Patents by Inventor Takayuki Shima
Takayuki Shima 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).
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Publication number: 20240066504Abstract: Provided is a technique for molding a functional material without deteriorating the function of the functional material. A method for producing a functional material molded article of the present disclosure includes: dispersing a functional material in a water-alcohol mixed solution to obtain a liquid dispersion; impregnating a porous molding base material with the liquid dispersion to obtain an impregnated product; and drying the impregnated product.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCYInventors: Asuka SHIMA, Yoshitsugu SONE, Motohiko SATO, Takayuki ABE, Mitsuhiro INOUE
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Patent number: 11207675Abstract: To detect a target substance accurately and effectively, a target substance detection device 1 includes: a liquid-sample introducing plate 2 formed from a light-transmissive plate having a surface on which a liquid sample including a target substance and magnetic particles forming a conjugate with the target substance is introduced, and enabling propagating transmitted light of light irradiated from the rear face upward of the surface as propagated light; a rear face light irradiation unit 3 configured to be able to irradiate the liquid-sample introducing plate 2 with light from the rear face; a first magnetic field application unit 4 disposed on the side of the surface of the liquid-sample introducing plate 2, and configured to apply a magnetic field to move the conjugate in the liquid sample that is introduced on the surface of the liquid-sample introducing plate in the direction away from the liquid-sample introducing plate 2; and an optical-signal detection unit 5 disposed on the side of the surface of thType: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Masato Yasuura, Makoto Fujimaki, Hiroki Ashiba, Takayuki Shima
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Patent number: 10976255Abstract: The invention relates to a method that detects the target substance by measuring a decrease in the optical signal generated by applying a first magnetic field to move the conjugate in the direction parallel to or away from the surface, etc. The invention also relates to an optical detection device wherein a liquid holding part has a sensing plate that can form a near field on a surface with light irradiated from a side of a rear face under a condition of total reflection, the liquid holding part being capable of holding a liquid sample that has a target substance and a magnetic particle that forms a conjugate with the target substance on the surface of the sensing plate, a light irradiation unit, a light detection unit, and a magnetic field application unit configured to apply a magnetic field to move the conjugate in the direction parallel to or away from the surface, etc.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Masato Yasuura, Makoto Fujimaki, Hiroki Ashiba, Takayuki Shima
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Publication number: 20200016588Abstract: To detect a target substance accurately and effectively, a target substance detection device 1 includes: a liquid-sample introducing plate 2 formed from a light-transmissive plate having a surface on which a liquid sample including a target substance and magnetic particles forming a conjugate with the target substance is introduced, and enabling propagating transmitted light of light irradiated from the rear face upward of the surface as propagated light; a rear face light irradiation unit 3 configured to be able to irradiate the liquid-sample introducing plate 2 with light from the rear face; a first magnetic field application unit 4 disposed on the side of the surface of the liquid-sample introducing plate 2, and configured to apply a magnetic field to move the conjugate in the liquid sample that is introduced on the surface of the liquid-sample introducing plate in the direction away from the liquid-sample introducing plate 2; and an optical-signal detection unit 5 disposed on the side of the surface of thType: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2017Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: Masato Yasuura, Makoto Fujimaki, Hiroki Ashiba, Takayuki Shima
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Publication number: 20190154580Abstract: A problem is to provide an optical detection method that enables sensitive and quick detection of a micro target substance in a near field and such a device. As means for solving the problem, an optical detection method for a target substance detects light, such as fluorescence, as an optical signal from a conjugate comprising the target substance on a surface of a sensing plate in a near field, wherein the conjugate comprises at least the target substance bonding with a magnetic particle. The method comprises: detecting the target substance by measuring a decrease in the optical signal generated by applying a first magnetic field to move the conjugate in the direction parallel to or away from the surface, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2017Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Masato Yasuura, Makoto Fujimaki, Hiroki Ashiba, Takayuki Shima
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Patent number: 8734964Abstract: An etching resist has a first heat-generating layer, a second heat-generating layer, and a metal compound layer including a metallic oxynitride layer containing a metallic oxynitride. The first heat-generating layer, the metallic oxynitride layer, and the second heat-generating layer are directly or indirectly laminated such that the metallic oxynitride layer is positioned between the first heat-generating layer and the second heat-generating layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2009Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Kazuma Kurihara, Takashi Nakano, Takayuki Shima, Junji Tominaga, Kazuya Fujioka, Ichiro Suehiro
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Patent number: 8530314Abstract: A method of at least one embodiment of the present invention of manufacturing a solid-state memory is a method of manufacturing a solid-state memory, the solid-state memory including a recording film whose electric characteristics are varied by phase transformation, the method including: forming the recording film by forming a laminate of two or more layers so that a superlattice structure is provided, each of the layers having a parent phase which shows solid-to-solid phase-transformation, the recording film being formed at a temperature not lower than a temperature highest among crystallization temperatures of the parent phases. It is thus possible to manufacture a solid-state memory which requires lower current for recording and erasing data and has a greater rewriting cycle number.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2009Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Junji Tominaga, Takayuki Shima, Alexander Kolobov, Paul Fons, Robert Simpson, Reiko Kondo
