Patents by Inventor Masaru Aoki
Masaru Aoki 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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Publication number: 20140194277Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a polyethylene-based resin composition excellent in the moldability and at the same time, excellent in the balance between impact strength and stiffness as well as in the transparency, and a molded product and a film, which are obtained by the molding of the polyethylene-based resin composition. The polyethylene-based resin composition of the present invention comprises from 41 to 99 wt % of (A) an ethylene-based polymer satisfying specific conditions and from 1 to 59 wt % of (B) an ethylene-based polymer satisfying specific conditions, wherein MFR of the composition as a whole is from 0.05 to 50 g/10 min and the density is from 0.910 to 0.960 g/cm3.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2012Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: JAPAN POLYETHYLENE CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Ishihama, Ryousuke Asakawa, Tsutomu Sakuragi, Tetsurou Fukuda, Kazuya Sakata, Masaru Aoki, Kenji Kawagishi, Keiichi Yoshimoto
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Publication number: 20140105625Abstract: The timing of obtaining an output value for use in a determination of a recording medium is generated from a received ultrasonic wave and a waveform generated by delaying the ultrasonic wave, whereby it is possible to reduce an influence of a reflection wave from the peripheral members and an influence of a change in the environment to improve the accuracy of determination of the recoding medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masaru Aoki
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Publication number: 20140079456Abstract: When images of a plurality of document sheets are to be read and formed on a plurality of recording materials, an image forming apparatus performs control to convey a document sheet and a recording material at one of a recording material conveyance speed and a document conveyance speed, whichever is lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Nakajima, Masaru Aoki, Hiroto Endo
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Publication number: 20140079457Abstract: An image forming apparatus performs control to parallelly achieve document image reading by a reading unit and image formation by an image forming unit for forming on a recording material a document image read by the reading unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuki Nakajima, Masaru Aoki, Hiroto Endo, Daisuke Kaneko
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Patent number: 8635912Abstract: The timing of obtaining an output value for use in a determination of a recording medium is generated from a received ultrasonic wave and a waveform generated by delaying the ultrasonic wave, whereby it is possible to reduce an influence of a reflection wave from the peripheral members and an influence of a change in the environment to improve the accuracy of determination of the recoding medium.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaru Aoki
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Patent number: 8624244Abstract: A thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode placed on the semiconductor layer and electrically connected with the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer includes a light-transmitting semiconductor film and an ohmic conductive film placed on the light-transmitting semiconductor film and having a lower light transmittance than the light-transmitting semiconductor film. The ohmic conductive film is formed not to protrude from the light-transmitting semiconductor film. The ohmic conductive film is formed in separate parts with a channel part between the source electrode and the drain electrode interposed therebetween. The source electrode and the drain electrode are connected to the light-transmitting semiconductor film through the ohmic conductive film.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2012Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Reiko Noguchi, Kazunori Inoue, Masaru Aoki, Toshihiko Iwasaka
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Publication number: 20140001876Abstract: A rectenna includes an antenna configured to receive a radio wave, a rectifier circuit configured to rectify the radio wave received by the antenna, a transmission line connected to the antenna and the rectifier circuit, and a modulation input circuit including a variable capacitance element. The variable capacitance element is connected at one end to a portion of the transmission line between an antenna connecting portion at which the antenna is connected to the transmission line and a rectifier circuit connecting portion at which the rectifier circuit is connected to the transmission line, and is configured such that the capacitance thereof varies in accordance with the voltage of a modulated signal wave input to the other end of the variable capacitance element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Inventors: Eiichiro Fujiwara Fujiwara, Masaru Aoki
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Patent number: 8611772Abstract: A recording medium imaging apparatus includes an irradiation unit configured to irradiate a recording medium with light, an imaging unit configured to capture reflected light which is irradiated by the irradiation unit and reflected by the recording medium as a surface image, and a reference plate which includes a background that reflects light irradiated by the irradiation unit, and a mark that has a different reflectance ratio to the background, wherein the imaging unit captures reflected light reflected by the reference plate as a surface image and includes a control unit that determines a type of the recording medium based on the surface image of the reference plate and the surface image of the recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2010Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaru Aoki
