Patents by Inventor Masayuki Saito
Masayuki Saito 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: 10689576Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal composition that contains a polar compound having a polymerizable group, in which vertical alignment of liquid crystal molecules can be achieved by action of the compound (or polymer), and a liquid crystal display device including the composition. The composition satisfies at least one of characteristics such as high maximum temperature, low minimum temperature, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large negative dielectric anisotropy, large specific resistance, high stability to ultraviolet light and heat.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventor: Masayuki Saito
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Patent number: 10655065Abstract: A liquid crystal compound comprising a specific compound having a positive dielectric anisotropy as the first component, and a specific compound having a low viscosity as a second component. Further, the liquid crystal compound may contain a specific compound having a positive dielectric anisotropy as the third component, a specific compound having a maximum temperature or a low viscosity as the fourth component, or a specific compound having a negative dielectric anisotropy as the fifth component.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Maiko Matsukuma, Masayuki Saito
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Patent number: 10655063Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics such as high maximum temperature, low minimum temperature, low viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy and large negative dielectric anisotropy, or having a suitable balance regarding at least two of the characteristics; and an AM device including the composition. The liquid crystal composition contains a specific compound having large negative dielectric anisotropy as a first component, and a specific compound having high maximum temperature or low viscosity as a second component, and may contain a specific compound having negative dielectric anisotropy as a third component, or a specific compound having a polymerizable group as an additive.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Saito, Eriko Kurihara
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Patent number: 10647921Abstract: A liquid crystal composition includes a polymerizable compound (or polymer) and a polar compound, where the homeotropic alignment of liquid crystal molecules can be achieved by the action of these compounds, and a liquid crystal display device includes such a composition. A nematic liquid crystal composition has positive dielectric anisotropy and includes a polymerizable compound as a first additive and a polar compound as a second additive, and the composition may include a specific liquid crystal compound having a large positive dielectric anisotropy and a specific liquid crystal compound having a high maximum temperature or a small viscosity, and a liquid crystal display device includes such a composition.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Naoko Matsuda, Masayuki Saito
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Patent number: 10647919Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics such as high maximum temperature, low minimum temperature, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large negative dielectric anisotropy, large specific resistance, high stability to ultraviolet light and high stability to heat, or the liquid crystal composition having a suitable balance regarding at least two of the characteristics; and an AM device having characteristics such as a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, low threshold voltage, a large contrast ratio and a long service life.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Saito, Yoshimasa Furusato
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Patent number: 10640709Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics such as high maximum temperature, low minimum temperature, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large dielectric anisotropy and a short helical pitch, or the liquid crystal composition having a suitable balance regarding at least two of the characteristics; and an AM device including the composition. The liquid crystal composition contains a specific optically active compound as an additive, and a specific compound having high maximum temperature or small viscosity as a first component, and may contain a specific compound having positive dielectric anisotropy as a second component, or a specific compound having negative dielectric anisotropy as a third component.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventor: Masayuki Saito
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Patent number: 10598792Abstract: An augmentation information adjustment unit (102) reduces an amount of information in augmentation information by combining: update cycle adjustment processing (1021) to set an update cycle of the augmentation information to be an integer multiple of a predetermined update cycle; geographic interval error value adjustment processing (1022) to reduce the number of geographic interval error values by selecting from among a plurality of the geographic interval error values each of which is an error at every predetermined geographic interval out of a plurality of error values, a geographic interval error value at every geographic interval that is an integer multiple of the predetermined geographic interval; and bit count adjustment processing (1023) to reduce a bit count of the error value for each error value.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2015Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masakazu Miya, Seigo Fujita, Yoshihiro Shima, Hisao Sone, Ryoichiro Yasumitsu, Natsuki Kondo, Tsutomu Nakajima, Kazuhiro Terao, Masayuki Saito