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Patent number: 8396335Abstract: A solid memory may include a recording layer including Ge, Sb and Te as major components. The recording layer may include a superlattice. The recording layer may include multi-layers each having a parent phase showing a phase transformation in solid-states, the phase transformation causing change in electrical property of the recording layer. The recording layer may include an Sb2Te3 layer that includes at least one period of a first lamination of a first Te-atomic layer, a first Sb-atomic layer, a second Te-atomic layer, a second Sb-atomic layer, and a third Te-atomic layer in these order, a GeTe layer that includes at least one period of a second lamination of a fourth Te-atomic layer and a Ge-atomic layer, and an Sb layer that includes a plurality of Sb-atomic layers.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Elpida Memory, Inc.Inventors: Junji Tominaga, Takayuki Shima, Alexander Kolobov, Paul Fons, Robert Simpson
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Publication number: 20120300305Abstract: A process for producing through simple operations a molding die for optical device having an antireflective structure of nano-order microscopic uneven plane on a substratum surface. The molding die for optical device having microscopic uneven plane (antireflective structure die plane) on a surface of substratum is produced by a process comprising forming one or more etching transfer layers on substratum; forming thin film for formation of semisperical microparticles on the etching transfer layers; causing the thin film to undergo aggregation, or decomposition, or nucleation of the material by the use of any of thermal reaction, photoreaction and gas reaction or a combination of these reactions so as to form multiple semispherical islandlike microparticles; and using the multiple island like microparticles as a protective mask, carrying out sequential etching of the etching transfer layers and substratum by reactive gas to thereby form a conical pattern on the microscopic surface of the substratum.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Kazuma Kurihara, Takayuki Shima, Junji Tominaga
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Patent number: 8243275Abstract: An apparatus for optical measurement of a liquid or molten material, which has: a transparent container which has a bottom face and is capable of containing a to-be-measured material therein, with the bottom face at least having a flat face and being transparent; and an optical device that irradiates a light to the bottom face of the container and that detects and measures a reflected light from the bottom face; and a method for optically measuring a liquid or molten material using the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2009Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, J. A. Woolam Japan CorporationInventors: Masashi Kuwahara, Toshio Fukaya, Takayuki Shima, Junji Tominaga, Rie Endo, Masahiro Susa, Michio Suzuki, Koichi Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 8226837Abstract: A process for producing through simple operations a molding die for optical device having an antireflective structure of nano-order microscopic uneven plane on a substratum surface. The molding die for optical device having microscopic uneven plane (antireflective structure die plane) on a surface of substratum is produced by a process comprising forming one or more etching transfer layers on substratum; forming thin film for formation of semispherical microparticles on the etching transfer layers; causing the thin film to undergo aggregation, or decomposition, or nucleation of the material by the use of any of thermal reaction, photoreaction and gas reaction or a combination of these reactions so as to form multiple semispherical islandlike microparticles; and using the multiple islandlike microparticles as a protective mask, carrying out sequential etching of the etching transfer layers and substratum by reactive gas to thereby form a conical pattern on the microscopic surface of the substratum.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2007Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Kazuma Kurihara, Takayuki Shima, Junji Tominaga
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Patent number: 8097323Abstract: An object of the invention is to write-once record and reproduce, or only reproduce, a mark smaller than the resolution limit; obtain a high level of reproduction performance (CNR and the like); and realize a high level of reproduction durability. In the invention, between a signal reproducing functional layer composed of Sb or Te and a protecting layer there is introduced a thermally stable diffusion preventing layer, and thereby reactions between the signal reproducing functional layer and the protecting layer due to increased temperature can be prevented or suppressed while increasing reproduction durability.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2007Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Takayuki Shima, Yuzo Yamakawa, James Paul Fons, Junji Tominaga
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Publication number: 20110207284Abstract: A method of at least one embodiment of the present invention of manufacturing a solid-state memory is a method of manufacturing a solid-state memory, the solid-state memory including a recording film whose electric characteristics are varied by phase transformation, the method including: forming the recording film by forming a laminate of two or more layers so that a superlattice structure is provided, each of the layers having a parent phase which shows solid-to-solid phase-transformation, the recording film being formed at a temperature not lower than a temperature highest among crystallization temperatures of the parent phases. It is thus possible to manufacture a solid-state memory which requires lower current for recording and erasing data and has a greater rewriting cycle number.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2009Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Junji Tominaga, Takayuki Shima, Alexander Kolobov, Paul Fons, Robert Simpson, Reiko Kondo
