Patents by Inventor Mitsuru Sakai

Mitsuru Sakai 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: 10193069
    Abstract: Provided are a polymer for an organic electroluminescent element, which has improved luminous efficiency and is applicable to a wet process, and an organic electroluminescent element obtained therefrom. The polymer for an organic electroluminescent element has a repeating unit represented by [—(Z)l-(A)m-]n in repeating units constituting a main chain. In addition, the organic electroluminescent element includes, between an anode and a cathode laminated on a substrate, organic layers including a hole-transporting layer and a light-emitting layer, in which at least one of the organic layers contains the polymer for an organic electroluminescent element. In the repeating unit, Z represents an N-indolocarbazolyl group, A represents a repeating unit different from Z, l and m each represent an abundance molar ratio, and l is 5 to 100 mol % and m is 0 to 95 mol %, and n is 2 to 10,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshige Tanaka, Tohru Asari, Kazuto Shiraishi, Mitsuru Sakai, Masashi Niina, Kazuaki Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20180254426
    Abstract: Provided is an organic electroluminescent device having high efficiency and high driving stability while being driven at a low voltage. The organic electroluminescent device is an organic electroluminescent device including a light-emitting layer between an anode and a cathode opposite to each other, in which: the light-emitting layer contains two kinds of host materials and a light-emitting dopant; and a first host material (H1) out of the two kinds of host materials is an indolocarbazole-based compound having one or two indolocarbazole rings, and a second host material (H2) out of the materials is a host material selected from carbazole-based compounds each represented by the general formula (3), the compounds each having a structure in which two carbazole rings are bonded through a six-membered aromatic ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji IKENAGA, Takahiro KAI, Masanori HOTTA, Junya OGAWA, Mitsuru SAKAI, Masashi TADA, Tokiko UEDA, Katsuhide NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180083201
    Abstract: Provided is an organic EL device having high efficiency and high driving stability while being driven at a low voltage. The organic electroluminescent device includes one or more light-emitting layers between an anode and a cathode opposite to each other. At least one of the light-emitting layers contains a host material and a light-emitting dopant, and (i) a first host formed of an indolocarbazole compound having one or two indolocarbazole rings, and (ii) a second host formed of a carbazole compound having a plurality of carbazole rings and having a bond structure represented by the following general formula (3) are used as the host material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Junya Ogawa, Takahiro Kai, Masanori Hotta, Yuji Ikenaga, Mitsuru Sakai, Masashi Tada, Tokiko Ueda, Katsuhide Noguchi
  • Patent number: 9849783
    Abstract: There is provided a renderer 5 that renders a graphics indicator 7b (or 7f) which is displayed on a display screen 7a of a display 7 and which indicates an indication value in synchronization with a short hand 8a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuaki Takimoto, Masami Aikawa, Takehisa Mizuguchi, Yoshihiko Mori, Takeshi Mitsui, Masakazu Okuda, Mitsuru Sakai, Masahiro Kosakada, Satoshi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20170263869
    Abstract: Provided is a homogeneous organic EL device having a low driving voltage, high luminous efficiency, and a long lifetime. The device is an organic electroluminescent device including a light-emitting layer between an anode and a cathode opposite to each other, in which: the light-emitting layer contains a host material and a light-emitting dopant material; the host material is a material obtained by preliminarily mixing two or more kinds of compounds selected from compounds each having a structure in which two nitrogen atoms of an indolocarbazole ring are each substituted with an aromatic hydrocarbon group or an aromatic heterocyclic group; and the light-emitting layer is formed by co-depositing the preliminarily mixed host material and the light-emitting dopant material in a vacuum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Masashi Tada, Takahiro Kai, Masanori Hotta, Junya Ogawa, Mitsuru Sakai, Yuji Ikenaga, Tokiko Ueda, Katsuhide Noguchi
  • Patent number: 9543526
    Abstract: Provided are a nitrogen-containing aromatic compound useful for an organic electroluminescent device, and an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) that improves luminous efficiency of the device and sufficiently ensures driving stability of the device. The nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic compound is represented by the following formula (1). The organic EL device includes an organic layer that contains the nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic compound between an anode and a cathode laminated on a substrate. In the formula (1), a ring A represents an aromatic ring represented by the formula (1a) and fused with two adjacent rings, a ring B represents a heterocycle represented by the formula (1b) and fused with two adjacent rings, Y's each represent C—R or N, X's each represent N—Z, O, S, or Se, R represents hydrogen, an alkyl group, an aromatic group, or the like, and Z represents an alkyl group, an aromatic group, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaya Ishiyama, Hiroyuki Hayashida, Mitsuru Sakai, Masashi Niina, Kazuto Shiraishi, Kazuaki Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20160250925
    Abstract: There is provided a renderer 5 that renders a graphics indicator 7b (or 7f) which is displayed on a display screen 7a of a display 7 and which indicates an indication value in synchronization with a short hand 8a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuaki TAKIMOTO, Masami AIKAWA, Takehisa MIZUGUCHI, Yoshihiko MORI, Takeshi MITSUI, Masakazu OKUDA, Mitsuru SAKAI, Masahiro KOSAKADA, Satoshi OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150258219
    Abstract: A vesicle comprising fine metal particles, which has a membrane formed from both a first polymer of (a) or (b) shown below and a second polymer of (c) or (d) shown below (with the proviso that a combination of (b) and (d) is excepted), wherein partial crosslinking occurs between a cationic segment and an anionic segment in the above polymers: First polymer: (a) a block copolymer (I) having both an electrically non-charged hydrophilic segment and a cationic segment (b) an amino acid polymer (I) having a cationic segment Second polymer: (c) a block copolymer (II) having both an electrically non-charged hydrophilic segment and an anionic segment (d) an amino acid polymer (II) having an anionic segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazunori Kataoka, Akihiro Kishimura, Yasutaka Anraku, Mitsuru Sakai, Hideo Ota, Shiro Kondo, Miho Momose
  • Patent number: 9086531
    Abstract: The plastic polarized lens (10) of the present invention contains a polarized film (12) and layers (resin layers) (14a and 14b) comprising a thiourethane-based resin stacked over both surfaces of the polarized film (12), and the polarized film contains an organic coloring compound represented by the following general formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Akinori Ryu, Seiichi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Kamio, Yoshiharu Kobayashi, Mitsuru Sakai, Yoshimitsu Aiiso
  • Patent number: 9051437
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electrostatically bonded vesicle which bears disulfide bonds or thiol groups. The present invention relates to a vesicle having a membrane which is formed from both a first polymer of (a) or (b) and a second polymer of (c) or (d) (with the proviso that a combination of (b) and (d) is excepted) and in which the cationic segment and anionic segment of the polymers are partially crosslinked. First polymer: (a) a block copolymer (I) having both an electrically non-charged hydrophilic segment and a cationic segment, (b) an amino acid polymer (I) having a cationic segment. Second polymer: (c) a block copolymer (II) having both an electrically non-charged hydrophilic segment and an anionic segment, (d) an amino acid polymer (II) having an anionic segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Akihiro Kishimura, Kazunori Kataoka, Stephanie Lee, Yasutaka Anraku, Aya Koide, Mitsuru Sakai, QiuMing Yu
  • Publication number: 20150115240
    Abstract: Provided is a practically useful organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) having high efficiency and high driving stability while being capable of being driven at a low voltage. The organic electroluminescent device includes a light-emitting layer between an anode and a cathode opposite to each other. The light-emitting layer contains two host materials and at least one light-emitting dopant. One of the two host materials is a host material selected from an indolocarbazole compound having one indolocarbazole ring and an indolocarbazole compound having two indolocarbazole rings, and the other thereof is a host material selected from carbazole compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Takayuki Fukumatsu, Katsuhide Noguchi, Masashi Tada, Mitsuru Sakai, Tohru Asari, Kazuto Shiraishi, Takahiro Kai, Yasuhiro Takahashi, Yuhki Terao, Taishi Tsuji, Yusuke Nakajima, Toshinao Yuki
  • Patent number: 8728910
    Abstract: To provide an olefinic expandable substrate and a dicing film that exhibits less contamination characteristics, high expandability without necking, which cannot be achieved by conventional olefinic expandable substrates. In order to achieve the object, an expandable film comprises a 1-butene-?-olefin copolymer (A) having a tensile modulus at 23° C. of 100 to 500 MPa and a propylenic elastomer composition (B) comprising a propylene-?-olefin copolymer (b1) and having a tensile modulus at 23° C. of 10 to 50 MPa, wherein the amount of the component (B) is 30 to 70 weight parts relative to 100 weight parts in total of components (A) and (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Eiji Hayashishita, Katsutoshi Ozaki, Mitsuru Sakai, Setsuko Oike
  • Publication number: 20140084279
    Abstract: Provided are a polymer for an organic electroluminescent element, which has improved luminous efficiency and is applicable to a wet process, and an organic electroluminescent element obtained therefrom. The polymer for an organic electroluminescent element has a repeating unit represented by [—(Z)1-(A)m-]n in repeating units constituting a main chain. In addition, the organic electroluminescent element includes, between an anode and a cathode laminated on a substrate, organic layers including a hole-transporting layer and a light-emitting layer, in which at least one of the organic layers contains the polymer for an organic electroluminescent element. In the repeating unit, Z represents an N-indolocarbazolyl group, A represents a repeating unit different from Z, l and m each represent an abundance molar ratio, and l is 5 to 100 mol % and m is 0 to 95 mol %, and n is 2 to 10,000.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN CHEMICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hiroshige Tanaka, Tohru Asari, Kazuto Shiraishi, Mitsuru Sakai, Masashi Niina, Kazuaki Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20140001458
    Abstract: Provided are a nitrogen-containing aromatic compound useful for an organic electroluminescent device, and an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) that improves luminous efficiency of the device and sufficiently ensures driving stability of the device. The nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic compound is represented by the following formula (1). The organic EL device includes an organic layer that contains the nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic compound between an anode and a cathode laminated on a substrate. In the formula (1), a ring A represents an aromatic ring represented by the formula (1a) and fused with two adjacent rings, a ring B represents a heterocycle represented by the formula (1b) and fused with two adjacent rings, Y's each represent C—R or N, X's each represent N—Z, O, S, or Se, R represents hydrogen, an alkyl group, an aromatic group, or the like, and Z represents an alkyl group, an aromatic group, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Takaya Ishiyama, Hiroyuki Hayashida, Mitsuru Sakai, Masashi Niina, Kazuto Shiraishi, Kazuaki Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 8476740
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor wafer surface protection sheet having good adhesion to irregularities on a patterned surface of a semiconductor wafer and having good peelability after wafer grinding. Specifically, a semiconductor wafer surface protection sheet is provided that includes a base layer having a tensile elasticity at 25° C., E(25), of 1 GPa or more; a resin layer A that satisfies the condition EA(60)/EA(25)<0.1, where EA(25) is a tensile elasticity at 25° C. and EA(60) is a tensile elasticity at 60° C., the EA(60) ranging from 0.005 MPa to 1 MPa; and a resin layer B having a tensile elasticity at 60° C., EB(60), of 1 MPa or more and having a thickness of 0.1 ?m to less than 100 ?m, the EB(60) being larger than the EA(60) of the resin layer A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals Tohcello, Inc.
