Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kida

Hiroshi Kida 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: 20240345673
    Abstract: A display panel with a touch detection function, in which display operation is less affected by touch detection operation, a method of driving the display panel with a touch detection function, a driving circuit, and an electronic unit having the display panel with a touch detection function are disclosed. The display panel with a touch detection function includes: one or more display elements; one or more drive electrodes; one or more touch detection electrodes; and a drive section selectively applying a DC drive signal or an AC drive signal to the drive electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Yoshitoshi Kida, Koji Noguchi
  • Patent number: 12118164
    Abstract: A touch panel system includes a capacitive touch panel and a controller that controls the touch panel. The touch panel includes a plurality of drive electrodes and a plurality of floating island electrodes located on a first substrate and a plurality of pressure detection electrodes and a plurality of position detection electrodes located on a second substrate. The controller provides a drive signal to the drive electrodes and corrects a pressure detection signal obtained from each of the pressure detection electrodes by using a position detection signal obtained from the position detection electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Takenori Maruyama, Kazutoshi Kida, Shinji Yamagishi, Takuma Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20240302923
    Abstract: Provided is a touch panel system including a touch panel and a controller. The controller includes a signal acquisition unit that acquires a signal value from a position detection electrode and acquires a signal value from a pressing force detection electrode, a position detection unit that detects a position of a pointer, based on a position signal value acquired by the signal acquisition unit, and a pressing force determination unit that determines a presence or absence of a pressing operation at a pointed position. The pressing force determination unit acquires a second derivative value of a pressing force value and determines the presence or absence of the pressing operation at the pointed position, based on the second derivative value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Takuma YAMAMOTO, Takenori MARUYAMA, Shinji YAMAGISHI, Kazutoshi KIDA, Yasuhiro SUGITA, Hiroshi FUKUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240272737
    Abstract: A touch panel system includes a touch panel including a drive electrode, a position detection electrode, and a pressure detection electrode, and a controller configured to impart a drive signal to the drive electrode and acquire a signal value from each of the position detection electrode and the pressure detection electrode. The controller is configured to detect a touch range by a pointer based on the signal value obtained from the position detection electrode, determine a pressure detection range corresponding to the touch range, of the signal value obtained from the pressure detection electrode, and calculate a magnitude of a pressure by the pointer based on the signal value in the pressure detection range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Takenori MARUYAMA, Shinji YAMAGISHI, Takuma YAMAMOTO, Kazutoshi KIDA, Yasuhiro SUGITA, Hiroshi FUKUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240264687
    Abstract: An attachment is attachable to and detachable from a touch panel of an input device including the touch panel, and supports user operation on the input device by being attached to the touch panel. The attachment includes one or more operation units that receive user operation and transmit the user operation to a corresponding position of the touch panel when attached to the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Takenori MARUYAMA, Shinji YAMAGISHI, Takuma YAMAMOTO, Kazutoshi KIDA, Yasuhiro SUGITA, Hiroshi FUKUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 10166182
    Abstract: Provided is a microneedle. The microneedle array includes a needle portion, which contains an inactivated whole virion influenza vaccine, and a sheet portion. Also provided is an administration method in which the microneedle array is administered and then administered secondly after an interval of equal to or greater than 24 hours and less than 2 months.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: FUJIFILM Corporation, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Koji Kuruma, Takayoshi Oyamada, Toshio Shimada, Yoshihiro Sakoda, Hiroshi Kida
  • Patent number: 10001261
    Abstract: A light source apparatus according to the present invention includes a phosphor wheel having a phosphor disposed in an annular shape on a disk-shaped base material, the phosphor serving to emit fluorescent light from excitation light, thereby forming an excitation light source having a predetermined color, and the phosphor having a discontinuous portion in a part of the annular shape, an excitation light source for emitting the excitation light with which a passage position of the circular phosphor is irradiated with respect to the phosphor wheel to be rotatively driven by the wheel motor, and a controller that controls light emission of the light source and the excitation light source synchronously with a position of the discontinuous portion with respect to an irradiation position of the excitation light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Yagyu, Nobutaka Kobayashi, Akihiro Yamada, Hiroshi Kida
  • Publication number: 20180161421
