Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Horii
Masatoshi Horii 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: 8842244Abstract: In a character type vertical alignment type liquid crystal display device including first and second substrates opposing each other, a first electrode layer including a plurality of first electrodes provided at an inner side of the first substrate, a second electrode layer including a plurality of second electrodes provided at an inner side of the second substrate, and a vertical alignment mode liquid crystal layer provided between the first and second substrates, a wall structure is provided between the first and second substrates.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2013Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masatoshi Horii
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Publication number: 20140085581Abstract: In a character type vertical alignment type liquid crystal display device including first and second substrates opposing each other, a first electrode layer including a plurality of first electrodes provided at an inner side of the first substrate, a second electrode layer including a plurality of second electrodes provided at an inner side of the second substrate, and a vertical alignment mode liquid crystal layer provided between the first and second substrates, a wall structure is provided between the first and second substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Masatoshi HORII
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Patent number: 8427619Abstract: A liquid crystal display unit has: a pair of opposing substrates; an electrode pattern formed on each of the substrates on an opposing surface side; a vertical alignment film formed on each of the substrates and covering the electrode pattern; a liquid crystal layer squeezed between the substrates; and a pair of polarizer plates formed on the substrates on an opposite side to the side of said liquid crystal layer, wherein an edge of the electrode pattern includes a zigzag pattern parallel to one of axis directions of the polarizer plates and a direction perpendicular the axis direction. Optical through can be reduced along an edge portion of a pixel of a vertical alignment LCD.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2008Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masatoshi Horii, Takashi Sugiyama, Yoshihisa Iwamoto, Keiichi Hirata
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Patent number: 8395741Abstract: The disclosed subject matter can include an LCD apparatus having a high visual quality. The LCD apparatus can include a first substrate including a plurality of first electrodes connecting to first wiring lines that are located on a first surface thereof, and a second substrate including a plurality of second electrodes connecting to second wiring lines that are located on a second surface thereof. A liquid crystal layer can be disposed between the first and second surfaces, wherein at least one of the first wiring lines partially intersects with at least one of the second wiring lines. Impedance variations among the first and second electrodes can be reduced by adjusting the area of an intersecting region of the wiring lines, and thereby display variations among display patterns between the first and second electrodes can be reduced. Thus, the disclosed subject matter can provide an LCD apparatus having a high visual quality.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masatoshi Horii, Nobuyuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8149370Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a vertical alignment type liquid crystal cell including a first substrate formed with a first electrode, a second substrate formed with a second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules given a pretilt angle. A pair of polarizer plates sandwiches the cell, and a driver device applies a voltage of a multiplex driving waveform across the first and second electrodes. In a display in-plane parallel to a surface of the first or second substrate, at least one of the first and second electrodes has a zigzag border alternately coupling a first border perpendicular to display in-plane components of directors of liquid crystal molecules in a middle area along a thickness direction of the liquid crystal layer in the absence of applied voltage and a second border extending along a direction crossing the first border.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2011Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Sugiyama, Masatoshi Horii
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Publication number: 20120008069Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a vertical alignment type liquid crystal cell including a first substrate formed with a first electrode, a second substrate formed with a second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules given a pretilt angle. A pair of polarizer plates sandwiches the cell, and a driver device applies a voltage of a multiplex driving waveform across the first and second electrodes. In a display in-plane parallel to a surface of the first or second substrate, at least one of the first and second electrodes has a zigzag border alternately coupling a first border perpendicular to display in-plane components of directors of liquid crystal molecules in a middle area along a thickness direction of the liquid crystal layer in the absence of applied voltage and a second border extending along a direction crossing the first border.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi SUGIYAMA, Masatoshi Horii
