Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Oike

Tomoyuki Oike 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: 20240072085
    Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus in which a sensor substrate and a scintillator are bonded by a bonding member, is provided. The scintillator includes a first surface opposing the sensor substrate via the bonding member and covered by a first protective layer, a second surface disposed on an opposite side of the first surface and covered by a second protective layer, and a third surface connecting the first surface and the second surface and covered by a third protective layer. The first protective layer, the second protective layer, and the third protective layer are each configured by one or more layers, and a number of layers of the first protective layer is less than or equal to respective numbers of layers of the second protective layer and the third protective layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: TOMOYUKI OIKE, TAMAKI KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240063247
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a radiation imaging apparatus in which a sensor substrate and a scintillator are bonded by a bonding member, is provided. The method includes: forming, on a support substrate, a functional layer including a moisture preventing layer configured to suppress permeation of water; forming the scintillator on the support substrate with the functional layer arranged thereon; and separating, from the support substrate, at least a part of the scintillator together with the functional layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: YOSHITO SASAKI, TAMAKI KOBAYASHI, MASATO OFUJI, TOMOYUKI OIKE, MASAO INA
  • Patent number: 11774607
    Abstract: A scintillator panel is provided. The scintillator panel comprises: a support; a scintillator configured to generate light in accordance with incident radiation; a light reflecting layer arranged between the support and the scintillator and configured to reflect the light; a semi-transmissive layer arranged between the light reflecting layer and the scintillator and configured to reflect part of the light and transmit other part of the light; and an optical adjustment layer arranged between the light reflecting layer and the semi-transmissive layer and configured to make an optical distance between the light reflecting layer and the semi-transmissive layer become a length with which the light resonates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiji Tomita, Tomoyuki Oike, Tamaki Kobayashi, Masami Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 11643596
    Abstract: A layer in which a primary phase composed of a columnar crystal material and a secondary phase composed of a material different from the primary phase are phase-separated being included as a base for forming a columnar crystal of scintillator plate improves separation of columnar crystals from each other and suppresses light scattering from occurring so as to realize a scintillator having high resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Oike
  • Publication number: 20230046099
    Abstract: A scintillator panel is provided. The scintillator panel comprises: a support; a scintillator configured to generate light in accordance with incident radiation; a light reflecting layer arranged between the support and the scintillator and configured to reflect the light; a semi-transmissive layer arranged between the light reflecting layer and the scintillator and configured to reflect part of the light and transmit other part of the light; and an optical adjustment layer arranged between the light reflecting layer and the semi-transmissive layer and configured to make an optical distance between the light reflecting layer and the semi-transmissive layer become a length with which the light resonates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Taiji Tomita, Tomoyuki Oike, Tamaki Kobayashi, Masami Tsukamoto
  • Publication number: 20220154069
    Abstract: A layer in which a primary phase composed of a columnar crystal material and a secondary phase composed of a material different from the primary phase are phase-separated being included as a base for forming a columnar crystal of scintillator plate improves separation of columnar crystals from each other and suppresses light scattering from occurring so as to realize a scintillator having high resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Oike
  • Patent number: 11277905
    Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus comprises a sensor unit including two sensor boards stacked together, a base supporting the sensor unit, an electrical component on an opposite side to the sensor unit relative to the base, and a heat insulation member including a portion located between the electrical component and the sensor unit. A heat conductivity of the heat insulation member is lower than a heat conductivity of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazumi Nagano, Keiichi Nomura, Shinichi Takeda, Tomoyuki Oike
  • Patent number: 11181650
    Abstract: A scintillator plate provided with a scintillator having, on a substrate, a first surface facing the substrate and a second surface on an opposite side to the first surface is provided. The scintillator includes needle-like crystals each containing an alkali metal halide compound, thallium iodide, and copper and/or silver as an additive element. The additive element is contained in the second surface at a concentration of not less than 0.04 mol % and not more than 0.5 mol %, and has a higher concentration in the first surface than in the second surface. A thickness of a largest portion of each of the needle-like crystals becomes not less than one time and not more than nine times a thickness at a height of 10 ?m in a direction from the first surface to the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Oike
  • Patent number: 11073626
    Abstract: A scintillator having a columnar crystal structure vapor-deposited on a substrate, wherein each column of the crystal structure contains an alkali halide metal compound as a host material, and further contains, as an additive, a compound of a precious metal as a metal having lower ionization tendency than hydrogen (H), with the additive having a lower melting point than the host material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Oike, Shoshiro Saruta
  • Publication number: 20200081141
    Abstract: A scintillator plate provided with a scintillator having, on a substrate, a first surface facing the substrate and a second surface on an opposite side to the first surface is provided. The scintillator includes needle-like crystals each containing an alkali metal halide compound, thallium iodide, and copper and/or silver as an additive element. The additive element is contained in the second surface at a concentration of not less than 0.04 mol % and not more than 0.5 mol %, and has a higher concentration in the first surface than in the second surface. A thickness of a largest portion of each of the needle-like crystals becomes not less than one time and not more than nine times a thickness at a height of 10 ?m in a direction from the first surface to the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Oike
  • Publication number: 20190343468
