Patents by Inventor Masanobu Tanaka
Masanobu Tanaka 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: 8596232Abstract: A two-stroke cycle engine for introducing a air/fuel mixture and an air from a scavenging passage into a combustion chamber includes a valve body for adjusting the opening of an air supply passage, through which the air is supplied to the scavenging passage, and a second opening of a air/fuel mixture supply passage, through which the air/fuel mixture is supplied to the scavenging passage, a check valve for preventing the air within the air supply passage from flowing in a reverse direction, and a delay member projecting into the air supply passage on an upstream side of the check valve for delaying the timing at which the air reaches from the valve body to the air scavenging passage.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2012Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tadao Yashirodai, Masanobu Tanaka, Akihito Shimizu, Katsumi Kinoshita
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Patent number: 8551818Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electronic device includes the steps of: forming a sacrifice layer made of at least one of an alkali metal oxide and an alkali earth metal oxide in a part of a first substrate; forming a supporting layer covering the sacrifice layer; forming an electronic device on the sacrifice layer with the supporting layer in between; exposing at least a part of a side face of the sacrifice layer by removing a part of the supporting layer; forming a support body between the electronic device and the supporting layer, and a surface of the first substrate; removing the sacrifice layer; breaking the support body and transferring the electronic device onto a second substrate by bringing the electronic device into close contact with an adhesion layer provided on a surface of the second substrate; removing a fragment of the support body belonging to the electronic device; removing at least an exposed region in the adhesion layer not covered with the electronic device; and forming a fixing layer on aType: GrantFiled: February 1, 2010Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Masanobu Tanaka
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Patent number: 8546068Abstract: In one example embodiment, a method fabricates microbeads, which can supply a bead set containing a various types of microbeads and having distinct populations of the respective types of microbeads. In one example embodiment, the method includes forming a hydrophilic layer made of a hydrophilic organic material on a substrate. In one example embodiment, the method includes laminating on the hydrophilic layer a thin film capable of being peeled off in the form of microbeads. In one example embodiment, the method includes forming the thin film in a given configuration by photolithography. In one example embodiment, the method includes solid-phasing a given substance on the post-formed thin films. In one example embodiment, the method includes peeling off the post-formed thin films, which have been solid-phased with the substance, from the substrate along with at least a part of the hydrophilic layer to obtain microbeads.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2009Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Mari Ichimura, Kenzo Machida, Noriyuki Kishii, Masanobu Tanaka
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Patent number: 8507416Abstract: To provide a water-based lubricant for plastic working excellent in moisture absorption resistance and corrosion resistance, with which degradation in lubricating performances such as lubricity, workability and seizure resistance may not occur even under high-temperature/high humidity environments. A water-based lubricant for plastic working, comprising a resin component containing a copolymer or homopolymer of monomers having an ethylenically unsaturated bond, including at least maleic anhydride (A), an inorganic component (B), and a solid lubricating component (C), wherein maleic anhydride moieties of the resin component (A) are blocked with a nitrogen-containing compound at a blocking ratio of 10 to 80%, and unblocked maleic anhydride moieties are neutralized with an alkaline component at a degree of neutralization of 40 to 100%.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2011Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Kosuke Hatasaki, Masumi Hara, Atsushi Serita, Takeshi Fujikawa, Masanobu Tanaka
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Publication number: 20130119369Abstract: The present invention provides: a layered structure having a substrate and a hole injection and/or hole transport layer comprising an aromatic compound having, on a side chain, at least one type of group having a cationic center; an electronic device having the layered structure; an aromatic compound having, on a hydrocarbon side chain, at least one type of group having a cationic center; an aromatic compound having a leaving group on a hydrocarbon side chain; and a method for manufacturing the aromatic compound having, on a hydrocarbon side chain, at least one type of group having a cationic center, the method comprising reacting the aromatic compound having a leaving group on a hydrocarbon side chain with a specific nitrogen compound, phosphorus compound, sulfur compound, or a combination of two or more of these compounds, thereby converting the aromatic compound into an onium salt thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2011Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Arihiro Yashiro, Hideyuki Higashimura, Rui Ishikawa, Masanobu Tanaka