    Inventors: Eiji Hayashishita, Yoshihisa Saimoto, Makoto Kataoka, Katsutoshi Ozaki, Mitsuru Sakai
  • Publication number: 20130155507
    Abstract: The plastic polarized lens (10) of the present invention contains a polarized film (12) and layers (resin layers) (14a and 14b) comprising a thiourethane-based resin stacked over both surfaces of the polarized film (12), and the polarized film contains an organic coloring compound represented by the following general formula (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Akinori Ryu, Seiichi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Kamio, Yoshiharu Kobayashi, Mitsuru Sakai, Yoshimitsu Aiiso
  • Publication number: 20130122103
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electrostatically bonded vesicle which bears disulfide bonds or thiol groups. The present invention relates to a vesicle having a membrane which is formed from both a first polymer of (a) or (b) and a second polymer of (c) or (d) (with the proviso that a combination of (b) and (d) is excepted) and in which the cationic segment and anionic segment of the polymers are partially crosslinked. First polymer: (a) a block copolymer (I) having both an electrically non-charged hydrophilic segment and a cationic segment, (b) an amino acid polymer (I) having a cationic segment. Second polymer: (c) a block copolymer (II) having both an electrically non-charged hydrophilic segment and an anionic segment, (d) an amino acid polymer (II) having an anionic segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicants: TEIJIN LIMITED, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Akihiro Kishimura, Kazunori Kataoka, Stephanie Lee, Yasutaka Anraku, Aya Koide, Mitsuru Sakai, QiuMing Yu
  • Publication number: 20120309170
    Abstract: To provide an olefinic expandable substrate and a dicing film that exhibits less contamination characteristics, high expandability without necking, which cannot be achieved by conventional olefinic expandable substrates. In order to achieve the object, an expandable film comprises a 1-butene-?-olefin copolymer (A) having a tensile modulus at 23° C. of 100 to 500 MPa and a propylenic elastomer composition (B) comprising a propylene-?-olefin copolymer (b1) and having a tensile modulus at 23° C. of 10 to 50 MPa, wherein the amount of the component (B) is 30 to 70 weight parts relative to 100 weight parts in total of components (A) and (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Eiji Hayashishita, Katsutoshi Ozaki, Mitsuru Sakai, Setsuko Oike
  • Publication number: 20120273975
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor wafer surface protection sheet having good adhesion to irregularities on a patterned surface of a semiconductor wafer and having good peelability after wafer grinding. Specifically, a semiconductor wafer surface protection sheet is provided that includes a base layer having a tensile elasticity at 25 C°, E(25), of 1 GPa or more; a resin layer A that satisfies the condition EA(60)/EA(25) <0.1, where EA(25) is a tensile elasticity at 2 C° and EA(60) is a tensile elasticity at 60° C., the EA(60) ranging from 0.005 MPa to 1 MPa; and a resin layer B having a tensile elasticity at 60° C., EB(60), of 1 MPa or more and having a thickness of 0.1 ?m to less than 100 ?m, the EB(60) being larger than the EA(60) of the resin layer A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsui Chemcials Tohcello Inc.
    Inventors: Eiji Hayashishita, Yoshihisa Saimoto, Makoto Kataoka, Katsutoshi Ozaki, Mitsuru Sakai
  • Publication number: 20120123726
    Abstract: The time required for timing training is reduced by a test apparatus having an expected value comparing section judging whether a value resulting from sampling input/output data using a strobe signal matches a pre-set expected value a pre-set number of times, and a test section adjusting a phase of a test signal to be supplied to the device under test based on the first relative phase changing from a fail state to a pass state and the second relative phase changing from the pass state to the fail state, and testing the device under test using the test signal whose phase has been adjusted, where the fail state being in which at least one of the pre-set number of judgment results indicates mismatch, and the pass state being in which all the pre-set number of judgment results indicate match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuru SAKAI