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).

  • Publication number: 20220147779
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kaneko, Kimiaki Nakaya
  • Patent number: 11040883
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kitaura, Naomi Nishiki, Atsushi Tanaka, Kimiaki Nakaya
  • Patent number: 10435607
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanaka, Naomi Nishiki, Hidetoshi Kitaura, Kimiaki Nakaya
  • Patent number: 10357942
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Naomi Nishiki, Hidetoshi Kitaura, Atsushi Tanaka, Kimiaki Nakaya, Henrik Rønnow
  • Patent number: 10085495
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kitaura, Naomi Nishiki, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Kimiaki Nakaya, Atsushi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20170320740
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: HIDETOSHI KITAURA, NAOMI NISHIKI, ATSUSHI TANAKA, KIMIAKI NAKAYA
  • Patent number: 9802206
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kitaura, Naomi Nishiki, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Kimiaki Nakaya, Atsushi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20170275515
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: ATSUSHI TANAKA, NAOMI NISHIKI, HIDETOSHI KITAURA, KIMIAKI NAKAYA
  • Patent number: 9746259
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanaka, Naomi Nishiki, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Shigeki Sakaguchi, Hidetoshi Kitaura, Kimiaki Nakaya
  • Publication number: 20170015560
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Naomi NISHIKI, Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA, Hidetoshi KITAURA, Atsushi TANAKA, Kimiaki NAKAYA
  • Publication number: 20170015084
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: KAZUHIRO NISHIKAWA, NAOMI NISHIKI, HIDETOSHI KITAURA, ATSUSHI TANAKA, KIMIAKI NAKAYA
  • Patent number: 9512289
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanaka, Naomi Nishiki, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Hidetoshi Kitaura, Kimiaki Nakaya, Honami Nawa
  • Patent number: 9487690
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanaka, Naomi Nishiki, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Hidetoshi Kitaura, Kimiaki Nakaya, Katsufumi Shimanaka, Akiyoshi Azechi
  • Publication number: 20150330724
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Atsushi TANAKA, Naomi NISHIKI, Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA, Shigeki SAKAGUCHI, Hidetoshi KITAURA, Kimiaki NAKAYA
  • Publication number: 20150136881
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kitaura, Naomi Nishiki, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Kimiaki Nakaya, Atsushi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20150030835
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanaka, Naomi Nishiki, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Hidetoshi Kitaura, Kimiaki Nakaya, Katsufumi Shimanaka, Akiyoshi Azechi
  • Publication number: 20140374648
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Atsushi TANAKA, Naomi NISHIKI, Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA, Hidetoshi KITAURA, Kimiaki NAKAYA, Honami NAWA
  • Patent number: 8877318
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Naomi Nishiki, Hidetoshi Kitaura, Kimiaki Nakaya, Atsushi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8319108
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Yamaguchi, Koso Matsuno, Ryo Kuwabara, Hiroe Kowada, Kimiaki Nakaya
  • Patent number: 8227090
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Furusawa, Kenichiro Suetsugu, Shigeki Sakaguchi, Kimiaki Nakaya