Patents by Inventor Kazuhiko Negoro

Kazuhiko Negoro 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: 11947216
    Abstract: A backlight apparatus includes a light source emitting blue light, a light guide layer, a quantum dot phosphor layer, a reflective layer, and a yellow phosphor layer. The light guide layer includes a first main surface, a second main surface, at least one light-receiving side surface, and at least one non-light-receiving side surface. The quantum dot phosphor layer is provided on the first main surface side of the light guide layer and includes a red quantum dot phosphor and a green quantum dot phosphor. The reflective layer is disposed on the second main surface side of the light guide layer. The yellow phosphor layer is provided between the second main surface and the reflective layer and in a region along the at least one non-light-receiving side surface, and includes a yellow phosphor. The quantum dot phosphor layer is in contact with the first main surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Iwamoto, Satsuki Hagihara, Kazuhiko Negoro
  • Publication number: 20230393431
    Abstract: A backlight apparatus includes a light source emitting blue light, a light guide layer, a quantum dot phosphor layer, a reflective layer, and a yellow phosphor layer. The light guide layer includes a first main surface, a second main surface, at least one light-receiving side surface, and at least one non-light-receiving side surface. The quantum dot phosphor layer is provided on the first main surface side of the light guide layer and includes a red quantum dot phosphor and a green quantum dot phosphor. The reflective layer is disposed on the second main surface side of the light guide layer. The yellow phosphor layer is provided between the second main surface and the reflective layer and in a region along the at least one non-light-receiving side surface, and includes a yellow phosphor. The quantum dot phosphor layer is in contact with the first main surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Kenichi IWAMOTO, Satsuki HAGIHARA, Kazuhiko NEGORO
  • Patent number: 11561433
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (100) according to the present invention is provided with a liquid crystal display panel (10) and a backlight device (50) which emits light toward the back surface (10r) of the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight device comprises: an LED substrate (21) that has a front surface (21s) on which a plurality of LED chips (22) are arranged so as to emit excitation light toward the back surface of the liquid crystal display panel; a phosphor layer (25) which contains a phosphor (25q) that emits fluorescent light upon reception of the excitation light; a wavelength selective reflection layer (28) which is arranged between the phosphor layer and the LED substrate, and wherein the transmittance of the excitation light is higher than the transmittance of the fluorescent light; and an optical layer laminate (30) which is arranged on the liquid crystal display panel side of the phosphor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAKAI DISPLAY PRODUCTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Iwamoto, Mayumi Hori, Kazuhiko Negoro
  • Patent number: 11287698
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight device disposed on a rear face of the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight device includes a chassis, a plurality of LED units being disposed on the chassis and arranged in at least one direction, and a cooling structure thermally coupled to rear faces of the plurality of LED units. The cooling structure includes a plurality of enclosed spaces, each of the plurality of enclosed spaces containing a coolant in which a liquid phase and a gas phase coexist at room temperature. Each of the plurality of enclosed spaces is disposed correspondingly to at least one LED unit among the plurality of LED units arranged in the at least one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SAKAI DISPLAY PRODUCTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mayumi Hori, Kazuhiko Negoro, Kenichi Iwamoto, Akira Toyama, Makoto Noda
  • Publication number: 20220004060
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight device disposed on a rear face of the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight device includes a chassis, a plurality of LED units being disposed on the chassis and arranged in at least one direction, and a cooling structure thermally coupled to rear faces of the plurality of LED units. The cooling structure includes a plurality of enclosed spaces, each of the plurality of enclosed spaces containing a coolant in which a liquid phase and a gas phase coexist at room temperature. Each of the plurality of enclosed spaces is disposed correspondingly to at least one LED unit among the plurality of LED units arranged in the at least one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: MAYUMI HORI, KAZUHIKO NEGORO, KENICHI IWAMOTO, AKIRA TOYAMA, MAKOTO NODA
  • Publication number: 20210271135
