Patents by Inventor Kazuya Nagao
Kazuya Nagao 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: 20240088435Abstract: A positive electrode material includes a positive electrode active material, a coating layer, and a second solid electrolyte. The coating layer contains a first solid electrolyte and coats at least a portion of a surface of the positive electrode active material. The first solid electrolyte contains Li, M, and X, where M is at least one selected from the group consisting of metalloid elements and metal elements other than Li, and X is at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I. The second solid electrolyte is in indirect contact with the positive electrode active material with the coating layer disposed therebetween. A ratio of a volume of the first solid electrolyte to a total volume of the first solid electrolyte and the second solid electrolyte is greater than or equal to 4% and less than or equal to 60%.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: YUTA SUGIMOTO, KAZUYA HASHIMOTO, AKINOBU MIYAZAKI, KENJI NAGAO, IZURU SASAKI
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Publication number: 20240079570Abstract: A coated active material includes a positive electrode active material and a coating layer coating at least a portion of a surface of the positive electrode active material. The coating layer includes a first coating layer, which contains a first solid electrolyte, and a second coating layer, which contains a base material. The first coating layer is located outside of the second coating layer. The first solid electrolyte contains Li, M, and X, where M is at least one selected from the group consisting of metalloid elements and metal elements other than Li, and X is at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I. A ratio of a specific surface area of the coated active material to a specific surface area of the positive electrode active material coated with the second coating layer is less than or equal to 42%.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: YUTA SUGIMOTO, KAZUYA HASHIMOTO, AKINOBU MIYAZAKI, KENJI NAGAO, IZURU SASAKI
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Publication number: 20240079646Abstract: A coated active material includes a positive electrode active material and a coating layer coating at least a portion of a surface of the positive electrode active material. The coating layer includes a first coating layer and a second coating layer. The first coating layer is located outside of the second coating layer. A percentage of change in specific surface area from a specific surface area of the positive electrode active material coated with the second coating layer to a specific surface area of the coated active material is greater than or equal to ?62.8% and less than or equal to +3.79%.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: KENJI NAGAO, YUTA SUGIMOTO, KAZUYA HASHIMOTO, IZURU SASAKI
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Publication number: 20240079569Abstract: A coated active material including: a positive electrode active material; a second coating layer; and a first coating layer outside the second coating layer, in which a percentage of change from S1 to S2 is ?78.0% or greater and ?15.0% or less and/or a percentage of change from S3 to S4 is ?77.0% or greater and ?12.0% or less, where S1 is a sum of dV/dD over a range of pore diameters of 2 nm to 100 nm of the active material coated with the second coating layer; S2 is a sum of dV/dD over a range of pore diameters of 2 nm to 100 nm of the coated active material; S3 is dV/dD at a pore diameter of 3 nm of the active material coated with the second coating layer; and S4 is dV/dD at a pore diameter of 3 nm of the coated active material.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: KENJI NAGAO, YUTA SUGIMOTO, KAZUYA HASHIMOTO, IZURU SASAKI
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Patent number: 11912612Abstract: The present invention provides a plating film that exhibits good adhesion to glass substrates. The present invention is a plating film comprising an oxide layer, an electroless plating film, and an electrolytic copper plating film in this order.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: OKUNO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES CO., LTD., PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATIONInventors: Mayu Tsukuda, Toshimitsu Nagao, Junichi Katayama, Kazuya Shimada, Masahito Hayamizu, Toshihiko Sakata, Shuhei Fuku, Asuka Hirooka
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Publication number: 20170226378Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an optical semiconductor device, particularly an LED device, and to a silicone resin composition suitable for using in the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventors: Aya Hikita, Qingxu Yang, George Henry Temme, Kevin Becker, Kazuya Nagao
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Publication number: 20150096552Abstract: A linear solar energy collector system includes reflective lines arranged in parallel in a south-north direction, heliostats mounted on the reflective lines, respectively, each comprised of mirror segments to reflect solar radiation, a light receiving line set above the reflective lines in a east-west direction, a receiver mounted on the light receiving line, to receive light reflected from the heliostats and collect heat from the light, and an angular adjuster to adjust angles of the mirror segments individually to irradiate a same light receiving area on the receiver with the reflected light from east-west neighboring reflective lines and thereby adjust a concentration ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2013Publication date: April 9, 2015Inventors: Tatsuya Satoh, Mitsuo Suzuki, Koji Masuda, Takeshi Ueda, Kazuya Nagao, Junichi Kitabayashi, Yutaka Tamaura, Hiroshi Kaneko
