Patents by Inventor Takahiro Yoshikawa

Takahiro Yoshikawa 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: 20210027970
    Abstract: There is provided an optical member that can achieve a liquid crystal display apparatus having high brightness, an excellent hue, and a high color rendering property. An optical member according to the present invention includes, in the stated order: a first barrier layer; a first wavelength conversion layer; a second wavelength conversion layer; and a second barrier layer. The first wavelength conversion layer includes a matrix and a first wavelength conversion material dispersed in the matrix and having a predetermined center emission wavelength. The second wavelength conversion layer includes a matrix and a second wavelength conversion material dispersed in the matrix and having a center emission wavelength different from that of the first wavelength conversion material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kozo Nakamura, Takahiro Yoshikawa, Kazuhito Hosokawa
  • Publication number: 20200301207
    Abstract: An optical member is disclosed that can achieve a liquid crystal display apparatus having excellent durability and having a high color rendering property. An optical member according to the present invention includes, in the stated order: a first barrier layer; a wavelength conversion layer; and a second barrier layer. The wavelength conversion layer includes a matrix and a wavelength conversion material dispersed in the matrix. An emission spectrum of light to be extracted from the optical member has a peak having an intensity Gp in a wavelength band of from 515 nm to 550 nm, and a peak having an intensity Rp in a wavelength band of from 605 nm to 650 nm, and an average value Ave of intensities in a wavelength band of from 570 nm to 600 nm in the emission spectrum and an average value of Gp and Rp satisfy the following expression (1): Ave?0.1×{(Gp+Rp)/2}??(1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoshikawa, Kozo Nakamura, Kazuhito Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 10655030
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-based ink including a pigment, a water-insoluble polymer, an organic solvent and a surfactant, in which the organic solvent includes at least a glycol ether which has a viscosity of from 2.0 to 7.0 mPa·s and a vapor pressure from 0.01 to 7.0 hPa as measured at 20° C., and a content of a glycol ether having a viscosity of not less than 6.0 mPa·s as measured at 20° C. as a component of the glycol ether in the water-based ink is from 0 to 5% by mass; the surfactant includes a silicone-based surfactant and a content of the silicone-based surfactant in the water-based ink is from 0.005 to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Takeno, Yuki Wakabayashi, Kaname Mitsuyoshi, Takahiro Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20200116921
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical sheet for a light guide plate type liquid crystal display, including a low refractive index layer having an extremely low refractive index. The optical sheet A12 for a light guide plate type liquid crystal display (1000) according to the present invention includes a first optical film (light guide plate) (1010), a low refractive index layer (20), and a second optical film (reflection plate) (1020) laminated in this order, and the low refractive index layer (20) has a refractive index of 1.25 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Hattori, Kozo Nakamura, Takahiro Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 10316207
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-based ink that exhibits excellent ejection properties, and can be prevented from suffering from reduction in a dot size of the ink during a drying step thereof even when printed on a low-water absorbing recording medium, and is capable of obtaining printed characters or images having excellent uniformity, as well as an ink-jet printing method using the water-based ink. The water-based ink includes a pigment, a water-insoluble polymer, an acetylene glycol-based nonionic surfactant (A) having HLB of not less than 0 and not more than 5, a nonionic surfactant (B) having HLB of not less than 6 and not more than 20, a polyether-modified silicone (C) having a kinematic viscosity of not less than 30 mm2/s and not more than 190 mm2/s as measured at 25° C. and an organic solvent (D), in which a weighted mean value of a boiling point of the organic solvent (D) is not lower than 150° C. and not higher than 230° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaname Mitsuyoshi, Hirotaka Takeno, Takayuki Suzuki, Takahiro Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 10302988
    Abstract: The display apparatus includes an optical sheet provided between a display panel and direct type light sources, and an inner chassis (support body) 4 having a frame-shape which supports the back surface of peripheral edge parts of the display panel. A light shielding member is provided over an entire periphery of the display panel at the back side of the peripheral edge part thereof. An outer frame part of the light shielding member is sandwiched between the display panel and the inner chassis, and an inner frame part of the light shielding member is sandwiched between the display panel and the optical sheet. Light passing through the optical sheet is shielded by the light shielding member even when trying to be leaked to an outside from the polarizing plate, such that the light is not leaked due to being shielded by the light shielding member. Therefore, the light is prevented from entering the peripheral edge part of the display panel, and an occurrence of light leakage is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventor: Takahiro Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20190113664
