Patents by Inventor Junichi Nakai

Junichi Nakai 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: 11926140
    Abstract: Provided is a glass film-resin composite body which makes it possible to obtain a long-length (e.g., 500 m or more-long) glass roll. The glass roll with resin film comprises a glass film, and a resin film laminated to at least one surface of the glass film through an adhesive, wherein a creep amount a of the adhesive is 50 ?m or less, as measured after applying a tensile shear load per unit area of the adhesive of 5 g/mm2, to the resin film for 48 hours, in a state in which the glass film is fixed in 23° C. and 50% RH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Murashige, Junichi Inagaki, Kazuhito Hosokawa, Kota Nakai, Toshihiro Kanno
  • Publication number: 20210377428
    Abstract: A monitor camera 10 comprises a first camera module 1 for generating first video data D1 by photographing a first monitoring region R1, and a second camera module 2 for generating second video data D2 by photographing a second monitoring region R2 including a predetermined region of interest in the first monitoring region R1, wherein the frame rate of the second video data D2 is higher than the frame rate of the first video data D1, the resolution of the second video data D2 is lower than the resolution of the first video data D1, and the number of pixels of an image sensor used for the second camera module 2 is less than the number of pixels of an image sensor used for the first camera module 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventor: Junichi NAKAI
  • Patent number: 10836802
    Abstract: As a calcium indicator protein having an excellent fluorescent characteristic and calcium reactivity, there is provided DNA in which one of a nucleotide sequence derivative of a calmodulin-binding sequence (ckkap sequence) of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase and a nucleotide sequence encoding a calcium-binding sequence (CaM sequence) of calmodulin is linked to a 5? end of a nucleotide sequence encoding a fluorescent protein, and the other nucleotide sequence is linked to a 3? end of the nucleotide sequence encoding the fluorescent protein. The calcium indicator protein encoded by this DNA, which based on the derivative of the ckkap sequence as a binding domain for the calcium-bound CaM sequence, exhibits a fluorescent characteristic and calcium reactivity superior to those of conventional calcium indicator proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY
    Inventors: Haruhiko Bito, Masatoshi Inoue, Atsuya Takeuchi, Junichi Nakai, Masamichi Ohkura
  • Publication number: 20170152295
    Abstract: As a calcium indicator protein having an excellent fluorescent characteristic and calcium reactivity, there is provided DNA in which one of a nucleotide sequence derivative of a calmodulin-binding sequence (ckkap sequence) of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase and a nucleotide sequence encoding a calcium-binding sequence (CaM sequence) of calmodulin is linked to a 5? end of a nucleotide sequence encoding a fluorescent protein, and the other nucleotide sequence is linked to a 3? end of the nucleotide sequence encoding the fluorescent protein. The calcium indicator protein encoded by this DNA, which based on the derivative of the ckkap sequence as a binding domain for the calcium-bound CaM sequence, exhibits a fluorescent characteristic and calcium reactivity superior to those of conventional calcium indicator proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Haruhiko BITO, Masatoshi INOUE, Atsuya TAKEUCHI, Junichi NAKAI, Masamichi OHKURA
  • Patent number: 9551065
    Abstract: Film-formation rate can be increased in the pre-sputtering and in the subsequent sputtering onto a substrate or the like, and sputtering failures such as splashes can be inhibited, by making an Al-based alloy or Cu-based alloy spurting target fulfill the following requirements (1) and/or (2) when the total area ratio of crystal orientations <001>±15°, <011>±15°, <111>±15°, <112>±15°, and <012>±15° in the sputtering surface normal direction in the depth within 1 mm from the uppermost surface of the sputtering target is referred to as a P value: (1) the area ratio PA of <011>±15° to the P value: 40% or lower; and (2) the total area ratio PB of <001>±15° and <111>±15° to the P value: 20% or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., KOBELCO RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Katsushi Matsumoto, Junichi Nakai, Toshiaki Takagi
  • Patent number: 8936856
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an Ag alloy film. Particularly, it is preferably used as a reflective film or semi-transmissive reflective film for an optical information recording medium having high thermal conductivity/high reflectance/high durability in the field of optical information recording media, an electromagnetic-shielding film excellent in Ag aggregation resistance, and an optical reflective film on the back of a reflection type liquid crystal display device, or the like. The Ag alloy film of the present invention comprises an Ag base alloy containing Bi and/or Sb in a total amount of 0.005 to 10% (in terms of at %). Further, the present invention relates to a sputtering target used for the deposition of such an Ag alloy film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuki Tauchi, Katsutoshi Takagi, Junichi Nakai, Toshiki Sato
  • Patent number: 8786090