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Patent number: 8040480Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a vertical alignment type liquid crystal cell including a first substrate formed with a first electrode, a second substrate formed with a second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules given a pretilt angle. A pair of polarizer plates sandwiches the cell, and a driver device applies a voltage of a multiplex driving waveform across the first and second electrodes. In a display in-plane parallel to a surface of the first or second substrate, at least one of the first and second electrodes has a zigzag border alternately coupling a first border perpendicular to display in-plane components of directors of liquid crystal molecules in a middle area along a thickness direction of the liquid crystal layer in the absence of applied voltage and a second border extending along a direction crossing the first border.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2009Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Sugiyama, Masatoshi Horii
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Publication number: 20100296014Abstract: The disclosed subject matter can include an LCD apparatus having a high visual quality. The LCD apparatus can include a first substrate including a plurality of first electrodes connecting to first wiring lines that are located on a first surface thereof, and a second substrate including a plurality of second electrodes connecting to second wiring lines that are located on a second surface thereof. A liquid crystal layer can be disposed between the first and second surfaces, wherein at least one of the first wiring lines partially intersects with at least one of the second wiring lines. Impedance variations among the first and second electrodes can be reduced by adjusting the area of an intersecting region of the wiring lines, and thereby display variations among display patterns between the first and second electrodes can be reduced. Thus, the disclosed subject matter can provide an LCD apparatus having a high visual quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2010Publication date: November 25, 2010Inventors: Masatoshi HORII, Nobuyuki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20100134749Abstract: In a character type vertical alignment type liquid crystal display device including first and second substrates opposing each other, a first electrode layer including a plurality of first electrodes provided at an inner side of the first substrate, a second electrode layer including a plurality of second electrodes provided at an inner side of the second substrate, and a vertical alignment mode liquid crystal layer provided between the first and second substrates, a wall structure is provided between the first and second substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2009Publication date: June 3, 2010Applicant: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masatoshi HORII
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Publication number: 20100097559Abstract: In a simple matrix vertical alignment mode liquid crystal display device including first and second substrates opposing each other, a first electrode layer including a plurality of first electrodes provided at an inner side of the first substrate, a second electrode layer including a plurality of second electrodes provided at an inner side of the second substrate, and a vertical alignment mode liquid crystal layer provided between the first and second substrates, a plurality of linear wall layers are provided between the first and second substrates in parallel with the first electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2009Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masatoshi HORII
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Publication number: 20090225257Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes: a vertical alignment type liquid crystal cell including a first substrate formed with a first electrode, a second substrate formed with a second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules given a pretilt angle; a pair of polarizer plates sandwiching the cell; and a driver device for applying a voltage of a multiplex driving waveform across the first and second electrodes, wherein in a display in-plane parallel to a surface of the first or second substrate, at least one of the first and second electrodes has a zigzag border alternately coupling a first border perpendicular to display in-plane components of directors of liquid crystal molecules in a middle area along a thickness direction of the liquid crystal layer in the absence of applied voltage and a second border extending along a direction crossing the first boarder.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2009Publication date: September 10, 2009Applicant: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Sugiyama, Masatoshi Horii
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Publication number: 20090086132Abstract: A liquid crystal display unit has: a pair of opposing substrates; an electrode pattern formed on each of the substrates on an opposing surface side; a vertical alignment film formed on each of the substrates and covering the electrode pattern; a liquid crystal layer squeezed between the substrates; and a pair of polarizer plates formed on the substrates on an opposite side to the side of said liquid crystal layer, wherein an edge of the electrode pattern includes a zigzag pattern parallel to one of axis directions of the polarizer plates and a direction perpendicular the axis direction. Optical through can be reduced along an edge portion of a pixel of a vertical alignment LCD.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masatoshi Horii, Takashi Sugiyama, Yoshihisa Iwamoto, Keiichi Hirata
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Publication number: 20070004847Abstract: An emulsion composition of a modified polypropylene. It can have exceedingly improved emulsion stability because the modified polypropylene used has extremely high solubility in solvents and is easily emulsifiable. The modified-polypropylene emulsion composition comprises water and a modified polypropylene dispersed and emulsified therein, and is characterized in that the modified polypropylene has a racemic diad content [r] of 0.12 to 0.88 and has hydrophilic functional groups in a number of 0.5 or larger on the average per molecular chain of the polypropylene.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2004Publication date: January 4, 2007Applicant: Tonen Chemical CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Ozaki, Masatoshi Horii, Mitsuhiro Nishida, Hideaki Wakabayashi, Kunihiko Imanishi, Satoshi Ueki, Sadakatsu Suzuki
