Patents by Inventor Taro Endo

Taro Endo 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: 10661569
    Abstract: An ink tank is used for an ink jet recording apparatus and includes an ink storage bag storing an ink, and the ink storage bag has no mechanism for allowing a side wall portion to shrink into a preliminary defined shape but has a side wall portion to shrink as the ink flows out. The ink tank has no mechanism for adjusting the pressure in the ink storage bag, the ink storage bag is made from a resin, the ink is an aqueous ink containing a coloring material and a water-soluble organic solvent, and the difference between the average SP of the water-soluble organic solvent and the SP of the resin constituting the ink storage bag is 2.0 (cal/cm3)1/2 or more. An ink jet recording apparatus includes the ink tank and a recording head that ejects an ink supplied from the ink tank by an ink jet method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Maki Motomura, Taro Endo, Eiichi Nakata
  • Patent number: 10654279
    Abstract: An ink tank is used for an ink jet recording apparatus and includes an ink storage bag storing an ink, and the ink storage bag has no mechanism for allowing a side wall portion to shrink into a preliminary defined shape but has a side wall portion to shrink as the ink flows out. The ink tank has no mechanism for adjusting the pressure in the ink storage bag, the ink storage bag is made from a polyolefin resin, the ink is an aqueous ink containing a coloring material and a resin, and the resin contained in the ink has a glass transition temperature higher than the glass transition temperature of the polyolefin resin constituting the ink storage bag. An ink jet recording apparatus includes the ink tank and a recording head that eject an ink supplied from the ink tank by an ink jet method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Nakata, Taro Endo, Maki Motomura
  • Publication number: 20190111691
    Abstract: An ink tank is used for an ink jet recording apparatus and includes an ink storage bag storing an ink, and the ink storage bag has no mechanism for allowing a side wall portion to shrink into a preliminary defined shape but has a side wall portion to shrink as the ink flows out. The ink tank has no mechanism for adjusting the pressure in the ink storage bag, the ink storage bag is made from a polyolefin resin, the ink is an aqueous ink containing a coloring material and a resin, and the resin contained in the ink has a glass transition temperature higher than the glass transition temperature of the polyolefin resin constituting the ink storage bag. An ink jet recording apparatus includes the ink tank and a recording head that eject an ink supplied from the ink tank by an ink jet method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Eiichi Nakata, Taro Endo, Maki Motomura
  • Publication number: 20190111692
    Abstract: An ink tank is used for an ink jet recording apparatus and includes an ink storage bag storing an ink, and the ink storage bag has no mechanism for allowing a side wall portion to shrink into a preliminary defined shape but has a side wall portion to shrink as the ink flows out. The ink tank has no mechanism for adjusting the pressure in the ink storage bag, the ink storage bag is made from a resin, the ink is an aqueous ink containing a coloring material and a water-soluble organic solvent, and the difference between the average SP of the water-soluble organic solvent and the SP of the resin constituting the ink storage bag is 2.0 (cal/cm3)1/2 or more. An ink jet recording apparatus includes the ink tank and a recording head that ejects an ink supplied from the ink tank by an ink jet method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: MAKI MOTOMURA, Taro Endo, Eiichi Nakata
  • Patent number: 9365733
    Abstract: An ink jet ink including water, a pigment and a polymer. The pigment has a secondary amino group. The polymer contains a unit derived from a monomer having a ring structure containing a tertiary amino group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Hayashi, Ikuo Nakazawa, Ryota Takeuchi, Hideyuki Saito, Shigemoto Abe, Taro Endo, Ai Sakuma, Naofumi Shimomura
  • Patent number: 9155160
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display device including an organic electroluminescence element, which has element characteristics comparable to those in the case of a vacuum in-situ process, while utilizing a patterning approach based on photolithography. The method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display device includes: an organic compound layer-forming step of forming an organic compound layer at least on a first electrode; a release layer-forming step of forming a release layer on the organic compound layer; a release layer-processing step of processing the release layer; and an organic compound layer-processing step of removing the organic compound layer in a region not covered with the release layer processed in the release layer-processing step, and at least the lowermost layer out of the release layer is a deposited film formed of a material soluble in a polar solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taro Endo, Nobuhiko Sato, Itaru Takaya, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Koichi Ishige, Satoru Shiobara, Jun Kamatani, Yosuke Nishide
  • Publication number: 20150191615
    Abstract: An ink jet ink including water, a pigment and a polymer. The pigment has a secondary amino group. The polymer contains a unit derived from a monomer having a ring structure containing a tertiary amino group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Hayashi, Ikuo Nakazawa, Ryota Takeuchi, Hideyuki Saito, Shigemoto Abe, Taro Endo, Ai Sakuma, Naofumi Shimomura
  • Patent number: 8877532
