Patents by Inventor Kenji Kitajima
Kenji Kitajima 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: 20180030638Abstract: A washing machine capable of independently driving two rotors using one inverter in a simple configuration without supplying a composite current includes an outer rotor having a plurality of switching magnets arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction, and an inner rotor having a plurality of stationary magnets arranged to be radially arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction. When a magnetizing current is supplied to the coil of the stator, the magnetic pole of the switching magnet is inverted and the number of the poles of the outer rotor is switched.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukinori Nakagawa, Tomonori Ueno, Hiroshi Katsumoto, Kenji Kitajima, Yasuyuki Sonoda, Masaki Oshige, Hidekazu Funakoshi, Yasumasa Nagasaki
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Publication number: 20170336687Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a thin film transistor substrate having a pixel region and a frame region, and a color filter substrate. The frame region includes a first metal wire that surrounds the outside of the pixel region, and a second metal wire that is formed so as to surround the outside of the first metal wire. The first metal wire has at least one slit at an area overlapping with a seal material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Inventors: Kenji Kitajima, Ryouhei Suzuki
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Patent number: 9759967Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a thin film transistor substrate having a pixel region and a frame region, and a color filter substrate. The frame region includes a first metal wire that surrounds the outside of the pixel region, and a second metal wire that is formed so as to surround the outside of the first metal wire. The first metal wire has at least one slit at an area overlapping with a seal material.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kenji Kitajima, Ryouhei Suzuki
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Patent number: 9612695Abstract: Providing a touch panel that suppresses reflection of light and prevents a reduction in the visibility of an image even when strong outside light is incident thereon in an outdoor environment. The touch panel has a plurality of first electrodes juxtaposed in parallel to each other in a first direction and a plurality of second electrodes juxtaposed in parallel to each other in a second direction. The first electrodes are continuously formed, the second electrodes are discontinuously formed, and a connecting electrode that electrically connects each parts of each of the second electrodes at a discontinuous portion is arranged under each of the first electrodes through an interlayer insulating film. A contour line provided to the interlayer insulating film arranged on the connecting electrode is formed to be curved under each of the first electrodes or the second electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2014Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kenji Kitajima, Ryouhei Suzuki
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Publication number: 20160320682Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a thin film transistor substrate having a pixel region and a frame region, and a color filter substrate. The frame region includes a first metal wire that surrounds the outside of the pixel region, and a second metal wire that is formed so as to surround the outside of the first metal wire. The first metal wire has at least one slit at an area overlapping with a seal material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2016Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Kenji Kitajima, Ryouhei Suzuki
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Patent number: 9411205Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a thin film transistor substrate having a pixel region and a frame region, and a color filter substrate. The frame region includes a first metal wire that surrounds the outside of the pixel region, and a second metal wire that is formed so as to surround the outside of the first metal wire. The first metal wire has at least one slit at an area overlapping with a seal material.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2015Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kenji Kitajima, Ryouhei Suzuki
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Patent number: 9403119Abstract: An emission gas treatment apparatus recovers a recycle feed containing boron from emission gas discharged by a glass melting furnace. The apparatus includes a collection device for collecting a component containing boron from the emission gas by a wet process to obtain a collected liquid, a first filter for separating the collected liquid into a solid and a liquid, and an ion-exchange resin for forming a boron solution by removing an impurity from an extracted liquid obtained in the first filter. The apparatus also includes a mixing tank for mixing an extracted solid obtained in the first filter in the boron solution to form an extracted solid-containing solution, a second filter for separating the extracted solid-containing solution into a solid and a liquid, and a vacuum dryer for recovering the recycle feed from an extracted solid obtained in the second filter.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Kitajima, Tatsuya Takaya
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Patent number: 9364784Abstract: An emission gas treatment apparatus recovers a recycle feed containing boron from emission gas discharged by a glass melting furnace. The apparatus includes a collection device for collecting a component containing boron from the emission gas by a wet process to obtain a collected liquid, a first filter for separating the collected liquid into a solid and a liquid, and an ion-exchange resin for forming a boron solution by removing an impurity from an extracted liquid obtained in the first filter. The apparatus also includes a mixing tank for mixing an extracted solid obtained in the first filter in the boron solution to form an extracted solid-containing solution, a second filter for separating the extracted solid-containing solution into a solid and a liquid, and a vacuum dryer for recovering the recycle feed from an extracted solid obtained in the second filter.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Kitajima, Tatsuya Takaya
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Publication number: 20160111708Abstract: The surface profile of a coating material in a substrate width direction is optimized in coating a substrate with the coating material such as an electrode active material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2014Publication date: April 21, 2016Applicants: TORAY ENGINEERING CO., LTD., YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Miyamoto, Takashi Sasaki, Atsushi Watanabe, Kazushige Nakashima, Yohei Nishimatsu, Kenji Kitajima
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Publication number: 20150362807Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a thin film transistor substrate having a pixel region and a frame region, and a color filter substrate. The frame region includes a first metal wire that surrounds the outside of the pixel region, and a second metal wire that is formed so as to surround the outside of the first metal wire. The first metal wire has at least one slit at an area overlapping with a seal material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: Kenji Kitajima, Ryouhei Suzuki
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Patent number: 9140945Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a thin film transistor substrate having a pixel region and a frame region, and a color filter substrate. The frame region includes a first metal wire that surrounds the outside of the pixel region, and a second metal wire that is formed so as to surround the outside of the first metal wire. The first metal wire has at least one slit at an area overlapping with a seal material.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2014Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Kenji Kitajima, Ryouhei Suzuki
