Patents by Inventor Kenji Omote
Kenji Omote 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: 8212240Abstract: An element capable of manufacturing various devices of any shape having plasticity or flexibility without being limited by shape and a method for manufacturing thereof are provided. An element characterized by that a circuit element is formed continuously or intermittently in the longitudinal direction. An element characterized by that a cross section having a plurality of areas forming a circuit is formed continuously or intermittently in the longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2009Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Ideal Star Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiko Kasama, Satoshi Fujimoto, Kenji Omote
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Patent number: 8047315Abstract: In setting of an oil temperature increasing process mode, the drive control technique of the invention starts an engine to actuate a mechanical oil pump that pressure feeds a flow of lubricating oil for lubricating the mechanical parts of a transmission and other relevant parts, actuates an electric oil pump that pressure feeds the flow of lubricating oil, and makes a brake B1 included in the transmission in a semi-engagement state. A motor arranged adjacent to the transmission is then driven with lowered output efficiency. This arrangement effectively accelerates heat generation by the motor and ensures a quick temperature rise of the lubricating oil.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2006Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazutoshi Motoike, Masatoshi Adachi, Yumi Iraha, Jun Ichiyanagi, Satoru Wakuta, Kenji Omote, Masanori Onoda
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Publication number: 20100206049Abstract: A gas sensor, which is extremely compact to be arranged for separated gas piping in semiconductor device manufacturing equipment, a gas measuring system using such gas sensor, and a gas detection module for the gas measuring system. The gas sensor has a gas detection device containing a dielectric semiconductor, the electric conductivity of the gas detection device varying in response to the degree of adsorption of gases to the gas detection device, a capacitive element connected in series to the gas detection device, and a pair of electrodes which are connected to electric terminals of an electric element comprising the gas detection device and the capacitive element, wherein the gas sensor is capable of detecting the degree of adsorption of gases to the gas detection device from an electrical response to a voltage which is applied to the electrodes and which periodically varies and reverses in polarity.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2008Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicants: IDEAL STAR INC., TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATIONInventors: Yasuhiko Kasama, Kenji Omote, Kuniyoshi Yokoo, Yuzo Mizobuchi, Haruna Oizumi, Morihiko Saida, Hiroyuki Sagami, Kazuaki Mizokami, Takeo Furukawa
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Patent number: 7763912Abstract: A sensor whose size can be decreased without marring the performance and which can be installed in a narrow place, an electric device, and a method for easily manufacturing the electric device. By vacuum deposition of semiconductor on a columnar body or by applying a melt, solution, or gel of semiconductor to the columnar body, a coating of semiconductor is formed. Four insulating wires, a stripe band of the connected four insulating wires are wound around the columnar body. Then, one of the insulating wires is removed to form a copper wire in the vacant portion by copper vacuum deposition. Lastly, another insulating wire not adjacent to the copper wire is removed to form an aluminum wire in the vacant portion by aluminum vacuum deposition. By measuring the resistance between the copper and aluminum wires, the intensity of light striking the semiconductor can be determined.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2008Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Ideal Star Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiko Kasama, Kenji Omote
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Patent number: 7755141Abstract: Integrated circuits such as semiconductor memories, image sensors, PLA's, and the like have been formed on rigid, planar substrates such as silicon substrates. This has resulted in shapes without flexibility and limited applicabilities. Further, since multiple circuit elements are continuously formed on a flat surface, it has been impossible to produce a non-defective semiconductor memory unless all the circuit elements are fabricated without defects, making it difficult to improve a yield. It is thus devised to weave or braid linear devices into a fabric shape to prepare a planar semiconductor memory, or to bundle up linear devices to prepare a linear semiconductor memory. The integrated circuit comprising the linear devices is flexible and light-weighted, and is thus usable in various applications. It becomes possible to prepare an integrated circuit by once fabricating linear devices and selecting only non-defective ones therefrom, thereby enabling an improved production yield of integrated circuits.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2004Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Ideal Star, Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiko Kasama, Kenji Omote, Noboru Kudo
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Patent number: 7741232Abstract: An electron-emitting woven fabric according to the present invention is intended to provide an electron emission source that can be produced extremely easily, readily shaped to have a large area, and used for a wide variety of applications including a display device. The electron-emitting woven fabric according to the present invention is characterized in that first linear bodies 3 composed of a conductive layer 1 and an insulating layer 2 covering the conductive layer 1 and second linear bodies 4 of a conductive material are crossed. Another mode of the electron-emitting woven fabric according to the present invention is characterized in that a carbonaceous material is provided on a surface of each of crossed parts of the second linear bodies crossing the first linear bodies at lifted portions and/or sunk portions of the first linear bodies.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2004Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: Ideal Star Inc.Inventors: Kuniyoshi Yokoh, Kenji Omote
