Patents by Inventor Kimiaki Nakaya
Kimiaki Nakaya 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: 20220147779Abstract: A printer control system for controlling an inkjet printer that prints an image having a predetermined thickness on a print medium includes: an image data creating/editing portion, configured for creating and editing an image data; and a printer control portion, configured for converting the image data sent from the image data creating/editing portion into a printing data and sending the printing data to the inkjet printer. When a portion for allowing the image to have a thickness in the image printed on the print medium is defined as a thick portion, the image data sent from the image data creating/editing portion to the printer control portion includes at least one of: a thickness information regarding a thickness of the thick portion, and a shape information regarding a shape of an end portion of the thick portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Kaneko, Kimiaki Nakaya
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Patent number: 11040883Abstract: Provided is a graphite plate, consisting essentially of: graphite; and pores, wherein said graphite plate has a porosity from 1% to 30%. Further provided is a method for producing a graphite plate, including: applying welding pressure to at least one glass-like carbon material in a state in which said at least one glass-like carbon material is maintained in an inert atmosphere under heating conditions, to produce a graphite plate having a porosity from 1% to 30%.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2017Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidetoshi Kitaura, Naomi Nishiki, Atsushi Tanaka, Kimiaki Nakaya
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Patent number: 10435607Abstract: A graphite material has a flexible part and can be utilized as a heat-conveying material in a narrow space. The graphite material, includes: at least one heat-conveying part; and a flexible part. A method for producing a graphite material, includes: (i) subjecting at least one film serving as a material to a heat treatment to obtain at least one carbonaceous film; (ii) providing a monolayer or multilayer structure including the at least one carbonaceous film; and (iii) applying heat and pressure to at least one part of the monolayer or multilayer structure in an inert atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Tanaka, Naomi Nishiki, Hidetoshi Kitaura, Kimiaki Nakaya
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Patent number: 10357942Abstract: A graphite-silicon composite, including: graphite; silicon; and an intermediate layer that is located between the graphite and the silicon, wherein the intermediate layer includes oxygen, carbon and silicon. Furthermore, provided is a method for producing a graphite-silicon composite, including: layering graphite and silicon; and heating the layered graphite and silicon while applying pressure to them, wherein, during heating the layered graphite and silicon while applying pressure to them, an oxygen concentration in the atmosphere is adjusted to 0.2 vol %, the applied pressure is adjusted to 24.5 MPa or higher, and the heating temperature is adjusted to 1260° C. or higher.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2016Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Naomi Nishiki, Hidetoshi Kitaura, Atsushi Tanaka, Kimiaki Nakaya, Henrik Rønnow
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Patent number: 10085495Abstract: The clothing having a frontal land and a rear land includes: a thermal storage unit provided on at least one portion of the frontal land of the clothing; and a planar thermoconductive sheet located in a planar between the frontal land and the rear land, the planar thermoconductive sheet having a thermal conduction path to the thermal storage unit, and the planar thermoconductive sheet being higher in thermoconductivity than the frontal land and the rear land. The planar thermoconductive sheet includes a resin component and graphite particles. Basal plane of each graphite particle is parallel to the direction of the plane of the planar thermoconductive sheet.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2013Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidetoshi Kitaura, Naomi Nishiki, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Kimiaki Nakaya, Atsushi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20170320740Abstract: Provided is a graphite plate, consisting essentially of: graphite; and pores, wherein said graphite plate has a porosity from 1% to 30%. Further provided is a method for producing a graphite plate, including: applying welding pressure to at least one glass-like carbon material in a state in which said at least one glass-like carbon material is maintained in an inert atmosphere under heating conditions, to produce a graphite plate having a porosity from 1% to 30%.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2017Publication date: November 9, 2017Inventors: HIDETOSHI KITAURA, NAOMI NISHIKI, ATSUSHI TANAKA, KIMIAKI NAKAYA
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Patent number: 9802206Abstract: A dispersion of suspended single-layer graphene, multilayer graphene, and graphite is used. A magnetic field is applied to the dispersion to separate the single-layer graphene from the dispersion. By applying the magnetic field, the single-layer graphene, the multilayer graphene, and the graphite are situated at different locations in solvent by the difference in the diamagnetism strengths of the single-layer graphene, the multilayer graphene, and the graphite.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidetoshi Kitaura, Naomi Nishiki, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Kimiaki Nakaya, Atsushi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20170275515Abstract: A graphite material has a flexible part and can be utilized as a heat-conveying material in a narrow space. The graphite material, includes: at least one heat-conveying part; and a flexible part. A method for producing a graphite material, includes: (i) subjecting at least one film serving as a material to a heat treatment to obtain at least one carbonaceous film; (ii) providing a monolayer or multilayer structure including the at least one carbonaceous film; and (iii) applying heat and pressure to at least one part of the monolayer or multilayer structure in an inert atmosphere.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventors: ATSUSHI TANAKA, NAOMI NISHIKI, HIDETOSHI KITAURA, KIMIAKI NAKAYA
