Patents by Inventor Kenichi Yoshimura

Kenichi Yoshimura 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: 10190689
    Abstract: A seal ring capable of stably reducing a rotational torque while preventing the leakage of sealed fluid. The seal ring includes: an abutment joint part (110) provided at one portion in a circumferential direction thereof; a plurality of dynamic pressure generation grooves (120) provided at intervals in the circumferential direction on a side of a sliding surface thereof sliding on a lateral wall surface of an annular groove; and foreign matter discharging grooves (130) that are provided between a region in which the plurality of dynamic pressure generation grooves (120) is arranged and the abutment joint part (110) in the circumferential direction on the side of the sliding surface sliding on the lateral wall surface, and that are capable of catching foreign matter intruding from the abutment joint part (110) and discharging the caught foreign matter to an outside of a sliding part between the seal ring and the lateral wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Yoshida, Fangman Xu, Nozomu Suzuki, Norimasa Hosonuma, Shigenobu Honda, Kenichi Yoshimura, Yohei Sakai, Shota Toma
  • Publication number: 20180240944
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light emitting element disposed on a substrate which emits blue light, a green phosphor that emits green light upon being excited by the blue light, a red phosphor that emits red light upon being excited by the blue light, and a transparent resin including the green phosphor and the red phosphor dispersed therein. The red phosphor is arranged to be in contact with the light emitting element and the substrate. The transparent resin includes a constitutional unit including an ionic liquid including a polymerizable functional group or a derivative of the ionic liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Kenichi YOSHIMURA, Tatsuya RYOHWA, Makoto IZUMI, Noriyuki YAMAZUMI
  • Publication number: 20180240946
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element configured to emit excitation light, and a phosphor layer in which phosphor particles are dispersed so as to emit fluorescence in response to the excitation light. The phosphor layer includes a constitutional unit derived from an ionic liquid having a polymerizable functional group. The light-emitting device further includes a protective layer that seals the light-emitting element therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Noriyuki YAMAZUMI, Tatsuya Ryohwa, Kenichi Yoshimura, Hiroshi Fukunaga, Kanako Nakata, Makoto Izumi
  • Publication number: 20180195690
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion member includes a light-transmitting medium and phosphor-containing particles dispersed in the light-transmitting medium and including a resin and a semiconductor nanoparticle phosphor dispersed in the resin, wherein the phosphor-containing particles have a particle size that is equal to or larger than a particle size of the semiconductor nanoparticle phosphor and that is equal to or smaller than a minimum thickness of the wavelength conversion member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Tatsuya Ryohwa, Noriyuki Yamazumi, Kenichi Yoshimura, Hiroshi Fukunaga, Kanako Nakata, Makoto Izumi
  • Patent number: 10012194
    Abstract: In the interior of a resin mold portion that constitutes a fuel injection valve, an amplifying member to which a power source terminal and a signal terminal are connected, is provided. A signal transmitting unit, which outputs a detection signal from a sensor, is connected electrically to a substrate of the amplifying member. Further, the amplifying member is molded integrally when the resin mold portion is formed. In addition, a pressure inside a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, which is detected by the sensor, is output through the signal transmitting unit to the amplifying member, is amplified by the amplifying member, and is output externally from the signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gaku Sato, Keisuke Machida, Kenichi Yoshimura, Koji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9964063
    Abstract: Within a resin mold portion of a fuel injection valve, an amplifying member having a substrate is provided. An engagement hole that penetrates in an axial direction is formed in another end part of the amplifying member, and an engagement pin, which is formed on a bobbin of a housing, is inserted through the engagement hole. A second connector of a second signal transmitting member, which constitutes part of a signal transmitting unit, is inserted from below into a connecting hole formed in the substrate. In addition, when the resin mold portion is molded, the amplifying member is retained in a state with the engagement pin and the second connector being inserted, respectively, into the engagement hole and the connecting hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gaku Sato, Kenichi Yoshimura, Keisuke Machida, Koji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20180058587
