Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Goto

Hiroshi Goto 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: 20110273075
    Abstract: A display device is provided with a Cu alloy film having high adhesiveness to a transparent substrate and a low electrical resistivity. The Cu alloy film for the display device is directly brought into contact with the transparent substrate, and the Cu alloy film has the multilayer structure, which includes a first layer (Y) composed of a Cu alloy containing, in total, 2-20 atm % of at least one element selected from among a group composed of Zn, Ni, Ti, Al, Mg, Ca, W, Nb, and Mn, and a second layer (X) which is composed of pure Cu or substantially a Cu alloy having Cu as the main component and has an electrical resistivity lower than that of the first layer (Y). The first layer (Y) is brought into contact with the transparent substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO
    Inventors: Hiroshi Goto, Aya Miki, Katsufumi Tomihisa, Mototaka Ochi, Takashi Onishi, Toshihiro Kugimiya
  • Publication number: 20110248272
    Abstract: Provided is a reflective anode for an organic EL display device having a reflective film made from an Al-based alloy which can realize a low contact resistance with an oxide conductive film and achieve an excellent reflectivity. Provided is also a method for manufacturing the reflective anode for an organic EL display device. The method includes: a step of forming an Al-based alloy film containing 0.1 to 2 atomic % of Ni or Co on a substrate; a step of subjecting the Al-based alloy film to a thermal treatment in a vacuum or an inactive gas atmosphere at the temperature of 150 degrees C. or above; and a step of forming an oxide conductive film so as to be in direct contact with the Al-based alloy film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd)
    Inventors: Mototaka Ochi, Hiroshi Goto, Tomoya Kishi, Nobuyuki Kawakami
  • Patent number: 8029717
    Abstract: There is provided a nanoimprint apparatus. The nanoimprint apparatus transfers a pattern formed on a surface of a mold to a transfer layer which is formed partially or entirely on a side surface of a substantially cylindrical or columnar substrate. The nanoimprint apparatus includes: a first jig which is in contact with the substrate 102; a second jig which rotatably supports the first jig; a press unit which is connected to the second jig to press the substrate on the mold 104 through the first and second jigs; and a movable holding unit which holds the mold and moves the mold 104 in a direction substantially perpendicular to a pressing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Namiki Seimitsu Houseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuya Nakamura, Nobuo Imaizumi, Yoshihito Hiyama, Ryutaro Maeda, Hiroshi Goto
  • Publication number: 20110198602
    Abstract: Disclosed is an Al alloy film which can be in direct contact with a transparent pixel electrode in a wiring structure of a thin film transistor substrate that is used in a display device, and which has improved corrosion resistance against an amine remover liquid that is used during the production process of the thin film transistor. Also disclosed is a display device using the Al alloy film. Specifically disclosed is an Al alloy film for a display device, said Al alloy film being directly connected with a transparent conductive film on a substrate of a display device, and containing 0.05-2.0 atom % of Ge, at least one element selected from among element group X (Ni, Ag, Co, Zn and Cu), and 0.02-2 atom % of at least one element selected from among element group Q consisting of the rare earth elements. A Ge-containing deposit and/or a Ge-concentrated part is present in the Al alloy film for a display device. Also specifically disclosed is a display device comprising the Al alloy film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Akira Nanbu, Hiroshi Goto, Aya Miki, Hiroyuki Okuno, Junichi Nakai, Tomoya Kishi, Toshiaki Takagi, Shigenobu Namba, Mamoru Nagao, Nobuhiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8000639
    Abstract: A developing device is disclosed that is capable of preventing the hysteresis phenomenon, and which contains a toner and a carrier. The toner and the carrier are charged to different polarities by frictional contact thereof. The developing device has a first conveyance member and a second conveyance member which faces an electrostatic latent image bearing body via the second region. An electric field forming device forms a first electric field between the first conveyance member and the second conveyance member to move the toner in the developer retained by the first conveyance member to the second conveyance member, and forms a second electric field between the second conveyance member and the electrostatic latent image bearing body to move the toner retained by the second conveyance member to an electrostatic latent image of the electrostatic latent image bearing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Goto, Takuya Okada
  • Patent number: 7995943
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a pair of spacedly opposed first and second bearing members, in which a powder developer material is moved from the first bearing member to the second bearing member. The apparatus also has an electric field generator. The generator forms an electric field between the first and second bearing members and outputs a first voltage and a second voltage alternately. The first voltage generates, between the first and second bearing members, a first electric field electrically forcing the developer material from the first bearing member toward the second bearing member. The second voltage generates between the first and second bearing members a second electric field electrically forcing the developer material from the second bearing member toward the first bearing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryouji Kouno, Hiroshi Goto
