Patents by Inventor Shunji Suzuki

Shunji Suzuki 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).

  • Publication number: 20040125317
    Abstract: Bubbles mixed in liquid crystal injected into a liquid crystal cell are pushed out through an outlet. The outlet has a space secured to a maximum limit by an extended sealing portion reaching the outer peripheral end surfaces of substrates, and a step with a color filter is formed. The pushed-out bubbles are surely trapped by the space of the outlet. In a replenishing port for replenishing liquid crystal, an introduction spacer having a height equal to that of the color filter is provided, and by a capillary phenomenon, liquid crystal for replenishment can be smoothly introduced into the liquid crystal cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Shunji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6678029
    Abstract: Bubbles mixed in liquid crystal injected into a liquid crystal cell are pushed out through an outlet. The outlet has a space secured to a maximum limit by an extended sealing portion reaching the outer peripheral end surfaces of substrates, and a step with a color filter is formed. The pushed-out bubbles are surely trapped by the space of the outlet. In a replenishing port for replenishing liquid crystal, an introduction spacer having a height equal to that of the color filter is provided, and by a capillary phenomenon, liquid crystal for replenishment can be smoothly introduced into the liquid crystal cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Shunji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6672654
    Abstract: A vehicle body frame hollow member has an external contour whose cross section forms a polygon and has a plurality of plates, each defining a circumferential wall of the hollow member, each of points of intersection being formed by intersecting prolongations from exterior surfaces of the adjacent two plates, ribs connecting respective apical angles of the polygon with a center shaft thereof; and an elongated projection projecting outwardly of a circle tangent to the points of intersection and extending along an edge of each of the apical angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayuki Yamada, Yuta Urushiyama, Shunji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6665034
    Abstract: A rubbing direction (X) for each upper substrate of a tile panel constituting a liquid crystal panel unit is set along a horizontal direction (H) of the liquid crystal panel unit, a rubbing direction (Y) for each lower substrate of the tile panel is set along a vertical direction (V) thereof, and absorption axes (S) of polarizing plates and are allowed to coincide with the horizontal direction (H) of the liquid crystal panel unit. Moreover, in a set of four tile panels, the rubbing directions (X) and (Y) are made to differ from one another, thus viewing directions (Z) of high contrast are distributed into four directions, and turning directions (reference codes (R) and (L)) of liquid crystal molecules in the respective tile panels are arranged alternately in the horizontal direction (H) of the liquid crystal panel unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Shunji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6661481
    Abstract: A display panel complex includes a plurality of image display panels arranged on the same plane and a joint for joining adjacent image display panels to each other among the plurality of image display panels. The joint is made of opaque particles having an opaqueness and an adhesive resin for dispersing and holding the opaque particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Shunji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6652821
    Abstract: The present invention provides a purifying agent having an effect of removing or decomposing toxic substances contained in flue gas or incinerated ash. The purifying agent of the present invention contains one or more kinds of salts selected from alkali metal silicates, fluoride ion, hydrogencarbonate ion, and water-soluble alcohols or derivatives thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Inventors: Yasuo Fukutani, Yoshiyuki Futahashi, Yukio Wada, Eiichiro Nakayama, Kikuko Fukutani, Masami Kojima, Kosuke Wada, Masayoshi Uchida, Shunji Suzuki, Naoya Fujii
  • Patent number: 6573957
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide the liquid crystal display (LCD) device with a structure which can prevent the light of a back light from being passing through a bonding region, and can prevent the TFTs of the pixel regions from being damaged by the accumulated electrostatic charges, during the handling of each discrete LCD panel, the rubbing process of the alignment layer on the lower glass substrate 1, the assembling process of the LCD panels, and the handling of the completed tiling panel. The present invention is directed to a LCD device comprising a first LCD panel and a second LCD panel; wherein one edge of the first LCD panel is positioned in proximity and adjacent to one edge of the second LCD panel; and wherein a light shielding and electrically conductive adhesive bonds the one edge of the first LCD panel and the one edge of the second LCD panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Shunji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20030042763
