Patents by Inventor Takashi Katou

Takashi Katou 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: 11958959
    Abstract: A lens for spectacles and spectacles a resin and a near-infrared absorbing agent having a maximum absorption wavelength in a thiourethane resin in a range of more than 700 nm and 1000 nm or less and a transmittance of light at 400 nm of 50% or more and 100% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Katou, Daisuke Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20240094452
    Abstract: A light absorption anisotropic layer in which, when combined with a ?/4 plate to form a circularly polarizing plate, applying the circularly polarizing plate to a display device, and displaying a display screen in black, coloration is suppressed and utilization efficiency of infrared light is high, a laminate including the light absorption anisotropic layer, a display device, an infrared light irradiation device, and an infrared light sensing device. The light absorption anisotropic layer contains an organic dichroic coloring agent, and satisfies expressions (1) to (4). (1) P(450)>99%, (2) P(550)>99%, (3) P(650)>99%, and (4) A(750)<0.2, here, P(450) represents a polarization degree at a wavelength of 450 nm, P(550) represents a polarization degree at a wavelength of 550 nm, P(650) represents a polarization degree at a wavelength of 650 nm, and A(750) represents an average absorbance at a wavelength of 750 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya SHIBATA, Takashi KATOU, Naoya NISHIMURA, Naoki KOITO
  • Publication number: 20240083591
    Abstract: Provided are an aircraft lightning probable area detection device, an aircraft lightning probable area transmission system, an aircraft lightning probable area detection method, and an aircraft lightning probable area detection program that suppress the data capacity and create an aircraft lightning probable area that enables intuitive understanding of aircraft lightning probable. An aircraft lightning probable area detection device includes: an information acquisition unit configured to acquire aircraft lightning probable information indicating a level of an expected lightning strike probability on a map; a data creation unit configured to create text data of an aircraft lightning probable area information on which the level of the expected lightning strike probability and a location are associated with each other by using the aircraft lightning probable information; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the text data to an aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Ikematsu, Hiroyuki Katou, Masato Ikehata, Hiroyuki Nishijima, Fumiya Homma
  • Patent number: 11921369
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a polarizer having a high degree of alignment and an image display device including the polarizer. A polarizer of the present invention is a polarizer formed of a polarizer-forming composition containing a liquid crystal compound, a first dichroic material, and a second dichroic material, in which the polarizer has an array structure formed of the first dichroic material and the second dichroic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Hoshino, Yoshiaki Takada, Yuzo Fujiki, Kengo Saito, Yasuhiro Ishiwata, Takashi Katou, Keisuke Ushirogata
  • Patent number: 11768324
    Abstract: Provided is a light absorption anisotropic layer including a dichroic substance, in which a transmittance as viewed from a front direction is high and a transmittance as viewed from an oblique direction can be lowered, a laminate, an optical film, an image display device, and a backlight module. The light absorption anisotropic layer includes a liquid crystalline compound and at least one dichroic substance, in which the dichroic substance is aligned perpendicular to the film surface, and an alignment degree of the light absorption anisotropic layer at a wavelength of 550 nm is 0.95 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Fumitake Mitobe, Naoya Nishimura, Takashi Katou, Naoya Shibata
  • Publication number: 20230202146
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a laminate capable of preparing an image display device having excellent display performance and excellent discoloration resistance, and an image display device formed of the laminate. The laminate of the present invention is a laminate including two substrates, and a polarizer layer disposed between the two substrates, in which the polarizer layer contains one or more kinds of azo coloring agents having two or more azo bonds in a molecule, moisture permeabilities of the two substrates are 10?3 g/m2·day or less, and a content of moisture present between the two substrates is 0.9 g/m2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki KANEIWA, Naoki KOITO, Takashi KATOU, Takuya INOUE, Takehiro KASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20230120853
    Abstract: Provided is an optical film capable of neutralizing both the tint as viewed in a transmittance central axis direction and the tint as viewed in a direction inclined from a transmittance central axis, and an optical laminate and an image display device formed of this optical film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya NISHIMURA, Takashi KATOU, Shuntaro IBUKI
  • Publication number: 20230043275
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal composition that is capable of forming a light absorption anisotropic film having a high degree of alignment, excellent moisture-heat resistance, and excellent alignment uniformity, a light absorption anisotropic film, a laminate, and an image display device. The liquid crystal composition includes a liquid crystal compound, a first dichroic substance having a structure represented by Formula (1), and a second dichroic substance having a structure represented by Formula (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi KATOU, Takuya INOUE
  • Patent number: 11542385
    Abstract: Provided are a lens for spectacles containing a resin and a coloring agent having a maximum absorption wavelength in a methanol solution in a range of 400 nm to 500 nm and a half-width of an absorption peak in a methanol solution of 10 nm or more and less than 40 nm, and spectacles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Katou
  • Publication number: 20220342134
    Abstract: Provided is a light absorption anisotropic layer including a dichroic substance, in which a transmittance as viewed from a front direction is high and a transmittance as viewed from an oblique direction can be lowered, a laminate, an optical film, an image display device, and a backlight module. The light absorption anisotropic layer includes a liquid crystalline compound and at least one dichroic substance, in which the dichroic substance is aligned perpendicular to the film surface, and an alignment degree of the light absorption anisotropic layer at a wavelength of 550 nm is 0.95 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Fumitake MITOBE, Naoya NISHIMURA, Takashi KATOU, Naoya SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20220186119
