Patents by Inventor Kazuo Imai
Kazuo Imai 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: 20050208709Abstract: A squeegee is slid over a metal mask plate so as to fill a sealing resin in a resin inflow space through a through hole, and the sealing resin, deposited on an outer surface of an electronic part that includes a vibrating part, is thermally set. A through hole that corresponds to an electronic part is formed in metal mask plate. The through hole includes a lower smaller through hole and an upper larger through hole communicating with an upper side of the lower smaller through hole, and a step portion is formed within the through hole. And a relief recess is provided in a region of a metal mask plate including at least a projected region in which an operating area is projected onto a surface of the metal mask plate opposing the touch panel in a state in which the metal mask plate covers the touch panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2005Publication date: September 22, 2005Applicant: SMK CorporationInventors: Kazuo Imai, Isamu Saito, Yoshiaki Yamaguchi, Naomi Nakayama
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Publication number: 20050174336Abstract: A pair of piezoelectric substrates, the length of which is shorter than the length of one side in the longitudinal direction of the operation panel or the supporting board, is respectively fixed to one side from the diagonal position along the longitudinal direction. At the time of detecting an inputting operation, a drive voltage is applied and the entire operation panel or the supporting board is vibrated. Even when the four corners of the operation panel or the supporting board are supported by the housing for accommodating the tablet apparatus or supported by the display device so that the vibration of the four corners is restricted, since either of the pair of piezoelectric substrates, which becomes a vibration source, a feeling of inputting operation can be transmitted to an operator by the vibration, the amplitude of which is not less than a predetermined value, irrespective of the inputting operation position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2005Publication date: August 11, 2005Applicant: SMK CorporationInventors: Naomi Nakayama, Kazuo Imai, Yoshiaki Yamaguchi, Isamu Saito
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Publication number: 20050050178Abstract: In a multi-computer system having a plurality of computers, an input/output device configuration definition table and an input/output device configuration reference table are adapted to be collectively managed. A configuration management program manages the configuration definition of all input/output devices of a plurality of computers by using the input/output device configuration definition table, and generates a changed data file when an input/output device configuration is changed. Dynamic system alteration is effected by changing the contents of the input/output device configuration reference table stored in a shared memory, in accordance with the changed data file. The input/output device configuration definition table and the input/output device configuration reference table each have an input/output device information part and an input/output device connection information part arranged in a matrix form to allow addition/deletion of an input/output device and a computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2004Publication date: March 3, 2005Inventors: Toshio Yamaguchi, Kazuo Imai, Masatoshi Maraguchi
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Patent number: 6826604Abstract: In a multi-computer system having a plurality of computers, an input/output device configuration definition table and an input/output device configuration reference table are adapted to be collectively managed. A configuration management program manages the configuration definition of all input/output devices of a plurality of computers by using the input/output device configuration definition table, and generates a changed data file when an input/output device configuration is changed. Dynamic system alteration is effected by changing the contents of the input/output device configuration reference table stored in a shared memory, in accordance with the changed data file. The input/output device configuration definition table and the input/output device configuration reference table each have an input/output device information part and an input/output device connection information part arranged in a matrix form to allow addition/deletion of an input/output device and a computer.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2003Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Yamaguchi, Kazuo Imai, Masatoshi Haraguchi
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Publication number: 20040061688Abstract: A touch panel of the present invention in which a piezoelectric substrate is fixed to a movable plate or a supporting substrate has a reduced weight, size, and thickness by providing simpler wiring. The touch panel comprises: a movable plate having an input manipulation surface; a supporting substrate, disposed with a slight insulation gap from the movable plate, for supporting the movable plate from a back surface thereof; conductive layers on the movable plate and the supporting substrate on their respective opposing surfaces; and a piezoelectric substrate fixed to the movable plate or the supporting substrate. A pair of driving electrodes on the piezoelectric substrate are fixed to respective opposing surfaces of the piezoelectric substrate. A conductive layer electrode of the movable plate, a conductive layer electrode of the supporting substrate, and the pair of driving electrodes of the piezoelectric substrate are withdrawn integrally using a single connector tail.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2003Publication date: April 1, 2004Applicant: SMK CORPORATIONInventors: Naomi Nakayama, Takehiro Egami, Kazuo Imai, Takeshi Yago
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Publication number: 20040059682Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic-commerce assisting method capable of smoothly and securely conducting electronic commerce on a communication network, and to an electronic-commerce assisting server for realizing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2003Publication date: March 25, 2004Inventors: Yoshitsugu Hasumi, Takashi Kawashima, Kazuo Imai, Hirofumi Hayaashi
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Publication number: 20030105843Abstract: In a multi-computer system having a plurality of computers, an input/output device configuration definition table and an input/output device configuration reference table are adapted to be collectively managed. A configuration management program manages the configuration definition of all input/output devices of a plurality of computers by using the input/output device configuration definition table, and generates a changed data file when an input/output device configuration is changed. Dynamic system alteration is effected by changing the contents of the input/output device configuration reference table stored in a shared memory, in accordance with the changed data file. The input/output device configuration definition table and the input/output device configuration reference table each have an input/output device information part and an input/output device connection information part arranged in a matrix form to allow addition/deletion of an input/output device and a computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2003Publication date: June 5, 2003Inventors: Toshio Yamaguchi, Kazuo Imai, Masatoshi Haraguchi
