Patents by Inventor Hisashi Murakami

Hisashi Murakami 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: 10125433
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor crystal has a diameter of four inches or more and is warped to have a curvature radius of 100 m or more, and has an impurity concentration of 1×1017/cm3 or lower. A manufacturing method for a nitride semiconductor crystal includes providing a substrate, feeding a gallium trihalide gas having a partial pressure of 9.0×10?3 atm or higher onto the substrate, and growing a GaN crystal in the ?C-axis direction on the substrate, where a growth temperature for the GaN crystal is 1200° C. or higher, or a manufacturing method for a nitride semiconductor crystal includes providing a substrate, feeding an aluminum trihalide gas having a partial pressure of 9.0×10?3 atm or higher onto the substrate, and growing an AlN crystal in the ?C-axis direction on the substrate, where a growth temperature for the AlN crystal is 1400° C. or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignees: National University Corporation Tokyo, University of Agriculture and Technology
    Inventors: Akinori Koukitu, Yoshinao Kumagai, Hisashi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20180269351
    Abstract: InGaN-based light-emitting devices fabricated on an InGaN template layer are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Michael R. Krames, Mark P. D'Evelyn, Akinori Koukitu, Yoshinao Kumagai, Hisashi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20180254355
    Abstract: A high withstand voltage Schottky barrier diode includes a first layer that includes a first Ga2O3-based single crystal including a first Group IV element and Cl at a concentration of not more than 5×1016 cm?3 and that has an effective donor concentration of not less than 1×1013 and not more than 6.0×1017 cm?3, a second layer that includes a second Ga2O3-based single crystal including a second Group IV element and that has a higher effective donor concentration than the first layer and is laminated on the first layer, an anode electrode formed on the first layer, and a cathode electrode formed on the second layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicants: TAMURA CORPORATION, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, National University Corporation Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
    Inventors: Kohei SASAKI, Ken GOTO, Masataka HIGASHIWAKI, Akinori KOUKITU, Yoshinao KUMAGAI, Hisashi MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 9978904
    Abstract: InGaN-based light-emitting devices fabricated on an InGaN template layer are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Soraa, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael R. Krames, Mark P. D'Evelyn, Akinori Koukitu, Yoshinao Kumagai, Hisashi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20180073164
    Abstract: A crystal laminate structure includes a Ga2O3-based substrate, and a ?-Ga2O3-based single crystal film formed by epitaxial crystal growth on a principal surface of the Ga2O3-based substrate. The ?-Ga2O3-based single crystal film includes Cl and a dopant doped in parallel with the crystal growth at a concentration of not less than 1×1013 atoms/cm3 and not more than 5.0×1020 atoms/cm3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicants: TAMURA CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO UNIVERSITY O F AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Ken GOTO, Akinori KOUKITU, Yoshinao KUMAGAI, Hisashi MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20170278933
    Abstract: A semiconductor element includes a high-resistivity substrate that includes a ?-Ga2O3-based single crystal including an acceptor impurity, a buffer layer on the high-resistivity substrate, the buffer layer including a ?-Ga2O3-based single crystal, and a channel layer on the buffer layer, the channel layer including a ?-Ga2O3-based single crystal including a donor impurity. A crystalline laminate structure includes a high-resistivity substrate that includes a ?-Ga2O3-based single crystal including an acceptor impurity, a buffer layer on the high-resistivity substrate, the buffer layer including a ?-Ga2O3-based single crystal, and a donor impurity-containing layer on the buffer layer, the donor impurity-containing layer including a ?-Ga2O3-based single crystal including a donor impurity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Kohei SASAKI, Ken GOTO, Masataka HIGASHIWAKI, Man Hoi WONG, Akinori KOUKITO, Yoshinao KUMAGAI, Hisashi MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20170145590
    Abstract: A semiconductor substrate for being used as a base substrate for epitaxial crystal growth by HVPE method includes a ?-Ga2O3-based single crystal, and a principal surface that is a plane parallel to a [010] axis of the ?-Ga2O3-based single crystal. An epitaxial wafer includes the semiconductor substrate, and an epitaxial layer that includes a ?-Ga2O3-based single crystal and is formed on the principal surface of the semiconductor substrate by epitaxial crystal growth using the HVPE method. A method for manufacturing the epitaxial wafer includes forming the epitaxial layer by epitaxial crystal growth using the HVPE method on the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicants: TAMURA CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Ken GOTO, Akinori KOUKITU, Yoshinao KUMAGAI, Hisashi MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 9527542