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Publication number: 20130099224Abstract: Provided are a light-emitting device and a photovoltaic cell having excellent characteristics. A light-emitting device (10) includes a cathode (34), an anode (32), a light-emitting layer (50) interposed between the cathode (34) and the anode (32), and an electron injection layer (44) provided between the cathode (34) and the light-emitting layer (50) and connected to the cathode (34), in which at least one of the anode (32) and the cathode (34) contains a conductive material having an aspect ratio of 1.5 or more, and the electron injection layer (44) contains an organic compound having at least one of an ionic group and a polar group.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2011Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Takayuki Iljima, Kenta Tanaka, Masanobu Tanaka, Hideyuki Higashimura
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Patent number: 8423661Abstract: A transmit packet generated by a CPU 1 is held in a buffer 100a (100b). From among packets received from Ethernet 820a (820b), a packet, a destination of which is a communication device 800, is held in the buffer 100a (100b). A packet which should be transmitted is transmitted from a transfer judging circuit 200 to Ethernet 820a or 820b through a MAC unit 300a or 300b. If a transfer judging circuit 200 judges a packet from the Ethernet 820a to be a packet, a destination of which is another communication device, with reference to a destination MAC address, this packet is transferred to the Ethernet 820b through MAC 300b. If a usage rate of a transferring FIFO buffer 130a (130b) exceeds a threshold value in the process of transmitting a packet held in a transmitting FIFO buffer 120a (130b) on a priority basis, the priority order of a transfer packet is made higher than that of a transmit packet so that the transfer packet is transferred to the Ethernet 820a or 820b in preference to the transmit packet.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2010Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignees: Renesas Electronics Corporation, Hitachi Information & Control Solutions, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Arita, Yasuhiro Nakatsuka, Yasuwo Watanabe, Kei Ouchi, Yoshihiro Tanaka, Toshinobu Kanai, Masanobu Tanaka, Kenji Furuhashi, Tomoaki Aoki
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Patent number: 8409706Abstract: The present application provides a process for the preparation of microbeads, including the steps of: patterning a thin film, which has been formed on a substrate, into microbead regions of at least one predetermined shape by photolithography; immobilizing a predetermined substance on the thus-patterned microbead regions; and stripping off, from the substrate, the thus-patterned microbead regions with the substance immobilized thereon.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2009Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kenzo Machida, Noriyuki Kishii, Mari Ichimura, Masanobu Tanaka
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Patent number: 8395672Abstract: An imaging device capable of detecting and correcting, with high accuracy, the motion (image rotation) in the rolling direction of the image caused by the camera shake during imaging without being influenced by the individual variation, temperature characteristic, and variation with time of the sensor. To correct the motion (image rotation) in the rolling direction of the image caused by the camera shake during imaging, the result of detection of the angle of inclination of the device by an angle sensor (8a) is corrected with the result of detection of the angle of inclination of the image on the basis of the feature of the captured image by an image inclination detecting section (7), and the imaging device (3) is rotated around the optical axis or an axis parallel to the optical axis according to the corrected angle of inclination of the device.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2008Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kenichi Hayashi, Masanobu Tanaka, Atsuo Ochi, Hiroya Kusaka, Hideyuki Hashi
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Patent number: 8381649Abstract: A printing method including the steps of, forming a transfer layer on a blanket, forming a groove portion on the transfer layer by pressing a protrusion portion of a mold member including the protrusion portion having a predetermined pattern against the transfer layer, the groove portion having the pattern corresponding to the protrusion portion, forming a print pattern layer on the blanket by causing the transfer layer on the blanket and a relief printing plate including a convex portion having a pattern corresponding to a reverse pattern of the protrusion portion to face each other and pressure-contacting them so that a portion on the transfer layer corresponding to the convex portion is selectively eliminated, and transferring the print pattern layer onto a substrate to be printed by causing the print pattern layer on the blanket and the substrate to be printed to face each other and pressure-contacting them.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masanobu Tanaka, Takahiro Kamei
