Patents by Inventor Shigeo Itoh
Shigeo Itoh 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: 8203611Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an electron emission array having electron sources arranged in matrix form, a photoelectric conversion film opposed to the electron emission array, and a control and drive circuit configured to select one or more horizontal scan lines in a given video signal output period and to cause the electron sources included in the selected one or more horizontal scan lines to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film, wherein the control and drive circuit is further configured to cause the electron sources included in the selected one or more horizontal scan lines to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film in any one or more blanking periods excluding both a blanking period immediately following the given video signal output period and a blanking period immediately preceding a next video signal output period in which the one or more horizontal scan lines will be selected next time.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2008Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignees: Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Futaba Corporation, Pioneer CorporationInventors: Yuki Honda, Masakazu Namba, Yoshiyuki Hirano, Saburo Okazaki, Norifumi Egami, Toshihisa Watabe, Yoshiro Takiguchi, Akira Kobayashi, Shigeo Itoh, Masateru Taniguchi, Kazuhito Nakamura, Kenta Miya, Yoshiyuki Okuda, Kazuto Sakemura
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Patent number: 8044596Abstract: Electron-emissive drive units of electron-emissive elements capable of being arranged with a smaller pitch. FET and emitter array units exist in matrix element areas partitioned by a control wiring and data wiring. An exemplary unit is composed of four emitter arrays. The control wiring and data wiring are driven by first and second drive circuits, respectively. Corresponding arrays between units are connected by selection wiring and driven by a third drive circuit. The third drive circuit drives each unit of data wiring every time the drive circuit sequentially drives the four units of control wiring, and the emitter array drive circuit drives each emitter array selection wiring every time the drive circuit sequentially drives the three units of data wiring. Electrons can be emitted in units of arrays smaller than the unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2008Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignees: Futaba Corporation, NHK Science & Technical Research LaboratoriesInventors: Masateru Taniguchi, Takahiro Niiyama, Shigeo Itoh, Kazuhito Nakamura, Kenta Miya, Masakazu Namba, Yuki Honda, Toshihisa Watabe, Norifumi Egami
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Patent number: 7834308Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an electron emission array having electron sources arranged in matrix form and having a plurality of horizontal scan lines, a photoelectric conversion film opposed to the electron emission array, and a control and drive circuit configured to select one or more of the horizontal scan lines in a given video signal output period and to cause the electron sources included in the selected one or more horizontal scan lines to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film to produce a video signal, wherein the control and drive circuit is configured to cause the electron sources included in unselected one or more horizontal scan lines not selected in the given video signal output period to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film in a blanking period immediately preceding the given video signal output period.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2008Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignees: Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Futaba Corporation, Pioneer CorporationInventors: Masakazu Namba, Yuki Honda, Yoshiyuki Hirano, Saburo Okazaki, Norifumi Egami, Toshihisa Watabe, Yoshiro Takiguchi, Akira Kobayashi, Shigeo Itoh, Masateru Taniguchi, Kazuhito Nakamura, Kenta Miya, Yoshiyuki Okuda, Nobuyasu Negishi
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Patent number: 7754177Abstract: A hollow carbon nanoballoon structure having a relatively large closed space, and a method of producing a carbon nanoballoon structure capable of easily and stably producing such a structure. The carbon nanoballoon structure is obtained by heating soot prepared by an arc discharge using carbon electrodes, soot prepared by vaporizing carbon by laser irradiation, or carbon black having a specific surface area of 1000 m2/g or more and a primary particle diameter of 20 nm or more at a high temperature in an inert gas atmosphere, and includes graphite sheets linked to form a curved surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2005Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignees: Tokai Carbon Co., Ltd., Futaba CorporationInventors: Hirofumi Takikawa, Akira Kondo, Kazuo Yoshikawa, Shigeo Itoh
