Patents by Inventor Tetsuo Inoue

Tetsuo Inoue 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: 20100220271
    Abstract: With regard to an optical laminate having a applied film containing a lyotropic liquid crystalline compound, the present invention provides a method of producing an optical laminate that can prevent this applied film from becoming white turbidity. The present invention is a method of producing an optical laminate having a base material and a applied film laminated on at least one surface of the base material and containing a lyotropic liquid crystalline compound, where the method includes a step A of applying a solution containing at least one kind of a lyotropic liquid crystalline compound on a base material to form a wet applied film, and a step B of drying the wet applied film by spraying a wind onto the surface of the wet applied film simultaneously with this step A or after performing this step A and before the wet applied film is dried.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuo Inoue
  • Publication number: 20100187346
    Abstract: In a spinning reel, a traverse camshaft 21 is arranged to engage with an engaging member used to cause a bail arm and a spool to undergo a relative reciprocal movement. The traverse camshaft 21 has a shaft body 37 and a cam groove 38. The shaft body 37 is arranged to rotate in coordination with rotation of a handle assembly in at least a line reel-in direction. The cam groove 38 is formed in an external circumferential surface of the shaft body 37 and configured to engage with the engaging member. The cam groove 38 is also configured to intersect itself. The cam groove 38 has a first groove section 38b and a second groove section 38c on opposite sides of an intersecting portion 38a. The first groove section 38b and the second groove section 38c have different widths at the intersecting portion 38a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Koji OCHIAI, Tetsuo INOUE
  • Publication number: 20100173083
    Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a composite semipermeable membrane excellent in water permeability and salt-blocking rate, and including an extremely small amount of unreacted polyfunctional amine components in the membrane, and at providing a process for producing the composite semipermeable membrane. A composite semipermeable membrane having a skin layer formed on the surface of a porous support, the skin layer comprising a polyamide resin obtained by interfacial polymerization of a polyfunctional amine component and a polyfunctional acid halide component, wherein the content of an unreacted polyfunctional amine component is 200 mg/m2 or less after formation of the skin layer and before a membrane washing treatment, and the content of the unreacted polyfunctional amine component after the membrane washing treatment is 20 mg/m2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventors: Tomomi Ohara, Chiaki Harada, Tetsuo Inoue, Naoki Kurata, Takahisa Konishi, Takashi Kamada, Hironobu Machinaga
  • Publication number: 20100156344
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus (1) includes a power receiver (2) and an electronic apparatus main body (3). The power receiver (2) includes a power receiving coil (11) having a spiral coil, a rectifier (12) and a secondary battery (13). The electronic apparatus main body (3) includes an electronic device (14) and a circuit board (15). A magnetic foil (16) is arranged in at least one position between the spiral coil (11) and one of the secondary battery (13), the rectifier (12), the electronic device (14) and the circuit board (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Tetsuo Inoue, Takao Kusaka, Masaharu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7727679
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical refractive index-modifying polymer composition which can efficiently modulate (change) refractive index upon light irradiation, and exhibits such high storage stability that the once modulated refractive index does not substantially change anymore upon time elapse, and the optical refractive index-modifying polymer composition comprises as a main component a polymer (A) which is a polymer of monomers including an acrylic vinyl monomer represented by the following formula (1): CH2?C(R1)—C(?O)O—R2?CH2 ??(1) wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R2 represents a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and the molecule may contain a hetero atom or a halogen atom, as an essential component and contains a remaining radical-polymerizable side-chain vinyl group in the molecule, wherein the composition comprises a thermally curable polymer (B) in an amount of 5 to 60 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the polymer (A)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihide Kawaguchi, Yutaka Moroishi, Tetsuo Inoue
  • Publication number: 20100128211
    Abstract: The present invention provides a thin and light-weight birefringent film having a desired Nz coefficient, such that an index ellipsoid satisfies a relationship of nx?nz>ny. The birefringent film of the present invention contains a first acenaphtho[1,2-b]quinoxaline derivative exhibiting lyotropic liquid crystallinity and a second acenaphtho[1,2-b]quinoxaline derivative exhibiting lyotropic liquid crystallinity, wherein an index ellipsoid satisfies a relationship of nx?nz>ny. An Nz coefficient of this birefringent film is preferably 0 to 0.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichi Matsuda, Junzo Miyazaki, Tetsuo Inoue
  • Publication number: 20100065974
