Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Hiroki

Tomoyuki Hiroki 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: 10727644
    Abstract: A laser device has a plurality of laser diodes; a plurality of optical elements installed corresponding to the plurality of the laser diodes; a plurality of units formed by fixing the laser diodes and the optical elements per each laser diode and installed corresponding to the plurality of the laser diodes; a converging element that converges laser beams emitted from the plurality of the laser diodes to a fiber; a housing element houses the plurality of the units and the converging element; and a thermal transfer plate performs heat dissipation of the plurality of the units. The heat resistance reducing element having a heat resistance value that is smaller than a predetermined value is installed between the thermal transfer plate and each unit or the processing for reducing the heat resistance is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junki Sakamoto, Ichiro Fukushi, Akiyuki Kadoya, Kazuma Watanabe, Naoya Ishigaki, Jiro Saikawa, Shingo Uno, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Koji Tojo
  • Patent number: 10511144
    Abstract: The present invention comprises: a light-emitting element group configured from columns of serially connected light-emitting elements, one of the ends from each of the columns of the light-emitting elements being collectively connected to a power source; current control elements, provided to correspond to the columns, and being connected to each of the columns of the light-emitting elements at the other end thereof, for controlling the current flowing through the light-emitting elements; a forward voltage monitoring circuit for monitoring, for each of the columns, the total forward voltage across the light-emitting elements; and a control circuit for controlling the current control elements, on the basis of the total forward voltage across the light-emitting elements from each of the columns detected by the forward voltage monitoring circuit, in such a manner that the variations in the total forward voltage across the columns of the light-emitting elements reach a threshold value or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Uno, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Koji Tojo, Jiro Saikawa, Naoya Ishigaki, Junki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 10476228
    Abstract: The present invention comprises: a light-emitting element group configured from columns of serially connected light-emitting elements, one of the ends from each of the columns of the light-emitting elements being collectively connected to a power source; current control elements, provided to correspond to the columns, and being connected to each of the columns of the light-emitting elements at the other end thereof, for controlling the current flowing through the light-emitting elements; a forward voltage monitoring circuit for monitoring, for each of the columns, the total forward voltage across the light-emitting elements; and a control circuit for controlling the current control elements, on the basis of the total forward voltage across the light-emitting elements from each of the columns detected by the forward voltage monitoring circuit, in such a manner that the variations in the total forward voltage across the columns of the light-emitting elements reach a threshold value or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Uno, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Koji Tojo, Jiro Saikawa, Naoya Ishigaki, Junki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 10355447
    Abstract: A laser device suppresses the variation of each time-lag so that a distortion of a combined laser output is suppressed. The laser device includes electric current control elements Q1, Q2 connected in series to a laser diode unit corresponding to respective laser diode units LD1, LD2, an electric current control circuit 11 that controls an electric current flow in the laser diode unit by adding a voltage to a control terminal of the electric current control element to turn on the electric current control element, and voltage adjustment circuits 12a, 12b corresponding to the laser diode unit adjusts, individually, every laser diode unit and the voltage that is added to the control terminal of the electric current control element when the laser diode is off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Uno, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Kazuma Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190097395
    Abstract: The present invention comprises: a light-emitting element group configured from columns of serially connected light-emitting elements, one of the ends from each of the columns of the light-emitting elements being collectively connected to a power source; current control elements, provided to correspond to the columns, and being connected to each of the columns of the light-emitting elements at the other end thereof, for controlling the current flowing through the light-emitting elements; a forward voltage monitoring circuit for monitoring, for each of the columns, the total forward voltage across the light-emitting elements; and a control circuit for controlling the current control elements, on the basis of the total forward voltage across the light-emitting elements from each of the columns detected by the forward voltage monitoring circuit, in such a manner that the variations in the total forward voltage across the columns of the light-emitting elements reach a threshold value or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo UNO, Tomoyuki HIROKI, Koji TOJO, Jiro SAIKAWA, Naoya ISHIGAKI, Junki SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180342852
