Patents by Inventor Keita Hirai

Keita Hirai 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).

  • Publication number: 20240125561
    Abstract: A cooling device includes: a container in which a refrigerant is sealed; an evaporating part that evaporates the refrigerant in a liquid phase by heat reception inside the container; a condensing part that condenses the refrigerant in a gas phase by heat dissipation inside the container; and a plate-shaped or block-shaped flow path member in which a plurality of flow paths configured to transport the refrigerant in a liquid phase from the condensing part to the evaporating part by surface tension inside the container is formed in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kento OHGA, Hideo KUBO, Kenji SASABE, Masahide KODAMA, Atsushi ENDO, Keita HIRAI, Nobumitsu AOKI, Takashi URAI
  • Patent number: 11892246
    Abstract: A cooling device includes: a container in which a refrigerant is sealed; an evaporating part that evaporates the refrigerant in a liquid phase by heat reception inside the container; a condensing part that condenses the refrigerant in a gas phase by heat dissipation inside the container; and a plate-shaped or block-shaped flow path member in which a plurality of flow paths configured to transport the refrigerant in a liquid phase from the condensing part to the evaporating part by surface tension inside the container is formed in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kento Ohga, Hideo Kubo, Kenji Sasabe, Masahide Kodama, Atsushi Endo, Keita Hirai, Nobumitsu Aoki, Takashi Urai
  • Publication number: 20240032251
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a container in which refrigerant is sealed. The container includes; a heat reception plate that forms part of the container and that receives heat from a heat generating element; an evaporator that causes the refrigerant in a liquid phase to evaporate with heat reception in the container; a condenser that causes the refrigerant in a gas phase to condense with heat dissipation in the container; and a plurality of recessed portions formed in a surface of the heat reception plate inside the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hideo Kubo, Atsushi Endo, Masahide Kodama, Nobumitsu Aoki, Kenji Sasabe, Keita Hirai, Yuki Kanai, Toru Kobayashi, Hiroshi Satou, Takashi Urai, Hiromasa Miyata
  • Publication number: 20240002566
    Abstract: An optical member and a method for producing this optical member are provided. The optical member is composed of an injection molded article. The injection molded article includes a glutarimide resin that contains a glutarimide unit having an imidocarbonyl group provided by the imidization of a carbonyl group deriving from (meth)acrylate ester monomer, a repeat unit deriving from (meth)acrylate ester monomer, and a repeat unit deriving from aromatic vinyl monomer. The glutarimide resin has an orientation birefringence of ?0.5×10?3 to 0.5×10?3, a photoelastic constant of ?3.0×10?12 Pa?1 to 3.0×10?12 Pa?1, and a glass transition temperature of at least 125° C. The average value of the phase difference of the optical member is not more than 20 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki Ezaki, Kazunori Saegusa, Keisuke Hatano, Keita Hirai, Riru Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20230320029
    Abstract: A liquid cooling module includes a heat-receiver, an inlet-passage in which a flow-path through which the liquid-refrigerant flowed from an inlet flows is formed, a first flow-passage in which the flow-path continues from the inlet-passage, and that is formed as spreading in a fan-like shape as viewed in a normal-direction of a heat-receiving-surface, a second flow-passage in which the flow-path continues from the first flow-passage, and that is formed toward the heat-receiver in the normal-direction, a diffuser in which grooves that continue from the second flow-passage in the heat-receiver and diffuses the liquid-refrigerant along a surface on an opposite side of the heat-receiving-surface is formed, a third flow-passage in which the flow-path continues from the grooves, and that is formed in the normal-direction and a direction in which the flow-path is separating from the heat-receiver, and an outlet-passage in which the flow-path continues from the third flow-passage to an outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Yuki Kanai, Kenji Sasabe, Keita Hirai, Hideo Kubo, Atsushi Endo, Masahide Kodama, Takashi Urai
  • Publication number: 20230295358
    Abstract: A glutarimide resin contains repeating units of formula (1), wherein R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms; repeating units of formula (2), wherein R3 and R4 are each independently hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, and repeating units of formula (3), wherein R5 and R6 are each independently hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, and R7 is an alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms, or a substituent containing an aromatic ring having 5 to 15 carbon atoms. The glutarimide resin satisfies the following inequality: 3?M1+M2?20. M1 is the content (mol %) of the repeating units of the formula (1) and M2 is the content (mol %) of the repeating units of the formula (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki Hiiro, Riru Nishikawa, Keita Hirai, Keisuke Hatano
  • Publication number: 20230295362
    Abstract: A glutarimide resin contains repeating units represented by formula (1), formula (2), formula (3) and formula (4). R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, and R3 and R4 are each independently hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms. R5 and R6 are each independently hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, and R7 is an alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms, or a substituent containing an aromatic ring having 5 to 15 carbon atoms. R8 is hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, and R9 is an aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki Hiiro, Riru Nishikawa, Keita Hirai, Keisuke Hatano
  • Publication number: 20230240046
