Patents by Inventor Shinji Tanabe

Shinji Tanabe 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: 11659768
    Abstract: Provided is a piezoelectric material filler including alkali niobate compound particles having a ratio (K/(Na+K)) of the number of moles of potassium to the total number of moles of sodium and potassium of 0.460 to 0.495 in terms of atoms and a ratio ((Li+Na+K)/Nb) of the total number of moles of alkali metal elements to the number of moles of niobium of 0.995 to 1.005 in terms of atoms. The present invention can provide a piezoelectric material filler having excellent piezoelectric properties, and a composite piezoelectric material including the piezoelectric material filler and a polymer matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Tanabe, Hajime Kunita, Shunsuke Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20220093845
    Abstract: Provided is a piezoelectric material filler including alkali niobate compound particles having a ratio (K/(Na+K)) of the number of moles of potassium to the total number of moles of sodium and potassium of 0.460 to 0.495 in terms of atoms and a ratio ((Li+Na+K)/Nb) of the total number of moles of alkali metal elements to the number of moles of niobium of 0.995 to 1.005 in terms of atoms. The present invention can provide a piezoelectric material filler having excellent piezoelectric properties, and a composite piezoelectric material including the piezoelectric material filler and a polymer matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Tanabe, Hajime Kunita, Shunsuke Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11239409
    Abstract: Provided is a piezoelectric material filler including alkali niobate compound particles having a ratio (K/(Na+K)) of the number of moles of potassium to the total number of moles of sodium and potassium of 0.460 to 0.495 in terms of atoms and a ratio ((Li+Na+K)/Nb) of the total number of moles of alkali metal elements to the number of moles of niobium of 0.995 to 1.005 in terms of atoms. The present invention can provide a piezoelectric material filler having excellent piezoelectric properties, and a composite piezoelectric material including the piezoelectric material filler and a polymer matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Tanabe, Hajime Kunita, Shunsuke Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20190181330
    Abstract: Provided is a piezoelectric material filler including alkali niobate compound particles having a ratio (K/(Na+K)) of the number of moles of potassium to the total number of moles of sodium and potassium of 0.460 to 0.495 in terms of atoms and a ratio ((Li+Na+K)/Nb) of the total number of moles of alkali metal elements to the number of moles of niobium of 0.995 to 1.005 in terms of atoms. The present invention can provide a piezoelectric material filler having excellent piezoelectric properties, and a composite piezoelectric material including the piezoelectric material filler and a polymer matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicants: Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd., Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Tanabe, Hajime Kunita, Shunsuke Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9864226
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, there is provided a liquid crystal display panel in which a TFT substrate and a counter substrate are bonded together by a sealing material, with a liquid crystal sandwiched between the substrates. Further, a front window with a black border print formed in the periphery is bonded to the liquid crystal display panel by a UV curable resin. The liquid crystal is filled by a drop method. The thickness of the TFT substrate and the counter substrate is reduced to about 0.2 mm by polishing. An inner end of the black border print of the front window is inside an inner end of the sealing material, to prevent the counter substrate of the liquid crystal display panel from being deformed by stress generated in the curing of the UV curable resin, thereby preventing yellow discoloration in the periphery of the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Shinji Tanabe, Setsuo Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Ishii, Akira Ishii, Kiyoshi Sento
  • Publication number: 20160109749
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, there is provided a liquid crystal display panel in which a TFT substrate and a counter substrate are bonded together by a sealing material, with a liquid crystal sandwiched between the substrates. Further, a front window with a black border print formed in the periphery is bonded to the liquid crystal display panel by a UV curable resin. The liquid crystal is filled by a drop method. The thickness of the TFT substrate and the counter substrate is reduced to about 0.2 mm by polishing. An inner end of the black border print of the front window is inside an inner end of the sealing material, to prevent the counter substrate of the liquid crystal display panel from being deformed by stress generated in the curing of the UV curable resin, thereby preventing yellow discoloration in the periphery of the display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Shinji Tanabe, Setsuo Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Ishii, Akira Ishii, Kiyoshi Sento
  • Patent number: 9250461
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, there is provided a liquid crystal display panel in which a TFT substrate and a counter substrate are bonded together by a sealing material, with a liquid crystal sandwiched between the substrates. Further, a front window with a black border print formed in the periphery is bonded to the liquid crystal display panel by a UV curable resin. The liquid crystal, is filled by a drop method. The thickness of the TFT substrate and the counter substrate is reduced to about 0.2 mm toy polishing. An inner end of the black border print of the front window is inside an inner end of the sealing material, to prevent the counter substrate of the liquid crystal display panel from being deformed by stress generated In the curing of the UV curable resin, thereby preventing yellow discoloration in the periphery of the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Shinji Tanabe, Setsuo Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Ishii, Akira Ishii, Kiyoshi Sento
  • Publication number: 20150212370
    Abstract: Light emitted by a backlight can be prevented from leaking through a chamfered portion of a front window of a liquid crystal display device. An upper polarizing plate is bonded over the counter substrate, and a front window is bonded over the upper polarizing plate with a UV-curable resin adhesive. The front window is chamfered and a light shielding member is formed on the chamfered portion. The UV adhesive exists between the chamfered portion and the surface of the upper polarizing plate or the counter substrate, and an outer end of the polarizing plate exists at a point outer than an outer end of the front window. Since the light shielding member for the chamfered portion is formed, light from the backlight does not penetrate from the chamfered portion. Thus, light leakage at a periphery of a screen can be prevented even when the view angle is large.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi HARAYAMA, Takashi YOSHIMOTO, Katsuhiko ISHII, Setsuo KOBAYASHI, Akira ISHII, Shinji TANABE, Kiyoshi SENTO
  • Patent number: 9025115
    Abstract: Light emitted by a backlight can be prevented from leaking through a chamfered portion of a front window of a liquid crystal display device. An upper polarizing plate is bonded over the counter substrate, and a front window is bonded over the upper polarizing plate with a UV-curable resin adhesive. The front window is chamfered and a light shielding member is formed on the chamfered portion. The UV adhesive exists between the chamfered portion and the surface of the upper polarizing plate or the counter substrate, and an outer end of the polarizing plate exists at a point outer than an outer end of the front window. Since the light shielding member for the chamfered portion is formed, light from the backlight does not penetrate from the chamfered portion. Thus, light leakage at a periphery of a screen can be prevented even when the view angle is large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Harayama, Takashi Yoshimoto, Katsuhiko Ishii, Setsuo Kobayashi, Akira Ishii, Shinji Tanabe, Kiyoshi Sento
  • Patent number: 8964150
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device, including: a liquid crystal display panel; a plate-shaped component having a light permeable region, the plate-shaped component being disposed so as to face a display surface of the liquid crystal display panel; a pressure sensitive adhesive layer having light permeability, which is adhered under pressure onto the display surface of the liquid crystal display panel; and an adhesive layer having light permeability, which is adhered onto a surface of the plate-shaped component facing the display surface, in which the plate-shaped component is mounted on the liquid crystal display panel through intermediation of the pressure sensitive adhesive layer and the adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Ishii, Setsuo Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Ishii, Shinji Tanabe, Kiyoshi Sento
  • Patent number: 8953123
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device having a front window, light from a backlight is prevented from leaking through chamfered edges of the front window. An upper polarizing plate is formed on an opposing substrate and a light shielding material is formed abutting on an outer edge of the upper polarizing plate. Edges of the upper polarizing plate are located inward of edges of the front window. The upper polarizing plate and the front window are bonded with a boding material including an ultraviolet curable resin. The ultraviolet curable resin also lies over the light shielding material. Chamfers are formed in the front window and the ultraviolet curable resin does not adhere to the chamfers of the front window. By this structure, light from the backlight is prevented from entering the internal part of the front window through the chamfers of the front window and light leakage is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Harayama, Takashi Yoshimoto, Katsuhiko Ishii, Setsuo Kobayashi, Akira Ishii, Shinji Tanabe, Kiyoshi Sento
  • Patent number: 8846288
    Abstract: When being blended in a toner, a barium titanate external additive for toner enhances, in particular, the toner fluidity, electrical properties, and other relevant performance; concurrently achieves high image density and reduced background fog in a printer using the toner; and further reduces image defects, such as void, fading, and the like. An industrially advantageous producing method of the barium titanate external additive for toner is also provided. The external additive for toner of the present invention includes spherical barium titanate having a specific gravity of 5.6 g/ml or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Ochiai, Shinji Tanabe, Naoaki Narishige
  • Publication number: 20140179826
    Abstract: The invention provides a modified perovskite type composite oxide in which the particle surface of a perovskite type composite oxide is coated with a first component of at least one selected from TiO2 and SiO2 and a second component of at least one selected from a group consisting of Al, Zr, Nd, La, Ce, Pr, and Sm, wherein the coating is formed by hydrolyzing at least one selected from a hydrolyzable TiO2 precursor and a hydrolyzable SiO2 precursor as a source of the first component and a salt of at least one selected from a group consisting of Al, Zr, Nd, La, Ce, Pr, and Sm as a source of the second component, and then calcining them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinji Tanabe
  • Patent number: 8610837
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device in which reliable bonding strength and high reparability are compatible when a panel-like member is bonded to a display panel. The display device comprises: a display panel; and a panel-like member bonded to the display panel with an adhesive made of an ultraviolet curable resin; wherein the adhesive includes a first adhesive portion and a second adhesive portion, the first adhesive portion being provided outside of a display area of the display panel and formed in a circular shape to surround the display area, the second adhesive portion prevailing in an area surrounded by the first adhesive portion, the first adhesive portion being different in a modulus of elasticity from the second adhesive portion, and wherein the modulus of elasticity of the second adhesive portion is smaller than the modulus of elasticity of the first adhesive portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Setsuo Kobayashi, Akira Ishii, Masanori Katsuyama, Shinji Tanabe, Kiyoshi Sento
