Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Kawashima

Toshiyuki Kawashima 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: 12155177
    Abstract: An external resonator-type semiconductor laser device 1A includes an external resonator formed of one or a plurality of laser diode light sources and a VBG; an optical fiber which outputs output light La from the laser diode light source toward the VBG, and into which return light Lb from the VBG is input; and a displacement unit that displaces a disposition position of the VBG with respect to an input and output end surface of the optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Yujin Zheng, Takashi Sekine, Yoshinori Kato, Norio Kurita, Toshiyuki Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20240335797
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a gas separation membrane containing a novel sulfonated polyimide and having superior gas separation performance. The gas separation membrane of the present invention contains a sulfonated polyimide represented by the following general formula (1): wherein Ar is an aryl group, X is more than 0 and 1 or less, and M+ is H+ or a metal cation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KAWASHIMA, Shunsuke NOMI, Yasuyuki SAKAKIBARA, Jianhua FANG, Jingqiu YU, Xiaoxia GUO
  • Publication number: 20240327784
    Abstract: A method of producing a culture solution for human or animal cell culture includes bringing an iron supply source including an iron-containing section and a plating layer provided thereon into contact with an aqueous medium to supply iron from the iron supply source to the aqueous medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicants: DAIWA CAN COMPANY, IntegriCulture Inc.
    Inventors: Mami Horiuchi, Toshiyuki Akachi, Takashi Kawada, Ryoji Fujii, Ikko Kawashima, Keita Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240306790
    Abstract: Gel nail device includes: stimulus generator for applying an external stimulus for reducing an adhesion strength between gel nail and nail to at least one of gel nail or nail; sensor for detecting at least one item selected from the group consisting of a position of gel nail, a state of gel nail, a position of nail, and a state of nail; and control circuit for controlling stimulus generator based on a detection result from sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Keitaro AMARI, Shinsuke KAWAGUCHI, Taiki UMEMOTO, Tomoko KAWASHIMA, Yuko TANIIKE, Haruka KUSUKAME, Toshiyuki KOMATSU
  • Patent number: 12012493
    Abstract: A composite semipermeable membrane capable of forming, on a surface of a porous support in a highly reproducible manner, a separation layer that is extremely thin and that exhibits superior separability. It provides, on a surface of a porous support, a composite semipermeable membrane that has an organic/inorganic hybrid separation layer that is extremely thin and that exhibits superior separability. A method for manufacturing a composite semipermeable membrane includes forming, on a surface of a porous support, a separation layer containing a cross-linked condensate having a siloxane bond by bringing an organic solution that contains an organic silicon compound containing three or more reactive functional groups, each of which is at least one type selected from a hydrolyzable group and a hydroxyl group, into contact with water or an aqueous solution on the porous support, and by performing interfacial polycondensation of the organic silicon compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION, HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kawashima, Shinichi Inoue, Masahiko Hirose, Joji Ohshita, Toshinori Tsuru, Kazuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230182084
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composite reverse osmosis membrane having improved water permeability and antifouling performance, and a method for producing the same. The composite reverse osmosis membrane of the present invention includes: a porous support; and a skin layer formed on a surface of the porous support. The skin layer contains a polyamide resin. The polyamide resin is a modified polyamide resin modified with an alkylenediamine derivative.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KAWASHIMA, Shunsuke NOMI, Tomotsugu MIYABE, Yunxia HU, Shaolu LI, Juntao WANG, Yaxu GUAN, Genghao GONG, Yiwen QIN
  • Publication number: 20230145799
    Abstract: A composite semipermeable membrane capable of forming, on a surface of a porous support in a highly reproducible manner, a separation layer that is extremely thin and that exhibits superior separability. It provides, on a surface of a porous support, a composite semipermeable membrane that has an organic/inorganic hybrid separation layer that is extremely thin and that exhibits superior separability. A method for manufacturing a composite semipermeable membrane includes forming, on a surface of a porous support, a separation layer containing a cross-linked condensate having a siloxane bond by bringing an organic solution that contains an organic silicon compound containing three or more reactive functional groups, each of which is at least one type selected from a hydrolyzable group and a hydroxyl group, into contact with water or an aqueous solution on the porous support, and by performing interfacial polycondensation of the organic silicon compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicants: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION, HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KAWASHIMA, Shinichi INOUE, Masahiko HIROSE, Joji OHSHITA, Toshinori TSURU, Kazuki YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11590458
