Patents by Inventor Masayuki Higashi

Masayuki Higashi 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: 20210296588
    Abstract: Provided is a charge transporting composition that gives a charge transporting thin film having high transparency and excellent flatness. Also provided is an organic EL device that exhibits excellent characteristics. A charge transporting thin film prepared using a composition containing a polythiophene compound, metal oxide nanoparticles, a nonionic fluorine-containing surfactant and an organic solvent has high transparency and excellent flatness, and use of the charge transporting thin film as a hole injection layer allows an organic EL device having excellent characteristics to be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: NISSAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruka MURAKAJI, Yuta KANNO, Masayuki HIGASHI, Chika SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20210122928
    Abstract: Provided is a charge-transporting composition that contains: a charge-transporting substance comprising a polythiophene derivative of formula (1) or an amine adduct thereof; an organosilane compound selected from fluoroalkyl-group-containing silanes, etc.; metal oxide nanoparticles; and an organic solvent. (R1 and R2 are, mutually independently, a hydrogen atom, a C1-40 alkoxy group, —O—[Z—O]p—Re, a sulfonic acid group, etc., or are —O—Y—O— formed by the bonding of R1 and R2; Y is a C1-40 alkylene group that may contain an ether bond, or may be substituted with a sulfonic acid group; Z is a C1-40 alkylene group that may be substituted with a halogen atom; p is an integer of 1 or greater; and Re is a hydrogen atom, a C1-40 alkyl group, etc.)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: NISSAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki HIGASHI
  • Patent number: 10863657
    Abstract: An electronic component mounting method is performed by an electronic component mounting system including a component mounting line formed by interconnecting component mounting units which concurrently performs component mounting work on two kinds of boards different in mounting workload. The component mounting units includes: first and second board conveyance mechanisms; a component mounting unit; a board distribution unit which receives the board from the upstream-side apparatus and distributes the received board to either the first board conveyance mechanism or the second board conveyance mechanism; and a distribution control unit which controls the first board conveyance mechanism, the second board conveyance mechanism and the board distribution unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Higashi, Taisuke Mori, Ryouji Kouchi, Takuya Yamazaki, Hisashi Maezono, Hiroshi Ando
  • Publication number: 20200216696
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-aqueous ink composition containing (a) a polythiophene containing a repeating unit complying with formula (I); (b) metal oxide nanoparticles containing at least (b-1) a first metal oxide nanoparticle having an average primary particle diameter d1 and (b-2) a second metal oxide nanoparticle having an average primary particle diameter d2, wherein d1<d2; and (c) a liquid carrier containing one or more organic solvents, as well as a pile-up suppressor and a lifetime extension agent for an organic EL device, containing metal oxide nanoparticles containing at least the (b-1) and (b-2) described above, wherein d1<d2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: NISSAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta KANNO, Masayuki HIGASHI, Haruka MURAKAJI, Chika SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 10301484
    Abstract: Provided is a varnish for the formation of a charge-transporting thin film, said varnish including an organic solvent, a charge-transporting substance, and a 2,2,6,6-tetraalkylpiperidine-N-oxyl derivative represented by formula (T1) (in the formula, each RA independently represents a C1-20 alkyl group, and RB represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxy group, an amino group, a carboxyl group, a cyano group, an oxo group, an isocyanato group, a C1-20 alkoxy group, a C2-20 alkylcarbonyloxy group, a C7-20 arylcarbonyloxy group, a C2-20 alkylcarbonylamino group or a C7-20 arylcarbonylamino group).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: NISSAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Higashi
  • Patent number: 10089813
    Abstract: A bill processing device includes: a first denomination bill storage box configured to store therein first denomination bills to be used as change; a mix box configured to store therein a plurality of denominations of bills other than the first denomination bills in a mixed manner; and an examination box configured to function as a temporary storage box in examination of recounting numbers of bills stored in the first denomination bill storage box and the mix box, the bill processing device being configured to perform reception and dispensing processing of bills. Only second denomination bills to be used as change are stored in the examination box or the mix box in the reception or after the examination, and the second denomination bills stored in the examination box or the mix box are dispensed when a dispensing instruction to dispense the second denomination bills is given.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Kawamoto, Toshinori Hemmi, Toshinori Shigeyama, Masao Nakayama, Masayuki Higashi
  • Patent number: 10055924
    Abstract: A bill processing device includes: a device main body including a depositing portion; a plurality of storage boxes where each has an outlet port; a dispensing box including a bill output port; an outlet door configured to open and close the outlet port of each of the storage boxes; a plurality of outlet port detectors where each is configured to detect the outlet port being opened by the outlet door; and a controller configured to determine that cash balance is unknown only when at least one of the outlet port detectors detects that the outlet port is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshinori Hemmi, Toshinori Shigeyama, Masao Nakayama, Masayuki Higashi