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display device includes an organic compound layer which is placed between a pair of electrodes and includes at least an emission layer, the organic compound layer being two-dimensionally arranged, includes forming the organic compound layer which is insoluble in water in an entire emission region on a substrate, providing a mask layer containing a water-soluble material in at least a part of a region on the organic compound layer, removing a part of the organic compound layer which is provided in a region which is other than the region in which the mask layer is provided, removing the mask layer, and forming, after the removing of the mask layer, a layer containing at least an alkali metal or an alkaline-earth metal in a region including at least the emission region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Hiroki, Taro Endo, Itaru Takaya, Koichi Ishige, Nobuhiko Sato
  • Patent number: 8778727
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display device including: an organic compound layer-forming step of forming an organic compound layer on a first electrode; a release layer-forming step of forming a release layer on the organic compound layer; a first processing step for the release layer of patterning the release layer; an organic compound layer-processing step of removing the organic compound layer in a region not covered with the release layer processed in the first processing step for the release layer; and a second processing step for the release layer of removing a part of the release layer, in which the release layer is a deposited film formed of a charge-transportable organic compound and is dissolved by a solvent containing an organic solvent miscible with water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Shiobara, Jun Kamatani, Yosuke Nishide, Taro Endo, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Nobuhiko Sato
  • Patent number: 8643681
    Abstract: A color display device including: at least one spatial light modulation element forming a display picture by modulated light obtained by modulating illumination light, a color sequential light generation device changing in a time series the illumination light or the modulated light into multiple groups of different color lights in one frame of a display period of the display picture, a control device controlling the spatial light modulator, and a color sequential light generation device based on the input picture data. The control device controls the spatial light modulator and the color sequential light generation device to change the ratio of the display time of each color of the reflected light time-shared in the display period of the frame depending on the character and/or the set value of the input picture data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignees: Silicon Quest Kabushiki-Kaisha, Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Endo, Fusao Ishii, Yoshihiro Maeda, Hirotoshi Ichikawa, Hirokazu Nishino
  • Patent number: 8620561
    Abstract: A control for an internal combustion engine having a fuel injection valve for directly injecting fuel to a combustion chamber of the engine, an ignition device for burning an air-fuel mixture containing the fuel injected from the fuel injection valve, and a variable cylinder management mechanism that is capable of changing the number of operating cylinders is provided. The control includes making a transition to an operating mode where the number of operating cylinders is decreased through the variable cylinder management mechanism. It is predicted based on an operating condition of the engine that an air-fuel ratio of an exhaust atmosphere of the engine becomes lean due to a stop of the fuel injection into one or more cylinders to be halted by the transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Murakami, Taro Endo, Takaaki Fukusako
  • Patent number: 8530254
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence device includes forming a first organic electroluminescence layer at least on a first lower electrode, forming a first protective layer on the first organic electroluminescence layer, processing the first organic electroluminescence layer and the first protective layer, forming a second organic electroluminescence layer at least on a second lower electrode, forming a second protective layer on the second organic electroluminescence layer, and processing the second organic electroluminescence layer and the second protective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihide Kimura, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Taro Endo, Itaru Takaya, Koichi Ishige, Nobuhiko Sato
  • Patent number: 8513038
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescent device includes a step of forming a masking layer and an intermediate layer on a first organic compound layer such that the masking layer and the intermediate layer have a predetermined pattern, a step of patterning the first organic compound layer using the masking layer and the intermediate layer, a step of forming a second organic compound layer, and a step of removing the intermediate layer and the second organic compound layer formed thereon in such a manner that the intermediate layer is contacted with a dissolving liquid for dissolving the intermediate layer. In the method, the first and second organic compound layers are protected by covering the first and second organic compound layers with a sacrificial layer until the patterning of the first and second organic compound layers is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Moriyama, Nozomu Izumi, Taro Endo, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Satoru Shiobara, Nobuhiko Sato
  • Patent number: 8493298
    Abstract: A video display system includes an image processing unit receives continuously an input video signal including input frame signals for generating an output video signal including output frame signals having a higher frame rate than the input frame signals; and a display unit for displaying a video image in accordance with the output frame signals, wherein each of the input frame signals has 2^M gray scale levels for each pixel, the image processing unit further generates the output frame signals including at least a first output frame signal having 2^N gray scale levels with N<M for each pixel and a second output frame signal having [2^M-2^N] or fewer gray scale levels for each pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignees: Silicon Quest Kabushiki-Kaisha, Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Endo, Yoshihiro Maeda, Kazuma Arai, Fusao Ishii
