Patents by Inventor Kimitaka Nishimura

Kimitaka Nishimura 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: 11124657
    Abstract: A transparent laminate including a transparent substrate and structure layer, wherein the structure layer contains protrusion portions, depression portions, or both on a surface thereof, and an average distance between the adjacent protrusion portions or between the adjacent depression portions is equal to or less than a visible light wavelength, the structure layer includes a polymerized product of an active energy ray curable resin composition, the resin composition includes a composition of a (meth)acryloyl group-containing polymerizable compound, the compound composition includes one or more from each of (A), (B), and (C): (A) a monofunctional (meth)acryloyl group-containing polymerizable compound; (B) alkylene glycol di(meth)acrylate; and (C) trifunctional or higher (meth)acrylate, the (A) satisfies certain conditions specifying a type and amount of a compound, and a ratio (E?150/E?50) of storage elastic modulus E?150 of the structure layer at 150° C. to storage elastic modulus E?50 thereof at 50° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Dexerials Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Masayasu Kakinuma, Masaki Takenouchi, Satoshi Kawamura, Kiyoaki Tanifuji, Emi Yoshida, Kimitaka Nishimura, Shunichi Kajiya, Shigehisa Ohkawara, Maki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10866436
    Abstract: There is provided a novel and improved eyeglasses protection device capable of suppressing occurrence of reflected light that may enter eyes of a user of the eyeglasses protection device and thus reducing fatigue of the user, the eyeglasses protection device including: a lens surface protective part configured to protect a lens surface of eyeglasses. The lens surface protective part is equipped with a substrate film, and a micro concavo-convex structure that is formed on a surface of the substrate film, with an average period of the concavo-convex part being equal to or less than a wavelength of visible light. According to the aforementioned viewpoint of the present invention, it is possible to suppress occurrence of reflected light that may enter eyes of a user of the eyeglasses protection device because the micro concavo-convex structure is formed in the lens surface protective part of the eyeglasses protection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimitaka Nishimura, Satoshi Kawamura
  • Patent number: 10575572
    Abstract: There is provided a transparent film for a face protection shield in which transparency is enhanced and visibility from a non-wearer is also enhanced, the transparent film for a face protection shield including: a transparent base material having flexibility; and a transparent resin layer configured to be laminated on at least one of surfaces of the transparent base material, the transparent resin layer having on a surface a plurality of structural bodies including concavities or convexities provided at a pitch of less than or equal to a visible light wavelength. A refractive index of the transparent base material is different from a refractive index of the transparent resin layer, and an interface between the transparent base material and the transparent resin layer has a concave-convex shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayasu Kakinuma, Kimitaka Nishimura, Satoshi Kawamura, Hideki Terashima, Eiji Ohta, Shunichi Kajiya, Jun Sasaki, Kiyoaki Tanifuji
  • Patent number: 10175390
    Abstract: An optical element is provided which reflects a reduced amount of light even under a very high intensity lighting system used for a surgical operation, a dental treatment etc., has anti-fogging performance, and is transparent and useful for face protection. The optical element has a flexible transparent substrate and a plurality of structures disposed on opposite surfaces of the substrate at a pitch equal to or less than the wavelength of visible light. The structures are formed from a cured product of a resin having a hydrophilic functional group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimitaka Nishimura, Toru Abiko, Shinichi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 10000037
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to prevent an increase in reflectance and a decrease in transmittance, retain the intact instantaneousness and ease of stripping, improve the releasability of the adhesive, avoid the generation of distortion due to the thickness of the adhesive, and ensure the visibility, by laminating filmy members (10) each equipped with a moth-eye structure (12). This transparent laminate (1) comprises a plurality of filmy members (10) which each comprise a base (11) and, disposed on at least one surface thereof, a structure (12) made up of recesses and protrusions which have been regularly arranged at a pitch not longer than the wavelengths of visible light. At least the ends of the filmy members (10) have been superposed, with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (2) interposed therebetween. In the superposed filmy members (10), there is a space (14) between the opposed structures (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Dexerials Corporation
    Inventors: Kimitaka Nishimura, Emi Yoshida, Eiji Ohta, Shinichi Matsumura, Shigehisa Ohkawara
  • Publication number: 20180148578
    Abstract: A transparent laminate including a transparent substrate and structure layer, wherein the structure layer contains protrusion portions, depression portions, or both on a surface thereof, and an average distance between the adjacent protrusion portions or between the adjacent depression portions is equal to or less than a visible light wavelength, the structure layer includes a polymerized product of an active energy ray curable resin composition, the resin composition includes a composition of a (meth)acryloyl group-containing polymerizable compound, the compound composition includes one or more from each of (A), (B), and (C): (A) a monofunctional (meth)acryloyl group-containing polymerizable compound; (B) alkylene glycol di(meth)acrylate; and (C) trifunctional or higher (meth)acrylate, the (A) satisfies certain conditions specifying a type and amount of a compound, and a ratio (E?150/E?50) of storage elastic modulus E?150 of the structure layer at 150° C. to storage elastic modulus E?50 thereof at 50° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Masayasu Kakinuma, Masaki Takenouchi, Satoshi Kawamura, Kiyoaki Tanifuji, Emi Yoshida, Kimitaka Nishimura, Shunichi Kajiya, Shigehisa Ohkawara, Maki Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20170208878
