Hotta, JP

Akira Hotta, Matsumoto-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110242194	LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting head includes a main liquid ejecting head body, a head holder, and a sealing member, disposed between the main liquid ejecting head body and the head holder, that has a communication opening that communicates between a first liquid flow channel and a second liquid flow channel. The sealing member further has a close-contact portion provided at the circumferential edge of the communication opening; a first contact portion, provided in correspondence with the external circumferential portion of the main liquid ejecting head body, that protrudes toward the main liquid ejecting head body and makes contact with the main liquid ejecting head body; and a second contact portion that protrudes toward the head holder and makes contact with the head holder.	10-06-2011

Akitsu Hotta, Kyoto JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110053166	STEM CELL EXPRESSION CASSETTES - A stem cell expression cassette, comprising a nucleic acid comprising a pluripotent stem cell specific promoter, and a tag sequence, wherein the pluripotent stem cell specific promoter and tag sequences are operatively linked, is provided. Also provided are methods of identifying and methods of selecting a pluripotent cell, using the stem cell expression cassette.	03-03-2011

Chieko Hotta, Chiba-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090099275	Photosensitive Resin Composition, and Photosensitive Film and Stencil for Screen Printing Using the Photosensitive Composition - This invention relates to a photosensitive composition characterized by comprising components A, B and C, and a photosensitive film and a stencil for screen printing using the photosensitive composition; Component A: a poly(vinyl alcohol) polymer represented by formula (1) or (2)	04-16-2009

Daido Hotta, Shinjuku-Ku JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110112071	NOVEL HETEROCYCLIDENE ACETAMIDE DERIVATIVE - A compound represented by formula (I′):	05-12-2011

Eiki Hotta, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080245478	Surface treatment apparatus - A surface treatment apparatus encompasses a gas introducing system configured to introduce a process gas from downstream end of a tubular treatment object; a vacuum evacuating system configured to evacuate the process gas from other end of the treatment object; an excited particle supplying system disposed at upstream side of the treatment object, configured to supply excited particles for inducing initial discharge in a main body of the treatment object; and a first main electrode and a second main electrode disposed oppositely to each other, defining a treating region of the treatment object as a main plasma generating region disposed therebetween, wherein the excited particle supplying system is driven at least until generation of main plasma, and main pulse of duty ratio of 10	10-09-2008

Eiki Hotta, Kanagawa JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090091273	LIGHT SOURCE FOR GENERATING EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT FROM PLASMA - A plasma generation apparatus for generating a plasma within a discharge chamber is disclosed, which includes a plurality of electrodes disposed within the discharge chamber, a power supply device operative to flow a discharge current between electrodes for performing self-heating of a plasma between the electrodes and for applying a self-magnetic field to the plasma, and a control unit for control of the power supply device, wherein the control unit controls the power supply device in such a way as to confine the plasma in a space, thereby improving the conversion efficiency of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light. A plasma generation method is also disclosed.	04-09-2009

Harumichi Hotta, Hamamatsu-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090241761	ELECTRONIC PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT - Each of a plurality of pad devices that can be moved independent of each other includes: a sensor section for detecting a strike; and a transmitting section for transmitting operation information according to an output of the sensor section with wireless communication. A receiving section is provided in connection with a sound generating device to receive the operation information transmitted from each of the pad devices with wireless communication. The sound generating device generates a musical tone signal in accordance with the received operation information. A pad location detecting section detects a location of each of the pad devices. The sound generating device carries out tone generation control, for example, sound image localization control, for the musical tone signal generated in correspondence with each of the pad devices in accordance with the location of each of the pad devices detected by the pad location detecting section.	10-01-2009
20090259779	CONTROL SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL MIXER - In a control system of a digital mixer, first class devices are connected via a first class bus, and second class devices are connected to each first class device via a second class bus. The number of first class devices, which require a specific function for adding source and destination addresses to data, can be reduced by the number of the second class devices. Moreover, the second class device which does not require the specific function for adding source and destination addresses to data input/output operations is cheaper than the first class device, resulting in the implementation of simplified configuration and reduced production costs.	10-15-2009

Patent applications by Harumichi Hotta, Hamamatsu-Shi JP

Hirohisa Hotta, Kawasaki-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090097639	AES ENCRYPTION/DECRYPTION CIRCUIT - This invention makes the number of cycles required for AES encryption or decryption by hardware smaller than before by reducing the difference among the summation of the signal processing time for each sub-block transformations in each clock cycle period. To do this, an encryption/decryption circuit includes a first AddRoundKey Transformation module, a second AddRoundKey Transformation module, a ShiftRows Transformation module, a SubBytes Transformation module, a MixColumns Transformation module, and a data holding unit, wherein in a cycle of encryption, the first AddRoundKey Transformation module and the second AddRoundKey Transformation module are executed using different Round Keys.	04-16-2009

Hiroki Hotta, Saitama-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100056601	Control agent containing N-Substituted indole derivative for acarian parasitic on animal - Conventional control agents against acarians parasitic on animals do not have sufficient selective toxicity and are hence not safe for the animals to which the control agents are applied. The control agents are not always satisfactory also in control effect and quick-acting properties. Intensive studies were made on the insecticidal activity of N-substituted indole compounds against acarians and on the safety thereof for mammals including pets. As a result, it was found that an N-substituted indole derivative, e.g., 1-(2,6-dichloro-4-trifluoromethylphenyl)-3-(trifluoromethylthio)indole, or 1-(2,6-dichloro-4-trifluoromethylphenyl)-3-(dichlorofluoromethylthio)indole, has high insecticidal activity and quick-acting properties and is lowly toxic to mammals including pets.	03-04-2010

Hiroki Hotta, Saitama-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110118468	PROCESS FOR PRODUCING 6-ARYLOXYQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE AND INTERMEDIATE THEREFOR - Disclosed is a process for producing 6-aryloxyquinoline derivatives useful as insecticides or fungicides for agricultural and horticultural use. The process comprises a cyclization reaction step of reacting an anthranilic acid derivative represented by general formula (1) with a ketone in the presence of an acid to obtain a quinolone derivative and a condensation reaction step of reacting the quinolone derivative with a halogen compound or an acid anhydride to obtain a quinoline derivative.	05-19-2011

Hiroki Hotta, Saitama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090270459	Flea control agent containing N-Substituted indole derivative - Conventional control agents against fleas parasitic on animals do not have sufficient selective toxicity and are hence not safe for the animals to which the control agents are applied. The control agents are not always satisfactory also in control effect and quick-acting properties. Intensive studies were made on the insecticidal activity of N-substituted indole compounds against fleas and on the safety thereof for mammals including pets. As a result, it was found that an N-substituted indole derivative, e.g., 1-(3-chloro-5-trifluoromethylpyridin 2-yl)-3-(dichlorofluoromethylthio)indole, 1-(2,6-dichloro-4-trifluoromethylphenyl)-3-(dichlorofluoromethylthio)-indole, or 1-(2,6-dichloro-4-trifluoromethylphenyl)-3-(trifluoromethylthio)indole, has high insecticidal activity and quick-acting properties and is lowly toxic to mammals including pets.	10-29-2009

Hiroshi Hotta, Nagano JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110019236	IMAGE DATA CREATION DEVICE, IMAGE DATA CREATION METHOD AND INK-JET SYSTEM - A host PC that creates image data used in an ink-jet printer capable of landing ink with a multi-pass method includes an image data creation means that creates the image data so that the ink jet printer forms an image with a halftone dot which is configured so that a relationship between a pass number and a dot pitch in a vertical scanning direction of an ink-jet head does not become an integral multiple relationship when the pass number is odd number, and a dot pitch does not become even number when the pass number is even number.	01-27-2011

Hisashi Hotta, Shizuoka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110174635	ELECTROLYTIC TREATMENT METHOD AND ELECTROLYTIC TREATMENT DEVICE - An electrolytic treatment method and electrolytic treatment device are provided for electrolytic treatment of an aluminum web W by applying an alternating current to an upstream electrode and a downstream electrode disposed along a conveying direction a. At least one of a conveying velocity v of the aluminum web W, a frequency f of alternating current applied at the upstream electrode and the downstream electrode, and/or a web conveying direction separation distance d2 between the upstream electrode and the downstream electrode are set such that the alternating current and voltage waveform applied to the aluminum web W at the far end of the upstream electrode and the alternating current and voltage waveform applied to the aluminum web W at the near end of the downstream electrode do not reinforce each other.	07-21-2011

