Patents by Inventor Masafumi Okada

Masafumi Okada 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: 11655944
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device of small light distribution angle and less leakage light and further to realize a lighting device in which the light beam is easy to control. The following is an example of the structure to meet the above purpose. A lighting device including: a light guide; LEDs set at a side surface of the light guide; a prism sheet set on a major surface of the light guide, in which a first louver which extends in a first direction and, a second louver which extends in an orthogonal direction to the first direction are superposed on the prism sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Takeo Koito, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Masafumi Okada
  • Publication number: 20230087920
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device of thin, low power consumption and small light distribution angle. The present invention takes the following structure to realize the above task: A lighting device comprising: a disc shaped light guide, having a main surface and a rear surface, including a first hole at a center, a disc shaped reflection sheet, disposed at the rear surface side of the light guide, including a second hole at a center, a prism sheet, disposed at the main surface side of the light guide, including a concentric first prism array, wherein a reflection mirror is set in the first hole of the light guide at the side near to the prism sheet, an LED is set opposing to the reflection mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Masafumi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20230086503
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device which can be switched between an overall lighting and a local lighting with a single lighting device. The concrete structure is a lighting device including: a first light guide having a first major surface and a first back surface, and a first hole; a second light guide, disposed on the first light guide, and having a second major surface, a second back surface, and a second hole; a reflection sheet disposed under the first back surface of the first light guide; a liquid crystal lens disposed above the second major surface of the second light guide, in which first LEDs and second LEDs are disposed circumferentially along a side wall of the first hole and a side wall of the second hole, respectively, and the first LEDs and the second LEDs are displaced each other in azimuth direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Masafumi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20230076604
    Abstract: The purpose is to provide a rectangle light spot with a simple structure. The invention is: A lighting device having a funnel shaped reflector which includes a neck portion and an opening portion, in which an LED as a light source is disposed at the neck, the opening portion of the funnel shaped reflector is a circle in a plan view, provided a distance from the neck portion to the opening portion along an optical axis is h, and a diameter of the circle is d, h/d is two or larger, and a liquid crystal lens is disposed at the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Masafumi OKADA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20230056516
    Abstract: A lighting device including: a light guide having a first side surface extending in a first direction and a second side surface opposing to the first side surface and extending in the first direction, a first LED being disposed at the first side surface, a second LED being disposed at the second side surface; in which a first area extends in the first direction and a second area extends in the second direction in the light guide; a prism sheet is disposed on the light guide; a prism extending in the first direction and arranged in the second direction is formed on the prism sheet; a first surface of the prism has a first angle with normal direction of the second prism sheet; a second surface of the prism has a second angle with normal direction of the second prism sheet; the first angle is larger than the second angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Masafumi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20230027661
    Abstract: The purpose is to realize a lighting device which can project a light spot of rectangle with a simple structure. The invention is: A lighting device having a light source unit 1, the light source unit 1 including a funnel shaped reflector 10 and an LED 20, in which the funnel shaped reflector 10 includes a neck and an opening, the LED 20 is disposed at the neck of the funnel shaped reflector 10, a plan view of the opening is a rectangle, and provided a distance from the neck to the opening along axis is d, and one side of the rectangle is x, either one of the first light source unit and the second light source unit satisfies, d / x is 2 or larger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Masafumi OKADA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Makoto HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230018610
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device of thin, low power consumption and high emitting efficiency. A concrete structure of the inventions is as follows. A lighting device including a first light guide and a second light guide stacked on the first light guide, a reflecting sheet disposed under the first light guide, and a prism sheet disposed on the first light guide, in which a concentric first prism array is formed on the prism sheet, a plurality of first LEDs are disposed along a circumferential direction of a side wall of a first hole of the first light guide, a plurality of second LEDs are disposed along a circumferential direction of a side wall of a second hole of the second light guide, and the plurality of the first LEDs and the plurality of the second LEDs are displaced in azimuth direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Masafumi OKADA
  • Patent number: 11537001
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device of thin, low power consumption and small light distribution angle. The present invention takes the following structure to realize the above task: A lighting device comprising: a disc shaped light guide, having a main surface and a rear surface, including a first hole at a center, a disc shaped reflection sheet, disposed at the rear surface side of the light guide, including a second hole at a center, a prism sheet, disposed at the main surface side of the light guide, including a concentric first prism array, wherein a reflection mirror is set in the first hole of the light guide at the side near to the prism sheet, an LED is set opposing to the reflection mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Masafumi Okada
  • Patent number: 11513279
    Abstract: A lighting device including: a light guide having a first side surface extending in a first direction and a second side surface opposing to the first side surface and extending in the first direction, a first LED being disposed at the first side surface, a second LED being disposed at the second side surface; in which a first area extends in the first direction and a second area extends in the second direction in the light guide; a prism sheet is disposed on the light guide; a prism extending in the first direction and arranged in the second direction is formed on the prism sheet; a first surface of the prism has a first angle with normal direction of the second prism sheet; a second surface of the prism has a second angle with normal direction of the second prism sheet; the first angle is larger than the second angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Masafumi Okada
  • Publication number: 20220299697
    Abstract: A lighting device including: a light guide having a first side surface extending in a first direction and a second side surface opposing to the first side surface and extending in the first direction, a first LED being disposed at the first side surface, a second LED being disposed at the second side surface; in which a first area extends in the first direction and a second area extends in the second direction in the light guide; a prism sheet is disposed on the light guide; a prism extending in the first direction and arranged in the second direction is formed on the prism sheet; a first surface of the prism has a first angle with normal direction of the second prism sheet; a second surface of the prism has a second angle with normal direction of the second prism sheet; the first angle is larger than the second angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Masafumi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20220291546
