Patents by Inventor Nobuhiro Nakamura

Nobuhiro Nakamura 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).

  • Publication number: 20140004453
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member has a laminated body, and a hole transporting layer formed on the laminated body, wherein the laminated body is a laminated body having a conductive support, an electron transporting layer and a charge generating layer. When an impedance is measured by forming a circular-shaped gold electrode having a thickness of 300 nm and a diameter of 10 mm on a surface of the charge generating layer of the laminated body by sputtering, and applying an alternating electric field of 100 mV and 0.1 Hz between the conductive support and the gold electrode, the laminated body of the electrophotographic photosensitive member satisfies the following expression (1): R_opt/R_dark?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Kenichi Kaku, Michiyo Sekiya, Kunihiko Sekido, Atsushi Okuda, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Yota Ito, Hiroyuki Tomono, Yuka Ishiduka
  • Publication number: 20140004452
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member has a laminated body and a hole transporting layer formed on the laminated body, wherein the laminated body has a support, an electron transporting layer and a charge generating layer in this order, and satisfies the following expressions (2) and (4): |Vl2?Vl1|?0.35??(2) 0.10?|(Vd2?Vl3)/Vd2|?0.20??(4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Michiyo Sekiya, Kunihiko Sekido, Atsushi Okuda, Hiroyuki Tomono, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Yota Ito, Kenichi Kaku, Yuka Ishiduka
  • Publication number: 20140004456
    Abstract: An undercoat layer of an electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a polymerized product of (cured material) a composition that contains a particular crosslinking agent, a particular resin, and a particular charge transporting substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Atsushi Okuda, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Kunihiko Sekido, Michiyo Sekiya, Yota Ito, Kenichi Kaku, Hiroyuki Tomono, Yuka Ishiduka
  • Publication number: 20140004455
    Abstract: An undercoat layer of an electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a polymerized product of a composition that contains an isocyanate compound having a specific structure, a resin having a specific structure, and an electron transporting substance having a specific structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Kunihiko Sekido, Hiroyuki Tomono, Michiyo Sekiya, Atsushi Okuda, Yuka Ishiduka, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Yota Ito
  • Publication number: 20140004454
    Abstract: An electron transporting layer is a cured layer including carbon atoms, nitrogen atoms and oxygen atoms. When ratios of the number of carbon atoms, ratios of the number of nitrogen atoms, and ratios of the number of oxygen atoms are analyzed at 10 points by an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (ESCA), the respective standard deviations, ?(C), ?(N) and ?(O), of the ratios of the number of carbon atoms, the ratios of the number of nitrogen atoms and the ratios of the number of oxygen atoms satisfy the following expressions (1) to (3): ?(C)?1.5??(1), ?(N)?1.5??(2), and ?(O)?1.5??(3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Atsushi Okuda, Michiyo Sekiya, Kunihiko Sekido, Kenichi Kaku, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Yota Ito, Yuka Ishiduka, Hiroyuki Tomono
  • Publication number: 20140004451
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes an undercoat layer having a structure represented by formula (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tomono, Kunihiko Sekido, Michiyo Sekiya, Atsushi Okuda, Yuka Ishiduka, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Yota Ito
  • Publication number: 20130323632
    Abstract: Provided are an electrophotographic photosensitive member in which leakage doesn't easily occur, a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each including the electrophotographic photosensitive member, and a method of manufacturing the electrophotographic photosensitive member. The electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive layer including titanium oxide particle coated with tin oxide doped with a hetero element. When an absolute value of a maximum current amount flowing through the conductive layer in a case of performing a test of applying ?1.0 kV including DC voltage to the conductive layer is defined as Ia, and an absolute value of a current amount flowing through the conductive layer in a case where a decrease ratio of a current amount per minute reaches 1% or less for the first time is defined as Ib, the relations of Ia?6000 and 10?Ib are satisfied. A volume resistivity of the conductive layer before the test is 1.0×108 ?·cm to 5.0×1012 ?·cm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventors: Atsushi Fujii, Hideaki Matsuoka, Haruyuki Tsuji, Kazuhisa Shida, Nobuhiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20130316283