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Patent number: 7723664Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an electron emission array having electron sources arranged in matrix form and having a plurality of horizontal scan lines, a photoelectric conversion film opposed to the electron emission array, and a control and drive circuit configured to select one or more of the horizontal scan lines in a given video signal output period and to cause the electron sources included in the selected one or more horizontal scan lines to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film to produce a video signal, wherein the control and drive circuit is configured to control electron emission of the electron emission array in a blanking period in response to a signal level of the video signal produced in the given video signal output period.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2008Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignees: Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Futaba Corporation, Pioneer CorporationInventors: Yuki Honda, Masakazu Namba, Yoshiyuki Hirano, Saburo Okazaki, Norifumi Egami, Toshihisa Watabe, Yoshiro Takiguchi, Akira Kobayashi, Shigeo Itoh, Masateru Taniguchi, Kazuhito Nakamura, Kenta Miya, Takahiro Niiyama, Yoshiyuki Okuda
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Patent number: 7648765Abstract: A dispersion of carbon nanoparticles is prepared by monodispersing carbon nanoparticles in water droplets of a reverse micelle solution in which the water droplets are coated with amphiphilic molecules and dispersed in an organic solvent. In a method of preparing the dispersion of carbon nanoparticles, carbon nanoparticles and a monodispersion function material, e.g., ammonia, for imparting a polarity to surfaces of the carbon nanoparticles are added to the reverse micelle solution. The solution is then stirred, so that the carbon nanoparticles whose surfaces have the polarity are monodispersed in the water droplets of the reverse micelle solution. Further, a metal alkoxide is added to the solution and then stirring them, so that the surfaces of the carbon nanoparticles are coated with oxide of the metal.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2007Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventors: Hisamitsu Takahashi, Fumiaki Kataoka, Shigeo Itoh
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Patent number: 7586260Abstract: A non-evaporation getter material suitable for non-evaporation getters disposed in electron devices, such as fluorescent luminous tubes. The getter material is sized and shaped to more efficiently absorb gases actively at low temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2006Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignees: Futaba Corporation, Neturen Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Tonegawa, Shigeo Itoh, Sadanori Takayama, Masateru Taniguchi, Yasumoto Kubo, Kenji Nawamaki, Youhei Fujimura, Mamoru Namikawa, Yoshihisa Marushima, Osamu Idohara, Yoshiaki Inoue, Seiji Yokota, Kazuhiro Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20090096393Abstract: Electron-emissive drive units of electron-emissive elements capable of being arranged with a smaller pitch. FET and emitter array units exist in matrix element areas partitioned by a control wiring and data wiring. An exemplary unit is composed of four emitter arrays. The control wiring and data wiring are driven by first and second drive circuits, respectively. Corresponding arrays between units are connected by selection wiring and driven by a third drive circuit. The third drive circuit drives each unit of data wiring every time the drive circuit sequentially drives the four units of control wiring, and the emitter array drive circuit drives each emitter array selection wiring every time the drive circuit sequentially drives the three units of data wiring. Electrons can be emitted in units of arrays smaller than the unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventors: Masateru Taniguchi, Takahiro Niiyama, Shigeo Itoh, Kazuhito Nakamura, Masakazu Namba, Yuki Honda, Kenta Miya, Toshihisa Watabe, Norifumi Egami
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Patent number: 7511206Abstract: The present invention provides carbon nanotubes perpendicularly and densely deposited over a wide area of a substrate. The carbon nanotubes are manufactured by supplying alternating-current power at a specific frequency between an anode and a cathode disposed in a reactor, and causing plasma to be generated between the anode and the cathode by introducing mixed gas containing an aliphatic hydrocarbon having 1-5 carbon atoms and hydrogen or mixed gas containing an aromatic hydrocarbon and hydrogen. The substrate is disposed between the anode and the cathode and held at a distance two times or less of the mean free path of a hydrocarbon cation from the anode.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2005Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Hiraoka, Yosuke Shiratori, Masahide Yamamoto, Shigeo Itoh, Kenji Nawamaki
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Publication number: 20080291308Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an electron emission array having electron sources arranged in matrix form and having a plurality of horizontal scan lines, a photoelectric conversion film opposed to the electron emission array, and a control and drive circuit configured to select one or more of the horizontal scan lines in a given video signal output period and to cause the electron sources included in the selected one or more horizontal scan lines to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film to produce a video signal, wherein the control and drive circuit is configured to control electron emission of the electron emission array in a blanking period in response to a signal level of the video signal produced in the given video signal output period.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicants: Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Futaba Corporation, Pioneer CorporationInventors: Yuki HONDA, Masakazu Namba, Yoshiyuki Hirano, Saburo Okazaki, Norifumi Egami, Toshihisa Watabe, Yoshiro Takiguchi, Akira Kobayashi, Shigeo Itoh, Masateru Taniguchi, Kazuhito Nakamura, Kenta Miya, Takahiro Niiyama, Yoshiyuki Okuda