    Abstract: Provided are a highly-safe recombinant vaccinia virus that is effective in preventing the onset of symptoms due to infection by novel influenza viruses, and a vaccine for the novel influenza viruses containing the recombinant vaccinia virus. This recombinant vaccinia virus is capable of expressing the hemagglutinin protein genes of the novel influenza virus. This novel influenza vaccine contains the recombinant vaccinia virus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Michinori KOHARA, Fumihiko YASUI, Toshio MURAKAMI, Hiroshi KIDA, Yoshihiro SAKODA
  • Patent number: 9739921
    Abstract: A surface light source device includes a first light source for emitting first light, a first light guide rod for causing the first light to be incident thereon and converting the first light into first linear light, a second light source for emitting second light having a greater divergence angle than the first light, and a second light guide rod for converting the second light into second linear light extended in the same direction as the first linear light. Moreover, the surface light source device includes a reflecting bar disposed on an emitting side of the planar light from the first and second light guide rods, and a reflecting portion taking such a box shape as to have an internal wall serving as a reflecting surface, and having an opening portion on a surface at the emitting side of the planar light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kida, Akira Daijogo, Saki Maeda, Nami Okimoto, Eiji Niikura
  • Patent number: 9703142
    Abstract: A surface light source device includes a plurality of LEDs for emitting a plurality of light having different colors, and a light guide body for mixing the colors of the plurality of light and emitting light having colors mixed. The light guide body includes a light incident portion for causing the plurality of light to be individually incident, and a light emitting portion provided beside the light incident portion and changing propagation angles of the plurality of light which is incident from the light incident portion and propagated into the light guide body to mix colors, thereby controlling a quantity of light emission from the light guide body and a light emitting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Saki Maeda, Nami Okimoto, Eiji Niikura, Tomohiko Sawanaka, Hiroshi Kida
  • Patent number: 9599316
    Abstract: A light source device has a first monochromatic light source group, a second monochromatic light source group, a polarization selection and wavelength selection element, a first phosphor layer, and a second phosphor layer. The first monochromatic light source group outputs first polarized light having a fixed polarization direction. The second monochromatic light source group outputs second polarized light having a fixed polarization direction. The first phosphor layer emits light in a first wavelength band. The second phosphor layer emits light in a second wavelength band. The polarization and wavelength selection element directs the first polarized light onto the first phosphor layer by transmitting the first polarized light and directs the second polarized light onto the second phosphor layer by reflecting the second polarized light, reflects the light in the first wavelength band and transmits the light in the second wavelength band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamada, Tomohiko Sawanaka, Shinji Yagyu, Hiroshi Kida, Kenji Samejima
  • Publication number: 20170014336
    Abstract: Provided is a microneedle. The microneedle array includes a needle portion, which contains an inactivated whole virion influenza vaccine, and a sheet portion. Also provided is an administration method in which the microneedle array is administered and then administered secondly after an interval of equal to or greater than 24 hours and less than 2 months.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicants: FUJIFILM Corporation, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Koji KURUMA, Takayoshi OYAMADA, Toshio SHIMADA, Yoshihiro SAKODA, Hiroshi KIDA
  • Patent number: 9467670
    Abstract: A projection device includes: first light sources each emitting a first light; a collimator lens that converts the first lights into parallel light beams; a condensing optical system that receives the parallel light beams and emits concentrated light beams; and an optical element having an incident surface through which the concentrated light beams enters the optical element. The condensing optical system is configured so that when a light beam parallel to an optical axis of the condensing optical system is incident on the condensing optical system, the light beam is concentrated at a position on the axis on the incident surface. The parallel light beams are incident at different positions of the condensing optical system while approaching the axis. Emitting positions of the light beams on the condensing optical system and incident positions of the light beams on the incident surface are opposite each other with respect to the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamada, Tomohiko Sawanaka, Shinji Yagyu, Hiroshi Kida, Kenji Samejima
  • Publication number: 20160109633
    Abstract: A surface light source device includes a first light source for emitting first light, a first light guide rod for causing the first light to be incident thereon and converting the first light into first linear light, a second light source for emitting second light having a greater divergence angle than the first light, and a second light guide rod for converting the second light into second linear light extended in the same direction as the first linear light. Moreover, the surface light source device includes a reflecting bar disposed on an emitting side of the planar light from the first and second light guide rods, and a reflecting portion taking such a box shape as to have an internal wall serving as a reflecting surface, and having an opening portion on a surface at the emitting side of the planar light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi KIDA, Akira DAIJOGO, Saki MAEDA, Nami OKIMOTO, Eiji NIIKURA