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Publication number: 20100117112Abstract: A light-emitting element used for display devices and illuminating devices has been formed on a flat substrate, and therefore, when the size of such devices is increased, manufacturing apparatuses also have to be enlarged. Also, a problem involved has been that even a failure of one light-emitting element causes the entire device to fail, making improvement of production yield difficult. To solve the above problems, in the present invention, light-emitting elements are formed as linear elements, and the linear elements are combined to form a plane light-emitting device. This enables the light-emitting device to be produced by selecting only linear light-emitting elements of good quality, and enlargement of apparatuses and enhancement of production yield can be expected.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2010Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: IDEAL STAR INC.Inventors: Yasuhiko KASAMA, Kenji OMOTE
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Patent number: 7690455Abstract: A hybrid driving unit (7) is mounted to a vehicle by coupling a coupling section (14d) at the front end of a casing member (14) with an internal combustion engine (5) and by mounting a mounting section (14c) at the rear end of the casing member (14) to a part (4a) of a body (4). Still more, a second electric motor (23), i.e., a heavy device, is disposed in the rearmost part among a first electric motor (20), a power splitting planetary gear (21), the second electric motor (23) and a transmission disposed on an axis (13) in the casing member (14). Thereby, the vibration occurring in the casing member (14) is suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2004Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seigo Kano, Kenji Omote, Satoru Wakuta, Tomochika Inagaki, Masatoshi Adachi, Masahiro Kojima
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Patent number: 7675230Abstract: A light-emitting element used for display devices and illuminating devices has been formed on a flat substrate, and therefore, when the size of such devices is increased, manufacturing apparatuses also have to be enlarged. Also, a problem involved has been that even a failure of one light-emitting element causes the entire device to fail, making improvement of production yield difficult. To solve the above problems, in the present invention, light-emitting elements are formed as linear elements, and the linear elements are combined to form a plane light-emitting device. This enables the light-emitting device to be produced by selecting only linear light-emitting elements of good quality, and enlargement of apparatuses and enhancement of production yield can be expected.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2004Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Ideal Star Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiko Kasama, Kenji Omote
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Publication number: 20090230979Abstract: Fullerenes are a novel material that has been expected to serve as a promising material in the construction of organic devices. However, the electric conductivity of fullerenes, which has been, reported heretofore spreads over a wide range including values corresponding to insulators as well as those corresponding to semiconductors. The present invention makes it possible to improve the conductivity of fullerenes highly reproducibly by heating the fullerenes at a specified temperature in an inert gas which is flowed under a specified condition, that is, by controlling the concentration of impurities, particularly oxygen and water adsorbed to the fullerenes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2006Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: IDEAL STAR INC.Inventors: Kenji Omote, Yuzo Mizobuchi, Yasuhiko Kasama
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Publication number: 20090152682Abstract: An element capable of manufacturing various devices of any shape having plasticity or flexibility without being limited by shape and a method for manufacturing thereof are provided. An element characterized by that a circuit element is formed continuously or intermittently in the longitudinal direction. An element characterized by that a cross section having a plurality of areas forming a circuit is formed continuously or intermittently in the longitudinal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2009Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicant: IDEAL STAR INC.Inventors: Yasuhiko KASAMA, Satoshi Fujimoto, Kenji Omote
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Patent number: 7528541Abstract: Organic materials doped with alkali metal have been conventionally used for electron transport layers or electron injection layers which constitute light-emitting films in organic EL light-emitting elements which are used in display devices or illuminating devices. Such conventional organic materials involve problems such that a strict process control is required since the alkali metal is highly reactive and thus, likely to be formed into a hydroxide, such that the resulting light-emitting element or light-emitting device needs complete sealing, and such that life of the light-emitting element cannot be sufficiently long. The present invention uses an alkali metal-including fullerene or an organic material doped with an alkali metal-including fullerene for electron transport layers or electron injection layers which constitute light-emitting films in organic EL light-emitting elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2004Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: Ideal Star Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiko Kasama, Kenji Omote
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Publication number: 20090105386Abstract: In order to isolate and purify an endohedral fullerene, a solvent washing was performed using toluene to concentrate the endohedral fullerene in a residual, but endohedral fullerene could not be efficiently purified because impurities other than the endohedral fullerene could not be sufficiently removed. Thus, the endohedral fullerene is isolated and purified by using a solvent such as chloronaphthalene or tetralin having a high solubility for the endohedral fullerene and concentrating the endohedral fullerene in the solvent. The endohedral fullerene isolated and purified by solvent extraction has a cluster structure where the endohedral fullerene is surrounded with empty fullerenes. Thus, this endohedral fullerene is highly stable and is a useful material applicable to various fields such as medical care and electronics.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2007Publication date: April 23, 2009Inventors: Hiroshi Okada, Yoshinori Sibata, Kuniyoshi Yokoo, Yuzo Mizobuchi, Kenji Omote, Yasuhiko Kasama
