Patents by Inventor Masaharu Shiraishi

Masaharu Shiraishi 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).

  • Patent number: 11929403
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming a trench in a semiconductor layer of first conductivity type; in the trench, forming a first layer containing silicon and then forming a second layer containing first oxide or nitride on the first layer or forming the second layer and then forming the first layer on the second layer; and thermally oxidizing the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Shimabayashi, Tatsuya Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20240034897
    Abstract: A textile printing inkjet ink includes: a pigment; a water-dispersible resin; and an aqueous medium, wherein the water-dispersible resin has tensile strength of 0.1 to 4.5 MPa at 25° C. and breaking elongation of 500 to 1500% at 25° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: MASAHARU SHIRAISHI, MASAKI NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230392034
    Abstract: An image forming method includes: applying an ink containing a pigment and resin particles onto a fabric by an inkjet method; and applying a post-treatment liquid containing a lubricant onto the ink applied to the fabric in a wet-on-wet manner, wherein when a solubility parameter of a resin constituting the resin particles is represented by SP1 (cal/cm3)1/2 and a solubility parameter of the lubricant is represented by SP2 (cal/cm3)1/2, 0.3?SP1?SP2?0.8 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Masaki NAKAMURA, Masaharu Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20230002967
    Abstract: A textile printing ink including polymer particles, contains: first polymer particles; second polymer particles having a weight average molecular weight different from a weight average molecular weight of the first polymer particles; and a binding aid that crosslinks the polymer particles, on a surface, inside, or outside of the first polymer particles and the second polymer particles, wherein when a weight average molecular weight of a polymer contained in the first polymer particles is denoted by HMw1 and a weight average molecular weight of a polymer contained in the second polymer particles is denoted by LMw2, a ratio (LMw2/HMw1) of the weight average molecular weight of the polymer of the second polymer particles to the weight average molecular weight of the polymer of the first polymer particles is in a range of 0.01 to 0.20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Masaharu SHIRAISHI, Masaki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220403134
    Abstract: A resin powder for three-dimensional laminated modeling contains an aggregate of resin particles. A volume average particle size MV of the resin particles is in the range of 1 to 200 ?m. A value of a ratio (MV/MN) of the volume average particle size MV and a number average particle size MN of the resin particles is 2.5 or more. A static bulk density is 0.30 g/cm3 or more. The resin particles contain a crystalline thermoplastic resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Masaharu SHIRAISHI, Kenji GOTO, Takeshi KOJIMA
  • Patent number: 11433603
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a powder material used to manufacture a three-dimensional modeled object by selectively radiating laser light to a thin layer of the powder material including powder particles, forming a modeled object layer obtained by melt-binding of the powder particles, and layering the modeled object layer. The powder particles include a core resin and a shell resin for coating the core resin, the temperature at which the storage modulus G? of the material constituting the shell resin is 1×106.5 Pa being higher than the temperature at which the storage modulus G? of the material constituting the core resin is 1×106.5 Pa. The abovementioned powder material, makes it possible to manufacture a three-dimensional modeled object having higher definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Masaharu Shiraishi, Kazuya Isobe, Akiko Hara, Kazufumi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20220251342
    Abstract: Provided is a resin composition used for forming a molded body by a hot melt extrusion method, wherein the resin composition contains a resin including a polymer body having a partial structure represented by the following Formula (1), —(X)n-J-A??Formua (1) in Formula (1), X represents —C(?O)—, —C(?O)NH—, —SiR1R2—, or —S—; R1 and R2 each represents a substituent; J represents a linking group; A represents a functional group; and n represents 1 or 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuaki NAKAMURA, Masaharu SHIRAISHI, Kenji GOTO
  • Publication number: 20220219389
    Abstract: A resin powder for three-dimensional molding includes ethylene-propylene copolymer particles. The volume average particle size of the ethylene-propylene copolymer particles is within a range of 5 to 200 ?m. The ethylene content molar ratio (ethylene/(ethylene+propylene)) in the ethylene-propylene copolymer particles is within a range of 0.001 to 0.04. The melt flow rate (MFR) is within a range of 3 to 40 g/10 min at 230° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Masaharu SHIRAISHI, Kenji GOTO, Masashi HAGIWARA, Yusei KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11167476
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a three-dimensionally shaped object includes: forming a thin layer of a powder material containing core-shell type resin particles containing a core resin and a shell resin with a storage elastic modulus G? of 1×108.0 Pa or more at a temperature Tc(7.0) at which the storage elastic modulus G? of the core resin is 1×107.0 Pa; selectively irradiating the formed thin layer with laser light to form a shaped object layer in which the resin particles contained in the powder material are sintered or fused; and a step of performing the step of forming the thin layer and the step of forming the shaped object layer in this order a plurality of times to laminate the shaped object layer. In the forming of the shaped object layer, a surface temperature of the thin layer is higher than Tc(7.0).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Masaharu Shiraishi, Kazuya Isobe, Kazufumi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20210291434
