Patents by Inventor Masato Nakamura

Masato Nakamura 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).

  • Patent number: 10411212
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device including: an anode; a cathode; two or more emitting units that are disposed between the anode and the cathode, each unit having an emitting layer; and a charge-generating layer that is disposed between the emitting units, wherein the charge-generating layer comprises an N layer nearer to the anode and a P layer nearer to the cathode, and the P layer comprises a compound represented by the following formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignees: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD., JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Emiko Kambe, Masato Nakamura, Jun Endo, Masakazu Funahashi, Hironobu Morishita
  • Patent number: 10396102
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes first semiconductor layers crossing a first scanning line in a non-display area, the first semiconductor layers being a in number, second semiconductor layers crossing a second scanning line in the non-display area, the second semiconductor layers being b in number, and an insulating film disposed between the first and second semiconductor layers and the first and second scanning lines, wherein a and b are integers greater than or equal to 2, and a is different from b, and the first and second semiconductor layers are both entirely covered with the insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Masato Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10378845
    Abstract: A smart gun is provided that maintains a default locked state. The smart gun can be selectively unlocked for a predetermined period of time using a predetermined gesture that is detected by a gyrosensor locked in the smart gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    Inventor: Masato Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10323804
    Abstract: The first light flux control member comprises: a concave first entrance surface, facing the plurality of light-emitting elements; and a first exit surface, and an outer exit surface. The second light flux control member controls and causes the light exiting from the first light flux control member to become oriented in the direction along the first central axis. In addition, when f represents the focal distance of the first light flux control member, and d represents the distance between the first central axis and the optical axis in the light-emitting element farthest from the first central axis, the surface light source device satisfies ?0.6<d/f<0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masato Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20190154380
    Abstract: A smart gun is provided that maintains a default locked state. The smart gun can be selectively unlocked for a predetermined period of time using a predetermined gesture that is detected by a gyrosensor locked in the smart gun.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventor: Masato Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10189196
    Abstract: A resin molded piece is made from a crystalline resin and is molded by filling a molding space 36 which is defined between a movable mold 32 and a fixed mold 34 with the resin. The resin molded piece has a designed surface 18a on to which a surface of the movable mold 32 is transferred and a non-designed surface 18b on to which a surface of the fixed mold 34 is transferred. The designed surface 18a includes a mirror surface portion 18a. Center line average roughnesses Ra of the mirror surface portion 18c and the non-designed surface 18b are both 0.5 ?m or smaller. According to the resin molded piece and a fabrication method therefor, the surface roughness of the designed surface can be reduced while restricting a reduction in productivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Nakamura, Takahiro Kohata, Toshimasa Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10125951
    Abstract: This light flux control member comprises a first (second) light flux control member. The first light flux control member comprises an entry region including a Fresnel lens portion and an entry surface; an exit surface; and a reflective surface. The reflective surface is a rotationally symmetric surface with the central axis of the first light flux control member as the rotation axis. The reflective surface is formed such that the generatrix of the reflective surface is a concave curve relative to the entry surface and the outer peripheral portion of the reflective surface is distanced farther from an orthogonal plane compared to the inner peripheral portion thereof in a direction that follows an optical axis, which is the center of the total light flux of at least one light-emitting element, said orthogonal plane passing through an arbitrary point on the entry surface and being orthogonal to the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masato Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20180264627
    Abstract: This method for manufacturing a cutting blade includes: a mixing step of adding a liquid dispersion medium to a mixed powder containing a resin powder of a thermocompression-bondable resin, abrasive grains and fibrous fillers; a compression step of cold pressing, in a forming die, the mixed powder to which the dispersion medium has been added to form an original plate of a blade main body; and a sintering step of hot pressing and sintering the original plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Masato NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20180187841
    Abstract: The first light flux control member comprises: a concave first entrance surface, facing the plurality of light-emitting elements; and a first exit surface, and an outer exit surface. The second light flux control member controls and causes the light exiting from the first light flux control member to become oriented in the direction along the first central axis. In addition, when f represents the focal distance of the first light flux control member, and d represents the distance between the first central axis and the optical axis in the light-emitting element farthest from the first central axis, the surface light source device satisfies ?0.6<d/f<0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventor: Masato NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20180149932
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first area, second area, liquid crystal layer, and a plurality of pixels. Each subpixel includes an opening area including a first opening area and a second opening area. The pixels include a first pixel positioned in the first area and a second pixel positioned over a boundary of the first area and the second area. The opening area of the second pixel is smaller than the opening area of the first pixel when opening areas of subpixels of same color are compared. An each imaginary line showing the boundary of the first opening area and the second opening area is a same straight line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masato NAKAMURA, Daichi Hosokawa, Yuki Kuramoto, Hideyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20180151598
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes first semiconductor layers crossing a first scanning line in a non-display area, the first semiconductor layers being a in number, second semiconductor layers crossing a second scanning line in the non-display area, the second semiconductor layers being b in number, and an insulating film disposed between the first and second semiconductor layers and the first and second scanning lines, wherein a and b are integers greater than or equal to 2, and a is different from b, and the first and second semiconductor layers are both entirely covered with the insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Masato NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 9978975
