Patents by Inventor Kazuo Aoki
Kazuo Aoki 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: 20170186923Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, the light emitting device includes an LED element, a side wall which surrounds the LED element, a phosphor layer which is fixed to the side wall with an adhesive layer therebetween, and is positioned above the LED element, and a metal pad as a heat dissipating member. The side wall includes an insulating base which surrounds the LED element and a metal layer which is formed on a side surface at the LED element side of the base, and is in contact with the metal pad and the adhesive layer. The adhesive layer includes a resin layer that includes a resin containing particles which have higher thermal conductivity than the resin or a layer that includes solder.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2017Publication date: June 29, 2017Applicants: KOHA CO., LTD., TAMURA CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Daisuke INOMATA, Hiroaki SANO, Seitaro YOSHIDA, Kazuo AOKI, Kiyoshi SHIMAMURA, Encarnacion Antonia GARCIA VILLORA
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Publication number: 20170179346Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element to emit a bluish light, and a yellowish phosphor to absorb the light emitted by the light-emitting element and produce a yellowish fluorescence. The yellowish phosphor comprises a single crystal phosphor comprising a composition represented by a compositional formula (Y1-a-bLuaCeb)3+cAl5-cO12 (where 0?a?0.9994, 0.001?b?0.0067, ?0.016?c?0.315. Commission International de l'Eclairage (CIE) chromaticity coordinates x and y of an emission spectrum obtained by using CIE 1931 color-matching function to satisfy a relationship of ?0.4377x+0.7384?y??0.4377x+0.7504 when a peak wavelength of excitation light is 450 nm and temperature is 25° C. The single crystal phosphor is disposed off of the light-emitting element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2017Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Daisuke INOMATA, Yusuke ARAI, Hiroaki SANO, Kazuo AOKI, Kiyoshi SHIMAMURA, Encarnacion Antonia GARCIA VILLORA
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Patent number: 9634216Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, the light emitting device includes an LED element, a side wall which surrounds the LED element, a phosphor layer which is fixed to the side wall with an adhesive layer therebetween, and is positioned above the LED element, and a metal pad as a heat dissipating member. The side wall includes an insulating base which surrounds the LED element and a metal layer which is formed on a side surface at the LED element side of the base, and is in contact with the metal pad and the adhesive layer. The adhesive layer includes a resin layer that includes a resin containing particles which have higher thermal conductivity than the resin or a layer that includes solder.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2014Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignees: Koha Co., Ltd., Tamura Corporation, National Institute for Materials ScienceInventors: Daisuke Inomata, Hiroaki Sano, Seitaro Yoshida, Kazuo Aoki, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora
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Patent number: 9571026Abstract: An inverter apparatus that includes an inverter that is interposed between an AC rotary electric machine and both a DC power supply and a smoothing capacitor and that includes a plurality of switching elements; a controller that controls driving of the plurality of switching elements; and a current sensor that detects a current flowing through a wire connecting the DC power supply and the inverter together, wherein the controller determines whether or not to stop driving of all of the plurality of switching elements based on the current detected by the current sensor while the AC rotary electric machine is caused to perform a regenerative operation of generating power.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiromichi Agata, Kazuo Aoki, Yasushi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20160240748Abstract: As one of purposes, the present invention provides: a single-crystal phosphor which can exhibit excellent properties under high-temperature conditions; and a light-emitting device in which the phosphor is used. As one embodiment, a single-crystal phosphor is provided, which has a chemical composition represented by the compositional formula: (Y1-x-y-zLuxGdyCez)3+aAl5-aO12(0?x?0.9994, 0?y?0.0669, 0.0002?z?0.0067, ?0.016?a?0.315).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2014Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicants: KOHA CO., LTD., NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Daisuke Inomata, Kazuo Aoki, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora
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Publication number: 20160190418Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, the light emitting device includes an LED element, a side wall which surrounds the LED element, a phosphor layer which is fixed to the side wall with an adhesive layer therebetween, and is positioned above the LED element, and a metal pad as a heat dissipating member. The side wall includes an insulating base which surrounds the LED element and a metal layer which is formed on a side surface at the LED element side of the base, and is in contact with the metal pad and the adhesive layer. The adhesive layer includes a resin layer that includes a resin containing particles which have higher thermal conductivity than the resin or a layer that includes solder.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2014Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicants: KOHA CO., LTD., TAMURA CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Daisuke INOMATA, Hiroaki SANO, Seitaro YOSHIDA, Kazuo AOKI, Kiyoshi SHIMAMURA, Encarnacion Antonia GARCIA VILLORA