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal composition capable of forming a light absorption anisotropic film with excellent light resistance, a dichroic material, a light absorption anisotropic film, a laminate, and an image display device. The liquid crystal composition contains a liquid crystal compound and a dichroic material having a structure represented by Formula (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi KATOU, Yoshiaki TAKADA, Keigo SHIGA, Kengo SAITO
  • Publication number: 20220119688
    Abstract: Provided is a laminate which is suppressed in crystal precipitation in a transparent resin film containing an ultraviolet absorber even in an evaluation of moisture-heat resistance and which has an optically anisotropic layer exhibiting excellent light resistance; a liquid crystal display device; and an organic EL display device. The laminate includes a transparent resin film and an optically anisotropic layer, in which the transparent resin film contains a resin and a resin and a compound represented by Formula (I), the resin is at least one resin selected from the group consisting of a cellulose-based resin, a (meth)acrylic resin, a polyester-based resin, a polyamide-based resin, a polyimide-based resin, and a cycloolefin-based resin, and the optically anisotropic layer is a layer formed of a composition containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound exhibiting reverse wavelength dispersibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya SHIBATA, Takashi KATOU
  • Publication number: 20220119687
    Abstract: Provided is a laminate which is suppressed in crystal precipitation in a pressure sensitive adhesive layer containing an ultraviolet absorber and which has an optically anisotropic layer exhibiting excellent light resistance; a liquid crystal display device; and an organic EL display device. The laminate includes a pressure sensitive adhesive layer and an optically anisotropic layer, in which the pressure sensitive adhesive layer contains a (meth)acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive and a compound represented by Formula (I), and the optically anisotropic layer is a layer formed of a composition containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound exhibiting reverse wavelength dispersibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya SHIBATA, Takashi KATOU
  • Publication number: 20220119686
    Abstract: Provided is a pressure sensitive adhesive sheet having excellent light resistance (particularly, excellent light resistance for light having a wavelength of 370 to 400 nm), a laminate, a display device, and an organic EL display device. The pressure sensitive adhesive sheet includes a (meth)acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive and a compound represented by Formula (I), in which the (meth)acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive is formed of a (meth)acrylic resin, and an absolute value of a difference between a log P value of the (meth)acrylic resin and a log P value of the compound represented by Formula (I) is 2.50 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya SHIBATA, Takashi KATOU
  • Publication number: 20220064458
    Abstract: Provided are an ultraviolet absorbing agent represented by General Formula (1) and an application thereof. In General Formula (1), R11 represents a monovalent substituent. n is 1 or 2. W1 and W2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a cyano group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group, a nitro group, an acyl group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an arylsulfonyl group, an alkylsulfinyl group, an arylsulfinyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, where at least one of W1 or W2 represents a substituent having a Hammett's substituent constant ?p value of 0.2 or more. W1 and W2 may be bonded to each other to form a ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventor: Takashi KATOU
  • Publication number: 20210163711
    Abstract: A lens for spectacles and spectacles a resin and a near-infrared absorbing agent having a maximum absorption wavelength in a thiourethane resin in a range of more than 700 nm and 1000 nm or less and a transmittance of light at 400 nm of 50% or more and 100% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi KATOU, Daisuke SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11011965
    Abstract: A permanent magnet synchronous motor includes a stator, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, and a magnetic structure with a low coercive force magnet and a high coercive force magnet that are arranged magnetically in series with respect to each other to define a pole-pair of the permanent magnet synchronous motor. A magnetization level of the low coercive force magnet is changeable by a stator current pulse such that a stator magnetomotive force at a rated current is equal to or larger than a product of a magnetic field strength for fully magnetizing the low coercive force magnet and a thickness of the low coercive force magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Kensuke Sasaki, Takashi Fukushige, Takashi Katou, Apoorva Athavale, Robert D. Lorenz
  • Patent number: 10946615
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a coloring composition which can form a light absorption anisotropic film having an excellent dichroic ratio, a dichroic dye compound, a light absorption anisotropic film, a laminate, and an image display device. A coloring composition according to the invention contains a dichroic dye compound which has a Hansen solubility parameter of 17.5 or greater and has a structure represented by Formula (1), and a liquid crystalline compound. L1-A1-N?N-A2-N?N-A3-L2??(1) in Formula (1), A1, A2, and A3 each independently represent a divalent aromatic group which may have a substituent. Any one of A1, A2, and A3 represents a divalent thienothiazole group which may have a substituent. In Formula (1), L1 and L2 each independently represent a substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Mizumura, Takashi Katou, Wataru Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20210055604
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a polarizer having a high degree of alignment and an image display device including the polarizer. A polarizer of the present invention is a polarizer formed of a polarizer-forming composition containing a liquid crystal compound, a first dichroic material, and a second dichroic material, in which the polarizer has an array structure formed of the first dichroic material and the second dichroic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru HOSHINO, Yoshiaki TAKADA, Yuzo FUJIKI, Kengo SAITO, Yasuhiro ISHIWATA, Takashi KATOU, Keisuke USHIROGATA
  • Patent number: 10927260
    Abstract: Provided are a coloring composition with which a light absorption anisotropic film having excellent durability can be formed, a light absorption anisotropic film, a laminate, and an image display device. A coloring composition according to the invention contains a dichroic dye compound having a structure represented by Formula (1D) and a liquid crystalline compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Hoshino, Masaki Ota, Masatoshi Mizumura, Takashi Katou, Yoshiaki Takada, Yoji Ito, Daisuke Kashiwagi, Yuya Hamaguchi