Patents by Inventor Makoto Aoki

Makoto Aoki 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: 20090057800
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a small-size module an IC chip having leads provided on at least two sides of the IC chip, a circuit substrate having a component mounting face, plural pairs of auxiliary substrates which are disposed between the component mounting face of the circuit substrate and the IC chip so as to nip the leads extending from each of the two sides and mount the IC chip on the component mounting face of the circuit substrate, and a through conductor which is provided in at least one of the pair of the auxiliary substrates and bonded conductively to the nipped leads to connect the leads to the circuit substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Daigo Suzuki, Makoto Aoki
  • Patent number: 7491086
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a connector system having a male connector unit which has a main body and a convex part, and which has first pin terminals provided to the convex part, second pin terminals provided to a contact face contacting an opposite connector, and a plurality of third pin terminals which are provided to side faces, and are respectively connected to the first pin terminals and the second pin terminals, and a female connector unit which has a concave part fitted into the convex part, and which has fourth pin terminals which are provided to the concave part and contact the first pin terminals at the time of fitting into the convex part, and fifth pin terminals connected to the fourth pin terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Makoto Aoki
  • Publication number: 20090025577
    Abstract: A ram driving method including the steps of fixing one end of a large-diameter piston rod (5R) integral with a large-diameter piston (5P) reciprocably included in a large-diameter cylinder (5) attached integrally to a ram (3) to a fixing unit (9), connecting one end of a small-diameter piston rod (7R) integral with a small-diameter piston (7P) reciprocably included in a small-diameter cylinder (7) integral with the large-diameter cylinder to a moving member (17) moved by a motor driving, integrally moving the small-diameter cylinder and the small-diameter piston and communicating a first compartment (5A) and a second compartment (5B) of the large-diameter cylinder divided by the large-diameter piston with each other, moving the ram integrally with the small-diameter piston rod moved by the moving member, and communicating the small-diameter cylinder with the large-diameter cylinder, thereby moving the large-diameter cylinder with a strong force by a working fluid supplied from the small-diameter cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: AMADA COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Makoto Aoki, Hiroyuki Mizushima, Nobuaki Ariji, Shigeki Noguchi
  • Patent number: 7481886
    Abstract: A first channel is formed in the side of a first diffusion plate which is on that side of a gas inlet tube and a recess is formed in the side which is on that side of an electrode plate. The first channel and the recess communicate with each other through a plurality of inlet ports. The first channel and the inlet ports form a gas flow passage L which leads to the recess from the gas inlet tube. As a process gas supplied from the gas inlet tube passes through the gas flow passage L, it is supplied, dispersed, to a hollow portion formed between the recess and the electrode plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kato, Tadashi Goto, Hikaru Yoshitaka, Makoto Aoki
  • Patent number: 7483224
    Abstract: A lens film with small warpage even when a transparent base is thin is provided. Pole prisms made of a hardening resin are arranged along the extending direction on a transparent base made of a flexible material. The transparent base has a depression according to a valley between the pole prisms adjacent to each other. The pole prism has a sloping face extending to an inner wall of the depression. The transparent base is in contact with the valley. A layer not functioning as a prism, that is, a so-called skirt layer does not exist between the transparent base and the pole prisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Kimura, Jun Sasaki, Makoto Aoki, Yasuyuki Kudo, Mariko Fukuda, Yu Andrew Chakchung
  • Patent number: 7467886
    Abstract: A lens film with small warpage even when a transparent base is thin is provided. Pole prisms made of a hardening resin are arranged along the extending direction on a transparent base made of flexible material. The transparent base has a depression according to a valley between the pole prisms adjacent to each other. The pole prism has a sloping face extending to an inner wall of the he depression. The transparent base is in contact with the valley. A layer not functioning as a prism, that is, a so-called skirt layer does not exist between the transparent base and the pole prisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Kimura, Jun Sasaki, Makoto Aoki, Yasuyuki Kudo, Mariko Fukuda, Yu Andrew Chakchung
  • Patent number: 7464965