    Abstract: The present invention provides a three-dimensional model that contains an olefin-based polymer and can be easily processed, and a three-dimensional modeling material for obtaining the same. In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide a three-dimensional modeling material that contains an olefin-based polymer and can impart a function to a three-dimensional model itself. Furthermore, another object of the present invention is to provide a three-dimensional model production method using a three-dimensional modeling material. A three-dimensional modeling material that solves the above problems is a material for forming a three-dimensional model using thermal energy and contains an olefin-based polymer and an organometallic complex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Masaharu SHIRAISHI, Takeshi KOJIMA, Kenji GOTO, Rie KATAKURA, Hiroshi KITA
  • Publication number: 20200298473
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a powder material used to manufacture a three-dimensional modeled object by selectively radiating laser light to a thin layer of the powder material including powder particles, forming a modeled object layer obtained by melt-binding of the powder particles, and layering the modeled object layer. The powder particles include a core resin and a shell resin for coating the core resin, the temperature at which the storage modulus G? of the material constituting the shell resin is 1×106.5 Pa being higher than the temperature at which the storage modulus G? of the material constituting the core resin is 1×106.5 Pa. The abovementioned powder material, makes it possible to manufacture a three-dimensional modeled object having higher definition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Masaharu SHIRAISHI, Kazuya ISOBE, Akiko HARA, Kazufumi YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20190308369
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a three-dimensionally shaped object includes: forming a thin layer of a powder material containing core-shell type resin particles containing a core resin and a shell resin with a storage elastic modulus G? of 1×108.0 Pa or more at a temperature Tc(7.0) at which the storage elastic modulus G? of the core resin is 1×107.0 Pa; selectively irradiating the formed thin layer with laser light to form a shaped object layer in which the resin particles contained in the powder material are sintered or fused; and a step of performing the step of forming the thin layer and the step of forming the shaped object layer in this order a plurality of times to laminate the shaped object layer. In the forming of the shaped object layer, a surface temperature of the thin layer is higher than Tc(7.0).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Masaharu SHIRAISHI, Kazuya ISOBE, Kazufumi YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 8081908
    Abstract: A toner bottle containing a cylindrical toner container having therein a toner comprising at least a resin, a colorant and an external additive, the toner container having a toner discharge port on an end thereof and a rotation axis along the cylindrical toner container, and the toner container being installable in an image forming apparatus, wherein the toner container has plural protrusions which are intermittently provided in an interior of the cylindrical container, the protrusions having a function to convey the toner toward the toner discharge port when the toner container is rotated around the rotation axis; an X-ray intensity ratio of titanium to silicon (Ti/Si) determined via X-ray fluorescence spectrometry of the toner is 1.0 to 3.0; and a conveyance index of the toner is 2.0 to 10.0 mg/sec.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikihiko Sukeno, Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Michiaki Ishikawa, Tsuyoshi Uchida, Masaharu Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20090004591
    Abstract: Disclosed is a toner for developing electrostatic image containing toner particles prepared with a method containing a step of: coagulating resin particle A, resin particle B and a colorant, wherein resin particle A and resin particle B respectively have volume average particle diameters Da and Db which are different in value from each other; and Da and Db satisfy the following relationship: 0.05?Db/Da?0.7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi UCHIDA, Masahiro ANNO, Yukio HOSOYA, Masaharu SHIRAISHI
  • Publication number: 20080304869
    Abstract: A toner bottle containing a cylindrical toner container having therein a toner comprising at least a resin, a colorant and an external additive, the toner container having a toner discharge port on an end thereof and a rotation axis along the cylindrical toner container, and the toner container being installable in an image forming apparatus, wherein the toner container has plural protrusions which are intermittently provided in an interior of the cylindrical container, the protrusions having a function to convey the toner toward the toner discharge port when the toner container is rotated around the rotation axis; an X-ray intensity ratio of titanium to silicon (Ti/Si) determined via X-ray fluorescence spectrometry of the toner is 1.0 to 3.0; and a conveyance index of the toner is 2.0 to 10.0 mg/sec.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Mikihiko SUKENO, Yoshiaki KOBAYASHI, Michiaki ISHIKAWA, Tsuyoshi UCHIDA, Masaharu SHIRAISHI
  • Publication number: 20080261138
    Abstract: An objective is to provide an electrostatic latent image developing toner exhibiting ultra-low temperature fixability together with high resolution, excellent fluidity and anti-blocking property, and excellent aging stability in a toner vessel, in which the toner is supplied into an image forming apparatus. Also disclosed is an electrostatic latent image developing toner stored in a vessel possessing an ejecting outlet, capable of fitting into an image forming apparatus, wherein the vessel has a cross-sectional area of the outlet of 0.07-2.00 cm2; the toner possesses a resin, a colorant and an external additive; the toner has a Tg of 16-44° C.; an X-ray intensity ratio of Ti/Si via fluorescent X-ray analysis of toner, is 1.0-2.5; and toner particles, and having a ratio of 2nd short axis to 1st short axis being 1.1-1.6 have an amount of 5-50% in terms of the number of particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Mikihiko SUKENO, Yoshiaki KOBAYASHI, Michiaki ISHIKAWA, Tsuyoshi UCHIDA, Masaharu SHIRAISHI