Patents by Inventor Masahiro Hasegawa

Masahiro Hasegawa 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: 20240118617
    Abstract: A polymer (P) to generate an acid by light exposure and to change in solubility in a developer with an action of the acid, the polymer containing: a repeating unit represented by the following formula (A-1); a repeating unit represented by any one or more selected from the following formulae (B-1), (B-2), (B-3), and (B-4) to generate an acid by light exposure; and a repeating unit represented by the following formula (a-1) or (a-2) other than the repeating unit represented by the formula (A-1). This provides a polymer to be contained in a resist composition that is excellent in etching resistance and that makes it possible to form a pattern with high sensitivity, high resolution, high contrast, and small LWR and CDU when using, in particular, an electron beam or an extreme ultraviolet ray (EUV) having a wavelength of 13.5 nm; a resist composition containing the polymer; and a patterning process using the resist composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro FUKUSHIMA, Takahiro SUZUKI, Masayoshi SAGEHASHI, Koji HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240103314
    Abstract: Provided is a display device in which warping of a display panel is sufficiently reduced or prevented. The display device includes: a display panel; and a polarizer, the polarizer being provided with at least one notch that extends inward from an outer edge of the polarizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ryosuke SAIGUSA, Akira SAKAI, Yuichi KAWAHIRA, Masahiro HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 11934069
    Abstract: An optical element includes, sequentially from a viewing surface side toward a back surface side: a viewing-surface-side polarizer; a retarder; and a back-surface-side polarizer, a transmission axis of the viewing-surface-side polarizer and a transmission axis of the back-surface-side polarizer being parallel to each other, the optical element having an average angle ? between an angle ?1 and an angle ?2 of greater than 0° and smaller than 90°, wherein the angle ?1 represents an angle formed by an optical axis of the retarder on a surface close to the back surface with the surface close to the back surface; and the angle ?2 represents an angle formed by an optical axis of the retarder on a surface close to the viewing surface with the surface close to the viewing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Sakai, Yuichi Kawahira, Masahiro Hasegawa, Ryosuke Saigusa
  • Patent number: 11927775
    Abstract: Provided are 3D glasses capable of reducing crosstalk when disposed on the viewer side of a liquid crystal panel that is time-divisionally driven; an optical device including the 3D glasses; and a three-dimensional image display device including the optical device. The 3D glasses include a right-eye polarizer and a left-eye polarizer, the right-eye polarizer and the left-eye polarizer each including a polarizing plate and a first ?/4 plate, at least one of the right-eye polarizer or the left-eye polarizer including a phase difference layer on or behind a back surface side of the polarizing plate, wherein a phase difference introduced by the right-eye polarizer in a thickness direction at a wavelength of 550 nm is different from a phase difference introduced by the left-eye polarizer in the thickness direction at a wavelength of 550 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Hasegawa, Akira Sakai, Kiyoshi Minoura
  • Patent number: 11927850
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device having high luminance and high CR in a front direction and especially useful as a head-mounted liquid crystal display device, for example. The liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel; an optical element; and a backlight, arranged in this order from a viewing surface side. The optical element includes a first polarizer, a retardation layer, and a second polarizer. The first polarizer, the retardation layer, and the second polarizer are arranged in this order from the viewing surface side. The first polarizer and the second polarizer are reflection polarizers. A reflection axis of the first polarizer and a reflection axis of the second polarizer are parallel to each other. In oblique directions at azimuths of 0°, 45°, and 90° at a polar angle of 60°, a polarization state of light incident on the first polarizer is elliptical polarization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Kawahira, Masahiro Hasegawa, Ryosuke Saigusa, Akira Sakai
  • Patent number: 11874549
    Abstract: Provided are an optical element that can achieve both color difference control and luminance reduction at an oblique viewing angle, and a liquid crystal display device including the optical element and having excellent display quality. The optical element includes: a first polarizer; a first phase difference layer; a second phase difference layer; and a second polarizer, the first polarizer, the first phase difference layer, the second phase difference layer, and the second polarizer being arranged in the stated order, the first phase difference layer satisfying the formula nx>ny?nz, the second phase difference layer satisfying the formula nz>nx?ny, the first polarizer and the second polarizer being linear polarizers, transmission axes of the first polarizer and the second polarizer being parallel to each other, a slow axis of the first phase difference layer being orthogonal to a polarization axis of the first polarizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke Saigusa, Akira Sakai, Yuichi Kawahira, Masahiro Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20230384634