    Abstract: A personal digital assistant attachment structure is used for a saddle-ride vehicle and removably attaches a personal digital assistant including a display screen to a vehicle body. The attachment structure includes a terminal holder that includes a connector cord and a supported portion and is provided separately from the vehicle body. The supported portion includes a cord holder and a holder terminal. The cord holder holds the connector cord and the holder terminal is connected to the second end of the connector cord, A holder support, which is provided integrally with the vehicle body, is removably engaged with the supported portion to support the terminal holder, and includes a vehicle-body-side terminal. The vehicle-body-side terminal is removably connected to the holder terminal during engagement of the supported portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Oyama, Hisashi Murakami, Tomohiro Hoshi, Junya Ono, Hiroyuki Kaneta, Noriyuki Mori, Tsubasa Nose
  • Publication number: 20160265137
    Abstract: As one embodiment, the present invention provides a method for growing a ?-Ga2O3-based single crystal film by using HVPE method. The method includes a step of exposing a Ga2O3-based substrate to a gallium chloride-based gas and an oxygen-including gas, and growing a ?-Ga2O3-based single crystal film on a principal surface of the Ga2O3-based substrate at a growth temperature of not lower than 900° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Ken GOTO, Kohei SASAKI, Akinori KOUKITU, Yoshinao KUMAGAI, Hisashi MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 9415691
    Abstract: An electric vehicle can include a power unit including a speed reduction device coupled to a motor output shaft. Two systems can be provided which are a drive-power transmission path to transmit rotation of a motor to a wheel hub, and a regenerative-power transmission path to transmit rotation of the hub to the motor. A drive-side one-way clutch is provided between the hub and a second internal gear being the final-stage gear in the drive-power transmission path and is configured to transmit rotation of the drive-side final-stage gear to the hub. A regeneration-side one-way clutch is provided between the hub and a regeneration-side first-stage gear and is configured to transmit rotation of the hub to the regeneration-side first-stage gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Murakami, Tsutomu Yoshino, Koji Aoki
  • Publication number: 20160186361
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor crystal has a diameter of four inches or more and is warped to have a curvature radius of 100 m or more, and has an impurity concentration of 1×1017/cm3 or lower. A manufacturing method for a nitride semiconductor crystal includes providing a substrate, feeding a gallium trihalide gas having a partial pressure of 9.0×10?3 atm or higher onto the substrate, and growing a GaN crystal in the ?C-axis direction on the substrate, where a growth temperature for the GaN crystal is 1200° C. or higher, or a manufacturing method for a nitride semiconductor crystal includes providing a substrate, feeding an aluminum trihalide gas having a partial pressure of 9.0×10?3 atm or higher onto the substrate, and growing an AlN crystal in the ?C-axis direction on the substrate, where a growth temperature for the AlN crystal is 1400° C. or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Akinori KOUKITU, Yoshinao KUMAGAI, Hisashi MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20150014380
    Abstract: A personal digital assistant attachment structure is used for a saddle-ride vehicle and removably attaches a personal digital assistant including a display screen to a vehicle body. The attachment structure includes a terminal holder that includes a connector cord and a supported portion and is provided separately from the vehicle body. The supported portion includes a cord holder and a holder terminal. The cord holder holds the connector cord and the holder terminal is connected to the second end of the connector cord, A holder support, which is provided integrally with the vehicle body, is removably engaged with the supported portion to support the terminal holder, and includes a vehicle-body-side terminal. The vehicle-body-side terminal is removably connected to the holder terminal during engagement of the supported portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Takahiro Oyama, Hisashi Murakami, Tomohiro Hoshi, Junya Ono, Hiroyuki Kaneta, Noriyuki Mori, Tsubasa Nose
  • Patent number: 8886376
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a motor-assisted bicycle detects a pedaling torque applied to a crankshaft with a pedaling force sensor, controls a motor unit of the motor-assisted bicycle in a regenerative control process to charge a battery, if the torque value of the detected pedaling torque is equal to or smaller than a predetermined level, and controls the motor unit in an assistive control process, if the torque value is greater than the predetermined level. The control apparatus performs an assistive transient control process with an assistive ratio lower than in the assistive control process while the crankshaft makes a predetermined number of revolutions and thereafter performs the regenerative control process, if the torque value detected by the pedaling force sensor has a peak equal to or smaller than the predetermined level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Aoki, Hisashi Murakami
  • Patent number: 8744660
