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).

  • Publication number: 20190369812
    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: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi NARITA, Naoki TSUKAMOTO, Yoshihisa USAMI
  • Patent number: 10468597
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic semiconductor film, including a step of moving a coating blade surface positioned to face a substrate surface in a first direction parallel to the substrate surface, while in contact with an organic semiconductor solution supplied to a portion between the blade surface and the substrate surface to form the organic semiconductor film in the first direction. The coating blade is disposed to have first and second gaps having different separation gap sizes with the substrate surface in a region where the blade surface and the organic semiconductor solution are in contact. The first gap is positioned on an upstream side of the first direction and the second gap, which is smaller than the first gap, is provided on a downstream side. A second gap size is a minimum distance between the substrate surface and the blade surface and is 40 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: FUJIFILM Corporation, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Seigo Nakamura, Yoshiki Maehara, Yuichiro Itai, Yoshihisa Usami, Junichi Takeya
  • Publication number: 20190320162
    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: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicants: FUJIFILM Corporation, GROOVE X, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa USAMI, Nobuya TANAKA, Hajime TERAYOKO, Kaname HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10388675
    Abstract: In a matrix device having two or more systems of electrode groups such as X and Y systems, the one or more electrode groups are grouped into groups each consisting of a plurality of pixel electrodes, connection wires are branched off and connected to the pixel electrodes so that the same signal is not supplied to the pixel electrodes of the same group but the same signal is supplied to one pixel electrode of two or more groups, switching elements are provided corresponding to the individual pixel electrodes, and a gate electrode and a gate insulating film of the switching elements are used in common in the same group. Accordingly, in the matrix device and manufacturing of the matrix device, the number of connection wires and driver ICs is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Usami
  • Patent number: 10354619
    Abstract: An information display system comprising a tag including a signal receiver, an image-memory-type display medium that displays a display image based on an image display signal, and a storage including a first storage region for storing identification information and the image display signal and a second storage region for storing recording information indicating a storage state of the image display signal in the first storage region; and a reader/writer including a contact electrode unit that contacts the signal receiver, an information recognition unit that reads the identification information and the recording information, a memory that stores image display information corresponding to the identification information and identification information, and a writing unit that transmits an image display signal based on the image display information and a write signal for changing the recording information to indicate that the image display signal has been stored through the contact electrode unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Usami
  • Patent number: 10332487
    Abstract: An information display system comprising a tag including a signal receiver, a data code, and an image-memory-type display medium that displays an image based on an image display signal; and a reader/writer including a contact electrode unit that contacts the signal receiver, an information recognition unit that recognizes the data code and the display image, a memory that stores image display information corresponding to information included in the data code and information of a data code, and a writing unit that transmits an image display signal based on the image display information through the electrode unit. The recognition unit reads and compares the information included in the read data code with the information of the stored data code, and when identical, the writing unit transmits the image display signal through the electrode unit to display the image on the display medium, which is checked by the recognition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Usami
  • Publication number: 20190174682
    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: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa USAMI, Mitsuyoshi ICHIHASHI, Kazuhiro OKI
  • Publication number: 20190178470
    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: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa USAMI, Mitsuyoshi ICHIHASHI, Kazuhiro OKI
  • Publication number: 20190172988