  • Publication number: 20110147753
    Abstract: Disclosed is a Cu alloy film for a display device that has high adhesion to a glass substrate while maintaining a low electric resistance characteristic of Cu-based materials. The Cu alloy film is wiring in direct contact with a glass substrate on a board and contains 0.1 to 10.0 atomic % in total of one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Ti, Al, and Mg. Also disclosed is a display device comprising a thin-film transistor that comprises the Cu alloy film. In a preferred embodiment of the display device, the thin-film transistor has a bottom gate-type structure, and a gate electrode and scanning lines in the thin-film transistor comprise the Cu alloy film and are in direct contact with the glass substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Takashi Onishi, Aya Miki, Hiroshi Goto, Masao Mizuno, Hirotaka Ito, Katsufumi Tomihisa
  • Publication number: 20110148628
    Abstract: In accordance with at least some embodiments of the present disclosure, a process for transmitting a signal is presented. The process may be implemented to detect an occurrence of a predetermined event associated with an object and in response to detecting the occurrence of the predetermined event, transmit a signal relating to a content associated with the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventor: Hiroshi GOTO
  • Publication number: 20110152702
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices, implementations and techniques for health monitoring. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to cardiac arrest monitoring devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventor: Hiroshi Goto
  • Publication number: 20110148814
    Abstract: Provided is an optical touch sensor including an optical path through which light propagates, a metal layer disposed on the optical path, a flexible touch key configured to contact the metal layer when being bent, an incident light reflecting surface configured to make the light that propagates through the optical path be incident on the metal layer at an angle at which surface plasmon resonance occurs when the metal layer and the touch key are separated from each other, and a detector configured to detect reflected light from the metal layer and determine that the touch key is pressed in the case where an intensity of the reflected light increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventor: Hiroshi GOTO
  • Publication number: 20110143544
    Abstract: A micropattern is joined to a substrate (W1) by: a first group of covering step and micropattern forming step by etching in a transfer step; and a second group of covering step and micropattern forming step by etching in the transfer step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Hiroshi Goto, Hiroshi Okuyama, Mitsunori Kokubo, Kentaro Ishibashi
  • Publication number: 20110121297
    Abstract: Provided is a direct contact technology by which a barrier metal layer between a Cu alloy wiring composed of pure Cu or a Cu alloy and a semiconductor layer can be eliminated, and the Cu alloy wiring can be directly and surely connected to the semiconductor layer within a wide process margin. The wiring structure is provided with the semiconductor layer and the Cu alloy film composed of pure Cu or the Cu alloy on a substrate in this order from the substrate side. A laminated structure is included between the semiconductor layer and the Cu alloy film. The laminated structure is composed of an (N, C, F) layer, which contains at least one element selected from among a group composed of nitrogen, carbon and fluorine, and a Cu—Si diffusion layer, which contains Cu and Si, in this order from the substrate side. Furthermore, at least the one element selected from among the group composed of nitrogen, carbon and fluorine is bonded to Si contained in the semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kawakami, Shinya Fukuma, Aya Miki, Mototaka Ochi, Shinya Morita, Yoshihiro Yokota, Hiroshi Goto
  • Patent number: 7919544
    Abstract: An ink-media set, comprising an ink composition and a recording medium, wherein the ink composition comprises a polymer fine particle containing a dye and an inorganic pigment particle, a water-soluble solvent, and water, and has a surface tension of 20 mN/m to 35 mN/m at 25° C., and the recording medium comprises a support and a coating layer on at least one side of the support, and the amount of pure water transferred to the recording medium is no less than 2 ml/m2 and less than 35 ml/m2 at a contact period of 100 ms and the amount of pure water transferred to the recording medium is no less than 3 ml/m2 and less than 40 ml/m2 at a contact period of 400 ms by measurement of a dynamic scanning absorptometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Matsuyama, Tamotsu Aruga, Naoya Morohoshi, Tohru Ohshima, Hiroshi Goto
  • Publication number: 20110066081
    Abstract: Implementations for sensor-based health monitoring systems are generally disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventor: Hiroshi Goto
  • Publication number: 20110057981
