Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Nishikawa

Kazuhiro Nishikawa 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: 8414960
    Abstract: A production method of an ink composition for organic EL devices comprises preparing a composition containing a polymer organic EL material and an organic solvent; and applying an electric field to the composition. Preferably, a composition containing a polymer organic EL material prepared by a coupling reaction between a halogenated aromatic compound and an aromatic boron compound in the presence of palladium catalyst or nickel catalyst, an organic solvent, and an aromatic carboxylic acid contained in an amount of 0.01-1 wt % based on the total amount of the organic solvent and aromatic carboxylic acid is prepared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Higashida, Kazuhiro Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130063387
    Abstract: A pressure sensitive conductive member is arranged in a through hole of a base-material bonding layer so as to be in contact with a peripheral-switch upper electrode and a peripheral-switch lower electrode, and when a force applied to a peripheral switch is transmitted to the pressure sensitive conductive member through an upper electrode base material and the upper electrode, a current flows, so that the upper electrode and the lower electrode are electrically connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventors: Yuichiro Takai, Takao Hashimoto, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Kai, Yuko Endo
  • Publication number: 20130059235
    Abstract: In a photomask blank comprising a transparent substrate, an optical film of material containing a transition metal and silicon, and a hard mask film, the hard mask film is a multilayer film including a first layer of a chromium-based material containing 20-60 atom % of oxygen and a second layer of a chromium-based material containing at least 50 atom % of chromium and less than 20 atom % of oxygen. The hard mask film having a thickness of 2.0 nm to less than 10 nm is resistant to fluorine dry etching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Inventors: Yukio INAZUKI, Shinichi IGARASHI, Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA, Hiroki YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20130037314
    Abstract: Disclosed is a solder material which enables to realize a lower mounting temperature when an electronic component is mounted. Also disclosed are a solder paste and a conductive adhesive. Specifically disclosed is a solder material having a basic composition composed of Sn, Bi and In. This solder material may further contain at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Cu, Ge and Ni. A solder paste which enables to realize a low-temperature mounting can be obtained by blending a flux component into the solder material. A conductive adhesive which enables to realize a low-temperature mounting can be obtained by blending a resin component into the solder material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Atsushi Yamaguchi, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Hidenori Miyakawa
  • Publication number: 20120327023
    Abstract: A gap between an upper transparent electrode base member (1) and a lower transparent electrode base member (2) is filled with a transparent adhesive layer (3) as a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, to eliminate an air layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Takao HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Kai, Yuichiro Takai, Yuko Endo, Ryomei Omote
  • Publication number: 20120325021
    Abstract: A load weight determining apparatus and method for an electric chain block having a lifting-lowering motor and an inverter controller. The lifting-lowering motor rotates a sheave to wind up and unwind a chain engaging the sheave. The load weight determining apparatus has a current detecting element detecting a motor current supplied to the lifting-lowering motor from the inverter controller, and a load weight determining unit. A torque current is calculated from the motor current detected by the load weight determining unit, and a variation cycle of the torque current is calculated. An average torque current value over a period of time corresponding to the variation cycle is calculated, and the average torque current value is compared with a set threshold to perform load weight determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: KITO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20120299872
    Abstract: An installation structure of electronic paper and a resistive film type touch panel, includes electronic paper, a resistive film type touch panel disposed on a back surface side of the electronic paper, and a multitude of protrusions that are disposed between the electronic paper and the resistive film type touch panel, and that are fixed to at least one of the electronic paper and the resistive film type touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Takakuni Sunahase
  • Publication number: 20120286810
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to accurately detect concentrations of mixtures in a fluid. An internal electrode 23 is disposed on the inner side of an external electrode 22 coaxially with the external electrode 22, and a plurality of points in the length direction of the internal electrode 23 are supported by a casing 21 via supporting members 28a and 28b. The state of a fluid S passing through a passage 26 between the external electrode 22 and the internal electrode 23 is detected based on electrostatic capacitance between the external electrode 22 and the internal electrode 23.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi TSURUTA, Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA, Koichi KUBOTA, Takuto SHIBAYAMA
  • Patent number: 8304146
    Abstract: A photomask is manufactured by providing a photomask blank comprising a transparent substrate, a phase shift film, and a light-shielding film, the phase shift film and the light-shielding film including silicon base material layers, a N+O content in the silicon base material layer of the phase shift film differing from that of the light-shielding film, and chlorine dry etching the blank with oxygen-containing chlorine gas in a selected O/Cl ratio for selectively etching away the silicon base material layer of the light-shielding film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Igarashi, Hideo Kaneko, Yukio Inazuki, Kazuhiro Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20120268421
    Abstract: A protection panel for detecting an X-Y coordinate as an operation position from a potential gradient based on a touch operation to a front substrate is provided. A rear substrate (5) has a first transparent resistive film (5A) and a contact point (5G) connected to a pair of first terminals (5D) through routing circuits (5C) so that the contact point (5G) is arranged in parallel with the first transparent resistive film (5A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: NISSHA PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiko Suetomi, Yoshihiro Kai, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Jun Shimizu, Toshiyuki Iwai, Mitsutoyo Toshihara
  • Patent number: 8293370
    Abstract: Disclosed is a solder material which enables to realize a lower mounting temperature when an electronic component is mounted. Also disclosed are a solder paste and a conductive adhesive. Specifically disclosed is a solder material having a basic composition composed of Sn, Bi and In. This solder material may further contain at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Cu, Ge and Ni. A solder paste which enables to realize a low-temperature mounting can be obtained by blending a flux component into the solder material. A conductive adhesive which enables to realize a low-temperature mounting can be obtained by blending a resin component into the solder material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Yamaguchi, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Hidenori Miyakawa
