Patents by Inventor Naoya Okada

Naoya Okada 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: 8963171
    Abstract: An image display device includes a resin film, an organic film which is formed above the resin film, a circuit layer which is formed above the organic film and includes at least a thin film transistor, and a barrier layer which is formed between the organic film and the circuit layer. The organic film has a first surface which faces the circuit layer and a side surface which crosses the first surface. The barrier layer covers the first surface and the side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Takahide Kuranaga, Takashi Hattori, Naoya Okada, Mutsuko Hatano
  • Patent number: 8912371
    Abstract: A method of producing a chlorinated hydrocarbon having 3 carbon atoms, comprising a conversion step for converting a chloropropane represented by the following formula (1) into a chloropropane represented by the following formula (2) by reacting it with chlorine in the presence of anhydrous aluminum chloride. CCl3—CCl(2-m)Hm—CCl(3-n)Hn??(1) (In the above formula (1), m is 1 or 2, and n is an integer of 0 to 3.) CCl3—CCl(3-m)H(m-1)—CCl(3-n)Hn??(2) (In the above formula (2), m and n are the same integers as in the formula (1), respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Tokuyama Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Hosaka, Yasutaka Komatsu, Masayuki Moriwaki, Kikuo Yamamoto, Naoya Okada
  • Patent number: 8887870
    Abstract: A breather device includes a main body that includes a breather chamber with an inner bottom surface; a first communicating portion provided at the main body; a second communicating portion provided at the main body and at a position above the first communicating portion in a vertical direction and away from the first communicating portion in a horizontal direction; and a downward gradient provided at the inner bottom surface of the breather chamber, the downward gradient guides the oil that has entered the breather chamber through the first communicating portion toward the first communicating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignees: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoya Okada, Shyusaku Kitamura, Atsushi Nakamura, Naoki Itazu, Toshihiro Fukumasu, Hiromitu Metugi, Masaharu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8759126
    Abstract: An image display device comprises: a first substrate having flexure property; a first resin layer which is attached to the first substrate and over which thin film transistors are located; a barrier layer which comprises an inorganic film covering a surface of the resin layer; and a first thin film layer and a second thin film layer which are located so as to sandwich the first resin layer with the barrier layer disposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahide Kuranaga, Takashi Hattori, Naoya Okada, Mutsuko Hatano
  • Patent number: 8638317
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a display panel having a display function and a light-receiving/imaging function; a first image processing section configured to generate a detection signal that indicates whether a to-be-detected object has been detected based on a result of first image processing performed on an image taken by the light-receiving/imaging function; a second image processing section configured to perform second image processing on the image processed by the first image processing section, the second image processing having a heavier processing load than the first image processing; and a control section configured to control an operation of the second image processing section in accordance with the detection signal generated by the first image processing section, and, when it is determined that the processing by the second image processing section is not necessary, control the second image processing section to enter a sleep state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Harada, Shinya Hashimoto, Naoya Okada, Tadashi Maekawa, Kazunori Yamguchi, Mitsuru Tateuchi, Ryoichi Tsuzaki, Yoshiharu Nakajima, Chiaki Kon
  • Publication number: 20130335887
    Abstract: A resistor for suppressing magnetizing inrush current includes a container made of an insulating material and at least one resistive element housed in the container, the resistive element being connected to two bushings provided at the container, the outer surface of the container being coated with a conductive paint, and the paint being connected to the ground, thereby being able to be located between a cable and a switch, and being able to fix the outer surface thereof to a ground voltage level so that human contact safety is not impaired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Ayumu MORITA, Naoya OKADA, Akitaka SHIINA, Kenji TSUCHIYA, Mitsuaki YAMAMOTO, Hiroaki MORII, Takao YANAGISAWA
  • Patent number: 8599346
    Abstract: Provided is an image display device including: a resin member; a TFT circuit layer formed above the resin member; and an inorganic film formed on a surface of the resin member to be formed between the resin member and the TFT circuit layer, in which the inorganic film has a stress acting thereon, the stress being, at a glass transition point (Tg) of the resin member, in the range of equal to or higher than ?300 MPa to equal to or lower than 200 MPa, while, at a room temperature, in the range of equal to or higher than ?400 MPa to equal to or lower than 50 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoya Okada, Takashi Hattori, Takahide Kuranaga, Mutsuko Hatano