    Abstract: To provide a process for producing an electrophotographic photosensitive member that can not easily cause any fog due to an increase in dark attenuation, a conductive layer is formed with use of a coating liquid for conductive layer prepared with use of a solvent, a binder material and metal oxide particles. The metal oxide particles (P) and binder material (B) in the coating liquid for conductive layer are in a mass ratio (P/B) of from 1.5/1.0 to 3.5/1.0. The metal oxide particle is a titanium oxide particle coated with tin oxide doped with phosphorus or tungsten. Where powder resistivity of the metal oxide particle is represented by x (?·cm) and powder resistivity of the titanium oxide particle as a core particle constituting the metal oxide particle is represented by y (?·cm), the y and the x satisfy the following relations (i) and (ii): 5.0×107?y?5.0×109??(i) 1.0×102?y/x?1.0×106??(ii).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Fujii, Hideaki Matsuoka, Haruyuki Tsuji, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Kazuhisa Shida
  • Patent number: 8575834
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass for a scattering layer of an organic LED element, which contains, in terms of mol % on the basis of oxides, 0˜20% of P2O5, 15˜60% of B2O3, 15˜28% of Bi2O3 and 20˜50% of ZnO, in which a value obtained by dividing the content of P2O5 by the content of ZnO is less than 0.48, the sum of the contents of P2O5 and B2O3 is 30˜60%, the content of P2O5 is 10% or less when the sum of the contents of P2O5 and B2O3 exceeds 50%, and the glass does not substantially contain lead (PbO or Pb3O4), Li2O, Na2O and K2O, except for those contained as impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Naoya Wada, Nobuhiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20130264555
    Abstract: A translucent substrate may include a transparent support substrate, and a light extracting layer formed on the transparent support substrate, including a glass material having a first refractive index in a range of 1.6 to 2.2 for D line, and a scattering material having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index for the D line. The light extracting layer may have a surface formed with a plurality of projections including at least one of an approximately pyramid-shaped projection having one peak point and an approximately triangular prism-shaped projection having one peak edge. An inclination angle formed by an edge and a base edge of an approximate triangle, obtained in a vertical cross section passing through the peak point or the peak edge of the projection, may be in a range of 10° to 60°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Nao Ishibashi, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Minoru Sekine, Hisao Inokuma, Yumiko Aoki
  • Patent number: 8530748
    Abstract: A substrate includes an auxiliary wiring pattern formed on a first main surface of a glass substrate in a grid-like pattern arranged horizontally and vertically, and a translucent glass layer formed on a surface of the glass substrate to cover the first main surface and the auxiliary wiring pattern. Through-holes exposing the auxiliary wiring pattern are formed in a portion of the translucent glass layer formed on the auxiliary wiring pattern, in each side of each grid of the grid-like pattern at uniform intervals. The substrate may be used in an electronic device having a long-life and a high reliability in which exfoliation or deterioration of a wiring is inhibited by embedding the wiring therein while maintaining smoothness of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Nakamura, Yumiko Aoki, Naoya Wada
  • Patent number: 8525403
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic LED element sequentially including: a transparent substrate; a scattering layer; a first electrode; an organic layer; and a second electrode, in which the scattering layer includes a first glass material and a second glass material dispersed in the first glass material and having a different refractive index from the first glass material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yumiko Aoki, Naoya Wada, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Yasuko Osaki
  • Patent number: 8461069
    Abstract: A light emitting diode element having a light emitting diode; and a glass covering sealing the light emitting diode is provided. The glass of the covering consists essentially of from 30 to 70 mol% of SnO, from 15 to 50 mol% of P2O5, from 0.1 to 20 mol% of ZnO, from 0 to 10 mol% of SiO2+GeO2, from 0 to 30% of Li2O+Na2O+K2O, and from 0 to 20% of MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO. In an embodiment, a refractive index of the glass of the covering is at least 1.6 at a wavelength of 400nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Syuji Matsumoto, Tomoyuki Kobayashi, Naoki Sugimoto, Satoshi Fujimine, Nobuhiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8455170
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member is provided in which black spots on an output image are hardly caused by local charge injection from a support to a photosensitive layer. For this purpose, a conductive layer is formed using a coating liquid for a conductive layer prepared using a solvent, a binder material and a metal oxide particle that satisfies the following relation (i): 45?A×?×D?65 (i) wherein A denotes the surface area of the metal oxide particle per unit mass [m2/g], D denotes the number average particle diameter of the metal oxide particle [?m], and ? denotes the density of the metal oxide particle [g/cm3]. The metal oxide particle is a titanium oxide particle coated with tin oxide doped with phosphorus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Nakamura, Hideaki Matsuoka, Atsushi Fujii, Haruyuki Tsuji, Kazuhisa Shida
  • Publication number: 20130114269