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Patent number: 8494427Abstract: A disclosed fixing device applying a bubble-like fixing liquid to resin-containing particles adhered to a medium so that the resin-containing particles are fixed to the medium, the bubble-like fixing liquid being formed by transforming a fixing liquid into foam that dissolves or swells at least a part of the resin, includes a control device that, based on a difference between a moisture content included in the medium after fixing and a target value of the moisture content, adjusts an application amount of the fixing liquid for a next medium.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuya Nagao, Takuma Nakamura, Yuichi Aoyama, Masafumi Yamada, Shunichi Abe, Tetsurou Sasamoto, Takanori Inadome
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Patent number: 8428503Abstract: A disclosed fixing device for fixing resin particles softened by applying a foam fixer thereon to a recording medium includes a foam fixer generator unit to introduce air bubbles into a liquid fixer containing a softener for softening the resin particles by dissolving or swelling a part of the resin particles to generate the foam fixer, a fixer application member to be brought into contact with a facing member facing the fixer application member to form an application nip and transfer the generated foam fixer to the application nip by moving its surface while carrying the foam fixer to apply the foam fixer to a surface of the recording medium carrying the resin particles at the application nip, and a foam accumulation detector unit to detect a foam accumulation formed of the foam fixer accumulated at an entrance side of the application nip.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tetsurou Sasamoto, Takuma Nakamura, Masafumi Yamada, Yuichi Aoyama, Takanori Inadome, Kazuya Nagao, Shunichi Abe
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Patent number: 8351830Abstract: A belt conveying device includes an endless belt stretched by a plurality of rollers; a drive unit that is connected to one of the plurality of rollers and drives the roller; a plurality of belt velocity detectors that are arranged at a plurality of locations along a belt width direction perpendicular to a moving direction of the endless belt and detect conveyance velocities of the endless belt; and a belt-inclination calculating unit that calculates an inclination of the endless belt in the moving direction from a difference between conveyance velocities of the endless belt detected by the plurality of belt velocity detectors.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Koichi Kudo, Hideaki Kibune, Takuro Kamiya, Junya Takigawa, Hiroaki Takagi, Yuichi Hirose, Kazuya Nagao, Toshihiro Okamoto
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Publication number: 20120301193Abstract: A fixing device for applying a foam fixing agent to particles including resin resting on a medium to fix the particles including resin onto the medium. The foam fixing agent includes a softener for softening the particles including resin by dissolving or swelling at least part of the resin. The fixing device includes a first foam fixing agent generating unit that generates a first foam fixing agent from a fixing agent; a second foam fixing agent generating unit that generates a second foam fixing agent from the fixing agent, the second foam fixing agent having a lower density than the first foam fixing agent; and a foam application member on which a first film formed with the first foam fixing agent and a second film formed with the second foam fixing agent are formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Inventors: Takanori Inadome, Takuma Nakamura, Yuichi Aoyama, Shunichi Abe, Tetsurou Sasamoto, Masafumi Yamada, Kazuya Nagao
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Publication number: 20110275015Abstract: A disclosed fixing device applying a bubble-like fixing liquid to resin-containing particles adhered to a medium so that the resin-containing particles are fixed to the medium, the bubble-like fixing liquid being formed by transforming a fixing liquid into foam that dissolves or swells at least a part of the resin, includes a control device that, based on a difference between a moisture content included in the medium after fixing and a target value of the moisture content, adjusts an application amount of the fixing liquid for a next medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2011Publication date: November 10, 2011Inventors: Kazuya NAGAO, Takuma Nakamura, Yuichi Aoyama, Masafumi Yamada, Shunichi Abe, Tetsurou Sasamoto, Takanori Inadome
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Publication number: 20110217099Abstract: A disclosed fixing device for fixing resin particles softened by applying a foam fixer thereon to a recording medium includes a foam fixer generator unit to introduce air bubbles into a liquid fixer containing a softener for softening the resin particles by dissolving or swelling a part of the resin particles to generate the foam fixer, a fixer application member to be brought into contact with a facing member facing the fixer application member to form an application nip and transfer the generated foam fixer to the application nip by moving its surface while carrying the foam fixer to apply the foam fixer to a surface of the recording medium carrying the resin particles at the application nip, and a foam accumulation detector unit to detect a foam accumulation formed of the foam fixer accumulated at an entrance side of the application nip.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2011Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tetsurou Sasamoto, Takuma Nakamura, Masafumi Yamada, Yuichi Aoyama, Takanori Inadome, Kazuya Nagao, Shunichi Abe
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Publication number: 20100232819Abstract: A belt conveying device includes an endless belt stretched by a plurality of rollers; a drive unit that is connected to one of the plurality of rollers and drives the roller; a plurality of belt velocity detectors that are arranged at a plurality of locations along a belt width direction perpendicular to a moving direction of the endless belt and detect conveyance velocities of the endless belt; and a belt-inclination calculating unit that calculates an inclination of the endless belt in the moving direction from a difference between conveyance velocities of the endless belt detected by the plurality of belt velocity detectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2010Publication date: September 16, 2010Inventors: Koichi Kudo, Hideaki Kibune, Takuro Kamiya, Junya Takigawa, Hiroaki Takagi, Yuichi Hirose, Kazuya Nagao, Toshihiro Okamoto
