Patents by Inventor Ikuo Ninomiya

Ikuo Ninomiya 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: 20230345652
    Abstract: A foldable display includes: a flexible display panel including: an impact absorbing layer including a metal film; and a display layer provided on a surface of the impact absorbing layer; a first region, a second region, and a third region that are included in a region of the flexible display panel, the third region being positioned between the first region and the second region; a first support substrate that is inflexible, the first support substrate supporting the first region from toward the impact absorbing layer; a second support substrate that is inflexible, the second support substrate supporting the second region from toward the impact absorbing layer; a folding mechanism connected to the first support substrate and the second support substrate, and overlapping with the third region in plan view; and a slit provided to the metal film at least in a first position at a shortest distance, from the third region, shorter than a shortest distance from an end portion of the first region across from the thir
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Mayuko SAKAMOTO, Edward BOARDMAN, Tokio TAGUCHI, Ikuo NINOMIYA
  • Patent number: 11225130
    Abstract: A roof weather strip includes a first panel and a second panel, and integrally includes: a mounting base; and a seal portion elastically contactable with an edge portion of the first panel. The mounting base includes: a first lip having a substantially J-shaped cross section, which covers an upper fitting protrusion of a holder portion from above a vehicle, extends downward of the vehicle, and abuts on at least both side surfaces of a fitting recess of the holder portion; and a second lip having a substantially transverse v-shaped cross section, which covers a lower fitting protrusion of the holder portion from below the vehicle, extends upward of the vehicle, and abuts on at least one of a lower surface of the fitting recess of the holder portion and a side surface of the lower fitting protrusion on the second panel side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ayumi Kurachi, Ikuo Ninomiya
  • Publication number: 20200307365
    Abstract: A roof weather strip includes a first panel and a second panel, and integrally includes: a mounting base; and a seal portion elastically contactable with an edge portion of the first panel. The mounting base includes: a first lip having a substantially J-shaped cross section, which covers an upper fitting protrusion of a holder portion from above a vehicle, extends downward of the vehicle, and abuts on at least both side surfaces of a fitting recess of the holder portion; and a second lip having a substantially transverse v-shaped cross section, which covers a lower fitting protrusion of the holder portion from below the vehicle, extends upward of the vehicle, and abuts on at least one of a lower surface of the fitting recess of the holder portion and a side surface of the lower fitting protrusion on the second panel side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Ayumi KURACHI, Ikuo NINOMIYA
  • Patent number: 8237899
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device having a high contrast ratio and no coloring during black display, over a wide viewing angle range. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a reverse wavelength dispersion-type biaxial retardation film having R0(B)/R0(G) and Rth(B)/Rth(G) not greater than 0.965 and R0(R)/R0(G) and Rth(R)/Rth(G) not smaller than 1.015; and a vertical alignment liquid crystal cell that has a blue, a green, and a red color filter layer and that satisfies Rth_LC(B)/Rth_LC(G)?1.000 and Rth_LC(R)/Rth_LC(G)?1.000. R0(B), R0(G) and R0(R) denote the in-plane retardations of the retardation film at wavelengths 450 nm, 550 nm and 650 nm. Rth(B), Rth(G) and Rth(R), and Rth_LC(B), Rth_LC(G) and Rth_LC(R) respectively denote the thickness-direction retardations of the retardation film and the liquid crystal cell at wavelengths 450 nm, 550 nm and 650 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Sakai, Masahiro Hasegawa, Ikuo Ninomiya
  • Patent number: 8013954
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display that can have both sufficient front contrast ratio and front white brightness. The present invention is a liquid crystal display including: a front polarizing plate; a liquid crystal cell; a back polarizing plate; and an optical element providing a polarizing effect, the components being arranged in the stated order, wherein the back polarizing plate has a higher transmittance than the front polarizing plate, the back polarizing plate has a lower contrast than the front polarizing plate, and the optical element providing a polarizing effect has a principal transmittance k1 of 80 to 86%, and a principal transmittance k2 of 2 to 8%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Hasegawa, Akira Sakai, Ikuo Ninomiya
  • Publication number: 20110109850
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display that can have both sufficient front contrast ratio and front white brightness. The present invention is a liquid crystal display including: a front polarizing plate; a liquid crystal cell; a back polarizing plate; and an optical element providing a polarizing effect, the components being arranged in the stated order, wherein the back polarizing plate has a higher transmittance than the front polarizing plate, the back polarizing plate has a lower contrast than the front polarizing plate, and the optical element providing a polarizing effect has a principal transmittance k1 of 80 to 86%, and a principal transmittance k2 of 2 to 8%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Masahiro Hasegawa, Akira Sakai, Ikuo Ninomiya
  • Publication number: 20110001912
    Abstract: A display device of at least one embodiment of the present invention includes a display panel; an optical plate placed on a viewer side of the display panel with the intervention of an air layer; and an antireflection layer placed on a viewer side of the optical plate, the antireflection layer having a motheye structure over its surface. The optical plate includes a plastic layer configured to transmit visible light, a quarter-wave layer placed on a viewer side of the plastic layer, and a polarizing layer placed on a viewer side of the quarter-wave layer, the polarizing layer being configured to transmit a linear polarization. The display device is more suitable to mobile applications than the conventional devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ikuo Ninomiya, Nobuaki Yamada, Kazuhiko Tsuda, Akira Sakai
  • Publication number: 20100296037
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device having a high contrast ratio and no coloring during black display, over a wide viewing angle range. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a reverse wavelength dispersion-type biaxial retardation film having R0(B)/R0(G) and Rth(B)/Rth(G) not greater than 0.965 and R0(R)/R0(G) and Rth(R)/Rth(G) not smaller than 1.015; and a vertical alignment liquid crystal cell that has a blue, a green, and a red color filter layer and that satisfies Rth_LC(B)/Rth_LC(G)?1.000 and Rth_LC(R)/Rth_LC(G)?1.000. R0(B), R0(G) and R0(R) denote the in-plane retardations of the retardation film at wavelengths 450 nm, 550 nm and 650 nm. Rth(B), Rth(G) and Rth(R), and Rth_LC(B), Rth_LC(G) and Rth_LC(R) respectively denote the thickness-direction retardations of the retardation film and the liquid crystal cell at wavelengths 450 nm, 550 nm and 650 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventors: Akira Sakai, Massahiro Hasegawa, Ikuo Ninomiya
  • Publication number: 20070068085
    Abstract: In a glass run for an automobile having an extruded portion and a corner molded portion so as to be mounted in a corner portion of a door frame, the glass run includes an exterior side wall, an interior side wall, and a bottom wall to thereby be formed into substantially a U-shaped cross section, and a corner bulge portion is provided on an interior side of an interior side wall of a corner molded portion of the glass run, the corner bulge portion having an insert of a material which is harder than the glass run embedded therein so as to enhance the rigidity thereof, for contact with a hollow seal portion of an opening weather strip which is mounted on a corner portion on a peripheral portion of a vehicle body opening when a vehicle door is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ikuo Ninomiya, Masahiro Nozaki