Hisashi Hotta, Haibara-Gun JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110233064	ELECTROLYTIC TREATMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING PLANOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE - An electrolytic treatment apparatus according to one aspect of the subject matter includes: a transportation device configured to transport a metal plate; an electrolytic bath configured to store an acidic electrolytic solution, wherein the metal plate is transported inside the electrolytic bath; a current supplying device configured to supply an alternating waveform current to continuously subject a surface of the metal plate to an alternating current electrolytic treatment with the alternating waveform current; and a hydroxide ion-adding device installed in an inlet of the electrolytic bath through which the metal plate is introduced into the electrolytic bath, the hydroxide ion-adding device configured to add hydroxide ions (OH	09-29-2011

Ikuya Hotta, Sagamihara-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100239093	Data Transfer System and Data Transfer Method - In a data transfer system provided with a mobile terminal device, an information processing apparatus, and an authentication server, the mobile terminal device transmits authentication information to the authentication server through a first communication line, the authentication server transmits a predetermined permission code to the mobile terminal device through the first communication line in a case that the authentication succeeds based on the authentication information received from the mobile terminal device, the information processing apparatus permits data transfer between the information processing apparatus and the mobile terminal device in a case that the information processing apparatus receives an input of the permission code received by the mobile terminal from the authentication server, and the information processing apparatus and the mobile terminal device conduct the permitted data transfer through a second communication line.	09-23-2010

Isamu Hotta, Kanagawa JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080228375	SPARK IGNITION TYPE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A spark-ignition type internal combustion engine, including a main tank for storing a to-be-determined fuel having an unknown self-ignition property, an auxiliary tank for accumulating a reference fuel having a known self-ignition property, and a controller. The controller is programmed to supply to a combustion chamber a blended fuel prepared by blending the to-be-determined fuel and the reference fuel at a predetermined ratio, measure a self-ignition property of the blended fuel, and determine the unknown self-ignition property of the to-be-determined fuel based on the measured self-ignition property of the blended fuel, the known self-ignition property of the reference fuel and the ratio of the blended fuel. The controller is also programmed to introduce the to-be-determined fuel after the determination from the main tank to the auxiliary tank, and store the to-be-determined fuel in the auxiliary tank such that the to-be-determined fuel serves as a next reference fuel having a known self-ignition property.	09-18-2008
20080257301	POWER PLANT AND FUEL SUPPLY METHOD THEREFOR - A power plant, including an internal combustion engine, a fuel conversion device that coverts a fuel to be supplied to the internal combustion engine from a before-conversion fuel to an after-conversion fuel, a first fuel supply device that supplies the fuel conversion device with the before-conversion fuel, a second fuel supply device that supplies the internal combustion engine with the after-conversion fuel, the after-conversion fuel being the fuel that has been converted by the fuel conversion device, and a controller that is communicated with the internal combustion engine, the fuel conversion device, the first fuel supply device and the second fuel supply device. The controller is configured to supply the fuel conversion device with the before-conversion fuel by operating the first fuel supply device, control the temperature of the fuel conversion device in a first temperature range to evaporate the before-conversion fuel to produce a first after-conversion fuel, control the temperature of the fuel conversion device in a second temperature range to reform the before-conversion fuel to produce a second after-conversion fuel, and supply the internal combustion engine with the after-conversion fuel by operating the second fuel supply device.	10-23-2008

Isamu Hotta, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080196690	Internal combustion engine with auxiliary combustion chamber - An internal combustion engine, including a main combustion chamber serving as a main combustion chamber, an auxiliary combustion chamber adjacent to the main combustion chamber and smaller in capacity than the main combustion chamber, and a partition wall between the main combustion chamber and the auxiliary combustion chamber, the partition wall including an injection hole by which the main combustion chamber and the auxiliary combustion chamber communicate. A fuel supply device supplies fuel to the main combustion chamber and the auxiliary combustion chamber. A mixture forming device forms a mixture of air and the supplied fuel in the main combustion chamber, away from the partition wall before ignition. An ignition device ignites the fuel in the auxiliary combustion chamber, propelling an ejecting torch flame into the mixture of air and fuel in the main combustion chamber through the injection hole, thereby burning the mixture of air and fuel in the main combustion chamber.	08-21-2008

Patent applications by Isamu Hotta, Yokohama-Shi JP

Isamu Hotta, Chigasaki-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090043479	INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An internal combustion engine (	02-12-2009

Iwao Hotta, Yokkaichi-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090054697	METHOD FOR PRODUCING UNSATURATED ETHER COMPOUND - The present invention provides a method for producing an unsaturated ether compound represented by general formula (2) below, the method comprising reacting an acetal represented by general formula (1) below in the presence of an aliphatic or aromatic sulfonic acid and an organic base having a total carbon number of 3 to 7.	02-26-2009
20090137771	RESIN COMPOSITION - The present invention provides a resin composition which can be cured by visible light and whose cured product is not colored or little colored, said composition comprising a phosphine oxide compound represented by the following general formula (1) (wherein R	05-28-2009

Katsuhiko Hotta, Hachioji JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080277794	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor IC device which includes a circuit region and a peripheral region on a main surface of a semiconductor substrate, a first insulating film formed over the main surface, external terminals arranged in the peripheral region and formed over the first insulating film, a conductive guard ring formed over the first insulating film and provided around the external terminals, and second insulating films formed in the internal region and the peripheral region, the second insulating film in the peripheral region is formed over the first insulating film and over the guard ring and is contacting the external terminals, the second insulating films of the circuit region and that of the peripheral region are separately formed and are isolated from each other. Separate second insulating film may be formed over the wirings of one or more of existing wiring levels of the semiconductor device.	11-13-2008
20100221913	SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR INTER-LAYER INSULATING FILM - Provided is a technology capable of improving the reliability of a semiconductor device using a SiOC film as an interlayer film. In the invention, by forming an interlayer film from a SiOC film having a Si—CH	09-02-2010
20100252933	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - As etch-stop films or Cu-diffusion barrier films used in insulation films constituting conductor layers of a stacked structure, films having smaller dielectric constant than silicon nitride films are used, and an insulation film at a lower-layer part of the stacked structure is made to have smaller dielectric constant than that at an upper-layer part thereof, and further this insulation film is a silicon oxide (SiO) film and has, in the interior thereof, nano-pores of from 0.05 nm or more to 4 nm or less in diameter as chief construction. This makes it possible to dramatically reduce effective dielectric constant while keeping the mechanical strength of the conductor layers themselves, and can materialize a highly reliable and high-performance semiconductor device having mitigated the wiring delay of signals which pass through wirings.	10-07-2010

Patent applications by Katsuhiko Hotta, Hachioji JP

Katsuhiko Hotta, Kanagawa JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110156208	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The present invention provides a technology capable of providing a semiconductor device having an MIM structure capacitor with improved reliability. The capacitor has a lower electrode, a capacitor insulating film, and an upper electrode. The lower electrode is comprised of a metal film embedded in an electrode groove formed in an insulating film over the main surface of a semiconductor substrate; and the upper electrode is comprised of a film stack of a TiN film (lower metal film) and a Ti film (cap metal film) formed over the TiN film (lower metal film).	06-30-2011
20110266679	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Provided is a technique capable of improving the reliability of a semiconductor device having a slit made over a main surface of a semiconductor substrate, so as to surround each element formation region. In the technique, a second passivation film covers the side surface of an opening made to make the upper surface of a sixth-layer interconnection M	11-03-2011

Katsuyuki Hotta, Okayama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090263838	Method for determining a lung cancer treatment and method for determining the effectiveness of an agent for treatment of lung cancer - The present invention provides a method of determining a lung cancer treatment, the method comprising: measuring an amount of KL-6 in a sample of body fluid from a subject, and determining the treatment based on the amount of KL-6 measured, and a method of determining the effectiveness of an agent for treatment of lung cancer on a subject, the method comprising: measuring an amount of KL-6 in a sample of body fluid from the subject, determining the effectiveness of an EGFR inhibitor on the subject should the EGFR inhibitor be administered as the agent for treatment of lung cancer, based on the amount of KL-6 measured.	10-22-2009