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a composite semipermeable membrane is capable of forming, on a surface of a porous support in a highly reproducible manner, a separation layer that is extremely thin and that exhibits superior separability. It provides, on a surface of a porous support, a composite semipermeable membrane that has an organic/inorganic hybrid separation layer that is extremely thin and that exhibits superior separability. A method for manufacturing a composite semipermeable membrane includes forming, on a surface of a porous support, a separation layer containing a cross-linked condensate having a siloxane bond by bringing an organic solution that contains an organic silicon compound containing three or more reactive functional groups, each of which is at least one type selected from a hydrolyzable group and a hydroxyl group, into contact with water or an aqueous solution on the porous support, and by performing interfacial polycondensation of the organic silicon compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignees: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION, HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kawashima, Shinichi Inoue, Masahiko Hirose, Joji Ohshita, Toshinori Tsuru, Kazuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11504803
    Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes a light source which outputs a laser light, and a waveform control unit which controls a pulse waveform of the laser light irradiating the workpiece, in which the pulse waveform of the laser light controlled by the waveform control unit includes a main pulse and a foot pulse temporally preceding the main pulse, and a peak intensity of the foot pulse is smaller than a peak intensity of the main pulse, and a peak position of the main pulse is positioned in a retention time period of plasma generated due to an incidence of the foot pulse on the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K
    Inventors: Yoshio Mizuta, Takashi Kurita, Takeshi Watari, Yuki Kabeya, Norio Kurita, Toshiyuki Kawashima
  • Patent number: 11424591
    Abstract: A laser device is a laser device that includes an output unit that outputs seed light to a light amplifying unit. The output unit has a light source unit that outputs, as the seed light, rays of light with a plurality of wavelengths lying within a gain range of the light amplifying unit, and a seed light control unit that controls an intensity-time waveform of the seed light output from the light source unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Takashi Kurita, Yoshinori Kato, Toshiyuki Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20220263292
    Abstract: A laser apparatus includes a light source unit and a light combining unit. The light source unit outputs first laser light and second laser light having a wavelength different from that of the first laser light to different optical paths. The light combining unit is optically coupled to the light source unit, and combines the first laser light and the second laser light to generate a burst pulse with a frequency according to a difference between the wavelength of the first laser light and the wavelength of the second laser light. In the light source unit, the wavelengths of the first laser light and the second laser light are set in advance or settable such that the frequency of the burst pulse is 1 GHz or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Takashi KURITA, Yoshinori KATO, Toshiyuki KAWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220062825
    Abstract: A separation membrane module 100 of the present invention includes: a container 10; a degassing membrane element 20 that is disposed inside the container 10; and a separation membrane element 60 that is disposed inside the container 10, is located upstream or downstream of the degassing membrane element 20 in a flow direction of a liquid to be treated, and filters the liquid. The separation membrane element 60 is for example, an NF membrane element or an RO membrane element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KAWASHIMA, Tomoya OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210313769
    Abstract: An external resonator-type semiconductor laser device 1A includes an external resonator formed of one or a plurality of laser diode light sources and a VBG; an optical fiber which outputs output light La from the laser diode light source toward the VBG, and into which return light Lb from the VBG is input; and a displacement unit that displaces a disposition position of the VBG with respect to an input and output end surface of the optical fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Yujin ZHENG, Takashi SEKINE, Yoshinori KATO, Norio KURITA, Toshiyuki KAWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20210273407
    Abstract: A laser apparatus includes a semiconductor laser element, a waveform calculation unit for calculating input waveform data, a driver circuit for supplying a drive current having a temporal waveform according to the input waveform data to the semiconductor laser element, an optical amplifier for amplifying laser light output from the semiconductor laser element, and a light waveform detection unit for detecting a waveform of laser light after the amplification output from the optical amplifier. The waveform calculation unit compares the waveform of the laser light after the amplification detected by the light waveform detection unit with a target waveform, adjusts a temporal waveform of the input waveform data, and brings the waveform of the laser light after the amplification close to the target waveform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Takashi KURITA, Yoshinori KATO, Toshiyuki KAWASHIMA
