Patents by Inventor Kazuyuki Ito

Kazuyuki Ito 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: 10703862
    Abstract: An aromatic polysulfone composition is provided which includes an aromatic polysulfone and an organic compound having a boiling point no lower than 100° C. and no higher than 400° C. The organic compound is contained in an amount of at least 0.1 ppm and at most 10 mass % relative to the mass of the aromatic polysulfone. The aromatic polysulfone has repeating units expressed by formula (1): -Ph1-SO2-Ph2-O—??(1) In formula (1), Ph1 and Ph2 represent phenylene groups in which one or more hydrogen atoms that bind to the phenylene groups may, independently of each other, be substituted with an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, or a halogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Ito
  • Publication number: 20200207984
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aromatic polysulfone composition including an aromatic polysulfone (P1) and an aromatic polysulfone (P2) different from the aromatic polysulfone (P1), in which the (P1) contains an amino group-containing aromatic polysulfone which has an amino group at a polymer chain terminal and of which a weight-average absolute molecular weight (Mw) is less than 20,000 g/mol, the (P2) substantially consists of a repeating unit represented by General Formula (A) and a glass transition temperature (Tg) of the (P2) is higher than or equal to 222° C., and the weight-average absolute molecular weight (Mw) of the aromatic polysulfone composition is larger than the weight-average absolute molecular weight (Mw) of the amino group-containing aromatic polysulfone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventor: Kazuyuki ITO
  • Publication number: 20200173144
    Abstract: Provided is a wheel loader capable of exhibiting sufficient excavation performance while suppressing slip during excavation. A control device (50) provided on a wheel loader (1) according to the present invention is configured to determine a reduction value (?f?) of traveling drive force based on first vehicle body acceleration (av1) of a vehicle body calculated from acceleration detected by an acceleration sensor (31), second vehicle body acceleration (av2) of the vehicle body calculated from rotational speed of wheels (4, 8) detected by a rotational speed sensor (32), and thrust (ph) of a hydraulic cylinder (11) detected by a thrust sensor (33, 34), and reduce the traveling drive force based on the reduction value and output the reduced traveling drive force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuyuki ITO, Keisuke NAITOU
  • Publication number: 20200165395
    Abstract: A resin film having an aromatic polysulfone as a forming material is provided. The resin film has a thickness of less than 100 ?m, and further contains an organic compound having a boiling point no lower than 250° C. and no higher than 400° C. The organic compound is contained in an amount of at least 500 ppm and at most 4000 ppm relative to the mass of the aromatic polysulfone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: Sumitomo Chemical company, Limited
    Inventors: Yusaku KOHINATA, Kazuyuki ITO
  • Publication number: 20200109238
    Abstract: Aromatic polyester particles which are formed from an aromatic polyester having a flow starting temperature of 400° C. or higher and have a circularity of a projected image of 0.80 or more and 1.00 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuyuki ITO, Tomohiro SATO, Yuzuru SAITOU
  • Publication number: 20200024451
    Abstract: An aromatic polysulfone includes an amino group-containing aromatic polysulfone containing a repeating unit represented by the following general formula (A) and having an amino group at a polymer chain end. The aromatic polysulfone has a weight average absolute molecular weight (Mw) of 20,000 g/mol or more and a reduced viscosity (unit: dL/g) of 0.30 or more. -Ph1-SO2-Ph2-O—??(A) In formula (A), Ph1 and Ph2 are each independently a phenylene group which may have a substituent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventor: Kazuyuki ITO
  • Publication number: 20190348518
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor portion, a gate electrode, a source electrode, a first structure body, and a first insulating portion. The semiconductor portion includes SiC and includes first to third semiconductor regions. The first semiconductor region includes first to third partial regions. The second partial region is provided between the third partial region and the first partial region. The third semiconductor region is provided between the second partial region and the second semiconductor region. The source electrode is electrically connected to the second semiconductor region. The first insulating portion includes a first insulating region and a second insulating region. The first insulating region is provided between the first partial region and the gate electrode. The second insulating region is provided between the second semiconductor region and the first structure body. The first structure body includes at least one of polysilicon or TiN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kazuyuki ITO, Koji TAKAKI, Hidehiko YABUHARA
  • Publication number: 20190317354
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween, columnar spacers having the substantially equal height formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate, and the columnar spacers include the columnar spacer which is contact with a liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate and the columnar spacer which is not contact with the liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Keiichiro ASHIZAWA, Mitsuo NAKATANI, Hiroaki MIWA, Takao TANAKA, Sadafumi HIRAI, Shinichi KAWABE, Makoto SASAKI, Kazuyuki ITO, Masahiro IEDA
  • Publication number: 20190256660
    Abstract: A method for producing an aromatic polysulfone by a polycondensation reaction between an aromatic dihalogenosulfone compound and an aromatic dihydroxy compound is described. The polycondensation reaction is performed in the presence of at least one aromatic end-capping agent; and an amount, p mol, of the aromatic dihalogenosulfone compound, an amount, q mol, of the aromatic dihydroxy compound, and an amount, r mol, of the aromatic end-capping agent have a relationship satisfying formula (S1) below and formula (S2) below: r/(p?q)<2 ??(S1), and p>q ??(S2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventor: Kazuyuki ITO
  • Publication number: 20190248657
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polycrystalline silicon rod whose rod surface portion has a phosphorus concentration of 0.015 ppba or less, in which the ratio (P2/P1) of the phosphorus concentration (P2) of the rod center portion to the phosphorus concentration (P1) of the rod surface portion is within the range of 2 or lower. The present invention also provides a method for producing a polycrystalline silicon rod by the Siemens method that assembles a polycrystalline silicon seed rod in a reactor, then heats the seed rod up to a temperature of 1000° C. or more and less than the melting point of silicon by energization heating, and supplies a raw material gas including trichlorosilane gas and hydrogen gas as the main components to the reactor at the heating temperature to deposit and grow silicon on the seed rod surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Ito