  • Publication number: 20120256865
    Abstract: A gap between an upper transparent electrode base member (1) and a lower transparent electrode base member (2) is filled with a transparent adhesive layer (3) as a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, to eliminate an air layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventors: Takao Hashimoto, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Kai, Yuichiro Takai, Yuko Endo, Ryomei Omote
  • Patent number: 8243225
    Abstract: An electronic device having a protection panel includes: a display device (3) having a display part (3A); a housing (2) for mounting the display device (3) therein which has a display window (2A) including an opening for allowing the display part (3A) to face externally and a supporting portion (2b) in a shape of a frame; a protection panel (4) fitted into the display window (2A), whose back side rim portion is supported by the supporting portion (2b); and a pressure-sensitive conductive print layer (30) which is disposed between the protection panel (4) and the supporting portion (2b) and configured to detect a pressing operation on the protection panel (4), and includes a resin having a glass-transition temperature (Tg) in a temperature range higher than room temperature as binder, and a conductive material dispersed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kai, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Yuichiro Takai
  • Patent number: 8237359
    Abstract: There is provided a display apparatus configured by stacking a drive circuit substrate and a light-emitting substrate. Electrodes of the substrates are accurately aligned to be electrically connected to each other. A display apparatus is configured by stacking a drive circuit substrate having a drive circuit and a light-emitting substrate having a light-emitting unit including a pixel electrode to cause the drive circuit substrate and the light-emitting substrate to face each other, wherein on a stacked plane between the drive circuit substrate and the light-emitting substrate, an intermediate electrode connected to the light-emitting unit of the light-emitting substrate and a connection electrode connected to the drive circuit and the drive circuit substrate are electrically connected to each other, and the intermediate electrode is elongated in a direction parallel to or perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the pixel electrode on the stacked plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Higashida, Yoshie Iwane, Hisao Nagai, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Hiroshi Hayata
  • Patent number: 8205327
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a circuit board on which an electronic component is mounted, includes at least the steps of (a) supplying a liquid photo-polymerizable adhesive containing conductive particles dispersed therein to a surface of a printed board, to form an adhesive layer on the board surface; (b) irradiating the photo-polymerizable adhesive with ultraviolet light to turn into a gel, to provide adhesiveness to the adhesive layer; and (c) pressing the electronic component against the component mounting portion of the printed board from an upper surface side of the adhesive layer, to form an electrical connection between the electronic component and the component mounting portion, and in the method, the photo-polymerizable adhesive is a delayed reactive adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hidenori Miyakawa, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Kunio Hibino
  • Patent number: 8199128
    Abstract: A protection panel for detecting an X-Y coordinate as an operation position from a potential gradient based on a touch operation to a front substrate is provided. A rear substrate (5) has a first transparent resistive film (5A) and a contact point (5G) connected to a pair of first terminals (5D) through routing circuits (5C) so that the contact point (5G) is arranged in parallel with the first transparent resistive film (5A). When the rear substrate (5) and a front substrate (6) are connected, the contact point (5G) and an expanded region (6Ab) of a second transparent resistive film (6A) on the front substrate (6), which are arranged opposingly with a predetermined gap, form a switch (12) for detecting a contact therebetween, based on a voltage detected in the terminals (6D,5D) of one of the rear substrate (5) and the front substrate (6) when a voltage is applied between the terminals (5D,6D) of the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiko Suetomi, Yoshihiro Kai, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Jun Shimizu, Toshiyuki Iwai, Mitsutoyo Toshihara
  • Publication number: 20120128227
    Abstract: CPU 12 reads out the bloodstream associated values of target voxel of subject's standardized brain bloodstream images (step S34). CPU 12 sorts the bloodstream associated values in descending order (step S35). CPU 12 rejects bloodstream associated values that are ranked top 10% and bottom 40% (step S36). When the subjects are 20 for example, bloodstream associated values of highest 2 subjects and of lowest 8 subjects are rejected. CPU 12 calculates and stores mean value and standard deviation of remaining bloodstream associated values after the rejection (step S37). CPU 12 calculates mean value and standard deviation of bloodstream associated values for each voxel as target voxel (steps S31, S32, S33 and S38). Then, the alternative normal brain database of brain bloodstream image is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicants: NIHON MEDI-PHYSICS CO., LTD, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    Inventors: Satoshi Minoshima, Kiyotaka Watanabe, Shuya Miki, Kazuhiro Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20120113054
    Abstract: There is provided a resistive film type touch panel with a pressing detection function capable of detecting not only a pressed position (X, Y coordinates) of a screen, but also a Z direction (pressure) at the same time, superior in visibility, and low in cost. According to a resistive film type transparent touch panel, a first member and a second member are bonded with a transparent bonding layer having many uniformly dispersed through holes between the first and second transparent conductive films, and a conductive pressure sensitive ink member is arranged in each of the through holes, formed on at least one surface of opposed surfaces of the first member and the second member, and has electric characteristics to be changed by an applied pressed force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Inventors: Takao Hashimoto, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Kai, Yuko Endo
  • Patent number: 8126243
    Abstract: An image processing method is provided as one for creating a fused image automatically and with high overlapping accuracy. An image processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes (a) a voxel normalization step of equalizing voxel sizes and numbers of voxels in respective effective fields of view of a first 3D image based on a plurality of first tomographic images obtained from an arbitrary part of a subject and a second 3D image based on a plurality of second tomographic images obtained from the same part, thereby creating a first normalized 3D image corresponding to the first 3D image and a second normalized 3D image corresponding to the second 3D image; and (b) a fused image creation step of creating a fused image, using the first normalized 3D image and the second normalized 3D image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Nihon Medi-Physics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Hamada, Kazuhiro Nishikawa
  • Patent number: D667380
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Kito Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumitsu Ishikawa, Tetsu Hiroshima, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Shigeo Terai