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Patent number: 9358870Abstract: The overall outer shape of a vehicle drive device including an inverter device is reduced in size. An input member and a rotating electrical machine are arranged side by side on a first axis, and a differential gear unit is placed on a second axis. An inverter device is located so as to overlap the differential gear unit as viewed in a radial direction, and is located between a second reference line that extends perpendicularly to a first reference line passing through the first axis and the second axis and that passes through the first axis and a third reference line that extends perpendicularly to the first reference line and that passes the second axis, as viewed in an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Yutaka Hotta, Tatsuyuki Uechi, Hiromichi Agata, Kazuo Aoki, Tatsuya Kondo, Manabu Miyazawa
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Publication number: 20160134221Abstract: An inverter apparatus that includes an inverter that is interposed between an AC rotary electric machine and both a DC power supply and a smoothing capacitor and that includes a plurality of switching elements; a controller that controls driving of the plurality of switching elements; and a current sensor that detects a current flowing through a wire connecting the DC power supply and the inverter together, wherein the controller determines whether or not to stop driving of all of the plurality of switching elements based on the current detected by the current sensor while the AC rotary electric machine is caused to perform a regenerative operation of generating power.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2014Publication date: May 12, 2016Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiromichi Agata, Kazuo Aoki, Yasushi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20160043289Abstract: Provided are a YAG-based single crystal phosphor which produces fluorescence in an unconventional color and a phosphor-containing member and a light emitting device including the single crystal phosphor. Provided is a single crystal phosphor which includes a composition represented by composition formula (Y1?a?bLuaCeb)3+cAl5?cO12 (wherein 0?a?0.9994, 0.0002?b?0.0067 and ?0.016?c?0.315), and in which CIE chromaticity coordinates x and y of an emission spectrum satisfy a relationship of ?0.4377x+0.7384?y??0.4585x+0.7504 when a peak wavelength of excitation light is 450 nm and temperature is 25° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2014Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicant: National Institute for Materials ScienceInventors: Daisuke INOMATA, Yusuke ARAI, Hiroaki SANO, Kazuo AOKI, Kiyoshi SHIMAMURA, Encarnacion Antonia GARCIA VILLORA
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Patent number: 9245012Abstract: An information classification system includes a server including a knowledge base that receives classification information to be classified, conducts language analysis of the classification information to acquire and classify a plurality of keywords into elements made up of a classification target word and a related word that modifies the classification target word, and conducts a search with the related word, so as to assign a classification identification value to the information; a classification candidate extraction section that extracts the classification identification value that the knowledge base assigns to generate an automatic classification result; and a classification update section that receives the automatic classification result and corrects registered items in the knowledge base with a correction value received through a GUI for classification confirmation while referring to log data that is a processing history about automatic classification for the language analysis and the element classificType: GrantFiled: April 2, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Daisuke Maruyama, Kazuo Aoki, Takehiko Ishii
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Publication number: 20150251531Abstract: The overall outer shape of a vehicle drive device including an inverter device is reduced in size. An input member and a rotating electrical machine are arranged side by side on a first axis, and a differential gear unit is placed on a second axis. An inverter device is located so as to overlap the differential gear unit as viewed in a radial direction, and is located between a second reference line that extends perpendicularly to a first reference line passing through the first axis and the second axis and that passes through the first axis and a third reference line that extends perpendicularly to the first reference line and that passes the second axis, as viewed in an axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2013Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventors: Yutaka Hotta, Tatsuyuki Uechi, Hiromichi Agata, Kazuo Aoki, Tatsuya Kondo, Manabu Miyazawa
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Patent number: 9117974Abstract: A light emitting element that includes a Ga2O3 substrate; an AlxGa1-xN buffer layer (0?×?1) formed on the Ga2O3 substrate; an n-GaN layer formed on the AlxGa1-xN buffer layer; an p-GaN layer formed on a portion of the n-GaN layer; an n-electrode formed on a portion of the n-GaN layer; and an p-electrode formed on the p-GaN layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: KOHA CO., LTD.Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Yukio Kaneko, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora, Kazuo Aoki
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Patent number: 9112123Abstract: [Problem] To provide a light-emitting device which does not undergo the deterioration in luminous efficiency associated with the long-term use. [Solution] A light-emitting device (1) comprises a light-emitting element (10) which can emit blue light and a phosphor (2) which is composed of a single kind of single crystal and can emit yellow light upon the irradiation with the light emitted from the light-emitting element (10) which serves as excitation light. Thus, it becomes possible to prevent the deterioration in luminous efficiency associated with the deterioration in a binder or the like compared with a light-emitting device which utilizes multiple kinds of granular phosphors, because any binder for binding phosphors to each other is not required in the light-emitting device (1).Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2011Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Kazuo Aoki, Makoto Watanabe, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Villora Encarnacion Antonia Garcia