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (100) according to the present invention is provided with a liquid crystal display panel (10) and a backlight device (50) which emits light toward the back surface (10r) of the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight device comprises: an LED substrate (21) that has a front surface (21s) on which a plurality of LED chips (22) are arranged so as to emit excitation light toward the back surface of the liquid crystal display panel; a phosphor layer (25) which contains a phosphor (25q) that emits fluorescent light upon reception of the excitation light; a wavelength selective reflection layer (28) which is arranged between the phosphor layer and the LED substrate, and wherein the transmittance of the excitation light is higher than the transmittance of the fluorescent light; and an optical layer laminate (30) which is arranged on the liquid crystal display panel side of the phosphor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: KENICHI IWAMOTO, MAYUMI HORI, KAZUHIKO NEGORO
  • Patent number: 9958600
    Abstract: There are provided a light-source device which is capable of restraining deformation of side walls of a housing due to heat generated by the light emission of the light source, and a display apparatus. A light-source device is provided with a light guide plate which is placed on a bottom plate of a housing having an opening formed at one surface thereof, and a light source which is fixed to the housing and is arranged to face one end face of the light guide plate, and the bottom plate of the housing has a separation part that separates the bottom plate into a first portion in which the light source is disposed and a second portion in which the light source is not disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinari Kawazu, Atsushi Koumura, Yasuyuki Aikawa, Arimasa Sugimoto, Yoshihiro Murakami, Kazuhiko Negoro
  • Patent number: 9952458
    Abstract: A display apparatus, comprising: a light source emitting light; a display panel displaying an image on a front face of the display panel, and facing the light source; and a diffusion section arranged between the light source and the display panel, wherein the diffusion section includes a diffusion sheet-fixed to a circumferential portion of the display panel via a frame body, and facing the display panel with a distance between the diffusion sheet and the display panel, and an optical sheet arranged in a gap between the display panel and the diffusion sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoshikawa, Kazuhiko Negoro
  • Patent number: 9897747
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus having a structure capable of realizing reduction in thickness and border width. The display apparatus has a liquid-crystal panel prepared by enclosing a liquid-crystal material between a pair of glass substrates opposing to each other, a transparent plate opposed to the liquid-crystal panel, and an optical sheet arranged between the liquid-crystal panel and the transparent plate, and has a face smaller than the liquid-crystal panel, where the transparent plate is a glass plate having a wide surface of substantially a same shape as a wide surface of each of the glass substrates, and the display apparatus also includes a frame body arranged between the liquid-crystal panel and the transparent plate, the frame body surrounding an outer periphery of the optical sheet, and the frame body being thicker than the optical sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: SAKAI DISPLAY PRODUCTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Negoro
  • Patent number: 9829736
    Abstract: Provided is a display device comprising a liquid-crystal panel and an optical sheet member including multiple stacked optical sheets emitting light from a light source toward the liquid-crystal panel, which can alleviate unevenness in light even in the case where, for example, light with such unevenness is emitted from the optical sheet member due to warps or wrinkles generated in the optical sheet member caused by heat generated by the light source. A diffusion sheet is provided between a liquid-crystal panel and an optical sheet member with a gap from the optical sheet member. The light emitted through the optical sheet member is diffused by the diffusion sheet and gap, and then enters the liquid-crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoshikawa, Takayuki Nakazawa, Kazuhiko Negoro, Mayumi Hori
  • Publication number: 20170227706
    Abstract: There are provided a light-source device which is capable of restraining deformation of side walls of a housing due to heat generated by the light emission of the light source, and a display apparatus. A light-source device is provided with a light guide plate which is placed on a bottom plate of a housing having an opening formed at one surface thereof, and a light source which is fixed to the housing and is arranged to face one end face of the light guide plate, and the bottom plate of the housing has a separation part that separates the bottom plate into a first portion in which the light source is disposed and a second portion in which the light source is not disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinari Kawazu, Atsushi Koumura, Yasuyuki Aikawa, Arimasa Sugimoto, Yoshihiro Murakami, Kazuhiko Negoro