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Publication number: 20130293937Abstract: A reading apparatus including: a first conveyance path in which a sheet is conveyed; a second conveyance path different from the first conveyance path, the second conveyance path allowing the sheet switched back after having passed through the first conveyance path to be conveyed therein; a reading unit configured to read the sheet, the reading unit being movable to a first position where a first surface of the sheet in the first conveyance path is read, a second position where a second surface as a back surface of the first surface of the sheet in the second conveyance path is read, and a third position different from the first position and the second position; and a reference portion that the reading unit reads for correcting information read by the reading unit, the reference portion being read by the reading unit moved to the third position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Kato, Ichiro Yasumaru, Atsushi Ogata, Kazushi Ino, Tomoyuki Iwakoshi, Daisuke Kaneko, Masaru Aoki
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Publication number: 20130293907Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming an image on a recording material; an original read unit for reading an original at a read position facing a conveyance path in which the recording material and the original are to be conveyed selectively, and a control unit for switching a position of the original read unit to a position different from the read position during a period in which the recording material is being conveyed along the conveyance path.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaru Aoki, Yuki Nakajima, Hiroshi Kato
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Publication number: 20130293909Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes a conveyance path that is used to convey a recording material to form an image on the recording material, a reading unit that reads an original conveyed in the conveyance path, and a control unit that controls a recording material conveyance operation to selectively convey the recording material and the original to the conveyance path.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroto Endo, Masaru Aoki, Atsushi Ogata
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Patent number: 8558226Abstract: Provided is a thin film transistor having a semiconductor film disposed in a plurality of portions on a substrate, a source electrode and a drain electrode which are disposed, on a semiconductor film, in contact with the semiconductor film while being spaced from each other, and a gate electrode which is disposed across the source electrode and the drain electrode via a gate insulating film; an auxiliary capacitance electrode which is disposed on the semiconductor film while in contact with the semiconductor film; a source line which has the semiconductor film in a lower layer, extends from the source electrode; a gate line which extends from the gate electrode; a pixel electrode which is electrically connected to the drain electrode; and an auxiliary capacitance electrode connecting line which electrically connects the auxiliary capacitance electrodes to each other in the adjacent pixels.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshihiko Iwasaka, Kazunori Inoue, Masaru Aoki, Reiko Noguchi
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Publication number: 20130236206Abstract: The power supply device includes a transformer, a switching unit for driving a primary side of the transformer, a detection unit for detecting an output corresponding to a current flowing on the primary side, a transmission unit for transmitting an output voltage from a secondary side to the primary side, and a control unit for controlling an operation of the switching unit in accordance with an output from the transmission unit, in which, when a switching frequency for driving the switching unit falls within a predetermined frequency range including a resonant frequency of the transformer, the control unit controls the switching unit so as to shorten a turn-ON time of the switching unit in accordance with an output from the detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuhei Shoji, Masaru Aoki, Minoru Hayasaki
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Patent number: 8471987Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has pixel electrodes including a transmissive pixel electrode and a reflective pixel electrode. The liquid crystal display device includes a TFT array substrate, an opposing substrate, a sealing material that bonds both substrates, an organic film formed on the TFT array substrate and having a thick film portion provided below the pixel electrode and a thin film portion provided outside the thick film portion, a columnar spacer formed on the opposing substrate and holding substrate gap between the both substrates, and a gap retaining pad formed in a region outside the display region and inside the sealing material to adjust the substrate gap outside the display region according to the substrate gap on the pixel electrode. The columnar spacer holds the substrate gap between both substrates over the gap retaining pad and over the pixel electrode.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kenichi Miyamoto, Masami Hayashi, Manabu Tanahara, Masaru Aoki
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Patent number: 8421941Abstract: There is provided a TFT substrate including a gate electrode having a thick film part and a thin film part with a smaller film thickness than the thick film part, a semiconductor active film formed above the thick film part and the thin film part of the gate electrode, an ohmic contact film formed on an inside of the semiconductor active film and on the semiconductor active film corresponding to the thin film part on an outside of the thick film part, and an electrode film constituting a source electrode and a drain electrode, having a planar shape identical to or on an inside of the ohmic contact film, and formed on the ohmic contact film.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2010Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kumi Tsuda, Kazunori Inoue, Masaru Aoki
