Patents by Inventor Yoshio Ohashi

Yoshio Ohashi 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: 20240155273
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a display apparatus, an output method, and a display module that can create a sense of integration between images and sound. The display apparatus of the present technology includes a display unit that is configured to display an image and that includes display modules combined, the display modules each including multiple light source substrates, and a screen vibration sound output unit configured to vibrate the light source substrates or the display modules from a back side by a vibrator, thereby allowing the display unit to output sound. The vibrator includes a piezoelectric actuator. The present technology can be applied to display apparatuses including large screen display units such as LED displays, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshioka, Yoshio Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20230354712
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an audio device and a driving method thereof, and a display device which are configured to make it possible to obtain sufficient sound pressure level in a wider frequency band. The audio device includes: a diaphragm; an electrodynamic vibrator that vibrates the diaphragm to output sound; and a piezoelectric vibrator that vibrates the diaphragm to output sound. The present technology can be applied to the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio Ohashi, Shin Yamaguchi, Manabu Hamakawa
  • Patent number: 11647337
    Abstract: A display panel according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a flexible organic electroluminescent panel, and one or a plurality of piezoelectric films provided on a rear surface of the organic electroluminescent panel and vibrating the organic electroluminescent panel as a flat speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshio Ohashi, Hiroshi Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20220248144
    Abstract: A display panel according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a flexible organic electroluminescent panel, and one or a plurality of piezoelectric films provided on a rear surface of the organic electroluminescent panel and vibrating the organic electroluminescent panel as a flat speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio Ohashi, Hiroshi Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20220240022
    Abstract: An audio reproducing apparatus that includes an audio device including a thin film material including a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a capacitive layer sandwiched between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, the audio device having a three-dimensional shape formed by providing the thin film material with a plurality of fold parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: TOSHIYUKI NAKAGAWA, YOSHIO OHASHI, JUNKO KATSURAKU, ASAMI YAMAGISHI
  • Patent number: 11376563
    Abstract: The present invention provides a metal-organic framework which can both adsorb water vapor in low relative humidity and reduce the magnitude of the humidity difference between the adsorption humidity and the desorption humidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshio Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20220210578
    Abstract: An audio reproduction apparatus includes an audio device in which a plurality of layer structures is formed by folding a thin film material having a capacitance layer sandwiched between a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer a plurality of times, and a vibrated portion which is bendable and to which one face of the audio device is fixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshio Ohashi
  • Patent number: 11356760
    Abstract: An audio device includes a thin film material having a capacitive property, the thin film material including an acoustic sheet having a curved shape, in which the acoustic sheet includes a first region that is actively driven by an input signal and a second region that is not actively driven by the input signal and the first region is formed in at least a part of an outside of the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshio Ohashi
  • Patent number: 11337008
    Abstract: A display panel according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a flexible organic electroluminescent panel, and one or a plurality of piezoelectric films provided on a rear surface of the organic electroluminescent panel and vibrating the organic electroluminescent panel as a flat speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshio Ohashi, Hiroshi Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 11078219
    Abstract: [OBJECT] To provide a metal-organic framework having high hygroscopicity under low humidity conditions, and a method for producing such a metal-organic framework. [SOLVING MEANS] A method for producing a coordinatively unsaturated metal-organic framework includes the steps of providing a precursor metal-organic framework comprising a metal cluster and a polycarboxylic acid ion and a monocarboxylic acid ion coordinated to the metal cluster, and allowing the precursor metal-organic framework and a metal salt having a Lewis acidity to coexist in a solvent to desorb at least a part of the monocarboxylic acid ion, which is coordinated to the metal cluster, from the metal cluster, as well as a coordinatively unsaturated metal-organic framework, including an M6O8-x(OH)x-type metal cluster and carboxylic acid ions including a polycarboxylic acid ion as a polydentate ligand and a C1-3 monocarboxylic acid ion as a monodentate ligand coordinated to the metal cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Inventor: Yoshio Ohashi
  • Patent number: 11008347
