Patents by Inventor Masatake Hayashi
Masatake Hayashi 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: 11945230Abstract: An image-recording apparatus includes: a first tank defining a first storage chamber; a second tank defining a second storage chamber; a conveying mechanism for conveying sheets along a conveying path extending in a depthwise direction and a widthwise direction perpendicular to a vertical direction and the depthwise direction; and a recording head including a nozzle. Liquid in the first storage chamber is supplied through a communication port to the second storage chamber and then to the recording head through a liquid outlet port. The second storage chamber is positioned further in a first depthwise direction relative to the nozzle and further in a first widthwise direction relative to the conveying path. A volume of a prescribed space above a liquid level equal to a height of the communication port in the second storage chamber is greater than that of a liquid channel between the liquid outlet port and the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Hayashi, Akinari Ishibe, Yuma Tanabe, Masatake Sato, Akihito Kobayashi, Hiroaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 10923050Abstract: A surface light source device which illuminates a transmission-type liquid crystal display unit from the back surface includes P×Q surface light source units with individually controlled light sources. Each of the light sources includes a plurality of light-emitting element units. Each of the light-emitting element units includes at least one red light-emitting element that emits red light, at least one green light-emitting element that emits green light, and at least one blue light-emitting element that emits blue light. The center of mass of a luminance profile based on each of a plurality of red light-emitting elements, a plurality of green light-emitting elements, and a plurality of blue light-emitting elements in each surface light source unit substantially coincides with the center of mass of the surface light source unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Tomio Aoki, Masatake Hayashi, Shozo Masuda, Tadashi Morimoto
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Publication number: 20200234661Abstract: A surface light source device which illuminates a transmission-type liquid crystal display unit from the back surface includes P×Q surface light source units with individually controlled light sources. Each of the light sources includes a plurality of light-emitting element units. Each of the light-emitting element units includes at least one red light-emitting element that emits red light, at least one green light-emitting element that emits green light, and at least one blue light-emitting element that emits blue light. The center of mass of a luminance profile based on each of a plurality of red light-emitting elements, a plurality of green light-emitting elements, and a plurality of blue light-emitting elements in each surface light source unit substantially coincides with the center of mass of the surface light source unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Tomio Aoki, Masatake Hayashi, Shozo Masuda, Tadashi Morimoto
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Patent number: 10650756Abstract: A surface light source device which illuminates a transmission-type liquid crystal display unit from the back surface includes P×Q surface light source units with individually controlled light sources. Each of the light sources includes a plurality of light-emitting element units. Each of the light-emitting element units includes at least one red light-emitting element that emits red light, at least one green light-emitting element that emits green light, and at least one blue light-emitting element that emits blue light. The center of mass of a luminance profile based on each of a plurality of red light-emitting elements, a plurality of green light-emitting elements, and a plurality of blue light-emitting elements in each surface light source unit substantially coincides with the center of mass of the surface light source unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2009Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Tomio Aoki, Masatake Hayashi, Shozo Masuda, Tadashi Morimoto
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Publication number: 20190245184Abstract: A separator includes a first layer that has a first principal face and a second principal face, and a second layer that is formed on at least one of the first principal face and the second principal face. The first layer is a microporous membrane including a first polymer resin, and the second layer is a microporous membrane including inorganic particles having an electrically insulating property and a second polymer resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Kazuki CHIBA, Atsushi KAJITA, Yukako TESHIMA, Masatake HAYASHI
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Patent number: 10312491Abstract: A separator includes a first layer that has a first principal face and a second principal face, and a second layer that is formed on at least one of the first principal face and the second principal face. The first layer is a microporous membrane including a first polymer resin, and the second layer is a microporous membrane including inorganic particles having an electrically insulating property and a second polymer resin.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2010Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuki Chiba, Atsushi Kajita, Yukako Teshima, Masatake Hayashi
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Patent number: 9859540Abstract: A separator is provided and includes a functional resin layer containing a resin material and an inorganic oxide filler, having a porous interconnected structure in which many pores are mutually interconnected and having a contact angle against an electrolytic solution of not more than 11 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yukako Teshima, Atsushi Kajita, Kensuke Yamamoto, Masatake Hayashi
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Publication number: 20170336626Abstract: [Object] To provide display that is more favorable to a user. [Solution] Provided is a display device including: a pixel array; and a microlens array provided on a display surface side of the pixel array and having lenses arranged at a pitch larger than a pixel pitch of the pixel array. The microlens array is arranged so that each lens of the microlens array generates a virtual image of display of the pixel array on a side opposite to a display surface of the pixel array, and light emitted from each lens of the microlens array is controlled so that pictures visually recognized through lenses of the microlens array become a continuous and integral display by controlling the light from each pixel of the pixel array.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2015Publication date: November 23, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Masatake Hayashi, Takeo Arai, Motohiro Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20170315348Abstract: Provided is a display device (10) including a plurality of light emission points (125). A region group (209) including a plurality of regions (207) which are set on a plane (205) including a pupil of a user is irradiated with light emitted from each of the plurality of light emission points, each of the plurality of light emission points causes light corresponding to a combination of the light emission point and the region to be incident on each of the regions, a number of the regions set on the pupil of the user is two or more, and a size of each of the regions is smaller than 0.6 (mm), and the display device is capable of providing display that is more favorable to a user with presbyopia or myopia.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventor: MASATAKE HAYASHI
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Patent number: 9786888Abstract: A separator is provided and includes a functional resin layer containing a resin material and an inorganic oxide filler, having a porous interconnected structure in which many pores are mutually interconnected and having a contact angle against an electrolytic solution of not more than 11 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2011Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yukako Teshima, Atsushi Kajita, Kensuke Yamamoto, Masatake Hayashi