    Abstract: A recording ink containing at least a solid component which contains a colorant and a resin and is a solid at 25° C., a liquid component which has a higher boiling point than that of water and is a liquid at 25° C. and water, wherein the total content of the liquid component in the recording ink is 20% by mass or less, the total content of the solid component in the recording ink is 20% by mass or more, and the total content of a resin component in the solid component is 40% by mass to 95% by mass relative to a total amount of the solid component is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Inventors: Tamotsu Aruga, Masayuki Koyano, Akihiko Matsuyama, Hisashi Habashi, Hiroshi Goto, Tohru Ohshima, Naoya Morohoshi, Kiyofumi Nagai
  • Publication number: 20110047684
    Abstract: An airbag jacket having a good fitting performance of an expanded airbag for a body in the airbag jacket where the airbag is expanded along an outer surface of the body of the wearer. An airbag 2 is provided in a manner so as to cover a waistline and both shoulders of the wearer. An inside of the airbag 2 is partitioned into a plurality of cells 2a by means of that an inner panel 3 constituting a first surface on a wearer side of the airbag 2 and an outer panel 4 constituting a second surface on an opposite side to the wearer is partially stitched by means of a line-shaped stitching portion 6. Each of the cells 2a is formed to have a shape extending in a body height direction of the wearer. Thereby, the airbag 2 is brought to be expanded along an outer surface of a body portion of the wearer as a whole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Jin-Soo Jan, Shinichi Sugimoto, Akifumi Takedomi, Tadahiro Igawa, Hiroshi Goto, Yuki Kobayashi, Masayoshi Orita
  • Publication number: 20110024761
    Abstract: Provided is a direct contact technology by which a barrier metal layer between an Al alloy interconnection composed of pure Al or an Al alloy and a semiconductor layer can be eliminated and the Al alloy interconnection can be directly and surely connected to the semiconductor layer within a wide process margin. In an interconnection structure, the semiconductor layer, and the Al alloy film composed of the pure Al or the Al alloy are provided on the substrate in this order from the substrate side. A multilayer structure of an (N, C, F) layer containing at least one type of an element selected from among a group composed of nitrogen, carbon and fluorine, and an Al—Si diffusion layer containing Al and Si is included in this order from the substrate side, between the semiconductor layer and the Al alloy film. At least the one type of the element, i.e., nitrogen, carbon or fluorine contained in the (N, C, F) layer is bonded with Si contained in the semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Shoo (Kobe Steel, Ltd. )
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kawakami, Mototaka Ochi, Aya Miki, Shinya Morita, Yoshihiro Yokota, Shinya Fukuma, Hiroshi Goto
  • Publication number: 20110019350
    Abstract: Disclosed is an Al alloy film for a display device that, even when low-temperature heat treatment is applied, can realize satisfactorily low electric resistance, can realize a satisfactory reduction in contact resistance between the Al alloy film and a transparent pixel electrode connected directly to the Al alloy film, and has excellent corrosion resistance. The Al alloy film is connected directly to a transparent electroconductive film on the substrate in the display device. The Al alloy film comprises 0.05 to 0.5 atomic % of Co and 0.2 to 1.0 atomic % of Ge and satisfies the requirement that the content of Co and the content of Ge in the Al alloy film have a relationship represented by formula (1): [Ge]??0.25×[Co]+0.2 (1) In formula (1), [Ge] represents the content of Ge in the Al alloy film, atomic %; and [Co] represents the content of Co in the Al alloy film, atomic %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Junichi Nakai, Akira Nanbu, Hiroshi Goto, Hiroyuki Okuno, Aya Miki
  • Publication number: 20110008640
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device comprising an aluminum alloy film. In a wiring structure of a thin-film transistor substrate for use in display devices, the aluminum alloy film can realize direct contact between a thin film of an aluminum alloy and a transparent pixel electrode, can simultaneously realize low electric resistance and heat resistance, and can improve resistance to corrosion by an amine-based peeling liquid and an alkaline developing solution used in a thin-film transistor production process. In the display device, an oxide electroconductive film is in direct contact with an Al alloy film and at least a part of the Al alloy component is precipitated on the contact surface of the Al alloy film. The Al alloy film comprises at least one element (element X1) selected from the group consisting of Ni, Ag, Zn, and Co and at least one element (element X2) which, together with the element X1, can form an intermetallic compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (kobe Steel Ltd.)
    Inventors: Hiroshi Goto, Akira Nanbu, Junichi Nakai, Hiroyuki Okuno, Mototaka Ochi, Aya Miki
  • Publication number: 20100328247
    Abstract: Disclosed is a highly reliable touch panel sensor comprising a guiding wiring that is less likely to cause an increase in electrical resistance and disconnection with the elapse of time, has a low electrical resistance, can ensure electrical conduction to a transparent conductive film, and can be connected directly to the transparent conductive film. The touch panel sensor comprises a transparent conductive film and a guiding wiring made of an aluminum alloy film connected directly to the transparent conductive film. The aluminum alloy film comprises 0.2 to 10 atomic% in total of at least one element selected from an X group consisting of Ni and Co. The aluminum alloy film has a hardness of 2 to 15 GPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Aya Miki, Hiroshi Goto, Hiroyuki Okuno, Tomoya Kishi, Akira Nanbu