Patents by Inventor Yoshihisa Usami

Yoshihisa Usami 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: 11618039
    Abstract: A separation device includes: a container that includes a storage portion for storing liquid containing magnetic particles; and a coil that separates the magnetic particles from the liquid by generating a magnetic field through application of current, causing a magnetic force to act on the magnetic particles in a state where the coil stops with respect to the storage portion, and causing the magnetic particles to move from the storage portion against gravity acting on the liquid containing the magnetic particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Usami, Yasuyuki Ishii, Yuki Inoue, Aya Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20230036638
    Abstract: Provided is a sensor device that detects a predetermined state quantity, including: a correction unit that performs first detection and second detection having a smaller generated state quantity than the first detection, and that corrects a detection value of the first detection, based on a detection value of the second detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Osamu Okazaki, Yoshihisa Usami
  • Patent number: 11448332
    Abstract: A chip includes a first chamber that stores a fluid, a second chamber that stores a mixing target which is to be mixed with the fluid, a flow path that allows a communication between the first chamber and the second chamber, and a valve that is provided in the flow path and capable of changing the flow path by change in shape by heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Usami, Yasuyuki Ishii, Yuki Inoue, Aya Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20220221154
    Abstract: Provided is a light cooking device, including: a light source; and a light condensing unit configured to transmit light from the light source through the light condensing unit and condense the light to at least a part of a cooking material. The light source is at least one selected from LEDs, OLEDs, and lasers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Usami
  • Patent number: 11197429
    Abstract: An object is to provide a plant illumination apparatus that can output light having a high degree of circular polarization in the target wavelength range. This object is achieved by having a reflective-type polarizing plate having an effective wavelength range, a light-emitting device, and a reflective plate configured to reflect light emitted from the light-emitting device and satisfying: ?1>?2,?2>?3, and w>30 nm wherein ?1 is the center wavelength of the effective wavelength range of the reflective-type polarizing plate, ?2 is the center wavelength of the light-emitting device, w is the full width at half maximum of the transmittance of the reflective-type polarizing plate, and ?3 is the shorter wavelength of the wavelengths at the full width at half maximum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Usami, Mitsuyoshi Ichihashi, Kazuhiro Oki
  • Publication number: 20210351363
    Abstract: Provided are an organic thin film transistor, an organic semiconductor film, a compound, an organic thin film transistor-forming composition, and a method of manufacturing the organic thin film transistor. The organic thin film transistor includes the organic semiconductor film. The organic semiconductor film includes a compound represented by a specific formula. The organic semiconductor film, the compound, and the organic thin film transistor-forming composition can be preferably used in the organic thin film transistor. The method of manufacturing the organic thin film transistor includes a step of forming an organic semiconductor film by applying the organic thin film transistor-forming composition to a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicants: FUJIFILM Corporation, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Eiji FUKUZAKI, Tetsuya WATANABE, Yoshihisa USAMI, Yukio TANI, Toshihiro OKAMOTO, Junichi TAKEYA
  • Patent number: 11169451
    Abstract: An image exposure device includes an image display device having pixels that emit light having a plurality of wavelengths; a photosensitive recording medium support portion that supports a photosensitive recording medium for recording an image of the image display device; a collimation portion that is disposed between the image display device and the photosensitive recording medium support portion and makes radiation light including the light having a plurality of wavelengths radiated from the pixels into first transmitted light radiated within a range of a first radiation angle narrower than a radiation angle of the radiation light; and a dichroic filter that is disposed between the collimation portion and the photosensitive recording medium support portion, and makes the first transmitted light including the light having a plurality of wavelengths into second transmitted light radiated within a range of a second radiation angle equal to or smaller than the first radiation angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Usami, Shinichiro Sonoda, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 11107996
