Patents by Inventor Koji Hirano
Koji Hirano 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: 20220206252Abstract: A projection system includes a first optical system and a second optical system. The second optical system includes a first lens group disposed on an enlargement side of an intersection position where a chief ray of an off-axis beam having a maximum angle of view intersects with an optical axis of the projection system in the second optical system, a second lens group disposed on the reduction side of the intersection position and having negative power, and a third lens group disposed on the reduction side of the second lens group and having positive power. The second lens group includes a first lens having positive power, a second lens disposed on the reduction side of the first lens and having positive power, and a third lens disposed on the reduction side of the second lens and having negative power. The third lens group includes two lenses each having positive power.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuyuki KIYAMA, Hitoshi HIRANO, Nobutaka MINEFUJI, Koji SHIOKAWA
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Publication number: 20220199443Abstract: A technique for improving uniformity of film thickness on substrates, includes a substrate processing apparatus having a substrate retainer including substrate and partition plate supports; a reaction tube; a first driver vertically moving the substrate retainer into or out of the reaction tube; a second driver vertically moved by the first driver and rotating the substrate retainer to change a distance between a substrate and a partition plate by moving at least one of the substrate or the partition plate support; a heater; a gas supplier comprising a nozzle; a gas exhauster; and a controller controlling the first driver, the second driver and the gas supplier such that a gas is supplied to the substrate while changing at least one of a relative position of the substrate and a relative position of the partition plate with respect to a hole of the nozzle by driving the second driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji TAKEBAYASHI, Makoto HIRANO, Koji SHIBATA, Yusaku OKAJIMA
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Publication number: 20220199841Abstract: Provided is a stable CdZnTe monocrystalline substrate having a small leakage current even when a high voltage is applied and having a lower variation in resistivity with respect to variations in applied voltage values. A semiconductor wafer comprising a cadmium zinc telluride monocrystal having a zinc concentration of 4.0 at % or more and 6.5 at % or less and a chlorine concentration of 0.1 ppm by mass or more and 5.0 ppm by mass or less, wherein the semiconductor wafer has a resistivity of 1.0×107 ?cm or more and 1.0×108 ?cm or less when a voltage of 900 V is applied, and wherein a ratio (variation ratio) of the resistivity at application of 0 V to the resistivity at application of a voltage of 900 V is 20% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2019Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATIONInventors: Koji MURAKAMI, Akira NODA, Ryuichi HIRANO
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Patent number: 11339787Abstract: A highly reliable horizontal rotary compressor is provided with a sealed housing, an electric motor, a compression mechanism, a frame which divides the inside of the sealed housing into an electric-motor chamber and a compression-mechanism chamber, and a plurality of bolts that fasten the compression mechanism to the frame. The compression mechanism includes a main bearing fasten to the end surface of a cylinder. A bearing contact-surface of the end surface of the cylinder is in contact with the main bearing, is located closer to the electric motor than a frame contact-surface which is in contact with the frame. The surface roughness of the frame contact-surface is greater than the surface roughness of the bearing contact-surface. The contact-surface of the frame is a single continuous flat surface located above the bolt located at the lowest position among the plurality of bolts.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2018Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: TOSHIBA CARRIER CORPORATIONInventors: Jafet Ferdhy Monasry, Takuya Hirayama, Hideaki Suzuki, Koji Hirano, Masaya Ichihara
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Publication number: 20220158007Abstract: Provided is a CdZnTe monocrystalline substrate which has a small leakage current even when a voltage is applied from a low voltage to a high voltage, and which has a lower variation in resistivity with respect to applied voltage changes from 0 to 900 V, and which can maintain a stable resistivity. A semiconductor wafer comprising a cadmium zinc telluride monocrystal having a zinc concentration of 4.0 at % or more and 6.5 at % or less and a chlorine concentration of 0.1 ppm by weight or more and 5.0 ppm by weight or less, wherein when a voltage is applied in a range of from 0 to 900 V, the semiconductor wafer has a resistivity for each applied voltage value of 1.0×107 ?cm or more and 7.0×108 ?cm or less, and wherein a relative variation coefficient of each resistivity to the applied voltages in a range of from 0 to 900 V is 100% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2019Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATIONInventors: Koji MURAKAMI, Akira NODA, Ryuichi HIRANO
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Patent number: 11331900Abstract: Provided are a lithographic printing plate precursor having an image-recording layer on an aluminum support, in which the image-recording layer contains a polymerization initiator, an infrared absorber, a polymer particle, and a polymerizable compound, and the polymerizable compound has a) a molecular weight of 1,500 to 3,000, b) a double bond equivalent of 200 or less, and c) a CLog P of 9 or less and a method for producing a lithographic printing plate in which the lithographic printing plate precursor is used.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Ryo Nakamura, Kenjiro Araki, Shuji Hirano, Koji Sonokawa, Yuuya Miyagawa