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Patent number: 6526441Abstract: In a multi-computer system having a plurality of computers, an input/output device configuration definition table and an input/output device configuration reference table are adapted to be collectively managed. A configuration management program manages the configuration definition of all input/output devices of a plurality of computers by using the input/output device configuration definition table, and generates a changed data file when an input/output device configuration is changed. Dynamic system alteration is effected by changing the contents of the input/output device configuration reference table stored in a shared memory, in accordance with the changed data file. The input/output device configuration definition table and the input/output device configuration reference table each have an input/output device information part and an input/output device connection information part arranged in a matrix form to allow addition/deletion of an input/output device and a computer.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2001Date of Patent: February 25, 2003Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Yamaguchi, Kazuo Imai, Masatoshi Haraguchi
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Patent number: 6497113Abstract: A bottom-freezer refrigerator comprises a generally rectangular box-like refrigerator housing including a top division and a bottom division with an adiabatic partition wall intervening between the top and bottom divisions. The top division has a refrigerator chamber and a crisper chamber both defined therein. The bottom division has a freezer compartment defined therein. The bottom-freezer refrigerator of the structure described above also comprises a first cooler provided in the top division at a location spaced from a rear wall portion of the crisper chamber, a first circulating fan disposed in the vicinity of the first cooler, a second cooler provided in the bottom division, and a second circulating fan disposed in the vicinity of the second cooler. The refrigerator chamber and the crisper chamber are cooled by the first cooler in cooperation with the first circulating fan, whereas the freezer compartment is cooled by the second cooler in cooperation with the second circulating fan.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2000Date of Patent: December 24, 2002Assignee: Matsushita Refrigeration CompanyInventors: Hiroshi Yamada, Hiroki Hamano, Akira Hyoudou, Yoshito Kimura, Haruhiko Iwai, Toshinori Noda, Kazuo Imai
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Publication number: 20020010766Abstract: In a multi-computer system having a plurality of computers, an input/output device configuration definition table and an input/output device configuration reference table are adapted to be collectively managed. A configuration management program manages the configuration definition of all input/output devices of a plurality of computers by using the input/output device configuration definition table, and generates a changed data file when an input/output device configuration is changed. Dynamic system alteration is effected by changing the contents of the input/output device configuration reference table stored in a shared memory, in accordance with the changed data file. The input/output device configuration definition table and the input/output device configuration reference table each have an input/output device information part and an input/output device connection information part arranged in a matrix form to allow addition/deletion of an input/output device and a computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2001Publication date: January 24, 2002Inventors: Toshio Yamaguchi, Kazuo Imai, Masatoshi Haraguchi
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Patent number: 6340641Abstract: The present invention provides a method of easily planarizing the uneven surface of a substrate having an uneven surface. This method comprises the steps of forming a coating film containing spherical fine particles on a surface of a smooth substrate; sticking the surface of the smooth substrate provided with the coating film containing spherical fine particles to the uneven surface of a substrate having an uneven surface; and transferring the coating film containing spherical fine particles to the uneven surface of the substrate so that the uneven surface is planarized.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 1999Date of Patent: January 22, 2002Assignees: Catalysts & Chemicals Industries Co., Ltd., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Ryo Muraguchi, Akira Nakashima, Atsushi Tonai, Michio Kimatsu, Katsuyuki Machida, Hakaru Kyuragi, Kazuo Imai
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Patent number: 6341308Abstract: In a multi-computer system having a plurality of computers, an input/output device configuration definition table and an input/output device configuration reference table are adapted to be collectively managed. A configuration management program manages the configuration definition of all input/output devices of a plurality of computers by using the input/output device configuration definition table, and generates a changed data file when an input/output device configuration is changed. Dynamic system alteration is effected by changing the contents of the input/output device configuration reference table stored in a shared memory, in accordance with the changed data file. The input/output device configuration definition table and the input/output device configuration reference table each have an input/output device information part and an input/output device connection information part arranged in a matrix form to allow addition/deletion of an input/output device and a computer.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2000Date of Patent: January 22, 2002Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Yamaguchi, Kazuo Imai, Masatoshi Haraguchi
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Patent number: 6115738Abstract: In a multi-computer system having a plurality of computers, an input/output device configuration definition table and an input/output device configuration reference table are adapted to be collectively managed. A configuration management program manages the configuration definition of all input/output devices of a plurality of computers by using the input/output device configuration definition table, and generates a changed data file when an input/output device configuration is changed. Dynamic system alteration is effected by changing the contents of the input/output device configuration reference table stored in a shared memory, in accordance with the changed data file. The input/output device configuration definition table and the input/output device configuration reference table each have an input/output device information part and an input/output device connection information part arranged in a matrix form to allow addition/deletion of an input/output device and a computer.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1997Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Yamaguchi, Kazuo Imai, Masatoshi Haraguchi