Kazuhiro Hotta, Kariya-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080286125	DOUBLE-HEADED PISTON TYPE COMPRESSOR - A double-headed piston type compressor connected with an external device is provided. The compressor includes a plurality of cylinder bore pairs, double-headed pistons, a first rotary valve, a second rotary valve, first suction passages, and second suction passages. In each cylinder bore pair, a first time period from a first top dead center timing, which is timing when the double-headed piston reaches a top dead center in a first compression chamber, to a first communication start timing, which is timing when a first introduction passage starts to communicate with a first suction passage, is different from a second time period from a second top dead center timing, which is timing when the double-headed piston reaches a top dead center in a second compression chamber, to a second communication start timing, which is timing when the second introduction passage starts to communicate with a second suction passages.	11-20-2008

Kazuhito Hotta, Wako-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090241900	INTAKE AIR CONTROL SYSTEM OF V-TYPE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An intake air control system of a V-type internal combustion engine having cylinder axes formed in a V-shape with a crankshaft provided therebetween is provided. An operation input shaft driven by an operator's input and an operation input shaft turning angle sensor that detects a turning angle of the operation input shaft are also provided. A throttle body having a throttle valve is formed with an intake passage for each of the cylinders. The operation input shaft is located between valve shafts of an opposing pair of throttle valves that are located on opposing bank portions of the V-type internal combustion engine, when viewed from the direction of the crankshaft. The operation input shaft is disposed separately from the throttle valve shafts and the operation input shaft turning angle sensor is provided at a shaft end of the operation input shaft.	10-01-2009
20090241902	INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder head having a plurality of intake ports; throttle devices including a plurality of respective intake passages equipped with throttle valves therein; a plurality of fuel injection valves for injecting fuel into the corresponding intake passages; a fuel pipe adapted to supply fuel to the fuel injection valves; and a pulsation damper connected to the fuel pipe to damp fuel pressure pulsation. In the engine, a connection pipe coupled to the pulsation damper is formed between a plurality of branch portions with respect a longitudinal direction of the fuel pipe, adapted to deliver fuel from the fuel pipe to the fuel injection valves and the connection pipe is disposed to at least partially overlap the fuel injection valve as viewed from the longitudinal direction of the fuel pipe.	10-01-2009

Patent applications by Kazuhito Hotta, Wako-Shi JP

Kazuhito Hotta, Saitama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090056657	V-TYPE ENGINE FOR VEHICLE - A V-type engine for a vehicle is provided with front and rear banks including intake and exhaust valves exposed to a combustion chamber, a valve operating device for operating the engine valves, a valve stop mechanism for stopping the operation of the engine valves according to an operational condition of the vehicle, and an actuator for driving a throttle valve. A valve stop mechanism is provided in either the front bank or the rear bank. An actuator provided in one of the front bank and the rear bank excluding the valve stop mechanism is lower in height than the actuator provided in the other of the front bank. By reducing the height of one of the front bank or the rear bank, an adequate capacity of an air cleaner and a fuel tank can be ensured	03-05-2009
20090084352	Intake charge-regulating apparatus for an internal combustion engine, and engine incorporating same - An intake charge regulating apparatus for an engine includes a throttle body having a throttle bore formed therein for communicating with an intake port, and a throttle valve for controlling flow through the throttle bore. A throttle-driving mechanism includes an electric motor and a transmission mechanism for decelerating a driving force of the electric motor and for transmitting the driving force to the throttle valve. A camshaft sprocket is fixed to an end portion of a camshaft, which is included in a valve train for driving intake and exhaust valves in a cylinder head to open and close. The throttle-driving mechanism is arranged opposite a side where the camshaft sprocket is located in an axis direction of the crankshaft. The electric motor is disposed between the throttle body and the cylinder head in top plan view.	04-02-2009

Patent applications by Kazuhito Hotta, Saitama JP

Kazutoshi Hotta, Ichinomiya-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080305718	Polishing Composition and Polishing Method - A first polishing composition includes abrasive grains and an iodine compound and has a pH of 6 or more. The first polishing composition can suitably polish the Si [0001] plane of a single crystal silicon carbide substrate. A second polishing composition includes an iodine compound and has a pH of 8 or less. The second polishing composition can suitably polish the C [000-1] plane of a single crystal silicon carbide substrate. A third polishing composition includes abrasive grains and an iodine compound and has a pH of 6 to 8, inclusive. The third polishing composition can suitably polish each of the Si [0001] and C [000-1] planes of a single crystal silicon carbide substrate.	12-11-2008
20110052870	Method of Manufacturing Microstructure and Substrate Provided with the Microstructure - A method is provided for manufacturing a microstructure on a substrate in which the substrate has thereon linear and parallel atomic steps. The microstructure includes linear elements that extend along the atomic steps. The method includes a step for preparing a substrate having atomic steps on its surface and a step for applying linear elements onto the substrate. Each linear element is oriented to extend along one of the atomic steps, with the result that a microstructure in which the linear elements extend along the atomic steps is formed on the substrate. The substrate can be prepared by subjecting a silicon carbide substrate, a sapphire substrate, or a zinc oxide substrate to an ultrasmoothing process. As the linear elements, peptide fibers can be employed that are made up of peptide molecules that form β-sheet structures.	03-03-2011

Keisuke Hotta, Chita-Gun JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20120006145	PEDAL APPARATUS - A friction washer (	01-12-2012

Keisuke Hotta, Anjo-City JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110296946	Pedal Apparatus for Vehicle and Manufacturing Method Thereof - A distal end portion of a pedal rod is press-fitted into a press-fitting hole, which is formed in a rotatable member. An intermediate portion of the pedal rod extends from and is bent relative to the distal end portion. The intermediate portion is received in a guide groove, which is formed in the rotatable member. An elongated portion of the pedal rod extends from the intermediate portion in a direction opposite from the distal end portion. A pad is provided to an end part of the elongated portion, which is opposite from the intermediate portion, and is adapted to receive a pedal force from a driver of a vehicle. The rotatable member includes a receiving hole that is adapted to receive a jig therethrough to enable the jig to contact the intermediate portion at time of press-fitting the distal end portion into the press-fitting hole.	12-08-2011

Kensaku Hotta, Kashihara-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110232988	TORQUE DETECTOR AND ELECTRIC POWER STEERING SYSTEM - A torque detector includes a sensor unit including a single magnetic sensor capable of detecting a change of flux, a torque detecting unit that detects torque based on an output of the sensor unit, and a magnetic field generator capable of generating a magnetic field in an area including the sensor unit. The torque detecting unit has a failure detecting mode that detects an abnormality of the sensor unit based on an offset amount of the output of the sensor unit. The offset amount is obtained when the magnetic field is generated by the magnetic field generator.	09-29-2011

Makoto Hotta, Shizuoka-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080230287	Hybrid System - A hybrid system includes an electrical motor generating motive power, a storing portion providing electrical power to the electrical motor, a fuel cell that provides electrical power to the electrical motor or the storing portion within a predetermined output range, an internal combustion engine absorbing loading of the fuel cell, a determination portion that determines whether the loading of the fuel cell is above the maximum output in the predetermined range, and a control portion that controls the internal combustion engine so as to operate if it is determined that the loading of the fuel cell is above the maximum output in the predetermined range.	09-25-2008

Masakatsu Hotta, Gunma JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20120012153	CONNECTION SHEET FOR SOLAR BATTERY CELL ELECTRODE, PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING SOLAR CELL MODULE, AND SOLAR CELL MODULE - Disclosed is a connection sheet for a solar battery cell electrode, which is a polymer sheet for use in the connection between an electrode for extracting an electric power from a solar battery cell and a wiring member through an electrically conductive adhesive material by heating and pressurizing, and which is intercalated between a heating/pressurizing member and the wiring member upon use.	01-19-2012