  • Patent number: 10862261
    Abstract: A laser medium unit includes: a plate-shaped laser gain medium which includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and generates emission light by the irradiation of excitation light from the first surface; a reflection member that is provided on the second surface so as to reflect the excitation light and the emission light; and a cooling member that cools the laser gain medium. The laser gain medium includes an irradiation area which is irradiated with the excitation light and an outer area which is located outside the irradiation area when viewed from a thickness direction intersecting the first surface and the second surface. The cooling member is thermally connected to the second surface through the reflection member so that a cooling area of the laser gain medium is formed on the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ueda, Koichi Iyama, Yoshinori Kato, Takashi Sekine, Toshiyuki Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20200353426
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a composite semipermeable membrane is capable of forming, on a surface of a porous support in a highly reproducible manner, a separation layer that is extremely thin and that exhibits superior separability. It provides, on a surface of a porous support, a composite semipermeable membrane that has an organic/inorganic hybrid separation layer that is extremely thin and that exhibits superior separability. A method for manufacturing a composite semipermeable membrane includes forming, on a surface of a porous support, a separation layer containing a cross-linked condensate having a siloxane bond by bringing an organic solution that contains an organic silicon compound containing three or more reactive functional groups, each of which is at least one type selected from a hydrolyzable group and a hydroxyl group, into contact with water or an aqueous solution on the porous support, and by performing interfacial polycondensation of the organic silicon compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicants: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION, HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KAWASHIMA, Shinichi INOUE, Masahiko HIROSE, Joji OHSHITA, Toshinori TSURU, Kazuki YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10826263
    Abstract: A laser medium unit includes: a plate-shaped laser gain medium which includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and generates emission light by the irradiation of excitation light from the first surface; a reflection member that is provided on the second surface so as to reflect the excitation light and the emission light; and a cooling member that cools the laser gain medium. The laser gain medium includes an irradiation area which is irradiated with the excitation light and an outer area which is located outside the irradiation area when viewed from a thickness direction intersecting the first surface and the second surface. The cooling member is thermally connected to the second surface through the reflection member so that a cooling area of the laser gain medium is formed on the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ueda, Koichi Iyama, Yoshinori Kato, Takashi Sekine, Toshiyuki Kawashima
  • Patent number: 10821403
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a highly reliable membrane module for removing hazardous components without the risk of a feed-source fluid and a concentrated fluid intermixing inside a hollow tube. The spiral wound separation membrane module is characterized in that: a spiral wound separation membrane element accommodated in a cylindrical container, the spiral wound separation membrane element having a structure in which a laminated body having a separation membrane, a feed-side spacer and a permeation-side spacer is wound around a porous hollow tube in a spiral shape, the feed-side spacer is positioned on a feed side of the separation membrane, the permeation-side spacer is positioned on a permeation side of the separation membrane, and a feed-side flow path and a permeation-side flow path are sealed so as not to communicate directly with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Uda, Toshiyuki Kawashima
  • Patent number: 10720243
    Abstract: The laser amplification apparatus is provided with a plurality of plate-shaped laser medium components (M1 to M4) which are disposed to be aligned along a thickness direction, and prisms (P1 to P3) which optically couples the laser medium components. Each of the laser medium components is provided with a main surface to which a seed light is incident, and a side surface which surrounds the main surface. An excitation light is incident from at least one side surface of a specific laser medium component among the plurality of laser medium components. The excitation light is incident through the prism to a side surface of the laser medium component adjacent to the prism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Takashi Sekine, Yoshinori Kato, Yasuki Takeuchi, Toshiyuki Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20200106237
    Abstract: A laser device is a laser device that includes an output unit that outputs seed light to a light amplifying unit. The output unit has a light source unit that outputs, as the seed light, rays of light with a plurality of wavelengths lying within a gain range of the light amplifying unit, and a seed light control unit that controls an intensity-time waveform of the seed light output from the light source unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Takashi KURITA, Yoshinori KATO, Toshiyuki KAWASHIMA