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Patent number: 6174639Abstract: Disclosed are a positive charging color toner comprising a coloring agent and a positive charging electric charge controlling material in a fixing resin, wherein the fixing rein is an urethane-modified polyester resin having an acid value of not more than 5 KOHmg/g, a hydroxyl value of not more than 9 KOHmg/g, a weight-average molecular weight of 8,000 to 120,000 and a number-average molecular weight of 2,000 to 70,000, and the positive charging electric charge controlling material is (a) a quaternary ammonium salt having a melting point of not less than 200° C., or (b) a styrene-acrylate copolymer having a trisubstituted amminio group and a glass transition temperature Tg of not less than 55° C.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2000Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignee: Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitake Shimizu, Takahiro Ishihara, Hiroshi Shimoyama, Toyotsune Inoue, Takashi Nishino, Kazuya Nagao, Kenshi Matsui, Takayuki Itakura, Norio Horikami
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Patent number: 6171519Abstract: A ferroelectric liquid crystal mixture having a negative value of &Dgr;e and allowing a high speed response and a low voltage driving, as well as a liquid crystal display devise using the crystal mixture of the invention. The ferroelectric liquid crystal mixture according to the invention comprises two or more compounds from at least two different of the following classes of compounds: A. thiadiazoles, B. phenanthrenes, C. 2-fluoropyridines, D. difluorobenzenes, E. meta-substituted aromatic compounds.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1998Date of Patent: January 9, 2001Assignee: Hoechst Research & Technology Deutschland GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Toshiaki Nonaka, Ayako Takeichi, Li Ji, Kazuya Nagao, Rainer Wingen, Javier Manero, Barbara Hornung, Wolfgang Schmidt
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Patent number: 6096467Abstract: Disclosed are a positive charging color toner comprising a coloring agent and a positive charging electric charge controlling material in a fixing resin, wherein the fixing rein is an urethane-modified polyester resin having an acid value of not more than 5 KOHmg/g, a hydroxyl value of not more than 9 KOHmg/g, a weight-average molecular weight of 8,000 to 120,000 and a number-average molecular weight of 2,000 to 70,000, and the positive charging electric charge controlling material is (a) a quaternary ammonium salt having a melting point of not less than 200.degree. C., or (b) a styrene-acrylate copolymer having a trisubstituted amminio group and a glass transition temperature Tg of not less than 55.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1998Date of Patent: August 1, 2000Assignee: Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitake Shimizu, Takahiro Ishihara, Hiroshi Shimoyama, Toyotsune Inoue, Takashi Nishino, Kazuya Nagao, Kenshi Matsui, Takayuki Itakura, Norio Horikami
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Patent number: 5882843Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition is disclosed.The photosensitive resin composition is characterized by containing (a) a reaction product of a polymer having a specific segment with (3,4-epoxycylohexyl)-methyl methacrylate, (b) a polymerization initiator allowing the initiation of the polymerization of said reaction product when irradiated with an actinic radiation, and (c) a solvent. Preferably, the composition further contains (d) a thermal crosslinker, a compound having a polymerizable unsaturated bond and/or a pigment in addition to the above ingredients.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1995Date of Patent: March 16, 1999Assignee: Hoechst Japan LimitedInventors: Takanori Kudo, Yuko Nozaki, Kazuya Nagao, Yuki Nanjo
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Patent number: 5876628Abstract: Ferroelectric liquid crystal mixtures containing compounds of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is, for example, a straight-chain or branched alkyl radical having 1 to 22 carbon atoms, in which one --CH.sub.2 -- group may be replaced by --O-- or --CO--O--.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1995Date of Patent: March 2, 1999Assignee: Hoechst AktiengesellschaftInventors: Gerhard Illian, Hubert Schlosser, Ingrid Muller, Thoshiaki Nonaka, Kazuya Nagao, Ayako Takeichi, Hidenori Fujiwara, Rainer Wingen
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Patent number: 5859680Abstract: A process for the stabilization of the spatial alignment of the smectic layers in an FLC switching and/or display element, in which the original position of the smectic layers has been modified by electrical field treatment, which comprises alternately switching the elements during non-operation and/or when a certain temperature is exceeded which is above a predetermined temperature range which includes the operating temperature region and/or when the temperature falls below a certain temperature which is below a predetermined temperature range which includes the operating temperature region. Use of the process according to the invention ensures long-term functioning of the switching and display device, even in the case of repeated regeneration of the quasi-bookshelf geometry, and prevents worsening in the contrast and brightness and the occurrence of ghost images.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 1995Date of Patent: January 12, 1999Assignee: Hoechst AktiengesellschaftInventors: Dietmar Jungbauer, Heinz-Joachim Rieger, Claus Escher, Gerhard Illian, Kazuya Nagao, Mikio Murakami, Tsuyoshi Uemura, Hiroyuki Ohnishi, Shozo Fujiwara