Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Fujita

Kazuhiro Fujita 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: 20230110183
    Abstract: A light-source device, an image projection apparatus, and a display device. The light-source device includes a light source to emit light, an optical element having a lens array on one side or both sides of which a plurality of lenses are arrayed with distance from each other, the distance between a pair of vertices of an adjacent pair of the plurality of lenses of the optical element being equal to or less than one-quarter of width of light flux of the light incident on the optical element and a wavelength conversion element to convert a wavelength of the light emitted from the light source and passed through the optical element. An image projection apparatus includes the light-source device, a light mixing element to mix the light emitted from the light-source device to uniformize the light and an illumination optical system to emit the light uniformized by the light mixing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Yohei TAKANO, Makoto HIRAKAWA, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Takashi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230043477
    Abstract: A light-source device includes an excitation light source; a wavelength conversion unit to convert at least some of first color light into second color light; a light mixing element including a rod integrator to mix at least one of the first color light and the second color light from the conversion unit; and an optical element on an optical path of the first color light and having a reflecting surface. A center of the first color light on the reflecting surface intersects with only one of a first light flux of the first color light incident on and a second light flux of the first color light emitted from the conversion unit. An angle formed by a projection straight line of the first color light incident on an incident aperture of the integrator and a predetermined axial line of the incident aperture of the integrator is smaller than 40°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kasumi NAKAMURA, Yohei TAKANO, Makoto HIRAKAWA, Kazuhiro FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20230042973
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion plate includes a conversion region and a reflection region on a base surface. The conversion region includes a wavelength conversion member configured to receive excitation light and generate a color different from a color of the excitation light. The reflection region is configured to reflect the excitation light. The reflection region includes a transmissive diffusion surface, a transmissive layer, and a reflection surface. The transmissive diffusion surface is configured to diffuse the excitation light. The transmissive layer is configured to transmit the excitation light. The reflection surface is configured to reflect the excitation light. The transmissive diffusion surface is in a position separate from a surface closer to the base surface, of the wavelength conversion member, toward a direction from which the excitation light is incident.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiro FUJITA, Yohei TAKANO, Kasumi NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11568839
    Abstract: A performance support device includes a first surface, a second surface, and a flow path. The first surface is configured to face a blow hole of an air reed instrument. The second surface is configured to be displaced from the blow hole. The flow path penetrates from the first surface to the second surface and that is configured to flow an exhaled breath toward the blow hole. A cross-sectional area of the flow path at the first surface is smaller than a cross-sectional area of the flow path at a position displaced from the first surface toward the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Keita Arimoto, Masafumi Fuke, Kazuhiro Fujita, Akira Miki
  • Publication number: 20220410608
    Abstract: A substrate having a first pattern formed on a surface or in an inside of the substrate, or on the surface and in the inside of the substrate, wherein the first pattern is constituted by an aggregate of second patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Rie HIRAYAMA, Shigeaki IMAI, Hiroto TACHIBANA, Nobuyuki ARAI, Yoichi ICHIKAWA, Hirotoshi NAKAYAMA, Shohta KOBASHIGAWA, Asato TAMURA, Takuei NISHIO, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Muneaki IWATA
  • Patent number: 11537037
    Abstract: A light source device includes: multiple light source units each including a light source to emit a first color light beam, each of the multiple light source units configured to: convert at least part of the first color light beam into a second color light beam emitted from an emitting region; and emit the second color light beam to form a conjugate image; and a light combiner to combine the conjugate images formed by the multiple light source units to form a combined image, in which the conjugate images partially overlap each other, on a plane of an entrance surface of a light uniformizing element along a central axis of the light uniformizing element. A conditional expression below is satisfied: 1.3>SC/SI>0.7 where SC is an area of the combined image, and SI is an area of the entrance surface of the light uniformizing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Takano, Kazuhiro Fujita, Makoto Hirakawa, Shigeaki Imai
  • Publication number: 20220388724
    Abstract: Provided is a container including a container body, and an image on the container body. The image includes a plurality of dented portions and non-dented portions. Each of the dented portions is formed of a plurality of processed portions. The plurality of processed portions are disposed linearly, contacting or overlapping each other along a first scanning direction. A width of each of the dented portions in a second scanning direction orthogonal to the first scanning direction changes cyclically along the first scanning direction. Each of the dented portions has bossed portions along the first scanning direction between adjoining ones of the processed portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi SERIZAWA, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Masako YOSHII, Makoto HINO, Kazuhiro AKATSU
