Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Abe

Hiroyuki Abe 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).

  • Patent number: 11911850
    Abstract: A pillar delivery method is a method for delivering a plurality of pillars onto a substrate, including a glass panel, to manufacture a glass panel unit. The pillar delivery method includes an irradiation step, a holding step, and a mounting step. The irradiation step includes setting, over a holder, a sheet for use to form pillars and irradiating the sheet with a laser beam to punch out the plurality of pillars. The holding step includes having the plurality of pillars, which have been punched out of the sheet, held by the holder. The mounting step includes picking up some or all of the plurality of pillars from the holder and mounting the pillars onto the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masataka Nonaka, Eiichi Uriu, Takeshi Shimizu, Kazuya Hasegawa, Tasuku Ishibashi, Hiroyuki Abe, Haruhiko Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11914256
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having an outer shape of a display region formed other than a rectangle. A driver for supplying a video signal is disposed outside the display region. A selector with selector TFT is disposed between the display region and the driver. A video signal line is disposed between the driver and the selector, and a drain line is disposed between the selector and the display region. A scanning circuit for supplying a scanning signal to the scanning line is disposed outside the display region. The selector is disposed between the scanning line and the display region, and covered with ITO as the common electrode. The common bus wiring is disposed outside the selector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Suzuki, Hiroyuki Abe
  • Patent number: 11905755
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a glass panel unit includes a glue arrangement step, an assembly forming step, a first melting step, an evacuation step, and a second melting step. The first melting step includes melting a hot glue, bonding a first and second panel with the glue, and forming an internal space. The first melting step includes a first temperature raising step, a first temperature maintaining step including maintaining the temperature of the assembly at a temperature equal to or higher than a softening point of the hot glue, and a first temperature lowering step, which are performed in this order. The first temperature lowering step includes: an anterior temperature lowering step including lowering the temperature of the assembly; a middle temperature maintaining step including maintaining the temperature of the assembly; and a posterior temperature lowering step including lowering the temperature of the assembly, which are performed in this order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Abe, Haruhiko Ishikawa, Tasuku Ishibashi, Eiichi Uriu, Takeshi Shimizu, Masataka Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20240053229
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to mitigate an influence of a physical quantity other than strain of a tire on a measurement result of a strain sensor and to improve measurement accuracy of the strain sensor. A strain amount detection device according to the present invention calculates an estimation value of a load applied to a tire by using data describing a relationship among an actually measured strain amount, a tire air pressure, a vehicle speed, a tire temperature, and a tire load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio YUKI, Takeo HOSOKAWA, Kenji YOSHIHARA, Tsukasa TAKAHASHI, Hiroyuki ABE
  • Patent number: 11887555
    Abstract: A display device with a variant-shape display region other than the rectangular display region is configured to form a scanning line drive circuit along the variant-shape display region. The scanning line drive circuit includes bus wiring group with clock wiring for supplying clocks with three or more phases and the power supply wiring for supplying power, and the unit circuits for configuring the shift register including five or more transistors. The bus wiring and the unit circuits are formed on the different regions so as not to cross with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Suzuki, Hiroyuki Abe
  • Patent number: 11871097
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first substrate and a second substrate, a first metal plate, and a second metal plate. On each of the first substrate and the second substrate, an electronic component is mounted. The first substrate and the second substrate are positioned toward a stacking direction with respective main surfaces facing each other. The first metal plate includes a flat portion that is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and that directly or indirectly abuts the electronic component mounted on the first substrate and the electronic component mounted on the second substrate, and a first shield portion that covers a portion of the side surface of the first substrate. The second metal plate includes a second shield portion that covers the entire circumference of the side surface of the second substrate and the side surface of the first substrate exposed from the first metal plate. The first metal plate and the second metal plate abut each other directly or indirectly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Abe
  • Publication number: 20240006187
    Abstract: An etching method includes: providing, to an interior of a chamber, a substrate having a three-layered film formed by stacking a first silicon oxide-based film, a silicon nitride-based film, and a second silicon oxide-based film; and collectively etching the three-layered film using a HF—NH3-based gas in the interior of the chamber while adjusting a gas ratio in each of the first silicon oxide-based film, the silicon nitride-based film, and the second silicon oxide-based film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Toshinori DEBARI, Reiko SASAHARA, Teppei OKUMURA, Woonghyun JEUNG, Kenshiro ASAHI, Hiroyuki ABE, Seungmin KIM
