Patents by Inventor Koji Murata
Koji Murata 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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Patent number: 11939183Abstract: A post-processing apparatus (1) includes a first conveyance path (41), a first processing part (55), a second conveyance path (95) and a merging conveyance path (97), and the first processing part (55) includes a conveying rollers pair (80) including a first roller (81) and a second roller (83) conveying the sheet along a first direction; a first folding rollers pair (84) including the first roller (81) and a third roller (85) forming a first nip, conveying the sheet along a second direction and performing a folding processing along a first fold line; a second folding rollers pair (86) including the third roller (85) and a fourth roller (87) forming a second nip, conveying the sheet along a third direction and performing a folding processing along a second fold line; a first folding guide (89) movable to the first nip; and a second folding guide (91) movable to the second nip.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Tadahisa Kishimoto, Yoshiaki Tashiro, Koji Murata, Masahiko Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20240094577Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of switching between a transparent state and a scattering state, reducing or preventing a decrease in transmittance in the transparent state, and reducing or preventing a decrease in luminance in the panel central portion in the scattering state. The liquid crystal display device includes, sequentially from its viewing surface side toward its back surface side: a first liquid crystal panel; a light source; and a second liquid crystal panel, the first liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components, the light source being configured to irradiate a back surface side main surface of the first liquid crystal panel with light from an oblique direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Koji MURATA, Yasuhiro HASEBA, Kazutaka HANAOKA, Kimiaki NAKAMURA, Mariko HONDA, Atsuko KANASHIMA, Tadashi HASEGAWA, Shinji SHIMADA
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Patent number: 11926500Abstract: A sheet folding device includes a sheet conveyance path, a first folding conveyance path, a first folding roller pair, a first folding guide, and a conveyance roller. The first folding roller pair is composed of a first roller and a second roller forming a first folding nip by being brought into pressure contact with an upstream side of the first roller. The first folding guide is movable between a folding position at which it approaches the first folding nip, guiding a to-be-folded part of a sheet to the first folding nip, and a retracted position at which it is away from the first folding nip. The conveyance roller forms, together with the second roller, a first assist roller pair that conveys the sheet along the sheet conveyance path. The first folding guide has a pivot fulcrum on a downstream side relative to the first folding nip in the conveyance direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Tadahisa Kishimoto, Koji Murata
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Patent number: 11914236Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes an active matrix substrate including a first electrode, a first insulating layer, and second electrodes including a first linear electrode; a color filter substrate including a black matrix, a color filter layer, a third electrode including second linear electrodes, and a fourth electrode which is a floating electrode. The third electrode and the fourth electrode are disposed between the black matrix and the liquid crystal layer. The second linear electrodes extend in a second direction and each overlap a portion of the black matrix extending in the second direction. The fourth electrode is disposed between the second linear electrodes and overlaps the black matrix in a plan view. The control circuit switches between application of driving voltage and application of constant voltage to the third electrode.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Koji Murata, Hiroshi Tsuchiya, Shinpei Higashida, Takahiro Sasaki, Takashi Satoh, Shinji Shimada
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Patent number: 11899305Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal panel capable of achieving a small light-shielding angle in a narrow viewing angle mode and a display device including the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel sequentially includes: a first polarizing plate with a first absorption axis; a first substrate including a first electrode; a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules; and a second substrate including a second electrode, wherein in a plan view, a director of the liquid crystal molecules with no voltage applied and the first absorption axis form an angle ? of not smaller than 5° and not greater than 20° or not smaller than 65° and not greater than 80°.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Murata, Junichi Masuda, Shugo Yagi, Hiroshi Tsuchiya, Takashi Satoh, Shinji Shimada
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Patent number: 11852911Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of switching between a transparent state and a scattering state, reducing or preventing a decrease in transmittance in the transparent state, and reducing or preventing a decrease in luminance in the panel central portion in the scattering state. The liquid crystal display device includes, sequentially from its viewing surface side toward its back surface side: a first liquid crystal panel; a light source; and a second liquid crystal panel, the first liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components, the light source being configured to irradiate a back surface side main surface of the first liquid crystal panel with light from an oblique direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Murata, Yasuhiro Haseba, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Kimiaki Nakamura, Mariko Honda, Atsuko Kanashima, Tadashi Hasegawa, Shinji Shimada
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Patent number: 11829021Abstract: Provided is a polymer dispersed liquid crystal display device including: a pair of substrates including an electrode on at least one substrate; and a composite layer disposed between the pair of substrates. The composite layer includes a liquid crystal component and a polymer network constituted by a cured product of a photopolymerizable liquid crystal compound, and is in a transparent state when no voltage is applied and in a scattering state when a voltage is applied, and the polymer network has a helical structure with a number of turns of from one to less than eight in the composite layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Koji Murata, Kimiaki Nakamura, Mariko Honda, Tadashi Hasegawa, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Yasuhiro Haseba, Shinji Shimada, Atsuko Kanashima