    Abstract: There is provided an optical member that can achieve a liquid crystal display apparatus having excellent durability and having a high color rendering property. An optical member according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a wavelength conversion layer; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The wavelength conversion layer and/or the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains a wavelength-selective absorbent material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoshikawa, Kozo Nakamura, Kazuhito Hosokawa
  • Publication number: 20190092983
    Abstract: There is provided a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape having a predetermined wavelength conversion function and having excellent durability. A pressure-sensitive adhesive tape according to the present invention includes: a base material; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer having a wavelength conversion function. The base material has a water vapor transmission rate of 1 g/(m2·day) or less. In one embodiment, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains a rubber-based polymer selected from a styrene-based thermoplastic elastomer, an isobutylene-based polymer, and a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kozo Nakamura, Takahiro Yoshikawa, Kazuhito Hosokawa
  • Publication number: 20190051484
    Abstract: There is provided an optical member that can achieve a liquid crystal display apparatus having high brightness, an excellent hue, and a high color rendering property. An optical member according to the present invention includes, in the stated order: a first barrier layer; a first wavelength conversion layer; a second wavelength conversion layer; and a second barrier layer. The first wavelength conversion layer includes a matrix and a first wavelength conversion material dispersed in the matrix and having a predetermined center emission wavelength. The second wavelength conversion layer includes a matrix and a second wavelength conversion material dispersed in the matrix and having a center emission wavelength different from that of the first wavelength conversion material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kozo Nakamura, Takahiro Yoshikawa, Kazuhito Hosokawa
  • Publication number: 20180231228
    Abstract: A connector comprises a first connector and a second connector to be connected with the first connector. The first connector includes a first housing, a holding portion, and a stopper. The second connector includes a second housing, a held portion, and an engagement portion. At the waiting position, the first connector and the second connector are movable between positions in a wall contact state, at which the leading end of the second connector is in contact with the wall defining the receiving space of the first connector, and positions in a stopped state, at which the stopper of the first connector and the engagement portion of the second connector are in contact with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicants: SAKAI DISPLAY PRODUCTS CORPORATION, ACES ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Nobukazu KATO, I-chiao TSO, Takahiro YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180187034
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-based ink including a pigment, a water-insoluble polymer, an organic solvent and a surfactant, in which the organic solvent includes at least a glycol ether which has a viscosity of from 2.0 to 7.0 mPa·s and a vapor pressure from 0.01 to 7.0 hPa as measured at 20° C., and a content of a glycol ether having a viscosity of not less than 6.0 mPa·s as measured at 20° C. as a component of the glycol ether in the water-based ink is from 0 to 5% by mass; the surfactant includes a silicone-based surfactant and a content of the silicone-based surfactant in the water-based ink is from 0.005 to 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka TAKENO, Yuki WAKABAYASHI, Kaname MITSUYOSHI, Takahiro YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9952381
    Abstract: A light source device according to the present invention includes a light guide plate, a light source opposed to one end face of the light guide plate, a casing with one face being open, which houses the light guide plate and the light source and a frame member fitted onto an edge of the casing, the casing includes a contact part directly or indirectly being in contact with the one end face of the light guide plate at a side of the light source, and the frame member includes an elastic contact part being in contact with the other end face of the light guide plate while being elastic, at a side opposite to the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventor: Takahiro Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 9952458
    Abstract: A display apparatus, comprising: a light source emitting light; a display panel displaying an image on a front face of the display panel, and facing the light source; and a diffusion section arranged between the light source and the display panel, wherein the diffusion section includes a diffusion sheet-fixed to a circumferential portion of the display panel via a frame body, and facing the display panel with a distance between the diffusion sheet and the display panel, and an optical sheet arranged in a gap between the display panel and the diffusion sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoshikawa, Kazuhiko Negoro
  • Publication number: 20170369725
