Patents by Inventor Hiroo Matsuda
Hiroo Matsuda 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: 7197397Abstract: An evaluation apparatus (environmental measures evaluation apparatus) of an evaluation system (environmental measures evaluation system) obtains data representing environmental measures carried out by users from user terminals via a network. The evaluation apparatus obtains score corresponding to the contents of the environmental measures from a research item DB, then calculates total scores category by category. The evaluation apparatus specifies level of each category based on the calculated total scores and progress level decision data stored in a progress level DB. The evaluation apparatus obtains advisory information corresponding to the specified level from an advisory information DB, and transmits data including the advisory information and specified level to the user terminal via the network.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2005Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroo Matsuda, Sachio Matsuura, Yoshio Itoi
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Publication number: 20050242324Abstract: The present invention is intended to raise the data density during the process which comprises irradiating a thin film of a polymer compound containing an azobenzene structure with light to form an unevenness pattern on the surface thereof, whereby data are recorded. When a thin azobenzene polymer film is irradiated with a linearly polarized circular laser beam or an ellipsoidal (or rectangular) laser beam having a band of light and darkness, a surface relief pattern characterized by portions by a number of k and raised portions by a number of (k+1) arranged alternately in a straight light is obtained. By making the use of the anisotropy of this pattern, a new data recording/reproducing method can be realized.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2003Publication date: November 3, 2005Inventors: Takashi Fukuda, Hiroo Matsuda
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Publication number: 20050209780Abstract: An evaluation apparatus (environmental measures evaluation apparatus) of an evaluation system (environmental measures evaluation system) obtains data representing environmental measures carried out by users from user terminals via a network. The evaluation apparatus obtains score corresponding to the contents of the environmental measures from a research item DB, then calculates total scores category by category. The evaluation apparatus specifies level of each category based on the calculated total scores and progress level decision data stored in a progress level DB. The evaluation apparatus obtains advisory information corresponding to the specified level from an advisory information DB, and transmits data including the advisory information and specified level to the user terminal via the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2005Publication date: September 22, 2005Inventors: Hiroo Matsuda, Sachio Matsuura, Yoshio Itoi
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Patent number: 6537711Abstract: There is disclosed a reversible recording material having a liquid crystal mixture comprising at least two cholesteric liquid crystal compounds. The cholesteric liquid crystal compounds which are contained in the reversible recording material has a molecular weight of less than 2000 and a grass transition temperature equal to or more than 30° C. The two cholesteric liquid crystal compounds are compatible each other. After at least a part of the reversible recording material is heated to a temperature where the part of the reversible recording material becomes a cholesteric liquid crystal phase, the part of the reversible recording material is rapidly cooled down to below the glass transition temperature thereof, so that a reflecting color from the reversible recording material can be fixed to achieve a recording.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2000Date of Patent: March 25, 2003Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., Koji Kajimura, Nobuyuki Tomaoki, Okamura Oil Mill, LTDInventors: Shigeaki Nimura, Hiroyuki Sugimoto, Nobuyuki Tamaoki, Hiroo Matsuda, Yoshishige Kida
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Patent number: 6524759Abstract: A reversible recording medium has a support, a reversible light absorbing layer formed on the support, and, a reversible cholesteric reflection layer formed on the reversible light absorbing layer, containing a cholesteric liquid crystalline compound capable of assuming a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase reversibly showing iridescent colors by selective reflection. A method for reversibly recording an image in the above-mentioned recording medium, and a reversible recording apparatus using the above-mentioned recording medium are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2000Date of Patent: February 25, 2003Assignees: Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Sugimoto, Shigeaki Nimura, Kyohji Tsutsui, Nobuyuki Tamaoki, Hiroo Matsuda
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Patent number: 6396215Abstract: An ion-implantation apparatus includes a chamber and a pressure controller for maintaining an internal pressure of the chamber at not less than 1E-4 Torr during an ion-implantation process.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2000Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Hiroo Matsuda
