Patents by Inventor Isao Koike

Isao Koike has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9285528
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an edge-type lighting device which is configured such that when a light guide plate thermally expands, a light source is prevented from being pressed. In the lighting device according to the present invention, a light guide plate (2) is slidably supported so that the light guide plate (2) can expand in the planar direction, and a light source (3) disposed on an edge of the light guide plate (2) is movably supported in the same direction. A light-guide-plate stopper (4b) is disposed at a position facing an edge (2A) of the light guide plate (2) to prevent the light guide plate (2) from expanding excessively. Thus, the light source (3) can be prevented from being pressed toward a frame member (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignees: NextEye Co., Ltd., Kowa Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seog Joon Kim, Mee Suk Rho, Taek Kyu Kim, Kazuhiro Kashiwagi, Isao Koike, Kunitoshi Shimizu, Akira Ikemoto
  • Patent number: 8858054
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an edge-type lighting device using an LED light source which has high light-emitting efficiency regardless of thermal expansion of a light guide plate. An LED light source (3) is disposed on an edge of a light guide plate (2) so as to be movable in the normal line direction (±n) of the edge (2c) of the light guide plate. A slide member (7) is slidably disposed on the rear surface of the LED light source. A spring (8) is disposed in a frame member (4) on the rear surface of the slide member. Thus, the LED light source can always be pressed toward the edge of the light guide plate regardless of the thermal expansion of the light guide plate. Because the spring has a simple structure, the lighting device can be compact compared to the case where a coil spring is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignees: Techsign Light Panel Co., Ltd., Kowa Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seog Joon Kim, Mee Suk Rho, Taek Kyu Kim, Kazuhiro Kashiwagi, Isao Koike, Kunitoshi Shimizu, Akira Ikemoto
  • Publication number: 20140022821
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an edge-type lighting device which is configured such that when a light guide plate thermally expands, a light source is prevented from being pressed. In the lighting device according to the present invention, a light guide plate (2) is slidably supported so that the light guide plate (2) can expand in the planar direction, and a light source (3) disposed on an edge of the light guide plate (2) is movably supported in the same direction. A light-guide-plate stopper (4b) is disposed at a position facing an edge (2A) of the light guide plate (2) to prevent the light guide plate (2) from expanding excessively. Thus, the light source (3) can be prevented from being pressed toward a frame member (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicants: KOWA COMPANY, LTD., TECHSIGN LIGHT PANEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seog Joon Kim, Mee Suk Rho, Taek Kyu Kim, Kazuhiro Kashiwagi, Isao Koike, Kunitoshi Shimizu, Akira Ikemoto
  • Publication number: 20130336008
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an edge-type lighting device using an LED light source which has high light-emitting efficiency regardless of thermal expansion of a light guide plate. An LED light source (3) is disposed on an edge of a light guide plate (2) so as to be movable in the normal line direction (±n) of the edge (2c) of the light guide plate. A slide member (7) is slidably disposed on the rear surface of the LED light source. A spring (8) is disposed in a frame member (4) on the rear surface of the slide member. Thus, the LED light source can always be pressed toward the edge of the light guide plate regardless of the thermal expansion of the light guide plate. Because the spring has a simple structure, the lighting device can be compact compared to the case where a coil spring is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicants: KOWA COMPANY, LTD., TECHSIGN LIGHT PANEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seog Joon Kim, Mee Suk Rho, Taek Kyu Kim, Kazuhiro Kashiwago, Isao Koike, Kunitoshi Shimizu, Akira Ikemoto
  • Publication number: 20100279142
    Abstract: The present invention enables magnetic domain control by the method of forming a magnetic coating layer of an Ni—Fe alloy comprised of Fe: 10 to 50 mass % and Ni: 90 to 50 mass % on the surface of grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having mainly {110}<001> orientation texture so that even if annealing after core formation, the iron loss improving effect will not be lost and the magnetic flux density will not be greatly reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Ushigami, Shigeru Hirano, Hiroyasu Fujii, Yoshihiro Arita, Toshinao Yamaguchi, Isao Koike
  • Patent number: 5026282
    Abstract: This invention relates to a physiological stereo articulator comprises a maxillary mechanism and a mandibular mechanism, and the lower frame member in the mandibular mechanism can turn about a center which is shifting while opening and closing as the human mandible does, and at the same time with the shifting of the center of turning, the vertical swinging of the lower frame member is caused. This construction permits simulation of the movement of the lower frame member to practical movement of the human mandible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Inventor: Isao Koike