  • Patent number: 11863852
    Abstract: An electronic device 10 includes a first substrate 12, a second substrate 13, a third substrate 14, a first metal plate 15, and a second metal plate 16. An electronic component 21 is mounted on the first substrate 12. An electronic component 23 is mounted on the second substrate 13. An electronic component 23 is mounted on the third substrate 14. The first metal plate 15 includes a first flat portion 27 and a first shield portion 28. The first flat portion 27 is interposed between the first substrate 12 and the second substrate 13. The first flat portion 27 abuts the electronic component 23. The first shield portion 28 covers the entire circumference of a side surface of the first substrate 12. The second metal plate 16 includes a second flat portion 32 and a second shield portion 33. The second flat portion 32 is interposed between the second substrate 13 and the third substrate 14. The second flat portion 32 abuts the electronic component 23.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Abe, Kazuki Shirato
  • Patent number: 11850828
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a multi-layer stack includes bonding a transparent plate to an outer surface of at least one of a first glass panel or a second glass panel of a glass panel unit with an intermediate film interposed therebetween. The glass panel unit includes: the first glass panel; the second glass panel; and an evacuated space provided between the first glass panel and the second glass panel. A plurality of spacers are provided in the evacuated space between the first glass panel and the second glass panel. A pressure applied for bonding the glass panel unit and the transparent plate together is less than a compressive strength of the plurality of spacers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Hasegawa, Eiichi Uriu, Tasuku Ishibashi, Hiroyuki Abe
  • Publication number: 20230365251
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a riblet structure that increases resistance reducing performance and is easily manufacturable, and an object including such a structure on a surface thereof. [Solving Means] This riblet structure includes a plurality of wave-shaped riblets on a surface thereof, in which each of the riblets has a smaller peak height as an angle formed between a ridge line and a fluid flow direction becomes larger, a width between peak bases in a direction orthogonal to the fluid flow direction becomes smaller as the angle becomes larger, and an angle formed between a slope of a peak of the riblet and the surface at the peak base or a curvature at the peak base is identical at any position in a cross-sectional shape in the direction orthogonal to the fluid direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Mitsuru KURITA, Hiroyuki ABE, Hidetoshi IIJIMA, Seigo KOGA
  • Patent number: 11808080
    Abstract: The assembling step is a step of preparing an assembly. The setting step is a step of setting a plurality of holder installation areas along an outer peripheral edge of the peripheral wall. The determining step is a step of determining a first area in which the slit and the peripheral wall are not adjacent to each other in the first area and a second area in which the slit and the peripheral wall are adjacent to each other. The installation step is a step of providing a holder in the first area without providing the holder in the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Abe, Haruhiko Ishikawa, Tasuku Ishibashi, Eiichi Uriu, Takeshi Shimizu, Masataka Nonaka
  • Patent number: 11809031
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a display region in which a plurality of pixels are provided on the substrate and that has a first side, a second side, a third side, a fourth side, and a plurality of curved portions, a peripheral region located between an end portion of the substrate and the display region, a plurality of scan lines extending in a first direction, a plurality of signal lines extending in a second direction, at least one gate driver arranged in the peripheral region and coupled to the scan lines, a signal line coupling circuit arranged in the peripheral region and coupled to the signal lines, a plurality of terminals aligned in the peripheral region, and a plurality of wiring lines coupling the terminals and the signal line coupling circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Abe, Kazune Matsumura, Gen Koide, Kentaro Agata
  • Publication number: 20230341964
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a sensor includes: a substrate including a display region and a peripheral region on a periphery of the display region; detection electrodes arranged in a row-column configuration in the display region; and detection lines coupled to the respective detection electrodes. A shape of the substrate in a plan view includes a curve of a curved portion. The detection electrodes include a first electrode and a second electrode having a shape different from that of the first electrode in a plan view. The second electrode is juxtaposed with the curved portion. The detection lines each include a first line coupled to the first electrode and a second line coupled to the second electrode. The second line passes from the display region across the peripheral region and extends to a position overlapping with the second electrode in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ABE, Yoshinori AOKI, Kazune MATSUMURA, Masateru MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230332936
