Patents by Inventor Manabu Tobise
Manabu Tobise 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: 9791659Abstract: The present invention provides an imaging module capable of performing positioning of an imaging element unit, and a lens unit at a low cost and with high precision and an electronic device including the imaging module. An imaging module 100 includes a lens unit 10 including VCMs 16A, 16C, and 16E which move a lens group 12 in an x direction, a y direction, and a z direction, respectively, terminals 14A and 14B which are connected to the VCM 16A, terminals 14C and 14D which are connected to the VCM 16C, and terminals 14E and 14F which are connected to the VCM 16E, and an imaging element unit 20 including terminals 24A to 24F which are connected to the terminals 14A to 14F. Exposed areas of the terminals 14A and 14B are larger than exposed areas of the terminals 14C to 14F.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kenji Yamakawa, Yoshiyuki Takase, Masaru Inamura, Tatsuya Fujinami, Manabu Tobise
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Patent number: 9712732Abstract: The present invention provides an imaging module, an electric device provided therewith, and an imaging-module manufacturing method capable of simply and reliably performing probing and fixing a lens unit and an imaging element unit to each other with high accuracy even when the miniaturized lens unit is used. A the lens unit (11) includes a focus driving unit, a housing (23), a first connection portion (37A), a first wiring portion by which the focus driving unit and the first connection portion are electrically connected to each other, and a second wiring portion which is electrically connected to the focus driving unit to which the first wiring portion is connected. The second wiring portion extends from the inside of the housing to the outside thereof, and a wire of the second wiring portion extends to an end surface on an end (39) of the extended second wiring portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yukihiro Kaneko, Kenji Yamakawa, Yoshiyuki Takase, Tatsuya Fujinami, Manabu Tobise
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Patent number: 9699364Abstract: The invention provides an imaging module that can reliably perform probing, and an electronic apparatus including the imaging module. An imaging module includes a lens unit, and an imaging element unit that is fixed to the lens unit. The lens unit includes a focus drive unit, first and second image blur-correction drive units, a housing, a first connecting portion that is electrically connected to the imaging element unit, a first wiring portion that electrically connects the respective drive units to the first connecting portion, second connecting portions that are disposed outside the housing, a second wiring portion that is electrically connected to the second connecting portions and is electrically connected to the respective drive units to which the first wiring portion is connected, and a wiring board that includes at least a part of the second wiring portion and the plurality of second connecting portions.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Motokazu Shimizu, Yukihiro Kaneko, Yoshiyuki Takase, Tatsuya Fujinami, Manabu Tobise
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Patent number: 9674443Abstract: An imaging module, an electronic device, and an imaging-module manufacturing method capable of relatively easily adjusting a relative position between an imaging element unit and a lens unit with high accuracy are provided. An imaging module 1 includes an imaging element unit 3, a lens unit 2 which includes a lens group 10, a first image-blur correction driving unit 30x, a second image-blur correction driving unit 30y, a focus driving unit 30z, and a connection portion 41 which is electrically connected to a circuit of the imaging element unit by a conductive joining material, and a flexible wiring portion 12 which includes a wiring group which connects the circuit of the imaging element unit to at least one driving unit among the first image-blur correction driving unit, the second image-blur correction driving unit, and the focus driving unit, and extends between the imaging element unit and the lens unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yukihiro Kaneko, Kenji Yamakawa, Yoshiyuki Takase, Tatsuya Fujinami, Manabu Tobise
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Patent number: 9614174Abstract: [It is an object] to provide an organic electroluminescent element having a transparent electrode, with which there is no need to produce a separate light extraction layer, [which can be produced by] a simple film formation process, and which is advantageous in terms of cost. [This is] an organic electroluminescent element in which a substrate, a first transparent electrode that is adjacent to this substrate, an organic layer including at least one organic light-emitting layer, a second transparent electrode, a low refractive-index layer with a refractive index of 1.3 or less, and a reflector layer are formed in this order, with this organic electroluminescent element being such that the aforementioned first transparent electrode contains at least one type of transparent particle with a primary particle size of 0.5 ?m or more.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2013Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: UDC Ireland LimitedInventors: Kana Morohashi, Manabu Tobise, Shinichiro Sonoda, Jingbo Li, Yuichiro Sakai
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Patent number: 9609196Abstract: An imaging module 100 includes a lens unit 10 and an imaging element unit 20. The lens unit 10 includes a VCM 16A which moves a lens group 12 in a z direction, terminals 14A and 14B which are electrically connected to the VCM 16A, a VCM 16C and a VCM 16E which move the lens group 12 in an x direction and a y direction, and terminals 14C to 14F which are electrically connected to the VCM 16C and the VCM 16E. The imaging element unit 20 includes terminals 24A to 24F which are electrically connected to the terminals 14A to 14F. Exposed areas of the terminals 14A and 14B are larger than exposed areas of the terminals 14C to 14F.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kenji Yamakawa, Yukihiro Kaneko, Manabu Tobise, Tatsuya Fujinami
