Patents by Inventor Tadashi Okamoto

Tadashi Okamoto 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: 20230305342
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of first color filters not intersecting a non-linear portion with at least a part of an outer shape of a display region being non-linear, a plurality of second color filters at least part of which intersects the non-linear portion, a first region with the plurality of first color filters disposed, a second region with the plurality of second color filters disposed, a first light blocking portion partitioning the plurality of first color filters, a second light blocking portion partitioning the plurality of second color filters, and a spacer. An overlapping area of the second light blocking portion with respect to the plurality of second color filters is larger than that of the first light blocking portion with respect to the plurality of first color filters. A distribution density of the spacer in the second region is lower than that in the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiro DATE, Kazuhide AKITA, Eiji SHINOHARA, Shota NOZAKI, Tadashi OKAMOTO, Kazuyoshi HAMANAKA, Hiroto AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 9263374
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes, a lead frame having a die pad and a plurality of leads each disposed around the die pad, a semiconductor element rested on the die pad of the lead frame, and bonding wires for electrically interconnecting the lead of the lead frame and the semiconductor element. The lead frame, the semiconductor element, and the bonding wires are sealed with a sealing resin section. The sealing resin section includes a central region provided over and around the semiconductor device, and a marginal region provided in the periphery of the central region. Thickness of the central region is greater than that of the marginal region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masachika Masuda, Koji Tomita, Tadashi Okamoto, Yasunori Tanaka, Hiroshi Ohsawa, Kazuyuki Miyano, Atsushi Kurahashi, Hiromichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9248445
    Abstract: A liquid discharging device includes a plurality of liquid discharge sections. Each liquid discharge section includes a reservoir, a nozzle that discharges a solution supplied from the reservoir, and discharge energy generating means that generates energy to discharge the solution from the nozzle. The number of the liquid discharge sections corresponds to the number of probe types to be formed. The nozzles are two-dimensionally arranged. Using this liquid discharging device, probe liquids are discharged from the corresponding reservoirs onto a solid-phase substrate to form a predetermined two-dimensional probe array of high-purity probes on the substrate. This process exhibits high reproducibility and processability, and the resulting probe array has high array density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadashi Okamoto, Nobuko Yamamoto, Hidenori Watanabe, Tomohiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8628949
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a probe carrier in which ambient humidity for a plurality of nozzles of a liquid ejection device for ejecting droplets of solutions containing probes to the surface of a carrier is controlled to 50% or more, preferably 60% or more. A part of solution supply passages to the plurality of nozzles is constructed from gas permeable membranes permitting gas-liquid separation under reduced pressure. These gas permeable membrane portions are gathered and altogether placed under reduced pressure to remove air bubbles from the respective solutions supplied to the plural nozzles and decrease the amount of a dissolved gas, which causes air bubbles to be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Kameyama, Nobuyuki Okamura, Tadashi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8447507
    Abstract: A navigation system comprising a receiver module that receives a stream for a broadcast content and a control unit in communication with the receiver module. The control unit determines whether the stream for the broadcast content contains information that matches to a keyword from a stored list of keywords, identifies a landmark that is associated with the keyword, determines whether a position information for the landmark resides with a map area to be displayed by the navigation system according to a detected position for the navigation system, and prompts a map area display of the map area having a landmark display for the landmark that is superimposed within the map area display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8436535
    Abstract: An information acquisition method for acquiring information on a target object, that includes a step of promoting ionization of the target object using a substance for promoting ionization of the target object to cause the target object to emit, and a step of acquiring information on the mass of the flew target object using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hashimoto, Katsuaki Kuge, Manabu Komatsu, Kumi Nakamura, Kazuhiro Ban, Takeshi Imamura, Shin Kobayashi, Tadashi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8181795
    Abstract: A polymer membrane for water treatment contained a chlorinated vinyl chloride resin with a chlorine content of 58 to 73.2%. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide polymer membranes for water treatment that, along with being able to achieve sufficient filtration capacity and water permeability, have extremely high strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Tamai, Saki Tanimura, Naotaka Oyabu, Ryuichi Matsuo, Takashi Osugi, Yuki Goto, Tadashi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20120097605
    Abstract: A polymer membrane for water treatment contained a chlorinated vinyl chloride resin with a chlorine content of 58 to 73.2%. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide polymer membranes for water treatment that, along with being able to achieve sufficient filtration capacity and water permeability, have extremely high strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Inventors: Toshihiro Tamai, Saki Tanimura, Naotaka Oyabu, Ryuichi Matsuo, Takashi Osugi, Yuki Goto, Tadashi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20120074544
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes, a lead frame having a die pad and a plurality of leads each disposed around the die pad, a semiconductor element rested on the die pad of the lead frame, and bonding wires for electrically interconnecting the lead of the lead frame and the semiconductor element. The lead frame, the semiconductor element, and the bonding wires are sealed with a sealing resin section. The sealing resin section includes a central region provided over and around the semiconductor device, and a marginal region provided in the periphery of the central region. Thickness of the central region is greater than that of the marginal region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masachika MASUDA, Koji TOMITA, Tadashi OKAMOTO, Yasunori TANAKA, Hiroshi OHSAWA, Kazuyuki MIYANO, Atsushi KURAHASHI, Hiromichi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 8138458
    Abstract: The invention performs uniform chemical reactions with high efficiency by action of microwave onto reaction targets placed within a flow path along a center axis of a waveguide for transmission of microwave. The microwave chemical reaction device includes a circular waveguide for transmission of TM or TE mode microwave or a square waveguide for transmission of TE mode microwave and a flow path shielded from a space within the waveguide by a bulkhead of low microwave loss and coaxially extending along the center axis of the waveguide. Reaction targets to be subjected to chemical reactions are accommodated in the flow path and the microwave acts on the reaction targets within the flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha IDX
