Patents by Inventor Kazuo Nakamura

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

  • Publication number: 20130293459
    Abstract: An image display unit comprises a display area including pixels, and an imaging unit disposed at its rear side behind the display area. Light transmissive sections are located within the display area and correspond to the pixels. The light transmissive sections are configured to separately receive light incident upon the image display unit, and pass the received light to the imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuo Nakamura, Katsuhide Uchino, Jiro Yamada, Ken Tamayama, Hiroshi Sagawa
  • Publication number: 20130295421
    Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery cell capable of reliably preventing an integrated circuit provided to the secondary battery cell from being removed from the secondary battery cell. A secondary battery cell (20) includes an integrated circuit (IC chip) (50) that stores identification information (for example, identification number (ID number) given to the integrated circuit itself). The integrated circuit (50) includes a wiring abnormality detection circuit. When the integrated circuit (50) is removed from the secondary battery cell (20), the wiring abnormality detection circuit detects a wiring abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeki Teramoto, Atsushi Ozawa, Kazuo Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20130278646
    Abstract: An image display device having an imaging device, includes: an image display part in which a plurality of pixels including light-emitting devices are arranged; a light transmission region provided in the image display part; an imaging device arranged on a back side of the image display part; a light condensing means for condensing light passing through the light transmission region to the imaging device; and a position detecting means for obtaining position information of a subject based on image information acquired through the imaging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuo Nakamura, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 8552641
    Abstract: A display panel is disclosed which suppresses appearance of structural fault at a frame portion of an opposing glass plate. The display panel has a panel structure ready for an active matrix driving method and includes an element having a formation face on which pixel circuits are formed, and an opposing substrate configured to seal the formation face. The opposing substrate has a protrusion pattern formed in a region thereof opposing to an outer edge of the opposing substrate. The protrusion pattern has a layer structure similar to that in a display region of the formation face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Nakamura, Hiroshi Sagawa
  • Publication number: 20130249965
    Abstract: A display device comprising a display panel that has a display region in which display pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, and a non-display region in which first and second dummy pixels are arranged. The display panel displays an image based on an input image signal. A drive section drives the first dummy pixels such that voltages provided to them are different magnitudes from each other, and drives the second dummy pixels such that currents provided to them are different magnitudes from each other. A measurement section outputs a first data based on respective current information of the first dummy pixels, and outputs second data based on respective luminance information of each of the second dummy pixels. A correction section determines a correction amount based on the first and the second data, and corrects the input image signal based upon the correction amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuo Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20130244062
    Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery cell that can certainly prevent detachment of an integrated circuit from the secondary battery cell and attachment of the integrated circuit to another secondary battery cell, a battery pack including such secondary battery cells, and an electric power consumption device including such a battery pack. A secondary battery cell 20 of the present invention includes an integrated circuit (an IC chip) 50 that has stored identification information, and the integrated circuit 50 is driven by power from the secondary battery cell. A battery pack of the present invention includes secondary battery cells each including an integrated circuit (an IC chip) that has stored identification information, and the integrated circuits are driven by power from the secondary battery cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeki Teramoto, Shinichi Uesaka, Atsushi Ozawa, Kazuo Nakamura, Asami Yoshida, Toru Akishita, Shiho Moriai
  • Publication number: 20130234721
    Abstract: There are provided a secondary battery cell, a battery pack, and an electric power consumption device having a configuration and structure capable of accurately and easily detecting the state of the secondary battery cell in the battery pack. A secondary battery cell 20 of the present invention includes an integrated circuit (an IC chip) 60 having a measuring function to measure a battery status, the battery pack has a plurality of secondary battery cells of the present invention, and the electric power consumption device includes the battery pack of the present invention having the plurality of secondary battery cells of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuo Nakamura, Shinichi Uesaka, Atsushi Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8518754
    Abstract: An organic EL display including a plurality of pixels each having, in order from a substrate side, a first electrode, an organic layer including a light emission layer, and a second electrode; an auxiliary wiring disposed in a periphery region of each of the plurality of pixels and conducted to the second electrode; and another auxiliary wiring disposed apart from the auxiliary wiring at least in a part of outer periphery of a formation region of the auxiliary wiring in a substrate surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunari Takagi, Kazuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8508123
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display panel based on active matrix driving having a display area made up of N pixel control lines, M video signal lines orthogonally intersecting the N pixel control lines, and pixel circuits arranged at intersections between the N pixel control lines and M video signal lines, wherein positional identification patterns are arranged on every k (k being a natural number) pixel control lines inside each of the pixel circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuo Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20130200848
    Abstract: Provided is a method for charging/discharging a battery pack having an auxiliary charging/discharging device and a battery assembly in which a plurality of secondary battery cell parallel modules, each of which includes a plurality of fasecondary battery cells connected in parallel, are connected in series, the method including, when there is no abnormality in the secondary battery cells during charging/discharging, connecting the auxiliary charging/discharging device in parallel to any of the secondary battery cell parallel modules, and when there is an abnormality in any of the secondary battery cells during charging/discharging, releasing connection to the secondary battery cell at which the abnormality has arisen in the secondary battery cell parallel module including the secondary battery cell at which the abnormality has arisen, and connecting the auxiliary charging/discharging device in parallel to the secondary battery cell parallel module including the secondary battery cell at which the abnormality
