Patents by Inventor Kimiaki Nakamura
Kimiaki Nakamura 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: 20240377683Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of first colored particles contained in a space between a first substrate and a second substrate; a light-emitting portion having a first light-emitting element provided on the first substrate, and a first-light-emitting-element driving circuit provided on the first substrate and configured to drive the first light-emitting element; a first transparent portion disposed in a direction along a main surface of the first substrate with respect to the light-emitting portion; a first electrode provided in the light-emitting portion; and a second electrode provided in the first transparent portion and being nckudestransparent. The display device is capable of switching between a light-transmitting state of the first transparent portion in which the first electrode attracts the plurality of first colored particles, and a light-blocking state of the first transparent portion in which the second electrode attracts the plurality of first colored particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2021Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: Kimiaki NAKAMURA, Masakazu SHIBASAKI, Yasuhiro HASEBA, Koji MURATA
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Patent number: 12007640Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of switching between a transparent state and a scattering state, reducing or preventing a decrease in transmittance in the transparent state, and reducing or preventing a decrease in luminance in the panel central portion in the scattering state. The liquid crystal display device includes, sequentially from its viewing surface side toward its back surface side: a first liquid crystal panel; a light source; and a second liquid crystal panel, the first liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components, the light source being configured to irradiate a back surface side main surface of the first liquid crystal panel with light from an oblique direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Murata, Yasuhiro Haseba, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Kimiaki Nakamura, Mariko Honda, Atsuko Kanashima, Tadashi Hasegawa, Shinji Shimada
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Publication number: 20240094577Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of switching between a transparent state and a scattering state, reducing or preventing a decrease in transmittance in the transparent state, and reducing or preventing a decrease in luminance in the panel central portion in the scattering state. The liquid crystal display device includes, sequentially from its viewing surface side toward its back surface side: a first liquid crystal panel; a light source; and a second liquid crystal panel, the first liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components, the light source being configured to irradiate a back surface side main surface of the first liquid crystal panel with light from an oblique direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Koji MURATA, Yasuhiro HASEBA, Kazutaka HANAOKA, Kimiaki NAKAMURA, Mariko HONDA, Atsuko KANASHIMA, Tadashi HASEGAWA, Shinji SHIMADA
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Patent number: 11852911Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of switching between a transparent state and a scattering state, reducing or preventing a decrease in transmittance in the transparent state, and reducing or preventing a decrease in luminance in the panel central portion in the scattering state. The liquid crystal display device includes, sequentially from its viewing surface side toward its back surface side: a first liquid crystal panel; a light source; and a second liquid crystal panel, the first liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components, the light source being configured to irradiate a back surface side main surface of the first liquid crystal panel with light from an oblique direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Murata, Yasuhiro Haseba, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Kimiaki Nakamura, Mariko Honda, Atsuko Kanashima, Tadashi Hasegawa, Shinji Shimada
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Publication number: 20230402889Abstract: A rotor constituting a rotating electric machine includes a rotating shaft and a permanent magnet. A sleeve covering the outer surface of the permanent magnet is attached to the rotating shaft. The sleeve is made of a carbon fiber reinforced polymer. A resin film is joined to an outer circumferential wall of the sleeve via a joining material. A plurality of ridges are formed on the outer circumferential wall of the resin film. A riblet recessed relatively to the plurality of ridges is formed between the plurality of ridges.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Yuji Ono, Tomoya Otani, Keiji Tada, Kaoru Tomioka, Tsutomu Yoshino, Kimiaki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20230402890Abstract: A rotor constituting a rotating electric machine includes a rotating shaft and a permanent magnet. A sleeve covering the outer surface of the permanent magnet is attached to the rotating shaft. A resin coating layer is formed on an outer circumferential wall of the sleeve. The resin coating layer includes a base portion and a plurality of ridges formed on the outer circumferential wall of the base portion. A riblet recessed relative to the plurality of ridges is formed between the plurality of ridges.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Yuji Ono, Keiji Tada, Tsutomu Yoshino, Kimiaki Nakamura, Kaoru Tomioka, Tomoya Otani, Koichi Oku