  • Patent number: 11521865
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a liquid discharging step of discharging liquid through a nozzle toward a predetermined supply region on the main surface of a substrate held on a substrate holding unit within a chamber, a humidified gas supplying step of supplying humidified gas with a humidity higher than the humidity within the chamber onto the main surface of the substrate to remove electrical charges carried on the substrate, and a spin-drying step of rotating the substrate about a predetermined rotational axis after the liquid discharging step to spin off the liquid component from the main surface of the substrate. The humidified gas supplying step is started before the start of the liquid discharging step and ended at a predetermined termination timing after the start of the liquid discharging step and before the spin-drying step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki Tsujikawa, Masato Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Okumura, Atsuyasu Miura, Makoto Takaoka, Nobuyuki Miyaji, Kazuhiro Fujita, Naoki Sawazaki, Takashi Akiyama, Yuya Tsuchihashi
  • Patent number: 11506967
    Abstract: A light-source device includes an excitation light source; a wavelength conversion unit to convert at least some of first color light into second color light; a light mixing element including a rod integrator to mix at least one of the first color light and the second color light from the conversion unit; and an optical element on an optical path of the first color light and having a reflecting surface. A center of the first color light on the reflecting surface intersects with only one of a first light flux of the first color light incident on and a second light flux of the first color light emitted from the conversion unit. An angle formed by a projection straight line of the first color light incident on an incident aperture of the integrator and a predetermined axial line of the incident aperture of the integrator is smaller than 40°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kasumi Nakamura, Yohei Takano, Makoto Hirakawa, Kazuhiro Fujita
  • Publication number: 20220347641
    Abstract: A chemical liquid preparation method of preparing a chemical liquid for treating a film formed on a substrate, including a gas dissolving process in which an oxygen-containing gas and an inert-gas-containing gas are dissolved in the chemical liquid by supplying the oxygen-containing gas which contains oxygen gas and the inert-gas-containing gas which contains an inert gas to a chemical liquid, wherein in the gas dissolving process, a dissolved oxygen concentration in the chemical liquid is adjusted by setting a mixing ratio between the oxygen-containing gas and the inert-gas-containing gas supplied to the chemical liquid as a mixing ratio corresponding to a predetermined target dissolved oxygen concentration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime NISHIDE, Takashi IZUTA, Takatoshi HAYASHI, Katsuhiro FUKUI, Koichi OKAMOTO, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Atsuyasu MIURA, Kenji KOBAYASHI, Sei NEGORO, Hiroki TSUJIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220345671
    Abstract: A light guide optical device includes an optical path combiner including: a first deflector to deflect first light incident from a first direction to an emission direction; a second deflector to deflect second light incident from a second direction different from the first direction, to the emission direction; and a transmission portion between the first deflector and the second deflector, the transmission portion to transmit third light incident from a third direction different from each of the first direction and the second direction, to the emission direction. The optical path combining unit combines the first light, the second light, and the third light, and emits the combined light to the mission direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi SASAKI, Yohei TAKANO, Kasumi NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Makoto HIRAKAWA, Shigeaki IMAI
  • Publication number: 20220342291
    Abstract: A light-source device includes an excitation light source to emit first color light; an optical member having a reflecting surface to reflect the first color light; a wavelength conversion unit including a wavelength conversion member on which the first color light reflected by the optical member is incident, the wavelength conversion member to convert at least part of the first color light into second color light having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the first color light and emit the second color light; and a light condensing element to condense the first color light emitted from the wavelength conversion unit. A straight line including a first optical path from a center of a flux of light rays emitted from the excitation light source, to the center of the first color light on the reflecting surface does not intersect with a light flux condensed by the light condensing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuhiro FUJITA, Kasumi NAKAMURA, Yohei TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20220299852
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a first light source to emit first color light; a second light source to emit second color light; a wavelength conversion unit to convert at least a portion of the first color light into a third color light; a light incident element to which the first color light, the second color light, and the third color light enter; a first filter to reflect the first color light toward the wavelength conversion unit; and a second filter to reflect the second color tight toward the light incident element. The first filter and the second filter are separately disposed on an optical path of the third color light between the wavelength conversion unit and the light incident element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Kasumi NAKAMURA, Yohei TAKANO, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Takashi SASAKI, Shigeaki IMAI, Makoto HIRAKAWA