    Abstract: Provided are an organic thin film transistor, an organic semiconductor film, a compound, an organic thin film transistor-forming composition, and a method of manufacturing the organic thin film transistor. The organic thin film transistor includes the organic semiconductor film. The organic semiconductor film includes a compound represented by a specific formula. The organic semiconductor film, the compound, and the organic thin film transistor-forming composition can be preferably used in the organic thin film transistor. The method of manufacturing the organic thin film transistor includes a step of forming an organic semiconductor film by applying the organic thin film transistor-forming composition to a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignees: FUJIFILM Corporation, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Eiji Fukuzaki, Tetsuya Watanabe, Yoshihisa Usami, Yukio Tani, Toshihiro Okamoto, Junichi Takeya
  • Patent number: 11081651
    Abstract: An organic semiconductor element in which an organic semiconductor layer contains a compound of Formula (1), a compound of Formula (2), and/or a compound of Formula (3) or contains a polymer having a structure of any one of formed by Formulae (8) to (10): in which X1 represents a nitrogen atom or CRa, and rings A to B each represent a specific nitrogen-containing ring; Y1 represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, CRb2, or NRc; V1 represents NRd, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or a selenium atom; Ra to Rd each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent; R1 represents a specific substituent, and p is an integer of 0 to 2; n represents 1 or 2; and * represents a bonding site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignees: FUJIFILM Corporation, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Kenji Shirokane, Eiji Fukuzaki, Yukio Tani, Fumiko Tamakuni, Yoshihisa Usami, Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshihiro Okamoto, Junichi Takeya
  • Patent number: 11019247
    Abstract: An imaging system that includes a plurality of mobile type apparatus. Each of the plurality of mobile type apparatuses performs, in a case where a preset imaging target and a mobile type apparatus to which a role of an imaging target is assigned are present in an acquired image, a control for forming an image on a recording medium, discharges the recording medium on which the image is formed, to a preset delivery target in a deliverable state, and controls movement of the mobile type apparatus for delivering the recording medium to a delivery target. The plurality of mobile type apparatuses include at least one mobile type apparatus to which the role of the imaging target is assigned, and at least one mobile type apparatus to which a role of a imaging responsibility is assigned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Yoshizawa, Yoshihisa Usami, Shinichiro Sonoda, Hajime Terayoko, Erina Ogura, Nobuya Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11003297
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a conductive laminate includes extracting a long flexible substrate from a roll on which the flexible substrate is wound, forming a to-be-plated layer precursor layer on at least one main surface of the flexible substrate while the extracted flexible substrate is transported in the longitudinal direction, preparing a support, bonding the flexible substrate with a to-be-plated layer precursor layer to at least one main surface of the support, applying energy to the support with a to-be-plated layer precursor layer to obtain a support with a patterned layer to be plated, forming the support into a three-dimensional shape including a curved surface, and performing a plating treatment on the patterned layer to be plated to obtain the conductive laminate having a three-dimensional shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Narita, Naoki Tsukamoto, Yoshihisa Usami
  • Patent number: 10969696
    Abstract: Provided is an image exposure device capable of recording a favorable image and capable of decreasing the size of the device. An image exposure device (10) includes an image display device (12) having pixels (13), a photosensitive recording medium support portion (21) that supports a photosensitive recording medium (14) for recording an image of the image display device (12) in a state in which an exposure surface (14A) of the photosensitive recording medium (14) faces the image display device (12), and a transmitted light control portion (16) that is provided between the image display device (12) and the photosensitive recording medium support portion (21) and is formed by laminating three or more layers of transmission members (100) that have a plurality of openings (102) formed therein and transmit only light incident on the openings (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Usami, Shinichiro Sonoda, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20210058542
    Abstract: An imaging system that includes a plurality of mobile type apparatus. Each of the plurality of mobile type apparatuses performs, in a case where a preset imaging target and a mobile type apparatus to which a role of an imaging target is assigned are present in an acquired image, a control for forming an image on a recording medium, discharges the recording medium on which the image is formed, to a preset delivery target in a deliverable state, and controls movement of the mobile type apparatus for delivering the recording medium to a delivery target. The plurality of mobile type apparatuses include at least one mobile type apparatus to which the role of the imaging target is assigned, and at least one mobile type apparatus to which a role of a imaging responsibility is assigned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Yoshihisa USAMI, Shinichiro SONODA, Hajime TERAYOKO, Erina OGURA, Nobuya TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210023565