Masanori Hotta, Fukuoka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090153031	Heterocyclic compound and organic electroluminescent device using the same - Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) which is improved in luminous efficiency, fully secured of driving stability, and simple in structure and also disclosed is a heterocyclic compound useful for the said device. Specifically, the heterocyclic compound is represented by the following general formula (I) and the organic EL device comprises an organic layer containing the said heterocyclic compound. In general formula (I), X	06-18-2009
20100044695	COMPOUND FOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE - Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) which is improved in luminous efficiency, fully secured of driving stability, and of simple constitution. Also disclosed is a compound useful for the fabrication of said organic EL device. The organic electroluminescent device comprises organic layers including a light-emitting layer disposed between an anode and a cathode which are piled one upon another on a substrate and said organic layers comprise a compound represented by general formula (1). A light-emitting layer containing a phosphorescent dopant is suitable for an organic layer comprising a compound represented by general formula (1). In general formula (1), X is CR or N; Ar	02-25-2010
20100127616	COMPOUND FOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE - Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) which is improved in luminous efficiency, fully secured of driving stability, and of simple constitution. Also disclosed is a compound useful for the fabrication of said organic EL device. The organic electroluminescent device comprises organic layers including a light-emitting layer disposed between an anode and a cathode which are piled one upon another on a substrate and at least one of said organic layers comprises a compound for an organic EL device represented by general formula (1). Said organic layer is preferably a light-emitting layer containing a phosphorescent dopant. In general formula (1), X is a substituted or unsubstituted methine group or a nitrogen, Ar	05-27-2010

Masanori Hotta, Kitakyushu-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090302742	Compound for Use in Organic Electroluminescent Device and Organic Electroluminescent Device - Disclosed are an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) which is improved in luminous efficiency, fully secured of driving stability, and simple in constitution and a compound for use therein. The organic electroluminescent device comprises a light-emitting layer disposed between an anode and a cathode piled one upon another on a substrate and the light-emitting layer contains a phosphorescent dopant and a compound for use in an organic electroluminescent device having two or more indolocarbazole skeletons as a host material. An example of the compound having indolocarbazole skeletons for use in the device is expressed by the following formula.	12-10-2009

Masao Hotta, Tokorozawa-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110090103	ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER - A sequential comparison-type analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that has improved precision and which is capable of high-speed operation is disclosed, the analog-to-digital converter comprising a digital-to-analog converter that outputs a plurality of different reference analog signals according to a multibit digital signal, a plurality of comparators that compare an input analog signal with the plurality of reference analog signals, and a sequential comparison control circuit that changes bit values of the multibit digital signal in order from higher bits so that at least one of the plurality of reference analog signals becomes closer to the input analog signal and decides the bit values in order from higher bits based on the comparison results and at the same time, correcting the decided higher bit values, wherein the sequential comparison control circuit decides the bit values of the multibit digital signal down to a predetermined bit based on the comparison results of the plurality of comparators and at the same time, correcting the bit values, and decides the bits lower than the predetermined bit based on the comparison result of one of the plurality of comparators.	04-21-2011

Masao Hotta, Hannou JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110092175	MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A transceiver suitable for larger scale of integration employs direct conversion reception for reducing the number of filters. Also, the number of VCOs is reduced by utilizing dividers to supply a receiver and a transmitter with locally oscillated signals at an RF band. Dividers each having a fixed division ratio are used for generating locally oscillated signals for the receiver, while a divider having a switchable division ratio are used for generating the locally oscillated signal for the transmitter. In addition, a variable gain amplifier for baseband signal is provided with a DC offset voltage detector and a DC offset canceling circuit for supporting high speed data communications to accomplish fast cancellation of a DC offset by eliminating intervention of a filter within a feedback loop for offset cancellation.	04-21-2011

Masashi Hotta, Kiyosu-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20120025499	AIRBAG APPARATUS - An inflation portion of an airbag, which is inflated by inflation gas, is partitioned into an upstream inflation portion and a downstream inflation portion via a partition member. When being tensioned in a planar manner, the partition member has a length in a longitudinal direction that is longer than a length in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. A pressure regulating valve that is closed at an early stage of a supply period of the inflation gas to the inflation portion and is opened from the middle of the supply period includes a slit-like inner opening that is provided on the partition member and extends in the transverse direction and a pair of valve body portions that are provided around the inner opening and are selectively positioned close to and separated from each other.	02-02-2012

Masatoshi Hotta, Kanagawa JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090007541	THRUSTER USING NITROUS OXIDE - A thruster is provided that makes it possible to reduce and eventually eliminate the toxicity of storable liquid propellant and improve the low-temperature environment adaptability of propulsion system using the storable liquid propellant. The thruster produces thrust by using catalytic decomposition gas obtained by catalytically decomposing nitrous oxide with a nitrous oxide decomposition catalyst.	01-08-2009

Patent applications by Masatoshi Hotta, Kanagawa JP

Masatoshi Hotta, Kiyosu-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110072729	Weather strip - A weather strip is provided in which the trim portion does not have an insert member embedded, a notch or a thin wall portions are formed in a portion near the bottom wall of the vehicle exterior sidewall and the vehicle interior sidewall, a thick wall portion is formed in the further front end than the thin wall portion, and both the front ends are inclined so as to approach each other. Two of each of flange holding lips are formed on each of the inner surfaces of both sidewalls; and the angle at which the flange holding lips of the opening side are projected is formed larger than the angle of the flange holding lips of the bottom wall side; the front ends of the flange holding lips of the opening side are formed so as to be contact with or close to each other; the front ends of the flange holding lips	03-31-2011
20110159311	Insert, method for producing the same, and method for producing long product provided with the same - An insert with a light weight per unit length, which is securely separable to obtain insert pieces, a method for producing such an insert, and a method for producing long products using such an insert. The insert includes a large number of insert pieces and joining parts formed by the application of a rolling operation and a tension force, and has a ladder-shaped configuration. Slits are defined between adjacent insert pieces, and include first slits, each having a large width in a longitudinal direction of the insert, and second slits, each having a width smaller than that of the first slits so as to be alternately formed. The joining parts include first joining parts, each having a small width in a width direction of the insert, and second joining parts, each having a width larger than that of the first joining parts so as to be alternately formed. The width ratio of the insert pieces, the first slits and the second slits in the longitudinal direction is determined to 100:(65˜104):(24˜53), whereas the width ratio of the first joining parts to the second joining parts in the width direction is determined to 20:(28˜33).	06-30-2011
20110219701	Door weather strip - A door weather strip includes an attaching base part that is attached along an outer periphery of a door frame and a hollow seal part that is extended in an outer peripheral direction of a door from the attaching base part. The attaching base part	09-15-2011

Masatoshi Hotta, Aichi-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090039672	Glass run and manufacturing method thereof - A glass run includes a main body portion attached to a channel portion DC provided along an inner periphery of a door frame and having an approximately U-shape in section, formed of a base bottom portion and an exterior sidewall portion and an interior sidewall portion extending from the base bottom portion and an exterior seal lip and an interior seal lip extending from almost front ends of the exterior sidewall portion and the interior sidewall portion to an inside of the main body portion. Moreover, for the glass run, by molding, integrally formed is an entire longitudinal area having a sectional shape having the main body portion and the interior and exterior seal lips and provided with an upper side portion corresponding to an upper edge portion of a door glass and a front vertical side portion and a rear vertical side portion corresponding to a front edge portion and a rear edge portion of the door glass.	02-12-2009
20090266000	Weather strip for motor vehicle - A weather strip for a motor vehicle, which is capable of meeting the need for the provision of a lightweight motor vehicle, and exhibiting a great holding force against a flange of a vehicle body. The weather strip includes a trim portion having a generally U-shaped cross-section and a tubular seal portion. The trim portion includes an outer side wall, a bottom wall and an inner side wall, flange holding lips extend in an interior of the trim portion, and the tubular seal portion is formed near a center of an exterior surface of the bottom wall via a neck portion. An exterior surface of a corner portion between the bottom wall and the outer side wall, and an exterior surface of a corner portion between the bottom wall and the inner side wall are respectively formed to have an angle of 90° through 100°, angular parts of both the corner portions are formed with a radius of curvature of 0.2 mm through 2.0 mm, and the outer side wall, the bottom wall and the inner side wall respectively exhibit a JIS hardness of 75 through 100, and are respectively formed of a hard material of rubber or a thermoplastic elastomer with an apparent specific gravity of not less than 0.8.	10-29-2009
20100242392	Weather strip - A weather strip	09-30-2010
20110277388	Weather strip and production method for the same - A method for producing a weather strip, includes an extrusion step for extruding a non-vulcanized and non-foamed rubber into a predetermined shape, a coating step for coating a treatment liquid containing a simple sulfur, a sulfur compound, or both of the simple sulfur and the sulfur compound on an outer surface of a sealing part of a non-vulcanized and non-foamed intermediate molded body that is molded by the extrusion step, and a vulcanizing and foaming step for forming a skin layer in a non-foamed state by heating and vulcanizing a surface of the treatment liquid, and forming a sponge layer by vulcanizing and foaming the non-vulcanized and non-foamed rubber that is internal from the skin layer by passing the intermediate molded body on which the treatment liquid has been coated during the coating step through a heating zone, the steps being performed when molding the extruded part.	11-17-2011

