Patents by Inventor Nao Inoue

Nao Inoue 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: 11960079
    Abstract: To provide an image display device for enabling a polarization axis direction of a reflection type polarizing plate to be identified with simplicity and accuracy, and enabling an adjustment in the polarization reflection axis direction to be made with high accuracy, a wire grid polarizing plate for enabling the polarization axis direction to be examined simply, and the like, a head-up display device (1) in the present invention is an image display device provided with an image display (14) that outputs image light which is polarized light, a reflection type polarizing plate (15) having an reflecting surface (28) that reflects the image light, and a projection plate (11) onto which the image light reflected by the reflection type polarizing plate is projected, and is characterized in that the reflection type polarizing plate allows a bright line (B) as an indicator indicative of the polarization axis direction of the reflecting surface to be observed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaru Sugiyama, Naoki Inoue, Nao Kitamichi
  • Publication number: 20240091597
    Abstract: To improve repulsion performance when a ball is hit by a racket. Grommets each include a strip-shaped portion and a cylinder portion protruding from one surface of the strip-shaped portion. The cylinder portion includes a plurality of ribs extending along an extending direction of a central axis of a cylinder main body. The plurality of ribs is constituted of first ribs protruding from an outer peripheral surface of the cylinder main body toward both sides in the extending direction of the strip-shaped portion, and second ribs protruding from the outer peripheral surface of the cylinder main body toward both sides in a direction orthogonal to the extending direction of the strip-shaped portion. Two or more of the first ribs are formed on each of the both sides in the extending direction of the strip-shaped portion, and one or more of the second ribs are formed on each of the both sides in the direction orthogonal to the extending direction of the strip-shaped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: YONEX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi KATO, Hiroki NISHIYAMA, Koji NAGASAWA, Nao INOUE
  • Patent number: 11929378
    Abstract: A light detection device includes: a back-illuminated light receiving element; a circuit element; a connection member; an underfill; and a light shielding mask. The light shielding mask includes a frame having an opening and a light shielding layer formed on an inner surface of the opening. A first opening edge on the side of the circuit element in the opening is located at the outside of an outer edge of the light receiving element. A second opening edge opposite to the circuit element in the opening is located at the inside of the outer edge of the light receiving element. The opening is narrowed from the first opening edge toward the second opening edge. A width of the frame increases from the first opening edge toward the second opening edge. The underfill reaches a gap between the light receiving element and the light shielding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Nao Inoue, Ryosuke Koike, Haruyuki Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20230404784
    Abstract: A stent delivery system includes: a stent delivery device configured to carry a stent to a stenosis and indwell the stent, an observation device configured to observe the stenosis, and one or more processors comprising hardware, the one or more processors being configured to: acquire an observation image from the observation device, and determine at least one stent candidate to be placed in the stenosis based on the observation image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji SAKAMOTO, Genri INAGAKI, Nao INOUE, Shohei HEMMI, Kenji MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20230363729
    Abstract: A stent delivery system includes: a stent delivery device configured to carry a stent to a stenosis and indwell the stent; an observation device configured to observe the stenosis; and one or more processors, each comprising hardware, the one or more processors being configured to: acquire an observation image from the observation device; and determine a target placement position for placing the stent in the stenosis based on the observation image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji MURAKAMI, Kazuhiro GONO, Genri INAGAKI, Yuji SAKAMOTO, Nao INOUE, Shohei HEMMI, Hiroyuki MINO, Hirokazu HORIO, Atanaska GOSPODINOVA, Shintaro INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230230988
    Abstract: A light detection device includes: a back-illuminated light receiving element; a circuit element; a connection member; an underfill; and a light shielding mask. The light shielding mask includes a frame having an opening and a light shielding layer formed on an inner surface of the opening. A first opening edge on the side of the circuit element in the opening is located at the outside of an outer edge of the light receiving element. A second opening edge opposite to the circuit element in the opening is located at the inside of the outer edge of the light receiving element. The opening is narrowed from the first opening edge toward the second opening edge. A width of the frame increases from the first opening edge toward the second opening edge. The underfill reaches a gap between the light receiving element and the light shielding layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Nao INOUE, Ryosuke KOIKE, Haruyuki NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230148848