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Publication number: 20230314877Abstract: An electronic device includes a first display panel including a first display surface, and a second display panel including a second display surface and configured to be disposed such that light emitted from the first display surface is incident on the second display surface. The first display panel is configured such that light emitted from the first display surface and incident on the second display surface includes a large amount of P-polarization components. The second display panel is a reflection-type display panel, and includes a polarizer disposed on the second display surface and configured to absorb S-polarization components of incident light.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Naru USUKURA, Akiko ITOH, Koji MURATA, Keisuke YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20230317028Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: an active matrix substrate including a first electrode and a second electrode configured to generate a transverse electrical field; a counter substrate including a plurality of third electrodes disposed at predetermined intervals and having a stripe pattern; a liquid crystal layer located between the active matrix substrate and the counter substrate; and a control circuit. The liquid crystal display device can display an image in a first viewing angle mode and a second viewing angle mode having a viewing angle narrower than the first viewing angle mode by the control circuit switching an amplitude and a waveform of a voltage applied to the third electrodes. The control circuit applies a common voltage having a different value to the first electrode or the second electrode in each of the first viewing angle mode and the second viewing angle mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Hiroshi TSUCHIYA, Koji MURATA, Takashi SATOH
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Publication number: 20230296932Abstract: Provided is a display device including a backlight; a first liquid crystal panel; a display panel; and a second liquid crystal panel. The first liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate, a first liquid crystal layer containing first liquid crystal molecules, and a second substrate. The second liquid crystal panel includes a third substrate, a second liquid crystal layer containing second liquid crystal molecules, and a fourth substrate. The display device satisfies the following Formula (1): |?3??1|?50°??Formula (1) wherein ?1 represents an azimuthal angle of a director of the first liquid crystal molecules near the first substrate with no voltage applied to the first liquid crystal layer, and ?3 represents an azimuthal angle of a director of the second liquid crystal molecules near the third substrate with no voltage applied to the second liquid crystal layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Koji MURATA, Hiroshi TSUCHIYA, Atsuko KANASHIMA, Takashi SATOH, Shinji SHIMADA
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Publication number: 20230251522Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal panel sequentially including: a first polarizing plate with a first absorption axis; a first substrate including a first electrode; a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules; and a second substrate including a second electrode. The liquid crystal panel satisfies the following Formula (1) as well as the following Formula (2-1) or Formula (2-2): 5°?|?1??2|?20°??(Formula 1) 5°?|?P1??2|?20°??(Formula 2-1) 65°?|?P1??2|?80°??(Formula 2-2) wherein ?1 represents an azimuthal angle of a director of liquid crystal molecules near the first substrate, ?2 represents an azimuthal angle of a director of liquid crystal molecules near the second substrate, and ?P1 represents an azimuthal angle of the first absorption axis of the first polarizing plate, each with no voltage applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Koji MURATA, Hiroshi TSUCHIYA, Takashi SATOH, Shinji SHIMADA
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Patent number: 11719972Abstract: The display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) layer and a light source, the PDLC layer containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components dispersed in the polymer network, the light source being apart from the liquid crystal panel with an air layer, and configured to emit light toward the liquid crystal panel from an oblique direction, the end portion and the central portion of the PDLC layer each having, in the scattering state, an angle dependence which changes a transmittance of light to be emitted from a front surface based on an angle at which light is incident on a back surface of the PDLC layer, with the angle dependence of the end portion being different from the angle dependence of the central portion, the light source irradiating the end portion and the central portion with light at different angles.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji Murata, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Kimiaki Nakamura, Atsuko Kanashima, Mariko Honda, Shinji Shimada
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Patent number: 11712866Abstract: A sheet post-processing apparatus includes a first sheet conveyance passage, a second sheet conveyance passage, a sheet folding portion, and a merging portion. The second sheet conveyance passage branches off from a branch portion on the first sheet conveyance passage. The merging portion is located downstream of the branch portion on the first sheet conveyance passage, and there a folding conveyance passage of the sheet folding portion merges with the first sheet conveyance passage. When performing a folding process on a sheet, a controller guides the sheet conveyed from a sheet introduction port into the first sheet conveyance passage via the branch portion to the second sheet conveyance passage, then reverses the conveyance direction to guide the sheet to the sheet folding portion to perform the folding process, and passes the sheet through the folding conveyance passage, merges the sheet into the first sheet conveyance passage at the merging portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Tadahisa Kishimoto, Koji Murata, Yoshiaki Tashiro
