Patents by Inventor Masami Kido

Masami Kido 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: 20170290856
    Abstract: Activated carbon (for example medicinal carbon), which has long been used for adsorbing and removing harmful substances from the digestive system, has the drawback of causing constipation, and the production of a spherical adsorbent carbon that is believed to overcome this drawback from a petroleum-based hydrocarbon requires a complicated production process. These issues can be addressed by an oral adsorbent, a therapeutic or prophylactic agent for kidney disease, and a therapeutic or prophylactic agent for liver disease, containing a fibrous carbonaceous substance obtained by carbonizing cotton fiber. The issues can also be addressed by an oral adsorbent, a therapeutic or prophylactic agent for kidney disease, and a therapeutic or prophylactic agent for liver disease, containing a fibrous carbonaceous substance having a twisted hollow ribbon-like structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Power Japan Plus Inc.
    Inventors: Dou KANI, Hiroaki NISHINA, Kaname TAKEYA, Masami KIDO, Nobuo KUBO
  • Patent number: 8077279
    Abstract: A picture element includes a 4-divided domain including first, second, third and fourth sub-domains which are arranged in this order in a predetermined direction and in each of which an orientation direction of liquid crystal molecules located in the vicinity of the center of a liquid crystal layer in the thickness direction is different from those of the other sub-domains. A first substrate includes two first regions having an orientation-regulating force for orienting the liquid crystal molecules in a first direction and a second region provided between the two first regions and having an orientation-regulating force for orienting the liquid crystal molecules in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Terashita, Masami Kido
  • Patent number: 7580101
    Abstract: A picture element includes a 4-divided domain including first, second, third and fourth sub-domains which are arranged in this order in a predetermined direction and in each of which an orientation direction of liquid crystal molecules located in the vicinity of the center of a liquid crystal layer in the thickness direction is different from those of the other sub-domains. A first substrate includes two first regions having an orientation-regulating force for orienting the liquid crystal molecules in a first direction and a second region provided between the two first regions and having an orientation-regulating force for orienting the liquid crystal molecules in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Terashita, Masami Kido
  • Publication number: 20090183765
    Abstract: A photovoltaic cell having improved photoelectric conversion efficiency is provided. Furthermore, a solar cell employing such a photovoltaic cell is also provided. The photovoltaic cell is composed of a photoelectric conversion layer (31) made of a porous semiconductor layer (11) that has adsorbed a dye, a carrier transporting layer (4), and a pair of electrodes (3, 7). A total haze ratio of the porous semiconductor layer (11) of the photoelectric conversion layer (31) in a near infrared region is 60% or more to 95% or less. Especially when the porous semiconductor layer (11) is made of a plurality of layers, the haze ratio of the porous semiconductor layer in the near infrared region that is furthest from a light incident side is preferably 60% or more to 95% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2006
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Yasuo Chiba, Liyuan Han, Naoki Koide, Masami Kido
  • Publication number: 20060203167
    Abstract: A picture element includes a 4-divided domain including first, second, third and fourth sub-domains which are arranged in this order in a predetermined direction and in each of which an orientation direction of liquid crystal molecules located in the vicinity of the center of a liquid crystal layer in the thickness direction is different from those of the other sub-domains. A first substrate includes two first regions having an orientation-regulating force for orienting the liquid crystal molecules in a first direction and a second region provided between the two first regions and having an orientation-regulating force for orienting the liquid crystal molecules in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Terashita, Masami Kido
  • Publication number: 20050117100
    Abstract: A picture element includes a 4-divided domain including first, second, third and fourth sub-domains which are arranged in this order in a predetermined direction and in each of which an orientation direction of liquid crystal molecules located in the vicinity of the center of a liquid crystal layer in the thickness direction is different from those of the other sub-domains. A first substrate includes two first regions having an orientation-regulating force for orienting the liquid crystal molecules in a first direction and a second region provided between the two first regions and having an orientation-regulating force for orienting the liquid crystal molecules in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Terashita, Masami Kido
  • Patent number: 6856368
    Abstract: A picture element includes a 4-divided domain including first, second, third and fourth sub-domains which are arranged in this order in a predetermined direction and in each of which an orientation direction of liquid crystal molecules located in the vicinity of the center of a liquid crystal layer in the thickness direction is different from those of the other sub-domains. A first substrate includes two first regions having an orientation-regulating force for orienting the liquid crystal molecules in a first direction and a second region provided between the two first regions and having an orientation-regulating force for orienting the liquid crystal molecules in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Terashita, Masami Kido
  • Publication number: 20020135725
    Abstract: A picture element includes a 4-divided domain including first, second, third and fourth sub-domains which are arranged in this order in a predetermined direction and in each of which an orientation direction of liquid crystal molecules located in the vicinity of the center of a liquid crystal layer in the thickness direction is different from those of the other sub-domains. A first substrate includes two first regions having an orientation-regulating force for orienting the liquid crystal molecules in a first direction and a second region provided between the two first regions and having an orientation-regulating force for orienting the liquid crystal molecules in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2002
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Inventors: Shinichi Terashita, Masami Kido
  • Patent number: 6310665