    Abstract: A metal-organic framework of the present disclosure includes tetravalent Group IV element ions or rare earth ions as metal ions, first ions of organic molecules having a trimesic acid framework as tridentate ligands, and second ions of organic molecules having a heterocycle and two carboxy groups as bidentate ligands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshio Ohashi
  • Patent number: 10993018
    Abstract: Generation of a secondary sound source is inhibited, and a sound quality is improved. Included are a support fixed to a mount base, a speaker unit including a portion to be fixed, and a base casing holding the speaker unit, and the speaker unit is fixed to the support and the base casing with the portion to be fixed being sandwiched between the support and the base casing. With this configuration, the speaker unit will be held stably, a great oscillation from a diaphragm of the speaker unit is less transmitted to the parts other than the diaphragm of the speaker unit, to the member holding the speaker unit, or the like. Generation of a secondary sound source is inhibited, and a sound quality can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Kikuchi, Yohei Fukuma, Nobukazu Suzuki, Kazuhiro Matsutani, Yoshio Ohashi, Yasuo Kawabata
  • Patent number: 10923252
    Abstract: A resistor includes materials including copper, nickel, and lanthanum boride. A content of the materials is 40% by mass or more with respect to a total material content of the resistor. The copper includes copper particles having a particle diameter of 2.5 ?m or more. In addition, a circuit board includes a substrate, the resistor on the substrate, a metal layer on the resistor and a glass layer on the resistor. Further, an electronic device includes the circuit board and an electronic component on the metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Shodai Takayoshi, Yoshio Ohashi, Takeyuki Arai
  • Publication number: 20210021919
    Abstract: An audio device includes a thin film material having a capacitive property, the thin film material including an acoustic sheet having a curved shape, in which the acoustic sheet includes a first region that is actively driven by an input signal and a second region that is not actively driven by the input signal and the first region is formed in at least a part of an outside of the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshio Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20200374634
    Abstract: A display panel according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a flexible organic electroluminescent panel, and one or a plurality of piezoelectric films provided on a rear surface of the organic electroluminescent panel and vibrating the organic electroluminescent panel as a flat speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio Ohashi, Hiroshi Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20200330956
    Abstract: The present invention provides a metal-organic framework which can both adsorb water vapor in low relative humidity and reduce the magnitude of the humidity difference between the adsorption humidity and the desorption humidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventor: Yoshio OHASHI
  • Patent number: 10805722
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an electroacoustic transducer and an electroacoustic transducer apparatus that are compact, have good characteristics, and can retain their stable shape. The electroacoustic transducer includes: a first sheet including a sheet-like piezoelectric material and having a curved shape; and a second sheet having substantially the same shape as the first sheet and placed on the first sheet in a layered manner. The present technology can be applied to an electroacoustic transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshio Ohashi
  • Patent number: 10702851
    Abstract: A metal-organic framework includes: a tetravalent Group 4 element ion or a tetravalent rare earth ion as a metal ion; and an ion of a first organic molecule having a trimesic acid skeleton and an ion of a second organic molecule having an isophthalic acid skeleton as multidentate ligands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshio Ohashi
  • Patent number: 10667053
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a sound reproducing apparatus and method, and a program that enable sound reproduction with high sound quality and excellent directivity characteristics at lower costs. A sound reproducing apparatus includes: an amplification unit that amplifies an acoustic signal; a plurality of electroacoustic transducers that output sound in accordance with the acoustic signal output from the amplification unit, the electroacoustic transducers having characteristics of a capacitive load; and a switching unit that switches connections of the electroacoustic transducers to the amplification unit, to connect one or a plurality of electroacoustic transducers among the plurality of electroacoustic transducers to the amplification unit. The present technology can be applied to a sound reproducing apparatus, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshio Ohashi
  • Patent number: 10563623
    Abstract: An EGR cooler in the disclosure includes: a gas path configured to allow an EGR gas to flow; a refrigerant path configured to perform heat exchange between the EGR gas circulating along the gas path and a refrigerant; an exothermic body containing portion configured such that an exothermic body to generate heat by adsorbing a predetermined working gas is contained within the EGR cooler and at least a part of the exothermic body contacts with a wall surface of the gas path; a working gas tank in which the working gas is stored; and a gas moving apparatus configured to move the working gas stored in the working gas tank, from the working gas tank to the exothermic body containing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiro Shinagawa, Takashi Hotta, Takeo Yamaguchi, Yoshio Ohashi, Taizo Yoshinaga, Yuji Miyoshi