Patents by Inventor Toru Abiko

Toru Abiko 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: 10175390
    Abstract: An optical element is provided which reflects a reduced amount of light even under a very high intensity lighting system used for a surgical operation, a dental treatment etc., has anti-fogging performance, and is transparent and useful for face protection. The optical element has a flexible transparent substrate and a plurality of structures disposed on opposite surfaces of the substrate at a pitch equal to or less than the wavelength of visible light. The structures are formed from a cured product of a resin having a hydrophilic functional group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimitaka Nishimura, Toru Abiko, Shinichi Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20180305650
    Abstract: A culture bag includes a culture portion which has a culture space configured to contain and culture a culture fluid. The culture space is an endless circumferential circulation space in which the culture fluid can circumferentially circulate. The culture fluid can continue to circumferentially circulate in one direction in the endless culture space. This suppresses complexification of flow of the culture fluid. As a result, bubbles can be suppressed from generating without decreasing culture efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Akira Higuchi, Hiroyuki Naito, Keiji Honjo, Toru Abiko, Kazuya Hayashibe, Yasuyuki Kudo, Hirokazu Odagiri
  • Publication number: 20150323704
    Abstract: An optical element is provided which reflects a reduced amount of light even under a very high intensity lighting system used for a surgical operation, a dental treatment etc., has anti-fogging performance, and is transparent and useful for face protection. The optical element has a flexible transparent substrate and a plurality of structures disposed on opposite surfaces of the substrate at a pitch equal to or less than the wavelength of visible light. The structures are formed from a cured product of a resin having a hydrophilic functional group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Kimitaka NISHIMURA, Toru ABIKO, Shinichi MATSUMURA
  • Patent number: 8670088
    Abstract: An optical sheet is provided. The optical sheet includes: a light-transmissive base; and an optical functional layer provided to at least one surface of the base, in which the base is composed of a stack of transmissive sheets bonded while placing an adhesive material layer in between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Hirokazu Odagiri, Katsuhiro Doi, Makoto Aoki, Satoko Asaoka, Miki Sudo, Yu Andrew Chakchung
  • Patent number: 8553175
    Abstract: An optical sheet, a backlight device, and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The beam-condensing optical sheet includes a large number of irregularity portions arranged on one main surface of a light-transmissive base, in which a pitch of arrangement of the irregularity portions is 110 ?m or more and 330 ?m or less, and surface roughness (Ra) of the irregularity portion is 0.1 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Masato Ishigaki, Satoshi Sato, Yasuhiro Nishida, Akihiro Horii
  • Patent number: 7995158
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus is provided in which occurrence of a moiré pattern can be prevented without largely reducing front luminance. A liquid crystal display apparatus 1 includes a surface light source 4, a liquid crystal display panel 2, and first and second prism sheets 5 and 6 for condensing light emitted from the surface light source 4 and guiding the light toward the liquid crystal display panel. The first and second prism sheets 5 and 6 are disposed such that prism array directions thereof are orthogonal to each other. When a pixel pitch of the liquid crystal display panel 2 is defined as Pp [?m]; a prism array pitch of the first prism sheet 5 is defined as Px [?m]; and a prism array pitch of the second prism sheet 6 is defined as Py [?m], relationships of Px?Pp/(14?0.045 Pp) and Py?Pp/(11.5?0.032 Pp) are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Kimura, Makoto Aoki, Jun Sasaki, Toru Abiko
  • Patent number: 7961278
    Abstract: There is provided an optical sheet stack which includes a first optical sheet having a large number of irregularities consecutively arranged on one surface thereof, and a second optical sheet stacked thereon. In the optical sheet stack, the second optical sheet has, on a bonding surface thereof, an adhesive layer bonded with apexes of the irregularities, and while assuming pitch of arrangement of the irregularities as P, and width of bonding of each apex of the irregularities bonded to the adhesive layer as Pw, the relation of 0<Pw/P?0.2 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Yasuyuki Kudo, Shogo Shinkai, Shigehiro Yamakita, Makoto Aoki
  • Patent number: 7880970
    Abstract: An optical packaged body capable of preventing generation of a wrinkle, deflection, and warpage, and capable of being thinned is provided. The optical packaged body includes a support medium and a packaging film that covers the support medium in a state of being applied with shrinkage force. The packaging film has an optical function section that acts on light from a light source in at least one of a first region into which the light from the light source enters and a second region from which the light from the light source is emitted after passing through the optical packaged body when the light source is arranged on one face side of the optical packaged body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Yasuyuki Kudo, Hirokazu Odagiri, Satoshi Sato, Yu Andrew Chakchung, Shogo Shinkai, Taro Omura, Hiroshi Mizuno, Akihiro Horii, Tatsuya Harima