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ozawa, Kazuo Nakamura, Shin Hotta, Kentaro Marutani, Shinichi Uesaka
  • Patent number: 8502756
    Abstract: An image display unit comprises a display area including pixels, and an imaging unit disposed at its rear side behind the display area. Light transmissive sections are located within the display area and correspond to the pixels. The light transmissive sections are configured to separately receive light incident upon the image display unit, and pass the received light to the imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Nakamura, Katsuhide Uchino, Jiro Yamada, Ken Tamayama, Hiroshi Sagawa
  • Patent number: 8497857
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a display region in which display pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, and a non-display region in which first dummy pixels and second dummy pixels are arranged; a first drive section allowing each of the first dummy pixels to emit light by applying signal voltages having different magnitudes to each of the first dummy pixels; a second drive section allowing each of the second dummy pixels to emit light by flowing constant currents having different magnitudes to each of the second dummy pixels; a current measurement section detection currents flowing through each of the first dummy pixels to output current information thereof; a light reception section detecting light emitted from each of the second dummy pixels to output luminance information thereof; and a calculation section deriving a current deterioration function using the current information, and deriving an efficiency deterioration function using the luminance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8427049
    Abstract: A display device includes: a light emitting layer configured to emit light in accordance with current; a first pixel separation film configured to define a first opening for providing a light emitting region when the light emitting layer emits light; and a second pixel separation film laminated on the first pixel separation film and configured to define a second opening that is restricted so as not to gradually become wider as apart from a surface contacted with the first pixel separation film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Nakamura, Nobutoshi Asai, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 8411359
    Abstract: A reflecting apparatus comprising: an array of reflectors including a first subset of reflectors and a second subset of reflectors, wherein the first subset of reflectors guide light toward a first viewing position and the second subset of reflectors guide light toward a second viewing position that is different from the first viewing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Kazuo Nakamura, Jiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 8402936
    Abstract: A vehicle control device for a vehicle system automatically stops an internal combustion engine of a vehicle when a predetermined stop condition is satisfied and automatically starts the automatically stopped internal combustion engine when a predetermined start condition is satisfied. A stop point detection unit detects a stop point, at which the vehicle possibly stops, while the vehicle travels based on map information stored in a map information storage unit. A traveling information control unit stores traveling information, which includes a state of the vehicle stopping at a stop point and a state of the vehicle passing by the stop point, in the traveling information storage unit. A stop determination unit determines whether to stop the internal combustion engine when the vehicle stops at a stop point based on the traveling information of the stop point stored in the traveling information storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8376027
    Abstract: It is a technical common knowledge that a chaplet used in casting of a hollow casting is fusion-bonded with the melt and is incorporated into the casting. However, the adhesion between the chaplet and the casting body is not necessarily satisfactory, thereby incurring the strength reduction of a thin-wall hollow casting. A core for a thin-wall hollow casting according to the present invention is provided with a chaplet mounted thereon. The chaplet has arcuate portion 2 with a gap 5 and a plurality of projections 4 from an outer peripheral of the arcuate portion and is in contact with an inner wall 7 of a mold. The entire arcuate portion of the chaplet is included in a groove 6 formed around an outer peripheral portion of the core body. Only the projections 4 of the chaplet protrude from the core body, when the chaplet is inserted in the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Riken, Riken Castec Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Nakamura, Keiichi Maekawa
  • Patent number: 8330682
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a plurality of pixel circuits arrayed in a matrix fashion; a light emitting circuit provided to each pixel circuit and emitting light correspondingly to a drive current; and a detection circuit provided to a predetermined pixel circuit and outputting a signal according to a temperature that varies with luminance of the light emitting circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Nakamura, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 8321081
    Abstract: A plug-in vehicle management system enables charging of a plug-in vehicle from a power supply station through an electric power line and power line communication between the power supply station and the vehicle. When a vehicle-side connector and a station-side connector are connected to enable the power-line communication between a vehicle-side power line communication section and a station-side power line communication section, a vehicle-side security control section and a station-side security control section cooperate so that one of a vehicle-side input/output section and a station-side input/output section receives an input signal and transmits it to the other of the vehicle-side input/output section and the station-side input/output section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuo Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120260677
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes a first power supply, a second power supply, and a power switching control unit configured to switch a power supply from the first power supply to the second power supply near the time when the temperature of a compartment starts decreasing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ozawa, Kazuo Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Masato
  • Publication number: 20120202400
    Abstract: An organic EL display including a plurality of pixels each having, in order from a substrate side, a first electrode, an organic layer including a light emission layer, and a second electrode; an auxiliary wiring disposed in a periphery region of each of the plurality of pixels and conducted to the second electrode; and another auxiliary wiring disposed apart from the auxiliary wiring at least in a part of outer periphery of a formation region of the auxiliary wiring in a substrate surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunari Takagi, Kazuo Nakamura