Patents by Inventor Kenichi Yamane
Kenichi Yamane 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: 20240135716Abstract: A congestion degree determination apparatus (2000) acquires a captured image (50) generated by an in-vehicle camera that captures an inside of a target vehicle. The congestion degree determination apparatus (2000) determines, for each of persons (30) present in the target vehicle, an area (20) in which the person (30) is positioned out of a plurality of areas (20) in the target vehicle using the captured image (50). The congestion degree determination apparatus (2000) determines the congestion degree of the target vehicle using the number of the persons (30) positioned in each of two or more of the areas (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Daichi SATO, Atsushi KITAURA, Kenichi ABE, Xiaosu DIAO, Daisuke KAWASAKI, Kaori YAMANE
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Publication number: 20240130163Abstract: A high-resolution or high-definition display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a plurality of light-emitting elements, a light-receiving element, a coloring layer, and a first sidewall. The light-emitting elements include a first pixel electrode, a first light-emitting layer over the first pixel electrode, an intermediate layer over the first light-emitting layer, and a common electrode over a second light-emitting layer over a first intermediate layer. The first pixel electrode, the first light-emitting layer, the intermediate layer, and the second light-emitting layer are divided for each light-emitting element. The coloring layer is provided to include a region overlapping with the light-emitting element. The light-receiving element includes a second pixel electrode, a light-receiving layer over the second pixel electrode, and a common electrode over the light-receiving layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Yasumasa YAMANE, Ryota HODO
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Publication number: 20240107865Abstract: Manufacturing equipment for a light-emitting device with which steps from formation to sealing of a light-emitting element can be successively performed is provided. With the manufacturing equipment for a light-emitting device, a deposition step, a lithography step, and an etching step for forming an organic EL element and a sealing step by formation of a protective layer can be successively performed. Accordingly, a downscaled organic EL element with high luminance and high reliability can be formed. Moreover, the manufacturing equipment can have an in-line system where apparatuses are arranged in the order of process steps for the light-emitting device, resulting in high throughput manufacturing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Shingo EGUCHI, Hiroki ADACHI, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Yasumasa YAMANE, Naoto KUSUMOTO, Kensuke YOSHIZUMI, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20240107845Abstract: Provided is a high-resolution or high-definition display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element, and a sidewall. The first and second light-emitting elements each include a pixel electrode, a first light-emitting layer over the pixel electrode, an intermediate layer over the first light-emitting layer, a second light-emitting layer over the intermediate layer, and a common electrode over the second light-emitting layer. That is, the first and second light-emitting elements can have tandem structures. The pixel electrode, the first light-emitting layer, the intermediate layer, and the second light-emitting layer are separately provided between the light-emitting elements. The first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element are adjacent to each other, and the sidewall is provided between the first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Yasumasa YAMANE, Ryota HODO
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Publication number: 20240090253Abstract: A high-resolution display device is provided. A display device having both high display quality and high resolution is provided. The display device includes a first light-emitting element and a second light-emitting element. The first light-emitting element includes a first pixel electrode, a first EL layer, and a common electrode. The second light-emitting element includes a second pixel electrode, a second EL layer, and the common electrode. An insulating layer containing an inorganic insulating material is provided between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode. The insulating layer includes a first region overlapping with the first EL layer, a second region overlapping with the second EL layer, and a third region positioned between the first region and the second region. A side surface of the first EL layer and a side surface of the second EL layer are positioned over the insulating layer to face each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Takayuki IKEDA, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Yasumasa YAMANE
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Patent number: 11459276Abstract: The present invention provides an alumina-based thermally conductive oxide that is excellent not only in thermal conductivity but also in chemical resistance, water resistance, and electrical insulation, that has a good kneadability (miscibility) into resins, and that enables to produce a material or an article, such as a resin composition, which is excellent in shapability. The present invention is an alumina-based thermally conductive oxide obtained by firing a starting material mixture containing an aluminum starting material.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2016Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Nishio, Kenichi Yamane, Naotsugu Yamamura, Shingo Tominaga, Hiroya Oniduka
