Patents by Inventor Naoto Kondo
Naoto Kondo 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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Publication number: 20080055171Abstract: A complex antenna device includes: an antenna base having a main surface and first and second ends opposed to each other; a bar antenna including a metal body and disposed upright on a side of the first end of the antenna base; at least one planar antenna mounted on the main surface of the antenna base between the first and second ends of the antenna base; a metallic member provided on a side of the second end of the antenna base so as to substantially remove physical influence of the bar antenna on the planar antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2007Publication date: March 6, 2008Inventors: Junichi NORO, Hisashi Takisawa, Naoto Kondo, Yuichi Saito, Toshiaki Aizawa
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Patent number: 7329475Abstract: Provided that a pair of strip-like regions extend from 2 mm to 10 mm inside each of a pair of opposing sides along an outer periphery of a top surface of a substrate on which a mask pattern is to be formed, with a 2 mm edge portion excluded at each end in a lengthwise direction thereof, the height from a least squares plane for the strip-like regions on the substrate top surface to the strip-like regions is measured at intervals of 0.05-0.35 mm in horizontal and vertical directions, and a substrate in which the difference between the maximum and minimum values for the height among all the measurement points is ?o? ?o?? ???? 0.5 ?m is selected.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2004Date of Patent: February 12, 2008Assignees: Shin-Estu Chemical Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Nikon CorporationInventors: Masayuki Nakatsu, Tsuneo Numanami, Masayuki Mogi, Masamitsu Itoh, Tsuneyuki Hagiwara, Naoto Kondo
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Publication number: 20080030715Abstract: An aerial image of a measurement mark (PM) arranged on a measurement mask (Rm) is conformed to a center in an X-axis direction of a slit (122) arranged on a Z tilt stage (38). While illuminating the measurement mark with an illumination light (IL), a slit plate (190) on which the slit (122) is formed is continuously moved in a Z-axis direction, and based on position information of the slit (122) obtained during the movement and a photoelectric conversion signal outputted from an optical sensor (24) that receives the illumination light (IL) from the measurement mark (PM) via a projection optical system (PL) and the slit (122), a best focus position is detected. Thus, the best focus position of the projection optical system can be measured in a short period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2005Publication date: February 7, 2008Applicant: Nikon CorporationInventors: Naoto Kondo, Tsuneyuki Hagiwara
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Patent number: 7145619Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal display having the same, and a method of manufacturing the same which make it possible to provide a display having high luminance and preferable display characteristics to be used in display sections of information apparatuses and the like. Each pixel is defined by gate bus lines extending in the horizontal direction and drain bus lines extending in the vertical direction. TFTs are formed in the vicinity of intersections between the bus lines, and resin overlap sections for shielding the TFTs from light are formed above the same. No black matrix is formed on a common electrode substrate which is provided in a face-to-face relationship with a TFT substrate, and the bus lines and the resin overlap sections formed on the TFT substrate function as a black matrix.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2002Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Katsunori Misaki, Shiro Hirota
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Publication number: 20060146243Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention is constituted of a TFT substrate and an opposing substrate which are arranged so as to be opposite to each other with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. In addition, in the liquid crystal layer, formed is a polymer into which a polymer component added to liquid crystal is polymerized, and which determines directions in which liquid crystal molecules tilt when voltage is applied. In the TFT substrate, formed are a sub picture element electrode directly connected to a TFT and a sub picture element electrode connected to the TFT through capacitive coupling. In each of these sub picture element electrodes, formed are slits extending in directions respectively at angles of 45 degrees, 135 degrees, 225 degrees and 315 degrees to the X axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2005Publication date: July 6, 2006Inventors: Yohei Nakanishi, Kunihiro Tashiro, Katsufumi Ohmuro, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Jin Hirosawa, Norio Sugiura, Kengo Kanii, Shota Makimoto, Naoto Kondo, Isao Tsushima, Tomonori Tanose, Takashi Takagi, Tetsuya Fujikawa
