Patents by Inventor Kazuhide Tanaka

Kazuhide Tanaka 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: 20240142836
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer, a gate electrode, a second insulating layer and a plurality of transparent conductive layers. The transparent conductive layers include a pixel electrode, a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer. The pixel electrode is in contact with the second conductive layer. The second conductive layer is in contact with the first conductive layer. The first conductive layer is brought into contact with a second region of the semiconductor layer through a first contact hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Isao SUZUMURA, Fumiya KIMURA, Kazuhide MOCHIZUKI, Hitoshi TANAKA, Kenichi AKUTSU, Atsuko SHIMADA
  • Patent number: 11947231
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a gate line extending in a first direction, first and second source lines crossing the gate line and arranged in the first direction, a first light-shielding layer having first and second openings, and an oxide semiconductor layer crossing the gate line, and in the display device, the first opening and the second opening are arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction between the first source line and the second source line, the gate line is located between the first opening and the second opening, and the oxide semiconductor layer has a first overlapping portion overlapping the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Tanaka, Kazuhide Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 10134508
    Abstract: An MgB2 superconducting wire includes a core containing MgB2 and a metal sheath which surrounds the core. The core includes at least a first MgB2 core positioned on the center side, and a second MgB2 core positioned outside the first MgB2 core, and the density of the second MgB2 core is lower than the density of the first MgB2 core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Youta Ichiki, Kazuhide Tanaka, Motomune Kodama
  • Patent number: 9887029
    Abstract: A technical problem is to turn a persistent current switch on and off at high speed with less heat input. The invention relates to a conductive cooling-type persistent current switch, including: a superconductive wire 1 through which a current is passed; a cooling stage 9 which cools the superconductive wire; and a heater 8 which heats the superconductive wire, wherein the superconductive wire is placed between faces which are each formed by the cooling stage and the heater, a core of the superconductive wire is magnesium diboride 6, and a base material 5 placed around an outer periphery of the core is a material having a resistivity of 10 ??cm or more at 40 K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Motomune Kodama, Kazuhide Tanaka, Yota Ichiki
  • Publication number: 20160293296
    Abstract: An MgB2 superconducting wire includes a core containing MgB2 and a metal sheath which surrounds the core. The core includes at least a first MgB2 core positioned on the center side, and a second MgB2 core positioned outside the first MgB2 core, and the density of the second MgB2 core is lower than the density of the first MgB2 core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Youta ICHIKI, Kazuhide TANAKA, Motomune KODAMA
  • Patent number: 9224937
    Abstract: An MgB2 superconducting wire excellent in critical current density property is supplied by using a crystalline boron powder which is low in costs and easy to obtain. For the wire, a precursor of the MgB2 superconducting wire is used, the precursor having a linear structure including a core region containing a magnesium powder and a boron powder, and a sheath region formed of a metal covering an outer circumferential portion of the core region. The boron powder is crystalline, and has a volume-mean particle size of 2 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Motomune Kodama, Kazuhide Tanaka, Junichi Shimoyama, Akiyasu Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20150228391
    Abstract: A technical problem is to turn a persistent current switch on and off at high speed with less heat input. The invention relates to a conductive cooling-type persistent current switch, including: a superconductive wire 1 through which a current is passed; a cooling stage 9 which cools the superconductive wire; and a heater 8 which heats the superconductive wire, wherein the superconductive wire is placed between faces which are each formed by the cooling stage and the heater, a core of the superconductive wire is magnesium diboride 6, and a base material 5 placed around an outer periphery of the core is a material having a resistivity of 10 ??cm or more at 40 K.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.,
    Inventors: Motomune Kodama, Kazuhide Tanaka, Yota Ichiki
  • Publication number: 20150111755