    Abstract: Provided are an optical element that can achieve both color difference control and luminance reduction at an oblique viewing angle, and a liquid crystal display device including the optical element and having excellent display quality. The optical element includes: a first polarizer; a first phase difference layer; a second phase difference layer; and a second polarizer, the first polarizer, the first phase difference layer, the second phase difference layer, and the second polarizer being arranged in the stated order, the first phase difference layer satisfying the formula nx>ny?nz, the second phase difference layer satisfying the formula nz>nx?ny, the first polarizer and the second polarizer being linear polarizers, transmission axes of the first polarizer and the second polarizer being parallel to each other, a slow axis of the first phase difference layer being orthogonal to a polarization axis of the first polarizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Ryosuke SAIGUSA, Akira SAKAI, Yuichi KAWAHIRA, Masahiro HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230375873
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device sequentially including: a first polarizer; a liquid crystal panel; a second polarizer; a biaxial retarder; a third polarizer; and a backlight including a light source and a prism sheet disposed closer to the viewing surface side than the light source is. The prism sheet includes prisms arranged in multiple columns on a surface close to the viewing surface side. The liquid crystal display has a light diffusion property curve having no side lobe or having a side lobe satisfying a ratio of a local maximum luminance to a local minimum luminance of 1.35 or less, the light diffusion property curve being obtained by plotting a luminance in a white display state in a direction perpendicular to ridge lines of the prisms against a polar angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Yuichi KAWAHIRA, Masahiro HASEGAWA, Ryosuke SAIGUSA, Akira SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20230376334
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of processors capable of executing a plurality of virtual machines and a cache memory. Each of the plurality of virtual machines executes a different operating system from each other. A hypervisor sets allocation information so as to allocate ways of the cache memory which can be used by the virtual machine. When outputting a memory access request, each of the processors outputs virtual machine identification in association with the information memory access request. When the memory access request is not a cache hit, the cache memory selects a way to be replaced data based on the virtual machine identification information and the allocation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventor: Masahiro HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 11822181
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device sequentially including: a first polarizer; a liquid crystal panel; a second polarizer; a biaxial retarder; a third polarizer; and a backlight including a light source and a prism sheet disposed closer to the viewing surface side than the light source is. The prism sheet includes prisms arranged in multiple columns on a surface close to the viewing surface side. The liquid crystal display has a light diffusion property curve having no side lobe or having a side lobe satisfying a ratio of a local maximum luminance to a local minimum luminance of 1.35 or less, the light diffusion property curve being obtained by plotting a luminance in a white display state in a direction perpendicular to ridge lines of the prisms against a polar angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Kawahira, Masahiro Hasegawa, Ryosuke Saigusa, Akira Sakai
  • Publication number: 20230367156
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device having high luminance and high CR in a front direction and especially useful as a head-mounted liquid crystal display device, for example. The liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel; an optical element; and a backlight, arranged in this order from a viewing surface side. The optical element includes a first polarizer, a retardation layer, and a second polarizer. The first polarizer, the retardation layer, and the second polarizer are arranged in this order from the viewing surface side. The first polarizer and the second polarizer are reflection polarizers. A reflection axis of the first polarizer and a reflection axis of the second polarizer are parallel to each other. In oblique directions at azimuths of 0°, 45°, and 90° at a polar angle of 60°, a polarization state of light incident on the first polarizer is elliptical polarization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Yuichi KAWAHIRA, Masahiro HASEGAWA, Ryosuke SAIGUSA, Akira SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20230338293
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical formulation comprising centanafadine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and an excipient, and related methods of manufacture and use, are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Syed Asfar Mateen, Praveen Kumar Mididoddi, Shailly Mehrotra, Susan Elizabeth Shoaf, Salin Gupta, Kai Suzuki, Masahiro Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20230333402