    Abstract: The present invention provides an Al alloy film for a display device, to be directly connected to a conductive oxide film on a substrate, the Al alloy film comprising Ge in an amount of 0.05 to 0.5 at %, and comprising Gd and/or La in a total amount of 0.05 to 0.45 at %, a display device using the same, and a sputtering target for the display device. For the Al alloy film of the present invention, even when a barrier metal is not provided, and a conductive oxide film and the Al alloy film are directly connected, the adhesion between the conductive oxide film and the Al alloy film is high, and the contact resistivity is low, and preferably, the dry etching property is also excellent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Gotou, Katsufumi Tomihisa, Aya Hino, Hiroyuki Okuno, Junichi Nakai, Nobuyuki Kawakami, Mototaka Ochi
  • Publication number: 20130306468
    Abstract: Film-formation rate can be increased in the pre-sputtering and in the subsequent sputtering onto a substrate or the like, and sputtering failures such as splashes can be inhibited, by making an Al-based alloy or Cu-based alloy spurting target fulfill the following requirements (1) and/or (2) when the total area ratio of crystal orientations <001>±15°, <011>±15°, <111>±15°, <112>±15°, and <012>±15° in the sputtering surface normal direction in the depth within 1 mm from the uppermost surface of the sputtering target is referred to as a P value: (1) the area ratio PA of <011>±15° to the P value: 40% or lower; and (2) the total area ratio PB of <001>±15° and <111>±15° to the P value: 20% or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicants: KOBELCO RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Katsushi Matsumoto, Junichi Nakai, Toshiaki Takagi
  • Publication number: 20130258259
    Abstract: Color reproduction is improved by reducing color noise without changing color signal processing of a device in such a manner to match a new color filter arrangement. The film thickness of a green (G) color layer in a Bayer color arrangement is made thin to be the green (G) color layer having a steeply inclined spectral characteristic with a high range of transmissivity extended towards the short wavelength, and a yellow (Y1) color layer with a thin film thickness is newly stacked on the thinned green (G1) color layer. Thereby the y-axis value of the spectral characteristic of green (G) of the green (G) color layer becomes greater than or equal to 0.45 and less than or equal to 0.60 on a CIE chromaticity diagram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Junichi Nakai
  • Publication number: 20130233706
    Abstract: There is provided an Al-based alloy sputtering target, which can provide an enhanced deposition rate (or sputtering rate) when the sputtering target is used, and which can preferably prevent the occurrence of splashes. The Al-based alloy sputtering target of the present invention includes Ta and may preferably include an Al—Ta-based intermetallic compound containing Al and Ta, which compound has a mean particle diameter of from 0.005 ?m to 1.0 ?m and a mean interparticle distance of from 0.01 ?m to 10.0 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicants: Kobelco Research Institute Inc., Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Katsushi Matsumoto, Katsutoshi Takagi, Yuichi Taketomi, Junichi Nakai, Hidetada Makino, Toshiaki Takagi
  • Patent number: 8422207
    Abstract: Disclosed is an Al alloy film for a display device that, even when low-temperature heat treatment is applied, can realize satisfactorily low electric resistance, can realize a satisfactory reduction in contact resistance between the Al alloy film and a transparent pixel electrode connected directly to the Al alloy film, and has excellent corrosion resistance. The Al alloy film is connected directly to a transparent electroconductive film on the substrate in the display device. The Al alloy film comprises 0.05 to 0.5 atomic % of Co and 0.2 to 1.0 atomic % of Ge and satisfies the requirement that the content of Co and the content of Ge in the Al alloy film have a relationship represented by formula (1): [Ge]??0.25×[Co]+0.2 (1) In formula (1), [Ge] represents the content of Ge in the Al alloy film, atomic %; and [Co] represents the content of Co in the Al alloy film, atomic %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Nakai, Akira Nanbu, Hiroshi Goto, Hiroyuki Okuno, Aya Miki
  • Patent number: 8361824
    Abstract: A lens forming method according to the present invention for forming lenses capable of focusing light on a plurality of respective photoelectric conversion sections constituting of a semiconductor apparatus is described. The method includes a lens forming step of processing a lens forming material, in which an average gradient of a ? curve indicating a residual film thickness with respect to the amount of irradiation light is between ?15 and ?0.8 nm·cm2/mJ within the range of a residual film ratio of 10 to 50% or within the range of the amount of irradiation light of 55 to 137 mJ/cm2 into a lens surface shape, using a photomask with an optical transmittance that is varied according to a lens surface shape, as an exposure mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Junichi Nakai
  • Patent number: 8309195
    Abstract: An optical information recording medium of the present invention is a read-only optical information recording medium in which at least one reflective film formed of an Al-based alloy and at least one light transmission layer are successively laminated on a substrate. The arithmetical mean roughness of the reflective film is 0.5 nm or less, and the thickness of the reflective film is 25 nm or more. The optical information recording medium of the present invention is the read-only optical information recording medium including the reflective film which has a high reflectivity and low jitter, preferably has excellent durability, and is used particularly appropriately in an optical disc using a blue laser such as BD-ROM or HD DVD-ROM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norihiro Jiko, Junichi Nakai, Yuki Tauchi