    Abstract: A sealing apparatus sealing a gap between two members mutually relatively rotatable about an axis in an internal combustion engine, the sealing apparatus comprises an elastic body portion. The elastic body portion is an elastic body including an annular attaching portion attached to one of the two members and centered about the axis, and a seal portion in close contact with another of the two members in a manner in which the other of the two members is slidable. The seal portion includes an annular seal lip portion centered about the axis and an annular dust lip centered about the axis on an atmospheric side on an opposite side of a sealed fluid side with respect to the seal lip portion. The seal lip portion includes a lip tip portion which is an annular projecting body projecting toward the axis and grease is applied to the seal lip portion. The grease contains at least one of a synthetic hydrocarbon oil and a mineral oil as a base oil and has a low temperature starting torque of 25 N·cm or less at ?30° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Kenichi YOSHIMURA, Yuki SATO, Nobuaki YANAGISAWA
  • Publication number: 20180058584
    Abstract: A seal ring includes, on a side of a sliding surface thereof, a groove part (120) having a first groove (121) extending in a circumferential direction thereof and a second groove (122) extending from a central position of the first groove (121) in the circumferential direction to an inner peripheral surface and guiding sealed fluid into the first groove (121), the first groove (121) having dynamic pressure generation grooves (121a) configured to have a groove bottom made shallower at an end thereof in the circumferential direction than at a center thereof in the circumferential direction, and a foreign matter catching groove (121b) that has a groove bottom deeper than the groove bottoms of the dynamic pressure generation grooves (121a) and is capable of catching foreign matter, and the first groove (121) being provided at a position that falls within a sliding region in which the seal ring slides on the lateral wall surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Maiko MIYAZAKI, Yohei SAKAI, Kenichi YOSHIMURA, Shota TOMA
  • Publication number: 20180051809
    Abstract: A seal ring capable of stably reducing a rotational torque while preventing the leakage of sealed fluid. The seal ring includes: an abutment joint part (110) provided at one portion in a circumferential direction thereof; a plurality of dynamic pressure generation grooves (120) provided at intervals in the circumferential direction on a side of a sliding surface thereof sliding on a lateral wall surface of an annular groove; and foreign matter discharging grooves (130) that are provided between a region in which the plurality of dynamic pressure generation grooves (120) is arranged and the abutment joint part (110) in the circumferential direction on the side of the sliding surface sliding on the lateral wall surface, and that are capable of catching foreign matter intruding from the abutment joint part (110) and discharging the caught foreign matter to an outside of a sliding part between the seal ring and the lateral wall surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Yusuke YOSHIDA, Fangman XU, Nozomu SUZUKI, Norimasa HOSONUMA, Shigenobu HONDA, Kenichi YOSHIMURA, Yohei SAKAI, Shota TOMA
  • Patent number: 9812617
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element configured to emit blue light, a first wavelength conversion member containing a Mn4+-activated fluorine complex phosphor, and a second wavelength conversion member containing a quantum-dot phosphor, in which the first wavelength conversion member and the second wavelength conversion member are spatially separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Yoshimura, Tatsuya Ryohwa, Makoto Izumi
  • Publication number: 20170315405
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal display panel that includes red color filters, green color filters, and blue color filters; and an illumination device that illuminates the liquid crystal display panel with white light. The illumination device includes light-emitting elements that emit blue light, a green phosphor that absorbs a portion of the blue light emitted from the light-emitting elements and then emits green light, and a red phosphor that absorbs a portion of the blue light emitted from the light-emitting elements and then emits red light. The blue color filters are made of a colored material that contains a dye, and the chromaticity values x and y of the white light emitted from the illumination device satisfy the relationships 0.24<x and 0.24<y.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masatsugu MASUDA, Hideaki FUJII, Takeshi KAWAHARA, Toshiyuki TANAKA, Kenichi YOSHIMURA, Makoto YOSHIMURA, Masataka MIYATA, Takehiro SHIOMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170279012
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element that emits blue light, a Mn2+-activated ?-AlON green phosphor, and a dispersing material in which the green phosphor is dispersed. The green phosphor has an in-crystal Mn concentration of 2.5 wt % or more. The shortest path of the blue light through the dispersing material is 1 mm long or shorter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Kenichi YOSHIMURA, Makoto IZUMI, Hiroshi FUKUNAGA, Naoto HIROSAKI
  • Patent number: 9741908