Patent applications by Masatoshi Hotta, Aichi-Ken JP

Masaya Hotta, Aichi-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090211725	Molding Process and the Resulting Mold - A molding process which comprises mixing together a particulate aggregate, plural kinds of water-soluble binders, a crosslinking agent causing crosslinking reaction with the binders, a phenol resin, and water, agitating the obtained mixture to prepare a bubbled fluid aggregate mixture, filling the aggregate mixture into a molding cavity, and solidifying the aggregate mixture through the evaporation of water from the mixture to give a mold made from the mixture.	08-27-2009
20100295220	MULTI-LEAF SPRING-TYPE VIBRATION DAMPING DEVICE - Provided is a multi-leaf spring-type vibration damping device capable of suppressing the resonance caused by rotations near the major critical speed of a rotating shaft system and suppressing self-excited vibrations due to rotations at or higher than the major critical speed of the rotating shaft system. In the multi-leaf spring-type vibration damping device, a bearing (	11-25-2010

Mitsuhiro Hotta, Yokohama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100135056	SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array divided into a plurality of subarrays arranged in matrix form, the plurality of subarrays making up a plurality of subarray columns, an address pad column formed outside the memory cell array, the address pad column comprising a plurality of address pads that are arranged to be substantially parallel to the subarray columns, a data I/O pad column formed in a middle section of the memory cell array, the data I/O pad column comprising data I/O pads that are arranged to be substantially parallel to the subarray columns, an address input circuit arranged in the middle section of the memory cell array, and a pad input address line formed in a direction substantially perpendicular to the subarray columns on the memory cell array, the pad input address line directly connecting the address pad and the address input circuit.	06-03-2010

Miyako Hotta, Hitachi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090037014	APPARATUS FOR ASSISTING DECISIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL LOAD - An apparatus for assisting decisions for improvement of environmental loads has: environmental load per-process collecting means; proportional distributing condition per-parts storing means for storing conditions to proportionally distribute the environmental loads every parts; parts attribute storing means; manufacturing condition storing means; parts attribute calculating condition storing means for storing environmental load calculating conditions to calculate the environmental load per parts; environmental load per-parts calculating means; environmental load per-parts/process storing means for storing the environmental loads every parts/process; bill of materials (BOM) storing means; product manufacturing amount storing means; contribution degree per-product/process evaluating means for collecting the environmental loads per parts/process and calculating a contribution degree of each product to the environmental load amount of each process by multiplying the collected environmental load amount by the number of products; and environmental load distribution table per-product/process storing means.	02-05-2009

Patent applications by Miyako Hotta, Hitachi JP

Naoki Hotta, Aichi-Ken JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080238055	Head protection airbag device - In a head protection airbag device according to the invention, non-inflating portions of an airbag includes a blocking portion which covers the vehicle interior side of windows when inflation of the airbag is completed. One blocking portion includes a downward movement inhibiting portion catching a passenger's head and inhibiting its downward movement when the head moves downward while moving toward the vehicle exterior and touches the blocking portion when inflation of the airbag is completed. The blocking portion comprises overlapping vehicle interior side and the vehicle exterior side portions which are mutually connected, with a portion of a vehicle interior member by the upper edge made to be the downward movement inhibiting portion. The downward movement inhibiting portion is connected at both the front and rear edges to the vehicle exterior member of the blocking portion, allowing the upper edge of the downward movement inhibiting portion to be a catching edge which can be separated from the vehicle exterior member when catching the head.	10-02-2008

Patent applications by Naoki Hotta, Aichi-Ken JP

Osamu Hotta, Miyagi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110143382	IgA Nephropathy Testing Method And Test Kit - There is provided a renal disease testing method comprising a complex detection step of detecting a complex of an antigen derived from human renal mesangial cells and human IgA in a sample derived from urine collected from a subject. It is preferred that the renal disease testing method of the invention further comprises a determination step of assessing the whether the renal disease is IgA nephropathy based on the ratio of the amount of the complex detected in the complex detection step to the amount of urinary proteins in the sample. The renal disease testing method of the invention has good detection sensitivity and specificity, and can conveniently and safely assess the existence of a renal disease (preferably, IgA nephropathy).	06-16-2011

Sayako Hotta, Itabashi-Ku JP

Shigemi Hotta, Hyogo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110227491	FLUORESCENT LAMP APPLIANCE, AND LIGHTING CONTROL APPARATUS OF FLUORESCENT LAMP APPLIANCE - The present Invention provides 2-lamp parallel-type and 2-lamp serial-type fluorescent lamp fixtures, in which 2-lamp lighting and 1-lamp lighting are switchable according to an ON/OFF operation of a power supply switch. In a 2-lamp parallel-type or 2-lamp serial-type fluorescent lamp fixture provided with an inverter-type stabilizer, 2-lamp lighting and 1-lamp lighting are switched by a first control circuit (	09-22-2011

Shingo Hotta, Fukuoka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110078542	TURBO DECODING DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A turbo decoding device includes a memory unit that stores data in an interleaving process performed in a process of decoding a coded signal encoded with a turbo code and an access unit that accesses the memory unit to read and write the data. The memory unit includes memory circuits and is formed as one memory space by coupling the memory circuits. Furthermore, the memory circuit functions as a first bank configuration by which a first capacity is assigned to each bank or a second bank configuration by which a second capacity is assigned to each bank in accordance with a combination of the memory circuits. Moreover, the access unit selects by which of the first bank configuration and the second bank configuration the memory unit functions in accordance with a communication method of a coded signal and accesses the memory unit in accordance with the selected bank configuration.	03-31-2011

Shinji Hotta, Saitama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090166165	Push Button Switch Cover Member - A silicone rubber composition having such selective adhesiveness that shows high adhesion to an organic material than to a molding die is bonded to a sheet of the organic material and is vulcanized and cured in the mold. Thus, an elastomer keypad of double-layer structure is produced in which an organic material layer (	07-02-2009
20110164910	THIN KEYPAD ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - The present invention relates to a thin keypad that includes an elastic sheet that is made of resin or elastomer, and a group of keys including a plurality of keys that are formed from one key sheet through laser-cutting, and that are fixed on the elastic sheet as a laser-cut configuration, wherein the plurality of keys is made of light curing resin with a thickness of 1.0 mm or less, and the narrowest spacing between the keys adjacent each other is equal to or less than 500 μm.	07-07-2011

Sozaburo Hotta, Nagoya-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110135542	GAS REFORMING DEVICE - A gas reforming device including: a flow passage forming body flow passage through which process gas flows; a cathode provided on a cross section of the flow passage; an anode provided apart from the cathode, and including a bar-like portion; and a pulse power supply that applies a pulse voltage between the cathode and the anode. The cathode includes: an opening array body that has at least a surface thereof made of an insulator, and has a planar structure in which openings through which the process gas passes are arrayed; and a grounding electrode provided on a peripheral portion of the flow passage. A tip end of the bar-like portion of the anode is located in an inside of the flow passage of the process gas, and is spaced apart from the opening array body in a direction parallel to a direction where the process gas flows.	06-09-2011