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-based ink that exhibits excellent ejection properties, and can be prevented from suffering from reduction in a dot size of the ink during a drying step thereof even when printed on a low-water absorbing recording medium, and is capable of obtaining printed characters or images having excellent uniformity, as well as an ink-jet printing method using the water-based ink. The water-based ink includes a pigment, a water-insoluble polymer, an acetylene glycol-based nonionic surfactant (A) having HLB of not less than 0 and not more than 5, a nonionic surfactant (B) having HLB of not less than 6 and not more than 20, a polyether-modified silicone (C) having a kinematic viscosity of not less than 30 mm2/s and not more than 190 mm2/s as measured at 25° C. and an organic solvent (D), in which a weighted mean value of a boiling point of the organic solvent (D) is not lower than 150° C. and not higher than 230° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaname MITSUYOSHI, Hirotaka TAKENO, Takayuki SUZUKI, Takahiro YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9829736
    Abstract: Provided is a display device comprising a liquid-crystal panel and an optical sheet member including multiple stacked optical sheets emitting light from a light source toward the liquid-crystal panel, which can alleviate unevenness in light even in the case where, for example, light with such unevenness is emitted from the optical sheet member due to warps or wrinkles generated in the optical sheet member caused by heat generated by the light source. A diffusion sheet is provided between a liquid-crystal panel and an optical sheet member with a gap from the optical sheet member. The light emitted through the optical sheet member is diffused by the diffusion sheet and gap, and then enters the liquid-crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoshikawa, Takayuki Nakazawa, Kazuhiko Negoro, Mayumi Hori
  • Publication number: 20170133237
    Abstract: Provided is a polishing liquid including cerium oxide particles, an organic acid A, a polymer compound B having a carboxyl acid group or a carboxylate group, and water, wherein the organic acid A has at least one group selected from the group consisting of —COOM group, -Ph-OM group, —SO3M group and —PO3M2 group, pKa of the organic acid A is less than 9, a content of the organic acid A is 0.001 to 1 mass % with respect to the total mass of the polishing liquid, and a content of the polymer compound B is 0.01 to 0.50 mass % with respect to the total mass of the polishing liquid, and pH is in the range of 4.0 to 7.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Munehiro Oota, Takaaki Tanaka, Toshio Takizawa, Shigeru Yoshikawa, Takaaki Matsumoto, Takahiro Yoshikawa, Takashi Shinoda
  • Publication number: 20170045774
    Abstract: The display apparatus includes an optical sheet provided between a display panel and direct type light sources, and an inner chassis (support body) 4 having a frame-shape which supports the back surface of peripheral edge parts of the display panel. A light shielding member is provided over an entire periphery of the display panel at the back side of the peripheral edge part thereof. An outer frame part of the light shielding member is sandwiched between the display panel and the inner chassis, and an inner frame part of the light shielding member is sandwiched between the display panel and the optical sheet. Light passing through the optical sheet is shielded by the light shielding member even when trying to be leaked to an outside from the polarizing plate, such that the light is not leaked due to being shielded by the light shielding member. Therefore, the light is prevented from entering the peripheral edge part of the display panel, and an occurrence of light leakage is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventor: Takahiro Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 9564337
    Abstract: Provided is a polishing liquid including cerium oxide particles, an organic acid A, a polymer compound B having a carboxyl acid group or a carboxylate group, and water, wherein the organic acid A has at least one group selected from the group consisting of —COOM group, -Ph-OM group, —SO3M group and —PO3M2 group, pKa of the organic acid A is less than 9, a content of the organic acid A is 0.001 to 1 mass % with respect to the total mass of the polishing liquid, and a content of the polymer compound B is 0.01 to 0.50 mass % with respect to the total mass of the polishing liquid, and pH is in the range of 4.0 to 7.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Munehiro Oota, Takaaki Tanaka, Toshio Takizawa, Shigeru Yoshikawa, Takaaki Matsumoto, Takahiro Yoshikawa, Takashi Shinoda
  • Patent number: 9557667
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a resin particle dispersion, including a step (1) of mixing a polyester resin and a basic aqueous solution to obtain a resin neutralized product; and a step (2) of adding an aqueous medium to the resin neutralized product obtained in the step (1) to emulsify the resin neutralized product, in which a concentration of an ester group in the polyester resin is from 6.3 to 12 mmol/g, a pH of the basic aqueous solution as measured at 25° C. is from 8.5 to 13.5, and a content of an organic solvent in the resin neutralized product is not more than 10% by mass; and a process for producing a toner for development of electrostatic images, including steps of aggregating and coalescing the resin particles in the obtained resin particle dispersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoshikawa, Shoichi Murata
  • Publication number: 20170003443
    Abstract: A light source device according to the present invention includes a light guide plate, a light source opposed to one end face of the light guide plate, a casing with one face being open, which houses the light guide plate and the light source and a frame member fitted onto an edge of the casing, the casing includes a contact part directly or indirectly being in contact with the one end face of the light guide plate at a side of the light source, and the frame member includes an elastic contact part being in contact with the other end face of the light guide plate while being elastic, at a side opposite to the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventor: Takahiro Yoshikawa