Patents by Inventor Makoto Hirakawa

Makoto Hirakawa 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: 20220345671
    Abstract: A light guide optical device includes an optical path combiner including: a first deflector to deflect first light incident from a first direction to an emission direction; a second deflector to deflect second light incident from a second direction different from the first direction, to the emission direction; and a transmission portion between the first deflector and the second deflector, the transmission portion to transmit third light incident from a third direction different from each of the first direction and the second direction, to the emission direction. The optical path combining unit combines the first light, the second light, and the third light, and emits the combined light to the mission direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi SASAKI, Yohei TAKANO, Kasumi NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Makoto HIRAKAWA, Shigeaki IMAI
  • Publication number: 20220306859
    Abstract: Provided are: a resin composition, containing a polyester polyurethane resin (A), an epoxy resin (B), and a polyamide resin (C); as well as a bonding film, a layered body including a resin composition layer, a layered body, and an electromagnetic wave shielding film, each using the resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Yuya OKIMURA, Masahiro TORII, Makoto HIRAKAWA, Masashi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20220299852
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a first light source to emit first color light; a second light source to emit second color light; a wavelength conversion unit to convert at least a portion of the first color light into a third color light; a light incident element to which the first color light, the second color light, and the third color light enter; a first filter to reflect the first color light toward the wavelength conversion unit; and a second filter to reflect the second color tight toward the light incident element. The first filter and the second filter are separately disposed on an optical path of the third color light between the wavelength conversion unit and the light incident element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Kasumi NAKAMURA, Yohei TAKANO, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Takashi SASAKI, Shigeaki IMAI, Makoto HIRAKAWA
  • Patent number: 11441055
    Abstract: Provided is an adhesive composition, including a modified polypropylene-based resin (A) that contains at least one of an acidic group or an acid anhydride group, and that contains a (meth)acryloyl group (a), in which the (meth)acryloyl group (a) is introduced by a modification reaction of at least one of an acidic group or an acid anhydride group of a polypropylene-based resin (h) that contains the at least one of the acidic group or the acid anhydride group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TOAGOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Ito, Makoto Hirakawa, Mitsue Takamura
  • Publication number: 20220259427
    Abstract: Provided are: a resin composition, containing a polyester polyurethane resin (A), an epoxy resin (B), and a polyolefin resin (C); as well as a layered body including a resin composition layer, a layered body, and an electromagnetic wave shielding film, each using the resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Yuya OKIMURA, Masahiro TORII, Makoto HIRAKAWA, Masashi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20220179298
    Abstract: A light source device includes a light source, a plurality of wavelength conversion units, and a plurality of optical systems. The plurality of wavelength conversion units each includes a wavelength conversion region configured to receive light emitted from the light source and emit light with a wavelength different from a wavelength of the received light. The plurality of optical systems are configured to form images of wavelength conversion regions of the plurality of wavelength conversion units. The light source is configured to irradiate the wavelength conversion units with light at a same timing. The plurality of optical systems are configured to cause the images of the wavelength conversion regions of the plurality of wavelength conversion units to be adjacent to or superimposed on each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuhiro FUJITA, Yohei TAKANO, Makoto HIRAKAWA, Shigeaki IMAI
  • Publication number: 20220171267
    Abstract: A light source device includes: multiple light source units each including a light source to emit a first color light beam, each of the multiple light source units configured to: convert at least part of the first color light beam into a second color light beam emitted from an emitting region; and emit the second color light beam to form a conjugate image; and a light combiner to combine the conjugate images formed by the multiple light source units to form a combined image, in which the conjugate images partially overlap each other, on a plane of an entrance surface of a light uniformizing element along a central axis of the light uniformizing element. A conditional expression below is satisfied: 1.3>SC/SI>0.7 where SC is an area of the combined image, and SI is an area of the entrance surface of the light uniformizing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Yohei TAKANO, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Makoto HIRAKAWA, Shigeaki IMAI
  • Publication number: 20220171268
    Abstract: A light source optical system includes: a first optical system configured to guide a first light beam having a first wavelength emitted from a light source to a wavelength conversion element; the wavelength conversion element configured to convert the first light beam into a second light beam having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, and emit the second light beam; and a second optical system through which the second light beam emitted from the light conversion element passes. The second optical system includes a light guide element configured to guide a portion of the second light beam from one end surface of the light guide element to the other end surface of the light guide element to separate the portion of the second light beam from the second light beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Makoto HIRAKAWA, Yohei TAKANO, Kasumi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220066177
    Abstract: An image projection apparatus includes: a light source; an image display element including multiple micromirrors arranged in two dimensions, the multiple micromirrors forming an image display plane, each micromirror having a reflecting surface; and a projection optical system. Conditional expressions (1) and (2) below are satisfied: ?1?14 (deg)??(1) 1.2<BF/L<2.2??(2) where ?1 is a maximum tilt angle of the reflecting surface of each micromirror with respect to the image display plane, L is a diagonal length of the image display plane, and BF is a distance between a vertex of a lens within the projection optical system and closest to the image display plane and the image display plane along an optical axis of the projection optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yohei TAKANO, Shigeaki IMAI, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Makoto HIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210384574
    Abstract: An adhesive composition including: an organic solvent; (A) a polyolefin that has an acid anhydride group and that is soluble in the organic solvent; and a cross-linking agent, in which a ring-opening ratio of an anhydrous ring of the acid anhydride group in (A) the polyolefin is from 0 to 60%, and a thermally fusible member using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Takahiro ITO, Makoto HIRAKAWA, Hideki HIRAOKA