    Abstract: A medical system including: an instrument having a motion that is electrically driven, the motion being forward and backward movement of an insertion section, a bending angle of a bending section of the insertion section, and/or rolling rotation of the insertion section; an operation device performing an operation input of the motion; and a processor. The processor controlling the motion based on the operation input in a motion mode, the motion mode being one of a full auto mode to perform automatic control of the motion and a semi auto mode in which an operator manually controls the motion. When controlling the motion in the semi auto mode, the processor interrupting the semi auto mode by automatic control of the motion to perform intervention, Subsequent to the intervention, the processor switching to one of the full auto mode and the semi auto mode based on a use of the instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro GONO, Atsushi CHIBA, Nao INOUE
  • Patent number: 11652120
    Abstract: A light detection device includes: a back-illuminated light receiving element; a circuit element; a connection member; an underfill; and a light shielding mask. The light shielding mask includes a frame having an opening and a light shielding layer formed on an inner surface of the opening. A first opening edge on the side of the circuit element in the opening is located at the outside of an outer edge of the light receiving element. A second opening edge opposite to the circuit element in the opening is located at the inside of the outer edge of the light receiving element. The opening is narrowed from the first opening edge toward the second opening edge. A width of the frame increases from the first opening edge toward the second opening edge. The underfill reaches a gap between the light receiving element and the light shielding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Nao Inoue, Ryosuke Koike, Haruyuki Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11561388
    Abstract: A light module includes an optical element and a base on which the optical element is mounted. The optical element has an optical portion which has an optical surface; an elastic portion which is provided around the optical portion such that an annular region is formed; and a pair of support portions which is provided such that the optical portion is sandwiched in a first direction along the optical surface and in which an elastic force is applied and a distance therebetween is able to be changed in accordance with elastic deformation of the elastic portion. The base has a main surface, and a mounting region in which an opening communicating with the main surface is provided. The support portions are inserted into the opening in a state where an elastic force of the elastic portion is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sugimoto, Kyosuke Kotani, Tomofumi Suzuki, Katsumi Shibayama, Noburo Hosokawa, Nao Inoue, Masashi Ito, Yutaka Kuramoto
  • Publication number: 20220414880
    Abstract: A medical system includes a processor. The processor is configured to calculate a presence probability of a lesion in a not-yet-observed region inside a hollow organ of a patient, the not-yet-observed region being specified on the basis of an image that has been captured by an imaging sensor of an endoscope inside the hollow organ, and spatial disposition information of a distal end of an insertion part of the endoscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nao INOUE, Shuma SASAKI, Mitsunori KUBO
  • Patent number: 11482555
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a support body including a mount region, a semiconductor chip disposed on the mount region with a predetermined distance therebetween, a bump disposed between the support body and the semiconductor chip, a wall portion disposed between the support body and the semiconductor chip along a part of an outer edge of the semiconductor chip, and an underfill resin layer disposed between the support body and the semiconductor chip. The underfill resin layer covers an outer side surface of the wall portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Shin-ichiro Takagi, Yasuhito Yoneta, Masaharu Muramatsu, Nao Inoue, Hirokazu Yamamoto, Shinichi Nakata, Takuo Koyama
  • Publication number: 20220134190