  • Publication number: 20130311706
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is a storage system including a plurality of non-volatile storage devices for storing user data, and a controller for controlling data transfer between the plurality of non-volatile storage devices and a host. The controller includes a processor core circuit, a processor cache, and a primary storage device including a cache area for temporarily storing user data. The processor core circuit ascertains contents of a command received from the host. The processor core circuit ascertains a retention storage device of data to be transferred in the storage system in operations responsive to the command. The processor core circuit determines whether to transfer the data via the processor cache in the storage system, based on a type of the command and the ascertained retention storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya Okada, Masanori Takada, Hiroshi Hirayama
  • Publication number: 20130181204
    Abstract: An image display device includes a resin film, an organic film which is formed above the resin film, a circuit layer which is formed above the organic film and includes at least a thin film transistor, and a barrier layer which is formed between the organic film and the circuit layer. The organic film has a first surface which faces the circuit layer and a side surface which crosses the first surface. The barrier layer covers the first surface and the side surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Inventors: Takahide Kuranaga, Takashi Hattori, Naoya Okada, Matsuko Hatano
  • Publication number: 20130165705
    Abstract: A method of producing a chlorinated hydrocarbon having 3 carbon atoms, comprising a conversion step for converting a chloropropane represented by the following formula (1) into a chloropropane represented by the following formula (2) by reacting it with chlorine in the presence of anhydrous aluminum chloride. CCl3—CCl(2-m)Hm—CCl(3-n)Hn??(1) (In the above formula (1), m is 1 or 2, and n is an integer of 0 to 3.) CCl3—CCl(3-m)H(m-1)—CCl(3-n)Hn??(2) (In the above formula (2), m and n are the same integers as in the formula (1), respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: TOKUYAMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Hosaka, Yasutaka Komatsu, Masayuki Moriwaki, Kikuo Yamamoto, Naoya Okada
  • Publication number: 20130001558
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film provided so as to cover one surface of the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor provided so as to overlap the gate insulating film, and a source electrode and a drain electrode, which are provided so as to overlap the oxide semiconductor. The semiconductor device also includes an oxygen-atom-containing film provided between the gate insulating film, and, the source electrode and the drain electrode, so as to be held in contact with the oxide semiconductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Naoya Okada, Takeshi Noda
  • Patent number: 8319749
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of easily improving the detection accuracy of a touching or proximity object is provided. An offset noise (a reset image R) is obtained by an image pickup process in a state (a reset state) in which an image pickup device is initialized. Moreover, a fingertip extraction process is performed in consideration of the offset noise on the basis of a picked-up image (a shadow image A or a display light-using image B) which is obtained by picking up an image of a proximity object to obtain object information about the proximity object. While an offset noise in the apparatus is easily reduced, object information about the proximity object can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Harada, Shinya Hashimoto, Tadashi Maekawa, Naoya Okada, Kazunori Yamaguchi, Mitsuru Tateuchi, Ryoichi Tsuzaki, Go Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 8294869
    Abstract: To provide an image display which is capable of preventing fracturing of a substrate which is attributable to a substrate expansion arising from heating or humidification during a manufacture process, impact in use, or distortion when curved display is conducted, a connection failure between a semiconductor chip and a wiring terminal which are mounted on the substrate, and crack occurring in the substrate in the vicinity of an area where the semiconductor chip is mounted, with no need to add members and with no limit of pulling the wiring around. An image display part is formed on one surface of a flexible substrate, and a groove with a depth not reaching a thickness of the substrate is continuously or intermittently defined in another surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Yamaguchi, Mutsuko Hatano, Takashi Hattori, Naoya Okada
  • Patent number: 8256404
    Abstract: To provide an oil separator including multiple cones and having a simple structure and high trapping efficiency for oil mist. An oil separator can include multiple cones arranged in a line and a chamber for blow-by gas, which is formed in adjacent to the line of the cones, and arranged at an upper side surface of the cones, the chamber being provided with a flow-in port at a position in front of the line of the cones, in which upper outer peripheral walls of the cones at portions facing the chamber constitute partition walls provided with slits, which constitute inlets for the blow-by gas to enter the cones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignees: Kojima Press Industry Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Tanaka, Jun Ikeda, Naoya Okada