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Publication number: 20190359875Abstract: Provided is an alumina-based thermally conductive oxide which has not only an excellent thermal conductivity but also excellent chemical resistance, water-fastness, and electrical insulation property, while exhibiting a satisfactory kneadability (miscibility) into a resin and being capable of producing materials and articles, such as a resin composition, having an excellent shapability. Specifically, the present invention is an alumina-based thermally conductive oxide which is obtained by firing a starting material mixture that contains an aluminum starting material. The aluminum starting material is at least one selected from the group consisting of boehmite, aluminum hydroxide, and alumina; the starting material mixture further contains a boric acid compound and an oxide starting material such as a tungsten compound; and the content of the boric acid compound in the starting material mixture is 0.1 to 5 parts by mass, and the content of the oxide starting material in the starting material mixture is 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Akira NISHIO, Kenichi YAMANE, Naotsugu YAMAMURA, Shingo TOMINAGA, Hiroya ONIDUKA
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Patent number: 10072195Abstract: The thermally conductive composite oxide of the present invention has excellent physical properties, such as high thermal conductivity, water resistance, acid resistance, electric resistance, and electric insulation, required for coating films, films, and articles thereof. Paints or resins including the composite oxide can provide coating films, films, and articles having such properties without treating of a surface, etc. The composite oxide has a spinel structure and contains aluminum as a main metal component and at least one metal other than aluminum, which is magnesium, zinc, calcium, and/or strontium, and has a ratio (b mol)/(a mol) in a range of 0.1 or more and 1.0 or less, where the ratio (b mol)/(a mol) is a number of moles (b) of the metal other than aluminum to that of moles (a) of an aluminum element derived from an alumina-based compound. The thermally conductive composite oxide has Mohs hardness of less than 9.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: DAINICHISEIKA COLOR & CHEMICALS MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Nishio, Toru Kawakami, Kenichi Yamane, Naotsugu Yamamura, Shingo Tominaga
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Publication number: 20180244578Abstract: The present invention provides an alumina-based thermally conductive oxide that is excellent not only in thermal conductivity but also in chemical resistance, water resistance, and electrical insulation, that has a good kneadability (miscibility) into resins, and that enables to produce a material or an article, such as a resin composition, which is excellent in shapability. The present invention is an alumina-based thermally conductive oxide obtained by firing a starting material mixture containing an aluminum starting material.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2016Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Akira NISHIO, Kenichi YAMANE, Naotsugu YAMAMURA, Shingo TOMINAGA, Hiroya ONIDUKA
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Patent number: 9732230Abstract: A composite oxide black pigment has characteristics to absorb visible rays and near infrared rays, and is composed of an oxide of main constituent metals including copper, manganese and iron. In a wavelength region of 400 to 1,000 nm, the composite oxide black pigment has a minimum wavelength, at which a transmittance becomes minimum, in a wavelength region of 600 to 800 nm, a molar ratio of manganese/iron is 3/1 to 30/1, and a molar ratio of copper/(manganese+iron) is 1/2 to 1.2/2. Its sole use makes it possible to obtain a transparent vivid bluish, neutral gray color, and also to maximize an absorption in a near infrared region. It is, therefore, excellent in near infrared absorption characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2013Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: DAINICHISEIKA COLOR & CHEMICALS MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Nishio, Toru Kawakami, Kenichi Yamane
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Publication number: 20160369148Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a thermally conductive composite oxide that can realize physical properties required for coating films, films, and molded products obtained by single use of the thermally conductive composite oxide blended into paints and resin compositions without the need for an improvement measure such as surface treatment and that is excellent in thermal conductivity, water resistance, acid resistance, and electric insulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2015Publication date: December 22, 2016Inventors: Akira NISHIO, Toru KAWAKAMI, Kenichi YAMANE, Naotsugu YAMAMURA, Shingo TOMINAGA
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Publication number: 20160244802Abstract: Post-translational modification, including protein methylation, plays an important role in regulating protein function. The present invention provides a novel assay for evaluating demethylase activity and the discovery of a family of protein demethylases comprising a novel demethylase motif.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2016Publication date: August 25, 2016Inventors: Yi ZHANG, Yuichi Tsukada, Kenichi Yamane, Robert John Klose
