Patents by Inventor Kenichi Oba
Kenichi Oba 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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Patent number: 10902830Abstract: A signal supply device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a generator configured to generate a first sound signal and a second sound signal in accordance with an instruction signal corresponding to an operation input to an operation body and an adjuster configured to calculate an acceleration of the operation body in accordance with the instruction signal and to adjust a relationship between the first sound signal and the second sound signal on the basis of the acceleration.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Nishida, Yasuhiko Oba, Akihiko Komatsu, Michiko Tanoue
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Patent number: 10865881Abstract: A gasket is provided which is configured so that a gasket body is easily separated from a carrier film and the positional shift of the gasket body in stacking can be prevented. The gasket has a combination of a gasket body which contains only a rubber-like elastic body and which, in order to seal a gap between one member and the other member, is mounted in the other member and a carrier film separably stuck to one surface side in the thickness direction of the gasket body, in which an engagement portion is formed in the other surface in the thickness direction of the gasket body at a position corresponding to a portion to be engaged formed in the other member, and the gasket body is mounted in the other member by engagement of the engagement portion and the portion to be engaged.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Inventors: Hajime Yui, Kenichi Oba, Takuro Nishimura
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Publication number: 20200321635Abstract: A gasket handling method is provided of suctioning a gasket main body with a suction jig to separate the gasket main body from a carrier film. The gasket handling method separates a gasket main body from a carrier film in a gasket including a combination of the gasket main body and the carrier film adhered thereto, where a suction jig is used to separate the carrier film and the gasket main body; the suction jig includes a suction surface at a position facing the carrier film; the suction surface being formed with a suction groove having a shape that corresponds with a planar shape of the gasket main body, the suction groove being formed with a plurality of suction paths across the entire periphery; and the gasket main body is suctioned to the suction groove with the suction force from the suction paths in the suction jig and separated from the carrier film.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2017Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Hajime YUI, Kenichi OBA, Takuro NISHIMURA
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Publication number: 20200261214Abstract: An intraocular lens insertion apparatus includes a substantially tubular insertion member configured to be inserted into an eye, an opening part provided at a tip end of the insertion member to eject an intraocular lens into the eye, and an intraocular lens push member which pushes the intraocular lens to move the intraocular lens through the insertion member and ejects the intraocular lens from the opening part into the eye. An opening direction of the opening part is tilted with respect to a direction in which the insertion member extends, and a recess having a predetermined depth and extending in the extending direction is provided at an outer peripheral surface of the insertion member on an insertion member rear end side of the opening part.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2018Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Norio OBA, Kenichi KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 10626993Abstract: The present invention improves the handling properties of a rubber-only gasket and the affixability thereof to an attachment position. To this end, the provided gasket is: obtained by combining a gasket body of the rubber-only type, and a carrier sheet that comprises a resin film and holds the gasket body in an un-adhered state; and characterized in that the gasket body is provided with an adhesive section or bonding section for adhering or bonding the gasket body to an attachment position when attaching the gasket body to the attachment position. The adhesive section or bonding section is prepared by providing the lateral surface of the gasket body with a projecting section, and coating the surface of the projecting section with an adhesive or bonding agent. The gasket body is to be used as a gasket for a fuel cell to be incorporated into a fuel cell stack.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Hidetoshi Saso, Yoshihiro Kurano, Takayuki Horimoto, Tetsuya Urakawa, Kenichi Oba, Takuro Nishimura, Hajime Yui
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Patent number: 10625445Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a substrate-integrated gasket using screen printing. The method includes: a step for forming, on a surface of a substrate by means of screen printing, a coating layer of a paste for forming a gasket; and a step for hardening the coating layer by pressing, at a predetermined height, a coating layer correction member to the coating layer. The cross-sectional shape of the coating layer formed on the surface of the substrate is corrected by means of the coating layer correction member, and in such state, the coating layer hardens to be a gasket, thereby forming a gasket having a highly accurate cross-sectional shape.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Hajime Yui, Tetsuya Urakawa, Kenichi Oba
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Publication number: 20200096109Abstract: A film-integrated gasket is provided in which a gasket body is supported by a gasket support body formed of a resin film and a film thickness t2 at a position where the gasket body is supported is set to be smaller than a film thickness t1 at an adjacent position thereto so as to satisfy a demand for low reaction force by reducing the compression ratio in the thickness directional in mounting. The film-integrated gasket can be provided with a portion compressed in the thickness direction at the position where the gasket body is supported, so that the portion sets a thickness difference. The film-integrated gasket can alternatively be provided with a portion where a plurality of resin films is stacked at an adjacent position to the position where the gasket main body is supported, so that the portion sets a thickness difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: Hajime YUI, Kenichi OBA