    Abstract: There is provided a transparent film for a face protection shield in which transparency is enhanced and visibility from a non-wearer is also enhanced, the transparent film for a face protection shield including: a transparent base material having flexibility; and a transparent resin layer configured to be laminated on at least one of surfaces of the transparent base material, the transparent resin layer having on a surface a plurality of structural bodies including concavities or convexities provided at a pitch of less than or equal to a visible light wavelength. A refractive index of the transparent base material is different from a refractive index of the transparent resin layer, and an interface between the transparent base material and the transparent resin layer has a concave-convex shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayasu KAKINUMA, Kimitaka NISHIMURA, Satoshi KAWAMURA, Hideki TERASHIMA, Eiji OHTA, Shunichi KAJIYA, Jun SASAKI, Kiyoaki TANIFUJI
  • Publication number: 20170075146
    Abstract: There is provided a novel and improved eyeglasses protection device capable of suppressing occurrence of reflected light that may enter eyes of a user of the eyeglasses protection device and thus reducing fatigue of the user, the eyeglasses protection device including: a lens surface protective part configured to protect a lens surface of eyeglasses. The lens surface protective part is equipped with a substrate film, and a micro concavo-convex structure that is formed on a surface of the substrate film, with an average period of the concavo-convex part being equal to or less than a wavelength of visible light. According to the aforementioned viewpoint of the present invention, it is possible to suppress occurrence of reflected light that may enter eyes of a user of the eyeglasses protection device because the micro concavo-convex structure is formed in the lens surface protective part of the eyeglasses protection device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimitaka NISHIMURA, Satoshi KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20160193808
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to prevent an increase in reflectance and a decrease in transmittance, retain the intact instantaneousness and ease of stripping, improve the releasability of the adhesive, avoid the generation of distortion due to the thickness of the adhesive, and ensure the visibility, by laminating filmy members (10) each equipped with a moth-eye structure (12). This transparent laminate (1) comprises a plurality of filmy members (10) which each comprise a base (11) and, disposed on at least one surface thereof, a structure (12) made up of recesses and protrusions which have been regularly arranged at a pitch not longer than the wavelengths of visible light. At least the ends of the filmy members (10) have been superposed, with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (2) interposed therebetween. In the superposed filmy members (10), there is a space (14) between the opposed structures (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Kimitaka NISHIMURA, Emi YOSHIDA, Eiji OHTA, Shinichi MATSUMURA, Shigehisa OHKAWARA
  • Publication number: 20150323704
    Abstract: An optical element is provided which reflects a reduced amount of light even under a very high intensity lighting system used for a surgical operation, a dental treatment etc., has anti-fogging performance, and is transparent and useful for face protection. The optical element has a flexible transparent substrate and a plurality of structures disposed on opposite surfaces of the substrate at a pitch equal to or less than the wavelength of visible light. The structures are formed from a cured product of a resin having a hydrophilic functional group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Kimitaka NISHIMURA, Toru ABIKO, Shinichi MATSUMURA
  • Patent number: 8309903
    Abstract: In an optical device, a number of structures having higher portions or lower portions are arranged at a fine pitch equal to or shorter than a wavelength of visible light on a surface of a base. Each of the structures is arranged to form a plurality of arc track rows on the surface of the base, and to form a quasi-hexagonal lattice pattern, and the structure has an elliptical cone or truncated elliptical cone shape having a major axis in a circumferential direction of the arc tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Disc & Digital Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Sohmei Endoh, Kazuya Hayashibe, Tooru Nagai, Ikuhiro Hideta, Shirasagi Toshihiko, Kimitaka Nishimura, Tadao Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120092756
    Abstract: An optical body including an optical layer having a belt-like or rectangular shape and having an incident surface on which light is incident, and a reflective layer formed in the optical layer and having a corner cube shape, wherein the reflective layer directionally reflects the light incident on the incident surface at an incident angle (?, ?), and a direction of a ridge of the corner cube shape is substantially parallel to a lengthwise direction of the belt-shaped or rectangular optical layer. ? is an angle formed by a perpendicular line with respect to the incident surface and the incident light incident on the incident surface or reflected light emerging from the incident surface, and ? is an angle formed by the ridge of the corner cube shape and a component resulting from projecting the incident light or the reflected light to the incident surface).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Yoshida, Masashi Enomoto, Tsutomu Nagahama, Kimitaka Nishimura, Hayato Hasegawa
  • Patent number: D792498
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Shigehisa Ohkawara, Satoshi Kawamura, Kimitaka Nishimura
  • Patent number: D792920
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Shigehisa Ohkawara, Satoshi Kawamura, Kimitaka Nishimura
  • Patent number: D801421
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Shigehisa Ohkawara, Satoshi Kawamura, Kimitaka Nishimura
  • Patent number: D801422
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Shigehisa Ohkawara, Satoshi Kawamura, Kimitaka Nishimura
  • Patent number: D801423
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Shigehisa Ohkawara, Satoshi Kawamura, Kimitaka Nishimura
  • Patent number: D801424
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Shigehisa Ohkawara, Satoshi Kawamura, Kimitaka Nishimura
  • Patent number: D804565
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: DEXERAILS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Shigehisa Ohkawara, Satoshi Kawamura, Kimitaka Nishimura
  • Patent number: D805577
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Dexerials Corporation
    Inventor: Kimitaka Nishimura