Patents by Inventor Yuichiro Itai
Yuichiro Itai 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: 20250003631Abstract: A ventilation type silencer includes a ventilation channel in which at least a part of a side wall of a flow channel of a gas is formed of a porous sound absorbing material, in which a flow resistance of the sound absorbing material is 1000 Rayls/m or more, porosity of the sound absorbing material on at least a flow channel surface side is 0.9 or less or permeability thereof is 3.0×10?9 m2 or less, and a minimum flow channel width on a cross section perpendicular to a flow direction of the gas in the ventilation channel is 100 mm or less. As a result, the ventilation type silencer is provided, which includes the porous sound absorbing material that can be appropriately selected for the flow channel of the gas in accordance with hydrodynamic characteristics of the sound absorbing material in a case in which the porous sound absorbing material is used in at least a part of the flow channel, that can suppress a pressure loss, and that can reduce a wind noise.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinya HAKUTA, Shogo YAMAZOE, Yuichiro ITAI, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA
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Publication number: 20240426514Abstract: There is provided a ventilation-type silencer that uses a porous sound absorbing material and has high sound deadening performance in a low frequency band. A ventilation-type silencer includes an inlet-side vent pipe, an expansion section that communicates with the inlet-side vent pipe and has a cross-sectional area larger than a cross-sectional area of the inlet-side vent pipe, and an outlet-side vent pipe that communicates with the expansion section and has a cross-sectional area smaller than the cross-sectional area of the expansion section. The ventilation-type silencer includes a porous sound absorbing material that is disposed in at least a part of the expansion section, a back space that is a space in the expansion section formed on a side of the porous sound absorbing material opposite to a flow channel connecting the inlet-side vent pipe and the outlet-side vent pipe, and a partition member that partitions the back space.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinya Hakuta, Shogo YAMAZOE, Yuichiro ITAI, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA
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Publication number: 20240393001Abstract: There is provided a wind duct with a silencer that can efficiently reduce sound propagated to a blowing target including noise generated in a wind duct during blowing. The wind duct with a silencer of the present invention includes the wind duct that is connected to a blowing source and a silencer that reduces sound released from an exit of the wind duct. The silencer is disposed at a position closer to the exit among the blowing source and the exit, and a frequency of a primary silencing peak of the silencer is within a frequency band of sound generated in the wind duct due to blowing in the wind duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2024Publication date: November 28, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shogo YAMAZOE, Tomohiro TAKAHASHI, Shinya HAKUTA, Yuichiro ITAI, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA
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Publication number: 20240393008Abstract: There is provided a wind duct with a silencer that can efficiently reduce sound propagated to a blowing target in consideration of noise generated in a wind duct during blowing. The wind duct with a silencer of the present invention includes the wind duct that is connected to a blowing source and a silencer that reduces sound released from an exit of the wind duct. A frequency of a primary silencing peak of the silencer is lower than a frequency at which intensity of sound generated in the wind duct due to blowing in the wind duct is maximum.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2024Publication date: November 28, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shogo YAMAZOE, Tomohiro TAKAHASHI, Shinya HAKUTA, Yuichiro ITAI, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA
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Publication number: 20240280290Abstract: Provided is an air passage type silencer that can reduce pressure loss even in a case where the flow rate of a gas flowing in the air passage type silencer is high. An air passage type silencer includes an inlet-side ventilation pipe, an expansion portion that communicates with the inlet-side ventilation pipe and of which a cross-sectional area is larger than a cross-sectional area of the inlet-side ventilation pipe, and an outlet-side ventilation pipe that communicates with the expansion portion and of which a cross-sectional area is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the expansion portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2024Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinya HAKUTA, Shogo YAMAZOE, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Yuichiro ITAI
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Publication number: 20240255176Abstract: An object is to provide a ventilation system that can suppress generation of a pressure loss and wind noise in a silencer. The ventilation system of the present invention has the silencer disposed at an intermediate position of a ventilation path. In a housing of the silencer, an in-housing ventilation path extending from an inlet opening to an outlet opening is surrounded by a sound absorbing member. The ventilation path has a first ventilation path that is adjacent to the inlet opening and that is continuous to the in-housing ventilation path and a second ventilation path that is adjacent to the outlet opening and that is continuous to the in-housing ventilation path. The farther from the in-housing ventilation path, the smaller a size of a cross section of at least one ventilation path of the first ventilation path or the second ventilation path.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shogo YAMAZOE, Yuichiro ITAI, Shinya HAKUTA, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Tomohiro TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20240255178Abstract: Provided is an air passage type silencer that can drain water from the inside of an expansion portion and that can suppress generation of a wind noise.