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Publication number: 20130033520Abstract: Provided is an image generating device including: a section for acquiring an arrangement of elements constituting an object with respect to a frame to be processed; an arrangement correction section including a control section and plurality of partial correction sections, for correcting an arrangement of each of the elements; and an image rendering section for rendering an image based on the arrangement of the elements corrected by the arrangement correction step. The plurality of partial correction sections respectively correct the arrangement of at least one of the plurality of elements, and the control section provides control so that at least one of the plurality of partial correction section corrects the arrangement of the elements based on the control data, which associates a state of the object and at least two of the plurality of partial correction sections, and on the state of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2012Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Masanobu Tanaka, Fumito Ueda, Hajime Sugiyama, Naofumi Ito, Ryoma Matsuya, Toshihiro Kamei
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Publication number: 20120322334Abstract: There are provided a method of manufacturing a film, suitable for forming a film having a plurality of minute through holes, and a method of manufacturing a display using the method of manufacturing a film. The method of manufacturing a film, includes: transferring a film of a first pattern onto a base material with use of an intaglio plate including the first pattern and a second pattern; and forming a film including through holes on the base material by transferring a film of the second pattern of the intaglio plate onto the film of the first pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kenichi Kurihara, Takako Sekiyama, Masanobu Tanaka
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Patent number: 8330824Abstract: A camera is provided with which a small size can be achieved while ensuring good image blur correction performance. The camera (1) has an optical system (O), a housing (2), a second drive unit (12) serving as part of an image blur corrector, an imaging element (17), a first angular velocity sensor (4), an acceleration sensor (7), a sensor drive unit (240), and a drive controller (22). The first angular velocity sensor (4) is configured to acquire the rotational angle of the housing (2). The acceleration sensor (7) is configured to acquire the amount of displacement of the housing (2). A correction computer (21) calculates the amount of drive of a correcting lens (9) from the displacement amount acquired by the acceleration sensor (7), and calculates the amount of drive of the correcting lens (9) from the rotational angle acquired by the first angular velocity sensor (4) using the position of the acceleration sensor (7) as a reference.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hideyuki Hashi, Kenichi Hayashi, Hironori Honsho, Masanobu Tanaka, Kazuo Sibukawa
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Publication number: 20120244279Abstract: A polarizer capable of being manufactured in simple steps, and a method of manufacturing the polarizer, as well as a liquid crystal projector are provided. The polarizer includes a substrate having light permeability, and a plurality of linear projections being arranged on the substrate and extending along one direction within a plane thereof. Each of the linear projections having a base layer and a plating layer in the named order from the substrate, the base layer containing a catalyst material for electroless plating process, and the plating layer being deposited by using the base layer as a catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotsugu ISHIHARA, Masanobu TANAKA, Toshiki SHIMAMURA, Takahiro KAMEI
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Publication number: 20120181529Abstract: Provided is a layered structure having a first electrode, a second electrode, a light emitting layer or a charge separation layer located between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a layer located between the light emitting layer or the charge separation layer and the first electrode and containing a polymer having a repeating unit containing one or more ionic groups selected from two specific groups and one or more specific polar groups. Also provided is a polymer having, as the repeating unit containing one or more ionic groups selected from two specific groups and one or more specific polar groups, one or more repeating units selected from four specific repeating units containing an aromatic group. The layered structure of the present invention provides an electroluminescent device capable of emitting light at a high luminance and a photoelectric conversion device having a high photoelectric conversion efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2010Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Masanobu Tanaka, Kenta Tanaka, Ken Sakakibara, Hideyuki Higashimura, Rui Ishikawa