  • Publication number: 20180082511
    Abstract: A bill processing device includes: a device main body including a depositing portion; a plurality of storage boxes where each has an outlet port; a dispensing box including a bill output port; an outlet door configured to open and close the outlet port of each of the storage boxes; a plurality of outlet port detectors where each is configured to detect the outlet port being opened by the outlet door; and a controller configured to determine that cash balance is unknown only when at least one of the outlet port detectors detects that the outlet port is opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Toshinori HEMMI, Toshinori SHIGEYAMA, Masao NAKAYAMA, Masayuki HIGASHI
  • Publication number: 20180047240
    Abstract: A bill processing device includes: a first denomination bill storage box configured to store therein first denomination bills to be used as change; a mix box configured to store therein a plurality of denominations of bills other than the first denomination bills in a mixed manner; and an examination box configured to function as a temporary storage box in examination of recounting numbers of bills stored in the first denomination bill storage box and the mix box, the bill processing device being configured to perform reception and dispensing processing of bills. Only second denomination bills to be used as change are stored in the examination box or the mix box in the reception or after the examination, and the second denomination bills stored in the examination box or the mix box are dispensed when a dispensing instruction to dispense the second denomination bills is given.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi KAWAMOTO, Toshinori HEMMI, Toshinori SHIGEYAMA, Masao NAKAYAMA, Masayuki HIGASHI
  • Publication number: 20180002539
    Abstract: Provided is a varnish for the formation of a charge-transporting thin film, said varnish including an organic solvent, a charge-transporting substance, and a 2,2,6,6-tetraalkylpiperidine-N-oxyl derivative represented by formula (T1) (in the formula, each RA independently represents a C1-20 alkyl group, and RB represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxy group, an amino group, a carboxyl group, a cyano group, an oxo group, an isocyanato group, a C1-20 alkoxy group, a C2-20 alkylcarbonyloxy group, a C7-20 arylcarbonyloxy group, a C2-20 alkylcarbonylamino group or a C7-20 arylcarbonylamino group).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: NISSAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki HIGASHI
  • Patent number: 9842453
    Abstract: A banknote processing device includes: a plurality of storage units configured to store a banknote having a predetermined condition in a storage unit corresponding to the banknote among the plurality of storage units when the banknote is fed through a depositing port provided on a device main body; and a dispensing box configured to discharge the banknote through a dispensing port provided on the dispensing box by conveying the banknote, which is sent from the storage unit, to the dispensing box when a dispensing instruction is given. The dispensing box is configured to collect the banknote being stored in the storage units when a collecting instruction is given.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshinori Hemmi, Toshinori Shigeyama, Masao Nakayama, Masayuki Higashi
  • Patent number: 9668394
    Abstract: A component mounting system makes a mounting head to which a component holder is attached perform component mounting operation including upward and downward movement operation with respect to a board and mounts a component on the board. A mounting apparatus repeats reciprocating mounting operations in which the component holder is moved in a mounting order relative to a reference line extending in a first direction being the board conveyance direction such that that the component holder is advanced over the board in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and then a held high-height component is mounted and thereafter the component holder is retracted from the board in the second direction. The mounting order is set in order in which a mounting coordinate of the high-height component is larger in the second direction relative to the reference line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Higashi
  • Publication number: 20170140599
    Abstract: A banknote processing device includes: a plurality of storage units configured to store a banknote having a predetermined condition in a storage unit corresponding to the banknote among the plurality of storage units when the banknote is fed through a depositing port provided on a device main body; and a dispensing box configured to discharge the banknote through a dispensing port provided on the dispensing box by conveying the banknote, which is sent from the storage unit, to the dispensing box when a dispensing instruction is given. The dispensing box is configured to collect the banknote being stored in the storage units when a collecting instruction is given.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Toshinori HEMMI, Toshinori SHIGEYAMA, Masao NAKAYAMA, Masayuki HIGASHI
  • Patent number: 9611114
    Abstract: There is provided a tape feeder that feeds a carrier tape to supply components to a component suction position for a mounting head in a component mounting apparatus. The tape feeder includes a first tape feed mechanism which is provided in a downstream side and feeds a preceding tape to the component suction position, and a second tape feed mechanism provided in an upstream side and feeds a following tape from a tape introducing port side toward the first tape feed mechanism. The tape feeder also includes a tape slipping-off informing unit which informs the component mounting apparatus that the following tape is slipped off from the second tape feed mechanism. For example, the tape slipping-off informing unit decides that the following tape is slipped off when a rotation of a sprocket of the second tape feed mechanism in an opposite direction is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junkei Shimizu, Kazunori Kanai, Masayuki Higashi, Tatsuo Yamamura
