Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Sugimura
Hiroyuki Sugimura 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: 8784973Abstract: A resin bonding method according to the present invention is a resin bonding method for bonding a first resin and a second resin including (I) a step of irradiating spaces containing oxygen molecules with vacuum ultraviolet light having a wavelength of 175 nm or less, the spaces being in contact with surfaces of the first and second resins; and (II) a step of, after the irradiation, subjecting the surfaces to temperature rise while the surfaces are in contact with each other, to bond the first resin and the second resin together with the surfaces serving as bonding surfaces. In the step (I), the surfaces of the first and second resins may be further irradiated with the vacuum ultraviolet light. In this case, a light amount of the vacuum ultraviolet light having reached the surfaces is preferably, for example, 0.1 J/cm2 or more and 10 J/cm2 or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2012Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Sugimura, Yoshihiro Taguchi, Yoshinao Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20130248102Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a microchip that has a pair of resin base materials of which facing surfaces are bonded to each other and that has a concave portion formed in at least one of the facing surfaces, the facing surfaces before the pair of resin base materials are bonded to each other are irradiated with ultraviolet light which is light having a wavelength of an ultraviolet region, and the ultraviolet light-irradiated facing surfaces of the pair of resin base materials are irradiated with visible light that substantially includes light having a wavelength of a visible region.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinao Taniguchi, Yoshinao Taguchi, Hiroyuki Sugimura, Young-Jong Kim
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Patent number: 8246774Abstract: A resin bonding method according to the present invention is a resin bonding method for bonding a first resin and a second resin including (I) a step of irradiating spaces containing oxygen molecules with vacuum ultraviolet light having a wavelength of 175 nm or less, the spaces being in contact with surfaces of the first and second resins; and (II) a step of, after the irradiation, subjecting the surfaces to temperature rise while the surfaces are in contact with each other, to bond the first resin and the second resin together with the surfaces serving as bonding surfaces. In the step (I), the surfaces of the first and second resins may be further irradiated with the vacuum ultraviolet light. In this case, a light amount of the vacuum ultraviolet light having reached the surfaces is preferably, for example, 0.1 J/cm2 or more and 10 J/cm2 or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2010Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Sugimura, Yoshihiro Taguchi, Yoshinao Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20120140335Abstract: A resin bonding method according to the present invention is a resin bonding method for bonding a first resin and a second resin including (I) a step of irradiating spaces containing oxygen molecules with vacuum ultraviolet light having a wavelength of 175 nm or less, the spaces being in contact with surfaces of the first and second resins; and (II) a step of, after the irradiation, subjecting the surfaces to temperature rise while the surfaces are in contact with each other, to bond the first resin and the second resin together with the surfaces serving as bonding surfaces. In the step (I), the surfaces of the first and second resins may be further irradiated with the vacuum ultraviolet light. In this case, a light amount of the vacuum ultraviolet light having reached the surfaces is preferably, for example, 0.1 J/cm2 or more and 10 J/cm2 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2012Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki SUGIMURA, Yoshihiro TAGUCHI, Yoshinao TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20100260975Abstract: A resin bonding method according to the present invention is a resin bonding method for bonding a first resin and a second resin including (I) a step of irradiating spaces containing oxygen molecules with vacuum ultraviolet light having a wavelength of 175 nm or less, the spaces being in contact with surfaces of the first and second resins; and (II) a step of, after the irradiation, subjecting the surfaces to temperature rise while the surfaces are in contact with each other, to bond the first resin and the second resin together with the surfaces serving as bonding surfaces. In the step (I), the surfaces of the first and second resins may be further irradiated with the vacuum ultraviolet light. In this case, a light amount of the vacuum ultraviolet light having reached the surfaces is preferably, for example, 0.1 J/cm2 or more and 10 J/cm2 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2010Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki SUGIMURA, Yoshihiro TAGUCHI, Yoshinao TANIGUCHI
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ELECTROCHEMICALLY ACTIVE ORGANIC THIN FILM, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND DEVICE USING THE SAME