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Patent number: 11230788Abstract: Provided is an electrodeposition dispersion including a polyamide-imide resin, a polar solvent, water, a poor solvent, and a base, in which the polar solvent is an organic solvent having a boiling point of higher than 100° C. and D(S-P) represented by a formula (1) satisfying a relationship of D(S-P)<6, and a weight-average molecular weight of the polyamide-imide is 10×104 to 30×104 or a number-average molecular weight of the polyamide-imide is 2×104 to 5×104.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2017Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Hirano, Shintaro Iida, Jyunko Hirata, Hideaki Sakurai
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Publication number: 20210333945Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a sensor detecting electric capacitance of a touch key group comprising a plurality of touch keys arranged in a matrix; and a control device configured to perform character recognition based on a change in the electric capacitance of the plurality of touch keys detected by the sensor and on a sampling pattern that is time-series data of a loci.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Shoichi HAMADA, Koji HIRANO, Kakeru KIMURA
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Patent number: 11006855Abstract: An ultrasonic receiver receives ultrasonic waves reflected at a plurality of portions of the body of a person to be measured, and thus the person to be measured needs to input the approximate height of himself/herself. An electrostatic capacitance sensor includes a transmission electrode and a reception electrode. The electrostatic capacitance sensor measures a mutual capacitance between the transmission electrode and the reception electrode by a mutual capacitance method. A variable frequency pulse generator generates a pulse supplied to the transmission electrode. A control apparatus allows the variable frequency pulse generator to sweep the frequency of the pulse and allows the electrostatic capacitance sensor to measure the mutual capacitance to identify a frequency at which the measured mutual capacitance is minimized. The control apparatus obtains the height of a person to be measured on the basis of the identified frequency.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Kakeru Kimura, Masahito Kajiwara, Shinji Takeda, Takuro Ichikawa, Shoichi Hamada, Koji Hirano
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Publication number: 20200408214Abstract: A highly reliable horizontal rotary compressor is provided with a sealed housing, an electric motor, a compression mechanism, a frame which divides the inside of the sealed housing into an electric-motor chamber and a compression-mechanism chamber, and a plurality of bolts that fasten the compression mechanism to the frame. The compression mechanism includes a main bearing fasten to the end surface of a cylinder. A bearing contact-surface of the end surface of the cylinder is in contact with the main bearing, is located closer to the electric motor than a frame contact-surface which is in contact with the frame. The surface roughness of the frame contact-surface is greater than the surface roughness of the bearing contact-surface. The contact-surface of the frame is a single continuous flat surface located above the bolt located at the lowest position among the plurality of bolts.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2018Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: TOSHIBA CARRIER CORPORATIONInventors: Jafet Ferdhy MONASRY, Takuya HIRAYAMA, Hideaki SUZUKI, Koji HIRANO, Masaya ICHIHARA
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Publication number: 20200347185Abstract: A resin for forming an insulating film includes at least one of a modified polyamide-imide having a terminal OH group or a terminal SH group and a modified polyimide having a terminal OH group or a terminal SH group. A varnish includes the resin for forming an insulating film and a solvent. An electrodeposition dispersion includes the resin for forming an insulating film, a polar solvent, water, a poor solvent, and a base. A method for producing an insulated conductor includes: a step of applying the varnish or electrodepositing the electrodeposition dispersion to a surface of a conductor to form a coating layer or an electrodeposition layer on the surface of the conductor; and a step of heating the coating layer or the electrodeposition layer to produce an insulating film and bake the insulating film on the conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2018Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Koji Hirano, Shintaro Iida, Hideaki Sakurai
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Patent number: 10773338Abstract: In a laser processing apparatus for refining magnetic domains of a grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet by setting a laser beam to be focused on the grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet and scanned in a scanning direction, the laser beam focused on the grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet is linearly polarized light, and the angle between the linear polarization direction and the scanning direction is equal to or higher than 0° and lower than 45°.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2014Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Hirano, Hirofumi Imai, Hideyuki Hamamura, Tatsuhiko Sakai
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Patent number: 10706992Abstract: This insulated flat conductive wire includes: a flat conductive wire having an aspect ratio a/b of 12 or more, wherein the aspect ratio is a ratio of a length a of a long side of a rectangular cross-section to a length b of a short side thereof; and an insulating film which consists of a polyamide-imide resin or a polyimide resin and coats the flat conductive wire, wherein the insulating film has a film thickness t1 of 10 ?m or more at a center portion of the long side of the rectangular cross-section, and the insulating film has a film thickness ratio t1/t2 of 0.80 to 1.35, and wherein the film thickness ratio t1/t2 is a ratio of the film thickness t1 at the center portion of the long side to a film thickness t2 at an edge portion of the long side of the rectangular cross-section.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Hideaki Sakurai, Koji Hirano