  • Publication number: 20120061920
    Abstract: An oil ring mechanism of a piston includes a circumferential ring groove formed in an outer peripheral surface of the piston, and a two-piece oil ring having a ring-shaped ring main body that is arranged in the ring groove and urged in the outer peripheral direction inside the ring groove by a coil expander arranged on the inner peripheral side of the oil ring main body. On lower side surface on a crankcase side of a side wall surface of the ring groove that is on the opposite side of the ring groove from an engine combustion chamber, first and second recessed portions that reduce the abutment area where a lower surface of the ring main body abuts against the lower side surface formed in a lower side abutment surface that serves as a surface for abutting against the lower surface of the ring main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicants: NIPPON PISTON RING CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nishiura, Naoya Okada, Kenji Hayama, Youhei Hashimoto, Hideshi Hitosugi, Ryosuke Naka
  • Patent number: 8087403
    Abstract: An electromagnetic PCV valve includes a valve seat, a valve element, a step motor for moving the valve element, and a housing that houses the valve seat, the valve element, and the step motor. When the valve element is moved by the step motor, a size (an opening degree) of a blow-by gas passage defined between the valve seat and the valve element is changed. The step motor is configured to selectively receive energization for moving the valve element and energization for holding the valve element in a fixed position. A heating apparatus of the PCV valve 1 includes a cover member and an output shaft that conducts heat generated in the step motor by energization to the valve element and the valve seat, and an electronic control unit (ECU) for conducting energization of the step motor to hold the valve element in the fixed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignees: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Asanuma, Katsumi Ishida, Koichi Suzuki, Naoya Okada, Shoichiro Morinaka
  • Publication number: 20110294244
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a display device, including: forming a polymer layer which includes an organic material on a principal surface side of a support substrate; forming one of a semiconductor circuit and a display circuit on the polymer layer; irradiating the polymer layer from the support substrate side with light having a wavelength that is absorbed in the polymer layer, to thereby separate the polymer layer from the support substrate; one of thinning and removing the polymer layer; and adhering a first substrate to one of a surface of the polymer layer and a face where the polymer layer has been provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: Takashi HATTORI, Takahide Kuranaga, Naoya Okada, Mutsuko Hatano
  • Publication number: 20110260180
    Abstract: An image display device comprises: a first substrate having flexure property; a first resin layer which is attached to the first substrate and over which thin film transistors are located; a barrier layer which comprises an inorganic film covering a surface of the resin layer; and a first thin film layer and a second thin film layer which are located so as to sandwich the first resin layer with the barrier layer disposed therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventors: Takahide KURANAGA, Takashi HATTORI, Naoya OKADA, Mutsuko HATANO
  • Publication number: 20110102700
    Abstract: Provided is an image display device including: a resin member; a TFT circuit layer formed above the resin member; and an inorganic film formed on a surface of the resin member to be formed between the resin member and the TFT circuit layer, in which the inorganic film has a stress acting thereon, the stress being, at a glass transition point (Tg) of the resin member, in the range of equal to or higher than ?300 MPa to equal to or lower than 200 MPa, while, at a room temperature, in the range of equal to or higher than ?400 MPa to equal to or lower than 50 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Naoya OKADA, Takashi Hattori, Takahide Kuranaga, Mutsuko Hatano
  • Patent number: 7900611
    Abstract: A total amount of engine oil carried from a crankcase into an intake passage by blow-by gas from the start of the use of the internal combustion engine or the engine oil is calculated. It is determined whether the total oil carried amount is greater or less than an optimum value every predetermined operation period of the internal combustion engine. Then, when it is determined that the total oil carried amount is greater than the optimum value, the gas flow rate of the blow-by gas controlled based on the engine operation state is reduced until next determination process is performed. When it is determined that the total oil carried amount is less than the optimum value, the gas flow rate is increased until next determination process is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoya Okada