    Abstract: A heat sink comprises a bottom plate and a plurality of fins. The bottom plate is formed in a T-shape of a head portion and a body portion and includes a coupling region in which the body portion is thermally coupled to a heat generation element; and the plurality of fins that are erected at the head portion and the body portion of the bottom plate and extend in a direction from the head portion toward the body portion. With the plurality of fins, a pressure loss of first air which flows through a center portion of the head portion is smaller than a pressure loss of second air which flows through a side portion of the head portion in a case where air flows between the plurality of fins along the direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kenji Sasabe, Hideo Kubo, Keita Hirai, Atsushi Endo, Masahide Kodama, Nobumitsu Aoki, Yuki Kanai, Takashi Urai
  • Patent number: 11685158
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a supply manifold, a return manifold, a plurality of individual channels, and a connecting throttle channel. The supply manifold includes a supply port through which liquid is supplied from an exterior. The return manifold includes a return port through which liquid is discharged to the exterior. Each individual channel is connected, at an upstream end thereof, to the supply manifold and, at a downstream end thereof, to the return manifold. Each individual channel communicates with a corresponding one of nozzles and includes an individual throttle channel Through the connecting throttle channel, adjacent ones of the individual throttle channels communicate with each other. The connecting throttle channel has a channel resistance less than or equal to a channel resistance of each individual throttle channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keita Hirai, Shohei Koide, Keita Sugiura, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Patent number: 11673389
    Abstract: There is provide a liquid discharge head including: a supply manifold; a feedback manifold; and a plurality of individual flow channels having: a supply portion, a descender portion, and a feedback portion. The supply manifold has a plurality of supply ports, and the feedback manifold has a plurality of feedback ports. At least part of the supply manifold overlaps with the feedback manifold in the second direction. The plurality of pressure chambers have first pressure chambers forming a first pressure chamber array and second pressure chambers forming a second pressure chamber array. The first pressure chamber array is arranged at one side, of the supply manifold, in a third direction and the second pressure chamber array is arranged at the other side, of the supply manifold, in the third direction. The first pressure chamber array and the second pressure chamber array are connected to the supply manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shohei Koide, Keita Hirai, Keita Sugiura, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Patent number: 11642834
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for manufacturing a colored product, where using inkjet heads which are a plurality of color ink heads, and an inkjet head, which is a colorless ink head, a plurality of coloring regions are formed in an overlapping manner in a normal direction, a surface side colored region, which is a region located closest to the surface of the colored product is formed using at least the color ink ejected from any of the inkjet heads, and an inner colored region, which is a region located farther from the surface of the colored product than the surface side colored region is formed using at least the color ink ejected from any of the inkjet heads and the colorless ink ejected from the inkjet head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignees: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wataru Arai, Kunio Hakkaku, Norimichi Tsumura, Keita Hirai, Junki Yoshii
  • Patent number: 11618256
    Abstract: In a liquid ejection head, an ejection pressure is applied to a pressure chamber for liquid ejection from a nozzle. A descender extends in a first direction and includes a first end connected to the pressure chamber and a second end. A communication passage is connected to the second end, extends in a second direction crossing the first direction, and has a first dimension in the first direction. The nozzle is positioned at the communication passage such that a shortest distance between an outer periphery thereof and a center of the second end is greater than 0.5 times a second dimension of the second end in the second direction. When viewed in the first direction, the center of the second end and a center of a cross-section defined by the nozzle to be orthogonal to an extending direction of the nozzle intersect an axis of the communication passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jiro Yamamoto, Shohei Koide, Keita Hirai, Keita Sugiura, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Patent number: 11573538
    Abstract: A layer configuration prediction method is provided and includes: a specimen production step of producing multiple specimens by depositing layers of a material in configurations different from each other; a specimen measurement step of performing, on each specimen, measurement to acquire a texture parameter corresponding to a texture; a learning step of causing a computer to perform machine learning of a relation between each of the specimens and the texture parameter; a setting parameter calculation step of calculating a setting parameter corresponding to the texture set to a computer graphics image; and a layer configuration acquisition step of providing the setting parameter as an input to the computer having been caused to perform the machine learning, and acquiring an output representing the layering pattern of layers of the material corresponding to the setting parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignees: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Norimichi Tsumura, Junki Yoshii, Keita Hirai, Wataru Arai
  • Patent number: 11565522
