Patents by Inventor Masato Katsuda

Masato Katsuda 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: 20240168208
    Abstract: An optical filter is configured to have a regular transmittance of 60% of higher for light having a wavelength of 950 nm. The optical filter is also configured such that in a state in which a light resistance test of irradiating the optical filter for 300 hours with light from a xenon arc lamp having a wavelength not shorter than 300 nm and not longer than 400 nm and a wattage of 120 W/m2 is performed, the optical filter exhibits a change in C* having an absolute value of 6 or smaller between before and after the light resistance test, the C* being measured by the SCE method by use of a spectrophotometer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato KATSUDA, Yudai NUMATA, Shoichi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240151886
    Abstract: An optical filter is configured to have a regular transmittance of 60% or higher for light having a wavelength of 950 nm. The optical filter is also configured to be contracted by being heated at a temperature of 85° C. or higher, or a size change of the optical filter occurs from room temperature to 300° C. as monotonous increase in a tensile mode of a thermomechanical analyzer (TMA).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yudai NUMATA, Masato KATSUDA, Shoichi MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 11959000
    Abstract: Provided are a photon up-conversion film, which is capable, of high-efficiency up-conversion even in air and even when low-intensity light is used, and a simple method of producing the film. The photon up-conversion film according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: a matrix including a resin; and a pore portion, wherein the photon up-conversion film includes at least a sensitizing component capable of absorbing light in a first wavelength region ?1, and a light-emitting component capable of radiating light in a second wavelength region ?2 including wavelengths shorter than those of the first wavelength region ?1, and wherein the sensitizing component and the light-emitting component are present at an interface between the matrix and the pore portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: WAKAYAMA PREFECTURE, NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Mori, Tomohiro Mori, Akane Saito, Tsuyoshi Masuda, Hitoshi Saomoto, Mami Kawaguchi, Minoru Miyatake, Shoichi Matsuda, Masato Katsuda
  • Patent number: 11914180
    Abstract: An optical filter has a back-scattering property. The linear transmittance thereof to light of at least some avelengths in the wavelength range of 760-2000 nm is 60% or higher. The azimuth is 20° from an incidence plane when the polar angle of the direction of incidence of incident light is 0°. The value of a bidirectional reflectance distribution function in the direction ‘here the polar angle is ?60’ is BRDF (0°; 20°, ?60°). The azimuth is 20° from an incidence plane when the polar angle of the direction of incidence of incident light is 30°. The value of a bidirectional reflectance distribution function in the direction where the polar angle is ?60° is BRDF (30°; 20°, ?60°). The azimuth is 20° from an incidence plane when the polar angle of the direction of incidence of incident light is 60°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yudai Numata, Masato Katsuda, Shoichi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11914177
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical filter with L* measured by the SCE method being 20 or greater, wherein: the linear transmittance with respect to light with wavelengths being at least a portion of a wavelength range from 760 nm to 2000 nm is 60% or greater; and, before and after a light resistance test wherein light of a xenon arc lamp (average integrated illuminance of light with wavelengths from 300 nm to 400 nm:120 W/m2) is shone for 300 hours, the absolute value of a change in C* measured by the SCE method using a spectroscopic colorimeter is 6 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato Katsuda, Yudai Numata, Shoichi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11914176
    Abstract: This optical filter 10 has an L* of at least 20 as measured by the SCE method, wherein the linear transmittance is at least 60% with respect to light the wavelength of which falls at least partially within the wavelength range of 760 nm-2,000 nm, and the temperature, at which the optical filter contracts by being heated, is at least 85° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yudai Numata, Masato Katsuda, Shoichi Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20240059960
    Abstract: Provided are a photon up-conversion film, which is capable of high-efficiency up-conversion even in air and even when low-intensity light is used, and a simple method of producing the film. The photon up-conversion film according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: a matrix including a resin; and a pore portion, wherein the photon up-conversion film includes at least a sensitizing component capable of absorbing light in a first wavelength region ?1, and a light-emitting component capable of radiating light in a second wavelength region ?2 including wavelengths shorter than those of the first wavelength region ?1, and wherein the sensitizing component and the light-emitting component are present at an interface between the matrix and the pore portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicants: WAKAYAMA PREFECTURE, NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Mori, Tomohiro Mori, Akane Saito, Tsuyoshi Masuda, Hitoshi Saomoto, Mami Kawaguchi, Minoru Miyatake, Shoichi Matsuda, Masato Katsuda
  • Patent number: 11696506
    Abstract: A piezoelectric device has a layered structure in which at least a first electrode, a plastic layer, an orientation control layer, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode are stacked, wherein the orientation control layer is amorphous, and the piezoelectric layer with a thickness of 20 nm to 250 nm is provided over the orientation control layer, the piezoelectric layer having a wurtzite crystal structure, and wherein the orientation control layer and the piezoelectric layer are provided between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Arimoto, Hironobu Machinaga, Masato Katsuda, Manami Kurose
  • Publication number: 20230129841
    Abstract: An optical filter (10) comprises a matrix (12) and fine particles (14) dispersed in the matrix (12), wherein the fine particles (14) have a parameter Ds of 8.0 to 30 inclusive, Ds being determined by a USAXS pattern and given by Ds=?/(B·cos ?·Ra), where ? is the X-ray wavelength, ? is one half the scattering angle 2?(rad) providing a scattering intensity peak, B is the half width (FWHM, rad) of the peak, and Ra is the average particle size of the fine particles (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya MATSUDA, Yudai NUMATA, Masato KATSUDA, Shoichi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20230119681
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical filter with L* measured by the SCE method being 20 or greater, wherein: the linear transmittance with respect to light with wavelengths being at least a portion of a wavelength range from 760 nm to 2000 nm is 60% or greater; and, before and after a light resistance test wherein light of a xenon arc lamp (average integrated illuminance of light with wavelengths from 300 nm to 400 nm:120 W/m2) is shone for 300 hours, the absolute value of a change in C* measured by the SCE method using a spectroscopic colorimeter is 6 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato KATSUDA, Yudai NUMATA, Shoichi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20230117522