Publication number: 20100163108Abstract: This invention provides an electrochemically active organic thin film capable of repeating reversible oxidation/reduction a number of times. Further, the invention provides a novel approach to so-called “molecular nanoelectronics” utilizing organic molecules as operating units, with the use of such organic thin film. Such electrochemically active organic thin film comprises a substrate, an organic molecular film comprising organic molecules having terminal amino groups chemically fixed on the surface of the substrate, and metal atoms or metal ions coordinately hound to the amino groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2007Publication date: July 1, 2010Inventors: Takeshi Bessho, Hiroyuki Sugimura, Kuniaki Murase -
Patent number: 7738073Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display, which can surely perform an instillation process used when liquid crystal is sealed between substrates in a cell process, and a fabrication method thereof. A liquid crystal display comprises a sealing material made of a photo-curing type material which seals liquid crystal sandwiched between substrates, and a shading film having a shading area which overlays a red-colored layer transmitting red light, a green-colored layer transmitting green light and a blue-colored layer transmitting blue light, wherein only the blue-colored layer is formed in an area of the shading film contacting with the sealing material and the photo-curing type material of the sealing material is structured to have a light reactive area for a wavelength of blue color band.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyasu Inoue, Satoshi Murata, Norimichi Nakayama, Hiroyuki Sugimura
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Publication number: 20100134746Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display, which can surely perform an instillation process used when liquid crystal is sealed between substrates in a cell process, and a fabrication method thereof. A liquid crystal display comprises a sealing material made of a photo-curing type material which seals liquid crystal sandwiched between substrates, and a shading film having a shading area which overlays a red-colored layer transmitting red light, a green-colored layer transmitting green light and a blue-colored layer transmitting blue light, wherein only the blue-colored layer is formed in an area of the shading film contacting with the sealing material and the photo-curing type material of the sealing material is structured to have a light reactive area for a wavelength of blue color band.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2010Publication date: June 3, 2010Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro Tashiro, Takuya Yoshimi, Yoshio Koike, Satoru Imai, Hideaki Tsuda, Hiroyasu Inoue, Satoshi Murata, Hidehiko Suzuki, Hidefumi Yoshida, Tadashi Hasegawa, Yoji Taniguchi, Norimichi Nakayama, Hiroyuki Sugimura, Minoru Otani
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Publication number: 20100134747Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display, which can surely perform an instillation process used when liquid crystal is sealed between substrates in a cell process, and a fabrication method thereof. A liquid crystal display comprises a sealing material made of a photo-curing type material which seals liquid crystal sandwiched between substrates, and a shading film having a shading area which overlays a red-colored layer transmitting red light, a green-colored layer transmitting green light and a blue-colored layer transmitting blue light, wherein only the blue-colored layer is formed in an area of the shading film contacting with the sealing material and the photo-curing type material of the sealing material is structured to have a light reactive area for a wavelength of blue color band.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2010Publication date: June 3, 2010Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro Tashiro, Takuya Yoshimi, Yoshio Koike, Satoru Imai, Hideaki Tsuda, Hiroyasu Inoue, Satoshi Murata, Hidehiko Suzuki, Hidefumi Yoshida, Tadashi Hasegawa, Yoji Taniguchi, Norimichi Nakayama, Hiroyuki Sugimura, Minoru Otani
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Patent number: 7553392Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device in which liquid crystal is sealed between substrates using a one drop fill method. Dropping of liquid crystal is controlled so that the dropping quantity of the liquid crystal is reduced in an area including the vicinity of a seal material on a side with a relatively narrow cell gap width while the dropping quantity of the liquid crystal is increased in an area including the vicinity of the seal material on a side with a relatively broad cell gap width. Alternatively, dropping of the liquid crystal is controlled so that the number of times the liquid crystal is dropped is reduced in the area including the vicinity of the seal material on one side while the number of times the liquid crystal is dropped is increased in the area including the vicinity of the seal material on another side without changing the dropping quantity of one drop.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2004Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shota Makimoto, Satoshi Murata, Hiroyuki Sugimura, Tetsuya Kida, Hidehiko Suzuki