  • Patent number: 9488770
    Abstract: A light source unit, comprising: a light guide plate; a light source facing to a peripheral surface of the light guide plate; and a reflection part reflecting light emitted from one surface of the light guide plate, wherein the reflection part comprises: an elongated portion, which is positioned at an outside of an edge of the light guide plate, being elongated in a direction crossing the one surface; and a protrusion portion, which is located at a position of the elongated portion that is away from the one surface, protruding from the position to the one surface, wherein the one surface side of the light source is covered with the protrusion portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Horiguchi, Takayuki Nakazawa, Kazuhiko Negoro, Takahiro Yoshikawa, Mayumi Hori
  • Publication number: 20160291385
    Abstract: A display apparatus, comprising: a light source emitting light; a display panel displaying an image on a front face of the display panel, and facing the light source; and a diffusion section arranged between the light source and the display panel, wherein the diffusion section includes a diffusion sheet-fixed to a circumferential portion of the display panel via a frame body, and facing the display panel with a distance between the diffusion sheet and the display panel, and an optical sheet arranged in a gap between the display panel and the diffusion sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoshikawa, Kazuhiko Negoro
  • Publication number: 20160259122
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus having a structure capable of realizing reduction in thickness and border width. A display apparatus having a liquid-crystal panel prepared by enclosing a liquid-crystal material between a pair of glass substrates opposing to each other, a transparent plate opposed to the liquid-crystal panel, and an optical sheet arranged between the liquid-crystal panel and the transparent plate, and having a face smaller than the liquid-crystal panel, wherein the transparent plate is a glass plate having a wide surface of substantially a same shape as a wide surface of each of the glass substrate, and the display apparatus further comprises a frame body arranged between the liquid-crystal panel and the transparent plate, the frame body surrounding an outer periphery of the optical sheet, the frame body being thicker than the optical sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Negoro
  • Publication number: 20160004119
    Abstract: Provided is a display device comprising a liquid-crystal panel and an optical sheet member including multiple stacked optical sheets emitting light from a light source toward the liquid-crystal panel, which can alleviate unevenness in light even in the case where, for example, light with such unevenness is emitted from the optical sheet member due to warps or wrinkles generated in the optical sheet member caused by heat generated by the light source. A diffusion sheet is provided between a liquid-crystal panel and an optical sheet member with a gap from the optical sheet member. The light emitted through the optical sheet member is diffused by the diffusion sheet and gap, and then enters the liquid-crystal panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoshikawa, Takayuki Nakazawa, Kazuhiko Negoro, Mayumi Hori
  • Publication number: 20150078032
    Abstract: A light source unit, comprising: a light guide plate; a light source facing to a peripheral surface of the light guide plate; and a reflection part reflecting light emitted from one surface of the light guide plate, wherein the reflection part comprises: an elongated portion, which is positioned at an outside of an edge of the light guide plate, being elongated in a direction crossing the one surface; and a protrusion portion, which is located at a position of the elongated portion that is away from the one surface, protruding from the position to the one surface, wherein the one surface side of the light source is covered with the protrusion portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Yuki Horiguchi, Takayuki Nakazawa, Kazuhiko Negoro, Takahiro Yoshikawa, Mayumi Hori
  • Publication number: 20120293719
    Abstract: A property of dissipating heat generated from a light source in an edge light type lighting device is improved. A lighting device includes: a plurality of LEDs 17; a chassis 14 housing the LEDs 17; light guide members 21 housed in the chassis 14 and including light entrance surfaces 21a through which light from the LEDs 17 enters and light output surfaces 21b from which the light exits; and a plurality of heat pipes 30 fixed on the chassis 14. The chassis 14 has a substantially rectangular bottom plate, and the LEDs 17 are arranged in a line on at least one of short sides of a bottom plate 14a of the chassis 14. The heat pipes 30 are formed in an elongated shape having one end that overlaps the LEDs 17 and another end that is provided on a middle portion of the chassis 14 in a longitudinal direction thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: Sharp KabushikiI Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Negoro