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-based fluorescent ink for the purpose of measurement or judgment of the fluorescence emission in a visible light region by an excitation wavelength in a predetermined ultraviolet range, containing water, a coloring material dissolved or dispersed in water, and an organic solvent, having a plurality of fluorescent groups in the coloring material structure of the coloring material, and using a water-soluble coloring material having a sulfonic acid group as the water-soluble group in the state of a free acid, capable of improving the water resistance and the light resistance, dramatically increasing the content of the fluorescent coloring material in the ink, which has conventionally been included only by a small amount in the ink due to the concentration quenching problem, obtaining preferable fluorescence emission and water resistance of the recorded image, and providing preferable adhesion resistance to the recording medium of the coloring material and reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masako Udagawa, Shoji Koike, Makoto Aoki, Akira Nagashima, Shinichi Hakamada
  • Publication number: 20080270820
    Abstract: A device that is communicably connected to each of three or more nodes constituting a cluster system holds resource information, which is information relating to a resource used by an application, in relation to each of the three or more nodes. The device receives resource condition information indicating variation in the condition of the resource from each node, updates the resource information on the basis of the received resource condition information, determines a following active node on the basis of the updated resource information, and notifies at least one of the three or more nodes of the determined following active node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: Atsushi Kondo, Makoto Aoki
  • Publication number: 20080259612
    Abstract: A lens film with small warpage even when a transparent base is thin is provided. Pole prisms made of a hardening resin are arranged along the extending direction on a transparent base made of a flexible material. The transparent base has a depression according to a valley between the pole prisms adjacent to each other. The pole prism has a sloping face extending to an inner wall of the depression. The transparent base is in contact with the valley. A layer not functioning as a prism, that is, a so-called skirt layer does not exist between the transparent base and the pole prisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Kimura, Jun Sasaki, Makoto Aoki, Yasuyuki Kudo, Mariko Fukuda, Yu Andrew Chakchung
  • Publication number: 20080259243
    Abstract: There is provided an optical sheet stack which includes a first optical sheet having a large number of irregularities consecutively arranged on one surface thereof, and a second optical sheet stacked thereon. In the optical sheet stack, the second optical sheet has, on a bonding surface thereof, an adhesive layer bonded with apexes of the irregularities, and while assuming pitch of arrangement of the irregularities as P, and width of bonding of each apex of the irregularities bonded to the adhesive layer as Pw, the relation of 0<Pw/P?0.2 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Yasuyuki Kudo, Shogo Shinkai, Shigehiro Yamakita, Makoto Aoki
  • Patent number: 7429291
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fluorescence ink having a high fluorescence intensity, and an ink jet recording method using the same. The ink contains a first fluorescent coloring material that emits fluorescence at a predetermined fluorescence wavelength to be used for measurement or determination with excitation at a predetermined excitation wavelength, a second fluorescent coloring material that emits fluorescence on excitation at the predetermined excitation wavelength, where the excitation spectrum of the first coloring material in the ink to obtain the fluorescence at the predetermined emission wavelength has a peak wavelength range next to the predetermined fluorescence wavelength, and the emission fluorescence spectrum of the second coloring material has an emission wavelength region substantially including at least the above peak wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masako Udagawa, Sadayuki Sugama, Shoji Koike, Makoto Aoki, Akira Nagashima, Shinichi Hakamada
  • Publication number: 20080223510
    Abstract: A manufacture method of an optical sheet made of a transparent thermoplastic resin sheet on whose surface a regular geometric design working is performed, the optical sheet manufacture method comprising steps of performing a geometric design working on the resin sheet at a temperature not lower than a glass transition temperature of the resin sheet, by using a metal endless working belt formed with a geometric design on a surface thereof, rapidly cooling the resin sheet on which the geometric design working is performed to a temperature lower than the glass transition temperature, and detaching the rapidly cooled resin sheet from the metal endless working belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuno, Akihiro Horii, Noriyuki Hirai, Masashi Ogawa, Yuu Miura, Kei Obata, Makoto Aoki
  • Publication number: 20080218626
    Abstract: A camera unit includes a soft substrate on which electrode regions and an image pickup device region are disposed, a driving electrode group disposed on one of the electrode regions, an image pickup device disposed on the image pickup device region, stationary unit frame attaching portions disposed at positions surrounding the image pickup device region, a stationary unit frame attached to the stationary unit frame attaching portions, and movable units disposed in the stationary unit frame. The soft substrate is bent along bending positions between the electrode regions and the image pickup device region, the electrode regions are fixed on sides of the stationary unit frame inwardly thereof, and the image pickup device region is fixed on an end surface of the stationary unit frame toward the movable units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Akihiro KOGA, Toshikatsu Akiba, Yasuo Shima, Hiroyuki Kayano, Makoto Aoki