    Abstract: A vehicle body frame hollow member has an external contour whose cross section forms a polygon and has a plurality of plates, each defining a circumferential wall of the hollow member, each of points of intersection being formed by intersecting prolongations from exterior surfaces of the adjacent two plates, ribs connecting respective apical angles of the polygon with a center shaft thereof; and an elongated projection projecting outwardly of a circle tangent to the points of intersection and extending along an edge of each of the apical angles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Applicant: HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Yamada, Yuta Urushiyama, Shunji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6518225
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a water-base lubricating fluid or a water-base hydraulic fluid in place of an oily liquid which has been used as a lubricating oil or a hydraulic oil applied onto the operating part of a machine and a device. The lubricating fluid of the present invention comprises fluoride ion, hydrogencarbonate ion, and water-soluble alcohols or their derivatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Inventors: Yasuo Fukutani, Kikuko Fukutani, Yukio Wada, Eiichiro Nakayama, Yoshiyuki Futahashi, Chiyo Wada, Naomi Kitagawa, Mie Fukutani, Kosuke Wada, Shinya Fukushima, Sadayuki Futahashi, Yuko Okamoto, Sadao Futahashi, Kazuma Suzuki, Tamiko Tsuruta, Shunji Suzuki, Hitohiro Fukutani
  • Patent number: 6515723
    Abstract: The present invention solves a first problem, that the damage of the TFTs on the LCD panel of the tiling panel due to the ESD during the rubbing operation and other process, and a second problem that various kinds of lower glass substrate 1 and various kinds of upper glass substrate 2 are required to provide the tiling panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Shunji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20030012948
    Abstract: A resin bonded rare earth magnet, compression molded from rare earth-transition alloy powder and thermosetting resin, having a magnet body 1 comprising a mixture of thermosetting resin and rare earth-transition alloy powder with a particle size of between 20 and 300 microns, a filling material 3 with particle size between 0.1 and 15 microns which is used to fill in the depressions 2 on the surface of said magnet 1 and is then fixed with said thermosetting resin, and a corrosion inhibiting coat 4 made from synthetic resin applied to the surface of said magnet 1 which has been rendered smooth by the application of said filling material into the depressions on its surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 1999
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: TOSHIHIKO MIURA, MASAHITO KAWASAKI, SHUNJI SUZUKI, SHUICHI NISHIDA
  • Patent number: 6491210
    Abstract: A method of butt welding is performed in the following steps: a step of pressing first and second blank materials onto first and second loading bases respectively by clamping devices thereby fixing them; a step of shearing end surfaces of the first and second blank materials thereby forming joint surfaces; and a step of performing butt welding on each of the joint surfaces of the first and second blank materials while these blank materials are maintained in fixed state where the first and second blank materials are pressed by the clamping devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20020154264
    Abstract: A display panel, laminated substrate, and liquid crystal cell which includes a pair of facing substrates bonded together with a sealing material. One or both of the substrates includes at least one corner portion on which a plurality of protruding pads are formed, the pads assisting in dispersion of the sealing material during bonding of the substrates to prevent sealing material from moving inwardly and possibly adversely affecting the display region of the resulting structure. A method of making such a laminated substrate is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2002
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Shunji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6456354
    Abstract: The present invention features designs of pixels and designs of control features for seals on AMLCD tiles optimized for tiling AMLCD flat panel displays (FPDs) which have visually imperceptible seams. The FPD structure has an image view plane which is continuous and remote from the pixel apertures or image source plane on the inside of the tiles. The image is formed on the view plane by a distributed ultra low magnification flies-eye optical system (a screen) that is integrated with the tiles, effectively excluding and obscuring an image of the seams. The innovations described herein minimize the defects on the perimeter pixels by effectively damming the waviness of the front of the seal near the perimeter pixels on the tiles. Dark space required for the seal between the interior tile edges and active regions of the pixels is decreased, as is the space allocated for wiring thereby increasing the feasible aperture ratios near the mosaic edges and all apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Rainbow Displays, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond G. Greene, Donald P. Seraphim, Dean W. Skinner, Boris Yost, Kohichi Miwa, Michikazu Noguchi, Shunji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6448207
