Patents by Inventor Rintaro Takahashi
Rintaro Takahashi 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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Patent number: 8547027Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an LED drive circuit that can suppress the generation of harmonic noise. The LED drive circuit includes a rectifying circuit an LED array, and a current supply circuit which includes a capacitor and a time constant adjusting element, wherein the discharge time constant of the current supply circuit is set longer than the charge time constant of the current supply circuit, and wherein during a period of time when the magnitude of AC commercial power supply voltage is larger than the light emission threshold of the LED array, current to the light-emitting circuit is supplied mostly from the rectifying circuit, and during a period of time when the magnitude of AC commercial power supply voltage is not larger than the light emission threshold of the LED array, current to the light-emitting circuit is supplied from the current supply circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2011Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignees: Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd., Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Akiyama, Rintaro Takahashi, Hisashi Fukasawa, Ryoichi Watanabe
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Publication number: 20130196263Abstract: An electrostatic image forming toner including: toner base particles each containing at least a colorant, a binder resin, and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin contains a non-crystalline polyester resin A and a crystalline polyester resin B, wherein a ratio of B/(A+B)×100 is 10 or more but less than 50 where (A+B) is a total mass of the non-crystalline polyester resin A and the crystalline polyester resin B and “B” is a mass of the crystalline polyester resin B, and wherein the toner base particles have a TMA compression deformation amount (TMA %) of 10% or less which is measured at 50° C. and a relative humidity of 90%.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2013Publication date: August 1, 2013Inventors: Daisuke Asahina, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Rintaro Takahashi, Hiroshi Yamashita, Taichi Nemoto, Shingo Sakashita, Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Satoyuki Sekiguchi
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Publication number: 20130171554Abstract: A yellow toner including: a non-crystalline resin; C.I. Pigment Yellow 185; and a releasing agent, wherein the yellow toner has a glass transition temperature of more than 18° C. but less than 40° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Inventors: Hiroshi YAMASHITA, Masana Shiba, Satoyuki Sekiguchi, Yukari Fukuda, Daisuke Asahina, Rintaro Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20130157193Abstract: A toner containing colorant, releasing agent, and binder resin containing crystalline polyester resin, and non-crystalline polyester resin containing urethane bond, urea bond, or both, the non-crystalline polyester resin containing first and second non-crystalline polyester resins, both containing urethane bond, or urea bond, or both, wherein monomers constituting the first non-crystalline polyester resin contains isocyanate monomer for forming the urethane bond, the urea bond, or the both, in an amount of 0.5 mol % or greater to total amount of the monomers, monomers constituting the second non-crystalline polyester resin contain isocyanate monomer for forming the urethane bond, the urea bond, or the both, in an amount of 0.5 mol % or greater to total amount of the monomers, the first non-crystalline polyester resin has Tg of ?60° C. or higher but lower than 10° C., and the second non-crystalline polyester resin has Tg of 30° C. or higher but lower than 70° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2012Publication date: June 20, 2013Inventors: Tatsuru MORITANI, Hiroshi Yamashita, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Daisuke Asahina, Rintaro Takahashi, Susumu Chiba
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Publication number: 20130157184Abstract: To provide a toner, including at least: a non-crystalline polyester resin; and a crystalline polyester resin, wherein the toner has a glass transition temperature in a first heating Tg1st and a glass transition temperature in a second heating Tg2nd, and a difference between Tg1st and Tg2nd (Tg1st?Tg2nd) is 10° C. or greater, and wherein the crystalline polyester resin is a modified crystalline polyester resin having a urethane skeleton or a urea skeleton, or both thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2012Publication date: June 20, 2013Inventors: Tsuyoshi SUGIMOTO, Hiroshi Yamashita, Daisuke Asahina, Rintaro Takahashi, Masahide Yamada, Shinya Nakayama, Atsushi Yamamoto, Shingo Sakashita
