Patents by Inventor Makoto Ando

Makoto Ando 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: 20160161199
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy clad material having a core material and a sacrificial anode material clad on at least one surface of the core material, wherein the core material comprises an aluminum alloy comprising 0.050 to 1.5 mass % (referred to as “%” below) Si, 0.050 to 2.0% Fe and 0.50 to 2.00% Mn; the sacrificial anode material includes an aluminum alloy containing 0.50 to 8.00% Zn, 0.05 to 1.50% Si and 0.050 to 2.00% Fe; the grain size of the sacrificial anode material is 60 ?m or more; and a ratio R1/R2 is 0.30 or less, wherein R1 (?m) is a grain size in a thickness direction and R2 (?m) is a grain size in a rolling direction in a cross section of the core material along the rolling direction; a production method thereof; and a heat exchanger using the clad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: UACJ Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto ANDO, Atsushi FUKUMOTO, Akio NIIKURA
  • Patent number: 9290691
    Abstract: An organic luminescent material-containing solution contains an organic electroluminescent material and a solvent. The organic electroluminescent material at least contains a host and a dopant. The host is an anthracene derivative and is dissolved in the solvent with a content of 0.5 mass percent or more. The solvent is preferably a cyclic ketone. The solvent preferably contains a cyclohexanone derivative as the cyclic ketone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignees: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD., SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motohiro Takeshima, Tetsuya Inoue, Makoto Ando
  • Patent number: 9243318
    Abstract: A sintered body which includes at least indium oxide and gallium oxide and comprises voids each having a volume of 14000 ?m3 or more in an amount of 0.03 vol % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigekazu Tomai, Shigeo Matsuzaki, Koki Yano, Makoto Ando, Kazuaki Ebata, Masayuki Itose
  • Patent number: 9214740
    Abstract: A radial line slot array antenna has a slotted conductor plate in which a plurality of slots are formed and arranged in a spiral. The plurality of slots are arranged in the slotted conductor plate such that the arrangement distance in a radial direction between the slots varies gradually between a first portion determined based on a first frequency and a second portion determined based on a second frequency that is different from the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignees: NEC Space Technologies, Ltd., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Osamu Amano, Makoto Ando
  • Patent number: 9095934
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet having a good brazing property that prevents diffusion of molten filler material in a core material of the aluminum alloy brazing sheet during a brazing process and which has a superior corrosion resistance to an exhaust gas condensate water after the brazing process is disclosed. A method of manufacturing of the aluminum alloy brazing sheet also is disclosed. A high corrosion-resistant heat exchanger that employs the aluminum alloy brazing sheet also is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignees: Denso Corp., Furukawa-Sky Aluminum Corp.
    Inventors: Sadayuki Kamiya, Masaki Harada, Masafumi Saito, Taketoshi Toyoma, Makoto Ando, Yoshiyuki Oya, Akio Niikura, Yoichi Kojima
  • Patent number: 9048534
    Abstract: It is possible to obtain a wide-band feeder circuit a lower conductive plate provided substantially in parallel to an upper conductive plate, a short-circuit portion provided in a concave manner at a central portion of the lower conductive plate, and a countersunk portion provided in a convex manner at a central portion of a short-circuit plate forming a bottom of the short-circuit portion. It is also possible to obtain an antenna including such a wide-band feeder circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignees: NEC TOSHIBA SPACE SYSTEMS, LTD., JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
    Inventors: Osamu Amano, Shuichi Koreeda, Yukio Kamata, Makoto Ando
  • Patent number: 9048207
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a bubble discharging structure, including a substrate which has a first area and a second area adjacent to the first area, and on which a counter substrate is caused to come in contact with the first area to provide a film having a first pattern, and a bubble discharging path through which the first area and the second area communicate with each other, and through which a bubble confined between the substrate and the counter substrate when the counter substrate is caused to come in contact with the first area is discharged from the first area to the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Ando, Tsutomu Mori
  • Publication number: 20150144229
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet having a core material of an aluminum alloy, and a filler material cladded on the core is disclosed. The core material is an aluminum alloy having about 0.05 to about 1.2 mass Si, about 0.05-about 1.0 mass % Fe, about 0.05-about 1.2 mass % Cu, and about 0.6-about 1.8 mass % Mn, balance Al and the inevitable impurities. The, filler material includes an aluminum alloy having about 2.5-about 13.0 mass % Si. Also, there is provided a method of manufacturing such an aluminum alloy brazing sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Makoto Ando, Akio Niikura, Yoichiro Bekki
  • Publication number: 20150137086
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence unit of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of light emitting devices arranged having a pitch from 10 micrometers to 60 micrometers both inclusive, and each including a first electrode, an organic layer, and a second electrode that are laminated in order from a substrate, the organic layer including at least a light emitting layer, and at least one layer in the organic layer being formed by a plate printing method; and a dividing wall provided between adjacent light emitting devices of the plurality of light emitting devices, in which a difference between a height, from the substrate, of the dividing wall and a height, from the substrate, of a surface to be printed by the plate printing method is from 0 micrometer to 1 micrometer both inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Ryo Yasumatsu, Makoto Ando
  • Publication number: 20150108446
    Abstract: There is provided a display device (100) including a step forming member (14) which forms a step between a first region (s1) and a second region (s2) over a substrate (11) so that the first region (s1, 173R) becomes higher than the second region (s2, 173G) when viewed from the substrate (11), a first light emitting (173R) layer transferred to the first region, and a second light emitting layer (173G) transferred to the first region and the second region, and which has an emission wavelength shorter than an emission wavelength of the first light emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventor: Makoto Ando