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Publication number: 20020034693Abstract: Disclosed is an improvement in an optical information recording method by utilizing a unique phenomenon in which, when a thin film of a polymeric compound having a structure of azobenzene is irradiated spotwise with a light beam of a specified wavelength, a pattern of rugged surface with recesses and raises is resulted by the migration of the polymer molecules from the strongly irradiated area to the weakly irradiated area. The improvement has an object to increase the photosensitivity of this phenomenon by simultaneously irradiating the polymeric thin film with a second or bias light beam of a larger cross section to envelop the irradiation spot by the first or writing light beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2000Publication date: March 21, 2002Inventors: Takashi Fukuda, Hiroo Matsuda, Kimio Sumaru, Tatsumi Kimura, Masao Kato
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Patent number: 6210980Abstract: An inspection pattern for a semiconductor device includes at least one inspection pattern groove and a dummy interconnection. The inspection pattern groove is formed in an interlevel insulating film or lower interconnection covering a surface of a semiconductor substrate. The dummy interconnection is formed to intersect the inspection pattern groove by burying a metal material in the inspection pattern groove. The dummy interconnection has a side wall which is exposed in the groove-like opening portion and which is inspected whether a void is present therein. An inspection method for a semiconductor device is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1998Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Hiroo Matsuda
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Patent number: 6183666Abstract: A cholesteryl compound has formula (1), and a rewritable full-color thermosensitive recording material contains the above-mentioned cholesteryl compound of formula (1): YO—CO(CH2)n—A—(CH2)nCO—OY (1) wherein A is a 1,5-hexadienylene group represented by the formula —C(R)═CHCH2CH2CH═C(R)-, in which R is a hydrogen atom or methyl group; Y is a cholesterol residue obtained by removing a hydroxyl group from cholesterol; and n is an integer of 5 to 7.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 1999Date of Patent: February 6, 2001Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., Okamura Oil Mill, Ltd., Director- General of Agency of Industrial and Science and TechnologyInventors: Nobuyuki Tamaoki, Hiroo Matsuda, Yoshishige Kida
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Patent number: 6103431Abstract: A rewritable, color image recording medium composed of a pair of opposed substrates at least one of which is transparent, and an intermediate layer interposed between the substrates. The intermediate layer contains at least one cholesteric liquid crystal compound having a molecular weight of not greater than 2,000 and a glass transition point of at least 35.degree. C., and a photochromic compound. By irradiating the intermediate layer imagewise with the light through the transparent substrate, while maintaining the intermediate layer at such a temperature that the cholesteric liquid crystal compound assumes a cholesteric liquid crystal phase, an image is formed. The image may be fixed by rapidly cooling the recording medium to a temperature lower than the glass transition.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1999Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: Director-General of Agency of Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Nobuyuki Tamaoki, Hiroo Matsuda, Soyoung Song
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Patent number: 6013748Abstract: Disclosed is a novel aromatic ester compound represented by the general formula ##STR1## in which Pn is a 1,4-phenylene group, R.sup.1 is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 is a group selected from the group consisting of perfluoroalkyl groups having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, cyano group, nitro group, 2,2-dicyanoethenyl group and methylsulfonyl group and the subscript n is a number of 2, 3 or 4. These aromatic ester compounds are useful as a second-order non-linear optical material in the ultraviolet wavelength range so that a resin film containing the compound has a good second-order non-linear optical coefficient d.sub.33 of 2-4.times.10.sup.-9 esu.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 1998Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: Japan as represented by Director General of Agency of Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Hiroo Matsuda, Takashi Fukuda, Shinji Yamada, Tatsumi Kimura, Masao Kato, Xuan-Ming Duan, Shuji Okada, Hachiro Nakanishi
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Patent number: 5057248Abstract: A polymeric nonlinear optical material is produced by mixing a polyelectrolyte solution with an ionic pigment solution thereby obtaining a solution containing a composite of said polyelectrolyte and said ionic pigment, and separating said composite from said solution.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1989Date of Patent: October 15, 1991Assignees: Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Ministry of International Trade and IndustryInventors: Hiroo Matsuda, Shuji Okada, Hachiro Nakanishi, Masao Kato