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Publication number: 20130059247Abstract: To provide a toner, which contains: a non-crystalline polyester resin A obtained through a reaction between a non-linear chain reactive precursor and a curing agent, and having a glass transition temperature of ?60° C. to 0° C.; a non-crystalline polyester resin B having a glass transition temperature of 40° C. to 70° C.; and a crystalline polyester resin C, wherein the toner has a glass transition temperature Tg1st of 20° C. to 40° C. as measured with first heating in differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2012Publication date: March 7, 2013Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Hiroshi Yamashita, Daisuke Asahina, Satoyuki Sekiguchi, Rintaro Takahashi, Masana Shiba, Yukari Fukuda, Saki Konno
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Publication number: 20130011778Abstract: An electrophotographic toner obtained from a dispersion or emulsion liquid of an oil phase containing a toner material in an aqueous medium, the toner including: a binder resin, wherein the toner material includes: (A) an epoxy resin prepolymer; (B) an adduct of a dihydric phenol with a polyalkylene oxide; (C) a phenolic compound, or an alcohol compound, or both thereof; and (D) a carboxylic acid compound, and wherein the binder resin includes a resin obtained by allowing the (A), the (B), the (C) and the (D) to react with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Inventors: Hiroshi YAMASHITA, Satoyuki Sekiguchi, Daisuke Asahina, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Masaki Watanabe, Rintaro Takahashi
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Publication number: 20120288607Abstract: Instant noodles are produced, which have an excellent reconstitution property, can be reconstituted by pouring of boiling water even if the noodles are thicker than before, and have excellent taste and texture. The instant noodles are produced by: making raw noodle strings each having a multilayer structure including three or more layers; spraying superheated steam to the raw noodle strings; gelatinizing the noodle strings to which the superheated steam has been sprayed; and drying the noodle strings which have been gelatinized. It is preferable to gelatinize the noodle strings by spraying the superheated steam to the noodle strings, supplying moisture in liquid form to the noodle strings, and further heating the noodle strings by using the superheated steam and/or saturated steam.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2011Publication date: November 15, 2012Applicant: NISSIN FOODS HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Rintaro Takahashi, Yuji Ishii, Kunihiko Yoshida, Takeshi Asahina, Shunsuke Sakai, Yoshifumi Miyazaki, Mitsuru Tanaka
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Publication number: 20120219896Abstract: An electrostatic image forming toner including: a colorant; a binder resin; and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin contains at least two types of polyester resins A and B, wherein a difference of (T1/2?Tg) is 65° C. or more but less than 90° C., where T1/2 denotes a softening point of the electrostatic image forming toner and Tg denotes a glass transition temperature of the electrostatic image forming toner, and wherein the electrostatic image forming toner has a TMA compressive deformation rate (TMA %) at 50° C. which is 5% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Inventors: Daisuke Asahina, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Masaki Watanabe, Rintaro Takahashi, Hiroshi Yamashita, Satoyuki Sekiguchi
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Publication number: 20120207897Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing instant noodles which have an excellent reconstitution property and excellent taste and texture and can be reconstituted by pouring boiling water even if the noodles are thicker than before. In the method for producing the instant noodles, a noodle belt is extremely strongly rolled out once or more at a rolling rate of 60% or higher in a noodle belt rolling step, raw noodle strings are obtained from the noodle belt, superheated steam is sprayed to the obtained raw noodle strings, moisture is supplied or not supplied to the noodle strings, the noodle strings are steamed by saturated steam or superheated steam or are boiled to realize gelatinization, and the noodle strings are dried after the gelatinization.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2010Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: NISSIN FOODS HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Ishii, Kunihiko Yoshida, Rintaro Takahashi, Takeshi Asahina, Yoshifumi Miyazaki, Mitsuru Tanaka