  • Publication number: 20080179768
    Abstract: A lens film with small warpage even when a transparent base is thin is provided. Pole prisms made of a hardening resin are arranged along the extending direction on a transparent base made of a flexible material. The transparent base has a depression according to a valley between the pole prisms adjacent to each other. The pole prism has a sloping face extending to an inner wall of the depression. The transparent base is in contact with the valley. A layer not functioning as a prism, that is, a so-called skirt layer does not exist between the transparent base and the pole prisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Kimura, Jun Sasaki, Makoto Aoki, Yasuyuki Kudo, Mariko Fukuda, Yu Andrew Chakchung
  • Patent number: 7391464
    Abstract: A camera unit includes a soft substrate on which electrode regions and an image pickup device region are disposed, a driving electrode group disposed on one of the electrode regions, an image pickup device disposed on the image pickup device region, stationary unit frame attaching portions disposed at positions surrounding the image pickup device region, a stationary unit frame attached to the stationary unit frame attaching portions, and movable units disposed in the stationary unit frame. The soft substrate is bent along bending positions between the electrode regions and the image pickup device region, the electrode regions are fixed on sides of the stationary unit frame inwardly thereof, and the image pickup device region is fixed on an end surface of the stationary unit frame toward the movable units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akihiro Koga, Toshikatsu Akiba, Yasuo Shima, Hiroyuki Kayano, Makoto Aoki
  • Publication number: 20080137346
    Abstract: An optical sheet and a display device including the optical sheet are disclosed. The optical sheet includes a first lens sheet having a plurality of first three-dimensional structures arrayed to extend to one surface thereof, and a reflective polarizer sheet for transmitting either one of p-polarization component and s-polarization component of incident light and reflecting the other of p-polarization component and s-polarization component of the incident light. Head portions of the first three-dimensional structures are bonded to the reflective polarizer sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Shigehiro Yamakita, Makoto Aoki, Toru Abiko
  • Publication number: 20080099235
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a printed-wiring board on which an electrode for a semiconductor device bonding in a flip-chip-mounting manner is formed by an exposed part of a wiring pattern defined by a solder resist coating film, wherein the electrode includes an expanded section spreading in a line width direction of the wiring pattern to form the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Syuji Hiramoto, Makoto Aoki
  • Patent number: 7327040
    Abstract: A module substrate includes an insulating substrate, a circuit pattern formed on at least a main surface of the insulating substrate, a protection film formed on the main surface of the insulating substrate including the circuit patter such as to expose a mount region of the circuit pattern, an active element part mounted on the mount region of the circuit pattern, a fluororesin film formed on the protection film at least in a vicinity of the mount region of the active element part, and an underfill filled between the active element part and the mount region of the circuit pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Makoto Aoki, Kuniyasu Hosoda
  • Publication number: 20080005397
    Abstract: In the computer system including a host computer and a storage system, the storage system includes a physical disk and a disk controller, and provides a storage area of the physical disk as at least one logical unit. The processor obtains, at a first time point and a second time point different from the first time point, a relation between a logical path and a component through which the logical path passes, stores, as logical path connection information, the relations obtained at the first time point and the second time point, refers to the logical path connection information to compare the logical paths existing at the first time point and the logical paths existing at the second time point with each other, and specifies the logical path which does not exist at the second time point among the logical paths existing at the first time point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventors: Yuki Komatsu, Makoto Aoki
  • Publication number: 20070281504
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a connector system having a male connector unit which has a main body and a convex part, and which has first pin terminals provided to the convex part, second pin terminals provided to a contact face contacting an opposite connector, and a plurality of third pin terminals which are provided to side faces, and are respectively connected to the first pin terminals and the second pin terminals, and a female connector unit which has a concave part fitted into the convex part, and which has fourth pin terminals which are provided to the concave part and contact the first pin terminals at the time of fitting into the convex part, and fifth pin terminals connected to the fourth pin terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventor: Makoto Aoki