Patents by Inventor Shigeaki Aoki
Shigeaki Aoki 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: 20190179442Abstract: A touch sensor member includes a base material and a sensor circuit wiring formed on the base material, the base material includes a glass film having a thickness of 300 ?m or less, and the sensor circuit wiring includes a metal wire having a width of 25 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2017Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigeaki AOKI, Yoshiharu MIWA, Hiroyuki UCHIDA, Hiroaki TANAKA, Tai FUJISAWA, Seiji HAMADA
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Patent number: 8053079Abstract: A glass sheet laminate structure (10) produced by laminating at least three glass sheets (20) each having a thickness of less than 1 mm through an intermediate layer (30) between two adjacent glass sheets. The maximum variation ?Hmax of the interval H between two adjacent glass sheets opposed to each other through the intermediate layer in connection with the central portion and the opposite end portions satisfies a relationship of 0 ?m<?Hmax<200 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2007Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shigeaki Aoki
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Patent number: 7823416Abstract: The glass composition of the present invention is an inorganic glass composition in which the volume ratio of helium with a mass number of 3 to helium with a mass number of 4, namely 3He/4He in the glass (0° C., 1 atm) is smaller than the volume ratio 3He/4He in the atmosphere. The method of producing a glass article of the present invention includes the steps of: melting a glass raw material by heating; homogenizing molten glass; forming the molten glass into a desired shape; and cooling the shaped glass to room temperature, in which helium with a certain mass ratio is dissolved in the glass material so that the glass article of the present invention is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2004Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Nippon Electric Gas Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeaki Aoki, Hiroki Nagai, Masataka Takagi
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Publication number: 20090311497Abstract: A sheet glass laminate structure (10) is produced by laminating at least three sheet glasses (20) each having a thickness of less than 1 mm through an intermediate layer (30) between two adjacent sheet glasses. When a central portion of 20 mm in length including the middle point of a virtual line and opposite end portions respectively being 20 mm long from the opposite ends of the virtual line are set on the virtual line having a length equal to 50% of the maximum overall dimension of the translucent surface of the sheet glass (20) and extending in parallel with the direction of maximum overall dimension with the center of the translucent surface as its middle point, a maximum variation ?Hmax of the interval H between two adjacent sheet glasses opposed to each other through the intermediate layer in connection with the central portion and the opposite end portions satisfies a following relationship of 0 ?m<?Hmax<200 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2007Publication date: December 17, 2009Inventor: Shigeaki Aoki
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Patent number: 7538050Abstract: A glass composition of the present invention is manufactured by melting glass raw materials and contains a multicomponent oxide as a main component, and the glass composition contains at least one of helium and neon in an amount of 0.01 to 2 ?L/g (0° C. 1 atm).Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2002Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masataka Takagi, Noriyuki Yoshida, Hachiro Takahashi, Shigeaki Aoki, Mitsuo Kato
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Publication number: 20070197366Abstract: The glass composition of the present invention is an inorganic glass composition in which the volume ratio of helium with a mass number of 3 to helium with a mass number of 4, namely 3He/4He in the glass (0° C., 1 atm) is smaller than the volume ratio 3He/4He in the atmosphere. The method of producing a glass article of the present invention includes the steps of: melting a glass raw material by heating; homogenizing molten glass; forming the molten glass into a desired shape; and cooling the shaped glass to room temperature, in which helium with a certain mass ratio is dissolved in the glass material so that the glass article of the present invention is obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2004Publication date: August 23, 2007Inventors: Shigeaki Aoki, Hiroki Nagai, Masataka Takagi
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Patent number: 7017372Abstract: A molten glass supply device is provided, which can solve unavoidable problems for high viscosity characteristics in connection with the conventional molten glass supply device for high viscosity glass. Such problems include improperly high heating cost caused by excessive heat radiation in a melting furnace, reduction in the grade of products deriving from an excess amount of an erosion foreign material and reduction in the product yield. High viscosity molten glass having a property in which a temperature at which the molten glass exhibits a viscosity of 1000 poise is 1350° C. or higher is supplied to a forming device through a melting furnace, a distribution portion in communication with the outlet of the melting furnace, and a plurality of branch paths branching from the distribution portion. In the branch paths, distribution resistance providing portions that provide distribution resistance to molten glass passed through the branch paths are provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2004Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Tomamoto, Shigeaki Aoki, Tatsuya Takaya
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Publication number: 20050209083Abstract: A glass composition of the present invention is manufactured by melting glass raw materials and contains a multicomponent oxide as a main component, and the glass composition contains at least one of helium and neon in an amount of 0.01 to 2 ?L/g (0° C. 1 atm).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2002Publication date: September 22, 2005Inventors: Masataka Takagi, Noriyuki Yoshida, Hachiro Takahashi, Shigeaki Aoki, Mitsuo Kato
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Publication number: 20040182113Abstract: A molten glass supply device is provided, which can solve unavoidable problems for high viscosity characteristics in connection with the conventional molten glass supply device for high viscosity glass. Such problems include improperly high heating cost caused by excessive heat radiation in a melting furnace, reduction in the grade of products deriving from an excess amount of an erosion foreign material and reduction in the product yield. High viscosity molten glass having a property in which a temperature at which the molten glass exhibits a viscosity of 1000 poise is 1350° C. or higher is supplied to a forming device through a melting furnace, a distribution portion in communication with the outlet of the melting furnace, and a plurality of branch paths branching from the distribution portion. In the branch paths, distribution resistance providing portions that provide distribution resistance to molten glass passed through the branch paths are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2004Publication date: September 23, 2004Inventors: Masahiro Tomamoto, Shigeaki Aoki, Tatsuya Takaya