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Patent number: 9746259Abstract: A heat conductor includes a first layer containing a first resin component and first flake graphite fillers each having a basal plane; and a second layer containing a second resin component and second flake graphite fillers each having a basal plane. The heat conductor is a laminate including the first layer and the second layer, an average of first angles in the first layer is 35 degrees or smaller, each of the first angles is an acute angle between the basal plane of a corresponding one of the first flake graphite fillers and a first laminated surface of the laminate, an average of second angles in the second layer ranges from 55 degrees to 90 degrees, and each of the second angles is an acute angle between the basal plane of a corresponding one of the second flake graphite fillers and a second laminated surface of the laminate.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2015Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Tanaka, Naomi Nishiki, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Shigeki Sakaguchi, Hidetoshi Kitaura, Kimiaki Nakaya
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Publication number: 20170015560Abstract: A graphite plate has a surface roughness Ra from 10 ?m to less than 40 ?m and a surface-unevenness variation of 0.01% to 0.135% in any span 80 mm long within the surface of the graphite plate. A method for producing a graphite plate, includes r subjecting a polymer film to a heat treatment in an inert gas, wherein the heat treatment is conducted at 2400° C. to 3200° C., and a pressure of 10 kg/cm2 to 100 kg/cm2 is applied to the polymer film at 200° C. or higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Naomi NISHIKI, Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA, Hidetoshi KITAURA, Atsushi TANAKA, Kimiaki NAKAYA
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Publication number: 20170015084Abstract: A graphite-silicon composite, including: graphite; silicon; and an intermediate layer that is located between the graphite and the silicon, wherein the intermediate layer includes oxygen, carbon and silicon. Furthermore, provided is a method for producing a graphite-silicon composite, including: layering graphite and silicon; and heating the layered graphite and silicon while applying pressure to them, wherein, during heating the layered graphite and silicon while applying pressure to them, an oxygen concentration in the atmosphere is adjusted to 0.2 vol %, the applied pressure is adjusted to 24.5 MPa or higher, and the heating temperature is adjusted to 1260° C. or higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: KAZUHIRO NISHIKAWA, NAOMI NISHIKI, HIDETOSHI KITAURA, ATSUSHI TANAKA, KIMIAKI NAKAYA
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Patent number: 9512289Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an anisotropic heat conductive composition comprising: resin; and graphite fillers dispersed into the resin, wherein the graphite fillers each have a maximum diameter A in parallel with a basal plane of each of the graphite fillers and a maximum length C perpendicular to the basal plane, an average of the maximum diameters A ranges from 1 ?m to 300 ?m, an average ratio of the maximum diameter A to the maximum length C represented by A/C is at least 30, a content of the graphite fillers is 20 mass % to 40 mass %, and an average of a smaller angle made by the basal plane and a sheet surface of the sheet anisotropic heat conductive composition is less than 15°.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Tanaka, Naomi Nishiki, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Hidetoshi Kitaura, Kimiaki Nakaya, Honami Nawa
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Patent number: 9487690Abstract: The present invention relates to an anisotropic heat conductive composition including flake graphite particles and a resin composition for the particles to be dispersed therein. When the particles have a basal plane, a maximum diameter a in a direction of the basal plane, and a thickness c perpendicular to the basal plane, a/c is 30 or more on average, and a content of the particles is more than 40 mass % and 90 mass % or less. Since the composition includes the particles having a particular shape, when it is formed into a sheet, an anisotropic heat conductive path can be efficiently created therein. Thus, the present invention can provide a molded product in sheet form, suited to have therein a heat conductive path capable of dispersing heat from a high temperature region to a low temperature region.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2012Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Tanaka, Naomi Nishiki, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Hidetoshi Kitaura, Kimiaki Nakaya, Katsufumi Shimanaka, Akiyoshi Azechi