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Patent number: 7070888Abstract: A photomask blank substrate is selected for use in a process where at least a masking film or a phase shift film is deposited on a top surface of a photomask blank substrate to form a photomask blank, the deposited film is patterned to form a photomask, and the photomask is mounted in an exposure tool. The substrate is selected by simulating a change in shape in the top surface of the substrate, from prior to film deposition thereon to when the photomask is mounted in the exposure tool; determining the shape of the substrate top surface prior to the change that will impart to the top surface a flat shape when the photomask is mounted in the exposure tool; and selecting, as an acceptable substrate, a substrate having this top surface shape. The selected substrate has an optimized top surface shape that improves productivity in photomask fabrication.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2004Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignees: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., Nikon CorporationInventors: Masayuki Nakatsu, Tsuneo Numanami, Masayuki Mogi, Tsuneyuki Hagiwara, Naoto Kondo
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Publication number: 20060125994Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display of a CF-on-TFT structure in which a color filter is formed on the side of an array substrate in which a switching element is formed, and has an object to provide a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display, which enables simplification of a manufacturing process typified by a photolithography process and has high reliability. The substrate for use in the liquid crystal display is constructed to include external connection terminals which include first terminal electrodes electrically connected to gate bus lines led out from a plurality of pixel regions arranged on a glass substrate in a matrix form, second terminal electrodes formed of forming material of a pixel electrode and directly on the glass substrate, and electrode coupling regions for electrically connecting the first and the second terminal electrodes, and which electrically connect an external circuit and the gate bus lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2006Publication date: June 15, 2006Inventors: Atuyuki Hoshino, Shiro Hirota, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Masahiro Kihara, Katsunori Misaki, Seiji Doi, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Akihiro Matsui, Manabu Sawasaki, Masahiro Ikeda, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Takuya Saguchi, Hidetoshi Sukenori, Hiroyasu Inoue
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Publication number: 20060125993Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display of a CF-on-TFT structure in which a color filter is formed on the side of an array substrate in which a switching element is formed, and has an object to provide a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display, which enables simplification of a manufacturing process typified by a photolithography process and has high reliability. The substrate for use in the liquid crystal display is constructed to include external connection terminals which include first terminal electrodes electrically connected to gate bus lines led out from a plurality of pixel regions arranged on a glass substrate in a matrix form, second terminal electrodes formed of forming material of a pixel electrode and directly on the glass substrate, and electrode coupling regions for electrically connecting the first and the second terminal electrodes, and which electrically connect an external circuit and the gate bus lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2006Publication date: June 15, 2006Inventors: Atuyuki Hoshino, Shiro Hirota, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Masahiro Kihara, Katsunori Misaki, Seiji Doi, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Akihiro Matsui, Manabu Sawasaki, Masahiro Ikeda, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Takuya Saguchi, Hidetoshi Sukenori, Hiroyasu Inoue
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Patent number: 7050137Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display of a CF-on-TFT structure in which a color filter is formed on the side of an array substrate in which a switching element is formed, and has an object to provide a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display, which enables simplification of a manufacturing process typified by a photolithography process and has high reliability. The substrate for use in the liquid crystal display is constructed to include external connection terminals which include first terminal electrodes electrically connected to gate bus lines led out from a plurality of pixel regions arranged on a glass substrate in a matrix form, second terminal electrodes formed of forming material of a pixel electrode and directly on the glass substrate, and electrode coupling regions for electrically connecting the first and the second terminal electrodes, and which electrically connect an external circuit and the gate bus lines.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2002Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atuyuki Hoshino, Shiro Hirota, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Masahiro Kihara, Katsunori Misaki, Seiji Doi, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Akihiro Matsui, Manabu Sawasaki, Masahiro Ikeda, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Takuya Saguchi, Hidetoshi Sukenori, Hiroyasu Inoue