  • Patent number: 9310033
    Abstract: A light source device includes a plurality of light sources with different polarizations. A combined wavelength band of the light of a first polarization and second polarization is a first wavelength band. A combined wavelength band of a third polarization and fourth polarization is a second wavelength band. A plurality of selective transmission elements transmits one or more combined light of one or more polarizations and reflects one or more light of one or more polarizations. Thus, the light of the first polarization, the light of the second polarization and the light of the third polarization passing through a third selective transmission element, and the light of the fourth polarization reflected by the third selective transmission element proceed in the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamada, Takeshi Utakoji, Kenji Samejima, Hiroshi Kida, Tomohiko Sawanaka, Shinji Yagyu
  • Publication number: 20160054623
    Abstract: A surface light source device includes a plurality of LEDs for emitting a plurality of light having different colors, and a light guide body for mixing the colors of the plurality of light and emitting light having colors mixed. The light guide body includes a light incident portion for causing the plurality of light to be individually incident, and a light emitting portion provided beside the light incident portion and changing propagation angles of the plurality of light which is incident from the light incident portion and propagated into the light guide body to mix colors, thereby controlling a quantity of light emission from the light guide body and a light emitting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Saki MAEDA, Nami OKIMOTO, Eiji NIIKURA, Tomohiko SAWANAKA, Hiroshi KIDA
  • Publication number: 20150341605
    Abstract: A projection device includes: first light sources each emitting a first light; a collimator lens that converts the first lights into parallel light beams; a condensing optical system that receives the parallel light beams and emits concentrated light beams; and an optical element having an incident surface through which the concentrated light beams enters the optical element. The condensing optical system is configured so that when a light beam parallel to an optical axis of the condensing optical system is incident on the condensing optical system, the light beam is concentrated at a position on the axis on the incident surface. The parallel light beams are incident at different positions of the condensing optical system while approaching the axis. Emitting positions of the light beams on the condensing optical system and incident positions of the light beams on the incident surface are opposite each other with respect to the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro YAMADA, Tomohiko SAWANAKA, Shinji YAGYU, Hiroshi KIDA, Kenji SAMEJIMA
  • Publication number: 20150167932
    Abstract: To improve light utilization efficiency, a light source device (4) has a first monochromatic light source group (1000a), a second monochromatic light source group (1000b), a polarization selection and wavelength selection element (14), a first phosphor layer (16a), and a second phosphor layer (16b). The first monochromatic light source group (1000a) outputs first polarized light having a fixed polarization direction. The second monochromatic light source group (1000b) outputs second polarized light having a fixed polarization direction. The first phosphor layer emits light in a first wavelength band. The second phosphor layer emits light in a second wavelength band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamada, Tomohiko Sawanaka, Shinji Yagyu, Hiroshi Kida, Kenji Samejima
  • Publication number: 20140354956
    Abstract: A light source device includes a first light source that emits light of a first polarization, and a second light source that emits light of a second polarization whose polarization direction is different from the light of the first polarization by 90 degrees. A combined wavelength band of the light of the first polarization and the light of the second polarization is a first wavelength band. A third light source emits light of a third polarization and of a wavelength band which is different from the first wavelength band, and a fourth light source emits light of a fourth polarization whose polarization direction is different from the light of the third polarization by 90 degrees. A combined wavelength band of the light of the third polarization and the light of the fourth polarization is a second wavelength band which is different from the first wavelength band. A reflecting element reflects the light of the first polarization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamada, Takeshi Utakoji, Kenji Samejima, Hiroshi Kida, Tomohiko Sawanaka, Shinji Yagyu
  • Publication number: 20140198301
    Abstract: A light source apparatus according to the present invention includes a phosphor wheel having a phosphor disposed in an annular shape on a disk-shaped base material, the phosphor serving to emit fluorescent light from excitation light, thereby forming an excitation light source having a predetermined color, and the phosphor having a discontinuous portion in a part of the annular shape, an excitation light source for emitting the excitation light with which a passage position of the circular phosphor is irradiated with respect to the phosphor wheel to be rotatively driven by the wheel motor, and a controller that controls light emission of the light source and the excitation light source synchronously with a position of the discontinuous portion with respect to an irradiation position of the excitation light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji YAGYU, Nobutaka KOBAYASHI, Akihiro YAMADA, Hiroshi KIDA