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Patent number: 10597583Abstract: Shown are a liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics such as high maximum temperature, low minimum temperature, low viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy and large negative dielectric anisotropy, or having a suitable balance regarding at least two of the characteristics, and an AM device including the composition. The liquid crystal composition contains a specific compound having large negative dielectric anisotropy as a first component, and a specific compound having low viscosity as a second component, and may contain a specific compound having negative dielectric anisotropy as a third component, a specific compound having high maximum temperature or low viscosity as a fourth component, or a specific compound having a polymerizable group as an additive.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Sakamoto, Masayuki Saito
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Patent number: 10578746Abstract: A mechanism converts positioning correction information included in an SSR message as defined by “RTCM STANDARD 10403.2” to positioning correction information conforming to “RTCM 10402.3”. A conversion device includes a computation processing section that acquires a plurality of types of positioning correction information conforming to “RTCM STANDARD 10403.2”, an approximate position being a positioning result, and a satellite position of a satellite that transmits positioning information based on which the approximate position is calculated, and based on the types of positioning correction information, the approximate position, and the satellite position that have been acquired, generates pieces of element data, such as CLR and ORB, which are elements used for generating the types of positioning correction information conforming to “RTCM 10402.3”, by computation, and a conversion calculation section that generates the types of positioning correction information conforming to “RTCM 10402.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2015Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masakazu Miya, Yuki Sato, Seigo Fujita, Kazuhiro Terao, Masayuki Saito
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Patent number: 10544366Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics including a high maximum temperature, a low minimum temperature, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy and large negative dielectric anisotropy, or the liquid crystal composition having a suitable balance regarding at least two of the above characteristics; and an AM device including the composition. The liquid crystal composition contains a specific compound having large negative dielectric anisotropy as a first component, and a specific compound having small viscosity as a second component, and may contain a specific component having high maximum temperature or small viscosity as a third component, a specific component having negative dielectric anisotropy as a fourth component, or a specific compound having a polymerizable group as an additive.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventor: Masayuki Saito
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Patent number: 10538705Abstract: A liquid-crystal-composition has negative-dielectric-anisotropy and contains at least one compound selected from polar compounds represented by formula (1) as first-additive and at least one compound selected from compounds represented by formula (2) as first-component, and a liquid-crystal-display-device includes the composition. In formulas (1) and (2), R1 is hydrogen, halogen or 1-12C alkyl, R2 is a group represented by —OH, —OR0, —NH2, —NHR0 or —N(R0)2, in which R0 is 1-5C alkyl; R3 and R4 are independently 1-12C alkyl or 2-12C alkenyl; rings A, B and C are independently 1,4-cyclohexylene or 1,4-phenylene; ring D is 1,4-phenylene in which at least one hydrogen is replaced by fluorine or chlorine; Z1, Z2 and Z3 are independently single-bond; Sp1 and Sp2 are independently single-bond, 1-7C alkylene; a is 0 to 4; and b is 0 to 1.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventor: Masayuki Saito
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Patent number: 10519376Abstract: A liquid crystal composition satisfies at least one of characteristics such as high maximum temperature, low minimum temperature, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large dielectric anisotropy and high stability to ultraviolet light, or having a suitable balance regarding at least two of the characteristics. The liquid crystal composition contains a quencher as an additive, and may contain a specific compound having large positive dielectric anisotropy as a first component, a specific compound having high maximum temperature or small viscosity as a second component, or a specific compound having large negative dielectric anisotropy as a third component.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventor: Masayuki Saito
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Publication number: 20190356055Abstract: A phased array antenna includes a front plate, a plurality of blocks including a plurality of slices that include a plurality of transmitters and a circuit board that distributes a power supply, a control signal, and a high-frequency signal to the plurality of slices, the blocks being held on a first face of the front plate, a plurality of power sources that supply power to the blocks, which is held on the first face of the front plate, an antenna element layer in which a plurality of antenna elements are arrayed, which is held on a second face of the front plate, and a high-frequency signal wiring layer including high-frequency signal wiring through which a high-frequency signal to the antenna elements passes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2017Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yukari SAITO, Hiroaki MATSUOKA, Keisuke NISHI, Masayuki SAITO