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display apparatus of the present invention includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched by the first substrate and the second substrate,; a first electrode layer formed on a surface of the first substrate facing the liquid crystal layer; a second electrode layer formed on a surface of the second substrate facing the liquid crystal layer; a third electrode layer electrically connected with the second electrode layer via a photoconductive layer; and a plurality of stripe-shaped light sources disposed outside the second substrate for irradiating at least a portion of the photoconductive layer with light, wherein the electrical conductivity of the photoconductive layer is changed by switching the plurality of light sources to switch electrical connection between the second electrode layer and the third electrode layer and thereby to realize optical addressing of the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masami Kido
  • Patent number: 6266121
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display element includes the steps of (a) forming a spacer having a uniform height on a glass substrate having formed thereon scanning lines, a black matrix, an insulating layer and an alignment layer in an area to which the black matrix is projected in a direction perpendicular to a substrate surface; (b) forming an adhesive layer on a transfer substrate; (c) pressing an upper surface of the spacer against the adhesive layer on the transfer substrate; and (d) selectively applying an adhesive only onto the upper surface of the spacer by the step (c). In the step (a), it is preferable that the spacer be formed so as to have a trapezoidal cross section with respect to a plane perpendicular to the lengthwise direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Brittanic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Shigeta, Hideki Uchida, Kazuhiko Tamai, Shuji Miyoshi, Masami Kido
  • Patent number: 6091472
    Abstract: For a liquid crystal display apparatus, an orientating film of an electrode substrate including more signal electrodes than scanning electrodes in a predetermined range receives a uniaxial orientation treatment parallelly or almost parallelly to a lengthwise direction of the signal electrodes. Besides, an orientating film of an electrode substrate including the scanning electrodes receives a uniaxial orientation treatment perpendicularly or almost perpendicularly to a lengthwise direction of the scanning electrodes. The electrode substrates are combined so that the directions of the uniaxial orientation treatment of the orientation films become parallel to each other. This enables growth of a smectic layer to be less frequently hindered by differences in level caused by the electrodes. Thus a uniform C2U orientation can be obtained easily. Consequently, the liquid crystal display apparatus realizes a uniform orientational state with no defects and uniform and high-contrast display properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Brittanic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Itoh, Masami Kido
  • Patent number: 5990856
    Abstract: In a ferroelectric liquid crystal element, in order to excite a reverse electric field within the element in response to a waveform of a non-rewriting voltage, properties of the ferroelectric liquid crystal material, an element structure, driving waveforms, or other factors are adjusted so that molecules of the ferroelectric liquid crystal are allowed to switch between bistable states in response to a waveform of a rewriting voltage, while the ferroelectric liquid crystal exerts an anti-memory phenomenon in response to a waveform of a non-rewriting voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    Inventors: Hitoshi Takeda, Takashi Kaneko, Masami Kido, Mitsuhiro Koden
  • Patent number: 5800736
    Abstract: A liquid crystal composition is realized, which composition simultaneously exhibits a negatively large .DELTA..di-elect cons. value suitable to .tau.-Vmin, and SA phase within a sufficient temperature range for realizing a good alignment.A smectic liquid crystal composition containing component (AI), component (B) and/or component (C), expressed by the following formulas: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents an alkyl group of 1 to 9 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 represents an alkyl group of 1 to 9 carbon atoms, R.sup.3 represents an alkyl group of 1 to 18 carbon atoms, R.sup.4 represents an alkyl group of 1 to 18 carbon atoms, X represents H or F, R.sup.5 represents an alkyl group of 6 to 15 carbon atoms and R.sup.6 represents an alkyl group of 6 to 15 carbon atoms.Ferroelectric liquid crystal material having a negative dielectric anisotropy is applicable to display element utilizing AC-stabilizing effect and .tau.-Vmin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignees: Chisso Corporation, Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eiji Okabe, Mayumi Tanabe, Shinichi Saito, Akira Sakaigawa, Hitoshi Takeda, Masami Kido, Takashi Kaneko, Mitshuhiro Koden, Teiyu Sako
  • Patent number: 5646754
    Abstract: A ferroelectric liquid crystal device includes: a pair of insulating substrates having alignment films and electrodes thereon; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pair of insulating substrates, the liquid crystal layer including a ferroelectric liquid crystal material being capable of exhibiting at least the smectic A phase and the chiral smectic C phase in its phase sequence, and the ferroelectric liquid crystal device being driven by switching an optic axis of the liquid crystal layer by selectively applying a driving voltage to at least one of the electrodes, wherein ferroelectric liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer have a tilt angle of 8.degree. or less at a (Tc-1).degree.C. where Tc.degree.C. is an uppermost temperature limit of the chiral smectic C phase of the ferroelectric liquid crystal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hitoshi Takeda, Masami Kido, Takashi Kaneko, Mitsuhiro Koden
  • Patent number: 5523128
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises a pair of substrates, a transparent electrode formed on each of the substrates, an orientation film covering the transparent electrode and a liquid crystal sealedly sandwiched between the pair of substrates, wherein the orientation film comprises a polyimide which is formed by a condensation polymerization of 2,2-bis[4-(4-aminophenoxy)phenyl]propane as an amine component and 1,2,4,5-benzenetetracarboxylic dianhydride as an carboxylic acid component, and is subjected to a uniaxial orientation treatment, and the liquid crystal has a smectic layer structure with its bending direction which is aligned with the direction of the uniaxial orientation treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Chisso Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Itoh, Masami Kido, Shizuo Murata, Yukino Abe