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light emitting device includes a light guide plate with a plurality of first protrusion parts arranged along a first direction and extending along a second direction which crosses the first direction, and a prism sheet, wherein a cross-sectional shape of each of the first protrusion parts along the first direction has an apex angle between 55 degrees and 65 degrees, inclusive, the light guide plate includes a plurality of second protrusion parts which extend along the first direction and are arranged along the second direction, and a cross-sectional shape of each of the second protrusion parts along the second direction has a base angle between 1 degree and 3 degrees, inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Masafumi OKADA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Makoto HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 11442215
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light emitting device includes a light guide plate, a prism sheet, and a lenticular lens, wherein, a plurality of first protrusions of the light guide plate are arranged along a first direction and extend along a second direction intersecting the first direction, a plurality of second protrusions of the light guide plate extend along the first direction and are arranged along the second direction, the prism sheet includes a plurality of third protrusions extending along the first direction and arranged in the second direction, and the lenticular lens includes a plurality of fourth protrusions arranged along the first direction and extending along the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Masafumi Okada
  • Publication number: 20220268986
    Abstract: Display device is provided and includes display panel; and illumination device provided on rear surface side of display panel, wherein illumination device includes light sources, and light guiding member arranged at rear surface side of display panel, light guiding member has holes which penetrates the light guiding member, light sources are housed in corresponding hole, rear surface of light guiding member has first inclined surface inclined upwardly from light source housed in one of holes, front surface side of light guiding member has second inclined surface inclined upwardly from light source housed in one of the holes, and angle of first inclined surface to center line of one of holes is greater than angle of second inclined surface to center line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Koji HIRAMOTO, Masafumi OKADA, Hiroshi NAKAMOTO, Ken KAGABU, Ken SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220260217
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device of small light distribution angle and less leakage light and further to realize a lighting device in which the light beam is easy to control. The following is an example of the structure to meet the above purpose. A lighting device including: a light guide; LEDs set at a side surface of the light guide; a prism sheet set on a major surface of the light guide, in which a first louver which extends in a first direction and, a second louver which extends in an orthogonal direction to the first direction are superposed on the prism sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Takeo KOITO, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Masafumi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20220252934
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device of thin, low power consumption and small light distribution angle. The present invention takes the following structure to realize the above task: A lighting device comprising: a disc shaped light guide, having a main surface and a rear surface, including a first hole at a center, a disc shaped reflection sheet, disposed at the rear surface side of the light guide, including a second hole at a center, a prism sheet, disposed at the main surface side of the light guide, including a concentric first prism array, wherein a reflection mirror is set in the first hole of the light guide at the side near to the prism sheet, an LED is set opposing to the reflection mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Masafumi OKADA
  • Patent number: 11378841
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light emitting device includes a light guide plate with a plurality of first protrusion parts arranged along a first direction and extending along a second direction which crosses the first direction, and a prism sheet, wherein a cross-sectional shape of each of the first protrusion parts along the first direction has an apex angle between 55 degrees and 65 degrees, inclusive, the light guide plate includes a plurality of second protrusion parts which extend along the first direction and are arranged along the second direction, and a cross-sectional shape of each of the second protrusion parts along the second direction has a base angle between 1 degree and 3 degrees, inclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Okada, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Makoto Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11333818
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display panel configured to transmit light; and an illumination device provided on a rear surface side of the display panel. The illumination device includes a plurality of light sources configured to emit light, and a light guiding member that has translucency and is arranged between the light sources on the rear surface side of the display panel. The light guiding member has a plurality of holes each of which opens in a first direction intersecting with a rear surface of the display panel and in each of which a corresponding one of the light sources is disposed, and a light guiding portion surrounding the holes. A rear surface of the light guiding portion is provided with a first inclined surface inclined with respect to the first direction and a plane orthogonal to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Hiramoto, Masafumi Okada, Hiroshi Nakamoto, Ken Kagabu, Ken Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11294223
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device of thin, low power consumption and small light distribution angle. The present invention takes the following structure to realize the above task: A lighting device comprising: a disc shaped light guide, having a main surface and a rear surface, including a first hole at a center, a disc shaped reflection sheet, disposed at the rear surface side of the light guide, including a second hole at a center, a prism sheet, disposed at the main surface side of the light guide, including a concentric first prism array, wherein a reflection mirror is set in the first hole of the light guide at the side near to the prism sheet, an LED is set opposing to the reflection mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Masafumi Okada
  • Publication number: 20220066266
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an illuminating device includes a wiring substrate, light emitting elements, a wavelength conversion element, and a protrusion. A main surface of the wiring substrate is divided into segment areas. N light emitting elements are disposed in each of the segment areas. N is greater than 1. The light emitting elements are driven independently in units of the segment areas. The protrusion protrudes from the wiring substrate toward the wavelength conversion element between two segment areas adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi OTA, Masafumi OKADA, Toshihiro YAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220012665
    Abstract: A production loss is reduced using shop-floor data. A work instruction device includes: a storage unit configured to store shop-floor data including production performance information for each manufactured object manufactured at a manufacturing shop-floor, worker dynamics information obtained from a sensor attached to a worker at the manufacturing shop-floor, and information on an operation history of a facility at the manufacturing shop-floor; a production loss occurrence pattern extraction unit configured to analyze the shop-floor data based on a predetermined method to generate a production loss occurrence pattern; and a work instruction generation unit configured to estimate occurrence of a production loss based on a work plan for a work corresponding to a date and time, a facility, and a worker corresponding to the production loss occurrence pattern to generate work instruction information including information on a cause of the production loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Yuuichi SUGINISHI, Masafumi OKADA, Natsuhiko INAKI