  • Patent number: 8350790
    Abstract: A video display system includes a plurality of primary color light sources; and a spatial light modulator (SLM) for modulating an illumination light emitted from at least one of the plurality of primary light sources. The video display system further includes a display controller for controlling a process to display a sequence of video images within a period of one frame comprising each of a plurality of primary colors and each of a plurality of complementary colors to minimize a number of emissions of each of the plurality of primary color light sources and also displaying the video images of the colors of the plurality of primary colors and the plurality of complementary colors in sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignees: Silicon Quest Kabushiki-Kaisha, Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Endo, Yoshihiro Maeda, Hirotoshi Ichikawa, Fusao Ishii
  • Publication number: 20120274239
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display device including an organic electroluminescence element, which has element characteristics comparable to those in the case of a vacuum in-situ process, while utilizing a patterning approach based on photolithography. The method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display device includes: an organic compound layer-forming step of forming an organic compound layer at least on a first electrode; a release layer-forming step of forming a release layer on the organic compound layer; a release layer-processing step of processing the release layer; and an organic compound layer-processing step of removing the organic compound layer in a region not covered with the release layer processed in the release layer-processing step, and at least the lowermost layer out of the release layer is a deposited film formed of a material soluble in a polar solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taro Endo, Nobuhiko Sato, Itaru Takaya, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Koichi Ishige, Satoru Shiobara, Jun Kamatani, Yosuke Nishide
  • Publication number: 20120274807
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display device including: an organic compound layer-forming step of forming an organic compound layer on a first electrode; a release layer-forming step of forming a release layer on the organic compound layer; a first processing step for the release layer of patterning the release layer; an organic compound layer-processing step of removing the organic compound layer in a region not covered with the release layer processed in the first processing step for the release layer; and a second processing step for the release layer of removing a part of the release layer, in which the release layer is a deposited film formed of a charge-transportable organic compound and is dissolved by a solvent containing an organic solvent miscible with water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Shiobara, Jun Kamatani, Yosuke Nishide, Taro Endo, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Nobuhiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20120252151
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence device includes forming a first organic electroluminescence layer at least on a first lower electrode, forming a first protective layer on the first organic electroluminescence layer, processing the first organic electroluminescence layer and the first protective layer, forming a second organic electroluminescence layer at least on a second lower electrode, forming a second protective layer on the second organic electroluminescence layer, and processing the second organic electroluminescence layer and the second protective layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshihide Kimura, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Taro Endo, Itaru Takaya, Koichi Ishige, Nobuhiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20120252143
    Abstract: To solve a problem that, in a method of manufacturing an organic light emitting device using a step of releasing a layer formed on a release layer by dissolving the release layer, released film flakes are not dissolved in a removing liquid for dissolving the release layer, and thus may drift in the removing liquid and may adhere to a surface of a substrate after patterning to cause defective patterning, provided is a method of manufacturing an organic light emitting device, including forming the release layer continuously over multiple light emitting portions to cause the size of the released film flakes to be large. This may reduce the possibility that the released film flakes adhere to the surface of the substrate and may facilitate, even when the released film flakes once adhere to the surface of the substrate, removal of the released film flakes later, thereby suppressing defective patterning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Manabu Otsuka, Toshihide Kimura, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Taro Endo, Itaru Takaya, Koichi Ishige, Nobuhiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20120252149
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display device including an emission region, the emission region including multiple organic compound layers arranged therein, each of the organic compound layers being provided between a pair of electrodes and including at least an emission layer, the method including: forming in the entire emission region an organic compound layer which is insoluble in water; forming on the organic compound layer a mask layer containing a water-soluble material in a predetermined pattern; removing a part of the organic compound layer which is formed in a region which is not covered with the mask layer; removing the mask layer; drying the organic compound layer; and forming a common layer on the organic compound layers, in which the steps from the drying of the organic compound layer to the forming of a common layer are carried out in a vacuum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Hiroki, Taro Endo, Itaru Takaya, Koichi Ishige, Nobuhiko Sato