    Abstract: A superconducting wire has a length that is sufficiently longer than a conventional one, and a critical current density that is uniformly high over the entire length thereof. Density of the magnesium diboride core is 1.5 g/cm3 or higher. A void is present in an arbitrary longitudinal cross-section in the longitudinal direction of the superconducting wire, when a length of a line segment which connects the most distant two points in a closed curve forming the void is assumed to be L, among the voids with length L of 20 ?m or greater, the number of voids with an angle formed by the line segment and the axis in the longitudinal direction of the superconducting wire of 45° or greater is less than the number of voids with the angle formed by the line segment and the axis in the longitudinal direction of the superconducting wire of smaller than 45°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Motomune Kodama, Kazuhide Tanaka, Junichi Shimoyama, Akiyasu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8644897
    Abstract: Provided is a superconducting apparatus, including a joint of superconducting wires having high electric conduction characteristics and a superconducting magnet or the like. The superconducting joint comprises a plurality of superconducting wires and a sinter which integrates the plurality of superconducting wires. Herein, at least any one of the superconducting wires is a MgB2 superconducting wire, the sinter contains MgB2, and the sinter is compressed form the direction different from the direction toward which the superconducting wires protrude. Further, in order to form such a joint, a compression vessel provided with an opening used for introducing raw material powders to construct the sinter and another opening used for inserting the superconducting wires is utilized, and the openings are directed to different directions each other. Accordingly, MgB2 is filled in the sinter at high density, allowing the joint structure to have a good bonding property among particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yota Ichiki, Tsuyoshi Wakuda, Kazuhide Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8571616
    Abstract: An MgB2 compound sheath superconducting wire includes a high stable metal having a specific electric resistance 7 ??cm or below at a room temperature and a high strength metal having a Vickers hardness 50 or above at a room temperature, both of which are assembled therewith to realize a high strength and a lengthy superconductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Central Japan Railway Company
    Inventors: Kazuhide Tanaka, Michiya Okada, Masazumi Hirakawa, Hideyuki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20130012395
    Abstract: A superconducting wire which is obtained by a heat treatment at a lower temperature than related art and has a high critical current density, and the process of manufacture can be provided by causing a compound expressed by the following formula (1) to be contained: Mg(B1-xCx)y??(1) where x is a number satisfying 0<x<1, and y is a number satisfying 2.1?y.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhide Tanaka, Motomune Kodama, Yasuo Kondo
  • Patent number: 8266958
    Abstract: An object is to provide a liquid level sensor device for liquefied gas enabling measurement on a liquid level of liquefied gas having a boiling point in the vicinity of 21 K, e.g. liquid hydrogen, accurately and with good reproducibility and enabling simple production with good reproducibility. The present invention is a liquid level sensor device for liquefied gas including compound containing magnesium and boron arranged in succession in the longitudinal direction over the entire or a part of surface of a linear conductor made of metal and a portion of the compound thereof dipped in liquid is in a superconductive state at liquid level measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhide Tanaka, Masaya Takahashi, Michiya Okada, Hideki Abe, Motoharu Imai
  • Publication number: 20120220465
    Abstract: The invention provides a MgB2 superconductive wire which is long and has a high critical current density. The invention provides a manufacturing method of a superconductive wire in which a magnesium or a magnesium alloy is reacted with a magnesium boride expressed by MgBx (x=4, 7, 12) by carrying out a heat treatment. A superconductive wire is characterized by the magnesium boride expressed by the MgBx (x=4, 7, 12) is included in a part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventors: Kazuhide TANAKA, Yasuo Kondo, Tsuyoshi Wakuda
  • Publication number: 20120108435
    Abstract: Provided is a superconducting apparatus, including a joint of superconducting wires having high electric conduction characteristics and a superconducting magnet or the like. The superconducting joint comprises a plurality of superconducting wires and a sinter which integrates the plurality of superconducting wires. Herein, at least any one of the superconducting wires is a MgB2 superconducting wire, the sinter contains MgB2, and the sinter is compressed form the direction different from the direction toward which the superconducting wires protrude. Further, in order to form such a joint, a compression vessel provided with an opening used for introducing raw material powders to construct the sinter and another opening used for inserting the superconducting wires is utilized, and the openings are directed to different directions each other. Accordingly, MgB2 is filled in the sinter at high density, allowing the joint structure to have a good bonding property among particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Yota ICHIKI, Tsuyoshi Wakuda, Kazuhide Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20120083415
