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).
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Publication number: 20240142836Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Isao SUZUMURA, Fumiya KIMURA, Kazuhide MOCHIZUKI, Hitoshi TANAKA, Kenichi AKUTSU, Atsuko SHIMADA
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Patent number: 11947231Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hitoshi Tanaka, Kazuhide Mochizuki
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Patent number: 10134508Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Youta Ichiki, Kazuhide Tanaka, Motomune Kodama
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Patent number: 9887029Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Motomune Kodama, Kazuhide Tanaka, Yota Ichiki
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Publication number: 20160293296Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2013Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Youta ICHIKI, Kazuhide TANAKA, Motomune KODAMA
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Patent number: 9224937Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 23, 2013Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., The University of TokyoInventors: Motomune Kodama, Kazuhide Tanaka, Junichi Shimoyama, Akiyasu Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20150228391Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2013Publication date: August 13, 2015Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.,Inventors: Motomune Kodama, Kazuhide Tanaka, Yota Ichiki
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Publication number: 20150111755Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventors: Motomune Kodama, Kazuhide Tanaka, Junichi Shimoyama, Akiyasu Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8644897Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yota Ichiki, Tsuyoshi Wakuda, Kazuhide Tanaka
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Patent number: 8571616Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 23, 2004Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Central Japan Railway CompanyInventors: Kazuhide Tanaka, Michiya Okada, Masazumi Hirakawa, Hideyuki Yamada
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Publication number: 20130012395Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhide Tanaka, Motomune Kodama, Yasuo Kondo
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Patent number: 8266958Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 14, 2007Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhide Tanaka, Masaya Takahashi, Michiya Okada, Hideki Abe, Motoharu Imai
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Publication number: 20120220465Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Inventors: Kazuhide TANAKA, Yasuo Kondo, Tsuyoshi Wakuda
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Publication number: 20120108435Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2011Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventors: Yota ICHIKI, Tsuyoshi Wakuda, Kazuhide Tanaka
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Publication number: 20120083415Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Inventors: Kazuhide Tanaka, Yasuo Kondo
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Publication number: 20120004110Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Inventors: Masaya TAKAHASHI, Tsuyoshi Wakuda, Yota Ichiki, Kazuhide Tanaka
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Patent number: 7602269Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 17, 2007Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masaya Takahashi, Kazuhide Tanaka, Michiya Okada
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Patent number: 7569520Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 3, 2006Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhide Tanaka, Masaya Takahashi, Michiya Okada, Hiroaki Kumakura, Hitoshi Kitaguchi
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Publication number: 20090176649Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2009Publication date: July 9, 2009Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masaya Takahashi, Kazuhide Tanaka, Michiya Okada
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Publication number: 20090170710Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2006Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventors: Kazuhide Tanaka, Masaya Takahashi, Michiya Okada, Hiroaki Kumakura, Hitoshi Kitaguchi