    Abstract: Structures with racket performance varied according to the configurations of cylindrical parts can be easily used. A grommet (25-28) includes a cylindrical part (32) which is mounted pierced through a through hole (23) formed in a frame (20) of a racket (10) and through which a string (21) passes. The string is extended in a tensioned state on the frame so as to form front and back faces as hitting faces (22). The cylindrical part includes a first formation section (35) forming both sides of a central axis position (C) of the cylindrical part and a second formation section (36) rotationally shifted with reference to the central axis position by 90 degrees relative to the first formation section and forming both sides of the central axis position. One of the first and second formation sections is disposed on both sides in a front/back direction. The first and second formation sections each have a different rigidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: YONEX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato KAWABATA, Hitoshi KATO, Koji NAGASAWA, Nao INOUE
  • Patent number: 11254813
    Abstract: Provided is a molded article comprising a resin, wherein the resin comprises a methacrylic resin comprising a structural unit derived from a methacrylic acid ester and a structural unit derived from a silica particle having an average primary particle diameter of 1 nm or more and 50 nm or less and comprising at least one polymerizable functional group, and the molded article has an absolute value of degree of orientation in the thickness direction of 0.02 or more and satisfies the requirement (I): (I) When the free induction decay curve (X) obtained by measuring the molded article by a solid echo method at 150° C. using a pulse nuclear magnetic resonance measurement apparatus is approximated by the least square method using the formula (F1), the sum (B+C) of the component fractions of two components having different spin-spin relaxation times in the free induction decay curve (X) is 4% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenta Ishizuka, Nao Inoue, Akinori Bando, Yoshinori Sato
  • Publication number: 20210403320
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor substrate according to an embodiment includes a first step of forming a groove having a bottom surface and a side surface on which scallops are formed by performing a process including isotropic etching on a main surface of a substrate, a second step of performing at least one of a hydrophilic treatment on the side surface of the groove and a degassing treatment on the groove, and a third step of removing the scallops formed on the side surface of the groove and planarizing the side surface by performing anisotropic wet etching in a state where the bottom surface of the recess is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Nao INOUE, Jo ITO, Go TANAKA, Atsuya IIMA, Daiki SUZUKI, Katsumi SHIBAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210387852
    Abstract: The damascene wiring structure includes a base including a main surface provided with a groove, an insulating layer including a first portion provided on an inner surface of the groove and a second portion provided on the main surface, a metal layer provided on the first portion, a wiring portion embedded in the groove, and a cap layer provided to cover the second portion, an end portion of the metal layer, and the wiring portion. A surface of a boundary part between the first portion and the second portion includes an inclined surface inclined with respect to a direction perpendicular to the main surface. The end portion of the metal layer enters between the cap layer and the inclined surface, and in the end portion, a first surface along the cap layer and a second surface along the inclined surface form an acute angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Daiki SUZUKI, Nao INOUE, Katsumi SHIBAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210343773
    Abstract: A light detection device includes: a back-illuminated light receiving element; a circuit element; a connection member; an underfill; and a light shielding mask. The light shielding mask includes a frame having an opening and a light shielding layer formed on an inner surface of the opening. A first opening edge on the side of the circuit element in the opening is located at the outside of an outer edge of the light receiving element. A second opening edge opposite to the circuit element in the opening is located at the inside of the outer edge of the light receiving element. The opening is narrowed from the first opening edge toward the second opening edge. A width of the frame increases from the first opening edge toward the second opening edge. The underfill reaches a gap between the light receiving element and the light shielding layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Nao INOUE, Ryosuke KOIKE, Haruyuki NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: D929590
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi Sato, Takayuki Hatanaka, Keisei Shimoda, Nao Inoue, Yoko Kamato, Shuma Sasaki, Elena Shimoji, Shohei Hemmi
  • Patent number: D935019
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi Sato, Takayuki Hatanaka, Keisei Shimoda, Nao Inoue, Yoko Kamato, Shuma Sasaki, Elena Shimoji, Shohei Hemmi
  • Patent number: D935020
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi Sato, Takayuki Hatanaka, Keisei Shimoda, Nao Inoue, Yoko Kamato, Shuma Sasaki, Elena Shimoji, Shohei Hemmi
  • Patent number: D935021
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi Sato, Takayuki Hatanaka, Keisei Shimoda, Nao Inoue, Yoko Kamato, Shuma Sasaki, Elena Shimoji, Shohei Hemmi