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Publication number: 20200096110Abstract: When a carrier film is removed from a gasket body of a carrier-film-equipped gasket, in order to easily remove the gasket body adhering to the carrier film from the carrier film, the adhesion area of the gasket body and the carrier film is reduced as a preliminary process of a peeling process of peeling the carrier film from the gasket body against adhesive force in a state where the gasket body is fixed to a base, and then the peeling process is implemented in the state where the adhesion area is reduced. When the gasket body is pressed from the carrier film side with a pressing protrusion portion of a pressing portion, the pressing is performed after the positioning on the plane is performed with positioning means by recess/projection engagement provided beforehand between the pressing portion and the carrier-film-equipped gasket.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Hajime YUI, Kenichi OBA
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Publication number: 20200005747Abstract: A signal supply device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a generator configured to generate a first sound signal and a second sound signal in accordance with an instruction signal including operation body information corresponding to an operation input to an operation body and linked member information corresponding to a movement of a linked member linked with the operation body and an adjuster configured to adjust a relationship between the first sound signal and the second sound signal on the basis of the operation body information and the linked member information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Kenichi NISHIDA, Yasuhiko OBA, Akihiko KOMATSU, Michiko TANOUE
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Publication number: 20200005746Abstract: A signal supply device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a generator configured to generate a first sound signal and a second sound signal in accordance with an instruction signal corresponding to an operation input to an operation body and an adjuster configured to calculate an acceleration of the operation body in accordance with the instruction signal and to adjust a relationship between the first sound signal and the second sound signal on the basis of the acceleration.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Kenichi NISHIDA, Yasuhiko OBA, Akihiko KOMATSU, Michiko TANOUE
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Patent number: 10514099Abstract: An object of the present invention is to make it possible to easily remove a carrier film when removing the carrier film from a gasket body in a carrier-film-equipped gasket, which includes a combination of a rubber-only type gasket body and a resinous carrier film that retains the gasket body, even if the gasket body is adhered to the carrier film. To fulfill the object, a step for peeling, against an adhesive force, the carrier film from the gasket body in a state in which the gasket body is fixed to a base, is carried out. As a preliminary step of the peeling step, the gasket body is pressed from the carrier film side by a pressing device thereby to decrease the adhesion area between the gasket body and the carrier film, and the peeling step is carried out in a state in which the adhesion area has been decreased.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Takuro Nishimura, Hajime Yui, Kenichi Oba
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Patent number: 10465798Abstract: The invention provides a gasket which improves a handling workability of a rubber only type gasket. The gasket of the invention is constructed by a combination of a rubber only type gasket main body, and a carrier sheet which is made of a resin film retaining the gasket main body in a non-bonded state, and the carrier sheet is provided with an air inflow port for making air flow into a portion between the carrier sheet and the gasket main body when the gasket main body is detached from the carrier sheet. A gasket retention portion having a three-dimensional shape which is deformed along an outer shape of the gasket main body is arranged at a position which laps over the gasket main body in a plane in the carrier sheet, and the gasket main body is partly accommodated within the gasket retention portion in a thickness direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Hidetoshi Saso, Yoshihiro Kurano, Takayuki Horimoto, Tetsuya Urakawa, Kenichi Oba, Takuro Nishimura, Hajime Yui
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Publication number: 20190258098Abstract: A phosphor-containing film suppresses deterioration of a phosphor and generation of luminescent spots and the reduction in luminance, and a backlight unit. The phosphor-containing film includes: a phosphor-containing layer having a resin layer which has oxygen impermeability and discrete concave portions, and fluorescent regions arranged in the concave portions, and a first substrate film laminated on one surface of the phosphor-containing layer and a second substrate film laminated on the opposing surface, in which the fluorescent regions contain the phosphor that deteriorates through a reaction with oxygen, and a binder, the first substrate film includes a support film and an inorganic layer provided on a surface of the support film on a side facing the phosphor-containing layer, the resin layer has a modulus of elasticity of 0.5 to 10 GPa, and a thickness of the bottom of the concave portion of the resin layer is 0.1 to 20 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tatsuya OBA, Hirofumi TOYAMA, Kenichi KAKISHITA
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Patent number: 10366876Abstract: Provided are a phosphor-containing capable of suppressing deterioration of phosphors and can be manufactured with high efficiency and a backlight unit. Specifically, provided is a phosphor-containing film, including a first substrate film; and a phosphor-containing layer at which a plurality of regions containing phosphors, which, if exposed to oxygen, deteriorate by reacting with the oxygen, are discretely disposed on the first substrate film, and at which a resin layer having an impermeability to oxygen is disposed between the discretely disposed regions containing phosphors, in which a width S of the resin layer between the regions containing phosphors is 0.01?S<0.5 mm, and wherein a ratio of a volume Vp of the regions containing phosphors, to a sum of the volume Vp and a volume Vb of the resin layer in the phosphor-containing layer, is 0.1?Vp/(Vp+Vb)<0.9.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Keisuke Oku, Kenichi Kakishita, Tatsuya Oba