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Publication number: 20150330724Abstract: Provided is a heat conductor including: a first layer containing a first resin component and a plurality of flake graphite fillers each having a basal plane; and a second layer containing a second resin component and the plurality of flake graphite fillers, wherein the heat conductor is a laminate including the first layer and the second layer, an average of first angles in the first layer is 35 degrees or smaller, each of the first angles being an acute angle between the basal plane of a corresponding one of the flake graphite fillers and a laminated surface of the laminate, and an average of second angles in the second layer ranges from 55 degrees to 90 degrees, each of the second angles being an acute angle between the basal plane of a corresponding one of the flake graphite fillers and the laminated surface of the laminate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Atsushi TANAKA, Naomi NISHIKI, Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA, Shigeki SAKAGUCHI, Hidetoshi KITAURA, Kimiaki NAKAYA
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Publication number: 20150136881Abstract: The invention uses a dispersion (303) of suspended single-layer graphene (201), multilayer graphene (202), and graphite (203), and applies a magnetic field to the dispersion (303) to separate the single-layer graphene (201) from the dispersion (303). In the magnetic field applying step of the graphene producing method, the single-layer graphene (201), the multilayer graphene (202), and the graphite (203) are situated at different locations in solvent by using the difference in the diamagnetism strengths of the single-layer graphene (201), the multilayer graphene (202), and the graphite (203).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Hidetoshi Kitaura, Naomi Nishiki, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Kimiaki Nakaya, Atsushi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20150030835Abstract: The present invention relates to an anisotropic heat conductive composition including flake graphite particles and a resin composition for the particles to be dispersed therein. When the particles have a basal plane, a maximum diameter a in a direction of the basal plane, and a thickness c perpendicular to the basal plane, a/c is 30 or more on average, and a content of the particles is more than 40 mass % and 90 mass % or less. Since the composition includes the particles having a particular shape, when it is formed into a sheet, an anisotropic heat conductive path can be efficiently created therein. Thus, the present invention can provide a molded product in sheet form, suited to have therein a heat conductive path capable of dispersing heat from a high temperature region to a low temperature region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2012Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Tanaka, Naomi Nishiki, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Hidetoshi Kitaura, Kimiaki Nakaya, Katsufumi Shimanaka, Akiyoshi Azechi
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Publication number: 20140374648Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an anisotropic heat conductive composition comprising: resin; and graphite fillers dispersed into the resin, wherein the graphite fillers each have a maximum diameter A in parallel with a basal plane of each of the graphite fillers and a maximum length C perpendicular to the basal plane, an average of the maximum diameters A ranges from 1 ?m to 300 ?m, an average ratio of the maximum diameter A to the maximum length C represented by A/C is at least 30, a content of the graphite fillers is 20 mass % to 40 mass %, and an average of a smaller angle made by the basal plane and a sheet surface of the sheet anisotropic heat conductive composition is less than 15°.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Atsushi TANAKA, Naomi NISHIKI, Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA, Hidetoshi KITAURA, Kimiaki NAKAYA, Honami NAWA
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Patent number: 8877318Abstract: A graphite structure includes a graphite plate (1) that is made of a highly heat conductive material and has a thickness of 15 ?m or less. A Ti layer (3) having a thickness of 10 nm to 200 nm covers the inner surfaces of through holes (2) penetrating the laminate of the graphite plate (1) from the front side to the back side of the laminate. Furthermore, continuous holes (4) are formed inside the through holes (2). This configuration can achieve a smaller thickness and high reliability while keeping high thermal conductivity of graphite.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2013Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Naomi Nishiki, Hidetoshi Kitaura, Kimiaki Nakaya, Atsushi Tanaka
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Patent number: 8319108Abstract: A mounting structure formed by bonding the electrodes of a substantially planar electronic component to the electrodes provided on the mounting surface of a circuit board includes a sealing body 5 formed between one main surface of the electronic component and the circuit board and/or on the other main surface of the electronic component. The sealing body 5 is composed of a plurality of layers having different adhesive strengths and thermal conductivities, wherein a layer having a relatively high adhesion strength is arranged in a region being in contact with either one of the electronic component and the circuit board, and a layer having a relatively high thermal conductivity is arranged in a region being in contact with none of the electronic component and the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Atsushi Yamaguchi, Koso Matsuno, Ryo Kuwabara, Hiroe Kowada, Kimiaki Nakaya
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Patent number: 8227090Abstract: A bonding material that has a melting temperature of 270° C. or higher and that does not contain lead is inexpensively provided. An electronic element and an electrode of an electronic component are bonded using a bonding material containing an alloy that contains Bi as the main component and that contains 0.2 to 0.8 wt % Cu and 0.02 to 0.2 wt % Ge.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2007Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Akio Furusawa, Kenichiro Suetsugu, Shigeki Sakaguchi, Kimiaki Nakaya