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Patent number: 7515226Abstract: The present invention provides a reflector having a light-diffusing property which suppresses inter-object reflection over a wide angle, and giving particularly high reflectance in an intended range of viewing angle; and to provide a reflection type liquid crystal display device using the same. The reflector includes a plurality of light-reflective concave portions. Each of the concave portions is formed so that an inclination angle (an angle between a plane tangential to a point on a concave surface and the surface of the base material) is maximum on a side portion of the curved surface, and so that the direction of the side portion having the maximum inclination angle is on a far side from a view point of an observer.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2003Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsumasa Yoshii, Tatsuya Moriike, Kenji Omote, Mitsuru Kano
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Publication number: 20090083978Abstract: An end face sensor device that has flexibility or bendability without being limited to its shape and can generate various apparatus with any shapes, and a method of producing the end face sensor device are provided. The end face sensor device is characterized in that a receiving part for receiving information from a subject and outputting the information as another information is formed on an end face of a linear body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: IDEAL STAR INC.Inventors: Yasuhiko KASAMA, Kenji Omote, Satoshi Fujimoto
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Patent number: 7508044Abstract: An end face sensor device and a method of producing the sensor device, where the sensor device has flexibility or bendability independent of its shape and is suitable for constructing various devices with desired shapes. The end face sensor device is characterized in that a receptor portion is formed on an end face of a filiform body, the receptor body receiving information from a subject and outputting it as different information.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2003Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: Ideal Star Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiko Kasama, Kenji Omote, Satoshi Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20090065274Abstract: A hybrid driving unit (7) is mounted to a vehicle by coupling a coupling section (14d) at the front end of a casing member (14) with an internal combustion engine (5) and by mounting a mounting section (14c) at the rear end of the casing member (14) to a part (4a) of a body (4). Still more, a first electric motor, i.e., a heavy device, is disposed in the rearmost part among a power splitting planetary gear, a second electric motor and a transmission disposed on an axis (13) in the casing member (14). Thereby, the vibration occurring in the casing member (14) is suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2008Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicants: AISIN A W CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Seigo KANO, Kenji Omote, Satoru Wakuta, Tomochika Inagaki, Masatoshi Adachi, Masahiro Kojima
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Patent number: 7495307Abstract: A sensor whose size can be decreased without marring the performance and which can be installed in a narrow place, an electric device, and a method for easily manufacturing the electric device. By vacuum deposition of semiconductor on a columnar body or by applying a melt, solution, or gel of semiconductor to the columnar body, a coating of semiconductor is formed. Four insulating wires, a stripe band of the connected four insulating wires are wound around the columnar body. Then, one of the insulating wires is removed to form a copper wire in the vacant portion by copper vacuum deposition. Lastly, another insulating wire not adjacent to the copper wire is removed to form an aluminum wire in the vacant portion by aluminum vacuum deposition. By measuring the resistance between the copper and aluminum wires, the intensity of light striking the semiconductor can be determined.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2004Date of Patent: February 24, 2009Assignee: Ideal Star Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiko Kasama, Kenji Omote
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Patent number: 7491613Abstract: An element capable of manufacturing various devices of any shape having plasticity or flexibility without being limited by shape and a method for manufacturing thereof are provided. An element characterized by that a circuit element is formed continuously or intermittently in the longitudinal direction. An element characterized by that a cross section having a plurality of areas forming a circuit is formed continuously or intermittently in the longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2003Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: Ideal Star Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiko Kasama, Satoshi Fujimoto, Kenji Omote
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Publication number: 20090022648Abstract: A device and a method capable of producing induction fullerene with high yield are provided. Nitrogen gas being an object to be induced is introduced into a plasma flow producing chamber and a high-temperature flow forming chamber to form a high-temperature plasma flow consisting of nitrogen ions and electrons. A negative voltage is applied to a grid 105 to keep low electron energy in the high-temperature plasma flow. Then by making electrons collide with fullerene introduced from a fullerene sublimating oven 107, electrons are bonded to the fullerene and thereby the fullerene is ionized. A recovering cylinder 112 is disposed in an induction fullerene accumulating chamber so as to enclose a plasma flow. In this fullerene accumulating chamber, induction fullerene such as nitrogen-substitution hetero fullerene and nitrogen-included fullerene is produced and deposited in the recovering chamber 112.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2005Publication date: January 22, 2009Inventors: Rikizo Hatakeyama, Kuniyoshi Yokoo, Takamichi Hirata, Yasuhiko Kasama, Kenji Omote