Tadashi Hotta, Okazaki-City JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090071188	Oil separator and refrigerant compressor having the same - An oil separator includes a separation part and an oil storage part. The separation part includes a separation cylinder, an inner cylinder disposed in the separation cylinder and an inlet pipe connecting to the separation cylinder tangential to an inner surface of the separation cylinder. The separation part defines an inlet opening to introduce CO	03-19-2009

Takahiro Hotta, Takatsuki JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110077267	TRIAZOLOPYRIDINE COMPOUND, AND ACTION THEREOF AS PROLYL HYDROXYLASE INHIBITOR OR ERYTHROPOIETIN PRODUCTION-INDUCING AGENT - The present invention provides a triazolopyridine compound having a prolyl hydroxylase inhibitory action and an erythropoietin production-inducing ability. The present invention relates to a compound represented by the following formula [I]:	03-31-2011

Takanobu Hotta, Nirasaki-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20120034793	METHOD FOR FORMING METAL NITRIDE FILM - A wafer serving as a target substrate to be processed is loaded into a chamber, and an inside of the chamber is maintained under a vacuum level. Then, a TiN film is formed on the wafer by alternately supplying TiCl	02-09-2012

Takashi Hotta, Susono-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110130979	FUEL VISCOSITY DETECTION APPARATUS - An object of the present invention is to estimate a viscosity of a fuel with high accuracy at all times, irrespective, for example, of fuel properties or conditions of deterioration with time.	06-02-2011

Teruyuki Hotta, Hirakata-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090092749	MANUFACTURE METHOD OF BUILDUP CIRCUIT BOARD - A manufacturing method of a buildup circuit board includes forming a wiring layer on an organic polymer insulating layer by copper electroplating and building up other organic polymer insulating layer on the wiring layer, wherein in a final step of the copper electroplating, a surface of the wiring layer is roughened by copper electroplating and the organic polymer insulating layer is formed directly on the roughened surface of the wiring layer. According to the invention, a specific etching step that is essential for enhancing adhesion between the organic polymer insulating layer and the wiring layer can be omitted and no expensive etching apparatus is necessary, thus being good in economy. In addition, if various types of copper sulfate plating baths containing different types of additives used for via fill plating are used as they are, irregularities on the surface can be made in various forms and roughnesses. Thus, it is unnecessary to select a specific type of etching solution depending on film characteristics ascribed to types of additives. Moreover, it is easy to form surface irregularities in conformity with the type of material and physical properties of the organic polymer insulating layer being built up.	04-09-2009

Teruyuki Hotta, Nagoya-City JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110154853	Decompression device - A decompression device includes an upstream throttle portion, a middle passage portion and a downstream throttle portion, which are arranged within a body portion. The upstream throttle portion is a variable throttle including an upstream throttle passage in which the refrigerant is decompressed and expanded, and a valve body having an open degree adjusting portion configured to adjust an open degree of the upstream throttle passage. The downstream throttle portion is a fixed throttle for decompressing and expanding refrigerant flowing from the middle passage portion. Furthermore, a refrigerant passage defined from the upstream throttle portion to the downstream throttle portion through the middle passage portion is provided in the body portion, and is bent at least at a bent portion in which the refrigerant flow is bent in the body portion.	06-30-2011

Tetsuo Hotta, Hamamatsu-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080245209	KEYBOARD- TYPE PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT - A keyboard-type percussion instrument having sounding members arranged to correspond to respective ones of keys and capable of improving musical performance in soft tone. When a soft pedal is stepped on, a pedal connecting rod is moved upward to move an arm portion of a lifting arm upward, whereby the lifting arm is pivoted to cause capstan screws to be inserted into through holes of a key frame, thus moving a lifting bar upward so that an upper surface of the lifting bar projects from the key frame to push rear end portions of all the keys upward. As a result, standby positions of hammer felts are moved toward the sounding members, whereby the volume of a tone generated by a sounding member struck by a hammer felt corresponding to a depressed key is decreased.	10-09-2008

Togo Hotta, Kawasaki-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080292762	METHOD FOR PRODUCING DRIED MICROBIAL CELLS - An inexpensive heat treatment method for producing dried microbial cells is provided, wherein the method does not result in lowering the quality of the microbial cells or causing pulverization. The method includes a step of heating microbial cells to between 200 to 450° C. for 1 to 30 seconds.	11-27-2008

Tohru Hotta, Okaya-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090252022	Method of Manufacturing Synthetic Resin Lens, Method of Manufacturing Reformed Synthetic Resin Material and Optical Pickup Apparatus - A method of manufacturing a synthetic resin lens, comprising: adjusting a degree of change in transmittance of a lens member made of synthetic resin for a blue violet laser beam with accumulated application of the blue violet laser beam, by applying to the lens member an electromagnetic wave shorter in wavelength than the blue violet laser beam.	10-08-2009
20100238781	Optical Pickup Apparatus and Objective Lens - An optical pickup apparatus comprising: a laser diode; an objective lens made of synthetic resin arranged in an optical path of laser light between the laser diode and an optical disc so that the laser light from the laser diode is focused onto a signal recording layer through a protection layer of the optical disc; and an aberration correction element interposed in an optical path of the laser light between the laser diode and the objective lens, the aberration correction element configured to be operated so as to correct spherical aberration caused by moisture-absorption characteristics of the objective lens.	09-23-2010
20110103215	Optical Pickup Apparatus - An optical pickup apparatus, which reads signals recorded on first and second signal recording layers of an optical disc, includes: a laser diode; an objective lens to condense a laser beam to the first and second signal recording layers; and a collimating lens disposed in a light path of the laser beam between the laser diode and the objective lens and configured to correct a spherical aberration by moving in a light axis direction of the laser beam, and the objective lens includes a bifocal lens and is configured such that a second focal point does not coincide in position with the second signal recording layer when a first focal point coincides in position with the first signal recording layer, and the first focal point does not coincide in position with the first signal recording layer when the second focal point coincides in position with the second signal recording layer.	05-05-2011
20110110215	Optical Pickup Apparatus - An optical pickup apparatus comprises: a first laser diode that generates a first laser beam having a first wavelength; a second laser diode that generates a second laser beam having a second wavelength longer than the wavelength; a third laser diode that generates a third laser beam having a third wavelength longer than the first wavelength and shorter than the second wavelength; an objective lens having an inner, outer, intermediate regions on an incident surface, the first laser beam being condensed on a signal recording layer of a first optical disc by condensing actions of the inner and outer regions, the second laser beam being condensed on a signal recording layer of a second optical disc by condensing actions of the inner and intermediate regions, the third laser beam being condensed on a signal recording layer of a third optical disc by condensing actions of the inner and intermediate regions.	05-12-2011
20110116354	Optical Pickup Apparatus - An optical pickup apparatus includes: a laser diode configured to emit a laser beam; and an objective lens configured to condense the laser beam into a laser spot through which a signal recorded on a signal recording layer of an optical disc is read out by the laser beam, the objective lens having formed thereon a lens surface with a second numerical aperture for acting as a lens, which is larger than a first numerical aperture for forming the laser spot.	05-19-2011
20110149709	Optical Pickup Apparatus - An optical-pickup apparatus includes: a three-wavelength-laser diode including first-, second-, and third-laser elements to emit first-, second-, and third laser beams having first, second, and third wavelengths, respectively, the three laser elements housed in the same case; an objective lens to focus the three laser beams onto first- to third-optical-disc-signal-recording layers, respectively; a first photodetector to be irradiated with first-return light reflected from the first-optical-disc-signal-recording layer, a second photodetector to be irradiated with second- and third-return lights respectively reflected from the second- and third-optical-disc-signal-recording layers; a polarizing-beam splitter to reflect the three laser beams toward the lens, and allow the three return lights having passed through the lens to pass therethrough; a semitransparent mirror on which the three return lights having passed through the polarizing-beam splitter are incident, and which guide the first-return light toward the first photodetector and the second- and third-return lights toward the second photodetector.	06-23-2011
20110170396	LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - In the present invention, to improve CD read/write characteristics having poor image height characteristics, a third light emitting source emitting a third laser beam for CD is disposed on an optical axis of an objective lens. Thereby, the third laser beam emitted from the third light emitting source travels along the optical axis of the objective lens, thus generating no coma aberration in the third laser beam. Furthermore, in the present invention, a second light emitting source emitting a second laser beam for DVD and a first light emitting source emitting a first laser beam for BD are disposed across the third light emitting source. Thereby the phase propagation directions of coma aberrations in the first and second laser beams coincide with each other. Adjustment of the coma aberration in one of the laser beams enables the coma aberration in the other laser beam to be adjusted.	07-14-2011
20110209164	Optical Pickup Apparatus and Manufacturing Method of Optical Pickup Apparatus - An optical-pickup apparatus includes: a first-objective lens; a second-objective lens; a lens holder including a first-lens barrel having the first-objective lens mounted on an end face thereof and a second-lens barrel having the second-objective lens mounted on an end face thereof; an actuator unit having the lens holder mounted thereon; and a housing having the actuator unit mounted thereon, the first and second objective lenses each being mounted on the lens holder such that a direction, in which wavefront of coma aberration on each lens face is most advanced in phase, is aligned with a radial direction of an information-recording medium, the actuator unit being mounted on the housing such that an optical axis of the first-objective lens is inclined in the radial direction at an inclination angle of the axis toward a recording surface of the medium required to cancel coma aberration of the first-objective lens to the surface.	08-25-2011
20110235494	Optical Pickup Apparatus - An optical pickup apparatus includes: a laser diode configured to generate a laser beam; and an objective lens having an annular diffraction zone formed on an incident surface thereof on which the laser beam is incident, the annular diffraction zone being a zone configured to focus the laser beam on each of signal recording layers of first to third optical discs so that a signal recorded in each of the signal recording layers of the first to third optical discs are read, the first optical disc having the signal recording layer at a first distance from a surface thereof, the second optical disc having the signal recording layer at a second distance longer than the first distance from a surface thereof, the third optical disc having the signal recording layer at a third distance longer than the first distance and shorter than the second distance from a surface thereof.	09-29-2011
20110249545	Objective Lens and Optical Pickup Apparatus - An objective lens includes: a diffraction area having a diffraction structure provided thereon concentrically around an optical axis of the objective lens; and a first non-diffraction area provided outward an outer circumference of the diffraction area, the objective lens being configured to focus first laser light on a signal recording surface of a first optical recording medium by refraction in the first non-diffraction area; focus second laser light, different in wavelength from the first laser light, on a signal recording surface of a second optical recording medium by diffraction in the diffraction area; and focus third laser light, different in wavelength from the first laser light and the second laser light, on a signal recording surface of a third optical recording medium by diffraction in the diffraction area.	10-13-2011
20120026859	Optical Pickup Apparatus - An optical-pickup apparatus includes: a laser diode having a first-laser element, which emits a first-laser beam, and a second-laser element, which emits a second-laser beam having a wavelength shorter than a wavelength of the first-laser beam, arranged in the same package; an objective lens to condense the first- and second-laser beams emitted from the laser diode to signal-recording layers of first- and second-optical discs, respectively, the second-optical disc being of a standard different from a standard of the first-optical disc; and a collimating lens arranged in an optical path between the laser diode and the objective lens, the collimating lens configured to change the first- and second-laser beams from divergent light to parallel light, the collimating lens being inclined with respect to optical axes of the first- and second-laser beams so that astigmatism in the first- and second-laser beams is corrected.	02-02-2012