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Patent number: 8968460Abstract: To provide a Cu—Mn—Fe-based complex inorganic oxide black pigment having a more vivid bluish hue than a Cu—Mn—Fe-based complex inorganic oxide black pigment obtained by a conventional wet method. A Cu—Mn—Fe-based complex inorganic oxide black pigment having a more vivid bluish hue is disclosed. The complex inorganic oxide black pigment has a spinel structure composed of oxides of copper, manganese and iron as main constituent metals, the molar ratio of copper/manganese/iron is in a range of 3 to 8/5 to 10/1, at least one divalent metal element other than the main constituent metals has been introduced, and the molar ratio of (copper+the divalent metal element)/(manganese+iron) is in a range of 1 to 1.6/2. A production process of the black pigment is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Yamane, Toru Kawakami, Akira Nishio, Hiroyoshi Terada
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Publication number: 20150048286Abstract: A composite oxide black pigment has characteristics to absorb visible rays and near infrared rays, and is composed of an oxide of main constituent metals including copper, manganese and iron. In a wavelength region of 400 to 1,000 nm, the composite oxide black pigment has a minimum wavelength, at which a transmittance becomes minimum, in a wavelength region of 600 to 800 nm, a molar ratio of manganese/iron is 3/1 to 30/1, and a molar ratio of copper/(manganese+iron) is 1/2 to 1.2/2. Its sole use makes it possible to obtain a transparent vivid bluish, neutral gray color, and also to maximize an absorption in a near infrared region. It is, therefore, excellent in near infrared absorption characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: DAINICHISEIKA COLOR & CHEMICALS MFG. CO.,LTD.Inventors: Akira Nishio, Toru Kawakami, Kenichi Yamane
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Publication number: 20140318416Abstract: To provide a Cu—Mn—Fe-based complex inorganic oxide black pigment having a more vivid bluish hue than a Cu—Mn—Fe-based complex inorganic oxide black pigment obtained by a conventional wet method. A Cu—Mn—Fe-based complex inorganic oxide black pigment having a more vivid bluish hue is disclosed. The complex inorganic oxide black pigment has a spinel structure composed of oxides of copper, manganese and iron as main constituent metals, the molar ratio of copper/manganese/iron is in a range of 3 to 8/5 to 10/1, at least one divalent metal element other than the main constituent metals has been introduced, and the molar ratio of (copper+the divalent metal element)/(manganese+iron) is in a range of 1 to 1.6/2. A production process of the black pigment is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2012Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventors: Kenichi Yamane, Toru Kawakami, Akira Nishio, Hiroyoshi Terada
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Publication number: 20090203057Abstract: Post-translational modification, including protein methylation, plays an important role in regulating protein function. The present invention provides a novel assay for evaluating demethylase activity and the discovery of a family of protein demethylases comprising a novel demethylase motif.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2006Publication date: August 13, 2009Inventors: Yi Zhang, Yuichi Tsukada, Kenichi Yamane, Robert John Klose
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Patent number: 6550136Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a method of fabricating a printed wiring board characterized in that a printed wiring board is fabricated by perforating a slot by a router bit at a central part of a substrate. The method further includes cutting a wiring portion for electric plating by the router bit. According to the method, the occurrence of cut burr on the surfaces of the wiring pattern, caused by electric plating, is prevented, the product yield is promoted and the operational efficiency is improved. The invention also discloses a method of fabricating a printed wiring board by forming a conductor circuit by patterning a metal coating formed on a surface of an insulating substrate, successively subjecting the conductor circuit to a surface treatment by electric plating and thereafter perforating a slot by a router bit. The slot connects the substrate to a semiconductor chip at a central portion thereof by bonding wires.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2000Date of Patent: April 22, 2003Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., LTDInventors: Hiroki Hata, Kenichi Yamane, Akihiro Nishimura, Noriaki Taneko
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Patent number: 6175873Abstract: A method for acquiring communication information in a communication system between a plurality of user communication terminals via a host computer on a network. The method includes registering, for each user communication terminal, beforehand in the host computer a user information including a communication confirmation schedule. The host computer transmits user information of a second user communication terminal to a first user communication terminal. This occurs when the host computer detects a communication connection from the first user communication terminal to the second user communication terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1998Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignee: Sharp, Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenichi Yamane, Toshio Isoe