Patents by Inventor Takeshi Ando

Takeshi Ando 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: 20160274688
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a touch panel member that is excellent in terms of suppression of visibility of a transparent electrode and has low total reflection for visible light, and a touch panel and a touch panel display device having the touch panel member. The touch panel member of the present invention comprises, in order, at least a transparent substrate, a transparent electrode, and a protective layer provided so as to cover the transparent electrode, the protective layer comprising three or more layers having different refractive indices, all of the different refractive index layers of the protective layer satisfying a specific expression, and the protective layer satisfying another specific expression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi ANDO, Hideyuki NAKAMURA, Shigekazu SUZUKI, Satoru YAMADA, Kentarou TOYOOKA
  • Publication number: 20160246104
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal layer; a first substrate including thin-film transistors configured to drive liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer, at least one type of electrode, and an insulating film, at least a part of which is in direct contact with the liquid crystal layer; and a second substrate disposed so as to be opposed to the first substrate with the liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. One of the at least one type of electrode is disposed on the insulating film. The insulating film has a function of aligning the liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer. The insulating film formed on the thin-film transistors also serves as an alignment film configured to align the liquid crystal molecules and the structure is simplified more than before. The manufacturing process is also simplified more than before.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru YAMADA, Takeshi ANDO, Wakahiko KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20160239117
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a layered body for a transparent conductive member having low resistance, high transmittance, and excellent crack resistance, a transfer material having the layered body for a transparent conductive member, a transparent conductive member formed using the layered body for a transparent conductive member, a touch panel and a touch panel display device, and a process for producing a touch panel using the transfer material. A layered body for a transparent conductive member comprises, in order, a first layer, a metal layer, and a second layer, the first and second layers each comprising an organic resin and a titanium compound and/or a zirconium compound, the first and second layers each having a refractive index of 1.6 to 2.0, the first and second layers each having an average thickness of 10 to 100 nm, the metal layer comprising silver and/or copper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki NAKAMURA, Takeshi ANDO
  • Publication number: 20160150516
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a wireless communication system, a base station, and a control method, whereby it is possible for the base station to control an active antenna transmission beam wherein an upstream reference signal is used. [Solution] A wireless communication system comprises a first base station further comprising an active antenna, and a second base station which is adjacent to the first base station. Using an upstream reference signal from a wireless terminal, the second base station estimates a direction of the wireless terminal with respect to the second base station, and transmits direction information which is the estimated result and location information of the second base station to the first base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventor: Takeshi ANDO
  • Publication number: 20160090570
    Abstract: An apparatus for culturing cells of the present invention is an apparatus for culturing cells using a culture medium in a culture vessel. The apparatus includes: pump connected to pipet held by first holder; first shifter configured to shift first holder; second holder configured to hold culture vessel; second shifter configured to grip and shift culture vessel; and controller. Controller is programmed to, when pipet draws a liquid in culture vessel or discharges a liquid into culture vessel, control second shifter to translationally shift lid of culture vessel in a horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: SOICHIRO FUJIOKA, TAKESHI ANDO, TOSHINORI HIROSE, NORIHIRO SHIBATA, OSAMU MIZUNO, TOSHIAKI YAMAUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160068131
    Abstract: A lower limb protecting air bag includes: a main body inflation part; an end side inflation part; a bending part configured to bend the end side inflation part to project backward from the main body inflation part in inflation completion; and a connecting element configured to connect together the end side inflation part and the main body inflation part so that the bent state of the end side inflation part in inflation completion is maintained, wherein: the main body inflation part and the end side inflation part are configured to inflate substantially in a plate shape to separate a front side wall disposed on the back side and a back side wall disposed on the front side when the air bag is developed flat; and the bending part includes a seam part formed by superimposing and connecting together the front side wall and the back side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Takanori KOMATSU, Takeshi ANDO, Hiroki IMAEDA, Tetsuya OGATA
  • Patent number: 9230293