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Publication number: 20060097970Abstract: Fine electrode patterns pattern-formed in the shape of fine teeth of a comb bilaterally symmetrical with respect to band-shaped portions are formed at even intervals in a pixel electrode, and band-shaped dielectric layers are pattern-formed at even intervals to cover the fine electrode patterns in a display pixel. By the existence of the dielectric layer and the fine electrode pattern complementing this, a portion formed with these layer and fine electrode pattern is a high threshold voltage region, and relatively, a low threshold voltage region where the dielectric layer does not exist is formed. By the aforementioned construction, it becomes possible to improve a delay in response speed at low gray levels and increase the speed of halftone response, whereby a very reliable image display having moving image performance almost equal to that of a CRT is realized.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2005Publication date: May 11, 2006Applicants: Fujitsu Display Technologies Corporation, SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Arihiro Takeda, Shingo Kataoka, Kimiaki Nakamura, Hideaki Tsuda, Takahiro Sasaki, Kazuya Ueda, Masahiro Ikeda, Katsunori Misaki, Naoto Kondo, Akira Komorita
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Publication number: 20050020083Abstract: A photomask blank substrate is made by polishing a starting substrate to a specific flatness in a principal surface region on a top surface of the substrate so as to form a polished intermediate product, then additionally polishing the intermediate product. Substrates made in this way exhibit a good surface flatness at the time of wafer exposure. When a photomask fabricated from a blank obtained from such a substrate is held on the mask stage of a wafer exposure system with a vacuum chuck, the substrate surface undergoes minimal warping, enabling exposure patterns of small geometry to be written onto wafers to good position and linewidth accuracies.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2004Publication date: January 27, 2005Inventors: Tsuneo Numanami, Masayuki Nakatsu, Masayuki Mogi, Tsuneyuki Hagiwara, Naoto Kondo
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Publication number: 20050019677Abstract: In a quadrangular photomask blank substrate with a length on each side of at least 6 inches, which has a pair of strip-like regions that extend from 2 to 10 mm inside each of a pair of opposing sides along an outer periphery of a substrate top surface, with a 2 mm edge portion excluded at each end, each strip-like region is inclined downward toward the outer periphery of the substrate, and a difference between maximum and minimum values for height from a least squares plane for the strip-like region to the strip-like region is at most 0.5 ?m. The substrate exhibits a good surface flatness at the time of wafer exposure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2004Publication date: January 27, 2005Inventors: Masayuki Nakatsu, Tsuneo Numanami, Masayuki Mogi, Masamitsu Itoh, Tsuneyuki Hagiwara, Naoto Kondo
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Publication number: 20050019678Abstract: A photomask blank substrate is selected for use in a process where at least a masking film or a phase shift film is deposited on a top surface of a photomask blank substrate to form a photomask blank, the deposited film is patterned to form a photomask, and the photomask is mounted in an exposure tool. The substrate is selected by simulating a change in shape in the top surface of the substrate, from prior to film deposition thereon to when the photomask is mounted in the exposure tool; determining the shape of the substrate top surface prior to the change that will impart to the top surface a flat shape when the photomask is mounted in the exposure tool; and selecting, as an acceptable substrate, a substrate having this top surface shape. The selected substrate has an optimized top surface shape that improves productivity in photomask fabrication.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2004Publication date: January 27, 2005Inventors: Masayuki Nakatsu, Tsuneo Numanami, Masayuki Mogi, Tsuneyuki Hagiwara, Naoto Kondo
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Publication number: 20050019676Abstract: Provided that a pair of strip-like regions extend from 2 mm to 10 mm inside each of a pair of opposing sides along an outer periphery of a top surface of a substrate on which a mask pattern is to be formed, with a 2 mm edge portion excluded at each end in a lengthwise direction thereof, the height from a least squares plane for the strip-like regions on the substrate top surface to the strip-like regions is measured at intervals of 0.05-0.35 mm in horizontal and vertical directions, and a substrate in which the difference between the maximum and minimum values for the height among all the measurement points is ?o? ?o?? ???? 0.5 ?m is selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2004Publication date: January 27, 2005Inventors: Masayuki Nakatsu, Tsuneo Numanami, Masayuki Mogi, Masamitsu Itoh, Tsuneyuki Hagiwara, Naoto Kondo
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Publication number: 20030063249Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display of a CF-on-TFT structure in which a color filter is formed on the side of an array substrate in which a switching element is formed, and has an object to provide a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display, which enables simplification of a manufacturing process typified by a photolithography process and has high reliability. The substrate for use in the liquid crystal display is constructed to include external connection terminals which include first terminal electrodes electrically connected to gate bus lines led out from a plurality of pixel regions arranged on a glass substrate in a matrix form, second terminal electrodes formed of forming material of a pixel electrode and directly on the glass substrate, and electrode coupling regions for electrically connecting the first and the second terminal electrodes, and which electrically connect an external circuit and the gate bus lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2002Publication date: April 3, 2003Applicant: FUJITSU DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Atuyuki Hoshino, Shiro Hirota, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Masahiro Kihara, Katsunori Misaki, Seiji Doi, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Akihiro Matsui, Manabu Sawasaki, Masahiro Ikeda, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Takuya Saguchi, Hidetoshi Sukenori, Hiroyasu Inoue