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Publication number: 20230236448Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device that can switch between the privacy mode and the public mode and achieve a high contrast ratio even during display in the privacy mode. The liquid crystal display panel includes: a liquid crystal panel; and a control circuit. The active matrix substrate sequentially includes a first substrate, a first electrode, a first insulating layer, and second electrodes each including a first linear electrode. The color filter substrate includes a second substrate, a black matrix, a color filter layer, a third electrode, and a fourth electrode which is disposed between the black matrix and the third electrode and to which constant voltage is applied. The third electrode includes second linear electrodes and overlaps a portion of the black matrix in a plan view. The control circuit switches between application of driving voltage and application of constant voltage to the third electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Koji MURATA, Hiroshi TSUCHIYA, Shinpei HIGASHIDA, Takahiro SASAKI, Takashi SATOH, Shinji SHIMADA
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Publication number: 20230227285Abstract: A sheet folding device includes a sheet conveyance path, first and second side plates, a first folding roller pair, a first folding guide, and a guide drive mechanism. The first folding guide is reciprocatable between a folding position and a retracted position, and includes a guide main body and first and second arms provided respectively at both ends of the guide main body. The guide drive mechanism includes a drive source provided on the first side plate, a first drive transmission portion that transmits a drive force of the drive source to the first arm, a second drive transmission portion that transmits the drive force to the second arm, and a drive coupling portion that couples the first drive transmission portion to the second drive transmission portion and transmits the drive force from the first drive transmission portion to the second drive transmission portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Tadahisa KISHIMOTO, Koji MURATA
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Patent number: 11698556Abstract: The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, the liquid crystal panel including sub-pixels and including an active matrix substrate and a counter substrate, the active matrix substrate including a gate line, a first electrode, and a second electrode, the counter substrate including a third electrode, each of the sub-pixels being provided with an optical opening, the third electrode including a linear electrode extending along the gate line, a distance between the linear electrode and the optical opening being less than D/4 and a width of the linear electrode being D/4 or less, wherein a distance between two optical openings adjacent in the direction perpendicular to the extending direction of the gate line is defined as D.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Murata, Kosuke Nagata, Kazutoshi Kida, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Shinji Shimada, Yasuhiro Haseba
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Publication number: 20230213798Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes an active matrix substrate including a first electrode, a first insulating layer, and second electrodes including a first linear electrode; a color filter substrate including a black matrix, a color filter layer, a third electrode including second linear electrodes, and a fourth electrode which is a floating electrode. The third electrode and the fourth electrode are disposed between the black matrix and the liquid crystal layer. The second linear electrodes extend in a second direction and each overlap a portion of the black matrix extending in the second direction. The fourth electrode is disposed between the second linear electrodes and overlaps the black matrix in a plan view. The control circuit switches between application of driving voltage and application of constant voltage to the third electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Koji MURATA, Hiroshi TSUCHIYA, Shinpei HIGASHIDA, Takahiro SASAKI, Takashi SATOH, Shinji SHIMADA
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Publication number: 20230202793Abstract: A post-processing apparatus (1) includes a first conveyance path (41), a first processing part (55), a second conveyance path (95) and a merging conveyance path (97), and the first processing part (55) includes a conveying rollers pair (80) including a first roller (81) and a second roller (83) conveying the sheet along a first direction; a first folding rollers pair (84) including the first roller (81) and a third roller (85) forming a first nip, conveying the sheet along a second direction and performing a folding processing along a first fold line; a second folding rollers pair (86) including the third roller (85) and a fourth roller (87) forming a second nip, conveying the sheet along a third direction and performing a folding processing along a second fold line; a first folding guide (89) movable to the first nip; and a second folding guide (91) movable to the second nip.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Tadahisa KISHIMOTO, Yoshiaki TASHIRO, Koji MURATA, Masahiko MIYAZAKI
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Publication number: 20230205010Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display element capable of switching between a transparent state and a scattering state and of reducing or preventing a decrease in luminance in the scattering state. The liquid crystal display element includes a liquid crystal panel containing a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal containing a polymer network and a liquid crystal component, and a light source module including a light source adjacent to the liquid crystal panel and a mirror configured to reflect light emitted from the light source toward the liquid crystal panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Tomonori YOSHIDA, Yasuhiro HASEBA, Kimiaki NAKAMURA, Koji MURATA
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Publication number: 20230192437Abstract: A sheet folding device includes a sheet conveyance path, a first folding conveyance path, a first folding roller pair, a first folding guide, and a conveyance roller. The first folding roller pair is composed of a first roller and a second roller forming a first folding nip by being brought into pressure contact with an upstream side of the first roller. The first folding guide is movable between a folding position at which it approaches the first folding nip, guiding a to-be-folded part of a sheet to the first folding nip, and a retracted position at which it is away from the first folding nip. The conveyance roller forms, together with the second roller, a first assist roller pair that conveys the sheet along the sheet conveyance path. The first folding guide has a pivot fulcrum on a downstream side relative to the first folding nip in the conveyance direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Tadahisa KISHIMOTO, Koji MURATA