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Patent number: 7876665Abstract: An optical recording medium includes a substrate, a first dielectric layer, a recording layer, a second dielectric layer, a super-resolution layer, and a third dielectric layer, which are provided in that order. The super-resolution layer is formed of a material configured such that voids are generated when the material is irradiated with DC light at a predetermined irradiation power for 1 to 300 seconds. Therefore, super-resolution reproduction can be made such that the irradiation power of a readout laser beam does not depend on the size of a recording mark.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2006Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Takashi Kikukawa, Narutoshi Fukuzawa, Tatsuhiro Kobayashi, Junji Tominaga, Takashi Nakano, Takayuki Shima, Joo-ho Kim, In-oh Hwang
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Publication number: 20100181548Abstract: A solid memory may include a recording layer including Ge, Sb and Te as major components. The recording layer may include a superlattice. The recording layer may include multi-layers each having a parent phase showing a phase transformation in solid-states, the phase transformation causing change in electrical property of the recording layer. The recording layer may include an Sb2Te3 layer that includes at least one period of a first lamination of a first Te-atomic layer, a first Sb-atomic layer, a second Te-atomic layer, a second Sb-atomic layer, and a third Te-atomic layer in these order, a GeTe layer that includes at least one period of a second lamination of a fourth Te-atomic layer and a Ge-atomic layer, and an Sb layer that includes a plurality of Sb-atomic layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2010Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: Elpida Memory, Inc.Inventors: Junji Tominaga, Takayuki Shima, Alexander Kolobov, Paul Fons, Robert Simpson
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Publication number: 20100167015Abstract: An etching resist containing a metallic oxynitride. The etching resist of the present invention can be suitably used, for example, in the production of a molded article for surface-working an optical member such as a microlens sheet, a light diffusing sheet, a non-reflective sheet, a sheet for encapsulating photosemiconductor elements, an optical waveguide, an optical disk, or a photosensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2009Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicants: National Institute of Advanced Ind. Sci. and Tech., NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuma Kurihara, Takashi Nakano, Takayuki Shima, Junji Tominaga, Kazuya Fujioka, Ichiro Suehiro
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Publication number: 20100091639Abstract: The invention performs super resolution reproduction with a recording layer and a signal reproducing functional layer laminated on a grooved substrate. A length of a mark recorded in a Mark Position method is only one length that is less than the resolution limit in an optical system to be used, and recording marks are formed both on a land and in a groove of the grooved substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2008Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: National Institute of advanced industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Takayuki Shima, Takashi Nakano, Kazuma Kurihara, Junji Tominaga
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Publication number: 20100075114Abstract: This invention provides a method for manufacturing a mold for an optical element having a nanostructure of nano-order fine depressions and elevations on a surface of a substrate. The method includes: forming at least one etching transfer layer on the substrate, and forming a thin film for hemispherical fine particle formation on the etching transfer layer; forming multiple hemispherical island-shaped fine particles, with any of thermal-, photo- and gas reactions or combination thereof to cause any of aggregation, decomposition and nucleation functions of a material of the thin film; and forming a conical pattern on the fine surface of the substrate, by successively etching the etching transfer layer and the substrate with a reactant gas, using the multiple island-shaped fine particles as a protective mask, thereby manufacturing a mold for an optical element having fine depressions and elevations or a nanostructure mold face on the surface of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2007Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Kazuma KURIHARA, Takayuki SHIMA, Junji TOMINAGA
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Publication number: 20100055397Abstract: A process for producing through simple operations a molding die for optical device having an antireflective structure of nano-order microscopic uneven plane on a substratum surface. The molding die for optical device having microscopic uneven plane (antireflective structure die plane) on a surface of substratum is produced by a process comprising forming one or more etching transfer layers on substratum; forming thin film for formation of semispherical microparticles on the etching transfer layers; causing the thin film to undergo aggregation, or decomposition, or nucleation of the material by the use of any of thermal reaction, photoreaction and gas reaction or a combination of these reactions so as to form multiple semispherical island-like microparticles; and using the multiple islandlike microparticles as a protective mask, carrying out sequential etching of the etching transfer layers and substratum by reactive gas to thereby form a conical pattern on the microscopic surface of the substratum.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2007Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Kazuma Kurihara, Takayuki Shima, Junji Tominaga
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Publication number: 20090323071Abstract: An apparatus for optical measurement of a liquid or molten material, which has: a transparent container which has a bottom face and is capable of containing a to-be-measured material therein, with the bottom face at least having a flat face and being transparent; and an optical device that irradiates a light to the bottom face of the container and that detects and measures a reflected light from the bottom face; and a method for optically measuring a liquid or molten material using the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicants: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, J.A. WOOLLAM JAPAN CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi KUWAHARA, Toshio Fukaya, Takayuki Shima, Junji Tominaga, Rie Endo, Masahiro Susa, Michio Suzuki, Koichi Tsutsumi