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Patent number: 6092578Abstract: A thin film forming apparatus includes a specimen holder on which a substrate for thin film formation is placed, a transfer plate opposing the specimen holder, on which a sheet film having a thin film formed on a surface is placed, a thin film forming chamber comprising the specimen holder and the transfer plate, a pressure unit for moving at least one of the specimen holder and the transfer plate and pressing the specimen holder against the transfer plate for a predetermined time while the substrate and the thin film formed on the sheet film are in contact with each other, a heating unit for heating the substrate at a predetermined temperature, and an exhausting unit for vacuum-exhausting the thin film forming chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 1998Date of Patent: July 25, 2000Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Katsuyuki Machida, Hakaru Kyuragi, Hideo Akiya, Kazuo Imai
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Patent number: 6086699Abstract: Disclosed is a thin film-forming apparatus comprising a coating liquid feed means 6 for feeding a thin film-forming coating liquid onto a surface of a transfer roll 2, a transfer means 4 including the transfer roll 2 a surface of which is coated with the thin film-forming coating liquid fed from the coating liquid feed means to form a transfer thin film 8, and a substrate conveying means 16 for continuously conveying a substrate 9 under the transfer roll, a surface of said substrate 9 to be provided with a thin film, wherein the transfer means is so fabricated that the transfer roll surface having the transfer thin film thereon is closely contacted with the surface of the substrate conveyed by the substrate conveying means, to transfer the transfer thin film formed on the transfer roll surface to the substrate surface. Also disclosed is a thin film-forming method using the thin film-forming apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1998Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignees: Catalysts & Chemicals Industries Co., Ltd., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Akira Nakashima, Atsushi Tonai, Ryo Muraguchi, Michio Komatsu, Katsuyuki Machida, Hakaru Kyuragi, Kazuo Imai
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Patent number: 5972780Abstract: A thin film forming apparatus includes a specimen holder on which a substrate for thin film formation is placed, a transfer plate opposing the specimen holder, on which a sheet film having a thin film formed on a surface is placed, a thin film forming chamber comprising the specimen holder and the transfer plate, a pressure unit for moving at least one of the specimen holder and the transfer plate and pressing the specimen holder against the transfer plate for a predetermined time while the substrate and the thin film formed on the sheet film are in contact with each other, a heating unit for heating the substrate at a predetermined temperature, and an exhausting unit for vacuum-exhausting the thin film forming chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1997Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Assignee: Nippon Telegraph Telephone CorporationInventors: Katsuyuki Machida, Hakaru Kyuragi, Hideo Akiya, Kazuo Imai
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Patent number: 5811872Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an interlevel film constituted by a first dielectrics film containing dangling bonds and a bonded group of Si and hydrogen, and a second dielectrics film formed on the first dielectrics film.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1996Date of Patent: September 22, 1998Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Katsuyuki Machida, Katsumi Murase, Nobuhiro Shimoyama, Toshiaki Tsuchiya, Junichi Takahashi, Kazushige Minegishi, Yasuo Takahashi, Hideo Namatsu, Kazuo Imai
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Patent number: 5717950Abstract: In a multi-computer system having a plurality of computers, an input/output device configuration definition table and an input/output device configuration reference table are adapted to be collectively managed. A configuration management program manages the configuration definition of all input/output devices of a plurality of computers by using the input/output device configuration definition table, and generates a changed data file when an input/output device configuration is changed. Dynamic system alteration is effected by changing the contents of the input/output device configuration reference table stored in a shared memory, in accordance with the changed data file. The input/output device configuration definition table and the input/output device configuration reference table each have an input/output device information part and an input/output device connection information part arranged in a matrix form to allow addition/deletion of an input/output device and a computer.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1995Date of Patent: February 10, 1998Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Yamaguchi, Kazuo Imai, Masatoshi Haraguchi
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Patent number: 5674771Abstract: A structure of a capacitor includes a first metal interconnection layer, a dielectric film, and a second metal interconnection layer. The dielectric film is formed on the first metal interconnection layer. The second metal interconnection layer is formed on the dielectric film. The dielectric film is a dielectric film formed by bias-ECR plasma CVD.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1993Date of Patent: October 7, 1997Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Katsuyuki Machida, Kazuo Imai, Hideo Yoshino, Yoshiharu Ozaki, Kenji Miura
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Patent number: 5625794Abstract: A cache mode selection method and system sets to a cache load inhibit mode a cache mode used for a random access dataset of lower access hit ratio if use ratio of a data transmission path exceeds beyond an upper use ratio limit. It also sets to the cache load inhibit mode the cache mode used by parts of a sequential access dataset. These make it possible to select a proper cache mode depending on state of a load dynamically to prevent an I/O response from decreasing so that the hit ratio can be increased.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1993Date of Patent: April 29, 1997Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Taro Inoue, Hidenori Umeno, Sadasaburo Kanai, Kazuo Imai, Yoshiaki Shinmura