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device including: an anode; one or more organic thin film layers including an emitting layer; a donor-containing layer; an acceptor-containing layer; and a light-transmissive cathode in this order, wherein the donor-containing layer comprises a compound represented by the following formula (I) or (II):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: JOLED INC
    Inventors: Emiko Kambe, Masato Nakamura, Masakazu Funahashi, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Sayaka Mizutani
  • Patent number: 9824644
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display element includes a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines orthogonal to the plurality of scanning lines. A pixel of the display element includes sub-pixels of a plurality of colors to be respectively formed in the regions surrounded by the scanning lines and the signal lines. The size of a sub-pixel of a predetermined color among the plurality of colors is larger than the sizes of the sub-pixels of the other colors. Switching elements of the display element are connected to the scanning lines and the signal lines and drive the sub-pixels, respectively, and are formed into different shapes corresponding to the sub-pixels with different sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Masato Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9810959
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display including first and second substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween. The first substrate includes a semiconductor layer electrode electrically connected to a first source line on a first side of a position where the semiconductor layer intersects with a gate wire in a second direction, and to a contact portion on a second side of the position. A contact portion is arranged nearer the gate line than the main pixel electrode. The main pixel electrode extends from the contact portion in the second direction and is located nearer the second side than the first side. The contact portion is connected to the main pixel electrode only by a first portion of the main pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Hoshina, Tetsuya Iizuka, Masato Nakamura, Kazuya Daishi
  • Patent number: 9792863
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display element includes a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines orthogonal to the plurality of scanning lines. A pixel of the display element includes sub-pixels of a plurality of colors to be respectively formed in the regions surrounded by the scanning lines and the signal lines. The size of a sub-pixel of a predetermined color among the plurality of colors is larger than the sizes of the sub-pixels of the other colors. Switching elements of the display element are connected to the scanning lines and the signal lines and drive the sub-pixels, respectively, and are formed into different shapes corresponding to the sub-pixels with different sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Masato Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9746729
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is a third column of third color (Blue) pixels and fourth (White) color pixels arranged alternately. The first set of a first (Red), a second (Green) and a third (Blue) color pixels along the first direction, and the second set of a first (Red), a second (Green) and a fourth (White) color pixels along the first direction are each defined as a composite color unit pixel. In the composite color unit pixels located at the first or second one along the first direction from composite color unit pixels to which color pixels of the third columns belongs, a connection pattern is designed that the pixels of the third columns are connected to the odd-numbered gate lines and the even-numbered gate lines, alternately, along the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Takahashi, Masakatsu Kitani, Seiichi Sato, Masato Nakamura, Koji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9741296
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, three columns of a first and second columns of first and second color pixels, and a third column of third and fourth color pixels arranged alternately, are repeatedly provided along a first direction. The first set of a first, a second and a third color pixels along the first direction, and the second set of a first, a second and a fourth color pixels along the first direction are each defined as a composite color unit pixel. Pixel signals are supplied to the pixels of the third columns in a pattern that polarities of the pixel signals of the pixels of the third columns along the first direction are . . . , +, +, ?, ?, +, +, ?, ?, +, +, ?, ?, . . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Takahashi, Masakatsu Kitani, Seiichi Sato, Masato Nakamura, Koji Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20170198884
    Abstract: This light flux control member comprises a first (second) light flux control member. The first light flux control member comprises an entry region including a Fresnel lens portion and an entry surface; an exit surface; and a reflective surface. The reflective surface is a rotationally symmetric surface with the central axis of the first light flux control member as the rotation axis. The reflective surface is formed such that the generatrix of the reflective surface is a concave curve relative to the entry surface and the outer peripheral portion of the reflective surface is distanced farther from an orthogonal plane compared to the inner peripheral portion thereof in a direction that follows an optical axis, which is the center of the total light flux of at least one light-emitting element, said orthogonal plane passing through an arbitrary point on the entry surface and being orthogonal to the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Masato NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 9703149
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display panel includes an array substrate, a counter-substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a columnar spacer. The array substrate includes a wiring including projection portion which form a dot pattern with light-blocking properties, and a first horizontal alignment film. The counter-substrate includes a second horizontal alignment film. The columnar spacer is disposed between the array substrate and the counter-substrate and is located within the dot pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Masato Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9671087
    Abstract: In an illumination device, light emitted from an emission element is directed toward a second luminous flux control member by a first luminous flux control member of a luminous flux control member, and then toward the side and rear of the illumination device from the second luminous flux control member. The light is then caused to pass through a cover having a shape in which the ratio (R/O) of the distance (R) between P3-P4 in the Y direction to the distance (O) between P1-P2 in the X direction is greater than 0.33 and less than 1.2, and then the light is evenly distributed to the front, sides and rear of the illumination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Nakamura