  • Patent number: 10371991
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween, columnar spacers having the substantially equal height formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate, and the columnar spacers include the columnar spacer which is contact with a liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate and the columnar spacer which is not contact with the liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichiro Ashizawa, Mitsuo Nakatani, Hiroaki Miwa, Takao Tanaka, Sadafumi Hirai, Shinichi Kawabe, Makoto Sasaki, Kazuyuki Ito, Masahiro Ieda
  • Publication number: 20190185625
    Abstract: The invention provides an aromatic polysulfone including an aromatic polysulfone having at least one highly polar functional group at its terminus, wherein in the aromatic polysulfone, an area of a signal attributed to the aromatic polysulfone having a highly polar functional group with respect to a total area of all signals attributed to the aromatic polysulfone in a chromatogram obtained by measurement through a gel permeation chromatography method under the following conditions is 0.1% or more and 11% or less, wherein the sample injection volume is 5 ?L, column is “Shodex KF-803” manufactured by Showa Denko K.K., column temperature is 40° C., eluent is N,N-dimethylformamide, eluent flow rate is 0.5 mL/min, detector is ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometer (UV), and detection wavelength is 277 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kazuyuki ITO, Yoshio SHODA
  • Publication number: 20190185626
    Abstract: The invention provides an aromatic polysulfone including an aromatic polysulfone having at least one highly polar functional group at its terminus, wherein in the aromatic polysulfone, an area of a signal attributed to the aromatic polysulfone having a highly polar functional group with respect to a total area of all signals attributed to the aromatic polysulfone in a chromatogram obtained by measurement through a gel permeation chromatography method under the following conditions is 19% or more and 100% or less, wherein sample injection volume is 5 ?L, column is “Shodex KF-803” manufactured by Showa Denko K.K., column temperature is 40° C., eluent is N,N-dimethylformamide, eluent flow rate is 0.5 mL/min, and detector is ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometer (UV).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kazuyuki ITO, Yoshio SHODA
  • Publication number: 20190062506
    Abstract: An aromatic polysulfone composition is provided which includes an aromatic polysulfone and an organic compound having a boiling point no lower than 100° C. and no higher than 400° C. The organic compound is contained in an amount of at least 0.1 ppm and at most 10 mass % relative to the mass of the aromatic polysulfone. The aromatic polysulfone has repeating units expressed by formula (1): -Ph1-SO2-Ph2-O—??(1) In formula (1), Ph1 and Ph2 represent phenylene groups in which one or more hydrogen atoms that bind to the phenylene groups may, independently of each other, be substituted with an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, or a halogen atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventor: Kazuyuki ITO
  • Patent number: 10146175
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a scanner to read an image on an original and an electric box disposed below the scanner and extended horizontally with respect to the scanner. The electric box includes an electric cabinet having a box shape and an electrical device disposed inside the electric cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Ishimitsu, Katsuhiro Hoshi, Takayuki Nishi, Kazuyuki Ito, Yoshihide Ohta, Nobuhiro Shima
  • Publication number: 20180321537
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween, columnar spacers having the substantially equal height formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate, and the columnar spacers include the columnar spacer which is contact with a liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate and the columnar spacer which is not contact with the liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Keiichiro ASHIZAWA, Mitsuo NAKATANI, Hiroaki MIWA, Takao TANAKA, Sadafumi HIRAI, Shinichi KAWABE, Makoto SASAKI, Kazuyuki ITO, Masahiro IEDA
  • Publication number: 20180298208
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a resin solution composition containing at least one resin selected from the group consisting of aromatic polysulfones, aromatic polyamideimides, aromatic polyetherimides, aromatic polyimides and aromatic polyamic acids, a sulfone-based solvent, and an ester-based solvent, wherein in this resin solution composition, an amount of the resin, relative to the total mass of the resin solution composition, is at least 10% by mass but not more than 50% by mass, and an amount of the ester-based solvent, relative to the total amount of the sulfone-based solvent and the ester-based solvent, is at least 15% by mass but not more than 85% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuyuki ITO, Masanobu MATSUBARA
  • Patent number: 10054826
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween, columnar spacers having the substantially equal height formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate, and the columnar spacers include the columnar spacer which is contact with a liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate and the columnar spacer which is not contact with the liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Pansonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichiro Ashizawa, Mitsuo Nakatani, Hiroaki Miwa, Takao Tanaka, Sadafumi Hirai, Shinichi Kawabe, Makoto Sasaki, Kazuyuki Ito, Masahiro Ieda
  • Patent number: 10038800
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an outer cover, an interior device spaced apart from the outer cover, and an accommodating recess interposed between the outer cover and the interior device. The accommodating recess accommodates an arbitrary part of the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Murakami, Nobuhiro Shima, Yoshihide Ohta, Hiroki Ishimitsu, Kazuyuki Ito, Katsuhiro Hoshi, Takayuki Nishi
  • Patent number: 9880512
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electric wire and an electric box. The electric box extends substantially horizontally and includes a wire connector coupled to the electric wire. A body face exposes the wire connector. An outer cover covers the body face. The outer cover includes a slot and a wire accommodator. The slot is disposed opposite the wire connector to expose the wire connector to an outside of the image forming apparatus. The wire accommodator accommodates the electric wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Shimizu, Hiroki Ishimitsu, Kazuyuki Ito, Takayuki Nishi, Katsuhiro Hoshi, Yoshihide Ohta, Nobuhiro Shima