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Patent number: 11829021Abstract: Provided is a polymer dispersed liquid crystal display device including: a pair of substrates including an electrode on at least one substrate; and a composite layer disposed between the pair of substrates. The composite layer includes a liquid crystal component and a polymer network constituted by a cured product of a photopolymerizable liquid crystal compound, and is in a transparent state when no voltage is applied and in a scattering state when a voltage is applied, and the polymer network has a helical structure with a number of turns of from one to less than eight in the composite layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Koji Murata, Kimiaki Nakamura, Mariko Honda, Tadashi Hasegawa, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Yasuhiro Haseba, Shinji Shimada, Atsuko Kanashima
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Patent number: 11719972Abstract: The display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) layer and a light source, the PDLC layer containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components dispersed in the polymer network, the light source being apart from the liquid crystal panel with an air layer, and configured to emit light toward the liquid crystal panel from an oblique direction, the end portion and the central portion of the PDLC layer each having, in the scattering state, an angle dependence which changes a transmittance of light to be emitted from a front surface based on an angle at which light is incident on a back surface of the PDLC layer, with the angle dependence of the end portion being different from the angle dependence of the central portion, the light source irradiating the end portion and the central portion with light at different angles.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji Murata, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Kimiaki Nakamura, Atsuko Kanashima, Mariko Honda, Shinji Shimada
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Publication number: 20230205010Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display element capable of switching between a transparent state and a scattering state and of reducing or preventing a decrease in luminance in the scattering state. The liquid crystal display element includes a liquid crystal panel containing a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal containing a polymer network and a liquid crystal component, and a light source module including a light source adjacent to the liquid crystal panel and a mirror configured to reflect light emitted from the light source toward the liquid crystal panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Tomonori YOSHIDA, Yasuhiro HASEBA, Kimiaki NAKAMURA, Koji MURATA
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Publication number: 20230024383Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of switching between a transparent state and a scattering state, reducing or preventing a decrease in transmittance in the transparent state, and reducing or preventing a decrease in luminance in the panel central portion in the scattering state. The liquid crystal display device includes, sequentially from its viewing surface side toward its back surface side: a first liquid crystal panel; a light source; and a second liquid crystal panel, the first liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components, the light source being configured to irradiate a back surface side main surface of the first liquid crystal panel with light from an oblique direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Inventors: Koji MURATA, Yasuhiro HASEBA, Kazutaka HANAOKA, Kimiaki NAKAMURA, Mariko HONDA, Atsuko KANASHIMA, Tadashi HASEGAWA, Shinji SHIMADA
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Publication number: 20230004031Abstract: The display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) layer and a light source, the PDLC layer containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components dispersed in the polymer network, the light source being apart from the liquid crystal panel with an air layer, and configured to emit light toward the liquid crystal panel from an oblique direction, the end portion and the central portion of the PDLC layer each having, in the scattering state, an angle dependence which changes a transmittance of light to be emitted from a front surface based on an angle at which light is incident on a back surface of the PDLC layer, with the angle dependence of the end portion being different from the angle dependence of the central portion, the light source irradiating the end portion and the central portion with light at different angles.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Koji MURATA, Kazutaka HANAOKA, Kimiaki NAKAMURA, Atsuko KANASHIMA, Mariko HONDA, Shinji SHIMADA
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Publication number: 20220236598Abstract: Provided is a polymer dispersed liquid crystal display device including: a pair of substrates including an electrode on at least one substrate; and a composite layer disposed between the pair of substrates. The composite layer includes a liquid crystal component and a polymer network constituted by a cured product of a photopolymerizable liquid crystal compound, and is in a transparent state when no voltage is applied and in a scattering state when a voltage is applied, and the polymer network has a helical structure with a number of turns of from one to less than eight in the composite layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Koji MURATA, Kimiaki NAKAMURA, Mariko HONDA, Tadashi HASEGAWA, Kazutaka HANAOKA, Yasuhiro HASEBA, Shinji SHIMADA, Atsuko KANASHIMA
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Patent number: 10930226Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is manufactured at a low cost. In the liquid crystal display device, three sub-pixel electrodes are connected by inter-electrode connection portions to form one pixel electrode. One TFT is connected to the pixel electrode. A screen of a liquid crystal display panel is divided into n (n?2) of areas. Gate signal lines G of each divided area are scanned simultaneously one line at a time in each divided area. A backlight device emits light after completion of the scanning of each divided area.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidefumi Yoshida, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Takahiro Sasaki, Kimiaki Nakamura