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Patent number: 10478122Abstract: A measurement method for brown adipose tissue includes a light input step of inputting near-infrared light from a light input unit into a measurement target portion, a light detection step of detecting light intensity of the near-infrared light having propagated through an interior of the measurement target portion by a light detection unit, and a calculation step of calculating an index value for a BAT amount from an oxygenated hemoglobin concentration or the like of the measurement target portion, which is acquired by near-infrared spectroscopy based on the detection result by the light detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignees: TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Takafumi Hamaoka, Shinsuke Nirengi, Masayuki Saito, Takeshi Yoneshiro
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Patent number: 10479940Abstract: A liquid crystal compound having positive dielectric anisotropy is provided and contains a compound represented by formula (1) as a first component, a compound represented by formula (2) as a second component, a polar compound as a first additive and a polymerizable compound as a second additive. In formula (1), R1a is alkyl having 1 to 12 carbons, or the like; ring Q and ring S are independently 1,4-cyclohexylene, 1,4-phenylene or the like; Z1a and Z2a are independently a single bond or the like; X1a and X2a are independently hydrogen or fluorine; Y1a is fluorine, chlorine, alkyl having 1 to 12 carbons in which at least one hydrogen is replaced by fluorine or chlorine, or the like; q is 1, 2, 3 or 4; s is 0, 1, 2 or 3; and a sum of q and s is 4 or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Naoko Matsuda, Masayuki Saito
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Patent number: 10442993Abstract: A liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics such as high maximum temperature, low minimum temperature, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy and large dielectric anisotropy, or having a suitable balance regarding at least two of the characteristics. The liquid crystal composition contains a quencher as a first additive, and may contain a specific compound having large negative dielectric anisotropy as a first component, a specific compound having high maximum temperature or small viscosity as a second component, or a specific compound having a polymerizable group as a second additive.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventor: Masayuki Saito
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Patent number: 10442991Abstract: Shown is a liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics such as high maximum temperature, low minimum temperature, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large dielectric anisotropy and small frequency dependence, or has a suitable balance regarding at least two of the characteristics, and an AM device including the composition. The liquid crystal composition contains a specific compound having large positive dielectric anisotropy as a first component, and a specific compound having small viscosity as a second component, and may contain a specific compound having high maximum temperature or small viscosity as a third component, a specific compound having positive dielectric anisotropy as a fourth component or a specific compound having negative dielectric anisotropy as a fifth component.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Naoko Matsuda, Masayuki Saito
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Patent number: 10442992Abstract: A nematic liquid crystal composition has negative dielectric anisotropy and contains at least one polar compound selected from the group of compounds represented by formula (1) as a first additive, and the liquid crystal display device includes the composition. In formula (1), R1 is hydrogen, halogen, alkyl having 1 to 12 carbons or the like; R2 is a group represented by —OH, —OR0, —NH2, —NHR0 or —N(R0)2, in which R0 is alkyl having 1 to 5 carbons; ring A and ring B are independently 1,4-cyclohexylene, 1,4-phenylene or the like; Z1 is a single bond or the like; Sp1 and Sp2 are independently a single bond, alkylene having 1 to 7 carbons or the like; and a is 0 to 4.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Saito, Kazuhiro Ogita, Fumitaka Kondo
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Patent number: 10435627Abstract: The subject is to show a liquid crystal display device that has characteristics such as a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a low threshold voltage, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and a small flicker rate. The disclosure relates to a liquid crystal display device including an electrode group formed on one or both of a pair of substrates that are opposed to each other, and a plurality of active devices connected to the electrode group, and a liquid crystal alignment film formed on the opposing surfaces of the pair of substrates, and a liquid crystal composition sandwiched in between the pair of substrates, and the liquid crystal composition includes at least one compound selected from the group of compounds represented by formula (1) as a first component.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshimasa Furusato, Masayuki Saito
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Publication number: 20190292461Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal composite that is suitable for dimming and includes a liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics such as a high maximum temperature, a low minimum temperature, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotropy and a large negative dielectric anisotropy or being suitably balanced between at least two of these characteristics, and a liquid crystal dimming device including the liquid crystal composite, where the liquid crystal composite includes a polymer and a liquid crystal composition including a specific compound having a large negative dielectric anisotropy, and the liquid crystal composite may further include a specific compound having a high maximum temperature or a low minimum temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2017Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicants: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Naoko MATSUDA, Eriko KURIHARA, Masayuki SAITO