    Abstract: A process for the producing a coating fluid of the present invention comprises a step of adjusting a pH of the coating fluid by mixing ammonium hydroxide into an acid solution containing a lyotropic liquid crystal compound and a solvent. Further, a process for the producing an optically anisotropic film of the present invention comprises a step of obtaining an optically anisotropic film by casting the coating fluid produced by the aforementioned process for production of the coating fluid in a thin film state, followed by drying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuko Iwakawa, Tetsuo Inoue, Tadayuki Kameyama, Shoichi Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20100047485
    Abstract: A polarizing film formed by orienting organic dyes composed of a lyotropic liquid crystal compound, which comprises an acenaphtho[1,2-b]quinoxaline-base compound, wherein the content of the acenaphtho[1,2-b]quinoxaline-base compound is less than 10 weight parts with respect to 100 weight parts of the organic dyes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuko Iwakawa, Tetsuo Inoue, Shoichi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 7667655
    Abstract: An electromagnetic interference preventing component (18) includes a high-permeability magnetic film in high-frequency in which a real number component ?? of complex relative permeability at a transmission band frequency of an electronic device (10) incorporating the electromagnetic interference preventing component (18) is 10 or more, tan ? (=??/??) is 0.1 or less, and a ferromagnetic resonance frequency (fr) is 1.5 times or more of the transmission band frequency. The electromagnetic interference preventing component (18) having the high-permeability magnetic film in high-frequency is disposed in the electronic device (10) having an electromagnetic wave transmitting function, as to selectively decrease the electromagnetic field intensity in directions in which the electromagnetic waves radiated by an electromagnetic wave transmitting part such as an antenna (16) are not required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuo Inoue
  • Publication number: 20100009067
    Abstract: A process for producing a laminate comprises the steps of: coating a water solution containing water and a water-soluble liquid crystal compound on a surface of a substrate to form a coating film; and drying the coating film by placing the coating film in an atmosphere having 70% RH or higher to less than 100% RH to more than 10% by weight of the solvent in the coating film; wherein an optical anisotropic layer is formed on the surface of the substrate by exerting a regulating force on the water-soluble liquid crystal compound to orient the water-soluble liquid crystal compound in the drying process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Inoue, Toru Umemoto, Toshimasa Nishimori
  • Publication number: 20090243780
    Abstract: A planar magnetic device 1 including a first magnetic layer 3, a second magnetic layer 5, and a planar coil 4 disposed between the first magnetic layer 3 and the second magnetic layer 5, wherein magnetic particles 7 having a shape ratio S/L of 0.7 to 1 when a length of a long axis is L and a length of a short axis orthogonal to the long axis is L are filled in a gap W between coil wirings of the planar coil 4. According to the planar magnetic device 1, it is possible to realize a planar magnetic device such as an inductor reduced in height by using fine particles that enable to effectively obtain a large inductance value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Inoue, Akira Sato, Katsutoshi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 7566745
    Abstract: A subject for the invention is to provide a method of refractive index regulation by which the refractive index of an optical polymer molding can be efficiently changed without necessitating a complicated step, such as the step of oxidizing beforehand, and which when used for producing an optical device, imparts excellent transparency thereto. Another subject is to provide a photochemically refractive-index-changing polymer or photochemically refractive-index-changing polymer composition for use in the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihide Kawaguchi, Yutaka Moroishi, Tetsuo Inoue, Kazunori Mune
  • Publication number: 20090121677
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus (1) includes a power receiving device (2) and an electronic apparatus main body (3). The power receiving device (2) includes a power receiving coil (11) having a spiral coil, a rectifier (12), and a secondary battery (13). The electronic apparatus main body (3) includes an electronic device (14) and a circuit board (15). A magnetic foil (16) is arranged in at least one position between the spiral coil (11) and the secondary battery (13), the rectifier (12), the electronic device (14), or the circuit board (15). The magnetic foil (16) has a ?r?·t value expressed as the product of the real component ?r? of relative permeability and the plate thickness t of 30000 or larger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventors: Tetsuo Inoue, Takao Kusaka
  • Publication number: 20090117876
