Patents by Inventor Takafumi Noda

Takafumi Noda 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: 11973318
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a substrate, and a laminated structure provided to the substrate, and including a columnar part, wherein the columnar part includes a first GaN layer having a first conductivity type, a second GaN layer having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, and a light emitting layer disposed between the first GaN layer and the second GaN layer, the first GaN layer is disposed between the substrate and the light emitting layer, the light emitting layer has a first well layer as an InGaN layer, the first GaN layer has a c-face region, the first GaN layer has a crystal structure of a cubical crystal, and has a first layer constituting the c-face region, and a second layer as a GaN layer having a crystal structure of a hexagonal crystal is disposed between the first layer and the first well layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, SOPHIA SCHOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Noda, Shunsuke Ishizawa, Katsumi Kishino
  • Patent number: 11947249
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a first layer made of a semiconductor monocrystal, a second layer provided at the first layer and having a crystal orientation not continuous with the crystal orientation of the first layer, and a columnar crystal structure including a light emitting layer and extending from the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Noda, Hideki Hahiro, Tetsuji Fujita, Atsushi Ito, Koichiro Akasaka, Yasutaka Imai, Michifumi Nagawa
  • Publication number: 20240013938
    Abstract: An object is to change reactor core thermal output. A nuclear reactor includes an annular fuel layer and a heat conductive layer stacked on the fuel layer and extending around a periphery of the fuel layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shota Kobayashi, Satoru Kamohara, Yasutaka Harai, Tadakatsu Yodo, Shohei Otsuki, Nozomu Murakami, Wataru Nakazato, Takashi Hasegawa, Yutaka Tanaka, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Hironori Noguchi, Hideyuki Kudo, Takafumi Noda, Kazuhiro Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20230386686
    Abstract: An object is to efficiently take heat out of a reactor core while retaining fission products. Included are fuel part provided with a covering part on a surface of a nuclear fuel and a heat conductive part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Nozomu Murakami, Wataru Nakazato, Takashi Hasegawa, Satoru Kamohara, Yasutaka Harai, Tadakatsu Yodo, Shota Kobayashi, Shohei Otsuki, Yutaka Tanaka, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Hironori Noguchi, Hideyuki Kudo, Takafumi Noda, Kazuhiro Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20230360812
    Abstract: Provided is a nuclear reactor unit that can reduce a temperature increase in a reactor core at the occurrence of an abnormality with a simple structure. Included are a reactor core having radioactive fuel and causing the radioactive fuel to cause a nuclear reaction and a nuclear reactor vessel housing the reactor core and hermetically sealing the reactor core. The nuclear reactor vessel includes an inner shroud covering the entire periphery of the reactor core and an outer shroud covering the entire periphery of the inner shroud. A first space formed by the outer shroud and the inner shroud is in a vacuum condition. The inner shroud includes a main body and a communicating part placed in part of the main body and communicating the first space to a second space, which is a space inside the inner shroud, when the reactor core reaches a threshold temperature or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutaka HARAI, Satoru KAMOHARA, Tadakatsu YODO, Shota KOBAYASHI, Shohei OTSUKI, Nozomu MURAKAMI, Wataru NAKAZATO, Takashi HASEGAWA, Yutaka TANAKA, Tatsuo ISHIGURO, Hironori NOGUCHI, Hideyuki KUDO, Takafumi NODA, Kazuhiro YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230110039
    Abstract: Heat can be stably extracted with easy criticality control. A nuclear reactor includes: a fuel portion being a reactor core having a nuclear fuel body; a shielding portion covering all over outer sides of the fuel portion to shield against radiations generated from the reactor core; and a thermal conduction part that conducts heat generated in the reactor core to exterior of the shield part. The nuclear fuel body contains a fissile material with an enrichment not less than 5% by weight throughout an operation period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru Nakazato, Hideaki Ikeda, Takashi Hasegawa, Nozomu Murakami, Tadakatsu Yodo, Shohei Otsuki, Satoru Kamohara, Shota Kobayashi, Yasutaka Harai, Yutaka Tanaka, Takafumi Noda, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Hideyuki Sakata, Hironori Noguchi, Hideyuki Kudo, Tatsuo Ishiguro
  • Publication number: 20230090522
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a substrate; first column portions provided at the substrate; a plurality of second column portions provided at the substrate and that surround the first column portions as viewed from a normal direction of the substrate; a first semiconductor layer coupled to the first column portions; an insulating layer covering the first semiconductor layer and the second column portions; and a wiring line electrically coupled to the first semiconductor layer. Each of the first column portions and each of the second column portions includes an n-type second semiconductor layer, a p-type third semiconductor layer, and a u-type fourth semiconductor layer. The fourth semiconductor layer at each of the first column portions is injected with current to emit light. The fourth semiconductor layer at each of the second column portions is not injected with current. The wiring line overlaps at least one of the second column portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicants: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, SOPHIA SCHOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki JIROKU, Takafumi NODA, Katsumi KISHINO
