Patents by Inventor Nozomi Kimura

Nozomi Kimura 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: 10717260
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method of a laminated structure including a step of bonding a single layer or multiple layers of graphene formed on a first substrate to a second substrate through an adhesive layer including a delayed-curing UV curable resin by a roll-to-roll process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Shimizu, Nozomi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10491841
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20190191114
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10264198
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10022947
    Abstract: There is provided a laminated structure manufacturing method including bonding a graphene film of one layer or a plurality of layers formed on a first substrate to a second substrate with an adhesive resin layer, removing the first substrate, and forming a transparent layer on the graphene film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nozomi Kimura, Keisuke Shimizu, Toshio Fukuda
  • Patent number: 9991304
    Abstract: An image pickup device according to the present technique includes an on-chip lens, a low-refractive-index layer, and an infrared absorption layer. The on-chip lens is formed of a high-refractive-index material. The low-refractive-index layer is formed flat on the on-chip lens and formed of a low-refractive-index material. The infrared absorption layer is formed of an infrared absorption material and laminated as a higher layer than the low-refractive-index layer. The infrared absorption material includes an infrared absorption pigment and a binder resin, the binder resin, being a synthetic resin constituted of a siloxane skeleton alone or a synthetic resin constituted of a siloxane skeleton part and a partial skeleton having a low reaction activity in an oxygen part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nozomi Kimura, Shinji Imaizumi
  • Publication number: 20180103220
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Patent number: 9888193
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Patent number: 9846317
    Abstract: There is provided an optical modulator capable of electrically controlling intensity of transmitted light in a desired wavelength range at a high speed and reducing the size of a device containing the optical modulator. The optical modulator includes a first electrode; a second electrode; and a dielectric layer provided between the first and second electrodes. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode comprises at least one layer of graphene. There are also provided an imaging device and a display apparatus each containing the optical modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Kadono, Keisuke Shimizu, Nozomi Kimura, Masashi Bando, Kyoko Izuha
  • Publication number: 20170310911
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Patent number: 9786410
    Abstract: There are provided a transparent conductive film, as well as a heater, a touch panel, a solar battery, an organic EL device, a liquid crystal device, and an electronic paper that are provided with the transparent conductive film, the transparent conductive film being capable of easing a decline in optical transmittance when graphene is laminated, and of achieving optical transmittance higher than an upper limit of optical transmittance of a single layer of graphene. The transparent conductive film includes a single-layered conductive graphene sheet. The single-layered conductive graphene sheet includes a first region and a second region, the first region being configured of graphene, and the second region being surrounded by the first region and having optical transmittance that is higher than optical transmittance of the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Shimizu, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Nozomi Kimura, Kyoko Izuha
  • Patent number: 9736407
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Patent number: 9648259
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20170104941
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Patent number: 9523803
    Abstract: To provide an image capturing element and an image capturing apparatus in which an image capturing optical system can be thinned without degrading image capturing properties. An image capturing element according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an on-chip lens, a low refractive index layer and an infrared absorption layer. The on-chip lens is composed of a high refractive index material. The low refractive index layer is formed flatly on the on-chip lens and is composed of a low refractive index material. The infrared absorption layer is laminated above the low refractive index layer and is composed of an infrared absorption material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Nozomi Kimura, Taichi Natori, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara
  • Publication number: 20160353037
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20160293650
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an image pickup device that has excellent durability and is capable of thinning an image pickup optical system without lowering image pickup performance. [Solving Means] An image pickup device according to the present technique includes an on-chip lens, a low-refractive-index layer, and an infrared absorption layer. The on-chip km is formed of a high-refractive-index material. The low-refractive-index layer is formed flat on the on-chip lens and formed of a low-refractive-index material. The infrared absorption layer is formed of an infrared absorption material and laminated as a higher layer than the low-refractive-index layer, the infrared absorption, material including are infrared absorption, pigment and a binder resin, the binder resin, being a synthetic resin constituted of a siloxane skeleton alone or a synthetic resin constituted of a siloxane skeleton part and a partial skeleton having a low reaction activity in an oxygen part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Nozomi Kimura, Shinji Imaizumi
  • Patent number: 9432598
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Patent number: 9384875
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a method for transferring a graphene film, which can transfer a graphene film on a desired substrate with excellent adhesiveness, can effectively prevent defects from being generated in a graphene film and is excellent also in mass productivity, and a method for manufacturing a transparent conductive film. [Solving Means] One layer or a plurality of layers of graphene films 12 formed on a first substrate 11 and a second substrate 14 are stuck with a resin layer 13 that contains less than 1% by weight of a volatile component and has adhesiveness, the first substrate 11 and the second substrate 14 are pressurized to reduce a thickness of the resin layer 13, the resin layer 13 is cured, after that the first substrate 11 is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomi Kimura, Keisuke Shimizu, Toshio Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20160165158
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura