Patents by Inventor Shiro Hirota
Shiro Hirota 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: 20240147625Abstract: A semiconductor storage device including a memory device, a first substrate, and a second substrate. The memory device includes chips or chip bonded bodies. The first substrate has a first main surface and a second main surface. The memory device is disposed on the first main surface. The second main surface is a main surface on a side opposite to the first main surface. The second substrate has a hollow portion, a third main surface, a fourth main surface, and a connector portion. The memory device is disposed in the hollow portion. The third main surface contacts the first main surface outside the hollow portion. The fourth main surface is a main surface on a side opposite to the third main surface. The connector portion is disposed at an edge portion outside the hollow portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Kioxia CorporationInventors: Akinobu HIROTA, Shiro HARASHIMA
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Publication number: 20190285951Abstract: This liquid crystal display device is provided with: a first substrate; a second substrate that faces the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer that is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate; and liquid crystal alignment films (a first alignment film and a second alignment film) that are formed on the first substrate and the second substrate, respectively. The first substrate and the second substrate respectively have an electrode on the liquid crystal layer side surfaces. At least one of the first alignment film and the second alignment film is a photo-alignment film. Each pixel has a plurality of alignment regions, in which the alignment directions of liquid crystal molecules are different from each other, within the pixel. The liquid crystal layer has negative dielectric anisotropy, while having a thickness of 2.9 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2017Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicant: JSR CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi MIYACHI, Yoshiaki MARUYAMA, Shiro HIROTA
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Patent number: 9069221Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a first substrate, with a plurality of bus lines formed thereon such that they intersect with each other, and a second substrate facing the first substrate. The device also includes a plurality of pixel regions defined by the bus lines; a thin film transistor formed in each of the pixel regions; a color filter layer formed in each of the pixel regions; and a pixel electrode formed in each of the pixel regions. A liquid crystal layer is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal layer is located next to a polymeric structure formed by irradiating a mixture of liquid crystal materials and ultraviolet-curing monomers with ultraviolet light, and a black display is achieved when no voltage or a subthreshold voltage is applied.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2013Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Yuichi Inoue, Masakazu Shibasaki, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Katsunori Misaki, Shiro Hirota
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Patent number: 9019216Abstract: Disclosed is a touch panel including an upper conductive layer; a lower conductive layer facing the upper conductive layer with an interval between the upper conductive layer; a capacitive sensing unit that detects a coordinate position by a capacitive coupling under a condition where a predetermined electric potential is applied to the upper conductive layer; and a resistive sensing unit that detects a coordinate position based on an electric potential at a position where the upper conductive layer and the lower conductive layer contact under a condition where a potential gradient is generated on either one of the upper conductive layer and the lower conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2012Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Fujitsu Component LimitedInventors: Satoshi Sakurai, Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Shiro Hirota, Norio Endo
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Publication number: 20130293797Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal display having the same, and a method of manufacturing the same which make it possible to provide a display having high luminance and preferable display characteristics to be used in display sections of information apparatuses and the like. Each pixel is defined by gate bus lines extending in the horizontal direction and drain bus lines extending in the vertical direction. TFTs are formed in the vicinity of intersections between the bus lines, and resin overlap sections for shielding the TFTs from light are formed above the same. No black matrix is formed on a common electrode substrate which is provided in a face-to-face relationship with a TFT substrate, and the bus lines and the resin overlap sections formed on the TFT substrate function as a black matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Yuichi Inoue, Masakazu Shibasaki, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Katsunori Misaki, Shiro Hirota
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Patent number: 8493534Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including first and second substrates and a liquid crystal layer therebetween. The device also includes a plurality of gate bus lines, and a plurality of drain bus lines that intersect the gate bus lines, as well as a plurality of pixel regions defined by the gate and drain bus lines. Additionally, the device includes a thin film transistor and a resin color filter layer formed in each of the pixel regions. There is a pixel electrode formed in each of the pixel regions on the resin color filter layer that includes a slit extending in parallel with an edge of the pixel region and a plurality of finer slits diagonally extending from the slit. Finally, the device includes a common electrode formed on the second substrate, and a vertical alignment film applied to each of surfaces of the substrates.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2012Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Yuichi Inoue, Masakazu Shibasaki, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Katsunori Misaki, Shiro Hirota
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Publication number: 20130021089Abstract: Disclosed is a touch panel including an upper conductive layer; a lower conductive layer facing the upper conductive layer with an interval between the upper conductive layer; a capacitive sensing unit that detects a coordinate position by a capacitive coupling under a condition where a predetermined electric potential is applied to the upper conductive layer; and a resistive sensing unit that detects a coordinate position based on an electric potential at a position where the upper conductive layer and the lower conductive layer contact under a condition where a potential gradient is generated on either one of the upper conductive layer and the lower conductive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2012Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITEDInventors: Satoshi Sakurai, Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Shiro Hirota, Norio Endo
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Publication number: 20120249910Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal display having the same, and a method of manufacturing the same which make it possible to provide a display having high luminance and preferable display characteristics to be used in display sections of information apparatuses and the like. Each pixel is defined by gate bus lines extending in the horizontal direction and drain bus lines extending in the vertical direction. TFTs are formed in the vicinity of intersections between the bus lines, and resin overlap sections for shielding the TFTs from light are formed above the same. No black matrix is formed on a common electrode substrate which is provided in a face-to-face relationship with a TFT substrate, and the bus lines and the resin overlap sections formed on the TFT substrate function as a black matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Yuichi Inoue, Masakazu Shibasaki, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Katsunori Misaki, Shiro Hirota
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Patent number: 8228473Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including first and second substrates, a liquid crystal layer, a plurality of gate bus lines and a plurality of drain bus lines. A plurality of pixel regions are defined by the gate bus lines and the drain bus lines. Pixel electrodes are divided into at least four regions such that at least four domains of different liquid crystal orientation directions are defined within the pixel regions. The first and second regions each include a micro-cutout pattern including a plurality of cutouts extending in a slanted direction with respect to an edge of the first or second region, respectively, and the cutouts of the first region and the cutouts of the second region are generally parallel to each other both within each of the regions as well as across the first and second regions.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2010Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Yuichi Inoue, Masakazu Shibasaki, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Katsunori Misaki, Shiro Hirota
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Patent number: 7940063Abstract: A coordinate detecting device includes a resistive film disposed on a quadrangular substrate; a power source for applying a voltage to the resistive film; four electrodes connected to the power source and disposed in four corners of the resistive film; four switches each disposed between the power source and a corresponding electrode; four ammeters for measuring currents flowing through corresponding electrodes; and a grounded conductive film for detecting coordinates of a contact point on the resistive film when the conductive film is brought in contact with the resistive film. The voltage is applied sequentially to the electrodes by opening and closing the switches. When the conductive film is brought in contact with the resistive film, the ammeters sequentially measure currents flowing through the corresponding electrodes. The coordinates of the contact point are detected based on positions of the electrodes and resistances obtained using the measured currents.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2009Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Fujitsu Component LimitedInventors: Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Koichi Kondoh, Shiro Hirota, Norio Endo
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Publication number: 20100231838Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal display having the same, and a method of manufacturing the same which make it possible to provide a display having high luminance and preferable display characteristics to be used in display sections of information apparatuses and the like. Each pixel is defined by gate bus lines extending in the horizontal direction and drain bus lines extending in the vertical direction. TFTs are formed in the vicinity of intersections between the bus lines, and resin overlap sections for shielding the TFTs from light are formed above the same. No black matrix is formed on a common electrode substrate which is provided in a face-to-face relationship with a TFT substrate, and the bus lines and the resin overlap sections formed on the TFT substrate function as a black matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2010Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Yuichi Inoue, Masakazu Shibasaki, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Katsunori Misaki, Shiro Hirota
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Publication number: 20100066955Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display of a CF-on-TFT structure in which a color filter is formed on the side of an array substrate in which a switching element is formed, and has an object to provide a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display, which enables simplification of a manufacturing process typified by a photolithography process and has high reliability. The substrate for use in the liquid crystal display is constructed to include external connection terminals which include first terminal electrodes electrically connected to gate bus lines led out from a plurality of pixel regions arranged on a glass substrate in a matrix form, second terminal electrodes formed of forming material of a pixel electrode and directly on the glass substrate, and electrode coupling regions for electrically connecting the first and the second terminal electrodes, and which electrically connect an external circuit and the gate bus lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atuyuki Hoshino, Shiro Hirota, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Masahiro Kihara, Katsunori Misaki, Seiji Doi, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Akihiro Matsui, Manabu Sawasaki, Masahiro Ikeda, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Takuya Saguchi, Hidetoshi Sukenori, Hiroyasu Inoue
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Publication number: 20090289643Abstract: A coordinate detecting device includes a resistive film disposed on a quadrangular substrate; a power source for applying a voltage to the resistive film; four electrodes connected to the power source and disposed in four corners of the resistive film; four switches each disposed between the power source and a corresponding electrode; four ammeters for measuring currents flowing through corresponding electrodes; and a grounded conductive film for detecting coordinates of a contact point on the resistive film when the conductive film is brought in contact with the resistive film. The voltage is applied sequentially to the electrodes by opening and closing the switches. When the conductive film is brought in contact with the resistive film, the ammeters sequentially measure currents flowing through the corresponding electrodes. The coordinates of the contact point are detected based on positions of the electrodes and resistances obtained using the measured currents.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2009Publication date: November 26, 2009Inventors: Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Koichi Kondoh, Shiro Hirota, Norio Endo
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Patent number: 7405781Abstract: A substrate for use in a liquid crystal display, including an insulating substrate cooperating with an oppositely arranged opposite substrate to hold a liquid crystal. A plurality of pixel regions are arranged on the insulating substrate in a matrix form, in each of which a switching element is formed. At least one resin color filter layer is formed on the pixel regions to cover the switching element. Additionally, at least one layer of the resin color filter layers of the plural colors has a cruciform-shaped pattern protruding to cover the switching elements of neighboring pixels when viewed in a direction of a normal of a substrate surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atuyuki Hoshino, Shiro Hirota, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Masahiro Kihara, Katsunori Misaki, Seiji Doi, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Akihiro Matsui, Manabu Sawasaki, Masahiro Ikeda, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Takuya Saguchi, Hidetoshi Sukenori, Hiroyasu Inoue