  • Publication number: 20220319724
    Abstract: Ensuring a high output temperature while preventing leakage of radioactive substances, etc. A nuclear reactor includes a fuel unit; a shield unit that covers a circumference of the fuel unit for shielding from radioactive rays; and a heat conductive portion that penetrates the shield unit, is arranged such that the heat conductive portion extends to inside of the fuel unit and outside of the shield unit, and transfers heat of the fuel unit to the outside of the shield unit by solid heat conduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kudo, Hironori Noguchi, Koichi Tanimoto, Yuichi Otani, Yutaka Tanaka, Takafumi Noda, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Hideyuki Sakata, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Hideaki Ikeda, Satoru Kamohara, Shohei Otsuki, Nozomu Murakami, Wataru Nakazato, Takashi Hasegawa, Tadakatsu Yodo, Yasutaka Harai, Shota Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220311205
    Abstract: A light emitting device is provided including a switching element. The light emitting device includes a light emitting unit having a plurality of nanostructures that can emit lights with injection of currents, and a transistor provided in correspondence with the light emitting unit and controlling amounts of the currents injected in the nanostructures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventor: Takafumi NODA
  • Patent number: 11430659
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a substrate; and a laminated structure provided at the substrate and having a plurality of columnar parts. The columnar part has: an n-type first semiconductor layer; a p-type second semiconductor layer; a light-emitting layer provided between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer; and an electrode provided on a side opposite to a side of the substrate, of the laminated structure. The first semiconductor layer is provided between the light-emitting layer and the substrate. An end part on a side opposite to a side of the substrate, of the light-emitting layer, has a first facet surface. An end part on a side opposite to a side of the substrate, of the second semiconductor layer, has a second facet surface. A relation of ?2??1 is satisfied, where ?1 is a taper angle of the first facet surface, and ?2 is a taper angle of the second facet surface. ?1 is 70° or smaller, and ?2 is 30° or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Inventors: Takafumi Noda, Katsumi Kishino
  • Patent number: 11394171
    Abstract: A light emitting device is provided including a switching element. The light emitting device includes a light emitting unit having a plurality of nanostructures that can emit lights with injection of currents, and a transistor provided in correspondence with the light emitting unit and controlling amounts of the currents injected in the nanostructures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Inventor: Takafumi Noda
  • Patent number: 11380820
    Abstract: In a light emitting device, a columnar part includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer different in conductivity type from the first semiconductor layer, and a light emitting layer disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, the first semiconductor layer is disposed between the substrate and the light emitting layer, the light emitting layer includes a first layer, and a second layer larger in bandgap than the first layer, the first semiconductor layer has a facet plane, the first layer has a facet plane, the facet plane of the first semiconductor layer is provided with the first layer, and ?2>?1, in which ?1 is a tilt angle of the facet plane of the first semiconductor layer with respect to a surface of the substrate provided with the laminated structure, and ?2 is a tilt angle of the facet plane of the first layer provided to the facet plane of the first semiconductor layer with respect to the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Inventors: Takafumi Noda, Katsumi Kishino
  • Publication number: 20220199861
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes n columnar parts, and an electrode configured to inject an electrical current into the n columnar parts, wherein each of the n columnar parts includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer different in conductivity type from the first semiconductor layer, and a light emitting layer disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, when viewed from a stacking direction of the first semiconductor layer and the light emitting layer, p first columnar parts out of the n columnar parts fail to overlap an outer edge of the electrode, q second columnar parts out of the n columnar parts overlap the outer edge of the electrode, a number of the second columnar parts centers of which overlap the electrode out of the q second columnar parts is larger than a number of the second columnar parts centers of which fail to overlap the electrode, and n=p+q is fulfilled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Takafumi Noda, Yoji Kitano
  • Publication number: 20220200233