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a computer. The computer subsequently images a user, makes an evaluation of first image data indicating an image obtained by subsequently imaging, and displays the evaluation result on an LCD by subsequently updating the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: NINTENTO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuichi Nakada, Takeshi Ando, Masayuki Taira, Sensuke Obata
  • Publication number: 20150353882
    Abstract: An apparatus for culturing cells using a culture medium, including: a replacer that replaces the culture medium in a culture vessel held by a holder; a measurer that measures a pH of the culture medium in the culture vessel; and an instructor that instructs the replacer to replace the culture medium in the culture vessel, wherein the instructor gives an instruction when the pH measured by the measurer is less than a predetermined pH threshold at a first replacement of the culture medium, and gives an instruction when the pH measured by the measurer is less than the predetermined pH threshold and the interval is less than an interval of a previous replacement of the culture medium at second and subsequent replacements of the culture medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: TAKESHI ANDO, TOSHINORI HIROSE, SOICHIRO FUJIOKA, NORIHIRO SHIBATA, OSAMU MIZUNO, TOSHIAKI YAMAUCHI
  • Patent number: 9162646
    Abstract: A knee protection airbag apparatus includes an airbag and a front panel. The front panel includes a lower panel portion and an upper panel portion. When the airbag inflates, the airbag causes the upper panel portion to move to the front, and deploys in a space on a rear surface-side of the moving upper panel portion. The upper panel portion includes a general portion of an upper portion and a ceiling wall portion of a lower portion. The lower panel portion is separate from the upper panel portion, and covers a rear side of the folded airbag. The upper panel portion includes a pressure receiving portion facing the folded airbag. The upper panel portion has the vicinity of the fixation portion of the general portion as a bending deformation portion that bends when the upper panel portion moves to the front along with the inflation of the airbag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Ando, Takanori Komatsu, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroki Murase
  • Patent number: 9072964
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus stores, save data shared among first-third applications is stored in a memory for saved data by bringing it into correspondence with the first-third applications as first-third data. A computer integrates the first-third data stored in the memory for saved data within a main memory when the first application is activated, for example, and updates the integration data in accordance with execution of the first application and overwrites the first data and second data stored in the memory for saved data with the updated integration data in response to an automatic saving instruction or a saving instruction by a user at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuichi Nakada, Takeshi Ando, Masayuki Taira
  • Publication number: 20150091276
    Abstract: A knee protection airbag apparatus includes an airbag and a front panel. The front panel includes a lower panel portion and an upper panel portion. When the airbag inflates, the airbag causes the upper panel portion to move to the front, and deploys in a space on a rear surface-side of the moving upper panel portion. The upper panel portion includes a general portion of an upper portion and a ceiling wall portion of a lower portion. The lower panel portion is separate from the upper panel portion, and covers a rear side of the folded airbag. The upper panel portion includes a pressure receiving portion facing the folded airbag. The upper panel portion has the vicinity of the fixation portion of the general portion as a bending deformation portion that bends when the upper panel portion moves to the front along with the inflation of the airbag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Takeshi ANDO, Takanori KOMATSU, Tetsuya OGATA, Hiroki MURASE
  • Publication number: 20150007772
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: a processing vessel configured to be vacuumed; a holding unit configured to hold a plurality of substrates and to be inserted into or separated from the processing vessel; a gas supply unit configured to supply gas into the processing vessel; a plasma generation box partitioned and formed by a plasma partition wall; an inductively coupled electrode located at an outer sidewall of the plasma generation box along its length direction; a high frequency power supply connected to the inductively coupled electrode through a feed line; and a ground electrode located outside the plasma generation box and between the processing vessel and the inductively coupled electrode and arranged in the vicinity of the outer sidewall of the plasma generation box or at least partially in contact with the outer sidewall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Kohei FUKUSHIMA, Hiroyuki MATSUURA, Yutaka MOTOYAMA, Koichi SHIMADA, Takeshi ANDO
  • Publication number: 20140316456
    Abstract: An ear stimulating apparatus includes first and second units capable of clipping on an auricle and gripping an ear, a plurality of contacts arranged in the first unit at least at positions where the contacts are capable of being brought into contact with a front side of the auricle, and an actuator that moves the contacts in the longitudinal direction of the first unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi ANDO
  • Patent number: 8498437