  • Publication number: 20210317348
    Abstract: An adhesive composition, comprising: an organic solvent; (A) a polyolefin that has an acidic group and/or an acid anhydride group and that is soluble in the organic solvent; and an isocyanate compound, wherein the isocyanate compound is (B) an isocyanate compound having an alicyclic structure, and/or a derivative thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Takahiro ITOU, Makoto HIRAKAWA
  • Patent number: 11131850
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a screen configured to form an intermediate image by being irradiated with light, a front windshield configured to display a virtual image by being irradiated with light forming the intermediated image, a reflection member configured to reflect light going out from the screen to the front windshield, and a rotation shaft configured to rotate the reflection member. The rotation shaft is tilted with respect to a pitch axis. The reflection member has notches formed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kento Nakamura, Makoto Hirakawa, Hiromichi Atsuumi, Naoki Miyatake, Yuki Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20210200075
    Abstract: A light-source device includes an excitation light source; a wavelength conversion unit to convert at least some of first color light into second color light; a light mixing element including a rod integrator to mix at least one of the first color light and the second color light from the conversion unit; and an optical element on an optical path of the first color light and having a reflecting surface. A center of the first color light on the reflecting surface intersects with only one of a first light flux of the first color light incident on and a second light flux of the first color light emitted from the conversion unit. An angle formed by a projection straight line of the first color light incident on an incident aperture of the integrator and a predetermined axial line of the incident aperture of the integrator is smaller than 40°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Kasumi NAKAMURA, Yohei TAKANO, Makoto HIRAKAWA, Kazuhiro FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20210116707
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image display device for displaying an image on a screen. The image display device includes an image forming element configured to optically scan a screen, and an optical member disposed between the screen and the image forming element, and being configured to reflect light, where the optical member is disposed such that the reflected light, along normals with respect to every reflecting point on the optical member, is directed away from the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Makoto HIRAKAWA, Daisuke ICHII
  • Patent number: 10941324
    Abstract: An adhesive composition is provided which exhibits not only adhesiveness to a polyimide film or copper foil, but also high adhesiveness to gold-plated copper foil, and is also superior in heat resistance such as soldering heat resistance. The adhesive composition comprises a solvent-soluble polyamide resin (A) which is solid at 25° C., an epoxy resin (B), and an imidazole compound (C) having an alkoxysilyl group, wherein the mass ratio (A)/(B) of the component (A) to the component (B) is 99/1-50/50, and the content of the component (C) is 0.3-5 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the total of the component (A) and the component (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: TOAGOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Hirakawa, Masashi Yamada, Anna Sekioka
  • Publication number: 20210009865
    Abstract: Provided is an adhesive composition that is characterized by containing a modified polypropylene-based resin (A), an epoxy resin (B) and an unmodified polypropylene-based resin (C), with the modified polypropylene-based resin (A) being a resin obtained by graft modifying an unmodified polypropylene-based resin (D) with a modifying agent that contains an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof, the content of the modified polypropylene-based resin (A) being 10 mass % or more in terms of solid content, and the content of the unmodified polypropylene-based resin (C) being 1-90 mass % in terms of solid content. The adhesive composition exhibits good adhesion to a copper foil or a base material film comprising a polyimide resin or the like, and exhibits improved dielectric properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Yuya OKIMURA, Makoto HIRAKAWA, Masashi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20200339845
    Abstract: Provided is an adhesive composition, including a modified polypropylene-based resin (A) that contains at least one of an acidic group or an acid anhydride group, and that contains a (meth)acryloyl group (a), in which the (meth)acryloyl group (a) is introduced by a modification reaction of at least one of an acidic group or an acid anhydride group of a polypropylene-based resin (h) that contains the at least one of the acidic group or the acid anhydride group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Takahiro ITO, Makoto HIRAKAWA, Mitsue TAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200301266
    Abstract: A light-source device includes an excitation light source; an optical element having a reflecting surface to reflect first colored light emitted from the excitation light source; and a wavelength conversion unit including a waveform conversion member configured to convert at least a portion of the first colored light reflected by the optical element and incident on the wavelength conversion unit, into second colored light having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the first colored light and emit the second colored light. A point P does not intersect with a light flux Q where the point P is a center of the first colored light on the reflecting surface of the optical element and the light flux Q is a light flux of the first colored light emitted from the wavelength conversion unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Kasumi NAKAMURA, Yohei TAKANO, Tatsuya TAKAHASHI, Makoto HIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200131413
    Abstract: An adhesive composition having high room-temperature peel strength, high hot peel strength, and excellent adhesion, as well as excellent electrolyte resistance even when used for packaging materials for lithium ion batteries is provided, which contains an organic solvent, a polyolefin (A) that has an acidic group and/or an acid anhydride group and is soluble in the organic solvent, and an isocyanate compound, wherein the isocyanate compound comprises (B) a diisocyanate compound having a C4-7 hydrocarbon group and/or a derivative thereof, and (C) a diisocyanate compound having a C8-14 hydrocarbon group and/or a derivative thereof; and a heat-fusible member using the adhesive composition is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Takahiro ITO, Makoto IMAHORI, Makoto HIRAKAWA
  • Patent number: 10606042
    Abstract: A magnification optical system forms an enlarged image of an object. It includes a refractive optical system including a plurality of lens groups; and a mirror train including a curved mirror, arranged in this order from an object side, a first focus structure configured to move the respective lens groups of the refractive optical system by different amounts along a normal line of a conjugate surface on the object side, and a second focus structure configured to move the respective lens groups along the normal line of the conjugate surface on the object side by different amounts from those of the first focus structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hibiki Tatsuno, Kiichiro Nishina, Yasuyuki Shibayama, Takanobu Osaka, Makoto Hirakawa