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Patent number: 8212971Abstract: A polarizer capable of being manufactured in simple steps, and a method of manufacturing the polarizer, as well as a liquid crystal projector are provided. The polarizer includes a substrate having light permeability, and a plurality of linear projections being arranged on the substrate and extending along one direction within a plane thereof. Each of the linear projections having a base layer and a plating layer in the named order from the substrate, the base layer containing a catalyst material for electroless plating process, and the plating layer being deposited by using the base layer as a catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2008Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hirotsugu Ishihara, Masanobu Tanaka, Toshiki Shimamura, Takahiro Kamei
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Publication number: 20120103222Abstract: A method for producing a metal thin film on a substrate includes: a step of applying an ink to a flat blanket; a first transfer step of bringing the first blanket and a letterpress having a predetermined pattern of projections into contact by a pressure compression while the flat blanked and the letterpress being disposed opposite each other, to selectively transfer a portion of the ink on the flat blanket corresponding to the projections to the letterpress; a second transfer step of bringing the flat blanket obtained after the first transfer step and the substrate into contact by pressure compression while the flat blanket and the substrate being disposed opposite each other, to transfer the ink remaining on the flat blanket to the substrate; and a step of subjecting the substrate obtained after the second transfer step to electroless plating to deposit a metal thin film on the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2012Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Masanobu Tanaka, Hirotsugu Ishihara, Toshiki Shimamura, Takahiro Kamei
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Publication number: 20120099882Abstract: An image heating device includes a rotatable member, an opposing member for forming a nip, between itself and the rotatable member, in which recording paper on which an image is carried is to be nip conveyed and heated, and a heater contacting the rotatable member's outer surface and including a belt, a first roller stretching the belt at an upstream side of the rotatable member with respect to a rotational direction of the rotatable member, a second roller downstream of the first roller, and first and second heating portions for heating the first and second rollers to first and second target temperatures, respectively. The device also includes a heating control portion for controlling the heater, and a portion for executing an operation in a control mode in which the second target temperature is set so as to be lower than the first target temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2011Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: MASANOBU TANAKA
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Publication number: 20120083432Abstract: To provide a water-based lubricant for plastic working excellent in moisture absorption resistance and corrosion resistance, with which degradation in lubricating performances such as lubricity, workability and seizure resistance may not occur even under high-temperature/high humidity environments. A water-based lubricant for plastic working, comprising a resin component containing a copolymer or homopolymer of monomers having an ethylenically unsaturated bond, including at least maleic anhydride (A), an inorganic component (B), and a solid lubricating component (C), wherein maleic anhydride moieties of the resin component (A) are blocked with a nitrogen-containing compound at a blocking ratio of 10 to 80%, and unblocked maleic anhydride moieties are neutralized with an alkaline component at a degree of neutralization of 40 to 100%.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: Henkel AG & Co, KGaAInventors: Kosuke HATASAKI, Masumi Hara, Atsushi Serita, Takeshi Fujiwaki, Masanobu Tanaka
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Publication number: 20120000382Abstract: A method for producing a metal thin film on a substrate includes: a step of applying an ink to a flat blanket; a first transfer step of bringing the first blanket and a letterpress having a predetermined pattern of projections into contact by a pressure compression while the flat blanked and the letterpress being disposed opposite each other, to selectively transfer a portion of the ink on the flat blanket corresponding to the projections to the letterpress; a second transfer step of bringing the flat blanket obtained after the first transfer step and the substrate into contact by pressure compression while the flat blanket and the substrate being disposed opposite each other, to transfer the ink remaining on the flat blanket to the substrate; and a step of subjecting the substrate obtained after the second transfer step to electroless plating to deposit a metal thin film on the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Masanobu Tanaka, Hirotsugu Ishihara, Toshiki Shimamura, Takahiro Kamei