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Publication number: 20200126591Abstract: A data recording apparatus including: a data reading device configured to read data from a first recording medium and configured to store data and first management data for managing the data by file; a data recording device configured to record data on a second recording medium; a management data producing device configured to produce second management data for managing data recorded on the second recording medium based on the first management data of the first recording medium on which the data recorded on the second recording medium has been recorded; a data determining device configured to determine data unrecorded on the second recording medium by comparing the first management data read by the data reading device from the first recording medium with the second management data recorded on the second recording medium; a control device configured to read the data determined by the data determining device from the first recording medium and cause the recording device to record the read data onto the second rType: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Koji HIRANO, Shoji INAGAKI, Ryuichiro TOGASHI
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Patent number: 10515662Abstract: A data recording apparatus including: a data reading device configured to read data from a first recording medium and configured to store data and first management data for managing the data by file; a data recording device configured to record data on a second recording medium; a management data producing device configured to produce second management data for managing data recorded on the second recording medium based on the first management data of the first recording medium on which the data recorded on the second recording medium has been recorded; a data determining device configured to determine data unrecorded on the second recording medium by comparing the first management data read by the data reading device from the first recording medium with the second management data recorded on the second recording medium; a control device configured to read the data determined by the data determining device from the first recording medium and cause the recording device to record the read data onto the second rType: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: DATA SCAPE LTD.Inventors: Koji Hirano, Shoji Inagaki, Ryuichiro Togashi
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Publication number: 20190341151Abstract: A health support system that facilitates estimation of a user's health condition status and improvement of the health condition status is constructed. The health support system includes a first sensing device for acquiring biometric information of a user, a first actuator device operating based on abstracted data, and a first server connected to the first sensing device and the first actuator device via a network in a daily living space in which the user lives a daily life. The first sensing device or the server generates the abstracted data based on the biometric information. The abstracted data is classified by estimating a health condition of the user. The first actuator device facilitates improving a health condition of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: Shoichi HAMADA, Kakeru KIMURA, Hirohisa IMAMURA, Koji HIRANO
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Patent number: 10297375Abstract: A method of manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, includes: a laser processing process of forming a laser processed portion by irradiating a region on one end side of a steel sheet in a width direction after being subjected to a cold rolling process with a laser beam along a rolling direction of the steel sheet; and a finish annealing process of coiling the steel sheet with the laser processed portion formed thereon in a coil shape and performing a finish annealing on the coil-shaped steel sheet. In the laser processing process, a melted-resolidified portion having a depth of greater than 0% and equal to or less than 80% of a sheet thickness of the steel sheet is formed by the irradiation of the laser beam at a position corresponding to the laser processed portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2013Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Hirano, Yoshio Nakamura, Shohji Nagano, Seiichiro Cho
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Publication number: 20190066883Abstract: This insulated flat conductive wire includes: a flat conductive wire having an aspect ratio a/b of 12 or more, wherein the aspect ratio is a ratio of a length a of a long side of a rectangular cross-section to a length b of a short side thereof; and an insulating film which consists of a polyamide-imide resin or a polyimide resin and coats the flat conductive wire, wherein the insulating film has a film thickness t1 of 10 ?m or more at a center portion of the long side of the rectangular cross-section, and the insulating film has a film thickness ratio t1/t2 of 0.80 to 1.35, and wherein the film thickness ratio t1/t2 is a ratio of the film thickness t1 at the center portion of the long side to a film thickness t2 at an edge portion of the long side of the rectangular cross-section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Hideaki SAKURAI, Koji HIRANO
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Publication number: 20190032238Abstract: Provided is an electrodeposition dispersion including a polyamide-imide resin, a polar solvent, water, a poor solvent, and a base, in which the polar solvent is an organic solvent having a boiling point of higher than 100° C. and D(S-P) represented by a formula (1) satisfying a relationship of D(S-P)<6, and a weight-average molecular weight of the polyamide-imide is 10×104 to 30×104 or a number-average molecular weight of the polyamide-imide is 2×104 to 5×104.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Koji HIRANO, Shintaro IIDA, Jyunko HIRATA, Hideaki SAKURAI
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Patent number: D935946Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Inventors: Ichiro Miyata, Koji Hirano, Yuki Tomida