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Publication number: 20080290254Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an electron emission array having electron sources arranged in matrix form and having a plurality of horizontal scan lines, a photoelectric conversion film opposed to the electron emission array, and a control and drive circuit configured to select one or more of the horizontal scan lines in a given video signal output period and to cause the electron sources included in the selected one or more horizontal scan lines to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film to produce a video signal, wherein the control and drive circuit is configured to cause the electron sources included in unselected one or more horizontal scan lines not selected in the given video signal output period to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film in a blanking period immediately preceding the given video signal output period.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicants: Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Futaba Corporation, PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Masakazu NAMBA, Yuki Honda, Yoshiyuki Hirano, Saburo Okazaki, Norifumi Egami, Toshihisa Watabe, Yoshiro Takiguchi, Akira Kobayashi, Shigeo Itoh, Masateru Taniguchi, Kazuhito Nakamura, Kenta Miya, Yoshiyuki Okuda, Nobuyasu Negishi
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Publication number: 20080291307Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an electron emission array having electron sources arranged in matrix form, a photoelectric conversion film opposed to the electron emission array, and a control and drive circuit configured to select one or more horizontal scan lines in a given video signal output period and to cause the electron sources included in the selected one or more horizontal scan lines to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film, wherein the control and drive circuit is further configured to cause the electron sources included in the selected one or more horizontal scan lines to emit electrons toward the photoelectric conversion film in any one or more blanking periods excluding both a blanking period immediately following the given video signal output period and a blanking period immediately preceding a next video signal output period in which the one or more horizontal scan lines will be selected next time.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicants: Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Futaba Corporation, Pioneer CorporationInventors: Yuki Honda, Masakazu Namba, Yoshiyuki Hirano, Saburo Okazaki, Norifumi Egami, Toshihisa Watabe, Yoshiro Takiguchi, Akira Kobayashi, Shigeo Itoh, Masateru Taniguchi, Kazuhito Nakamura, Kenta Miya, Yoshiyuki Okuda, Kazuto Sakemura
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Patent number: 7394091Abstract: There is provided composite nano-particles comprising nano-crystal particles dispersed stably and individually in suspension in high concentration without mutual aggregation of the nano-particles. A determined amount of pure water or deionized water is poured into a reactor, into which is introduced nitrogen gas at rate of 300 cm3/min for a given time while agitating with a stirrer to remove dissolved oxygen in the pure water, allowing to stand in an atmosphere of nitrogen. Next, the inside of the reactor is maintained in an atmosphere of nitrogen and sodium citrate as a dispersion-stabilizing agent, an aqueous solution of MPS as a surface-modifying agent, an anion aqueous solution for co-precipitation as a nano-crystal and a cation aqueous solution are added, in that order. Then, an aqueous solution of sodium silicate is added to the reactor, which is then allowed to stand in the dark place in an atmosphere of nitrogen after agitation.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2003Date of Patent: July 1, 2008Assignee: Keio University Faculty of Science and TechnologyInventors: Tetsuhiko Isobe, Yasushi Hattori, Shigeo Itoh, Hisamitsu Takahashi
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Patent number: 7375400Abstract: An image display device is provided in which the overall brightness of an image can be varied without adversely affecting hue and contrast. The image display device includes emitters 16 connected to a cathode electrode 15, a gate electrode 13, an anode electrode 3, transistors Tr1 and Tr2, and a capacitor 12. A voltage applied to the capacitor 12 is varied to display an image. A constant voltage is applied to the gate electrode 13 to change a time ratio Du. Thus, the overall brightness of an image can be adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2006Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignees: Futaba Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Shigeo Itoh, Masateru Taniguchi, Masayoshi Nagao