  • Patent number: 8609748
    Abstract: Provided is a modified perovskite type composite oxide in which the dielectric characteristics are equal to or better than those prior to modification, there is no substantial elution of coating components from the modifying coating components, and change in the specific surface areas over time and elution of the A-site metals are suppressed effectively, while the cracking traits are good. A modified perovskite type composite oxide in which the particle surface of a perovskite type composite oxide is coated with a first component of at least one selected from TiO2 and SiO2 and a second component of at least one selected from a group consisting of Al, Zr, Nd, La, Ce, Pr, and Sm, wherein the coating is formed by hydrolyzing at least one selected from a hydrolyzable TiO2 precursor and a hydrolyzable SiO2 precursor as a source of the first component and a salt of at least one selected from a group consisting of Al, Zr, Nd, La, Ce, Pr, and Sm as a source of the second component, and then calcining them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinji Tanabe
  • Patent number: 8599342
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel including liquid crystal sandwiched between a pair of substrates is prepared. A light-transmitting reinforcing plate is prepared. A photocuring resin is provided between the liquid crystal display panel and the reinforcing plate. Light is irradiated to a side surface of a laminated body constituted of the liquid crystal display panel, the reinforcing plate and the photocuring resin. The photocuring resin is arranged to face the liquid crystal in an opposed manner. The light is allowed to advance to the inside of the photocuring resin from an edge portion of the photocuring resin. The light is allowed to advance to the inside of the reinforcing plate from an edge portion of the reinforcing plate, is propagated in the inside of the reinforcing plate, and is irradiated to the photocuring resin from the reinforcing plate at a position away from the edge portion of the reinforcing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Setsuo Kobayashi, Akira Ishii, Masanori Katsuyama, Shinji Tanabe, Kiyoshi Sento, Takeharu Furusawa
  • Publication number: 20130083272
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, there is provided a liquid crystal display panel in which a TFT substrate and a counter substrate are bonded together by a sealing material, with a liquid crystal sandwiched between the substrates. Further, a front window with a black border print formed in the periphery is bonded to the liquid crystal display panel by a UV curable resin. The liquid crystal, is filled by a drop method. The thickness of the TFT substrate and the counter substrate is reduced to about 0.2 mm toy polishing. An inner end of the black border print of the front window is inside an inner end or the sealing material, to prevent the counter substrate of the liquid crystal display panel from being deformed by stress generated In the curing of the UV curable resin, thereby preventing yellow discoloration in the periphery of the display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventors: Shinji TANABE, Setsuo KOBAYASHI, Katsuhiko ISHII, Akira ISHII, Kiyoshi SENTO
  • Publication number: 20130061877
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cleaning method using dry ice pellets that make it possible to efficiently peel off a UV resin. The cleaning method according to the present invention is a method for cleaning a surface of an object to be cleaned that is fixed to a fixture by blowing dry ice pellets against the above-described object using dry air. The dry air has a dew point of ?60° C. to ?80° C. A nozzle for jetting the dry air and the dry ice pellets against the surface of the object is provided, and the distance between the nozzle and the surface of the object is 5 mm to 70 mm. The shape of the nozzle in a cross-section is circular, elliptical or rectangular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventors: Emiko NAKAGAWA, Setsuo Kobayashi, Shinji Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20130016311
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device, including: a liquid crystal display panel; a plate-shaped component having a light permeable region, the plate-shaped component being disposed so as to face a display surface of the liquid crystal display panel; a pressure sensitive adhesive layer having light permeability, which is adhered under pressure onto the display surface of the liquid crystal display panel; and an adhesive layer having light permeability, which is adhered onto a surface of the plate-shaped component facing the display surface, in which the plate-shaped component is mounted on the liquid crystal display panel through intermediation of the pressure sensitive adhesive layer and the adhesive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Akira ISHII, Setsuo Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Ishll, Shinji Tanabe, Kiyoshi Sento
  • Patent number: 8319709
    Abstract: A display device of the invention includes a display panel attached to one face side of a light transmissive circuit board and a light transmissive substrate attached to the other face side of the circuit board. A mounted component is mounted on the other face side of the circuit board. The circuit board includes a light transmissive junction layer for joining the circuit board to the light transmissive substrate at a position avoiding the mounted component. The junction layer includes a core substrate formed of a resin, an adhesive layer formed on one face of the core substrate, and a bonding layer formed on the other face of the core substrate and cured. The adhesive layer is adhered to the circuit board, and the bonding layer is firmly fixed to the light transmissive substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ito, Kazunori Ojima, Hideaki Abe, Shinji Tanabe, Masayuki Yanagihara