    Abstract: A head module includes a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric member, a supply manifold, a return manifold, and a damper portion. The pressure chamber is configured to hold liquid therein and in fluid communication with a nozzle orifice. The piezoelectric member is configured to apply pressure to liquid held in the pressure chamber. The supply manifold is in fluid communication with the pressure chamber and configured to allow liquid to flow into the pressure chamber therefrom. The return manifold is in fluid communication with the pressure chamber and configured to allow liquid not ejected from the nozzle orifice to flow thereinto. The damper portion is positioned between the supply manifold and the return manifold when viewed in plan from a nozzle surface of the head module. The nozzle surface has the nozzle orifice defined therein. The damper portion includes a particular plate having a particular recessed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keita Hirai, Shohei Koide, Keita Sugiura, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Publication number: 20220346278
    Abstract: A cooling device includes: a container in which a refrigerant is sealed; an evaporation circuit that evaporates the refrigerant in a liquid phase inside the container by heat reception; a condensation circuit that condenses the refrigerant in a gas phase inside the container by heat radiation; a transport circuit that transports the refrigerant in the liquid phase inside the container to the evaporation circuit by a capillary phenomenon; a heat radiation member that includes fins, and includes a narrow portion that has a width in a direction orthogonal to a flow direction of cooling air that is narrow on a downstream side in the flow direction, and a wide portion that has the width that is wide on an upstream side in the flow direction; and an air guide member that is provided on the downstream side of the wide portion and on the upstream side of the narrow portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masahide KODAMA, Hideo Kubo, KENJI SASABE, Nobumitsu Aoki, ATSUSHI ENDO, Keita Hirai
  • Publication number: 20220322564
    Abstract: A cooling device includes: a downstream heat radiation member that includes a plurality of downstream fins; and an upstream heat radiation member that is arranged on an upstream side in a flow direction of cooling air with a gap from the downstream heat radiation member, includes a plurality of upstream fins, and is provided with a low pressure loss portion in which pressure loss is lower than pressure loss in another portion in one portion in a fin arrangement direction orthogonal to the flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hideo KUBO, Kenji SASABE, Shinnosuke FUJIWARA, Nobumitsu AOKI, Keita HIRAI, Atsushi ENDO, Masahide KODAMA, Kento OHGA
  • Publication number: 20220307772
    Abstract: A cooling device including: a container in which a refrigerant is sealed; a plurality of evaporation structures that evaporate the refrigerant in a liquid phase inside the container by heat reception; a plurality of condensation structures each of which is provided in corresponding one of the plurality of evaporation units and which condenses the refrigerant in a gas phase inside the container by heat radiation; a transport structure that transports the refrigerant in the liquid phase from the condensation units to the evaporation units by surface tension; and a movement portion that communicates the plurality of condensation units such that the refrigerant in the liquid phase is movable between the plurality of condensation structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: KENJI SASABE, Hideo Kubo, Keita Hirai, KENTO OHGA, Masahide KODAMA, ATSUSHI ENDO, Takashi Urai, Nobumitsu Aoki
  • Publication number: 20220299273
    Abstract: A cooling device includes: a container in which a refrigerant is sealed; an evaporating part that evaporates the refrigerant in a liquid phase by heat reception inside the container; a condensing part that condenses the refrigerant in a gas phase by heat dissipation inside the container; and a plate-shaped or block-shaped flow path member in which a plurality of flow paths configured to transport the refrigerant in a liquid phase from the condensing part to the evaporating part by surface tension inside the container is formed in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: KENTO OHGA, Hideo Kubo, KENJI SASABE, Masahide KODAMA, ATSUSHI ENDO, Keita Hirai, Nobumitsu Aoki, Takashi Urai
  • Patent number: 11430755
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a first substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite from the first surface; a second substrate facing the first surface; driven elements provided at the second substrate; a drive circuit facing the second surface; a first interconnect provided at the first surface; a second interconnect provided at the second surface; a through-substrate interconnection part penetrating the first substrate in a thickness direction thereof; a first bump part; and a second bump part. The drive circuit is capable of outputting drive signals for driving the driven elements. The through-substrate interconnection part electrically connects the first interconnect and the second interconnect. The first bump part electrically connects the first interconnect and the driven elements. The second bump part electrically connects the second interconnect and the drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keita Hirai
  • Patent number: 11413868
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including a channel unit including: individual channels aligned in a first direction, and first and second common channels extending in the first direction. Each of the individual channels includes: a nozzle, a pressure chamber, and first and second communicating channels. The channel unit further includes a linking channel linking two pieces of the second communicating channel to each other. Resistance, in one of the two individual channels, from one end of the second communicating channel up to a linking part of the second communicating channel at which the second communicating channel is linked to the linking channel is different from resistance, in the other of the two individual channels, from the one end of the second communicating channel up to the linking part of the second communicating channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katayama, Shohei Koide, Keita Sugiura, Keita Hirai