    Inventors: Tadashi Okamoto, Eiji Matsuo, Masahiro Yasuda
  • Patent number: 7994297
    Abstract: Provided is a method of spotting a probe densely and efficiently on a surface of a solid support. A liquid containing a probe is attached to a solid support as droplets to form spots containing the probe on the solid support by an ink jet method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadashi Okamoto, Nobuko Yamamoto, Tomohiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7974782
    Abstract: Disclosed are a navigation system and/or a point information display method and a program. The navigation system consists mainly of: a stream receiver that receives broadcast streams; a data decoder that samples a data signal from the received streams and decodes the data signal into character string information; a matching block that performs matching to compare a predetermined keyword, which is associated with position information specified in map information data, with stored keywords and searches a keyword consistent with the keyword contained in the character string information; a position information searching block that searches position information associated with the keyword contained in the character string information and detected to be consistent with a stored keyword by the matching block; and a display unit that displays the detected position information while superimposing it on a display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 7942192
    Abstract: In an air conditioner constructed to pass an air introduced into an air conditioning unit through an evaporator and a heater core both arranged in the unit, cooler pipes for the evaporator and heater pipes for the heater core are arranged to extend from the same side wall of the air conditioning unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Japan Climate Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiro Yamamoto, Tadashi Okamoto, Hideaki Yasuda, Hiroshi Mayumi, Morihito Tsukuda, Kenichiro Higashi, Keiji Koga, Yoshinori Aono
  • Patent number: 7886814
    Abstract: In an air conditioner constructed to pass an air introduced into an air conditioning unit through an evaporator and a heater core both arranged in the unit, cooler pipes for the evaporator and heater pipes for the heater core are arranged to extend from the same side wall of the air conditioning unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Japan Climate Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiro Yamamoto, Tadashi Okamoto, Hideaki Yasuda, Hiroshi Mayumi, Morihito Tsukuda, Kenichiro Higashi, Keiji Koga, Yoshinori Aono
  • Patent number: 7856316
    Abstract: Disclosed are a navigation system and/or a point information display method and a program. The navigation system consists mainly of: a stream receiver that receives broadcast streams; a data decoder that samples a data signal from the received streams and decodes the data signal into character string information; a matching block that performs matching to compare a predetermined keyword, which is associated with position information specified in map information data, with stored keywords and searches a keyword consistent with the keyword contained in the character string information; a position information searching block that searches position information associated with the keyword contained in the character string information and detected to be consistent with a stored keyword by the matching block; and a display unit that displays the detected position information while superimposing it on a display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20100274477
    Abstract: Disclosed are a navigation system and/or a point information display method and a program. The navigation system consists mainly of: a stream receiver that receives broadcast streams; a data decoder that samples a data signal from the received streams and decodes the data signal into character string information; a matching block that performs matching to compare a predetermined keyword, which is associated with position information specified in map information data, with stored keywords and searches a keyword consistent with the keyword contained in the character string information; a position information searching block that searches position information associated with the keyword contained in the character string information and detected to be consistent with a stored keyword by the matching block; and a display unit that displays the detected position information while superimposing it on a display image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20100267589
    Abstract: A liquid discharging device includes a plurality of liquid discharge sections. Each liquid discharge section includes a reservoir, a nozzle that discharges a solution supplied from the reservoir, and discharge energy generating means that generates energy to discharge the solution from the nozzle. The number of the liquid discharge sections corresponds to the number of probe types to be formed. The nozzles are two-dimensionally arranged. Using this liquid discharging device, probe liquids are discharged from the corresponding reservoirs onto a solid-phase substrate to form a predetermined two-dimensional probe array of high-purity probes on the substrate. This process exhibits high reproducibility and processability, and the resulting probe array has high array density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadashi Okamoto, Nobuko Yamamoto, Hidenori Watanabe, Tomohiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20100235086
    Abstract: Disclosed are a navigation system and/or a point information display method and a program. The navigation system consists mainly of: a stream receiver that receives broadcast streams; a data decoder that samples a data signal from the received streams and decodes the data signal into character string information; a matching block that performs matching to compare a predetermined keyword, which is associated with position information specified in map information data, with stored keywords and searches a keyword consistent with the keyword contained in the character string information; a position information searching block that searches position information associated with the keyword contained in the character string information and detected to be consistent with a stored keyword by the matching block; and a display unit that displays the detected position information while superimposing it on a display image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20100227308
    Abstract: An information acquisition method for acquiring information on a target object, that includes a step of promoting ionization of the target object using a substance for promoting ionization of the target object to cause the target object to emit, and a step of acquiring information on the mass of the flew target object using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hashimoto, Katsuaki Kuge, Manabu Komatsu, Kumi Nakamura, Kazuhiro Ban, Takeshi Imamura, Shin Kobayashi, Tadashi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20100205630
    Abstract: A navigation system comprising a receiver module that receives a stream for a broadcast content and a control unit in communication with the receiver module. The control unit determines whether the stream for the broadcast content contains information that matches to a keyword from a stored list of keywords, identifies a landmark that is associated with the keyword, determines whether a position information for the landmark resides with a map area to be displayed by the navigation system according to a detected position for the navigation system, and prompts a map area display of the map area having a landmark display for the landmark that is superimposed within the map area display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tadashi Okamoto