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yuichiro ITAI, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Shogo YAMAZOE, Shinya HAKUTA, Tomohiro TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20240255177Abstract: Provided is a ventilation system in which a silencer has a compact structure, a silencing property is ensured, and a pressure loss in the silencer is suppressed. The ventilation system of the present invention has a silencer disposed at an intermediate position of a ventilation path. In the silencer, a sound absorbing member surrounds a housing in which an in-housing ventilation path extending from an inlet opening to an outlet opening is provided. In addition, an upstream tube body that forms an upstream ventilation path on an upstream side of an inlet opening, a downstream tube body that forms a downstream ventilation path on a downstream side of an outlet opening, a tubular first connecting portion that is connected to the upstream tube body and that links the upstream ventilation path and the inlet opening to each other, and a tubular second connecting portion that is connected to the downstream tube body and that links the downstream ventilation path and the outlet opening to each other are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shogo YAMAZOE, Yuichiro ITAI, Shinya HAKUTA, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Tomohiro TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20240183576Abstract: A silencer for a ventilation passage effectively deadens sound having a broad frequency band while having a compact structure. A silencer for a ventilation passage according to an embodiment of the present invention is a silencer for a ventilation passage that includes a housing and deadens sound in a ventilation passage, and an internal space of the housing forms a part of the ventilation passage. The silencer for a ventilation passage includes an inlet opening that is positioned on one end side of a part of the ventilation passage in the housing, an outlet opening that is positioned on the other end side of a part of the ventilation passage in the housing, a sound absorbing member that is housed in the housing, and a vibration portion that is provided on the housing and reduces sound passing through the ventilation passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2024Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinya HAKUTA, Shogo YAMAZOE, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Yuichiro ITAI
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Publication number: 20240183569Abstract: To provide an air passage type silencer that can suppress generation of a wind noise, that has a high sound attenuation effect in a low-frequency band, and that has high air passage performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2024Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Shogo YAMAZOE, Shinya HAKUTA, Yuichiro ITAI, Tomohiro TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20240011652Abstract: To effectively reduce a low-frequency noise resulting from vibration of a peripheral wall of a ventilation path. The present invention provides a ventilation path with a soundproof structure including a ventilation path that includes an open end and a soundproof structure against a sound emitted from the ventilation path.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinya HAKUTA, Shogo YAMAZOE, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Yuichiro ITAI
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Publication number: 20240003275Abstract: To provide an air passage type silencer and an acoustic impedance change structure of which the absorbance is high, that suppresses generation of a wind noise, and that has a high sound attenuation effect in a low-frequency band. Provided is an acoustic impedance change structure through which a sound propagates, the acoustic impedance change structure including at least in this order: a first impedance matching region that is connected to an inlet portion and in which an acoustic impedance gradually decreases; an acoustic impedance constancy region; and an outlet portion, in which Zcham<Zin and Zcham<Zout are satisfied, where Zin is an acoustic impedance in the inlet portion, Zcham is an acoustic impedance in the acoustic impedance constancy region, and Zout is an acoustic impedance in the outlet portion, and a first terminal structure acoustically connected to the acoustic impedance constancy region is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinya HAKUTA, Shogo YAMAZOE, Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Yuichiro ITAI
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Publication number: 20230408143Abstract: To provide a silencing structure and a silencing system having a high sound absorbance in a low frequency region. A silencing structure that is installed in a tubular member, the silencing structure includes a cavity portion, an opening portion through which the cavity portion communicates with the tubular member, and a closing portion that closes the cavity portion at a position facing the opening portion, in which a cross-sectional area of the cavity portion on a side of the opening portion is larger than a cross-sectional area of the cavity portion on a side of the closing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro SUGAWARA, Shogo Yamazoe, Yuichiro Itai
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Patent number: 11747520Abstract: The optical thin film is provided on a substrate and includes, in order, from the substrate side, an interlayer, a silver-containing metal layer, and a dielectric layer, in which an anchor region including an oxide of an anchor metal is provided in an interface region of the silver-containing metal layer on a side close to the interlayer, a cap region including an oxide of the anchor metal is provided in an interface region of the silver-containing metal layer on a side close to the dielectric layer, a film thickness of the silver-containing metal layer is 6 nm or less, the silver-containing metal layer contains a high standard electrode potential metal, and a peak position of a concentration distribution of the high standard electrode potential metal in a film thickness direction of the silver-containing metal layer is positioned closer to the interlayer than a peak position of a silver concentration distribution.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Umeda, Seigo Nakamura, Tatsuya Yoshihiro, Yuichiro Itai
