Patents by Inventor Kentaro Kawai

Kentaro Kawai 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: 11977305
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a scanning line extending along a first direction, a signal line extending along a second direction, a switching element, a first connection electrode, a pixel electrode, and a feed line, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer containing polymer dispersed liquid crystal, and a light emitting module. The feed line includes an edge extending along the second direction. The first connection electrode is a transparent electrode formed of a same material as the feed line, extends along the first direction, and includes an end portion opposed to the edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsunori Muramoto, Kentaro Kawai, Yoshihide Ohue
  • Patent number: 11934075
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display portion, a first terminal, a second terminal located between the display portion and the first terminal, and an insulating film, in which each of the first terminal and the second terminal is a stacked layer body of a metal electrode and a first transparent electrode, in the first terminal, the first transparent electrode is in contact with an upper surface and a side surface of the metal electrode, in the second terminal, the insulating film is in contact with a side surface of the metal electrode, and the first transparent electrode is in contact with the upper surface of the metal electrode in an inside surrounded by the insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro Kawai, Keita Sasanuma, Takayuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20240077775
    Abstract: A display device includes an array substrate including a display region arranged with pixels and a peripheral region outside the display region, a counter substrate facing the array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate. The display region includes a plurality of scanning signal lines extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a plurality of data signal lines extending in the second direction and arranged in the first direction. The peripheral region includes a first wiring pattern arranged with a plurality of first wirings connecting a scanning signal line driver circuit and the plurality of scanning signal lines, and a second wiring pattern arranged with a plurality of second wirings being supplied with a certain electric potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Kentaro KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20240077774
    Abstract: A display device includes an array substrate including a display region arranged with pixels and a peripheral region outside the display region, a counter substrate facing the array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate. The display region includes a plurality of scanning signal lines extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a plurality of data signal lines extending in the second direction and arranged in the first direction. The peripheral region comprises a first wiring pattern having a first grid pattern formed with a plurality of first wirings connecting the plurality of scanning signal lines and a scanning signal line driver circuit and a plurality of dummy wirings, and a second wiring pattern having a second grid pattern formed with second wirings to be applied with a certain potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Kentaro KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20230369348
    Abstract: A display device includes a first pixel, a second pixel, and a third pixel arranged in a first direction in a display area arranged on a first substrate, a first source wiring, a second wiring, and a third wiring extending in the first direction, and connected to each of the first pixel to the third pixel, and a first gate wiring, a second gate wiring, and a third wiring intersecting the first direction, and connected to each of the first pixel to the third pixel. The first pixel includes a first transistor electrically connected to the first gate wiring and the first source wiring and a liquid crystal element electrically connected to the first transistor, the first pixel to the third pixel are arranged between the first source wiring and the third source wiring, and the second source wiring, and the first source wiring intersects the third source wiring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro KAWAI, Masataka IKEDA, Hirotaka HAYASHI, Yuuji OOMORI, Yoshihide OHUE
  • Publication number: 20230369349
    Abstract: The display device has a first substrate having a display area including pixels and a peripheral area surrounding the display area and including a peripheral circuit, a second substrate arranged facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a plurality of gate wirings spaced apart in a first direction in the peripheral circuit of the first substrate, and a plurality of signal lines spaced apart in a second direction intersecting the first direction, wherein the second substrate has a black matrix with a lattice area at a position facing the display area and the peripheral circuit, and the lattice area of the black matrix is arranged to overlap the plurality of gate wirings and the plurality of signal lines of the peripheral circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro KAWAI, Yuuji OOMORI, Yoshihide OHUE
  • Publication number: 20230364511
    Abstract: An example of an image display system includes a goggle apparatus including a display section. A virtual camera and a user interface are placed in a virtual space. In accordance with the orientation of the goggle apparatus, the orientation of the virtual camera in the virtual space is controlled. For example, in a case where the line of sight of the virtual camera rotates in a left direction in a yaw direction and then reverses in a right direction, and when the amount of change in the right direction is greater than or equal to a threshold, the user interface is moved to the front of the virtual camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Yuki ONOZAWA, Daigo SHIMIZU, Kentaro KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20230367164
    Abstract: A display device includes an array substrate including a display region and a peripheral region, a counter substrate opposite to the array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate. The display region includes a plurality of data signal lines and a plurality of scanning signal lines, the peripheral region includes a first wiring pattern arranged with a plurality of wirings connected to each of the plurality of scanning signal lines and a second wiring pattern applied with a certain potential, the first wiring pattern includes a first straight portion extending along the first direction, a second straight portion extending along the second direction, and a bending portion connecting the first straight portion and the second straight portion, and the bending portion includes a first wiring having a staircase-like stepped shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Kentaro KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20230350257
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a first transparent substrate, a switching element including an oxide semiconductor, an organic insulating film covering the switching element, a transparent electrode including a first aperture penetrating to an upper surface of the organic insulating film, an inorganic insulating film including a second aperture penetrating to the upper surface in the first aperture, and a pixel electrode electrically connected to the switching element, and a second substrate including a second transparent substrate and opposed to the first substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Tatsunori MURAMOTO, Kentaro KAWAI, Yoshihide OHUE, Akihiro HANADA
  • Publication number: 20230350253