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Publication number: 20150083967Abstract: A phosphor (and a method for manufacturing the same, and a light-emitting device that uses this phosphor) includes single crystals including YAG crystals as a mother crystal, the quantum efficiency of the phosphor at 25° C. being 92% or higher at an excitation light wavelength of 460 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: Makoto Watanabe, Daisuke Inomata, Kazuo Aoki, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora
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Publication number: 20140306237Abstract: A light emitting element that includes a Ga2O3 substrate; an AlxGa1?xN buffer layer (0?×?1) formed on the Ga2O3 substrate; an n-GaN layer formed on the AlxGa1?xN buffer layer; an p-GaN layer formed on a portion of the n-GaN layer; an n-electrode formed on a portion of the n-GaN layer; and an p-electrode formed on the p-GaN layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Yukio Kaneko, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora, Kazuo Aoki
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Patent number: 8826053Abstract: An engine processor program, stored in a non-volatile storage region 37 of a storage section 35 connected to a host processor 31 of a host section 30, for execution in an engine processor 41 of an engine section 40, is transmitted from the host section 30 to the engine section 40. The engine processor program received by the engine section 40 is stored in a volatile storage section 42 connected to an engine processor 51. Then, the host section 30 notifies an execution instruction for a specified program, among the engine processor programs stored in the storage section 42, to the engine section 40 and causes execution on the engine processor 41. As a result, even in a structure provided, the engine section 40 does not need a large capacity non-volatile storage region, thereby configuring a compact mobile communication terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2006Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Vodafone Group PLCInventors: Masahiko Kuwabara, Kazuo Aoki, Toshiro Matsumura
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Patent number: 8791466Abstract: A light emitting element has a substrate of gallium oxides and a pn-junction formed on the substrate. The substrate is of gallium oxides represented by: (AlXInYGa(1-X-Y))2O3 where 0?x?1, 0?y?1 and 0?x+y?1. The pn-junction has first conductivity type substrate, and GaN system compound semiconductor thin film of second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Koha Co., Ltd.Inventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Yukio Kaneko, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora, Kazuo Aoki
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Patent number: 8787893Abstract: A wireless communication processing decision unit 33 acquires, from a wireless communication specific information storage unit 52, wireless communication specific information which specifies regions in which utilization of its frequency bandwidth is permitted by law. Next, registered position information which specifies the region in which this mobile communication terminal is position registered is acquired from a registered position information storage unit 34. Next, if the region specified by the registered position information is included in the regions shown by the wireless communication specific information, then the wireless communication processing decision unit 33 makes a decision to the effect that communication is possible, and notifies a communication processing unit 53 of this permission of communication. Upon receipt of this communication permission, the communication processing unit 53 starts communication processing.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2011Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Vodafone Group PLCInventors: Kazuo Aoki, Tomonori Aoki
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Patent number: 8747553Abstract: A method of growing a p-type thin film of ?-Ga2O3 includes preparing a substrate including a ?-Ga2O3 single crystal, and growing a p-type thin film of ?-Ga2O3 on the substrate. The p-type thin film is grown in a manner that Ga in the thin film is replaced by a p-type dopant selected from H, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Fr, Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ra, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Pd, Cu, Ag, Au, Zn, Cd, Hg, Tl, and Pb.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Waseda UniversityInventors: Noboru Ichinose, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Kazuo Aoki, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora
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Patent number: 8710666Abstract: A semiconductor device which can prevent a deterioration in the electrical properties by preventing sputters generated by laser welding from adhering to a circuit pattern or a semiconductor chip and a method for fabricating such a semiconductor device are provided. A connection conductor is bonded to a copper foil formed over a ceramic by a solder and resin is injected to a level lower than a top of the connection conductor. Laser welding is then performed. After that, resin is injected. This prevents sputters generated by the laser welding from adhering to a circuit pattern or a semiconductor chip. As a result, a deterioration in the electrical properties can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2010Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignees: Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junji Tsuruoka, Kazuo Aoki, Masaki Ono, Katsuhiko Yoshihara