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Patent number: 10741135Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes sub-pixel electrodes respectively provided to three sub-pixels, and an interelectrode connection portion that connects sub-pixel electrodes adjacent to each other among the sub-pixel electrodes. The interelectrode connection portion is provided in a position where boundaries of liquid crystal alignment directions of sub-pixels adjacent to each other are connected.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro Sasaki, Hidefumi Yoshida, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Kimiaki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20200201091Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a second substrate, the first substrate including in the following order to a liquid crystal layer side: a first electrode, an insulating layer, and a second electrode provided with an aperture, the liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules homogeneously aligned in a no-voltage-applied state, the aperture having an outline including a first outline portion and a second outline portion which are at different directions to each other in each of pixels, the liquid crystal display panel further including a rib protruding to the liquid crystal layer side and disposed between the first outline portion and the second outline portion on one or both of a liquid crystal layer-side surface of the first substrate and a liquid crystal layer-side surface of the second substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: KIMIAKI NAKAMURA, TAKASHI KATAYAMA, TAKAHIRO SASAKI, SHINPEI HIGASHIDA, KAZUTAKA HANAOKA, HIDEFUMI YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20200160799Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is manufactured at a low cost. In the liquid crystal display device, three sub-pixel electrodes are connected by inter-electrode connection portions to form one pixel electrode. One TFT is connected to the pixel electrode. A screen of a liquid crystal display panel is divided into n (n?2) of areas. Gate signal lines G of each divided area are scanned simultaneously one line at a time in each divided area. A backlight device emits light after completion of the scanning of each divided area.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: HIDEFUMI YOSHIDA, KAZUTAKA HANAOKA, TAKAHIRO SASAKI, KIMIAKI NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20200019022Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (100) includes a pair of substrates (11, 21), a liquid crystal layer (30) sandwiched between the pair of substrates (11, 21), an alignment film (12) disposed between the liquid crystal layer (30) and at least one substrate (11), and an alignment-sustaining layer (40) disposed between the alignment film (12) and the liquid crystal layer (30) and regulating the tilt direction of at least liquid crystal molecules close to the alignment film (12) among the liquid crystal molecules constituting the liquid crystal layer (30).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2018Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: KIMIAKI NAKAMURA, MASANOBU MIZUSAKI, TAKASHI KATAYAMA
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Publication number: 20190295482Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes sub-pixel electrodes respectively provided to three sub-pixels, and an interelectrode connection portion that connects sub-pixel electrodes adjacent to each other among the sub-pixel electrodes. The interelectrode connection portion is provided in a position where boundaries of liquid crystal alignment directions of sub-pixels adjacent to each other are connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: TAKAHIRO SASAKI, HIDEFUMI YOSHIDA, KAZUTAKA HANAOKA, KIMIAKI NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20190187522Abstract: The liquid crystal display device including: a first substrate; a liquid crystal layer; and a second substrate, the first substrate including a first electrode, and a second electrode, the liquid crystal molecules being aligned in a direction parallel to the first substrate with no voltage applied, the second electrode being provided with openings, the openings each having a long shape with two or more wide portions and one or more narrow portions, the two or more wide portions and the one or more narrow portions in each of the openings alternating with each other in a lengthwise direction of the opening, each of the wide portions of one of adjacent two openings being adjacent to one of the narrow portions of the other of the adjacent two openings, each of the narrow portions of the one opening being adjacent to one of the wide portions of the other opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: TAKASHI KATAYAMA, SHINPEI HIGASHIDA, TAKAHIRO SASAKI, KAZUTAKA HANAOKA, KIMIAKI NAKAMURA, HIDEFUMI YOSHIDA, SHINJI SHIMADA
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Patent number: 10247247Abstract: A spline connection structure includes a shaft portion having teeth with crowned tooth surfaces formed at equal intervals on an outer circumferential surface and a cylindrical portion having grooves into which the teeth of the shaft portion are fitted formed on an inner circumferential surface are connected. Two adjacent tooth surfaces facing each other are bent while maintaining a constant distance therebetween in a tooth width direction when viewed from a diameter direction of the shaft portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2017Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: IHI CorporationInventors: Nobutaka Yanagidani, Daigo Yoneda, Norimasa Taga, Junichi Enomoto, Kimiaki Nakamura