    Abstract: An electric operation apparatus capable of opening interiors of front and rear portions of an apparatus main body frontward and rearward to make it easy to carry out assembly and maintenance inside the main body. Front and rear pivot shafts are provided on inner side surfaces of side plates of the main body so as to extend in the left-right direction of the main body. Front and rear panels are openable and closable relative to the main body by being pivoted about the pivot shafts, with their engagement recesses in engagement with the pivot shafts. The front and rear panels cover the main body when they are in closed states, and open the interior of the main body when they are in open states. The front panel is opened by being pivoted rearward, whereas the rear panel is opened by being pivoted forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Ando, Ryuichi Izumi
  • Patent number: 8457329
    Abstract: A sub-console 1200 has a lower channel strip group 40 on a front panel 1202, and an upper channel strip group 42 on a rear panel 1206. Left and right displays 52 and 54 are provided between the upper and lower channel strip groups 42 and 40. Either one of the parameter of the upper and lower channel strip groups 42 and 40 is displayed on the left and right displays 52 and 54. With this structure, the width of the sub-console 1200 can be reduced, and the positional correspondence relationship between the respective channel strip groups and the left and right displays 52 and 54 can be maintained. Accordingly, a high operability can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Fujita, Kotaro Terada, Masaaki Okabayashi, Takeshi Ando
  • Patent number: 8178771
    Abstract: Casing structure for a mixer apparatus includes a box-shaped casing that comprises an upper surface section, a bottom surface section and a side surface section. The upper surface section, having a generally obtuse-angled ā€œVā€ shape, includes: a flat operation panel having operating members; a boundary section located adjacent to the rear end edge of the operation panel; and a flat, inclined display panel extending rearwardly and upwardly from the boundary section at a greater inclination angle than the operation panel. Within the casing, a partition member is provided on the bottom surface section to extend vertically upward to the boundary section, and it has openings to permit communication between front and rear accommodating sections. The partition member supports the boundary section from below to reinforce the upper surface section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Ando
  • Patent number: 8073159
    Abstract: A controller controls a mixing processor based on an operation in an operating portion. Besides, the controller causes a first display to display a view showing an entire console for controlling a parameter for signal processing in a mixing processor, and causes a second display to display a view showing a designated partial area of the above described control panel. Further, the controller accepts designation of any control in the view displayed by the second display, assigns a parameter corresponding to the control of which designation is accepted, and causes the mixing processor to change a value of the parameter assigned to the operating portion, in accordance with an operation content when the operating portion is operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Ando
  • Patent number: 8009877
    Abstract: A game apparatus includes a camera cartridge, and detects a plurality of feature points from a facial image of a user photographed by the camera cartridge. The game apparatus calculates areas of black eye regions of a left eye and a right eye by utilizing the plurality of feature points. Then, the game apparatus detects whether or not any one of the left eye and the right eye is closed on the basis of the calculated areas. The game apparatus executes game processing according to the detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuichi Nakada, Takeshi Ando, Masayuki Taira
  • Patent number: 7917622
    Abstract: On the basis of information of a first user, requesting delivery of content, received from a content reproduction apparatus, a content providing server refers to first and second storage section, as necessary, to specify a second user having purchased or reproduced the same content as the first user, then identify other music content having ever been purchased or reproduced by the second user and then delivers the other content to the first user. The content reproduction apparatus can store the content, delivered from the content providing server, in an overwriting fashion and reproduce the stored content. In this way, the first user is allowed to readily acquire various music content, fitting his or her taste, without performing any particular operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Ryotaro Sugimoto, Takeshi Ando, Seiji Abe, Shinya Sakurada
  • Publication number: 20110061059
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus stores, save data shared among first-third applications is stored in a memory for saved data by bringing it into correspondence with the first-third applications as first-third data. A computer integrates the first-third data stored in the memory for saved data within a main memory when the first application is activated, for example, and updates the integration data in accordance with execution of the first application and overwrites the first data and second data stored in the memory for saved data with the updated integration data in response to an automatic saving instruction or a saving instruction by a user at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuichi NAKADA, Takeshi Ando, Masayuki Taira