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Patent number: 6130949Abstract: A time difference .DELTA..tau. between the arrival of acoustic signals from sound sources to microphones 1, 2 is detected from output channel signals L, R from microphones 1, 2. By Fourier transform, the signals L, R are divided into respective frequency bands L(f1)-L(fn), R(f1)-R(fn). Differences .DELTA..tau.i (i=1, 2, . . . n) in the time-of-arrival of L(f1)-L(fn) and R(f1)-R(fn) to the microphones 1, 2 as well as a signal level difference .DELTA.Li are detected. L(f1)-L(fn), R(f1)-R(fn) are divided into a low range of fi<1/(2 .DELTA..tau.), a middle range of 1/(2 .DELTA..tau.) <fi<1/.DELTA..tau., and a high range of fi>1/.DELTA..tau.. Utilizing .DELTA..tau.i for the low range, .DELTA.Li and .DELTA..tau.i for the middle range and .DELTA.Li for the high range, a determination is made from which sound source L(fi), R(fi) are oncoming to deliver outputs separately for each sound source. The outputs are subject to an inverse Fourier transform for synthesis separately for each sound source.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1997Date of Patent: October 10, 2000Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Mariko Aoki, Shigeaki Aoki, Hiroyuki Matsui, Yutaka Nishino, Manabu Okamoto
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Patent number: 5982903Abstract: In a method for constructing an acoustic transfer function table for virtual sound localization, acoustic transfer functions are measured at both ears for a large number of subjects for each sound source position and subjected to principal components analysis, and that one of the transfer functions which corresponds to a weighting vector closest to the centroid of weighting vectors obtained for each sound source position and each ear are determined as a representative.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1997Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Ikuichiro Kinoshita, Shigeaki Aoki
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Patent number: 5933506Abstract: Ear-piece type acoustic transducing part is provided with a bone-conducted sound pickup microphone for picking up a bone-conducted sound, a directional microphone for picking up an air-conducted sound and an electro-acoustic transducer for transducing a received speech signal to a received speech sound.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 1995Date of Patent: August 3, 1999Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Shigeaki Aoki, Kazumasa Mitsuhashi, Yutaka Nishino, Kohichi Matsumoto, Chikara Yuse, Hiroyuki Matsui
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Patent number: 5774264Abstract: A polarization-independent optical isolator having a structure in which polarization dispersion is virtually eliminated by selecting the thickness and optical axis orientations of birefringent crystalline plates used in the isolator. The optical isolator of the present invention employs a combination of birefringent crystalline plates wherein the optical axis orientation of at least one birefringent crystalline plate in the optical isolator is different from the optical axis orientation of the remaining birefringent crystalline plates, and the polarization mode dispersion, which is induced when the beam propagates through the birefringent crystalline plate having a different optical axis orientation, is equal to the dispersion rate of the polarization mode dispersion attributable to the remaining birefringent crystalline plates and in a mutually inverse direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1996Date of Patent: June 30, 1998Assignee: Namiki Precision Jewel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro Konno, Shigeaki Aoki, Kazuaki Ikegai
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Patent number: 5734724Abstract: In an audio communication control unit, audio signals from at least three terminals connected to a switching part are branched to left- and right-channels audio signals, then the left- and right-channel audio signals are processed using sound image control parameters in such a manner as to impart them with target positions different for each terminal, then all left-channel audio signals corresponding to the respective terminals are mixed together into a left-channel mixed audio signal and all the right-channel audio signals are mixed together into a right-channel mixed audio signal, and these left- and right-channel mixed audio signals are distributed and sent to all the connected terminals.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1996Date of Patent: March 31, 1998Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Ikuichiro Kinoshita, Shigeaki Aoki, Manabu Okamoto, Nobuo Hayashi
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Patent number: 5272621Abstract: A method of controlling a process having dead time is disclosed. This method obtains input evaluating criteria for setting values of process response outputs in relation to known input information, the input evaluating criteria being represented in one or more of the integral, proportional and differential type process responses. Fuzzy inference is used to estimate a variation in the process response output occurring upon lapse of a dead time or a control amount relating thereto on the basis of the value of an input evaluating criterion. The process is subjected to fuzzy PI (proportional and integral) control based on the estimated value.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1989Date of Patent: December 21, 1993Assignee: Nippon Denki Garasu Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shigeaki Aoki
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Patent number: 4764960Abstract: First left and right channel loudspeakers having respective main axes of directivities directed toward left and right listening areas defined in front thereof are provided. In addition, there are provided a second right channel loudspeaker near the first right channel loudspeaker with a main axis of directivity directed toward the left listening area, a second left channel loudspeaker near the first left channel loudspeaker with a main axis of directivity directed toward the right listening area, and signal adjusting means for controlling the relative amplitude and time difference among the signals to be supplied to these loudspeakers.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1987Date of Patent: August 16, 1988Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Shigeaki Aoki, Nobuo Koizumi