Patents by Inventor Masato Kimura
Masato Kimura 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: 20250299886Abstract: An electronic component includes an element body, a first terminal electrode, a second terminal electrode, an external connection conductor, a first internal electrode, a second internal electrode, and a third internal electrode, in which a first capacitor portion formed by the first internal electrode and the third internal electrode facing each other and a second capacitor portion formed by the second internal electrode and the third internal electrode facing each other are connected in series with each other, and the third internal electrode has an opening portion in a region between the first internal electrode and the second internal electrode when viewed in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2025Publication date: September 25, 2025Applicant: TDK CorporationInventors: Masato KIMURA, Yasuhiro Okui, Yoshitaka Nagashima, Shinya Saito, Anna Hashimoto, Hotaka Watanabe
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Publication number: 20250273398Abstract: An electronic component includes: an element body; a first terminal electrode; a second terminal electrode; a first external connection conductor; a second external connection conductor; a first internal electrode; a second internal electrode; a third internal electrode; a fourth internal electrode; and a sixth internal electrode. A first capacitor portion formed by the first internal electrode and the third internal electrode facing each other and a second capacitor portion formed by the second internal electrode and the sixth internal electrode facing each other are connected in series through the first external connection conductor. A third capacitor portion formed by the first internal electrode and the fifth internal electrode facing each other and a fourth capacitor portion formed by the second internal electrode and the fourth internal electrode facing each other are connected in series through the second external connection conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2025Publication date: August 28, 2025Applicant: TDK CorporationInventors: Masato KIMURA, Yasuhiro OKUI, Yoshitaka NAGASHIMA, Shinya SAITO, Anna HASHIMOTO, Hotaka WATANABE, Atsushi WATANABE
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Patent number: 12374490Abstract: A multilayer electronic device includes an element body and a pair of external electrodes. The element body includes an interior region in which inner dielectric layers and internal electrode layers are alternately laminated and an exterior region located outside the interior region in its lamination direction. The pair of external electrodes exists on surfaces of the element body. Main-phase particles in the inner dielectric layers and outer dielectric layers of the exterior region include a main component having a perovskite crystal structure represented by a general formula of ABO3. r1<r2<r1×4.0 is satisfied, in which r1 is an average particle size of the main-phase particles constituting the inner dielectric layers, and r2 is an average particle size of the main-phase particles constituting the outer dielectric layers.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Taku Murakami, Nobuto Morigasaki, Takuma Ariizumi, Yoshitaka Nagashima, Masato Kimura
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Patent number: 12249071Abstract: An image processing system includes at least one processor including hardware. The processor performs a process that acquires, as a processing target image sequence, images captured in a time series manner with an inside of a living body by an endoscope imaging device, a process based on a database generated by using a plurality of in-vivo images captured at earlier timings than timings at which the processing target image sequence is captured, and a process that determines, when a bleeding has been occurring inside the living body, a kind of a desirable bleeding stopping treatment for a blood vessel on which the bleeding has been occurring based on the processing target image sequence and the database to present, to a user, the determined type of the bleeding stopping treatment.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Masato Kimura
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Patent number: 12237111Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a capacitor main body including a multilayer body and external electrodes, the multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers stacked alternately, each of the external electrodes being provided on an end surface in a length direction of the multilayer body and being connected to the internal electrode layers, and two interposers on one surface in a stacking direction of the capacitor main body and spaced apart from each other in the length direction, the interposers including bonding surfaces bondable to the one surface of the capacitor main body and including inner edge portions which are opposite to each other and each having a length longer than a length in a width direction of the multilayer body.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Masato Kimura
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Patent number: 12159755Abstract: A multilayer capacitor includes an element body haying a pair of end surfaces, and a pair of side surfaces and a pair of main surfaces; and a pair of external electrodes. The element body includes an inner layer portion in which a plurality of internal electrodes and a plurality of dielectric layers are alternately stacked in a second direction where the pair of main surfaces face each other, and a pair of outer layer portions disposed outside the inner layer portion in the second direction. On at least one of the pair of end surfaces, the internal electrode of the inner layer portion protrudes outward in the first direction from the outer layer portion by a predetermined protrusion amount. A ratio of the protrusion amount to a dimension of one outer layer portion in the second direction ranges from 96,000 ppm to 176,000 ppm.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Hikaru Hirabayashi, Daisuke Yoshida, Masato Kimura