    Abstract: A metal working fluid, having excellent properties, contains a metal stearate, a carbonate, a hydrogencarbonate, and a surfactant. The metal working fluid may further contain ethyleneglycol and a rust inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignees: Kikuko Fukutani, Mie Tanaka
    Inventors: Kikuko Fukutani, Mie Tanaka, Eiichiro Nakayama, Yoshiki Ueno, Shinya Fukushima, Kosuke Wada, Shunji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20020089621
    Abstract: A rubbing direction (X) for each upper substrate of a tile panel constituting a liquid crystal panel unit is set along a horizontal direction (H) of the liquid crystal panel unit, a rubbing direction (Y) for each lower substrate of the tile panel is set along a vertical direction (V) thereof, and absorption axes (S) of polarizing plates and are allowed to coincide with the horizontal direction (H) of the liquid crystal panel unit. Moreover, in a set of four tile panels, the rubbing directions (X) and (Y) are made to differ from one another, thus viewing directions (Z) of high contrast are distributed into four directions, and turning directions (reference codes (R) and (L)) of liquid crystal molecules in the respective tile panels are arranged alternately in the horizontal direction (H) of the liquid crystal panel unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2002
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Shunji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6365314
    Abstract: A toner for developing electrostatic images. having a uniform composition and uniform performances over varying sizes of toner particles is constituted by (a) a binder resin, (b) a long-chain alkyl compound and (c) a specific azo-type iron complex. The long-chain alkyl compound is represented by the following formula (1), (2) or (3): CH3&Parenopenst;CH2&Parenclosest;xCH2OH  (1),  CH3&Parenopenst;CH2&Parenclosest;yCH2COOH (3), wherein x and y independently denote an average value in the range of 35-150.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Tomiyama, Takaaki Kohtaki, Manabu Ohno, Makoto Unno, Yushi Mikuriya, Nobuyuki Okubo, Tadashi Doujo, Shunji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20020012094
    Abstract: Bubbles mixed in liquid crystal injected into a liquid crystal cell are pushed out through an outlet. The outlet has a space secured to a maximum limit by an extended sealing portion reaching the outer peripheral end surfaces of substrates, and a step with a color filter is formed. The pushed-out bubbles are surely trapped by the space of the outlet. In a replenishing port for replenishing liquid crystal, an introduction spacer having a height equal to that of the color filter is provided, and by a capillary phenomenon, liquid crystal for replenishment can be smoothly introduced into the liquid crystal cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2001
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Inventor: Shunji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20010046007
    Abstract: The present invention features designs of pixels and designs of control features for seals on AMLCD tiles optimized for tiling AMLCD flat panel displays (FPDs) which have visually imperceptible seams. The FPD structure has an image view plane which is continuous and remote from the pixel apertures or image source plane on the inside of the tiles. The image is formed on the view plane by a distributed ultra low magnification flies-eye optical system (a screen) that is integrated with the tiles, effectively excluding and obscuring an image of the seams. The innovations described herein minimize the defects on the perimeter pixels by effectively damming the waviness of the front of the seal near the perimeter pixels on the tiles. Dark space required for the seal between the interior tile edges and active regions of the pixels is decreased, as is the space allocated for wiring thereby increasing the feasible aperture ratios near the mosaic edges and all apertures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 1999
    Publication date: November 29, 2001
    Inventors: RAYMOND G. GREENE, DONALD P. SERAPHIM, DEAN W. SKINNER, BORIS YOST, KOHICHI MIWA, MICHIKAZU NOGUCHI, SHUNJI SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 6317186
    Abstract: A method for applying the sealing material onto the corner regions of the substrate to realize the liquid crystal cell with large display region. A protrude region 100 is formed on each of the side regions adjacent to a display region of a first substrate 20. A difference of level is formed at each boundary of the side region and the corner region on one surface of the first substrate 20 for providing the corner region with a height which is lower than a height of the side region. A sealing material 30 is applied on the side regions and the corner regions on the one surface of the first substrate 20 by a tool for dispensing the sealing material 30. When a second substrate 10 is positioned on the applied sealing material 30 on one surface of the first substrate 20, a distance between the first substrate 20 and the second substrate 10 is decreased and the sealing material 30 applied on the first substrate 20 is collapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Miwa, Michikazu Noquchi, Shunji Suzuki, Ho Chong Lee, Donald Philip Seraphim, Dean William Skinner