  • Publication number: 20160007512
    Abstract: An electronic component mounting system includes a component mounting line formed by interconnecting component mounting units which concurrently performs component mounting work on two kinds of boards different in mounting workload. The component mounting units includes: first and second board conveyance mechanisms; a component mounting unit; a board distribution unit which receives the board from the upstream-side apparatus and distributes the received board to either the first board conveyance mechanism or the second board conveyance mechanism; and a distribution control unit which controls the first board conveyance mechanism, the second board conveyance mechanism and the board distribution unit. The distribution control unit mixedly distributes the two kinds of the boards to each of the first and second board conveyance mechanisms based on a board request signal issued from a most-upstream component mounting unit in the component mounting line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Masayuki HIGASHI, Taisuke MORI, Ryouji KOUCHI, Takuya YAMAZAKI, Hisashi MAEZONO, Hiroshi ANDO
  • Publication number: 20150271925
    Abstract: A component mounting unit includes first and second board conveyance mechanisms, first and second component supply units, and first and second component mounting mechanisms, for performing a component mounting work on a front surface and a rear surface of boards of a same type in parallel. Electronic components of all kinds to be mounted on the front surface and the rear surface at the component mounting unit are distributed to the first and second component supply units. The first and second component mounting mechanisms pick up electronic components from the first and second component supply unit, respectively. The first component mounting mechanism mounts the electronic component on the board held by each of the first and second board conveyance mechanisms. The second component mounting mechanism mounts the electronic component on the board held by each of the first and second board conveyance mechanisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Taisuke MORI, Masayuki HIGASHI
  • Publication number: 20150245493
    Abstract: A component mounting system makes a mounting head to which a component holder is attached perform component mounting operation including upward and downward movement operation with respect to a board and mounts a component on the board. A mounting apparatus repeats reciprocating mounting operations in which the component holder is moved in a mounting order relative to a reference line extending in a first direction being the board conveyance direction such that that the component holder is advanced over the board in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and then a held high-height component is mounted and thereafter the component holder is retracted from the board in the second direction. The mounting order is set in order in which a mounting coordinate of the high-height component is larger in the second direction relative to the reference line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventor: Masayuki HIGASHI
  • Publication number: 20150147143
    Abstract: There is provided a tape feeder that feeds a carrier tape to supply components to a component suction position for a mounting head in a component mounting apparatus. The tape feeder includes a first tape feed mechanism which is provided in a downstream side and feeds a preceding tape to the component suction position, and a second tape feed mechanism provided in an upstream side and feeds a following tape from a tape introducing port side toward the first tape feed mechanism. The tape feeder also includes a tape slipping-off informing unit which informs the component mounting apparatus that the following tape is slipped off from the second tape feed mechanism. For example, the tape slipping-off informing unit decides that the following tape is slipped off when a rotation of a sprocket of the second tape feed mechanism in an opposite direction is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Junkei SHIMIZU, Kazunori KANAI, Masayuki HIGASHI, Tatsuo YAMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20140033281
    Abstract: In a user authentication system which carries out authentication at a user terminal via a network, a password authentication page where permission of authentication is determined based on a consistency between an input password inputted from the user terminal and an authentication password includes: a private page URL key obtained by transforming a private page URL which the user terminal can connect via the network if it is determined that the authentication is permitted and an authentication password, using an encryption algorithm; and a URL recovery processing code to find the private page URL by transforming the private page URL key and the input password through inverse transformation of the encryption algorithm. If it is determined that the authentication is permitted, the private page URL is acquired using the URL recovery processing code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventors: Takeshi ASAHI, Masayuki HIGASHI
  • Patent number: 7562745
    Abstract: An elevator in which a driving apparatus, a traction sheave, and a counterweight-side rope hitching portion are arranged above one rail of the right and left cage-side guide rails, while a cage-side rope hitching portion and a speed governor are arranged above the other rail of the right and left cage-side guide rails. Since a control panel is arranged along a rear inner wall surface of the machine room, a large operation space can be secured in a center part of the floor of the machine room. Further, since a machine beam can be extended at full length in the back and forth direction in the machine room, no additional building-side receiving beam is needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Ishii, Kazuaki Miyakoshi, Shigeru Takaishi, Hiroshi Sano, Kan Kawasaki, Ikuo Asami, Kazuhiro Izumi, Takanori Urata, Shun Fujimura, Masayuki Higashi, Satoshi Takasawa, Masahiro Kuramitsu