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Patent number: 7480027Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device by sealing liquid crystals between the substrates relying upon a drop-injection method making it easy to determine a suitable dropping amount of the liquid crystals. The method comprises forming pillar spacers for maintaining a cell thickness on a CF substrate, measuring the height of the pillar spacers, determining the dropping amount of the liquid crystals based on the number of times of executing a step of forming an alignment film again effected for the CF substrate after measuring the height of the pillar spacers, dropping the liquid crystals in the determined dropping amount onto the CF substrate or onto a TFT substrate, sticking the CF substrate and the TFT substrates together in vacuum, and returning the pressure back to the atmospheric pressure to inject the liquid crystals into between the two substrates.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2005Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyasu Inoue, Minoru Otani, Yuji Nakahata, Satoshi Murata, Norimichi Nakayama, Hiroyuki Sugimura
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Publication number: 20080188157Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display, which can surely perform an instillation process used when liquid crystal is sealed between substrates in a cell process, and a fabrication method thereof. A liquid crystal display comprises a sealing material made of a photo-curing type material which seals liquid crystal sandwiched between substrates, and a shading film having a shading area which overlays a red-colored layer transmitting red light, a green-colored layer transmitting green light and a blue-colored layer transmitting blue light, wherein only the blue-colored layer is formed in an area of the shading film contacting with the sealing material and the photo-curing type material of the sealing material is structured to have a light reactive area for a wavelength of blue color band.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2008Publication date: August 7, 2008Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro Tashiro, Takuya Yoshimi, Yoshio Koike, Satoru Imai, Hideaki Tsuda, Hiroyasu Inoue, Satoshi Murata, Hidehiko Suzuki, Hidefumi Yoshida, Tadashi Hasegawa, Yoji Taniguchi, Norimichi Nakayama, Hiroyuki Sugimura, Minoru Otani
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Publication number: 20080137027Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display, which can surely perform an instillation process used when liquid crystal is sealed between substrates in a cell process, and a fabrication method thereof. A liquid crystal display comprises a sealing material 6 made of a photo-curing type material which seals liquid crystal 22 sandwiched between substrates 4 and 16, and a shading film 8 having a shading area which overlays a red-colored layer 28 transmitting red light, a green-colored layer 26 transmitting green light and a blue-colored layer 24 transmitting blue light, wherein only the blue-colored layer 24 is formed in an area of the shading film contacting with the sealing material 6 and the photo-curing type material of the sealing material is structured to have a light reactive area for a wavelength of blue color band.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2007Publication date: June 12, 2008Inventors: Kunihiro Tashiro, Takuya Yoshimi, Yoshio Koike, Satoru Imai, Hideaki Tsuda, Hiroyasu Inoue, Satoshi Murata, Norimichi Nakayama, Hiroyuki Sugimura, Minoru Otani
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Patent number: 7372535Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display, which can surely perform an instillation process used when liquid crystal is sealed between substrates in a cell process, and a fabrication method thereof. A liquid crystal display comprises a sealing material 6 made of a photo-curing type material which seals liquid crystal 22 sandwiched between substrates 4 and 16, and a shading film 8 having a shading area which overlays a red-colored layer 28 transmitting red light, a green-colored layer 26 transmitting green light and a blue-colored layer 24 transmitting blue light, wherein only the blue-colored layer 24 is formed in an area of the shading film contacting with the sealing material 6 and the photo-curing type material of the sealing material is structured to have a light reactive area for a wavelength of blue color band.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2006Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kunihiro Tashiro, Takuya Yoshimi, Yoshio Koike, Satoru Imai, Hideaki Tsuda, Hiroyasu Inoue, Satoshi Murata, Hidehiko Suzuki, Hidefumi Yoshida, Tadashi Hasegawa, Yoji Taniguchi, Norimichi Nakayama, Hiroyuki Sugimura, Minoru Otani
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Patent number: 7316750Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display utilizing the dispense-injection method, and it is an object of the invention to provide a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display which allows an optimum quantity of liquid crystals to be dispensed on each substrate. At a dispense-injection step, in the case of a two-shot process for fabricating two liquid crystal display panels from a single glass substrate 80, the heights of support posts on two CF substrates 82 (let us call them surfaces A and B) having columnar spacers formed thereon are measured at a plurality of points (e.g., five locations indicated by numerals 1 through 5) on each of the surfaces A and B using a laser displacement gauge and an average value of the height is obtained. The support post height of the columnar spacers is thus measured in advance to control the quantity of dispensed liquid crystals based on the measured value.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2004Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Murata, Hiroyuki Sugimura, Norimichi Nakayama, Hiroyasu Inoue