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Publication number: 20080083702Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electron emitting device includes disposing a cathode substrate and an anode substrate to be faced to each other in a depressurized atmosphere containing an activation gas, the cathode substrate including a carbon layer formed by applying a paste having a fibrous carbon and carbon impurities on a cathode conductor and drying the coated paste. The method further includes applying a reverse bias voltage to the cathode conductor of the cathode substrate and an anode conductor of the anode substrate, thereby activating the carbon layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2007Publication date: April 10, 2008Applicant: Futaba CorporationInventors: Fumiaki Kataoka, Youhei Fujimura, Takeshi Tonegawa, Yasumoto Kubo, Hiroaki Eguchi, Shigeo Itoh, Tatsuo Yamaura
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Publication number: 20080032135Abstract: A dispersion of carbon nanoparticles is prepared by monodispersing carbon nanoparticles in water droplets of a reverse micelle solution in which the water droplets are coated with amphiphilic molecules and dispersed in an organic solvent. In a method of preparing the dispersion of carbon nanoparticles, carbon nanoparticles and a monodispersion function material, e.g., ammonia, for imparting a polarity to surfaces of the carbon nanoparticles are added to the reverse micelle solution. The solution is then stirred, so that the carbon nanoparticles whose surfaces have the polarity are monodispersed in the water droplets of the reverse micelle solution. Further, a metal alkoxide is added to the solution and then stirring them, so that the surfaces of the carbon nanoparticles are coated with oxide of the metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2007Publication date: February 7, 2008Applicant: Futaba CorporationInventors: Hisamitsu Takahashi, Fumiaki Kataoka, Shigeo Itoh
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Publication number: 20070207081Abstract: A hollow carbon nanoballoon structure having a relatively large closed space, and a method of producing a carbon nanoballoon structure capable of easily and stably producing such a structure. The carbon nanoballoon structure is obtained by heating soot prepared by arc discharge using carbon electrodes, soot prepared by vaporizing. carbon by laser irradiation, or carbon black having a specific surface area of 1000 m2/g or more and a primary particle diameter of 20 nm or more at a high temperature in an inert gas atmosphere, and includes graphite sheets linked to form a curved surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2005Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Hirofumi Takikawa, Akira Kondo, Kazuo Yoshikawa, Shigeo Itoh
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Patent number: 7239073Abstract: A carbon substance comprises a structure and line-shaped bodies, the structure having a size ranging from about 1 ?m to about 100 ?m and including carbon and a metal or a metallic oxide, and the line-shaped bodies having diameters smaller than about 200 nm and including carbon as a main component thereof and growing radially from a surface of the structure. A method for manufacturing the carbon substance uses a thermal decomposition of a source gas containing carbon in the vicinity of a catalyst, wherein the catalyst comprises a first and a second materials, the first material being Ni or a Ni oxide and the second material being In or an In oxide; and the thermal decomposition is performed at a temperature ranging from about 675° C. to about 750° C. An electron emission element uses the carbon substance as an electron emission material. A composite material includes the carbon substance in its matrix.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2004Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Futaba CorporationInventors: Hirofumi Takikawa, Youhei Fujimura, Shigeo Itoh
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Publication number: 20070103085Abstract: An image display device is provided in which the overall brightness of an image can be varied without adversely affecting hue and contrast. The image display device includes emitters 16 connected to a cathode electrode 15, a gate electrode 13, an anode electrode 3, transistors Tr1 and Tr2, and a capacitor 12. A voltage applied to the capacitor 12 is varied to display an image. A constant voltage is applied to the gate electrode 13 to change a time ratio Du. Thus, the overall brightness of an image can be adjusted.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2006Publication date: May 10, 2007Inventors: Shigeo Itoh, Masateru Taniguchi, Masayoshi Nagao
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Publication number: 20060234417Abstract: There is provided composite nano-particles comprising nano-crystal particles dispersed stably and individually in suspension in high concentration without mutual aggregation of the nano-particles. A determined amount of pure water or deionized water is poured into a reactor, into which is introduced nitrogen gas at rate of 300 cm3/min for a given time while agitating with a stirrer to remove dissolved oxygen in the pure water, allowing to stand in an atmosphere of nitrogen. Next, the inside of the reactor is maintained in an atmosphere of nitrogen and sodium citrate as a dispersion-stabilizing agent, an aqueous solution of MPS as a surface-modifying agent, an anion aqueous solution for co-precipitation as a nano-crystal and a cation aqueous solution are added, in that order. Then, an aqueous solution of sodium silicate is added to the reactor, which is then allowed to stand in the dark place in an atmosphere of nitrogen after agitation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2003Publication date: October 19, 2006Inventors: Tetsuhiko Isobe, Yasushi Hattori, Shigeo Itoh, Hisamitsu Takahashi