Patent applications by Tohru Hotta, Okaya-Shi JP

Yasunari Hotta, Shiga JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100069599	OXETANE-CONTAINING RESIN, AS WELL AS AN ADHESIVE AND A RESIST AGENT USING THE SAME - [Object] To provide a thermosetting resin used for the manufacture of layered products for fibrous use, electrical products and automobile parts or, particularly, used for multilayered circuit board and flat cables, being suitable for a latent thermosetting adhesive which shows, upon adhesion, the fluidity necessary for the adhesion but quickly hardens by heat or light and also being excellent in resistance to heat upon soldering; to provide a resin expressing an excellent flame-retarding property in spite of non-use of halogen, and expressing latent hardening properties to quickly harden by heat and light; and to provide an adhesive and a resist agent comprising the same.	03-18-2010

Yasunari Hotta, Ohtsu-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100040967	HYPER-BRANCHED POLYMER OF AN ESTER TYPE, AND A TONER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY USING THE SAME - [PROBLEMS] To produce a hyper-branched polymer having excellent resin strength, a good anti-blocking property and less environmental dependence.	02-18-2010
20100063204	HYPER-BRANCHED POLYMER OF AN ESTER TYPE, AS WELL AS A TONER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY AND A PIGMENT MASTER BATCH USING THE SAME - [Problems] To produce a hyper-branched polymer having excellent resin strength, a good anti-blocking property and less environmental dependence.	03-11-2010

Yasutaka Hotta, Anjo-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110268374	TOOL STORAGE BAG AND TOOL STORAGE BAG SET - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a tool storage bag and tool storage bag set having versatility and to reduce manufacturing cost. The tool storage bag includes an inner tray that is disposed inside the tool storage bag and is in a shape of a box with a bottom and an open top to store a power tool. The inner tray is made of a fabric material. The inner tray is detachably disposed inside the tool storage bag where an outer surface of the inner tray is supported by an inner surface of the tool storage bag, or is detachably disposed with a positioning unit provided between the inner surface of the tool storage bag and the outer surface of the inner tray.	11-03-2011

Yoshiko Hotta, Mishima-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100197492	THERMOSENSITIVE RECORDING MEDIUM AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD USING THE SAME - A thermosensitive recording medium including a support; a layer containing a photothermal conversion material, formed over a surface of the support; and an oxygen blocking layer formed over a surface of the layer opposite to a surface thereof over which the support is formed, wherein the layer further contains a resin, which is in a cross-linked state, and the photothermal conversion material absorbs a light having a specific wavelength and converts the light into heat, and wherein the oxygen blocking layer has an oxygen permeability of 0.5 mL/(m	08-05-2010

Yoshinori Hotta, Shizuoka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100047719	IMAGE RECORDING METHOD - The invention provides an image recording method and a lithographic printing method in which both high image quality and good fine line reproducibility can be achieved, and high sensitivity and safety under white light can be obtained, and the image recording method for a lithographic printing plate, which comprises imagewise exposing with an imaging time per pixel of 1 millisecond or less using a laser light with an emission wavelength of from 250 nm to 420 nm, wherein the lithographic printing plate precursor comprises a support and an image recording layer, in which the image recording layer contains (A) a polymerization initiator and (B) a polymeric compound and has an image recording layer which is photosensitive in a wavelength of from 250 nm to 420 nm, and the support has an anodized film with sealed micropores on the surface; and a lithographic printing method utilizing the same.	02-25-2010
20110267825	INSULATED LIGHT-REFLECTIVE SUBSTRATE - An insulated light-reflective substrate, comprising a substrate and an anodized film provided on the surface of the substrate, wherein: the substrate has at its surface an aluminum alloy layer of a thickness of not less than 10 μm; the aluminum alloy layer has an aluminum purity of 99.9% by weight or higher, with the total content of Si and Fe in the layer being not more than 0.005% by weight, and the content of inevitable impurities in the layer as components other than Al, Si, Fe, Ga and Zn being not more than 0.01% by weight; the anodized film has micropores each extending from the surface of the film in the direction of thickness; and the ratio of center line length to depth of the micropores is 1.0 to 1.2.	11-03-2011

Patent applications by Yoshinori Hotta, Shizuoka JP

Yoshinori Hotta, Haibara-Gun JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110300400	METAL MEMBER - High aspect-ratio metal members such as a nanopillar, a nanorod, and the like, and a method of producing the same. The present invention provides high aspect-ratio metal members such as a nanopillar or a nanorod, and a method of producing the same, such metal members being produced by filling the micropores of an anodized film having a degree of ordering of 70% or more with a metal having an aspect ratio of 5 or more, followed by baking in inert gas atmosphere or in a vacuum at 300° C. or more to 1000° C. or less to improve crystallinity.	12-08-2011