    Abstract: One aspect of the invention is a radiation imaging apparatus, comprising a first imaging panel including a first sensor substrate including a center region and a peripheral region, and a first scintillator arranged in the center region, a second imaging panel including a second sensor substrate including a center region and a peripheral region, and a second scintillator arranged at the center region, the second imaging panel being arranged above the first imaging panel, a supporting base configured to support the first imaging panel upward, and a supporting member arranged below the peripheral region of the second sensor substrate so that a load acting on the peripheral region of the second sensor substrate downward is received by the supporting base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Keiichi Nomura, Kazumi Nagano, Tomoyuki Oike, Shinichi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20190313525
    Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus comprises a sensor unit including two sensor boards stacked together, a base supporting the sensor unit, an electrical component on an opposite side to the sensor unit relative to the base, and a heat insulation member including a portion located between the electrical component and the sensor unit. A heat conductivity of the heat insulation member is lower than a heat conductivity of the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Kazumi Nagano, Keiichi Nomura, Shinichi Takeda, Tomoyuki Oike
  • Publication number: 20190146101
    Abstract: A scintillator having a columnar crystal structure vapor-deposited on a substrate, wherein each column of the crystal structure contains an alkali halide metal compound as a host material, and further contains, as an additive, a compound of a precious metal as a metal having lower ionization tendency than hydrogen (H), with the additive having a lower melting point than the host material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Oike, Shoshiro Saruta
  • Patent number: 9530530
    Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a scintillator panel including a substrate and a scintillator layer containing a plurality of crystals formed by depositing a scintillator material on a deposition surface of the substrate. The method includes depositing the scintillator material on the deposition surface of the substrate such that the scintillator material incidents on the deposition surface obliquely with respect to the normal to the deposition surface, and varying the angle between a reference direction on the deposition surface and a projected incident direction that is obtained by projecting the direction of the scintillator material incident onto the deposition surface. In the vapor deposition, the amount of the scintillator material deposited on the deposition surface changes according to the angle between the projected incident direction and the reference direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Oike, Yoshinori Shibutani, Nobuhiro Yasui, Toru Den
  • Publication number: 20160217879
    Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a scintillator panel including a substrate and a scintillator layer containing a plurality of crystals formed by depositing a scintillator material on a deposition surface of the substrate. The method includes depositing the scintillator material on the deposition surface of the substrate such that the scintillator material incidents on the deposition surface obliquely with respect to the normal to the deposition surface, and varying the angle between a reference direction on the deposition surface and a projected incident direction that is obtained by projecting the direction of the scintillator material incident onto the deposition surface. In the vapor deposition, the amount of the scintillator material deposited on the deposition surface changes according to the angle between the projected incident direction and the reference direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Oike, Yoshinori Shibutani, Nobuhiro Yasui, Toru Den
  • Patent number: 9315919
    Abstract: Provided is a scintillator plate including a crystalline body formed of a compound having a crystal structure of a Cs3Cu2I5 crystal and a substrate, in which an orientation of the crystalline body is an a-axis group orientation with respect to a direction perpendicular to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinori Shibutani, Tamaki Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Oike, Ryoko Ueyama, Toru Den
  • Patent number: 9110176
    Abstract: Provided is a radiation detecting element, including: needle crystal scintillators and a protruding pattern in which: one end of the needle crystal scintillators is in contact with of upper surfaces of the multiple protrusions; a gap corresponding to a gap between the multiple protrusions is provided between portions of the needle crystal scintillators in contact with the upper surfaces of the multiple protrusions; and a number of the needle crystal scintillators in contact with one of the upper surfaces is 5 or less. Conventionally, since the needle crystals exhibit a state of a polycrystalline film in an early stage of vapor deposition, and light also spreads in a horizontal direction, the light received by a photodetector portion and the spatial resolution was lower than ideal values. The present invention enables the deviating region to be the ideal state in an early stage of growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Oike, Nobuhiro Yasui, Toru Den, Yoshihiro Ohashi, Ryoko Horie
  • Publication number: 20150034841
    Abstract: Provided is a scintillator plate including a crystalline body formed of a compound having a crystal structure of a Cs3Cu2I5 crystal and a substrate, in which an orientation of the crystalline body is an a-axis group orientation with respect to a direction perpendicular to the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshinori Shibutani, Tamaki Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Oike, Ryoko Ueyama, Toru Den
  • Patent number: 8574955
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting film having controllable resistivity, and a high-luminance light-emitting device, which can be driven at a low voltage, using such light-emitting film. The light-emitting film includes Cu as an addition element in a zinc sulfide compound which is a base material, wherein the zinc sulfide compound includes columnar ZnS crystals, and sites formed of copper sulfide on a grain boundary where the ZnS crystals are in contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Oike, Tatsuya Iwasaki, Yoshihiro Ohashi
  • Patent number: 8466615
    Abstract: An EL element 1 comprises EL functional layers 6, 10 comprising Ga2O3:Eu between a thick film insulator layer 16 and an upper electrode 12 provided on a substrate 2 on which a lower electrode 4 was formed and a light-emitting layer 8 comprising MgGa2O4 formed therebetween. The EL functional layers 6, 10 have the dual functions of insulating layers and electron doping layers. Due to this, the EL element 1 has a low drive voltage and high light-emitting brightness, and the structure of the EL element is simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Ifire IP Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Takahashi, Yoshihiko Yano, Tomoyuki Oike, Naruki Kataoka