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Publication number: 20240087808Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a capacitor main body including a multilayer body and external electrodes, the multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers stacked alternately, each of the external electrodes being provided on an end surface in a length direction of the multilayer body and being connected to the internal electrode layers, and two interposers on one surface in a stacking direction of the capacitor main body and spaced apart from each other in the length direction, the interposers including bonding surfaces bondable to the one surface of the capacitor main body and including inner edge portions which are opposite to each other and each having a length longer than a length in a width direction of the multilayer body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventor: Masato KIMURA
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Publication number: 20240047136Abstract: A multilayer electronic device includes an element body and a pair of external electrodes. The element body includes an interior region in which inner dielectric layers and internal electrode layers are alternately laminated and an exterior region located outside the interior region in its lamination direction. The pair of external electrodes exists on surfaces of the element body. Main-phase particles in the inner dielectric layers and outer dielectric layers of the exterior region include a main component having a perovskite crystal structure represented by a general formula of ABO3. r1<r2<r1×4.0 is satisfied, in which r1 is an average particle size of the main-phase particles constituting the inner dielectric layers, and r2 is an average particle size of the main-phase particles constituting the outer dielectric layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Taku MURAKAMI, Nobuto MORIGASAKI, Takuma ARIIZUMI, Yoshitaka NAGASHIMA, Masato KIMURA
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Patent number: 11848155Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a capacitor main body including a multilayer body and external electrodes, the multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers stacked alternately, each of the external electrodes being provided on an end surface in a length direction of the multilayer body and being connected to the internal electrode layers, and two interposers on one surface in a stacking direction of the capacitor main body and spaced apart from each other in the length direction, the interposers including bonding surfaces bondable to the one surface of the capacitor main body and including inner edge portions which are opposite to each other and each having a length longer than a length in a width direction of the multilayer body.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Masato Kimura
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Patent number: 11817270Abstract: A multilayer capacitor includes an element body, and a pair of side surfaces and a pair of main surfaces; and a pair of external electrodes. The element body includes an inner layer portion in which a plurality of internal electrodes and a plurality of dielectric layers are alternately stacked in a second direction where the pair of main surfaces face each other, and a pair of outer layer portions disposed outside the inner layer portion in the second direction. On at least one of the pair of end surfaces, the internal electrode of the inner layer portion protrudes outward in the first direction from the outer layer portion by a predetermined protrusion amount. A ratio of the protrusion amount to a dimension of the element body in the second direction ranges from 11,000 ppm to 16,000 ppm.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Hikaru Hirabayashi, Daisuke Yoshida, Masato Kimura
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Publication number: 20220392069Abstract: An image processing system includes at least one processor including hardware. The processor performs a process that acquires, as a processing target image sequence, images captured in a time series manner with an inside of a living body by an endoscope imaging device, a process based on a database generated by using a plurality of in-vivo images captured at earlier timings than timings at which the processing target image sequence is captured, and a process that determines, when a bleeding has been occurring inside the living body, a kind of a desirable bleeding stopping treatment for a blood vessel on which the bleeding has been occurring based on the processing target image sequence and the database to present, to a user, the determined type of the bleeding stopping treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Masato KIMURA
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Publication number: 20220375685Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a capacitor main body including a multilayer body and external electrodes, the multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers stacked alternately, each of the external electrodes being provided on an end surface in a length direction of the multilayer body and being connected to the internal electrode layers, and two interposers on one surface in a stacking direction of the capacitor main body and spaced apart from each other in the length direction, the interposers including bonding surfaces bondable to the one surface of the capacitor main body and including inner edge portions which are opposite to each other and each having a length longer than a length in a width direction of the multilayer body.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventor: Masato KIMURA
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Publication number: 20220285102Abstract: A multilayer capacitor includes an element body, and a pair of side surfaces and a pair of main surfaces; and a pair of external electrodes. The element body includes an inner layer portion in which a plurality of internal electrodes and a plurality of dielectric layers are alternately stacked in a second direction where the pair of main surfaces face each other, and a pair of outer layer portions disposed outside the inner layer portion in the second direction. On at least one of the pair of end surfaces, the internal electrode of the inner layer portion protrudes outward in the first direction from the outer layer portion by a predetermined protrusion amount. A ratio of the protrusion amount to a dimension of the element body in the second direction ranges from 11,000 ppm to 16,000 ppm.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Hikaru HIRABAYASHI, Daisuke YOSHIDA, Masato KIMURA