    Abstract: The present invention provides a blue light blocking film including a selective reflection layer, in which the selective reflection layer exhibits selective reflection having a center wavelength in a wavelength range of 450 nm to 500 nm, a half-width of the selective reflection is 20 nm to 45 nm, a light transmittance of the selective reflection layer at the center wavelength is 50% or less, and a light transmittance of the selective reflection layer at any wavelength in a wavelength range of more than 500 nm and 780 nm or less is 60% or more. The blue light blocking film of the present invention has high light transmittance in a visible light range, while effectively blocking blue light, and has a reduced yellowish tint. The blue light blocking film of the present invention is used for light sources and the like, and is capable of effectively blocking blue light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeaki NIMURA, Shunya KATOH, Yuki NAKAZAWA, Kazuhiro OKI, Mitsuyoshi ICHIHASHI, Yoshihisa USAMI
  • Patent number: 10283719
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a compound which, when used for organic semiconductor films in organic thin-film transistors, makes the organic thin-film transistors exhibit a high carrier mobility, a material for an organic thin-film transistor for which the compound is used, a composition for an organic thin-film transistor, an organic thin-film transistor and a method for manufacturing the same, and an organic semiconductor film. An organic thin-film transistor of the present invention contains a compound represented by General Formula (1) in an organic semiconductor film (organic semiconductor layer) thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignees: FUJIFILM Corporation, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Masashi Koyanagi, Hiroaki Tsuyama, Eiji Fukuzaki, Yoshihisa Usami, Tetsuya Watanabe, Takashi Goto, Toshihiro Okamoto, Junichi Takeya
  • Publication number: 20190131546
    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: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicants: FUJIFILM Corporation, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Eiji FUKUZAKI, Tetsuya WATANABE, Yoshihisa USAMI, Yukio TANI, Toshihiro OKAMOTO, Junichi TAKEYA
  • Patent number: 10276806
    Abstract: Provided are a coating solution for a non-light-emitting organic semiconductor device having high carrier mobility that contains a compound represented by Formula (2) and a solvent having a boiling point of equal to or higher than 100° C., an organic transistor, a compound, an organic semiconductor material for a non-light-emitting organic semiconductor device, a material for an organic transistor, a method for manufacturing an organic transistor, and a method for manufacturing an organic semiconductor film. (In Formula (2), R11 and R12 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, or an alkoxy group and may have a substituent, and an aromatic portion in Formula (2) may be substituted with a halogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: FUJIFILM Corporation, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tsuyama, Kimiatsu Nomura, Yoshihisa Usami, Masatoshi Yumoto, Tetsu Kitamura, Masashi Koyanagi, Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshihiro Okamoto, Junichi Takeya
  • Patent number: 10270044
    Abstract: Provided are a coating solution for a non-light-emitting organic semiconductor device having high carrier mobility that contains a compound represented by Formula (2) and a solvent having a boiling point of equal to or higher than 100° C., an organic transistor, a compound, an organic semiconductor material for a non-light-emitting organic semiconductor device, a material for an organic transistor, a method for manufacturing an organic transistor, and a method for manufacturing an organic semiconductor film. (In Formula (2), R11 and R12 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, or an alkoxy group and may have a substituent, and an aromatic portion in Formula (2) may be substituted with a halogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignees: FUJIFILM Corporation, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tsuyama, Kimiatsu Nomura, Yoshihisa Usami, Masatoshi Yumoto, Tetsu Kitamura, Masashi Koyanagi, Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshihiro Okamoto, Junichi Takeya
  • Patent number: 10270043
    Abstract: Provided are an organic transistor with high carrier mobility having a semiconductor active layer containing a compound which is represented by the following formula and has a molecular weight of equal to or less than 3,000, a compound, an organic semiconductor material for a non-light-emitting organic semiconductor device, a material for an organic transistor, a coating solution for a non-light-emitting organic semiconductor device, a method for manufacturing an organic transistor, a method for manufacturing an organic semiconductor film, an organic semiconductor film for a non-light-emitting organic semiconductor device, and a method for manufacturing an organic semiconductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignees: FUJIFILM Corporation, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tsuyama, Kimiatsu Nomura, Yoshihisa Usami, Eiji Fukuzaki, Masashi Koyanagi, Tetsu Kitamura, Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshihiro Okamoto, Junichi Takeya
  • Publication number: 20190074452