    Abstract: A collection and delivery support system for a saddle-ride type electric vehicle includes a managing terminal that outputs information of registered collection/delivery destinations of cargos and information on battery charging locations arranged within a collection/delivery range of the vehicle, a server that calculates a collection/delivery route passing through respective collection and delivery destinations in order based on a possible traveling distance of the vehicle, and a mobile terminal provided with the vehicle. The server calculates the route such that it includes a battery charging location in the middle thereof, as well as estimated collection/delivery times based on the possible traveling distance information. The display displays information of the calculated route and the estimated collection/and delivery times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Oyama, Hisashi Murakami, Tomohiro Hoshi, Junya Ono, Hiroyuki Kaneta, Noriyuki Mori, Tsubasa Nose
  • Patent number: 8702549
    Abstract: A vehicle drive unit includes an axle formed of an output shaft of a motor, and a first support shaft and a second support shaft arranged at both ends of the output shaft. A stator is held on a first holding plate and a second holding plate. The second holding plate and a bearing block form a carrier of planetary gears. The second holding plate includes a bearing holding portion. The second support shaft is supported on the bearing holding portion. The first support shaft is supported on the first holding plate. The output shaft is supported at one end on the first holding plate and the other end on the bearing holding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Yoshino, Hisashi Murakami, Satoshi Nakamura, Koji Aoki, Naoki Kamimura
  • Publication number: 20140103356
    Abstract: InGaN-based light-emitting devices fabricated on an InGaN template layer are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: SORAA, INC.
    Inventors: Michael R. KRAMES, Mark P. D'EVELYN, Akinori KOUKITU, Yoshinao KUMAGAI, Hisashi MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20130262335
    Abstract: A collection and delivery management system and method receives and manages information required for collection and delivery work. A vehicle includes an portable terminal mounted thereon, which receives vehicle state information. The portable terminal determines a state of the collection and delivery work, requests collection and delivery information on cargoes to be collected and delivered to a server, and displays the collection and delivery information. The portable terminal includes an input screen for inputting route completion data corresponding to a result of the collection and delivery work executed, and transmits such route completion data to the server, which transmits the collection and delivery information to the portable terminal according to the request from the portable terminal and records information of the result of the collection and delivery work having been transmitted from the portable terminal so as to be tagged to the collection and delivery information having been transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi MURAKAMI, Tomohiro HOSHI, Junya ONO, Hiroyuki KANETA, Noriyuki MORI, Tsubasa NOSE, Takahiro OYAMA
  • Publication number: 20130261860
    Abstract: A collection and delivery support system for a saddle-ride type electric vehicle includes a managing terminal that outputs information of registered collection/delivery destinations of cargos and information on battery charging locations arranged within a collection/delivery range of the vehicle, a server that calculates a collection/delivery route passing through respective collection and delivery destinations in order based on a possible traveling distance of the vehicle, and a mobile terminal provided with the vehicle. The server calculates the route such that it includes a battery charging location in the middle thereof, as well as estimated collection/delivery times based on the possible traveling distance information. The display displays information of the calculated route and the estimated collection/and delivery times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro OYAMA, Hisashi MURAKAMI, Tomohiro HOSHI, Junya ONO, Hiroyuki KANETA, Noriyuki MORI, Tsubasa NOSE
  • Patent number: 8334628
    Abstract: A stator coil for an axial gap electrical rotating machine includes first coil pieces, second coil pieces, and an annular base member having recesses for arranging and holding the first and second coil pieces in back and front faces of the annular base member. The first and second coil pieces are arranged in a circumferential direction of the annular base member in the recesses in both back and front faces of the base member. The first joint portion of one first coil piece faces and is connected to the first joint portion of another first coil piece. The second joint portion of one first coil piece faces and being connected to the second joint portion of another second coil piece or the third joint portion of one second coil piece to provide a coil loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomotaka Iki, Hisashi Murakami, Masaru Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20120083956
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a motor-assisted bicycle detects a pedaling torque applied to a crankshaft with a pedaling force sensor, controls a motor unit of the motor-assisted bicycle in a regenerative control process to charge a battery, if the torque value of the detected pedaling torque is equal to or smaller than a predetermined level, and controls the motor unit in an assistive control process, if the torque value is greater than the predetermined level. The control apparatus performs an assistive transient control process with an assistive ratio lower than in the assistive control process while the crankshaft makes a predetermined number of revolutions and thereafter performs the regenerative control process, if the torque value detected by the pedaling force sensor has a peak equal to or smaller than the predetermined level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Inventors: Koji AOKI, Hisashi MURAKAMI