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Publication number: 20030058374Abstract: Fine electrode patterns pattern-formed in the shape of fine teeth of a comb bilaterally symmetrical with respect to band-shaped portions are formed at even intervals in a pixel electrode, and band-shaped dielectric layers are pattern-formed at even intervals to cover the fine electrode patterns in a display pixel. By the existence of the dielectric layer and the fine electrode pattern complementing this, a portion formed with these layer and fine electrode pattern is a high threshold voltage region, and relatively, a low threshold voltage region where the dielectric layer does not exist is formed. By the aforementioned construction, it becomes possible to improve a delay in response speed at low gray levels and increase the speed of halftone response, whereby a very reliable image display having moving image performance almost equal to that of a CRT is realized.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2002Publication date: March 27, 2003Applicant: Fujitsu Display Technologies CorporationInventors: Arihiro Takeda, Shingo Kataoka, Kimiaki Nakamura, Hideaki Tsuda, Takahiro Sasaki, Kazuya Ueda, Masahiro Ikeda, Katsunori Misaki, Naoto Kondo, Akira Komorita
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Publication number: 20030043326Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal display having the same, and a method of manufacturing the same which make it possible to provide a display having high luminance and preferable display characteristics to be used in display sections of information apparatuses and the like. Each pixel is defined by gate bus lines extending in the horizontal direction and drain bus lines extending in the vertical direction. TFTs are formed in the vicinity of intersections between the bus lines, and resin overlap sections for shielding the TFTs from light are formed above the same. No black matrix is formed on a common electrode substrate which is provided in a face-to-face relationship with a TFT substrate, and the bus lines and the resin overlap sections formed on the TFT substrate function as a black matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2002Publication date: March 6, 2003Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Yuichi Inoue, Masakazu Shibasaki, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Katsunori Misaki, Shiro Hirota
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Publication number: 20020041377Abstract: The exposure apparatus comprises a mark plate on which a plurality of types of measurement marks each used for self-measurement are formed, a reticle stage on which the mark plate is mounted, and an aerial image measurement unit. On a slit plate of the aerial image measurement unit, a slit is formed extending in the non-scanning direction which width in the measurement direction is equal to and under (wavelength &lgr;/numerical aperture N.A of the projection optical system). Therefore, in a state where a predetermined pattern is illuminated with the illumination light to form an aerial image of the pattern via the projection optical system, and when the slit plate is scanned in the measurement direction with respect to the aerial image, the light having passed through the slit during the scanning is photo-electrically converted with the photoelectric conversion element.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2001Publication date: April 11, 2002Applicant: Nikon CorporationInventors: Tsuneyuki Hagiwara, Naoto Kondo, Eiji Takane, Hiromi Kuwata, Kousuke Suzuki
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Publication number: 20010023918Abstract: An alignment apparatus, comprising a position detection optical system which detects a position of a mark formed on a street line of a substrate and a focus detection system which detects deviation between an irradiated region and a focused surface of the position detection optical system by irradiating a detection light on a region of said street line and a different region from a region of said mark at a time and detecting a reflected light of the detection light.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2001Publication date: September 27, 2001Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Naoto Kondo
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Patent number: 6132011Abstract: A brake pressure control device is provided in which the external wiring can be eliminated to enable a more compact design, and simultaneously, the power supply to the motor is more reliably waterproof. The wiring for the power supply conductors 51, 60 of the motor is passed internally through the valve block 30 of the brake pressure unit 10, and the electrical terminals of said power supply conductors 51, 60 are connected electrically to the control substrate 23 of the electronic control unit 20.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1997Date of Patent: October 17, 2000Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.Inventors: Moritaka Iwamura, Naoto Kondo