Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Imai
Toshiaki Imai 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).
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Publication number: 20230415635Abstract: A vehicle headlight control system, includes: an operation section configured to adopt a first position and a second position by being rotated with respect to a lever body; a biasing section that returns the operation section to the first position; and a processor coupled to a memory, the processor configured to enable control of vehicle sidelights and low-beam headlights; a first display portion that indicates a relative position of the operation section with respect to the lever body; and a second display portion that is adjacent to the first display portion in a case in which the operation section is at the first position, and that indicates either being in an automatic illumination state in which the illumination state of the vehicle sidelights and the low-beam headlights is switchable automatically or being in a vehicle sidelight illumination state in which the vehicle sidelights are illuminated.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventor: Toshiaki IMAI
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Publication number: 20210374446Abstract: A switch device includes an operation button including an operation surface on which a push operation is performed, a guide recess portion that has an elongated shape surrounded by inclined surfaces and is provided on the operation surface to guide an operating finger, and a biometric information sensor including a reading surface for reading biometric information of the operating finger in contact therewith. The reading surface is exposed situated nearer an end surface of the guide recess portion in relation to a longitudinal center of the guide recess portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2019Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHOInventors: Toshiaki IMAI, Naoki KAMIYA, Takashi UENO
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Patent number: 11189809Abstract: An organic EL device of the disclosure includes: a first electrode and a second electrode; and an organic layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic layer includes a light-emitting layer. The organic layer includes, between the first electrode and the light-emitting layer, a first layer that contains a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compound having orientation, and a second layer that contains a larger amount of nitrogen element than the first layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiaki Imai, Emiko Kambe, Hideki Kobayashi, Jiro Yamada
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Patent number: 10859053Abstract: A switch device includes an operation button to be push-operated, and a sealing portion for sealing a gap between the operation button and an opening through which the operation button is inserted. The sealing portion may include a ring-shaped first seal that is in contact with the operation button and exhibits sealing properties, and a second seal that is harder than the first seal and is located on the outer side of the first seal. The first seal and the second seal may be integrated so as to form a frame of the sealing portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHOInventors: Toshiaki Imai, Ryoji Takahashi, Shuichi Iwata
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Patent number: 10743386Abstract: A display device includes a pixel including a plurality of sub-pixels. Each of the plurality of sub-pixels includes: a light-emission region; and a non-light-emission region other than the light-emission region. The light-emission region includes one or more effective light-emitting parts in which a first electrode, a light emitting layer, and a second electrode are stacked in order, and a light guide provided on side of the one or more effective light-emitting parts on which light is extracted.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventors: Kaoru Abe, Kazuma Teramoto, Toshiaki Imai, Jiro Yamada, Takahide Ishii, Hideki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10598142Abstract: A switch device includes an operation button operated by a push operation on an operating surface, light sources arranged on a lighting substrate to illuminate an illumination target of the operation button, and a plurality of switches that are arranged on a switch substrate different from the lighting substrate so as to be located on an end portion side of the operation button and are turned on due to displacement of the operation button caused by the push operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHOInventors: Toshiaki Imai, Ryoji Takahashi, Shuichi Iwata
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Patent number: 10590901Abstract: A switch device includes an operation button operated by a push operation on an operating surface including an opening, a biometric sensor that includes a reading surface exposed in the opening of the operating surface and reads, during the push operation, biometric information of an operator who touches the reading surface, and a packing arranged between the operation button and the biometric sensor to prevent extraneous matter from entering through the opening.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHOInventors: Toshiaki Imai, Ryoji Takahashi, Shuichi Iwata
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Publication number: 20190107097Abstract: A switch device includes an operation button to be push-operated, and a sealing portion for sealing a gap between the operation button and an opening through which the operation button is inserted. The sealing portion may include a ring-shaped first seal that is in contact with the operation button and exhibits sealing properties, and a second seal that is harder than the first seal and is located on the outer side of the first seal. The first seal and the second seal may be integrated so as to form a frame of the sealing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: Toshiaki IMAI, Ryoji TAKAHASHI, Shuichi IWATA
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Publication number: 20190107094Abstract: A switch device includes an operation button operated by a push operation on an operating surface, light sources arranged on a lighting substrate to illuminate an illumination target of the operation button, and a plurality of switches that are arranged on a switch substrate different from the lighting substrate so as to be located on an end portion side of the operation button and are turned on due to displacement of the operation button caused by the push operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: Toshiaki IMAI, Ryoji TAKAHASHI, Shuichi IWATA
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Publication number: 20190107095Abstract: A switch device includes an operation button operated by a push operation on an operating surface including an opening, a biometric sensor that includes a reading surface exposed in the opening of the operating surface and reads, during the push operation, biometric information of an operator who touches the reading surface, and a packing arranged between the operation button and the biometric sensor to prevent extraneous matter from entering through the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: Toshiaki IMAI, Ryoji TAKAHASHI, Shuichi IWATA