    Abstract: A laser device suppresses the variation of each time-lag so that a distortion of a combined laser output is suppressed. The laser device includes electric current control elements Q1, Q2 connected in series to a laser diode unit corresponding to respective laser diode units LD1, LD2, an electric current control circuit 11 that controls an electric current flow in the laser diode unit by adding a voltage to a control terminal of the electric current control element to turn on the electric current control element, and voltage adjustment circuits 12a, 12b corresponding to the laser diode unit adjusts, individually, every laser diode unit and the voltage that is added to the control terminal of the electric current control element when the laser diode is off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo UNO, Tomoyuki HIROKI, Kazuma WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10137526
    Abstract: A laser machining device machines a machining target subject by irradiating the converged laser beam output from each laser diode of a plurality of laser diodes connected in series to each other. A machining laser beam output-power driving circuit Q1 outputs a machining laser beam by driving the plurality of laser diodes 11a-11 d, 13. A guide light output-power driving circuit Q2 outputs a guide light by driving a partial laser diode 13 of the plurality of laser diodes. A selection means SW1, SW2 selects the guide light output-power driving circuit on determining the position and selects the machining laser output-power driving circuit on a laser machining. A setup value comparison circuit 16 controls the electric current flowing through the part of laser diodes to be below the electric current setup value to output the guide light having electric current not higher than the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junki Sakamoto, Ichiro Fukushi, Aklyuki Kadoya, Kazuma Watanabe, Jiro Saikawa, Naoya Ishigaki, Shingo Uno, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Koji Tojo
  • Publication number: 20180013263
    Abstract: A laser device has a plurality of laser diodes; a plurality of optical elements installed corresponding to the plurality of the laser diodes; a plurality of units formed by fixing the laser diodes and the optical elements per each laser diode and installed corresponding to the plurality of the laser diodes; a converging element that converges laser beams emitted from the plurality of the laser diodes to a fiber; a housing element houses the plurality of the units and the converging element; and a thermal transfer plate performs heat dissipation of the plurality of the units. The heat resistance reducing element having a heat resistance value that is smaller than a predetermined value is installed between the thermal transfer plate and each unit or the processing for reducing the heat resistance is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: JUNKI SAKAMOTO, Ichiro FUKUSHI, Akiyuki KADOYA, Kazuma WATANABE, Naoya ISHIGAKI, Jiro SAIKAWA, Shingo UNO, Tomoyuki HIROKI, Koji TOJO
  • Patent number: 9746615
    Abstract: The light-synthesizing laser device includes a plurality of collimating lenses that are arranged in a one-to-one relationship with a plurality of laser light sources which exhibit anisotropy in a laser light emission angle, and that convert laser light beams emitted from the laser light sources into parallel light; a condensing lens that condenses the laser light that has been converted into parallel light by the plurality of collimating lenses; and an optical fiber (5) having a square waveguide core (SC) which has a square shape, the fiber receiving and synthesizing the laser light condensed by the condensing lens. A longitudinal axis of a condensed beam condensed by the condensing lens is aligned with a diagonal axis of the square waveguide core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiro Saikawa, Naoya Ishigaki, Shingo Uno, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Ichiro Fukushi, Akiyuki Kadoya, Junki Sakamoto, Koji Tojo, Kazuma Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9647422
    Abstract: A laser device has a plurality of semiconductor lasers, a driving device that supplies a driving electric current to the semiconductor laser, a trigger generation circuit that sends a trigger signal to the driving device in order to output the driving electric current, and a wave-combining device that wave-combines laser light emitted from the semiconductor lasers at the combined-wave end, and at least any one of a signal transmitting time, an electric current transmitting time and a light transmitting time is adjusted so as to be the time set respectively for transmitting paths; wherein the signal transmitting time in which the trigger signal transmits over the signal path, the electric current transmitting time in which the laser light transmits over the electric current path, a light transmitting time in which the laser light transmits over the optical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Hiroki, Koji Tojo, Kazuma Watanabe, Ichiro Fukushi, Akiyuki Kadoya, Junki Sakamoto, Jiro Saikawa, Naoya Ishigaki, Shingo Uno
  • Publication number: 20170110849
    Abstract: A laser device has a plurality of semiconductor lasers, a driving device that supplies a driving electric current to the semiconductor laser, a trigger generation circuit that sends a trigger signal to the driving device in order to output the driving electric current, and a wave-combining device that wave-combines laser light emitted from the semiconductor lasers at the combined-wave end, and at least any one of a signal transmitting time, an electric current transmitting time and a light transmitting time is adjusted so as to be the time set respectively for transmitting paths; wherein the signal transmitting time in which the trigger signal transmits over the signal path, the electric current transmitting time in which the laser light transmits over the electric current path, a light transmitting time in which the laser light transmits over the optical path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki HIROKI, Koji TOJO, Kazuma WATANABE, Ichiro FUKUSHI, Akiyuki KADOYA, Junki SAKAMOTO, Jiro SAIKAWA, Naoya ISHIGAKI, Shingo UNO
