Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Mukai
Hiroshi Mukai 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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Publication number: 20240153203Abstract: Generating a three-dimensional image of a vortex vein based on OCT volume data. An image processing method is performed by a processor and includes a step of acquiring OCT volume data including a choroid, and a step of extracting choroidal vessels based on the OCT volume data and generating a three-dimensional image of the choroidal vessels.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Yasushi TANABE, Hiroshi KASAI, Mariko MUKAI, Yuanting JI
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Patent number: 11967641Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first to third electrodes, first to third nitride regions, and first and second insulating films. The first nitride region includes Alx1Ga1?x1N, and includes first and second partial regions, a third partial region between the first and second partial regions, a fourth partial region between the first and third partial regions, and a fifth partial region between the third and second partial regions. The first nitride region includes first to fifth partial regions. The second nitride region includes Alx2Ga1?x2N, and sixth and seventh partial regions. At least a portion of the third electrode is between the sixth and seventh partial regions. The first insulating film includes silicon and oxygen and includes first and second insulating regions. The third nitride region includes Alx3Ga1?x3N, and first to seventh portions. The second insulating film includes silicon and oxygen and includes third to seventh insulating regions.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Daimotsu Kato, Yosuke Kajiwara, Akira Mukai, Aya Shindome, Hiroshi Ono, Masahiko Kuraguchi
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Patent number: 11509015Abstract: An energy storage module according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a plurality of energy storage devices each including a case; a glass paper sheet provided between the energy storage devices, brought into contact with the case, and mainly composed of a glass fiber; and a holding member holding the plurality of energy storage devices and the glass paper sheet, wherein the glass paper sheet is compressed between the energy storage devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.Inventors: Yoshitaka Ishida, Hiroshi Mukai, Kazuya Okabe, Koichi Nishiyama
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Publication number: 20220149384Abstract: Disclosed is a current collector including: a conductive layer serving as an underlayer of an active material layer; and a conductive substrate, in which the conductive layer includes a conductive material, an inorganic oxide, a binder, and an inorganic compound thermally decomposed at 100° C. or higher and 800° C. or lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Masatoshi UMEMURA, Asuka YAMANOI, Hiroshi MUKAI, Koji SUKINO
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Publication number: 20200400112Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fuel injection valve that realizes atomization while suppressing spread of a spray. A fuel injection valve includes: a valve body and a valve seat that cooperate to open and close a fuel passage; a swirl imparting chamber that is arranged on a downstream side of an opening and closing portion of the fuel passage by the valve body and the valve seat, and imparts a swirling velocity to fuel; a communication passage arranged on an upstream side of the swirl imparting chamber and connected to the swirl imparting chamber; and fuel injection holes and that are open at a bottom surface of the swirl imparting chamber and injects fuel imparted with the swirling velocity in a swirl passage to an outside, the fuel injection holes and configured such that cross-sectional areas of the fuel injection holes and increase from the inlet to the outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2018Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Hiroshi MUKAI, Mitsuhiro MATSUZAWA, Akihiro YAMAZAKI, Masaki NAGAOKA, Takahiro SAITO, Eiji ISHII, Taisuke SUGII, Kazuki YOSHIMURA
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Publication number: 20200274149Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is an electrode for an energy storage device including a conductive substrate, an intermediate layer, and an active material layer in this order. In this electrode, the intermediate layer includes a conductive agent, an inorganic oxide, and a binder, and the content of the inorganic oxide in the intermediate layer is 30% by mass or more and 90% by mass or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2018Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Kohei TSUJITA, Yuta OHSUGI, Morito TANABE, Hiroshi MUKAI, Yukihiro WATARU, Toru TABUCHI
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Publication number: 20200235358Abstract: An energy storage module according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a plurality of energy storage devices each including a case; a glass paper sheet provided between the energy storage devices, brought into contact with the case, and mainly composed of a glass fiber; and a holding member holding the plurality of energy storage devices and the glass paper sheet, wherein the glass paper sheet is compressed between the energy storage devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2018Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Yoshitaka ISHIDA, Hiroshi MUKAI, Kazuya OKABE, Koichi NISHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20190105902Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus includes a recording head having a plurality of nozzles through which an ink composition containing an inorganic pigment is ejected, a nozzle surface having nozzle orifices, and a liquid-repellent film disposed on the nozzle surface; an absorbing member that absorbs the ink composition containing the inorganic pigment from the nozzle orifices and the nozzle surface; and an actuating mechanism including a pressing member that presses the absorbing member and the nozzle surface relative to each other. The actuating mechanism moves at least one of the absorbing member and the recording head relative to the other to perform a cleaning operation in which the ink composition is removed from the nozzle surface with the absorbing member. The absorbing member contains an impregnation liquid having a surface tension of 45 mN/m or less during the cleaning operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: Akira MIZUTANI, Hiroshi MUKAI, Hiroki NAKANE, Toshihiro SHINBARA, Keiji MATSUMOTO, Masako FUKUDA