  • Patent number: 11439967
    Abstract: A chemical liquid preparation method of preparing a chemical liquid for treating a film formed on a substrate, including a gas dissolving process in which an oxygen-containing gas and an inert-gas-containing gas are dissolved in the chemical liquid by supplying the oxygen-containing gas which contains oxygen gas and the inert-gas-containing gas which contains an inert gas to a chemical liquid, wherein in the gas dissolving process, a dissolved oxygen concentration in the chemical liquid is adjusted by setting a mixing ratio between the oxygen-containing gas and the inert-gas-containing gas supplied to the chemical liquid as a mixing ratio corresponding to a predetermined target dissolved oxygen concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Nishide, Takashi Izuta, Takatoshi Hayashi, Katsuhiro Fukui, Koichi Okamoto, Kazuhiro Fujita, Atsuyasu Miura, Kenji Kobayashi, Sei Negoro, Hiroki Tsujikawa
  • Publication number: 20220276042
    Abstract: A laser irradiation apparatus includes: multiple irradiation units each to emit a laser beam to a surface of a base to form a pattern, the multiple irradiation units, including: a first irradiation unit to emit a first laser beam; and a second irradiation unit to emit a second laser beam; and a circuitry to: control the first irradiation unit to irradiate only a first irradiation region on a surface of a base with the first laser beam; and control the second irradiation unit to irradiate only a second irradiation region on the surface of the base with the second laser beam. The first irradiation region and the second irradiation region are not overlapping each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Fujita, Rie Hirayama
  • Publication number: 20220266392
    Abstract: A marking device, a medium, a container, and a marking method. The marking device includes a first marker including a first optical system having a first focal point, the first marker being configured to concentrate a first light onto a first area of a non-planar portion of a medium to perform marking on the first area, the non-planar portion including a plurality of areas including the first area and a second area, and a second marker including a second optical system having a second focal point. The second marker is configured to concentrate a second light onto the second area to perform the marking on the second area, and the second focal point of the second optical system is different from the first focal point of the first optical system in a direction parallel to a central axis of the first optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Rie Hirayama, Kazuhiro Fujita, Keiichi Serizawa
  • Patent number: 11402737
    Abstract: A light source device comprising: a light source section which generates any one of blue light, red light, and green light; a phosphor which generates a fluorescence including the two colors other than the color of the light emitted from the light source section; a color-changing section which changes one of the two colors of the fluorescence emitted from the phosphor to another color regularly and irradiates it to the image-forming element; and a light path-switching section which switches a light path in which a fluorescence excited by the color light emitted from the light source section passes towards the color-changing section and a light path in which the color light emitted from the light source section passes towards the image-forming element regularly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Ikuo Maeda, Kazuhiro Fujita, Toshiharu Murai, Tatsuya Takahashi, Takehiro Nishimori
  • Publication number: 20220179298
    Abstract: A light source device includes a light source, a plurality of wavelength conversion units, and a plurality of optical systems. The plurality of wavelength conversion units each includes a wavelength conversion region configured to receive light emitted from the light source and emit light with a wavelength different from a wavelength of the received light. The plurality of optical systems are configured to form images of wavelength conversion regions of the plurality of wavelength conversion units. The light source is configured to irradiate the wavelength conversion units with light at a same timing. The plurality of optical systems are configured to cause the images of the wavelength conversion regions of the plurality of wavelength conversion units to be adjacent to or superimposed on each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuhiro FUJITA, Yohei TAKANO, Makoto HIRAKAWA, Shigeaki IMAI
  • Publication number: 20220171267
    Abstract: A light source device includes: multiple light source units each including a light source to emit a first color light beam, each of the multiple light source units configured to: convert at least part of the first color light beam into a second color light beam emitted from an emitting region; and emit the second color light beam to form a conjugate image; and a light combiner to combine the conjugate images formed by the multiple light source units to form a combined image, in which the conjugate images partially overlap each other, on a plane of an entrance surface of a light uniformizing element along a central axis of the light uniformizing element. A conditional expression below is satisfied: 1.3>SC/SI>0.7 where SC is an area of the combined image, and SI is an area of the entrance surface of the light uniformizing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Yohei TAKANO, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Makoto HIRAKAWA, Shigeaki IMAI
  • Publication number: 20220118553
    Abstract: A pattern formation apparatus is configured to irradiate each of a plurality of base materials being conveyed, with laser such that one of a light path length and a beam size at a position of the plurality of base materials is approximately constant, to form a pattern on a surface of each of the plurality of base materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Hideji MIYANISHI, Rie HIRAYAMA, Kazuhiro FUJITA