  • Publication number: 20170082805
    Abstract: The light-synthesizing laser device includes a plurality of collimating lenses that are arranged in a one-to-one relationship with a plurality of laser light sources which exhibit anisotropy in a laser light emission angle, and that convert laser light beams emitted from the laser light sources into parallel light; a condensing lens that condenses the laser light that has been converted into parallel light by the plurality of collimating lenses; and an optical fiber (5) having a square waveguide core (SC) which has a square shape, the fiber receiving and synthesizing the laser light condensed by the condensing lens. A longitudinal axis of a condensed beam condensed by the condensing lens is aligned with a diagonal axis of the square waveguide core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: JIRO SAIKAWA, Naoya ISHIGAKI, Shingo UNO, Tomoyuki HIROKI, Ichiro FUKUSHI, Akiyuki KADOYA, Junki SAKAMOTO, Koji TOJO, Kazuma WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20170021449
    Abstract: A laser machining device machines a machining target subject by irradiating the converged laser beam output from each laser diode of a plurality of laser diodes connected in series to each other. A machining laser beam output-power driving circuit Q1 outputs a machining laser beam by driving the plurality of laser diodes 11a-11 d, 13. A guide light output-power driving circuit Q2 outputs a guide light by driving a partial laser diode 13 of the plurality of laser diodes. A selection means SW1, SW2 selects the guide light output-power driving circuit on determining the position and selects the machining laser output-power driving circuit on a laser machining. A setup value comparison circuit 16 controls the electric current flowing through the part of laser diodes to be below the electric current setup value to output the guide light having electric current not higher than the predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: JUNKI SAKAMOTO, Ichiro FUKUSHI, Aklyuki KADOYA, Kazuma WATANABE, Jiro SAIKAWA, Naoya ISHIGAKI, Shingo UNO, Tomoyuki HIROKI, Koji TOJO
  • Patent number: 9219253
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic EL display device is provided in which an organic compound layer is formed by vapor deposition after a layer used for patterning the organic compound layer has been formed, so that the organic compound layer is formed without being affected by the surface tension of the sides of the layer for the patterning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nozomu Izumi, Kenji Ookubo, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Nobuhiko Sato
  • 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
  • Patent number: 9054315
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a light-emitting device includes a step of forming an etching resistant protection layer on a substrate provided with an organic planarizing layer, a step of forming a plurality of electrodes on the etching resistant protection layer, a step of forming an organic compound layer on the substrate provided with the plurality of electrodes, a step of forming a resist layer on the organic compound layer formed on parts of electrodes among the plurality of electrodes using a photolithographic method, and a step of removing the organic compound layer in a region not covered with the resist layer by dry etching, wherein an entire surface of the organic planarizing layer on the substrate on which steps up to the step of forming the plurality of electrodes have been performed is covered with at least one of the etching resistant protection layer and the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Otsuka, Tomoyuki Hiroki
  • Patent number: 9006019
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a light-emitting device includes a step of forming an etching resistant protection layer on a substrate provided with an organic planarizing layer, a step of forming a plurality of electrodes on the etching resistant protection layer, a step of forming an organic compound layer on the substrate provided with the plurality of electrodes, a step of forming a resist layer on the organic compound layer formed on parts of electrodes among the plurality of electrodes using a photolithographic method, and a step of removing the organic compound layer in a region not covered with the resist layer by dry etching, wherein an entire surface of the organic planarizing layer on the substrate on which steps up to the step of forming the plurality of electrodes have been performed is covered with at least one of the etching resistant protection layer and the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Otsuka, Tomoyuki Hiroki
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20140004642
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method for an organic electroluminescence device having high precision and high emission characteristics without degrading characteristics of an organic compound layer during lift-off, the manufacturing method including the steps of: forming a first organic compound layer; forming an intermediate layer; processing a first organic compound layer; forming a second organic compound layer; covering the second organic compound layer with an eluted constituent material for the intermediate layer by bringing the intermediate layer into contact with a solution for dissolving the intermediate layer; removing the intermediate layer; and forming a second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Manabu Otsuka, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Nobuhiko Sato