  • Patent number: 7857471
    Abstract: The optical sheet includes a first lens sheet having a plurality of first three-dimensional structures arrayed to extend to one surface thereof, and a reflective polarizer sheet for transmitting either one of p-polarization component and s-polarization component of incident light and reflecting the other of p-polarization component and s-polarization component of the incident light. Head portions of the first three-dimensional structures are bonded to the reflective polarizer sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Shigehiro Yamakita, Makoto Aoki, Toru Abiko
  • Patent number: 7787353
    Abstract: In an optical recording medium 1 having a configuration in which on one main surface of a substrate 2, a reflective layer 3, a lower dielectrics layer 4, a recording layer 5, an upper dielectrics layer 6 and a light transmissive layer 7 are sequentially laminated, the lower dielectrics layer 4 is formed of a first lower dielectrics layer and a second lower dielectrics layer that inhibits a material that constitutes the first lower dielectrics layer and a material that constitutes the reflective layer 3 from reacting, and the upper dielectrics layer 6 is formed of a first upper dielectrics layer and a second upper dielectrics layer that inhibits a material that constitutes the first upper dielectrics layer and a material that constitutes the light transmissive layer 7 from reacting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Abiko, Etsuro Ikeda, Nobuaki Furuichi, Fuminori Takase
  • Patent number: 7782420
    Abstract: An optical element covering member is provided which can suppress degradation in display performance caused by warping and undulation. The optical element covering member includes at least one optical element, a support medium supporting the optical element; and a covering member covering the optical element and the support medium. In the above optical element covering member, the covering member has a Vicat softening point of more than 85° C., and at least one surface of the covering member, which covers the support medium, has a coefficient of thermal expansion in the range of 85% to 160% of the coefficient of thermal expansion of the support medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Masayasu Kakinuma, Ken Hosoya, Taku Ishimori, Shigehiro Yamakita, Shogo Shinkai
  • Patent number: 7697088
    Abstract: An optical element covering member capable of improving insufficiency in rigidity of the optical element while an increase in thickness of a liquid crystal display device or deterioration of display characteristics of the liquid crystal display device is reduced, a backlight provided with the optical element covering member, and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The optical element covering member includes at least one optical element, a support medium for supporting the at least one optical element, and a covering member for covering the at least one optical element and the support medium. The at least one optical element and the support medium constitute a stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Yasuyuki Kudo, Hirokazu Odagiri, Satoshi Sato, Andrew Chakchung Yu, Masayasu Kakinuma, Fumiko Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20100067117
    Abstract: An optical packaged body capable of preventing generation of a wrinkle, deflection, and warpage, and capable of being thinned is provided. The optical packaged body includes a support medium and a packaging film that covers the support medium in a state of being applied with shrinkage force. The packaging film has an optical function section that acts on light from a light source in at least one of a first region into which the light from the light source enters and a second region from which the light from the light source is emitted after passing through the optical packaged body when the light source is arranged on one face side of the optical packaged body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Yasuyuki Kudo, Hirokazu Odagiri, Satoshi Sato, Yu Andrew Chakchung, Shogo Shinkai, Taro Omura, Hiroshi Mizuno, Akihiro Horii, Tatsuya Harima
  • Patent number: 7633682
    Abstract: An optical packaged body capable of preventing generation of a wrinkle, deflection, and warpage, capable of being thinned is provided. The optical package body includes a support medium and a packaging film that covers the support medium in a state of being applied with shrinkage force. The packaging film has an optical function section that acts on light from a light source in at least one of a first region into which the light from the light source enters and a second region from which the light from the light source is emitted after passing through the optical packaged body when the light source is arranged on one face side of the optical packaged body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Yasuyuki Kudo, Hirokazu Odagiri, Satoshi Sato, Andrew Chakchung Yu, Shogo Shinkai, Taro Omura, Hiroshi Mizuno, Akihiro Horii, Tatsuya Harima
  • Publication number: 20090303413