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Publication number: 20150101484Abstract: An emission gas treatment apparatus recovers a recycle feed containing boron from emission gas discharged by a glass melting furnace. The apparatus includes a collection device for collecting a component containing boron from the emission gas by a wet process to obtain a collected liquid, a first filter for separating the collected liquid into a solid and a liquid, and an ion-exchange resin for forming a boron solution by removing an impurity from an extracted liquid obtained in the first filter. The apparatus also includes a mixing tank for mixing an extracted solid obtained in the first filter in the boron solution to form an extracted solid-containing solution, a second filter for separating the extracted solid-containing solution into a solid and a liquid, and a vacuum dryer for recovering the recycle feed from an extracted solid obtained in the second filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2013Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventors: Kenji Kitajima, Tatsuya Takaya
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Publication number: 20140340602Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a thin film transistor substrate having a pixel region and a frame region, and a color filter substrate. The frame region includes a first metal wire that surrounds the outside of the pixel region, and a second metal wire that is formed so as to surround the outside of the first metal wire. The first metal wire has at least one slit at an area overlapping with a seal material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Kenji Kitajima, Ryouhei Suzuki
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Publication number: 20140333853Abstract: Providing a touch panel that suppresses reflection of light and prevents a reduction in the visibility of an image even when strong outside light is incident thereon in an outdoor environment. The touch panel has a plurality of first electrodes juxtaposed in parallel to each other in a first direction and a plurality of second electrodes juxtaposed in parallel to each other in a second direction. The first electrodes are continuously formed, the second electrodes are discontinuously formed, and a connecting electrode that electrically connects each parts of each of the second electrodes at a discontinuous portion is arranged under each of the first electrodes through an interlayer insulating film. A contour line provided to the interlayer insulating film arranged on the connecting electrode is formed to be curved under each of the first electrodes or the second electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kenji KITAJIMA, Ryouhei SUZUKI
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Patent number: 8810746Abstract: A TFT substrate includes a pixel region which is a rectangular region where a plurality of pixels are formed in a matrix, a frame region which is outside the pixel region and frames the pixel region, a light blocking metal wire which is formed so as to surround the outside of at least three sides of the rectangular pixel region and has slits, a disconnection detection metal wire for detecting disconnection thereof formed outside the light blocking metal wire, two terminals are connected to the disconnection detection metal wire, and common electrodes which are connected to the light blocking metal wire and are maintained at the same potential as a common potential in the pixel circuit.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kenji Kitajima, Ryouhei Suzuki
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Patent number: 8618899Abstract: A converter including a reactor as one of a component for the converter, the reactor comprising: a coil; a core having an inner core portion arranged inside the coil and an outer core portion covering the outside of the coil; and a case housing the coil and the core, wherein the case has a heat-radiation structure at an inner wall surface, the heat-radiation structure being provided for at least one of the coil and the inner core portion, wherein the heat-radiation structure is non-similar to an outer wall surface of the case, and is formed of the inner wall surface that is formed to correspond to an external shape of the at least one of the coil and the inner core portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2013Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiro Inaba, Yasushi Nomura, Shinichiro Yamamoto, Yukinori Yamada, Miki Kitajima, Kenji Kitajima
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Publication number: 20130314186Abstract: A converter including a reactor as one of a component for the converter, the reactor comprising: a coil; a core having an inner core portion arranged inside the coil and an outer core portion covering the outside of the coil; and a case housing the coil and the core, wherein the case has a heat-radiation structure at an inner wall surface, the heat-radiation structure being provided for at least one of the coil and the inner core portion, wherein the heat-radiation structure is non-similar to an outer wall surface of the case, and is formed of the inner wall surface that is formed to correspond to an external shape of the at least one of the coil and the inner core portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2013Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiro Inaba, Yasushi Nomura, Shinichiro Yamamoto, Yukinori Yamada, Miki Kitajima, Kenji Kitajima
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Patent number: 8525629Abstract: Provided is a reactor including a coil, and a core having an inner core portion arranged inside the coil and an outer core portion covering the outside of the coil. The inner core portion of the reactor has a higher saturation magnetic flux density than that of the outer core portion. The outer core portion has a lower permeability than that of the inner core portion, and is made of a mixture of a magnetic material and a resin. The case has a heat-transfer portion at an inner wall surface, as a heat-radiation structure for at least one of the coil and the inner core portion. With the reactor, even if the outside of the coil is covered with a core member, heat generated in the reactor can be effectively dissipated.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2011Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiro Inaba, Yasushi Nomura, Shinichiro Yamamoto, Yukinori Yamada, Miki Kitajima, Kenji Kitajima
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Publication number: 20120299678Abstract: Provided is a reactor including a coil, and a core having an inner core portion arranged inside the coil and an outer core portion covering the outside of the coil. The inner core portion of the reactor has a higher saturation magnetic flux density than that of the outer core portion. The outer core portion has a lower permeability than that of the inner core portion, and is made of a mixture of a magnetic material and a resin. The case has a heat-transfer portion at an inner wall surface, as a heat-radiation structure for at least one of the coil and the inner core portion. With the reactor, even if the outside of the coil is covered with a core member, heat generated in the reactor can be effectively dissipated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Inaba, Yasushi Nomura, Shinichiro Yamamoto, Yukinori Yamada, Miki Kitajima, Kenji Kitajima
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Publication number: 20120257132Abstract: A TFT substrate includes a pixel region which is a rectangular region where a plurality of pixels are formed in a matrix, a frame region which is outside the pixel region and frames the pixel region, a light blocking metal wire which is formed so as to surround the outside of at least three sides of the rectangular pixel region and has slits, a disconnection detection metal wire for detecting disconnection thereof formed outside the light blocking metal wire, two terminals are connected to the disconnection detection metal wire, and common electrodes which are connected to the light blocking metal wire and are maintained at the same potential as a common potential in the pixel circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Inventors: Kenji KITAJIMA, Ryouhei SUZUKI