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Patent number: 9065121Abstract: A separator is provided. The separator includes a base layer and a surface layer, wherein the surface layer is on at least one side of the base layer, and wherein the surface layer is structured so as to collapse at time of charging to prevent damage to a negative electrode due to expansion thereof. A battery including the separator is also provided. An electric device, an electric vehicle, and an electrical storage device including the battery are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Kajita, Yukako Fujimoto, Kazuhito Hatta, Manabu Aoki, Masatake Hayashi
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Patent number: 8400392Abstract: Disclosed is a backlight control apparatus for controlling a backlight used in a liquid crystal display, the backlight having a lighting area that includes a plurality of blocks in each of which a backlight luminance is individually allowed to change. The apparatus includes a backlight control unit that calculates the backlight luminance of each block so that the absolute value of the difference between a backlight lighting ratio and 1 is at or below a first value, and controls the backlight so as to yield the calculated backlight luminances of the respective blocks, the backlight lighting ratio being the ratio between backlight set values of neighboring blocks.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2007Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuto Kimura, Masatake Hayashi, Tomio Aoki, Yoshihiro Katsu, Mitsuyasu Asano
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Publication number: 20130059192Abstract: A separator is provided. The separator includes a base layer and a surface layer, wherein the surface layer is on at least one side of the base layer, and wherein the surface layer is structured so as to collapse at time of charging to prevent damage to a negative electrode due to expansion thereof. A battery including the separator is also provided. An electric device, an electric vehicle, and an electrical storage device including the battery are further provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2012Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Kajita, Yukako Fujimoto, Kazuhito Hatta, Manabu Aoki, Masatake Hayashi
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Patent number: 8264447Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit having a display screen divided into a plurality of regions and controlled using a transmittance ratio on a pixel-by-pixel basis, a backlight including a plurality of sets of light sources, each set being disposed so as to correspond to one of the regions, and a control unit for identifying display luminance in each region, computing the emission luminance of each light source on the basis of the identified display luminance while taking into account an effect on the region of the other light sources not corresponding to the region, and computing a correction value for each pixel on the basis of a shift amount between the set emission luminance and an optimal display luminance for one of the regions, and delivering a display driving signal generated on the basis of the correction value to each pixel so as to control the luminance of the pixel.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2006Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuto Kimura, Shozo Masuda, Masatake Hayashi
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Publication number: 20120015232Abstract: A separator is provided and includes a functional resin layer containing a resin material and an inorganic oxide filler, having a porous interconnected structure in which many pores are mutually interconnected and having a contact angle against an electrolytic solution of not more than 11 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2011Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yukako Teshima, Atsushi Kajita, Kensuke Yamamoto, Masatake Hayashi
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Publication number: 20110293976Abstract: A separator includes a first layer that has a first principal face and a second principal face, and a second layer that is formed on at least one of the first principal face and the second principal face. The first layer is a microporous membrane including a first polymer resin, and the second layer is a microporous membrane including inorganic particles having an electrically insulating property and a second polymer resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2010Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuki Chiba, Atsushi Kajita, Yukako Teshima, Masatake Hayashi
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Publication number: 20100033649Abstract: A surface light source device which illuminates a transmission-type liquid crystal display unit from the back surface includes P×Q surface light source units with individually controlled light sources. Each of the light sources includes a plurality of light-emitting element units. Each of the light-emitting element units includes at least one red light-emitting element that emits red light, at least one green light-emitting element that emits green light, and at least one blue light-emitting element that emits blue light. The center of mass of a luminance profile based on each of a plurality of red light-emitting elements, a plurality of green light-emitting elements, and a plurality of blue light-emitting elements in each surface light source unit substantially coincides with the center of mass of the surface light source unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2009Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomio Aoki, Masatake Hayashi, Shozo Masuda, Tadashi Morimoto
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Patent number: 7658529Abstract: A surface light source device which illuminates a transmission-type liquid crystal display unit from the back surface includes P×Q surface light source units with individually controlled light sources. Each of the light sources includes a plurality of light-emitting element units. Each of the light-emitting element units includes at least one red light-emitting element that emits red light, at least one green light-emitting element that emits green light, and at least one blue light-emitting element that emits blue light. The center of mass of a luminance profile based on each of a plurality of red light-emitting elements, a plurality of green light-emitting elements, and a plurality of blue light-emitting elements in each surface light source unit substantially coincides with the center of mass of the surface light source unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2007Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomio Aoki, Masatake Hayashi, Shozo Masuda, Tadashi Morimoto
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Publication number: 20080259281Abstract: A three-dimensional-image display apparatus includes a projecting unit having a projection plane and a plurality of projecting elements for projecting images having parallax therebetween through the projection plane; a display for displaying a three-dimensional image by receiving the images projected from the plurality of projecting elements; and a common lens for guiding rays of the images to the display, the common lens being arranged between the projection plane and the display and having a focal length larger than a distance between the projection plane and the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2007Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Ryota Odake, Masatake Hayashi, Shuuji Moro, Junichi Ohsako, Hisataka Izawa
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Publication number: 20080129680Abstract: Disclosed is a backlight control apparatus for controlling a backlight used in a liquid crystal display, the backlight having a lighting area that includes a plurality of blocks in each of which a backlight luminance is individually allowed to change. The apparatus includes a backlight control unit that calculates the backlight luminance of each block so that the absolute value of the difference between a backlight lighting ratio and 1 is at or below a first value, and controls the backlight so as to yield the calculated backlight luminances of the respective blocks, the backlight lighting ratio being the ratio between backlight set values of neighboring blocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2007Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuto Kimura, Masatake Hayashi, Tomio Aoki, Yoshihiro Katsu, Mitsuyasu Asano