    Abstract: An optical sheet packaged body in which a wrinkle is not generated is provided. The optical sheet packaged body includes a laminated body in which a plurality of optical sheets such as a light source image segmentation sheet, a diffusion plate, a diffusion sheet, and a luminance enhancement film are layered, and a flexible film that wraps around the laminated body and has one or a plurality of openings to expose at least part of an outer edge of the diffusion plate. An exposed portion exposed from at least one of the openings of the diffusion plate is provided with a shape (supported portion) for positioning to a chassis (bottom chassis and middle chassis) supporting the optical sheet packaged body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Yasuyuki Kudo, Hirokazu Odagiri, Satoshi Sato, Andrew Chakchung Yu, Hiroshi Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Maekawa, Masayasu Kakinuma, Taro Omura, Taku Ishimori, Shigehiro Yamakita, Yoshihiro Fujimaki, Mitsunari Hoshi
  • Patent number: 7545460
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display, optical sheet manufacturing method, and an optical sheet are provided. The occurrence of moiré is prevented while suppressing a reduction in front luminance. The liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal display panel; a light source arranged on a back surface side of the liquid crystal display panel; an optical sheet with a light-condensing property arranged between the liquid crystal display panel and the light source, the optical sheet having a number of irregularities arranged continuously on a principal surface of the optical sheet; and a diffuser sheet arranged between the liquid crystal display panel and the optical sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo Arima, Jun Shimizu, Kei Obata, Eiji Oota, Toru Abiko, Yasuyuki Kudo, Masato Ishigaki, Mitsunari Hoshi
  • Publication number: 20090079905
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus is provided in which occurrence of a moiré pattern can be prevented without largely reducing front luminance. A liquid crystal display apparatus 1 includes a surface light source 4, a liquid crystal display panel 2, and first and second prism sheets 5 and 6 for condensing light emitted from the surface light source 4 and guiding the light toward the liquid crystal display panel. The first and second prism sheets 5 and 6 are disposed such that prism array directions thereof are orthogonal to each other. When a pixel pitch of the liquid crystal display panel 2 is defined as Pp [?m]; a prism array pitch of the first prism sheet 5 is defined as Px [?m]; and a prism array pitch of the second prism sheet 6 is defined as Py [?m], relationships of Px?Pp/(14?0.045Pp) and Py?Pp/(11.5?0.032Pp) are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Kimura, Makoto Aoki, Jun Sasaki, Toru Abiko
  • Patent number: RE46601
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus is provided in which occurrence of a moiré pattern can be prevented without largely reducing front luminance. A liquid crystal display apparatus 1 includes a surface light source 4, a liquid crystal display panel 2, and first and second prism sheets 5 and 6 for condensing light emitted from the surface light source 4 and guiding the light toward the liquid crystal display panel. The first and second prism sheets 5 and 6 are disposed such that prism array directions thereof are orthogonal to each other. When a pixel pitch of the liquid crystal display panel 2 is defined as Pp [?m]; a prism array pitch of the first prism sheet 5 is defined as Px [?m]; and a prism array pitch of the second prism sheet 6 is defined as Py [?m], relationships of Px?Pp/(14?0.045 Pp) and Py?Pp/(11.5?0.032 Pp) are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Kimura, Makoto Aoki, Jun Sasaki, Toru Abiko
  • Patent number: RE48143
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus is provided in which occurrence of a moiré pattern can be prevented without largely reducing front luminance. A liquid crystal display apparatus 1 includes a surface light source 4, a liquid crystal display panel 2, and first and second prism sheets 5 and 6 for condensing light emitted from the surface light source 4 and guiding the light toward the liquid crystal display panel. The first and second prism sheets 5 and 6 are disposed such that prism array directions thereof are orthogonal to each other. When a pixel pitch of the liquid crystal display panel 2 is defined as Pp [?m]; a prism array pitch of the first prism sheet 5 is defined as Px [?m]; and a prism array pitch of the second prism sheet 6 is defined as Py [?m], relationships of Px?Pp/(14?0.045 Pp) and Py?Pp/(11.5?0.032 Pp) are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Kimura, Makoto Aoki, Jun Sasaki, Toru Abiko
  • Patent number: RE48844
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus is provided in which occurrence of a moiré pattern can be prevented without largely reducing front luminance. A liquid crystal display apparatus 1 includes a surface light source 4, a liquid crystal display panel 2, and first and second prism sheets 5 and 6 for condensing light emitted from the surface light source 4 and guiding the light toward the liquid crystal display panel. The first and second prism sheets 5 and 6 are disposed such that prism array directions thereof are orthogonal to each other. When a pixel pitch of the liquid crystal display panel 2 is defined as Pp [?m]; a prism array pitch of the first prism sheet 5 is defined as Px [?m]; and a prism array pitch of the second prism sheet 6 is defined as Py [?m], relationships of Px?Pp/(14?0.045 Pp) and Py?Pp/(11.5?0.032 Pp) are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Kimura, Makoto Aoki, Jun Sasaki, Toru Abiko