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Publication number: 20120305911Abstract: Provided is a thin film transistor having a semiconductor film disposed in a plurality of portions on a substrate, a source electrode and a drain electrode which are disposed, on a semiconductor film, in contact with the semiconductor film while being spaced from each other, and a gate electrode which is disposed across the source electrode and the drain electrode via a gate insulating film; an auxiliary capacitance electrode which is disposed on the semiconductor film while in contact with the semiconductor film; a source line which has the semiconductor film in a lower layer, extends from the source electrode; a gate line which extends from the gate electrode; a pixel electrode which is electrically connected to the drain electrode; and an auxiliary capacitance electrode connecting line which electrically connects the auxiliary capacitance electrodes to each other in the adjacent pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshihiko IWASAKA, Kazunori INOUE, Masaru AOKI, Reiko NOGUCHI
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Patent number: 8324335Abstract: A propylene-based polymer comprising the following component (A) insoluble in p-xylene at 25° C. and component (B) soluble in p-xylene at 25° C., wherein (i) the weight average molecular weight (Mw) measured with GPC is 100,000 to 1,000,000, (ii) the content of the component insoluble in hot p-xylene is 0.3% by weight or lower, and (iii) the degree of strain hardening (? max) in measurement of elongational viscosity is 2.0 or higher; and a method for producing the same, along with a resin composition comprising a propylene-ethylene copolymer (Z) in an amount of 50.0 to 99.9% by weight and a propylene-based polymer (M) in an amount of 0.1 to 50.0% by weight. Component (A): a component (CXIS) insoluble in p-xylene at 25° C., having requirements specified by (A1) to (A5). Component (B): a component (CXS) is soluble in p-xylene at 25° C., having requirements specified by (B1) to (B4).Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2007Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Japan Polypropylene CorporationInventors: Masaaki Ito, Hideshi Uchino, Kazuya Sakata, Masaru Aoki, Masato Nakano, Shinichi Kitade
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Publication number: 20120200799Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has pixel electrodes including a transmissive pixel electrode and a reflective pixel electrode. The liquid crystal display device includes a TFT array substrate, an opposing substrate, a sealing material that bonds both substrates, an organic film formed on the TFT array substrate and having a thick film portion provided below the pixel electrode and a thin film portion provided outside the thick film portion, a columnar spacer formed on the opposing substrate and holding substrate gap between the both substrates, and a gap retaining pad formed in a region outside the display region and inside the sealing material to adjust the substrate gap outside the display region according to the substrate gap on the pixel electrode. The columnar spacer holds the substrate gap between both substrates over the gap retaining pad and over the pixel electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi MIYAMOTO, Masami HAYASHI, Manabu TANAHARA, Masaru AOKI
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Publication number: 20120187393Abstract: A thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode placed on the semiconductor layer and electrically connected with the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer includes a light-transmitting semiconductor film and an ohmic conductive film placed on the light-transmitting semiconductor film and having a lower light transmittance than the light-transmitting semiconductor film. The ohmic conductive film is formed not to protrude from the light-transmitting semiconductor film. The ohmic conductive film is formed in separate parts with a channel part between the source electrode and the drain electrode interposed therebetween. The source electrode and the drain electrode are connected to the light-transmitting semiconductor film through the ohmic conductive film.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Reiko NOGUCHI, Kazunori Inoue, Masaru Aoki, Toshihiko Iwasaka
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Patent number: 8208103Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal display device having a pixel electrode including a transmissive pixel electrode and a reflective pixel electrode. The liquid crystal display device includes a TFT array substrate, an opposing substrate, a sealing material that bonds the both substrates, an organic film formed on the TFT array substrate and having a thick film portion provided below the pixel electrode and a thin film portion provided outside the thick film portion, a columnar spacer formed on the opposing substrate and holding substrate gap between the both substrates, and a gap retaining pad formed in a region outside the display region and inside the sealing material to adjust the substrate gap outside the display region according to the substrate gap on the pixel electrode. The columnar spacer holds the substrate gap between the both substrates over the gap retaining pad and over the pixel electrode.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2009Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kenichi Miyamoto, Masami Hayashi, Manabu Tanahara, Masaru Aoki