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Publication number: 20060281859Abstract: A method for producing a modified polyolefin solution, which can reduce polymer loss, solvent loss and further number of steps, and thus has excellent productivity and economic efficiency in a series of steps, wherein an ?-olefin is polymerized to obtain a polyolefin, followed by modification with a modifying agent to produce a modified polyolefin solution, characterized by comprising a step wherein an ?-olefin is polymerized in the presence of polymerization catalyst in liquid phase to obtain a polyolefin as a polymer solution or slurry state and a step wherein thus obtained polymer is reacted with a modifying agent to modify a polyolefin, and in that the polymer is not isolated, not recovered, nor substantially dried, in a method for producing a modified polyolefin solution by modification, using a modification agent, of a polyolefin obtained by polymerization of an ?-olefin.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2004Publication date: December 14, 2006Applicant: TONEN CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Sadakatsu Suzuki, Hiroyuki Ozaki, Masatoshi Horii, Satoshi Ueki, Kunihiko Imanishi, Hideaki Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20060049419Abstract: A light emitting diode device can include a pair of opposed electrodes and a thin film multilayer structure interposed between the pair of electrodes. The device can include one or more light emitting layers each having an emission interface. In the device, there can be adjacent layers having an interfacial plane therebetween. The interfacial plane being disposed in a position where an optical path length from the emission interface to the interfacial plane is substantially equal to, or less than, the coherent length of light emitted from the emission interface. Furthermore, the difference in refractive index between the adjacent layers is substantially equal to, or less than, 0.6. This can eliminate an interference effect within the thin film multilayer structure, thereby enhancing light emitting efficiency and achieving intended light color.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2005Publication date: March 9, 2006Inventors: Shinichi Tanaka, Masatoshi Horii, Akio Ogawa, Yukitoshi Jinde, Yasuyuki Kawakami
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Patent number: 6887944Abstract: A modified polypropylene which is a polypropylene having a value of racemic diad fraction [r] in a specific range and modified with a specific compound, e.g., (meth)acrylic acids, and their derivatives or styrene derivatives to have well-balanced properties of affinity for polypropylene-based materials, thermal stability, and high solubility in organic solvents; and a process for producing same. More particularly, the modified polypropylene which is a polypropylene having a value of racemic diad fraction [r] of 0.51 to 0.88, determined by 13C-NMR analysis, and chemically modified with a compound serving as a modifier, e.g., (meth)acrylic acids, and their derivatives or styrene derivatives; and the process for producing the modified polypropylene, wherein the polypropylene having a value of racemic diad fraction [r] in the above range is reacted with at least one type of the compound serving as the modifier in the presence of a radical initiator.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2003Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: Tonen Chemical CorporationInventors: Hideaki Wakabayashi, Hiroyuki Ozaki, Kunihiko Imanishi, Takeshi Ishihara, Masatoshi Horii, Satoshi Ueki
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Publication number: 20040054089Abstract: A modified polypropylene which is a polypropylene having a value of racemic diad fraction [r] in a specific range and modified with a specific compound, e.g., (meth)acrylic acids, and their derivatives or styrene derivatives to have well-balanced properties of affinity for polypropylene-based materials, thermal stability, and high solubility in organic solvents; and a process for producing same. More particularly, the modified polypropylene which is a polypropylene having a value of racemic diad fraction [r] of 0.51 to 0.88, determined by 13C-NMR analysis, and chemically modified with a compound serving as a modifier, e.g., (meth)acrylic acids, and their derivatives or styrene derivatives; and the process for producing the modified polypropylene, wherein the polypropylene having a value of racemic diad fraction [r] in the above range is reacted with at least one type of the compound serving as the modifier in the presence of a radical initiator.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Inventors: Hideaki Wakabayashi, Hiroyuki Ozaki, Kunihiko Imanishi, Takeshi Ishihara, Masatoshi Horii, Satoshi Ueki
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Patent number: 6383688Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of removing water and a free acids content in an electrolytic solution for a lithium battery, and to an electrolytic solution for a lithium battery having a low water content and acids content. The present method is characterized by comprising steps of (a) leading an inert gas through the solvent having a water content of 100 ppm or lower under heating of the solvent to vaporize water together with the solvent to thereby reduce the water content of the solvent, and (b) dissolving the lithium electrolyte in the solvent while maintaining a temperature of the solvent at 20° C. or lower. The present method can make the water content at most 3 ppm and the free acids content less than 1 ppm.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2000Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: Tonen CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Inagaki, Satoshi Asano, Masatoshi Horii, Hiroshi Furukawa, Tadashi Niwa