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Patent number: 10189260Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus includes a recording head having a plurality of nozzles through which an ink composition containing an inorganic pigment is ejected, a nozzle surface having nozzle orifices, and a liquid-repellent film disposed on the nozzle surface; an absorbing member that absorbs the ink composition containing the inorganic pigment from the nozzle orifices and the nozzle surface; and an actuating mechanism including a pressing member that presses the absorbing member and the nozzle surface relative to each other. The actuating mechanism moves at least one of the absorbing member and the recording head relative to the other to perform a cleaning operation in which the ink composition is removed from the nozzle surface with the absorbing member. The absorbing member contains an impregnation liquid having a surface tension of 45 mN/m or less during the cleaning operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Akira Mizutani, Hiroshi Mukai, Hiroki Nakane, Toshihiro Shinbara, Keiji Matsumoto, Masako Fukuda
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Patent number: 10059851Abstract: An ink composition that performs recording by being attached on a heated non-absorbent recording medium or a heated low absorbency recording medium, the ink composition including a pigment; a core polymer and a shell polymer that covers at least a portion of the core polymer, and polymer particles in which the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the core polymer is more than 10° C. lower than the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the shell polymer, and in which the polymer that configures the shell polymer includes a polymer having a (meth)acrylate monomer unit and a carboxylic acid monomer unit, and the content of the polymer particles is 3.0 mass % or more with respect to the total amount of the ink composition.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takayoshi Kagata, Masahiro Yatake, Hiroshi Mukai
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Patent number: 9994724Abstract: An ink composition that performs recording by being attached on a heated non-absorbent recording medium or a heated low absorbency recording medium, the ink composition including a pigment; a core polymer and a shell polymer that covers at least a portion of the core polymer, and polymer particles in which the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the core polymer is more than 10° C. lower than the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the shell polymer, and in which the polymer that configures the shell polymer includes a polymer having a (meth)acrylate monomer unit and a carboxylic acid monomer unit, and the content of the polymer particles is 3.0 mass % or more with respect to the total amount of the ink composition.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takayoshi Kagata, Masahiro Yatake, Hiroshi Mukai
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Patent number: 9945360Abstract: To provide a radial piston pump capable of displacement control without using an electronic control valve.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Mukai, Norihito Kobata
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Patent number: 9713921Abstract: An ink composition includes a color material, water, and polymer particles, in which the polymer particle has a core-shell structure having a core polymer and a shell polymer, a glass transition temperature of the core polymer is 30° C. or higher, a glass transition temperature of the shell polymer is 50° C. or higher, the glass transition temperature of the shell polymer is more than 10° C. higher than the glass transition temperature of the core polymer, and the core polymer includes an aromatic monomer as a constituent unit and does not substantially include an alkyl polyol having a standard boiling point of 280° C. or higher.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2015Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Akira Mizutani, Takayoshi Kagata, Masahiro Yatake, Hiroshi Mukai
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Patent number: 9657187Abstract: An ink composition includes a pigment; polymer particles; and a polar solvent with a boiling point of 150° C. or higher, in which the polymer particles include a core polymer and a shell polymer that covers at least a portion of the core polymer, a glass transition point of the polymer that configures the core polymer is more than 30° C. lower than the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the shell polymer, the polymer that configures the shell polymer includes a polymer having a (meth)acrylate monomer unit and a carboxylic acid monomer unit, the content (solid content conversion) of the polymer particles is 1.0 mass % to 10 mass % with respect to the total amount of the ink composition, and the content of the polar solvent is 10 mass % to 40 mass % of the total amount of the ink composition.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2015Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takayoshi Kagata, Masahiro Yatake, Hiroshi Mukai