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Patent number: 7304699Abstract: A LCD panel is disclosed that provides improved performance of the frame area that surrounds the panel's display area. The frame area includes a transparent substrate, and color filters provided side-by-side on the transparent substrate, each of the color filters filtering one of at least two colors. The LCD panel is further constituted by a first electrode that counters the color filters, a second electrode that counters the first electrode, and liquid crystal that is inserted between the electrodes. Display spots are suppressed and the frame can appear in a desired color when the panel is in operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2004Date of Patent: December 4, 2007Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Ikeda, Manabu Sawasaki, Hidetoshi Sukenori, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Shiro Hirota
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Patent number: 7253439Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate for a display, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display having the same and provides a substrate for a display which can be manufactured through simple steps with high reliability, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display having the same. The substrate is configured to have a gate bus line, an OC layer formed on the gate bus line, a pixel electrode formed on the OC layer at each pixel region, and a gate terminal for electrically connecting an external circuit and the gate bus line.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2005Date of Patent: August 7, 2007Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsunori Misaki, Shiro Hirota
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Patent number: 7145619Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal display having the same, and a method of manufacturing the same which make it possible to provide a display having high luminance and preferable display characteristics to be used in display sections of information apparatuses and the like. Each pixel is defined by gate bus lines extending in the horizontal direction and drain bus lines extending in the vertical direction. TFTs are formed in the vicinity of intersections between the bus lines, and resin overlap sections for shielding the TFTs from light are formed above the same. No black matrix is formed on a common electrode substrate which is provided in a face-to-face relationship with a TFT substrate, and the bus lines and the resin overlap sections formed on the TFT substrate function as a black matrix.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2002Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Katsunori Misaki, Shiro Hirota
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Publication number: 20060125993Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display of a CF-on-TFT structure in which a color filter is formed on the side of an array substrate in which a switching element is formed, and has an object to provide a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display, which enables simplification of a manufacturing process typified by a photolithography process and has high reliability. The substrate for use in the liquid crystal display is constructed to include external connection terminals which include first terminal electrodes electrically connected to gate bus lines led out from a plurality of pixel regions arranged on a glass substrate in a matrix form, second terminal electrodes formed of forming material of a pixel electrode and directly on the glass substrate, and electrode coupling regions for electrically connecting the first and the second terminal electrodes, and which electrically connect an external circuit and the gate bus lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2006Publication date: June 15, 2006Inventors: Atuyuki Hoshino, Shiro Hirota, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Masahiro Kihara, Katsunori Misaki, Seiji Doi, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Akihiro Matsui, Manabu Sawasaki, Masahiro Ikeda, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Takuya Saguchi, Hidetoshi Sukenori, Hiroyasu Inoue
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Publication number: 20060125994Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display of a CF-on-TFT structure in which a color filter is formed on the side of an array substrate in which a switching element is formed, and has an object to provide a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display, which enables simplification of a manufacturing process typified by a photolithography process and has high reliability. The substrate for use in the liquid crystal display is constructed to include external connection terminals which include first terminal electrodes electrically connected to gate bus lines led out from a plurality of pixel regions arranged on a glass substrate in a matrix form, second terminal electrodes formed of forming material of a pixel electrode and directly on the glass substrate, and electrode coupling regions for electrically connecting the first and the second terminal electrodes, and which electrically connect an external circuit and the gate bus lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2006Publication date: June 15, 2006Inventors: Atuyuki Hoshino, Shiro Hirota, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Masahiro Kihara, Katsunori Misaki, Seiji Doi, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Akihiro Matsui, Manabu Sawasaki, Masahiro Ikeda, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Takuya Saguchi, Hidetoshi Sukenori, Hiroyasu Inoue
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Patent number: 7050137Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display of a CF-on-TFT structure in which a color filter is formed on the side of an array substrate in which a switching element is formed, and has an object to provide a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display, which enables simplification of a manufacturing process typified by a photolithography process and has high reliability. The substrate for use in the liquid crystal display is constructed to include external connection terminals which include first terminal electrodes electrically connected to gate bus lines led out from a plurality of pixel regions arranged on a glass substrate in a matrix form, second terminal electrodes formed of forming material of a pixel electrode and directly on the glass substrate, and electrode coupling regions for electrically connecting the first and the second terminal electrodes, and which electrically connect an external circuit and the gate bus lines.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2002Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atuyuki Hoshino, Shiro Hirota, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Masahiro Kihara, Katsunori Misaki, Seiji Doi, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Akihiro Matsui, Manabu Sawasaki, Masahiro Ikeda, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Takuya Saguchi, Hidetoshi Sukenori, Hiroyasu Inoue