  • Patent number: 9011582
    Abstract: Disclosed is an oxygen enrichment that can follow changes in adsorption performance in response to changes in the temperature of the usage environment and can reduce power consumption. The oxygen enrichment device has a purge step control means that controls a purge step time to increase/decrease the length of a purge step so as to maximize the oxygen concentration by changing opening/closing timing of a flow-channel switching means while the oxygen enrichment device is running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Teijin Pharma Limited
    Inventors: Makoto Ando, Hisashi Kiriake
  • Publication number: 20150090977
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence unit includes: a plurality of light-emitting layers of different colors (14R, 14G, 14B); a first electrode (11) and a second electrode (16) applying a voltage to each of the plurality of light-emitting layers; and a charge transport layer disposed between one or more light-emitting layers of the plurality of light-emitting layers and the first electrode (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Toshiaki Imai, Kazunari Takagi, Tadahiko Yoshinaga, Tatsuya Matsumi, Makoto Ando
  • Patent number: 8994008
    Abstract: A reverse printing ink composition capable of realizing printing with a uniform film thickness and high-definition patterning, a printing method using the same, and a method of manufacturing a display unit using the same are provided. The reverse printing ink composition includes a solvent containing an aromatic carbon hydride and a straight-chain carbon hydride and a low-molecular material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Imai, Makoto Ando, Tadahiko Yoshinaga
  • Patent number: 8932889
    Abstract: A display includes: a first light-emitting device disposed in a first region on a substrate and including a transfer organic layer; a second light-emitting device disposed in a second region adjacent to the first region on the substrate and not including a transfer organic layer; and a level difference provided between the first region and the second region, and being large enough to inhibit transfer of the transfer organic layer to the second region when the transfer organic layer is formed in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Ando, Tatsuya Matsumi, Toshiaki Imai, Tsutomu Mori
  • Publication number: 20150004428
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet having high corrosion resistance is provided, which develops the sacrificial anticorrosion effect in both surfaces of the sheet, which has the brazing function in one of both the surfaces, and which prevents the occurrence of preferential corrosion. A channel forming component for a vehicular heat exchanger is also provided by utilizing the aluminum alloy brazing sheet. An aluminum alloy brazing sheet having high corrosion resistance includes an aluminum alloy core, a filler material clad on one surface of the core, and a sacrificial anode material clad on the other surface of the core, wherein the filler material, the sacrificial anode material, and the core have respective predetermined alloy compositions. A channel forming component for a vehicular heat exchanger is manufactured using the aluminum alloy brazing sheet having high corrosion resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sadayuki Kamiya, Shota Terachi, Kenji Negura, Makoto Ando, Atsushi Fukumoto, Yoshiyuki Oya, Akio Niikura
  • Patent number: 8883532
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an organic EL display device including, on a substrate: lower electrodes; first hole injection/transport layers; second organic light-emitting layers of colors other than blue; a blue first organic light-emitting layer; electron injection/transport layers; and an upper electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto Ando
  • Patent number: 8723168
    Abstract: A display includes: a first light-emitting device disposed in a first region on a substrate and including a transfer organic layer; a second light-emitting device disposed in a second region adjacent to the first region on the substrate and not including a transfer organic layer; and a level difference provided between the first region and the second region, and being large enough to inhibit transfer of the transfer organic layer to the second region when the transfer organic layer is formed in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Ando, Tatsuya Matsumi, Toshiaki Imai, Tsutomu Mori
  • Publication number: 20140014500
    Abstract: A sintered body which includes at least indium oxide and gallium oxide and comprises voids each having a volume of 14000 ?m3 or more in an amount of 0.03 vol % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Shigekazu Tomai, Shigeo Matsuzaki, Koki Yano, Makoto Ando, Kazuaki Ebata, Masayuki Itose
  • Publication number: 20130331170
    Abstract: An aspect of the invention provides a game machine including: a second game chance control device that generates at least one game chance that is allowed to establish a predetermined winning condition in a game within a predetermined range provided to a player in exchange for a game value; a symbol arrangement control device that determines types of symbols to be arranged on a predetermined area on a game screen with a predetermined positional relationship according to the generation of the game chance; and a first winning determining device that determines whether the winning condition is established based on the types and the arrangement of the symbols arranged on the predetermined area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: Konami Digital Entertainment Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Sasaki, Shinichi Ishii, Makoto Ando, Yaku Hiranabe, Tomoaki Hirai, Emiko Miyaji
  • Publication number: 20130324246
    Abstract: There is provided a game machine comprising: a game machine main body provided with a field where a game is played on an upper surface side thereof; and a plurality of monitors each being configured by using a flat panel display, and presenting information relating to the game to a player, wherein the game machine is provided: a support structure supporting each of the monitors above the field; and a connection device connecting each of the monitors with the support structure, and the connection device is provided with a monitor drive mechanism that moves the plurality of monitors so that a direction of display surface of each of the monitors is changed by force from a predetermined drive source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ishimaru, Yaku Hiranabe, Misao Yamanaka, Takashi Sakuma, Makoto Ando