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Publication number: 20220285093Abstract: A multilayer capacitor includes an element body haying a pair of end surfaces, and a pair of side surfaces and a pair of main surfaces; and a pair of external electrodes. The element body includes an inner layer portion in which a plurality of internal electrodes and a plurality of dielectric layers are alternately stacked in a second direction where the pair of main surfaces face each other, and a pair of outer layer portions disposed outside the inner layer portion in the second direction. On at least one of the pair of end surfaces, the internal electrode of the inner layer portion protrudes outward in the first direction from the outer layer portion by a predetermined protrusion amount. A ratio of the protrusion amount to a dimension of one outer layer portion in the second direction ranges from 96,000 ppm to 176,000 ppm.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Hikaru HIRABAYASHI, Daisuke YOSHIDA, Masato KIMURA
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Patent number: 11437189Abstract: A multilayer capacitor 1 includes an element body, an external electrode, and a plurality of internal electrodes. The plurality of internal electrodes include electrode portions disposed to face other internal electrodes and connecting portions connecting the electrode portions to the external electrode. The connecting portions of the internal electrodes are positioned in a region corresponding to an end surface when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the end surface. The electrode portions of the internal electrodes have portions overlapping a region corresponding to an edge line surfaces when viewed from the direction perpendicular to the end surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Yoshida, Hikaru Hirabayashi, Yuki Takahashi, Takuto Okamoto, Masato Kimura
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Patent number: 11417465Abstract: A multilayer capacitor includes an element body, an external electrode, and a plurality of internal electrodes, and a relationship of R1<T is satisfied in a first cross section extending in a direction in which the pair of end surfaces face each other, extending in a lamination direction of the plurality of internal electrodes, and including an electrode portions and a connecting portions when a radius of curvature of an edge line surface is R1 and a thickness between the side surface and the internal electrode at a position at which the side surface and the internal electrode are closest to each other in the lamination direction is T.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Yoshida, Yuki Takahashi, Hikaru Hirabayashi, Takuto Okamoto, Masato Kimura
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Patent number: 11360419Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier that carries a toner image including toner; a driver that rotates the image carrier; a toner remover that comes in contact with the image carrier and removes toner remaining on the image carrier while the image carrier is rotated in a forward direction by the driver; and a hardware processor that evaluates a degree of deterioration of the image carrier or the toner remover, determines a number of times of execution of removal operation in which the image carrier is rotated in a reverse direction and then rotated in the forward direction, on the basis of the degree of deterioration, and controls the driver to cause the removal operation to be executed the number of times of execution.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Masato Kimura
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Publication number: 20220011701Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier that carries a toner image including toner; a driver that rotates the image carrier; a toner remover that comes in contact with the image carrier and removes toner remaining on the image carrier while the image carrier is rotated in a forward direction by the driver; and a hardware processor that evaluates a degree of deterioration of the image carrier or the toner remover, determines a number of times of execution of removal operation in which the image carrier is rotated in a reverse direction and then rotated in the forward direction, on the basis of the degree of deterioration, and controls the driver to cause the removal operation to be executed the number of times of execution.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventor: Masato KIMURA
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Publication number: 20210257160Abstract: A multilayer capacitor 1 includes an element body 3, an external electrode 5, and a plurality of internal electrodes 7 and 9. The plurality of internal electrodes 7 and 9 include electrode portions 7a and 9a disposed to face other internal electrodes and connecting portions 7b and 9b connecting the electrode portions 7a and 9a to the external electrode 5. The connecting portions 7b and 9b of the internal electrodes 7 and 9 are positioned in a region corresponding to an end surface 3e when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the end surface 3e. The electrode portions 7a and 9a of the internal electrodes 7 and 9 have portions overlapping a region corresponding to an edge line surfaces 3g and 3i when viewed from the direction perpendicular to the end surface 3e.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke YOSHIDA, Hikaru HIRABAYASHI, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Takuto OKAMOTO, Masato KIMURA
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Publication number: 20210257161Abstract: A multilayer capacitor includes an element body, an external electrode, and a plurality of internal electrodes, and a relationship of R1<T is satisfied in a first cross section extending in a direction in which the pair of end surfaces face each other, extending in a lamination direction of the plurality of internal electrodes, and including an electrode portions and a connecting portions when a radius of curvature of an edge line surface is R1 and a thickness between the side surface and the internal electrode at a position at which the side surface and the internal electrode are closest to each other in the lamination direction is T.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke YOSHIDA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Hikaru HIRABAYASHI, Takuto OKAMOTO, Masato KIMURA