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a scanning line extending along a first direction, a signal line extending along a second direction, a switching element, a first connection electrode, a pixel electrode, and a feed line, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer containing polymer dispersed liquid crystal, and a light emitting module. The feed line includes an edge extending along the second direction. The first connection electrode is a transparent electrode formed of a same material as the feed line, extends along the first direction, and includes an end portion opposed to the edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Tatsunori MURAMOTO, Kentaro KAWAI, Yoshihide OHUE
  • Publication number: 20230350243
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a sealant formed bonding the first substrate with the second substrate, a liquid crystal layer surrounded by the sealant, and a light emitting module. The sealant includes a first portion, a second portion opposed to the first portion with the liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween, an inlet formed in the second portion, and a filling material filled in the inlet. The liquid crystal layer is arranged over a display area where an image is displayed, a first area between the display area and the first portion, and a second area between the display area and the second portion, in plan view. A first width of the first area is larger than a width of the second area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Tatsunori MURAMOTO, Kentaro KAWAI, Yoshihide OHUE, Kentaro OKUYAMA, Tenfu NAKAMURA, Koji KITAMURA
  • Patent number: 11752430
    Abstract: An example of an image display system includes a goggle apparatus including a display section. A virtual camera and a user interface are placed in a virtual space. In accordance with the orientation of the goggle apparatus, the orientation of the virtual camera in the virtual space is controlled. For example, in a case where the line of sight of the virtual camera rotates in a left direction in a yaw direction and then reverses in a right direction, and when the amount of change in the right direction is greater than or equal to a threshold, the user interface is moved to the front of the virtual camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Onozawa, Daigo Shimizu, Kentaro Kawai
  • Patent number: 11615569
    Abstract: An example of an image display system includes a goggle apparatus having a display section. A virtual camera and a user interface are placed in a virtual space. The orientation of the virtual camera in the virtual space is controlled in accordance with the orientation of the goggle apparatus. When the goggle apparatus rotates by an angle greater than or equal to a predetermined angle in a pitch direction, the user interface is moved to the front of the virtual camera in a yaw direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Onozawa, Daigo Shimizu, Kentaro Kawai
  • Publication number: 20220019113
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display portion, a first terminal, a second terminal located between the display portion and the first terminal, and an insulating film, in which each of the first terminal and the second terminal is a stacked layer body of a metal electrode and a first transparent electrode, in the first terminal, the first transparent electrode is in contact with an upper surface and a side surface of the metal electrode, in the second terminal, the insulating film is in contact with a side surface of the metal electrode, and the first transparent electrode is in contact with the upper surface of the metal electrode in an inside surrounded by the insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro KAWAI, Keita SASANUMA, Takayuki KATO
  • Publication number: 20210327114
    Abstract: An example of an image display system includes a goggle apparatus having a display section. A virtual camera and a user interface are placed in a virtual space. The orientation of the virtual camera in the virtual space is controlled in accordance with the orientation of the goggle apparatus. When the goggle apparatus rotates by an angle greater than or equal to a predetermined angle in a pitch direction, the user interface is moved to the front of the virtual camera in a yaw direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki ONOZAWA, Daigo SHIMIZU, Kentaro KAWAI
  • Patent number: 11069107
    Abstract: An example of an image display system includes a goggle apparatus having a display section. A virtual camera and a user interface are placed in a virtual space. The orientation of the virtual camera in the virtual space is controlled in accordance with the orientation of the goggle apparatus. When the goggle apparatus rotates by an angle greater than or equal to a predetermined angle in a pitch direction, the user interface is moved to the front of the virtual camera in a yaw direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Onozawa, Daigo Shimizu, Kentaro Kawai
  • Publication number: 20200302665
    Abstract: An example of an image display system includes a goggle apparatus having a display section. A virtual camera and a user interface are placed in a virtual space. The orientation of the virtual camera in the virtual space is controlled in accordance with the orientation of the goggle apparatus. When the goggle apparatus rotates by an angle greater than or equal to a predetermined angle in a pitch direction, the user interface is moved to the front of the virtual camera in a yaw direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Yuki ONOZAWA, Daigo SHIMIZU, Kentaro KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20200298114
    Abstract: An example of an image display system includes a goggle apparatus including a display section. A virtual camera and a user interface are placed in a virtual space. In accordance with the orientation of the goggle apparatus, the orientation of the virtual camera in the virtual space is controlled. For example, in a case where the line of sight of the virtual camera rotates in a left direction in a yaw direction and then reverses in a right direction, and when the amount of change in the right direction is greater than or equal to a threshold, the user interface is moved to the front of the virtual camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Yuki ONOZAWA, Daigo SHIMIZU, Kentaro KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20190136171
    Abstract: A well has a pair of side surfaces, and one of the side surfaces is in contact with a compartment of a first channel with a gas-permeable membrane being interposed therebetween and the other side surface is in contact with a compartment of a second channel with a gas-permeable membrane being interposed therebetween. The well is filled with a liquid cell culture medium, and in such a state, a high-concentration gas and a low-concentration gas, which are different in the concentration of a specific component from each other, are allowed to flow through the first and second channels, respectively, to form a concentration distribution of the specific component in the well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicants: SHIMADZU CORPORATION, KYOTO UNIVERSITY, WASEDA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tatsuya Munaka, Hirohisa Abe, Masaki Kanai, Masakazu Akechi, Taira Maekawa, Shinya Kimura, Eishi Ashihara, Shuichi Shoji, Kentaro Kawai
  • Patent number: 8765814
    Abstract: A compound represented by the following general formula (I) which has ADAM17 inhibitory activity, or a salt thereof, or a solvate thereof: wherein X represents a phenylene group; Y represents a hydrogen atom, —(CH2)mR1 or the like; R1 represents —NR5COR2, —NR5SO2R2 or —NR3R4; R2 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group, an aryl group, or a C1-C6 alkoxy group; R3 and R4 represent a C1-C6 alkyl group and the like; R5 represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-C6 alkyl group or the like; m indicates an integer of from 0 to 4; and Z represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-C6 alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Kaken Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Kawai, Shigeru Miyamoto, Masanao Shimano, Makoto Haino