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Publication number: 20220336752Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element including a substrate, a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, disposed on the substrate, and at least one organic layer including a light emitting layer, disposed between the electrodes, in which at least one layer of the organic layer(s) contains a compound represented by the following formula, has low driving voltage and excellent durability. (X1 to X11 represent CR0 or N, and R0 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent. Adjacent two of X1 to X11 each independently represent at least CR0, R0s of the adjacent two CR0s are bonded to each other to form a ring, and only one R0 of the adjacent two CR0s represents an aryl group or a heteroaryl group.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2021Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Yosuke Yamamoto, Kousuke Watanabe, Yuichiro Itai
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Patent number: 11422290Abstract: An antireflection film is provided on a substrate and includes an interlayer, a silver-containing metal layer containing silver, and a dielectric layer, which are laminated in this order on a side of a substrate, in which the interlayer is a multilayer film having at least two layers in which a layer of high refractive index having a relatively high refractive index and a layer of lower refractive index having a relatively low refractive index are alternately laminated, the dielectric layer has a surface exposed to air, and the dielectric layer is a multilayer film including a silicon-containing oxide layer, a magnesium fluoride layer, and an adhesion layer provided between the silicon-containing oxide layer and the magnesium fluoride layer and configured to increase adhesiveness between the silicon-containing oxide layer and the magnesium fluoride layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Seigo Nakamura, Tatsuya Yoshihiro, Kenichi Umeda, Yuichiro Itai
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Patent number: 11422288Abstract: In a laminated film, a resin substrate, an organic/inorganic multilayer, and a silver-containing metal layer having a thickness of 20 nm or less are laminated in this order, an anchor metal diffusion control layer having a Hamaker constant of 7.3×10?20 J or more is provided on the surface of the inorganic layer, an anchor region containing an oxide of an anchor metal having a surface energy which has a smaller difference with a surface energy of the silver-containing metal layer than a surface energy of the anchor metal diffusion control layer is provided between the anchor metal diffusion control layer and the silver-containing metal layer, and a cap region containing an oxide of the anchor metal is provided on a surface of the silver-containing metal layer that is opposite from a surface on a side closer to the anchor metal diffusion control layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kenichi Umeda, Yuichiro Itai, Seigo Nakamura
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Patent number: 11194078Abstract: Provided is an antireflection film that is formed by laminating an interlayer, a silver-containing metal layer containing silver, and a dielectric layer, in this order, on a substrate, in which the interlayer is a multilayer film having two or more layers, in which a layer of high refractive index having a relatively high refractive index and a layer of low refractive index having a relatively low refractive index are alternately laminated, and the dielectric layer has a surface to be exposed to air and is a multilayer film having two or more layers including an oxide layer and a fluorocarbon layer which is a self-assembled film that is formed by a silane coupling reaction to the oxide layer in this order.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Seigo Nakamura, Kenichi Umeda, Yuichiro Itai, Shinichiro Sonoda
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Patent number: 11171293Abstract: This application relates, in part, to an organic electroluminescent element including a substrate, a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, disposed on the substrate, and at least one organic layer including a light emitting layer, disposed between the electrodes, in which at least one layer of the organic layer(s) contains a compound represented by the following formula (1). The organic electroluminescent element has low driving voltage and excellent durability. wherein X1 to X11 represent CR0 or N, and R0 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent. Adjacent two of X1 to X11 each independently represent at least CR0, R0s of the adjacent two CR0s are bonded to each other to form a ring, and only one R0 of the adjacent two CR0s represents an aryl group or a heteroaryl group.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: UDC Ireland LimitedInventors: Yosuke Yamamoto, Kousuke Watanabe, Yuichiro Itai
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Patent number: 11029449Abstract: An antireflection film is formed by laminating an interlayer, a silver-containing metal layer containing silver, and a dielectric layer in this order from the substrate, an anchor region including an oxide of an anchor metal is provided between the silver-containing metal layer and the interlayer, a cap region including an oxide of the anchor metal included in the anchor region is provided between the silver-containing metal layer and the dielectric layer, a crystal grain size obtained by X-ray diffraction measurement in the silver-containing metal layer is less than 6.8 nm, and the anchor metal has a surface energy less than a surface energy of silver and greater than a surface energy of a layer of the interlayer closest to the silver-containing metal layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kenichi Umeda, Seigo Nakamura, Yuichiro Itai, Hideki Yasuda