    Abstract: A communication system includes first authentication processing means, provided in a small base station, for acquiring first authentication information from a line switching communication terminal and transmitting the first authentication information to second authentication information processing means, ciphering key information acquiring means, provided in the second authentication information processing means, for acquiring ciphering key information on the line switching communication terminal from the first authentication information processing means based on first authentication information obtained from the small base station, authentication information mapping means, provided in the second authentication information processing means, for mapping the ciphering key information to second authentication information, mapping information transmitting means, provided in the second authentication information processing means, for transmitting the mapped information to the small base station, and ciphering key
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventor: TETSUO INOUE
  • Patent number: 7504924
    Abstract: An inductance element (1) comprises a core (2) having a multilayer body (6) composed of magnetic alloy thin ribbons (5) and an insulating coating layer (7) which covers the peripheral surface of the multilayer body without being bonded thereto, and a coil (4) wound around the core (2). The magnetic alloy thin ribbons (5) are stacked in a non-adhered state or with a flexible insulating adhesive layer therebetween. Having such a structure, the inductance element can stably attain good characteristics even when it is small-sized or made short.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Inoue, Takao Kusaka, Taiju Yamada
  • Publication number: 20090058358
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus (1) comprising a power receiving device (2) and an electronic apparatus main body (3). The power receiving device (2) comprises a power receiving coil (11) having a spiral coil, a rectifier (12) and a secondary battery (13). The electronic apparatus main body (3) comprises an electronic device (14) and a circuit board (15). A magnetic foil (16) is arranged in at least one position between the spiral coil (11) and the secondary battery (13), the rectifier (12), the electronic device (14) or the circuit board (15). The magnetic foil (16) has a value expressed as the product of the saturation flux density MS and the thickness t, namely Ms·t, of not less than 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Tetsuo Inoue, Takao Kusaka
  • Publication number: 20090059370
    Abstract: Provided is a thin birefringent film whose refractive index is three-dimensionally controlled. The present invention provides a birefringent film including at least one polycyclic compound containing a —SO3M group and/or a —COOM group having a refractive index ellipsoid satisfying a relationship represented by nx>nz>ny, in which M represents a counter ion. Since such a birefringent film has a high in-plane refractive index, the thickness thereof is sharply reduced as compared with a conventional birefringent film and a desired retardation value can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junzo Miyazaki, Tetsuo Inoue, Shouichi Matsuda, Tatsuki Nagatsuka
  • Publication number: 20090045905
    Abstract: A planar magnetic device 1 includes a first magnetic layer 3 and a second magnetic layer 5 that are made of a mixture of a magnetic powder 7 and a resin, and a planar coil 4 disposed between the magnetic layers. When the planar coil 4 has an adjacent winding interval W between the potions 4c of the coil and the magnetic powder 7 has a maximum particle size L, planar magnetic device 1 satisfies the relationship W>L. In the planar magnetic device 1 having the above structure, fine magnetic powder that can produce a high inductance fills the spaces between the adjacent windings. Thus, the invention can achieve a high-performance planar magnetic device, such as a thin inductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nakagawa, Tetsuo Inoue, Akira Sato
  • Publication number: 20090040126
    Abstract: An electromagnetic interference preventing component (18) includes a high-permeability magnetic film in high-frequency in which a real number component ?? of complex relative permeability at a transmission band frequency of an electronic device (10) incorporating the electromagnetic interference preventing component (18) is 10 or more, tan ? (=??/??) is 0.1 or less, and a ferromagnetic resonance frequency (fr) is 1.5 times or more of the transmission band frequency. The electromagnetic interference preventing component (18) having the high-permeability magnetic film in high-frequency is disposed in the electronic device (10) having an electromagnetic wave transmitting function, as to selectively decrease the electromagnetic field intensity in directions in which the electromagnetic waves radiated by an electromagnetic wave transmitting part such as an antenna (16) are not required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventor: Tetsuo Inoue
  • Publication number: 20090027597
    Abstract: A method for producing a polarizing film of the present invention comprises a step (1) of preparing a lyotropic liquid crystalline solution having electric conductivity of not more than 50 ?S/cm (expressed in terms of 0.05% by weight) and containing a dichroic dye and a solvent, a step (2) of preparing a base material having at least one surface subjected to a hydrophilization treatment, and a step (3) of coating the solution prepared in the step (1) on the hydrophilized surface of the base material prepared in the step (2) at a coating rate of not less than 100 mm/second, and drying the solution. The method of the present invention can easily produce a polarizing film having a high dichroic ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuko Iwakawa, Shuusaku Nakano, Tetsuo Inoue, Shouichi Matsuda