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a substrate, a transistor, a light emitting element, and an interconnection configured to electrically couple the transistor and the light emitting element to each other, wherein the transistor includes a first impurity region provided to the substrate, a second impurity region which is provided to the substrate, and is same in conductivity type as the first impurity region, and a gate, the light emitting element has a stacked body having a plurality of columnar parts, each of the columnar parts includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a light emitting layer, the first semiconductor layer is disposed between the substrate and the light emitting layer, the interconnection is a third impurity region provided to the substrate, the stacked body is provided to the third impurity region, the third impurity region is same in conductivity type as the first semiconductor layer, the third impurity region is electrically coupled to the first semiconductor l
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Takafumi NODA, Yoji KITANO
  • Publication number: 20220115843
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a substrate, and a laminated structure provided to the substrate, and including a columnar part, wherein the columnar part includes a first GaN layer having a first conductivity type, a second GaN layer having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, and a light emitting layer disposed between the first GaN layer and the second GaN layer, the first GaN layer is disposed between the substrate and the light emitting layer, the light emitting layer has a first well layer as an InGaN layer, the first GaN layer has a c-face region, the first GaN layer has a crystal structure of a cubical crystal, and has a first layer constituting the c-face region, and a second layer as a GaN layer having a crystal structure of a hexagonal crystal is disposed between the first layer and the first well layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicants: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, SOPHIA SCHOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi NODA, Shunsuke ISHIZAWA, Katsumi KISHINO
  • Publication number: 20220093827
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a first layer made of a semiconductor monocrystal, a second layer provided at the first layer and having a crystal orientation not continuous with the crystal orientation of the first layer, and a columnar crystal structure including a light emitting layer and extending from the second layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Takafumi NODA, Hideki HAHIRO, Tetsuji FUJITA, Atsushi ITO, Koichiro AKASAKA, Yasutaka IMAI, Michifumi NAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11258232
    Abstract: A light emitter includes a substrate, a first semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, a light emitting layer provided between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer and capable of emitting light when current is injected into the light emitting layer, and a third semiconductor layer provided between the substrate and the first semiconductor layer and having the second conductivity type, in which the first semiconductor layer is provided between the third semiconductor layer and the light emitting layer, and the third semiconductor layer has a protruding/recessed structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventors: Takafumi Noda, Yoji Kitano
  • Publication number: 20220037850
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a laminated structure having a plurality of columnar parts, wherein the columnar part includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer different in conductivity type from the first semiconductor layer, and a third semiconductor layer disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, the third semiconductor layer includes a light emitting layer, and the second semiconductor layer includes a first portion, and a second portion which surrounds the first portion in a plan view from a laminating direction of the first semiconductor layer and the light emitting layer, and is lower in impurity concentration than the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicants: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, SOPHIA SCHOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyasu KASEYA, Takafumi NODA, Katsumi KISHINO
  • Patent number: 10923624
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus including a substrate, an imaging device provided on the substrate, and a light emitting device provided on the substrate and having a plurality of nano-structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Inventor: Takafumi Noda
  • Publication number: 20210043457
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a substrate; and a laminated structure provided at the substrate and having a plurality of columnar parts. The columnar part has: an n-type first semiconductor layer; a p-type second semiconductor layer; a light-emitting layer provided between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer; and an electrode provided on a side opposite to a side of the substrate, of the laminated structure. The first semiconductor layer is provided between the light-emitting layer and the substrate. An end part on a side opposite to a side of the substrate, of the light-emitting layer, has a first facet surface. An end part on a side opposite to a side of the substrate, of the second semiconductor layer, has a second facet surface. A relation of ?2??1 is satisfied, where ?1 is a taper angle of the first facet surface, and ?2 is a taper angle of the second facet surface. ?1 is 70° or smaller, and ?2 is 30° or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Takafumi NODA, Katsumi KISHINO