    Abstract: A translucent conductive substrate (1) for Organic Light Emitting Device comprising, a transparent support (10), a scattering layer (11) formed over the transparent support (10) and comprising a glass which contains a base material (110) having a first refractive index for at least one wavelength of light to be transmitted and a plurality of scattering materials (111) dispersed in the base material (110) and having a second refractive index different from that of the base material and a transparent electrode (12) formed over the scattering layer (11), said electrode (12) comprising at least one metal conduction layer (122) and at least one coating (120) having properties for improving the light transmission through said electrode, said coating (120) comprises at least one layer for improving light transmission (1201) and is located between the metal conduction layer (122) and the scattering layer (11), on which said electrode (12) is deposited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicants: Asahi Glass Company, Limited, AGC Glass Europe
    Inventors: Benoit Domercq, Philippe Roquiny, Daniel Decroupet, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Naoya Wada, Nao Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 8431943
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide an organic LED element in which the extraction efficiency is improved up to 80% of emitted light, and provides a translucent substrate comprising a translucent glass substrate; a scattering layer formed on the glass substrate and comprising a glass which contains a base material having a first refractive index for at least one wavelength of light to be transmitted and a plurality of scattering materials dispersed in the base material and having a second refractive index different from that of the base material; and a translucent electrode formed on the scattering layer and having a third refractive index higher than the first refractive index, wherein distribution of the scattering materials in the scattering layer decreases toward the translucent electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Nakamura, Motoshi Ono, Kenji Imakita, Hidefumi Odaka, Nao Ishibashi, Kazutaka Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8427045
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic LED element in which the extraction efficiency is improved up to 80% of emitted light. Further, the invention relates to an electrode-attached translucent substrate having a translucent substrate, a scattering layer formed over the glass substrate and containing a base material having a first refractive index for at least one wavelength of wavelengths of emitted light of an organic LED element and a plurality of scattering materials positioned in the base material and having a second refractive index different from that of the base material, and a translucent electrode formed over the scattering layer and having a third refractive index equal to or lower than the first refractive index, in which distribution of the scattering materials in the scattering layer decreases from the inside of the scattering layer toward the translucent electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Nakamura, Kazutaka Hayashi, Kenji Imakita, Hiroyuki Ohkawa, Hidefumi Odaka, Nao Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 8389428
    Abstract: A glass composition having high refractive index, softening property at low temperature and small average thermal expansion coefficient, and a member provided with the composition on a substrate, are provided. The glass composition of the present invention has a refractive index (nd) of from 1.88 to 2.20, a glass transition temperature (Tg) of from 450 to 490° C., and an average thermal expansion coefficient at temperatures from 50° C. to 300° C. (?50-300) of from 60×10?7/K to 90×10?7/K, and includes Bi2O3 in an amount of from 5 to 25% in terms of mol % on the basis of oxides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Naoya Wada, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Nao Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 8368064
    Abstract: A glass to be used in a scattering layer of an organic LED element, and an organic LED element using the scattering layer are provided. The organic LED element of the present invention includes, a transparent substrate, a first electrode provided on the transparent electrode, an organic layer provided on the first electrode, and a second electrode provided on the organic layer, and further includes a scattering layer including, in terms of mol % on the basis of oxides, 15 to 30% of P2O5, 5 to 25% of Bi2O3, 5 to 27% of Nb2O5, and 10 to 35% of ZnO and having a total content of alkali metal oxides including Li2O, Na2O and K2O of 5% by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Naoya Wada, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Nao Ishibashi
  • Publication number: 20120225381
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member is provided in which black spots on an output image are hardly caused by local charge injection from a support to a photosensitive layer. For this purpose, a conductive layer is formed using a coating liquid for a conductive layer prepared using a solvent, a binder material and a metal oxide particle that satisfies the following relation (i): 45?A×?×D?65 (i) wherein A denotes the surface area of the metal oxide particle per unit mass [m2/g], D denotes the number average particle diameter of the metal oxide particle [?m], and ? denotes the density of the metal oxide particle [g/cm3]. The metal oxide particle is a titanium oxide particle coated with tin oxide doped with phosphorus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Nakamura, Hideaki Matsuoka, Atsushi Fujii, Haruyuki Tsuji, Kazuhisa Shida