  • Patent number: 8274031
    Abstract: A colored microlens array includes a plurality of microlenses for focusing incident light on a plurality of respective positions, on a substrate or a transparent film provided on the substrate, in which peripheral sections of the plurality of microlenses overlap each other at the adjacent positions and the microlenses are colored in a plurality of colors and arranged in a predetermined color arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Junichi Nakai
  • Publication number: 20120225323
    Abstract: Disclosed is a thermal diffusion control film to be used in a magnetic medium for thermally assisted recording, said thermal diffusion control film maintaining a high heat conductivity, and at the same time, having all of a high thermal diffusivity, a smooth surface roughness, and a high heat resistance. The thermal diffusion control film, i.e., an Ag alloy thermal diffusion control film, is composed of an Ag alloy having Ag as a main component, and satisfies a surface roughness (Ra) of 1.0 nm or less, a heat conductivity of 100 W/(m·K) or more, and a thermal diffusivity of 4.0×10?5 m2/s or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Junichi Nakai, Yuki Tauchi
  • Publication number: 20120196118
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an Ag alloy film. Particularly, it is preferably used as a reflective film or semi-transmissive reflective film for an optical information recording medium having high thermal conductivity/high reflectance/high durability in the field of optical information recording media, an electromagnetic-shielding film excellent in Ag aggregation resistance, and an optical reflective film on the back of a reflection type liquid crystal display device, or the like. The Ag alloy film of the present invention comprises an Ag base alloy containing Bi and/or Sb in a total amount of 0.005 to 10% (in terms of at %). Further, the present invention relates to a sputtering target used for the deposition of such an Ag alloy film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Yuuki TAUCHI, Katsutoshi Takagi, Junichi Nakai, Toshiki Sato
  • Patent number: 8217481
    Abstract: A solid-state image capturing device according to the present invention includes: a photoelectrical conversion section formed in a semiconductor substrate or in a substrate area provided on a substrate; a first transparent film provided on the photoelectrical conversion section; and a lens provided at a position above the first transparent film corresponding to the photoelectrical conversion section, where the lens is formed by using a second transparent film layered by changing a refractive index successively or incrementally, and at least one of top and bottom surfaces of the second transparent film is formed in a convex shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Nakai, Tomohiro Konishi
  • Patent number: 8187689
    Abstract: A pirated optical recording medium may be determined which is produced by physically transferring a shape of pits and lands formed on a substrate of an optical recording medium. The optical recording medium is provided with excellent weatherability and long-term storage reliability. A reflective film formed of an Ag alloy film of Ag100-x-yXxCuy, where X is at least one element among Ti, W, Ta, V, Mo, Nb and Zr, is formed on a substrate on which main data is recorded with a combination of pits and lands. A mark may be formed so that a reproduction signal level in the recorded mark of auxiliary data write once recorded on the reflective film is increased, and a reproduction signal level is decreased in an optical recording medium prepared by physically transferring the surface shape of the pits and lands of the substrate. A pirated optical recording medium may be determined in this manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Sakamoto, Jun Nakano, Naoki Okawa, Junichi Nakai, Yuki Tauchi
  • Patent number: 8178174
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an Ag alloy film. Particularly, it is preferably used as a reflective film or semi-transmissive reflective film for an optical information recording medium having high thermal conductivity/high reflectance/high durability in the field of optical information recording media, an electromagnetic-shielding film excellent in Ag aggregation resistance, and an optical reflective film on the back of a reflection type liquid crystal display device, or the like. The Ag alloy film of the present invention comprises an Ag base alloy containing Bi and/or Sb in a total amount of 0.005 to 10% (in terms of at %). Further, the present invention relates to a sputtering target used for the deposition of such an Ag alloy film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuki Tauchi, Katsutoshi Takagi, Junichi Nakai, Toshiki Sato
  • Patent number: 8123875
    Abstract: An Ag sputtering target 6 has three-dimensional fluctuation of grain sizes of not more than 18%. The fluctuation is determined by exposing plural sputtering surfaces by slicing the sputtering target 6 in planes to initial sputtering surface, selecting plural locations on each of the exposed sputtering surfaces, calculating values A1 and B1 using the formula below, and selecting larger one of the values A1 and B1 as the three-dimensional fluctuation of the grain sizes. A1=(Dmax?Dave)/Dave×100(%) B1=(Dave<Dmin)/Dave×100(%) Dmax: maximum value among the grain sizes D at all the selected locations Dmin: minimum value among the grain sizes D at all the selected locations Dave: average value of the grain sizes D at all the selected locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho, Kobelco Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Takagi, Junichi Nakai, Yuuki Tauchi, Hitoshi Matsuzaki, Hideo Fujii