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).

  • Publication number: 20250299886
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2025
    Publication date: September 25, 2025
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Masato KIMURA, Yasuhiro Okui, Yoshitaka Nagashima, Shinya Saito, Anna Hashimoto, Hotaka Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20250273398
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2025
    Publication date: August 28, 2025
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Masato KIMURA, Yasuhiro OKUI, Yoshitaka NAGASHIMA, Shinya SAITO, Anna HASHIMOTO, Hotaka WATANABE, Atsushi WATANABE
  • Patent number: 12374490
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku Murakami, Nobuto Morigasaki, Takuma Ariizumi, Yoshitaka Nagashima, Masato Kimura
  • Patent number: 12249071
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masato Kimura
  • Patent number: 12237111
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masato Kimura
  • Patent number: 12159755
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru Hirabayashi, Daisuke Yoshida, Masato Kimura
  • Publication number: 20240087808
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventor: Masato KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20240047136
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku MURAKAMI, Nobuto MORIGASAKI, Takuma ARIIZUMI, Yoshitaka NAGASHIMA, Masato KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11848155
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masato Kimura
  • Patent number: 11817270
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru Hirabayashi, Daisuke Yoshida, Masato Kimura
  • Publication number: 20220392069
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masato KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220375685
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventor: Masato KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220285102
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru HIRABAYASHI, Daisuke YOSHIDA, Masato KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220285093
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru HIRABAYASHI, Daisuke YOSHIDA, Masato KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11437189
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Yoshida, Hikaru Hirabayashi, Yuki Takahashi, Takuto Okamoto, Masato Kimura
  • Patent number: 11417465
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Yoshida, Yuki Takahashi, Hikaru Hirabayashi, Takuto Okamoto, Masato Kimura
  • Patent number: 11360419
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Masato Kimura
  • Publication number: 20220011701
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventor: Masato KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20210257160
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke YOSHIDA, Hikaru HIRABAYASHI, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Takuto OKAMOTO, Masato KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20210257161
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke YOSHIDA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Hikaru HIRABAYASHI, Takuto OKAMOTO, Masato KIMURA