    Abstract: The reaction apparatus includes a cell in which a specimen liquid of 1 ?L or more is accommodated, a cooling plate structure that encloses the cell and consists of a cooling plate, a cooling unit that cools the cooling plate structure, and a heating unit that irradiates at least one of the cell or the specimen liquid with electromagnetic waves, in which the cooling plate configuring the cooling plate structure is in contact with at least two main surfaces of the cell, and the cooling plate structure includes a transparent window that transmits the electromagnetic waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa USAMI, Yasuyuki ISHII, Yuki INOUE, Aya OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210010606
    Abstract: A chip includes a first chamber that stores a fluid, a second chamber that stores a mixing target which is to be mixed with the fluid, a flow path that allows a communication between the first chamber and the second chamber, and a valve that is provided in the flow path and capable of changing the flow path by change in shape by heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa USAMI, Yasuyuki ISHII, Yuki INOUE, Aya OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210008569
    Abstract: A separation device includes: a container that includes a storage portion for storing liquid containing magnetic particles; and a coil that separates the magnetic particles from the liquid by generating a magnetic field through application of current, causing a magnetic force to act on the magnetic particles in a state where the coil stops with respect to the storage portion, and causing the magnetic particles to move from the storage portion against gravity acting on the liquid containing the magnetic particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa USAMI, Yasuyuki ISHII, Yuki INOUE, Aya OUCHI
  • Patent number: 10857783
    Abstract: An image exposure device includes an image display device having pixels, a photosensitive recording medium support portion that supports a photosensitive recording medium for recording an image of the image display device in a state in which an exposure surface of the photosensitive recording medium faces the image display device, a louver film that is provided between the image display device and the photosensitive recording medium support portion, and in which light transmitting portions that transmit light and light shielding portions that block light are alternately arranged in a first direction, and light transmitting portions that transmit light and light shielding portions that block light are alternately arranged in a second direction, and a protective layer that is provided on the louver film on a side of the photosensitive recording medium support portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Usami, Shinichiro Sonoda, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 10834378
    Abstract: Provided is a three-dimensional information detection device having a configuration in which detection accuracy of three-dimensional information of a measurement target object is not lowered even in a case where an optical system that includes a projection unit, a first imaging unit and a second imaging unit is covered with a light transmissive cover so that the optical system is not exposed to the outside. The three-dimensional information detection device includes the projection unit that projects an image pattern onto a measurement target object, the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit that respectively image the image pattern, a transmissive cover that covers the optical system that includes the projection unit, the first imaging unit, and the second imaging unit, and a calculation unit that calculates three-dimensional information of the measurement target object on the basis of the image pattern that is imaged using the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignees: FUJIFILM Corporation, GROOVE X, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Usami, Nobuya Tanaka, Hajime Terayoko, Kaname Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10794568
    Abstract: Provided are a plant-growth laminated film and a plant-growth illumination apparatus that more efficiently provide circularly polarized light used for plant growth. Included are a reflective-type linearly polarizing plate that transmits one of linearly polarized light components of incident light and that reflects the other linearly polarized light component, and a ?/4 plate that converts, into circularly polarized light, linearly polarized light provided by transmission through the reflective-type linearly polarizing plate, wherein the ?/4 plate has an in-plane retardation of 165±40 nm at a wavelength of 660 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Usami, Mitsuyoshi Ichihashi, Kazuhiro Oki
  • Patent number: 10761617
    Abstract: A touchpad constituting a touch type operation apparatus includes a hemisphere portion and a flat surface portion and is mounted in an automobile. The hemisphere portion is a protruding type region having at least a part of a boundary with an adjacent region defined by a step. A front half portion is set as a second region. A rear half portion and the flat surface portion are set as a first region. During manual driving of the automobile, the first region is set as a non-sensitive region, and the second region is set as a sensitive region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Tsukamoto, Yoshihisa Usami, Yusuke Kitagawa, Yuki Okabe