    Abstract: Provided are 3D glasses capable of reducing crosstalk when disposed on the viewer side of a liquid crystal panel that is time-divisionally driven; an optical device including the 3D glasses; and a three-dimensional image display device including the optical device. The 3D glasses include a right-eye polarizer and a left-eye polarizer, the right-eye polarizer and the left-eye polarizer each including a polarizing plate and a first ?/4 plate, at least one of the right-eye polarizer or the left-eye polarizer including a phase difference layer on or behind a back surface side of the polarizing plate, wherein a phase difference introduced by the right-eye polarizer in a thickness direction at a wavelength of 550 nm is different from a phase difference introduced by the left-eye polarizer in the thickness direction at a wavelength of 550 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiro HASEGAWA, Akira SAKAI, Kiyoshi MINOURA
  • Publication number: 20230314868
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device in which reflection and light leakage from oblique directions are reduced or prevented. The liquid crystal display device includes, sequentially in the following order from a back surface side: a first polarizer; a liquid crystal panel; a second polarizer; a first retardation layer; and a third polarizer, wherein light transmitted in an oblique direction between the second polarizer and the third polarizer is elliptically polarized light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Akira SAKAI, Ryosuke SAIGUSA, Yuichi KAWAHIRA, Masahiro HASEGAWA, Kiyoshi MINOURA
  • Publication number: 20230307976
    Abstract: Electrical insulator assemblies fitted onto stator teeth each have a first flange and a second flange. An outer peripheral surface of the first flange has first and second recessed parts on first and second sides of a through hole in a circumferential direction. The first recessed part is open radially outwardly to the first side in the circumferential direction and to a second side in an axial direction. The second recessed part is open radially outwardly to the second side in the circumferential direction and to the second side in the axial direction. The first flange has a projection formed on a side surface on the first side in the circumferential direction and protruding to the first side in the circumferential direction and a projection formed on a side surface on the second side in the circumferential direction and protruding to the second side in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiro HASEGAWA, Shoji MANO, Takashi HORI
  • Patent number: 11759426
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical formulation comprising centanafadine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and an excipient, and related methods of manufacture and use, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Syed Asfar Mateen, Praveen Kumar Mididoddi, Shailly Mehrotra, Susan Elizabeth Shoaf, Salin Gupta, Kai Suzuki, Masahiro Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20230291265
    Abstract: An electrical insulator assembly includes first insulators (200A) and second insulators (200B) that can be fitted onto teeth (121) of a stator core (110) of an electric motor in an alternating manner. Each of the first insulators has a first flange (210), a second flange (220) and a body (230). Each of the second insulators has a first flange (210), a second flange (400) and a body (230). The second flange of the first insulators has first and second overlapping parts (220E, 220F) on opposite circumferential sides. The second flange of the second insulators has first and second overlapping parts (400E, 400F) on opposite circumferential sides. The first overlapping parts (220E) of the first insulators radially overlap the second overlapping parts (400F) of the second insulators, and the second overlapping parts (220F) of the first insulators radially overlap the first overlapping parts (400E) of the second insulators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiro HASEGAWA, Shoji MANO
  • Publication number: 20230229048
    Abstract: Provided is an optical element including: a first liquid crystal cell; and a second liquid crystal cell, with no polarizing plate between the first and second liquid crystal cells. The first liquid crystal cell includes a first liquid crystal layer containing first liquid crystal molecules, and a first electrode pair which applies voltage to the first liquid crystal layer. The second liquid crystal cell includes a second liquid crystal layer containing second liquid crystal molecules, and a second electrode pair which applies voltage to the second liquid crystal layer. With no voltage applied to the first and second liquid crystal layers, an alignment direction of the first liquid crystal molecules near the second liquid crystal cell in the first liquid crystal layer is parallel to an alignment direction of the second liquid crystal molecules near the first liquid crystal cell in the second liquid crystal layer in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Akira SAKAI, Masahiro HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230185123
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device and a polarizing plate capable of improving the contrast ratio in the front direction. The polarizing plate includes a pair of polarizers including a first polarizer and a second polarizer whose transmission axes are parallel to each other; a retarder between the paired polarizers; and a diffusion layer in at least one of a region between the paired polarizers or a region on a side without the retarder of the first polarizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: AKIRA SAKAI, YUICHI KAWAHIRA, MASAHIRO HASEGAWA, KIYOSHI MINOURA
  • Publication number: 20230104529
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical formulation comprising centanafadine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and an excipient, and related methods of manufacture and use, are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Syed Asfar Mateen, Praveen Kumar Mididoddi, Shailly Mehrotra, Susan Elizabeth Shoaf, Salin Gupta, Kai Suzuki, Masahiro Hasegawa