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Publication number: 20170271609Abstract: An organic EL device of the disclosure includes: a first electrode and a second electrode; and an organic layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic layer includes a light-emitting layer. The organic layer includes, between the first electrode and the light-emitting layer, a first layer that contains a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compound having orientation, and a second layer that contains a larger amount of nitrogen element than the first layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2015Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: TOSHIAKI IMAI, EMIKO KAMBE, HIDEKI KOBAYASHI, JIRO YAMADA
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Patent number: 9755149Abstract: An organic EL display unit includes a first organic EL device including a first light-emitting layer that emits first color light and a second organic EL device including a second light-emitting layer that emits second color light of a shorter wavelength than the first color light. The first light-emitting layer includes, as a host material, a polymer material that does not emit the first color light or does not mainly emit the first color light, and includes, as a dopant, a low-molecular-weight material or a polymer material that emits the first color light.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2013Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: JOLED Inc.Inventors: Toshiaki Imai, Tadahiko Yoshinaga
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Publication number: 20170245342Abstract: A display device includes a pixel including a plurality of sub-pixels. Each of the plurality of sub-pixels includes: a light-emission region; and a non-light-emission region other than the light-emission region. The light-emission region includes one or more effective light-emitting parts in which a first electrode, a light emitting layer, and a second electrode are stacked in order, and a light guide provided on side of the one or more effective light-emitting parts on which light is extracted.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Kaoru ABE, Kazuma TERAMOTO, Toshiaki IMAI, Jiro YAMADA, Takahide ISHII, Hideki KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 9508781Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display including multilayer structures that are each formed in a respective one of pixel areas in an effective area of a substrate and are each formed by a lower electrode, an organic layer, and an upper electrode, the organic electroluminescence display having a common electrode that electrically connects the pixel areas, the method including the steps of: forming a protective electrode and an outer-peripheral electrode that are electrically connected to the common electrode; forming the multilayer structures; and carrying out film deposition treatment involving electrification of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimura, Mitsuru Asano, Toshiaki Imai
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Publication number: 20150287926Abstract: An organic EL display unit includes a first organic EL device including a first light-emitting layer that emits first color light and a second organic EL device including a second light-emitting layer that emits second color light of a shorter wavelength than the first color light. The first light-emitting layer includes, as a host material, a polymer material that does not emit the first color light or does not mainly emit the first color light, and includes, as a dopant, a low-molecular-weight material or a polymer material that emits the first color light.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2013Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiaki Imai, Tadahiko Yoshinaga
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Patent number: 9136314Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display including multilayer structures that are each formed in a respective one of pixel areas in an effective area of a substrate and are each formed by a lower electrode, an organic layer, and an upper electrode, the organic electroluminescence display having a common electrode that electrically connects the pixel areas, the method including the steps of: forming a protective electrode and an outer-peripheral electrode that are electrically connected to the common electrode; forming the multilayer structures; and carrying out film deposition treatment involving electrification of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2014Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimura, Mitsuru Asano, Toshiaki Imai
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Publication number: 20150243713Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display including multilayer structures that are each formed in a respective one of pixel areas in an effective area of a substrate and are each formed by a lower electrode, an organic layer, and an upper electrode, the organic electroluminescence display having a common electrode that electrically connects the pixel areas, the method including the steps of: forming a protective electrode and an outer-peripheral electrode that are electrically connected to the common electrode; forming the multilayer structures; and carrying out film deposition treatment involving electrification of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimura, Mitsuru Asano, Toshiaki Imai
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Patent number: 9099406Abstract: An organic electroluminescence display device includes: a light emission region including a plurality of pixels on a drive substrate, wherein each of the pixels includes, in order from a side close to the drive substrate, a first electrode, a functional layer, and a second electrode, the first electrode is provided for each of the pixels, and the functional layer includes at least an organic electroluminescence layer; a print pattern layer included in the functional layer and formed individually for each of the pixels; and a protrusion provided on the drive substrate and protruding further than any layer provided between the print pattern layer and the drive substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventors: Tatsuya Matsumi, Toshiaki Imai
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Publication number: 20150090977Abstract: An organic electroluminescence unit includes: a plurality of light-emitting layers of different colors (14R, 14G, 14B); a first electrode (11) and a second electrode (16) applying a voltage to each of the plurality of light-emitting layers; and a charge transport layer disposed between one or more light-emitting layers of the plurality of light-emitting layers and the first electrode (11).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2013Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: Toshiaki Imai, Kazunari Takagi, Tadahiko Yoshinaga, Tatsuya Matsumi, Makoto Ando
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Patent number: 8994008Abstract: A reverse printing ink composition capable of realizing printing with a uniform film thickness and high-definition patterning, a printing method using the same, and a method of manufacturing a display unit using the same are provided. The reverse printing ink composition includes a solvent containing an aromatic carbon hydride and a straight-chain carbon hydride and a low-molecular material.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshiaki Imai, Makoto Ando, Tadahiko Yoshinaga