    Abstract: Provided are a coating solution for a non-light-emitting organic semiconductor device having high carrier mobility that contains a compound represented by Formula (2) and a solvent having a boiling point of equal to or higher than 100° C., an organic transistor, a compound, an organic semiconductor material for a non-light-emitting organic semiconductor device, a material for an organic transistor, a method for manufacturing an organic transistor, and a method for manufacturing an organic semiconductor film. (In Formula (2), R11 and R12 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, or an alkoxy group and may have a substituent, and an aromatic portion in Formula (2) may be substituted with a halogen atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicants: FUJIFILM Corporation, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Hiroaki TSUYAMA, Kimiatsu NOMURA, Yoshihisa USAMI, Masatoshi YUMOTO, Tetsu KITAMURA, Masashi KOYANAGI, Tetsuya WATANABE, Toshihiro OKAMOTO, Junichi TAKEYA
  • Patent number: 10183518
    Abstract: An image forming medium capable of forming an image without using a printer including a plurality of first metal electrodes extending in one direction and being parallel to one another, a first oxide layer in which the first metal electrodes are embedded and which is made of an oxide of a metal constituting the first metal electrodes, a plurality of second metal electrodes extending in one direction and crossing the first electrodes in a surface direction of the first oxide layer, a second oxide layer in which the second metal electrodes are embedded and which is made of an oxide of a metal constituting the second metal electrodes, and a thermal color developing layer provided on the first metal electrodes or the second metal electrodes, in which the second metal electrodes are separated from the first metal electrodes by the second oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Usami
  • Publication number: 20190005282
    Abstract: An information collection system includes a plurality of radio tags and a reading device. Each of the radio tags stores identification information and includes a sensor, an antenna that receives a carrier wave from the reading device, and a data transmission unit that sends measurement data including the identification information and information obtained by the sensor to the reading device after the carrier wave is received by the antenna. The plurality of radio tags send the identification information and the information obtained by the sensor with different natural periods from the data transmission units. The reading device transmits the carrier wave to each of the radio tags, receives data from each of the radio tags, and obtains the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicants: FUJIFILM Corporation, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Yoshihisa USAMI, Takayoshi YOKOYAMA, Yuki OWASHI, Hiroyuki MATSUI, Junichi TAKEYA
  • Patent number: 10162989
    Abstract: A sensing system includes an electronic tag and a reading device that transmits and receives information to and from the electronic tag. The reading device includes a transmission unit that sends an alternating-current radio wave including a high-frequency component and a low-frequency component. The electronic tag does not include a power supply and includes a receiving unit that obtains a power supply voltage from the high-frequency component of the alternating-current radio wave and obtains a clock signal from the low-frequency component and a return unit that maintains a maximum amplitude of the clock signal and sends a combination of information and the clock signal as a return signal. The reading device further includes a processing unit that decodes the return signal sent from the electronic tag on the basis of the clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignees: FUJIFILM Corporation, TOPPAN FORMS CO., LTD., THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Usami, Takayoshi Yokoyama, Yuki Owashi, Hiroyuki Matsui, Junichi Takeya
  • Publication number: 20180366590
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a film, including: a manufacturing step of forming a film by performing movement, in a state in which a blade surface of a coating blade disposed to be spaced so as to face a substrate surface of a substrate is in contact with a solution for forming a film which is provided between the blade surface and the substrate surface, in a first direction in a plane parallel to the substrate surface, in which the solution is stored in a liquid reservoir between the blade surface and the substrate surface, and at least a portion of an outer peripheral end portion of the coating blade which is in contact with the solution is tilted with respect to the first direction in a plane parallel to the substrate surface. Accordingly, a method of manufacturing a film for forming a high quality film with high productivity is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Seigo NAKAMURA, Yoshiki MAEHARA, Yuichiro ITAI, Yoshihisa USAMI
  • Patent number: 10131656
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an organic thin film transistor that has an organic semiconductor film manufactured by using a compound having excellent solubility to an organic solvent and that has excellent carrier mobility, a novel compound, an organic thin film transistor material, an organic semiconductor film, an organic thin film transistor composition, and a method of manufacturing an organic thin film transistor using this. The organic thin film transistor according to the present invention has an organic semiconductor film containing a compound represented by Formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignees: FUJIFILM Corporation, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tsuyama, Masashi Koyanagi, Eiji Fukuzaki, Masatoshi Yumoto, Yoshihisa Usami, Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshihiro Okamoto, Junichi Takeya