there are provided display device, various operation keys, demonstration key, light receiving part, and opening/closing key. In the second operation unit, there are provided an operation key and a display device. The demonstration key is an input key for giving a command to start a demonstration of the electronic equipment. A display demonstration, in which the display devices are used, and a movable section demonstration, in which the first and the second operation unit are operated, are continuously conducted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Matumoto, Hironori Kobayashi, Norifumi Nishida, Makoto Fukuya, Naoya Shibata, Tetsuya Natori, Kouji Maeda
  • Publication number: 20060222268
    Abstract: To generate the pixel value of one interpolation point from the pixel values of the four original pixels in the surroundings of the interpolation point, when the pixel values of the four involve a predetermined density difference, a printer uses the corrected inverse distance value in place of the inverse distance value found according to general bilinear interpolation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Inventors: Takeshi Miyashita, Hironori Kobayashi