    Abstract: Provided is a highly reliable thermal flow meter. In a thermal flow meter 20, a flow rate detection element 321 that detects an air flow rate, and a conductive coating film 400 containing a conductive substance and a resin as constituent elements are provided on at least a part of a portion provided in an auxiliary passage 135 on a surface facing a detection surface 322 of the flow rate detection element 321.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mizuki SHIBATA, Takayuki YOGO, Akira UENODAN, Hiroyuki ABE, Binti Haridan FATIN FARHANAH
  • Patent number: 11774811
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to prevent an overhang in a through hole in the display area when through holes in the organic passivation film in the display area and in the terminal area are simultaneously formed. The structure to realize this purpose is as follows: the terminal area having a lead wire, formed from a first metal, and extending to the display area, a first insulating film covering the lead wire, a second metal formed on the first insulating film, and a third metal formed on the surface of the second metal, wherein the first insulating film has a first through hole and a second through hole, the second metal has a first portion that connects with the lead wire via the first through hole, the second metal has a second portion that overlaps the second through hole, the second portion is separated from the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hidetatsu Nakamura, Yasuhiro Kanaya, Gen Koide, Hiroyuki Abe
  • Patent number: 11767706
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a glass panel unit includes an adhesive disposing step, a glass composite generation step, an internal space forming step, an evacuation step, and an evacuated space forming step. The adhesive disposing step includes disposing a thermal adhesive on a second panel. The glass composite generation step includes generating a glass composite including a first panel, the second panel, and the thermal adhesive. The internal space forming step includes heating the glass composite to melt the thermal adhesive to form internal spaces (a first space and a second space). The evacuation step includes exhausting gas from the internal space to evacuate the internal space. The evacuated space forming step includes heating and applying force to part of a first portion or a second portion to deform the part to close an evacuation path to form an evacuated space hermetically closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tasuku Ishibashi, Eiichi Uriu, Kazuya Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Abe, Masataka Nonaka, Takeshi Shimizu, Haruhiko Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11767705
    Abstract: A glass panel unit manufacturing method includes a bonding step, an insertion step, an evacuation step, and a sealing step. The bonding step includes bonding a first substrate having an evacuation port and a second substrate together with a bonding material provided between the first substrate and the second substrate and having a frame shape to form an internal space. The insertion step includes inserting a sealing material into the evacuation port. The evacuation step includes evacuating the internal space through the exhaust passage. The sealing step includes deforming the sealing material by heating while an evacuated state in the internal space is maintained. In a state where the sealing material blocks ventilation between the evacuation port and the internal space, gas is supplied through the exhaust passage toward the evacuation port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Shimizu, Masataka Nonaka, Haruhiko Ishikawa, Eiichi Uriu, Kazuya Hasegawa, Tasuku Ishibashi, Hiroyuki Abe
  • Publication number: 20230292794
    Abstract: Provided is a beer-taste beverage, comprising less than 0.07 ppm by mass of diacetyl, and 0.4 (v/v) % or more and less than 1.5 (v/v) % of ethanol, having an H2S content of less than 5 ppb by mass, and comprising 50 to 1000 ppm by mass of lactic acid, or 50 to 1000 ppm by mass of phosphoric acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuichi Kato, Yugo Hayakawa, Tomoyuki Kishimoto, Hiroyuki Abe
  • Publication number: 20230288905
    Abstract: A control device, includes: a modification instruction receiving unit for receiving modification instructions for a control parameter and for machining program; a history storage unit for causing a storage unit to store a modification history for the control parameter and the machining program; an Undo/Redo processing unit for performing an Undo/Redo process based on the modification history; a determination unit for determining whether a prescribed condition has been met; and a history deletion control unit for deleting the change history stored in the storage unit when the determination unit has determined that the prescribed condition has been met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Riho KUBOTA, Kaoru HIRAGA, Hiroyuki ABE
  • Patent number: 11754911
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging optical system. The imaging apparatus includes a holding member that holds the imaging optical system. The imaging apparatus includes an imaging device including a light-receiving region and located in an image-forming plane of the imaging optical system. The imaging apparatus includes an elastic member that is located close to the imaging device toward the imaging optical system and surrounds the light-receiving region without overlapping the light-receiving region when viewed in an optical axial direction of the imaging optical system. The elastic member is in contact with the imaging device such that the area of contact between the elastic member and the imaging device is ring-shaped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Abe