    Abstract: This optical filter 10 has an L* of at least 20 as measured by the SCE method, wherein the linear transmittance is at least 60% with respect to light the wavelength of which falls at least partially within the wavelength range of 760 nm-2,000 nm, and the temperature, at which the optical filter contracts by being heated, is at least 85° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yudai NUMATA, Masato KATSUDA, Shoichi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20230116255
    Abstract: This optical filter has a back-scattering property, and the linear transmittance thereof to light of at least some wavelengths in the wavelength range of 760-2000 nm is 60% or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yudai NUMATA, Masato KATSUDA, Shoichi MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 11127387
    Abstract: A sound source for an electronic percussion instrument and sound production control method thereof are provided. An electronic drum sound source device performs a weighting operation on four pieces of waveform information (pitch envelope, amplitude envelope, start phase) stored in a waveform table according to the beating conditions (hitting point position, velocity) based on the output from a struck sensor of an electronic drum pad. The electronic drum sound source device creates a sine wave on the basis of the waveform information whereon the weighting operation was performed, and generates musical sounds (sounds of percussion instrument) by synthesizing the sine wave with the waveforms of residual waveform data whereon the weighting operation was performed. The sine wave is not synthesized with waveform data other than the residual waveform data, and thus consistent musical sounds with no phase interference can be reproduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Kusumoto, Yusuke Tanakadate, Masato Katsuda
  • Publication number: 20210201880
    Abstract: A sound source for an electronic percussion instrument and sound production control method thereof are provided. An electronic drum sound source device performs a weighting operation on four pieces of waveform information (pitch envelope, amplitude envelope, start phase) stored in a waveform table according to the beating conditions (hitting point position, velocity) based on the output from a struck sensor of an electronic drum pad. The electronic drum sound source device creates a sine wave on the basis of the waveform information whereon the weighting operation was performed, and generates musical sounds (sounds of percussion instrument) by synthesizing the sine wave with the waveforms of residual waveform data whereon the weighting operation was performed. The sine wave is not synthesized with waveform data other than the residual waveform data, and thus consistent musical sounds with no phase interference can be reproduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori KUSUMOTO, Yusuke TANAKADATE, Masato KATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20200381610
    Abstract: A piezoelectric device has a layered structure in which at least a first electrode, a plastic layer, an orientation control layer, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode are stacked, wherein the orientation control layer is amorphous, and the piezoelectric layer with a thickness of 20 nm to 250 nm is provided over the orientation control layer, the piezoelectric layer having a wurtzite crystal structure, and wherein the orientation control layer and the piezoelectric layer are provided between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Masaharu ARIMOTO, Hironobu MACHINAGA, Masato KATSUDA, Manami KUROSE
  • Patent number: 7612273
    Abstract: An electronic percussion instrument that detects vibrations due to a hit and outputs a corresponding signal where the head of the instrument is held in place independent of a rim part. The independence stops vibrations originating from a hit of the rim from traveling to the head and interfering with the proper signal detection of hits to the head part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Matsuyuki, Kiyoshi Yoshino, Masato Katsuda
  • Patent number: 7385135
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a percussion detecting apparatus, which is excellent in percussion feeling, and the percussion sounds of which are very small, in electronic percussion instrumental system. The percussion detecting apparatus is provided with a head prepared from a net-like raw material composed of a first net and a second net, the net-like raw material being obtained by such a manner that both the nets having been woven in accordance with plane weaving manner wherein the longitudinal and transverse fibers cross at right angles are laminated in such a way that the weave pattern directions thereof intersect obliquely with each other; and a head sensor which is in contact with the center position of the under side in the head and detects percussion with respect to the head as electric signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Yoshino, Kenji Hirano, Masato Katsuda
  • Publication number: 20070234886
    Abstract: An electronic percussion instrument that detects vibrations due to a hit and outputs a corresponding signal where the head of the instrument is held in place independent of a rim part. The independence stops vibrations originating from a hit of the rim from traveling to the head and interfering with the proper signal detection of hits to the head part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2006
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Inventors: Hirotaka Matsuyuki, Kiyoshi Yosino, Masato Katsuda
  • Publication number: 20050223880
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a percussion detecting apparatus, which is excellent in percussion feeling, and the percussion sounds of which are very small, in electronic percussion instrumental system. The percussion detecting apparatus is provided with a head prepared from a net-like raw material composed of a first net and a second net, the net-like raw material being obtained by such a manner that both the nets having been woven in accordance with plane weaving manner wherein the longitudinal and transverse fibers cross at right angles are laminated in such a way that the weave pattern directions thereof intersect obliquely with each other; and a head sensor which is in contact with the center position of the under side in the head and detects percussion with respect to the head as electric signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Yoshino, Kenji Hirano, Masato Katsuda
  • Patent number: 6921857
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a percussion detecting apparatus, which is excellent in percussion feeling, and the percussion sounds of which are very small, in electronic percussion instrumental system. The percussion detecting apparatus is provided with a head prepared from a net-like raw material composed of a first net and a second net, the net-like raw material being obtained by such a manner that both the nets having been woven in accordance with plane weaving manner wherein the longitudinal and transverse fibers cross at right angles are laminated in such a way that the weave pattern directions thereof intersect obliquely with each other; and a head sensor which is in contact with the center position of the under side in the head and detects percussion with respect to the head as electric signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Yoshino, Kenji Hirano, Masato Katsuda