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Patent number: 9596409Abstract: An imaging module (100) includes a lens unit (11) that includes a lens group, and an imaging element unit (13) that is fixed to the lens unit and includes an imaging element. The lens unit (11) includes: a focus drive unit; first and second image blur-correction drive units; a first connecting portion (37A) that is electrically connected to the imaging element unit; a first wiring portion that electrically connects the focus drive unit, the first image blur-correction drive unit, and the second image blur-correction drive unit to the first connecting portion; a second wiring portion that is electrically connected to only a part of a plurality of wires of the first wiring portion; and a plurality of second connecting portions (59) that are electrically connected to the second wiring portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2016Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Motokazu Shimizu, Yukihiro Kaneko, Yoshiyuki Takase, Tatsuya Fujinami, Manabu Tobise
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Patent number: 9565347Abstract: The invention provides an imaging module having second connecting portions capable of reliably performing probing and can maintain a small installation space, and an electronic apparatus including the imaging module. A lens unit includes at least one drive unit, a housing, a first connecting portion that is electrically connected to an imaging element unit, a first wiring portion that electrically connects the drive unit to the first connecting portion, a plurality of second connecting portions that are disposed outside the housing, and a second wiring portion that electrically connects the second connecting portions to the drive unit. The second wiring portion includes wires that are electrically connected to the drive unit to which the first wiring portion is connected, and at least a part of the second wiring portion extends to the outside of the housing in a direction in which an element wiring portion extends from the support portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2016Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Motokazu Shimizu, Yoshiyuki Takase, Tatsuya Fujinami, Manabu Tobise, Masaru Inamura
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Patent number: 9373818Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an organic electroluminescent element with which no light extraction layer needs to be produced separately, which has a transparent electrode that is advantageous in terms of cost and can be formed by a simple film formation process, and which is excellent from the standpoint of light extraction efficiency. The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent element in which a substrate, a first electrode adjacent to this substrate, an organic layer including at least one organic light-emitting layer, and a second electrode adjacent to this organic layer are formed in this order, with this organic electroluminescent element being such that at least one of the aforementioned electrodes is a transparent electrode which is transparent, which contains at least one type of light scattering particles that are transparent and that have a primary particle size of at least 0.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: UDC Ireland LimitedInventors: Manabu Tobise, Yuichiro Itai, Kana Morohashi, Shin'ichiro Sonoda, Jingbo Li
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Patent number: 9209417Abstract: An organic EL device includes at least a light-emitting layer provided between a pair of electrodes. The light-emitting layer includes at least a hole transporting host material and an electron transporting phosphorescent material, and the concentration of the electron transporting phosphorescent material in the light-emitting layer decreases from a cathode side toward an anode side.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2008Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: UDC Ireland LimitedInventors: Masaru Kinoshita, Manabu Tobise
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Patent number: 9012034Abstract: An organic electroluminescence element includes at least a light-emitting layer between a pair of electrodes, wherein the light-emitting layer is divided into at least three layers, an intermediate layer containing an electron blocking material or a hole blocking material is disposed between the divided light-emitting layers, an Ea value of the electron blocking material is smaller than an Ea value of a host material of the divided light-emitting layer adjacent on a cathode side or an Ip value of the hole blocking material is larger than an Ip value of a host material of the divided light-emitting layer adjacent on the anode side of the intermediate layer, and a difference of ?Ea or ?Ip is controlled to specific range.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2007Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: UDC Ireland LimitedInventors: Masaru Kinoshita, Manabu Tobise
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Publication number: 20140008620Abstract: [It is an object] to provide an organic electroluminescent element having a transparent electrode, with which there is no need to produce a separate light extraction layer, [which can be produced by] a simple film formation process, and which is advantageous in terms of cost. [This is] an organic electroluminescent element in which a substrate, a first transparent electrode that is adjacent to this substrate, an organic layer including at least one organic light-emitting layer, a second transparent electrode, a low refractive-index layer with a refractive index of 1.3 or less, and a reflector layer are formed in this order, with this organic electroluminescent element being such that the aforementioned first transparent electrode contains at least one type of transparent particle with a primary particle size of 0.5 ?m or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2013Publication date: January 9, 2014Inventors: Kana Morohashi, Manabu Tobise, Shinichiro Sonoda, Jingbo Li, Yuichiro Sakai
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Publication number: 20130334506Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an organic electroluminescent element with which no light extraction layer needs to be produced separately, which has a transparent electrode that is advantageous in terms of cost and a simple film formation process, and which is excellent from the standpoint of light extraction efficiency. The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent element in which a substrate, a first electrode adjacent to this substrate, an organic layer including at least one organic light-emitting layer, and a second electrode adjacent to this organic layer are formed in this order, with this organic electroluminescent element being such that at least one of the aforementioned electrodes is a transparent electrode which is transparent, which contains at least one type of light scattering particles that are transparent and that have a primary particle size of at least 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: UDC IRELAND LIMITEDInventors: Manabu Tobise, Yuichiro Itai, Kana Morohashi, Shin'ichiro Sonoda, Shizunami Ri