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Publication number: 20170044387Abstract: An ink composition that performs recording by being attached on a heated non-absorbent recording medium or a heated low absorbency recording medium, the ink composition including a pigment; a core polymer and a shell polymer that covers at least a portion of the core polymer, and polymer particles in which the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the core polymer is more than 10° C. lower than the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the shell polymer, and in which the polymer that configures the shell polymer includes a polymer having a (meth)acrylate monomer unit and a carboxylic acid monomer unit, and the content of the polymer particles is 3.0 mass % or more with respect to the total amount of the ink composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Takayoshi KAGATA, Masahiro YATAKE, Hiroshi MUKAI
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Publication number: 20170044386Abstract: An ink composition that performs recording by being attached on a heated non-absorbent recording medium or a heated low absorbency recording medium, the ink composition including a pigment; a core polymer and a shell polymer that covers at least a portion of the core polymer, and polymer particles in which the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the core polymer is more than 10° C. lower than the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the shell polymer, and in which the polymer that configures the shell polymer includes a polymer having a (meth)acrylate monomer unit and a carboxylic acid monomer unit, and the content of the polymer particles is 3.0 mass % or more with respect to the total amount of the ink composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Takayoshi KAGATA, Masahiro YATAKE, Hiroshi MUKAI
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Patent number: 9512326Abstract: There is provided an ink jet ink composition, which is used in a recording method including ejecting the ink jet ink composition from a recording head of head temperature C (unit: ° C.) onto a recording medium to adhere the ink jet ink composition thereonto and drying the recording medium, on which the ink jet ink composition is adhered, at drying temperature D (unit: ° C.), including water; and a polymer particle, in which the polymer particle has a core polymer containing a polymer of glass transition temperature A (unit: ° C.) and a shell polymer containing a polymer of glass transition temperature B (unit: ° C.) and formed on the surface of the core polymer, and in which the A, B, C, and D satisfy predetermined relations.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kenji Kitada, Masahiro Yatake, Hiroshi Mukai, Takayoshi Kagata
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Patent number: 9505940Abstract: An ink composition that performs recording by being attached on a heated non-absorbent recording medium or a heated low absorbency recording medium, the ink composition including a pigment; a core polymer and a shell polymer that covers at least a portion of the core polymer, and polymer particles in which the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the core polymer is more than 10° C. lower than the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the shell polymer, and in which the polymer that configures the shell polymer includes a polymer having a (meth)acrylate monomer unit and a carboxylic acid monomer unit, and the content of the polymer particles is 3.0 mass % or more with respect to the total amount of the ink composition.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takayoshi Kagata, Masahiro Yatake, Hiroshi Mukai
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Patent number: 9447296Abstract: An ink set includes a recording ink and a displacement ink. The recording ink contains a pigment, a resin, water, and a first surfactant and is substantially free of alkyl polyols with a normal boiling point of 280° C. or more. The displacement ink contains water, a second surfactant, an aprotic polar solvent, and an alkyl polyol with a normal boiling point of 280° C. or more. Each of the first surfactant and the second surfactant includes a silicone surfactant and/or a fluorosurfactant. The resin includes a water-soluble resin and/or a resin emulsion. The recording ink has a higher surface tension than that of the displacement ink.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2014Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Mukai, Akira Mizutani, Toshihiro Shinbara, Hironori Sato
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Patent number: RE49962Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first and second regions, a first insulating portion, and first, second, and third electrodes. The first region includes first and second partial regions, and a third partial region between the first and second partial regions. The second region includes fourth and fifth partial regions. The fourth partial region overlaps the first partial region. The fifth partial region overlaps the second partial region. The first insulating portion includes first, second, and third insulating regions. The first insulating region is provided between the second insulating region and the third partial region and between the third insulating region and the third partial region. The first electrode is electrically connected to the fourth partial region. The second electrode is away from the first electrode and is electrically connected to the fifth partial region. The third electrode is provided between the first and second electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage CorporationInventors: Masahiko Kuraguchi, Yosuke Kajiwara, Aya Shindome, Hiroshi Ono, Daimotsu Kato, Akira Mukai