Patents by Inventor Koichi Minato

Koichi Minato 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: 20090257007
    Abstract: A method of evaluating a color filter including a substrate, and at least three color pixels disposed thereon, the method includes determining an oblique visibility of a liquid crystal display device equipped with the color filter on the basis of value ?1 obtained from the equation (1): ?1=?ab?(?)·T(?)d???(1) wherein “a” and “b” are values respectively representing a wavelength range of a continuous wavelength light and satisfying conditions of 380?a, b?780 and a<b; ?(?) represents an optical retardation obtained by irradiating each of color pixels with a continuous wavelength light containing light components with wavelength ? falling within a range of 380 nm to 780 nm at an incident angle, and subjecting the transmitted light to measurement using a spectroscopic ellipsometer, and T(?) represents a spectral transmittance of the color pixels measured at the wavelength ? falling within a range of 380 nm-780 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicants: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD., TOYO INK MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Minato, Takeshi Itoi, Sosuke Akao, Hidesato Hagiwara, Masayuki Yamamoto, Yuki Saito
  • Publication number: 20090002858
    Abstract: A color filter includes red, green and blue filter segments and is adapted to be used in a liquid crystal display device using, as a light source, a white LED having specified spectral properties. The red filter segment has a 50% transmittance wavelength within a range of 595 to 610 nm and a transmittance of 85% or more at a wavelength of 630 nm. The blue filter segment has a maximum transmittance wavelength of 455 nm or less and a transmittance of 55% or more at a wavelength of 450 nm. A thickness of each of the red, green and blue filter segments is 3.0 ?m or less. A liquid crystal display device including this color filter and the white LED is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Satoshi Okutsu, Kenro Sunahara, Atsushi Nishida, Yukino Miyagawa, Tomoyuki Kadowaki, Mie Shimizu, Takeshi Itoi, Koichi Minato
  • Patent number: 7420632
    Abstract: A color filter is provided with red, green and blue color filter segments. When chromaticity coordinates (x, y) in a chromaticity diagram of XYZ color specification system are measured with the color filter being sandwiched between two polarizers, a chromaticity (xp, yp) of parallel-transmitted light and a chromaticity (xc, yc) of orthogonal-transmitted light satisfy the following formula (1): ?xy=[(xp?xc)2+(yp?yc)2]1/2<0.130??(1) A liquid crystal display device is provided with such a color filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignees: Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd., Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyo Tanaka, Hidesato Hagiwara, Takeshi Itoi, Takumi Saito, Koichi Minato
  • Publication number: 20080180611
    Abstract: A coloring composition for a color filter, which includes a transparent resin, an organic pigment dispersed in the transparent resin, and a retardation-regulating agent containing a compound which is capable of increasing a retardation. A color filter which is provided with colored pixels formed on a transparent substrate by using this coloring composition. A liquid crystal display device which is provided with this color filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Minato, Mie Shimizu, Hidesato Hagiwara, Sohei Kadota
  • Publication number: 20080170187
    Abstract: A photosensitive coloring composition including a photo-polymerizable monomer, a resinous binder, a polymerization initiator, a coloring agent and a solvent, and having an exposure sensitivity property in which ? (=tan ?) is confined to 1.33 or more and a residual rate of a film of the photosensitive coloring composition after development is 0% at an exposure dose of not more than 23% of the minimum exposure dose that makes the residual rate of the film not lower than 85%, when a rising angle of an exposure sensitivity curve is defined as ? in the exposure sensitivity curve to be derived by plotting exposure sensitivity in coordinates with an abscissa thereof representing common logarithm of the exposure dose and with an ordinate thereof representing the residual rate of the film after development.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mie Shimizu, Koichi Minato, Takeshi Itoi
  • Publication number: 20080143935
    Abstract: A color filter comprising a substrate, a red pixel, green pixel and blue pixel, each being disposed on the substrate, wherein a perpendicular optical retardation RRth of the red pixel, a perpendicular optical retardation GRth of the green pixel, and a perpendicular optical retardation BRth of the blue pixel satisfy the following formulas (1) and (2): |(RRth?BRth)|?|(GRth?BRth)|?0 ??(1) |(RRth?BRth)|?|(RRth?GRth)|?0 ??(2) wherein RRth, GRth and BRth represent, respectively, a product of a thickness [nm] of a pixel and a value obtained by subtracting a value of thickness-wise refractive index from an average value of an in-plane refractive index of each of these pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sosuke Akao, Koichi Minato, Satoshi Ohkuma, Yoshinori Nagasaki, Takeshi Itoi, Mitsuhisa Hatashima
  • Publication number: 20070202272
    Abstract: A red-colored film in which when an elliptically polarized light is incident on the film in a direction 45° aslant from a normal line direction with respect to a surface of the film, a light transmitted through the film has an average amplitude transmittance ratio (av. tan ?) in a wavelength region of 575 to 635 nm, which satisfies the following equation (1): 0.960<av. tan ?<1.040 ??(1). A red-colored composition contains a red pigment A having a BET specific surface area in the range from 90 to 140 m2/g, a red pigment B having a BET specific surface area in the range from 70 to 85 m2/g, and a pigment carrier formed of a transparent resin, a precursor of the transparent resin or a mixture of the tarns parent resin and precursor thereof. A color filter has the red-colored film as a red color filter segment. The liquid crystal display device includes the color filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicants: TOYO INK CO., LTD., TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Yamamoto, Akira Hirano, Hideyo Tanaka, Yusuke Iida, Satoshi Ohkuma, Koichi Minato, Takeshi Itoi, Hidesato Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20050219443
    Abstract: A color filter is provided with red, green and blue color filter segments. When chromaticity coordinates (x, y) in a chromaticity diagram of XYZ color specification system are measured with the color filter being sandwiched between two polarizers, a chromaticity (xp, yp) of parallel-transmitted light and a chromaticity (xc, yc) of orthogonal-transmitted light satisfy the following formula (1): ?xy=[(xp?xc)2+(yp?yc)2]1/2<0.130??(1) A liquid crystal display device is provided with such a color filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Applicants: TOYO INK MFG. CO., LTD., TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyo Tanaka, Hidesato Hagiwara, Takeshi Itoi, Takumi Saito, Koichi Minato
  • Patent number: 5519051
    Abstract: Compounds are described having the formula ##STR1## wherein A denotes C.dbd.O, CH.sub.2, C.dbd.CH.sub.2 or C.dbd.CH-lower alkyl;B denotes O, NH or N-lower alkyl;X does not exist, or denotes C.dbd.O or CH.sub.2 ;n denotes 2 or 3 when X does not exist, or denotes 1 or 2 when X denotes C.dbd.O or CH.sub.2 ; andthe broken line between the 1- and 2-positions of the steroid skeleton means that a double bond may optionally exist there. These compounds have an aromatase inhibition action and are useful for prophylaxis or treatment of diseases caused by excess of estrogens, for example, breast cancer, uterine cancer, prostatic hypertrophy, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Teikoku Hormone Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Koizumi, Shigehiro Takegawa, Shigeki Iwashita, Tomoko Kawachi, Teruaki Matsui, Seijiro Honma, Hiroo Takahashi, Mamoru Mieda, Koichi Minato, Kenyu Shibata, Mitsuteru Numazawa