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Patent number: 8236363Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing instant noodles having fresh noodle-like texture and flavor and having an excellent reconstitution property even if the noodles are thick. In the present invention, superheated steam flow is directly sprayed to raw noodle strings for 5 to 50 seconds such that a temperature of superheated steam to which surfaces of the noodle strings are exposed becomes 125 to 220° C., the noodle strings are supplied with moisture using water or hot water, the noodle strings are further steamed by directly spraying the superheated steam flow to the noodle strings for 5 to 50 seconds and/or steamed by using non-superheated steam, and the noodle strings are dried to produce the instant noodles.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2009Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshifumi Miyazaki, Kunihiko Yoshida, Rintaro Takahashi, Yusuke Wada, Shinji Matsuo, Mitsuru Tanaka
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Publication number: 20120189951Abstract: A toner including: a binder resin component; crystal nucleating agent; releasing agent; and colorant, wherein the binder resin component contains a crystalline polyester resin and a non-crystalline polyester resin, the crystal nucleating agent is at least one of an aliphatic ester compound and an aliphatic amide compound each having a melting point of 60° C. or higher but lower than 150° C., and wherein the toner satisfies Expressions (I) and (II): Tc>Tp+10??Expression (I) Tm>Tp+2??Expression (II) where Tp denotes lowest exothermic peak temperature [° C.] in 0° C. to 200° C. in DSC curve obtained DSC of the crystalline polyester resin, Tc denotes lowest exothermic peak temperature [° C.] in 0° C. to 200° C. in DSC curve obtained DSC of the crystal nucleating agent, and Tm denotes lowest exothermic peak temperature [° C.] in 0° C. to 200° C. in DSC curve through DSC of the mixture of the crystalline polyester resin and the crystal nucleating agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2011Publication date: July 26, 2012Inventors: Tsuyoshi SUGIMOTO, Hiroshi Yamashita, Daisuke Asahina, Masaki Watanabe, Satoyuki Sekiguchi, Rintaro Takahashi
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Publication number: 20120068616Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an LED drive circuit that can suppress the generation of harmonic noise. The LED drive circuit includes a rectifying circuit an LED array, and a current supply circuit which includes a capacitor and a time constant adjusting element, wherein the discharge time constant of the current supply circuit is set longer than the charge time constant of the current supply circuit, and wherein during a period of time when the magnitude of AC commercial power supply voltage is larger than the light emission threshold of the LED array, current to the light-emitting circuit is supplied mostly from the rectifying circuit, and during a period of time when the magnitude of AC commercial power supply voltage is not larger than the light emission threshold of the LED array, current to the light-emitting circuit is supplied from the current supply circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Inventors: Takashi Akiyama, Rintaro Takahashi, Hisashi Fukasawa, Ryoichi Watanabe
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Publication number: 20110129582Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing instant noodles having fresh noodle-like texture and flavor and having an excellent reconstitution property even if the noodles are thick. In the present invention, superheated steam flow is directly sprayed to raw noodle strings for 5 to 50 seconds such that a temperature of superheated steam to which surfaces of the noodle strings are exposed becomes 125 to 220° C., the noodle strings are supplied with moisture using water or hot water, the noodle strings are further steamed by directly spraying the superheated steam flow to the noodle strings for 5 to 50 seconds and/or steamed by using non-superheated steam, and the noodle strings are dried to produce the instant noodles.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2009Publication date: June 2, 2011Inventors: Yoshifumi Miyazaki, Kunihiko Yoshida, Rintaro Takahashi, Yusuke Wada, Shinji Matsuo, Mitsuru Tanaka
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Patent number: 6812914Abstract: Disclosed is a method of treatment for preventing the occurrence of image sticking and recovering from image sticking in a ferroelectric liquid crystal device. By applying a low-frequency AC voltage to the ferroelectric liquid crystal device, multiple domains are formed in a pixel, domain boundaries are caused to flow, and fine segmentation of domain regions are induced. As the low-frequency AC voltage, a voltage having a frequency of 10 to 100 Hz and an amplitude of ±1.5 to ±3.0 V is applied, for example, for 30 seconds or more. The low-frequency AC voltage is applied to the liquid crystal device immediately before stopping liquid crystal driving or immediately after starting liquid crystal driving. Further, the low-frequency AC voltage is applied when the occurrence of image sticking in the liquid crystal device is detected.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 1999Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.Inventor: Rintaro Takahashi