    Abstract: A wavelength converting member includes silica glass and a plurality of fluorescent material particles including an oxynitride or nitride fluorescent material and dispersed in the silica glass. The plurality of fluorescent material particles include at least two kinds of fluorescent material particles including (i) first fluorescent material particles that emit a fluorescence having a first peak wavelength and (ii) second fluorescent material particles that emit a fluorescence having a second peak wavelength. The wavelength converting member has a density within a range from 0.8 g/cm3 to 1.2 g/cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
    Inventors: Kenichi Yoshimura, Makoto Izumi, Masamichi Harada, Hiroshi Fukunaga, Kazunori Annen, Naoto Hirosaki, Hiroyo Segawa
  • Patent number: 9711686
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device that has a high emission efficiency, excellent stability and temperature properties, and that generates light having a high color rendering property sufficient for practical use. This semiconductor light-emitting device comprises a semiconductor light-emitting element that emits blue light, a green phosphor that absorbs the blue light and emits green light, and an orange phosphor that absorbs the blue light and emits orange light, and is characterized in that the orange phosphor is an Eu-activated ?-SiAlON phosphor having an emission spectrum peak wavelength within a range of 595 to 620 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Yoshimura, Kohsei Takahashi, Hiroshi Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 9631140
    Abstract: In a light-emitting device, a 50%-area average diameter of primary particles of a Eu-activated ? SiAlON fluorescent material is 10 ?m or more, a scattering probability of scattering materials at a peak wavelength of excitation light emitted from an excitation light source is 0.1 mm?1 or more and 0.5 mm?1 or less, and the Eu-activated ? SiAlON fluorescent material is entrapped inside a transparent member in a dispersed state together with the scattering materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Yoshimura, Hiroshi Fukunaga, Masamichi Harada, Kohsei Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20170062668
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light emitting device that makes it possible to provide an image display apparatus having a wide color reproduction range. The light emitting device includes a light emitting element that emits blue light; a Mn2+-activated ?-AlON phosphor that is a green phosphor; and a Mn4+-activated phosphor that is a red phosphor. The green light emitted by the Mn2+-activated ?-AlON phosphor has an emission-spectrum peak wavelength of not less than 518 nm and not more than 528 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Kenichi YOSHIMURA, Shigetoshi ITO, Makoto IZUMI, Masamichi HARADA, Hiroshi FUKUNAGA, Naoto HIROSAKI
  • Patent number: 9577160
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element emitting blue light, a green phosphor emitting green light when being excited by the blue light, and a red phosphor emitting red light when being excited by the blue light. An emission spectral peak wavelength of the green light emitted by the green phosphor is greater than or equal to 520 nm and less than or equal to 540 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichi Yoshimura, Tatsuya Ryohwa, Makoto Izumi, Junichi Kinomoto
  • Patent number: 9570655
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device that has a high emission efficiency, excellent stability and temperature properties, and that generates light having a high color rendering property sufficient for practical use. This semiconductor light-emitting device (1) comprises a semiconductor light-emitting element (2) that emits blue light, a green phosphor (14) that absorbs the blue light and emits green light, and an orange phosphor (13) that absorbs the blue light and emits orange light, and is characterized in that the orange phosphor is an Eu-activated ?-SiAlON phosphor having an emission spectrum peak wavelength within a range of 595 to 620 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Yoshimura, Kohsei Takahashi, Hiroshi Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20160351757
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element configured to emit blue light, a first wavelength conversion member containing a Mn4+-activated fluorine complex phosphor, and a second wavelength conversion member containing a quantum-dot phosphor, in which the first wavelength conversion member and the second wavelength conversion member are spatially separated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Kenichi YOSHIMURA, Tatsuya RYOHWA, Makoto IZUMI
  • Patent number: 9505905
    Abstract: A fluororubber composition comprising 1 to 100 parts by weight of a needle-like filler or fibrous filler having an average particle diameter of 5 ?m or less, an average particle length of 40 to 60 ?m, and an aspect ratio of 10 to 12, based on 100 parts by weight of fluororubber. A fluororubber vulcanization-molded product obtained from the fluororubber composition has resistance against deformation due to the shape effect of the filler, and thereby can suppress the deformation of the oil seal sliding surface towards the sliding direction. More specifically, the fluororubber vulcanization-molded product can achieve less friction, while maintaining sealing properties by increasing the amount of oil pumping, from the initial use of an oil seal to after the abrasion of the oil seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi Yoshimura