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Patent number: 10350799Abstract: The purpose of this invention is to make it easy to handle all-rubber gaskets. To achieve this purpose, a gasket is characterized in that a gasket body of only rubber is combined with a carrier film that is made from a resin film to hold the gasket body in a non-adhesive state. A three-dimensional portion having a shape that is deformed along the external shape of the gasket body is provided at a position where the gasket body and a plane of the carrier film overlap, and a portion of the gasket body is contained in the three-dimensional section. The gasket body is used as a gasket for fuel cells incorporated into a fuel cell stack.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Hidetoshi Saso, Yoshihiro Kurano, Takayuki Horimoto, Tetsuya Urakawa, Kenichi Oba, Takuro Nishimura, Hajime Yui, Takahiro Hayashi
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Publication number: 20190194531Abstract: A phosphor-containing film capable of suppressing deterioration of phosphor and capable of suppressing generation of luminescent spots and the reduction in luminance due to a defect of the resin layer. The film includes: a phosphor-containing layer having a resin layer which has impermeability to oxygen and is provided with a plurality of discretely arranged concave portions, and a plurality of fluorescent regions, each of which is arranged in the concave portion of the resin layer and contains a phosphor that deteriorates through a reaction with oxygen when exposed to oxygen; and a first substrate film and a second substrate film, which are respectively laminated on one main surface and the other main surface of the phosphor-containing layer, in which the fluorescent regions contain a binder and quantum dots serving as the phosphor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tatsuya OBA, Natsuru CHIKUSHI, Kenichi KAKISHITA, Masayuki KUSUMOTO, Ryo SATAKE, Megumi SEKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20190194530Abstract: A phosphor-containing film contains a phosphor such as a quantum dot and is capable of suppressing deterioration of phosphor even where the film is formed into a laminated structure; and a backlight unit including the phosphor-containing film as a wavelength converting member. The film includes: a phosphor-containing layer in which a plurality of fluorescent regions, each of which contains a phosphor that deteriorates through reaction with oxygen when exposed to oxygen, are discretely arranged and a resin layer having impermeability to oxygen is arranged among the plurality of the discretely arranged fluorescent regions; and a first substrate film and a second substrate film, which are respectively laminated on both main surfaces of the phosphor-containing layer, in which the resin layer has a Knoop hardness of 115 N/mm2 to 285 N/mm2, a creep recovery rate of 22% or less, and an elastic recovery rate of 60% or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2019Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Megumi SEKIGUCHI, Tatsuya OBA, Kenichi KAKISHITA, Masayuki KUSUMOTO, Natsuru CHIKUSHI
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Publication number: 20190128423Abstract: A gasket is provided which is configured so that a gasket body is easily separated from a carrier film and the positional shift of the gasket body in stacking can be prevented. The gasket has a combination of a gasket body which contains only a rubber-like elastic body and which, in order to seal a gap between one member and the other member, is mounted in the other member and a carrier film separably stuck to one surface side in the thickness direction of the gasket body, in which an engagement portion is formed in the other surface in the thickness direction of the gasket body at a position corresponding to a portion to be engaged formed in the other member, and the gasket body is mounted in the other member by engagement of the engagement portion and the portion to be engaged.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Hajime YUI, Kenichi OBA, Takuro NISHIMURA
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Publication number: 20190001540Abstract: A gasket with a carrier film containing a combination of a rubber-only gasket body and a carrier film holding the gasket body. The carrier film can be easily detached from the gasket body even when the gasket body adheres to the carrier film. In embodiments, the gasket contains a combination of a rubber-only gasket body and a carrier film holding the gasket body. A tab enlarging the plane area of the gasket body is integrally provided in the gasket body. As a method for handling the gasket, when the carrier film is detached from the gasket body, the carrier film is detached from the gasket body in a state where the gasket body is fixed to a base with the tab or the carrier film is detached from the gasket body with the tab in a state where the carrier film is fixed to the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2016Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Hajime YUI, Kenichi OBA, Takuro NISHIMURA
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Publication number: 20180313448Abstract: An object of the present invention is to make it possible to easily remove a carrier film when removing the carrier film from a gasket body in a carrier-film-equipped gasket, which includes a combination of a rubber-only type gasket body and a resinous carrier film that retains the gasket body, even if the gasket body is adhered to the carrier film. To fulfill the object, a step for peeling, against an adhesive force, the carrier film from the gasket body in a state in which the gasket body is fixed to a base, is carried out. As a preliminary step of the peeling step, the gasket body is pressed from the carrier film side by a pressing device thereby to decrease the adhesion area between the gasket body and the carrier film, and the peeling step is carried out in a state in which the adhesion area has been decreased.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2016Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Takuro NISHIMURA, Hajime YUI, Kenichi OBA