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Patent number: 8362691Abstract: There is provided an organic electroluminescent device 10 having an anode 14, a cathode 18 disposed facing the anode, and an organic layer 16 that is sandwiched between the anode and the cathode and that includes at least a light emitting layer, wherein the light emitting layer includes a light emitting material having hole transportability, a host material having electron transportability and an electrically inert material, and the concentration of the light emitting material having hole transportability gradually increases from the cathode side toward the anode side. Preferably, the concentration of the electrically inert material also gradually increases from the cathode side toward the anode side.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2008Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: UDC Ireland LimitedInventors: Masaru Kinoshita, Manabu Tobise
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Patent number: 8174001Abstract: An organic electroluminescence element including at least two light-emitting layers disposed between an anode and a cathode, wherein the at least two light-emitting layers include a light-emitting layer A that contains an electron transporting light-emitting material and a hole transporting host material, wherein a concentration of the electron transporting light-emitting material gradually increases from an anode side toward a cathode side of the light-emitting layer A, and a light-emitting layer B that contains a hole transporting light-emitting material and an electron transporting host material, wherein a concentration of the hole transporting light-emitting material gradually decreases from an anode side toward a cathode side of the light-emitting layer B. An organic EL element with high light-emission efficiency and excellent durability is provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yoshitaka Kitamura, Manabu Tobise, Masaru Kinoshita
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Patent number: 8129897Abstract: The present invention provides an organic electroluminescence element having at least a light-emitting layer disposed between a pair of electrodes, wherein the light-emitting layer includes at least two electron transporting materials and a hole transporting host material, with at least one of the electron transporting materials being an electron transporting light-emitting material, and a total concentration of the at least two electron transporting materials in the light-emitting layer decreases from a cathode side toward an anode side.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2008Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Masaru Kinoshita, Manabu Tobise
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Patent number: 8106581Abstract: An organic electroluminescence element including an organic layer including a light-emitting layer disposed between a pair of electrodes, wherein the light-emitting layer contains at least one hole transporting light-emitting material and at least one electron-transporting host material, and a concentration of the hole transporting light-emitting material in the light-emitting layer decreases from an anode side toward a cathode side.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2008Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Hisashi Okada, Manabu Tobise, Masaru Kinoshita
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Patent number: 8097893Abstract: A light emitting device 10 has a supporting substrate 12; a first electrode 14 disposed on the supporting substrate; an electroluminescent layer disposed on the first electrode and including at least a light emitting layer 16; a second electrode 18 disposed opposite to the first electrode, with the electroluminescent layer being interposed therebetween; a resin layer 20 disposed on the second electrode directly or with an intermediate layer interposed therebetween, or on a surface of the supporting substrate at the opposite side of a surface where the first electrode is disposed; and light transmitting particles 22 scattered in the resin layer, and at least a portion of the light transmitting particles are scattered in the resin layer such that a part of each of the scattered particles is embedded in a surface of the resin layer at the side at which light is extracted from the light emitting layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2009Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Manabu Tobise
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Patent number: 7943245Abstract: The invention provides an organic electroluminescent device having high luminous efficiency, being able to drive at a low voltage and being excellent in driving durability including, between an anode and cathode, a luminescent layer containing a luminescent material, an electron-transport layer (ETL1) and an organic thin film layer (ETL2) in this order from the anode side, wherein the organic thin film layer (ETL2) contains an electron-transport material and has a thickness of 0.01 to 3 nm, and the ratio (ETL1/ETL2) of the thickness of the electron-transport layer (ETL1) to the thickness of the organic thin film layer (ETL2) is in the range of 5 to 500.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2006Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Manabu Tobise
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Publication number: 20100327304Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device including an organic electroluminescence display part which includes an anode, a cathode and at least a light-emitting layer disposed therebetween, and a lens which controls an optical path of light emitted from the light-emitting layer, wherein the organic electroluminescence device has a ratio of A to B (A/B) of greater than 1, where A denotes a light-extraction efficiency in terms of front brightness when the lens is placed on a surface from which the light is extracted, and B denotes a light-extraction efficiency in terms of front brightness when the lens is not placed on the surface from which the light is extracted, and wherein the organic electroluminescence device has a ratio of ? to a (?/a) of 1.0 or greater, where a denotes the maximum length of a side of the light-emitting layer and ? denotes an effective diameter of the lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Inventors: Shinichiro Sonoda, Toshiro Takabashi, Manabu Tobise