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Publication number: 20070211197Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display, which can surely perform an instillation process used when liquid crystal is sealed between substrates in a cell process, and a fabrication method thereof. A liquid crystal display comprises a sealing material 6 made of a photo-curing type material which seals liquid crystal 22 sandwiched between substrates 4 and 16, and a shading film 8 having a shading area which overlays a red-colored layer 28 transmitting red light, a green-colored layer 26 transmitting green light and a blue-colored layer 24 transmitting blue light, wherein only the blue-colored layer 24 is formed in an area of the shading film contacting with the sealing material 6 and the photo-curing type material of the sealing material is structured to have a light reactive area for a wavelength of blue color band.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2007Publication date: September 13, 2007Inventors: Kunihiro Tashiro, Takuya Yoshimi, Yoshio Koike, Satoru Imai, Hideaki Tsuda, Hiroyasu Inoue, Satoshi Murata, Hidehiko Suzuki, Hidefumi Yoshida, Tadashi Hasegawa, Yoji Taniguchi, Norimichi Nakayama, Hiroyuki Sugimura, Minoru Otani
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Patent number: 7230669Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display, which can surely perform an instillation process used when liquid crystal is sealed between substrates in a cell process, and a fabrication method thereof. A liquid crystal display comprises a sealing material 6 made of a photo-curing type material which seals liquid crystal 22 sandwiched between substrates 4 and 16, and a shading film 8 having a shading area which overlays a red-colored layer 28 transmitting red light, a green-colored layer 26 transmitting green light and a blue-colored layer 24 transmitting blue light, wherein only the blue-colored layer 24 is formed in an area of the shading film contacting with the sealing material 6 and the photo-curing type material of the sealing material is structured to have a light reactive area for a wavelength of blue color band.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2000Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kunihiro Tashiro, Takuya Yoshimi, Yoshio Koike, Satoru Imai, Hideaki Tsuda, Hiroyasu Inoue, Satoshi Murata, Hidehiko Suzuki, Hidefumi Yoshida, Tadashi Hasegawa, Yoji Taniguchi, Norimichi Nakayama, Hiroyuki Sugimura, Minoru Otani
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Patent number: 7229748Abstract: An organic monomolecular film is formed on a first substrate, and micro processed using photolithography technique to form an organic monomolecular film pattern. Then, a thin film is selectively grown on the organic monomolecular film pattern, and transcribed onto a second substrate to form a micro pattern made of the thin film on the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2004Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: National University Corporation Nagoya UniversityInventors: Hiroyuki Sugimura, Nagahiro Saito, Osamu Takai
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Patent number: 7216782Abstract: A dispenser has a syringe having a nozzle at one end thereof and a plunger fitted in the syringe from the other end of the syringe. One end of a pipe is connected to a portion of the syringe between the one end and the other end of the syringe. A liquid material tank is connected to the other end of the pipe. The liquid material tank is arranged so that a level of the liquid material in the liquid material tank is higher than in the syringe. The dispenser can be used for drip injection method for producing a liquid crystal display device to stably drip droplets of a liquid crystal onto a substrate of a liquid crystal display device.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Sugimura, Satoshi Murata, Tetsuya Kida, Shota Makimoto
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Patent number: 7202933Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal inserted between first and second substrates and surrounded by a peripheral seal. The liquid crystal is dripped onto the first substrate in an area defined by the seal of the first substrate. The first substrate and the second substrate are joined or bonded together under pressure in a vacuum chamber. The chamber is then exposed to the atmosphere while keeping the first substrate and the second substrate under pressure. The pressure is then released and thereafter light is irradiated onto the peripheral seal. The vacuum chamber includes upper and lower surface plates to support the substrates. The surface plate includes an electrostatic chuck and a vacuum attraction passage provided in the chuck.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2004Date of Patent: April 10, 2007Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Murata, Hiroyuki Sugimura, Norimichi Nakayama