Yoshinori Hotta, Aichi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080284042	ANISOTROPICALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - An anisotropically conductive member has an insulating base material, and conductive paths composed of a conductive material which pass in a mutually insulated state through the insulating base material in a thickness direction thereof and which are provided in such a way that a first end of each conductive path is exposed on a first side of the insulating base material and a second end of each conductive path is exposed on a second side of the insulating base material. The conductive paths have a density of at least 2 million paths/mm	11-20-2008
20100264036	MICROSTRUCTURE - Disclosed is a microfine structure which can be used as an anisotropic conductive member. Also disclosed is a method for producing such a microfine structure. Specifically disclosed is a microfine structure which is composed of a base having penetrating micropores at a density of not less than 10,000,000 micropores/mm	10-21-2010
20100294547	ANISOTROPIC CONDUCTIVE JOINT PACKAGE - An anisotropic conductive joint package in which an anisotropic conductive film is joined to at least one conductive material selected from among the group consisting of gold (Au), silver (Ag), copper (Cu), aluminum (Al), magnesium (Mg), nickel (Ni), a tin oxide doped with indium (ITO), molybdenum (Mo), iron (Fe), palladium (Pd), beryllium (Be), and rhenium (Re). The package is characterized in that: the anisotropic conductive film has an insulating base and conductive paths composed of conductive members, insulated from one another, and extending through the insulating base in the direction of the thickness of the insulating base, one ends of the conductive paths are exposed from one side of the insulating base, the other ends are exposed from the other side, the density of the conductive paths is 3,000,000 pieces/mm	11-25-2010
20110043239	PROBE CARD - An object of the present invention is to provide a probe card which has good stability of the connection between testing electrodes and test electrodes even after exposure to high temperatures in the burn-in test, and is less susceptible to displacements in the positions of contact between the testing electrodes and conductive portions or between the conductive portions and probe needles or the test electrodes even after repeated use of the probe card. The probe card of the present invention is a probe card which includes a testing circuit board having the testing electrodes formed so as to correspond to the test electrodes and an anisotropic conductive member electrically connecting the test electrodes with the testing electrodes. The testing electrodes are formed so that at least ends of the testing electrodes protrude from a surface of the testing circuit board, and the anisotropic conductive member is a member which has an insulating base made of an anodized aluminum film having micropores therein and a plurality of conductive paths made of a conductive material, insulated from one another, and extending through the insulating base in a thickness direction of the insulating base.	02-24-2011

Patent applications by Yoshinori Hotta, Aichi JP

Yoshio Hotta, Kamakura-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090161189	METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A STRUCTURE BASED ON ANISOTROPIC ETCHING, AND SILICON SUBSTRATE WITH ETCHING MASK - A method of manufacturing a structure that includes a mask forming step for forming, on a monocrystal silicon substrate, a base etching mask corresponding to a target shape and a correction etching mask having a joint connecting to the base etching mask, and a target shape forming step for forming the target shape by anisotropically etching the silicon substrate, wherein, in the mask forming step, a lowered-strength portion where a mechanical strength is locally decreased is formed at least in a portion of the joint of the correction etching mask.	06-25-2009
20100118370	OSCILLATING BODY APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, OPTICAL DEFLECTOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An oscillating body apparatus comprises an oscillating plate oscillatably supported around a torsion axis by a support portion for a fixing portion and driving the oscillating plate around the torsion axis by a resonance frequency, the oscillating plate having a region forming a groove portion for adjusting a mass of the oscillating plate, and, the resonance frequency being configured to be adjustable by the formation of the groove portion in the region.	05-13-2010
20110116145	METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OSCILLATOR DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DEFLECTOR AND OPTICAL INSTRUMENT WITH OSCILLATOR DEVICE - A method of manufacturing an oscillator device having first and second oscillators being driven at first and second driving resonance frequencies gf1 and gf2, the method including a first step for processing the two oscillators, wherein, when the two oscillators are going to be processed as oscillators having first and second resonance frequencies different from the two driving resonance frequencies with a certain dispersion range, the two oscillators are so processed that the first and second resonance frequencies different from the two driving resonance frequencies become equal to first and second resonance frequencies f1 and f2, respectively, which are included in adjustable resonance frequency ranges, respectively, and a second step for adjusting the first and second resonance frequencies f1 and f2 so that they become equal to the first and second driving resonance frequencies gf1 and gf2, respectively.	05-19-2011

Patent applications by Yoshio Hotta, Kamakura-Shi JP

Yozo Hotta, Shizuoka JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080298863	HEATING APPARATUS - The heating apparatus of a surface-heating type, includes a rotary member, an opposing member that forms a nip with respect to the rotary member, and a heating member for heating a portion of a rotary member surface other than the nip, in which temperature used for heating the rotary member by the heating member is controlled, and a heating material inserted in the nip to be nipped and conveyed therein is heated using heat of the rotary member. Accordingly, after insertion of the heating material in the nip starts, control temperature of the heating member is increased before the rotary member rotates by one revolution, thereby preventing an uneven heating phenomenon of the heating material in the first revolution and the second revolution or later, and preventing uneven gloss due to the uneven heating phenomenon in the fixing apparatus.	12-04-2008

Yuji Hotta, Okayama JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090281633	POROUS CERAMIC MATERIAL AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - Provision of a porous ceramic material which rapidly induces bone tissue formation and has practical strength.	11-12-2009
20110027890	MATERIAL FOR CELL CULTURE - A ligand construct containing at least two, identical or different, ligand molecules which are capable of binding to a cell surface receptor, the ligand molecules being coupled via a spacer, wherein the ligand construct has at least one functional group for binding substrates. According to the ligand construct of the present invention, the immobilization of the ligand construct to various artificial substrates is facilitated, so that an artificial matrix can be easily prepared on an optimal substrate, whereby cells can be stably cultured.	02-03-2011

Yuji Hotta, Kurashiki-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100112330	METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF POROUS CERAMIC MATERIAL - The invention provides a method of producing a porous ceramics material. The method comprises preparing a slurry by dispersing a ceramics raw material in a medium, filling the slurry in a container, inserting the container in a given direction into a cooling medium having a temperature not higher than the freezing point of the slurry such that the slurry freezes unidirectionally from one end side, drying the frozen slurry to give a green body, and firing the green body.	05-06-2010

Yuka Hotta, Koto-Ku JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100087242	GAMING MACHINE WITH SOUND OUTPUT FOR SPECIFIC SYMBOL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A slot machine has a display on which symbols are rearranged in partitioned regions arranged in a matrix pattern consisting of multiple columns and rows. The display has multiple display windows corresponding to the respective columns for each unit game. In each of the display windows, symbols arranged in the partitioned regions are rearranged by executing video display in which a symbol column having multiple symbols arranged therein is scrolled in an arrangement direction of the symbols. When a symbol rearranged in at least one partitioned region in at least one of the symbol columns already stopped from scrolling forms a pattern just before winning combination establishment in which the rearranged symbol requires a specific symbol in at least one other symbol column in scrolling to be newly rearranged to establish a winning combination, a passing sound of the specific symbol is outputted from a speaker in synchronization with a timing at which the specific symbol in the symbol column in scrolling passes through the display window.	04-08-2010
20100304837	GAMING MACHINE - A gaming machine according to the present invention variably displays a plurality of symbols wherein a speed of the variable display of the plurality of symbols while executing a free game is different from a speed of variable display of the plurality of symbols while executing a basic game. In this manner, it is possible to impart a sense of expectation for free game to a player without separately preparing any effect video image such as a video image showing a process of adding WILD symbols.	12-02-2010
20110177861	GAMING MACHINE - A gaming machine according to the present invention variably displays a plurality of symbols wherein a speed of the variable display of the plurality of symbols while executing a free game is different from a speed of variable display of the plurality of symbols while executing a basic game. In this manner, it is possible to impart a sense of expectation for free game to a player without separately preparing any effect video image such as a video image showing a process of adding WILD symbols.	07-21-2011

Yukihiro Hotta, Osaka-Shi JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110291126	ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An active matrix substrate (	12-01-2011

Inventors list

Assignees list

Classification tree browser

Top 100 Inventors

Top 100 Assignees