    Abstract: A process of a superconducting wire is provided, which includes a step for twisting a first wire with a second wire that is different from the first wire and a step for filling a twisted wire of the first wire and the second wire in a metal tube, or enveloping the twisted wire in a metal sheet. According to the process, for example, an MgB2 superconducting wire that has a long homogeneity and high Jc can be obtained constantly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Inventors: Kazuhide Tanaka, Yasuo Kondo
  • Publication number: 20120004110
    Abstract: It is an objective of the present invention to provide a method for manufacturing long lengths of MgB2 superconducting wire having excellent superconducting properties and an MgB2 superconducting wire manufactured thereby. There is provided a method for manufacturing a magnesium diboride superconducting wire, comprising the successive steps of: filling a metallic tube with a raw material powder; and subjecting the tube to wiredrawing processing, in which a fatty acid metal salt or a mixture of the fatty acid metal salt and a fatty acid is added to the raw material powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Inventors: Masaya TAKAHASHI, Tsuyoshi Wakuda, Yota Ichiki, Kazuhide Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7602269
    Abstract: There is disclosed a permanent current switch which has a high temperature margin and which is thermally stable and which securely performs a switching operation between a superconducting state and a normal conducting state. The permanent current switch of the present invention has a coiled superconducting wire and a heater wire which switches the superconducting wire between the superconducting state and the normal conducting state, the superconducting wire is a magnesium diboride superconducting wire having a high-resistance metal on an outer side and a magnesium diboride superconducting portion on an inner side and prepared by forming a superconducting metal on a layer between the high-resistance metal and the magnesium diboride superconducting portion, and the permanent current switch further comprises a superconductive connecting section superconductively connected to a lead wire guided from the superconducting wire and a superconducting wire for a wiring line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Takahashi, Kazuhide Tanaka, Michiya Okada
  • Patent number: 7569520
    Abstract: In a metal sheath MgB2 superconducting wire, it is intended to achieve a wire having increased current density and a long length at the same time, by densitying superconducting core part. The superconducting wire is manufactured by forming diffusion hardened layer on the inner surface of the sheath such that the hardness of the inner surface becomes higher than that of the outer surface, filling MgB2 superconductor, and further if necessary, a critical current density increasing material such as indium, copper, and tin, in a metal sheath, to subject it to wire drawing. For the metal sheath, a material with toughness such as steel is used. Even if the sheath is made to a long wire, it does not break, thereby, enabling to density superconducting core part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhide Tanaka, Masaya Takahashi, Michiya Okada, Hiroaki Kumakura, Hitoshi Kitaguchi
  • Publication number: 20090176649
    Abstract: There is disclosed a permanent current switch which has a high temperature margin and which is thermally stable and which securely performs a switching operation between a superconducting state and a normal conducting state. The permanent current switch of the present invention has a coiled superconducting wire and a heater wire which switches the superconducting wire between the superconducting state and the normal conducting state, the superconducting wire is a magnesium diboride superconducting wire having a high-resistance metal on an outer side and a magnesium diboride superconducting portion on an inner side and prepared by forming a superconducting metal on a layer between the high-resistance metal and the magnesium diboride superconducting portion, and the permanent current switch further comprises a superconductive connecting section superconductively connected to a lead wire guided from the superconducting wire and a superconducting wire for a wiring line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Takahashi, Kazuhide Tanaka, Michiya Okada
  • Publication number: 20090170710
    Abstract: In a metal sheath MgB2 superconducting wire, it is intended to achieve a wire having increased current density and a long length at the same time, by densitying superconducting core part. The superconducting wire is manufactured by forming diffusion hardened layer on the inner surface of the sheath such that the hardness of the inner surface becomes higher than that of the outer surface, filling MgB2 superconductor, and further if necessary, a critical current density increasing material such as indium, copper, and tin, in a metal sheath, to subject it to wire drawing. For the metal sheath, a material with toughness such as steel is used. Even if the sheath is made to a long wire, it does not break, thereby, enabling to density superconducting core part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Kazuhide Tanaka, Masaya Takahashi, Michiya Okada, Hiroaki Kumakura, Hitoshi Kitaguchi