Patents by Inventor Masaya Shido

Masaya Shido 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: 20180270921
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a planar light-emitting structure having a substrate on which an organic EL emission element is provided, a framing member that fixes the planar light-emitting structure inside a vehicle-lamp light cabinet, and an elastic member that is interposed between the planar light-emitting structure and the framing member and that fixes the planar light-emitting structure by its biasing force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Masaya SHIDO, Yukihiro ONODA, Toru ITO, Yoshiro ITO, Haruhiko IYODA, Hironori TSUKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10018322
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp includes a lamp body, a translucent outer cover, and a planar light source including a substrate and an organic EL light emitting layer formed on one side surface of the substrate. The planar light source has a bent portion in which the substrate having flexibility is bent at a predetermined position in a portion formed with the organic EL light emitting layer such that one end portion of the substrate is directed to one of a side of the outer cover and a side opposite to the outer cover, or the planar light source is provided such that at least part of an outer peripheral end of the organic EL light emitting layer emits light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Ito, Yoshiro Ito, Masaya Shido
  • Patent number: 9982860
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp includes a lamp body, a translucent outer cover, and a planar light source including a substrate and an organic EL light emitting layer formed on one side surface of the substrate. The planar light source has a bent portion in which the substrate having flexibility is bent at a predetermined position in a portion formed with the organic EL light emitting layer such that one end portion of the substrate is directed to one of a side of the outer cover and a side opposite to the outer cover, or the planar light source is provided such that at least part of an outer peripheral end of the organic EL light emitting layer emits light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Ito, Yoshiro Ito, Masaya Shido
  • Publication number: 20170373278
    Abstract: Provided is a light emitting device disposed along a transparent member. The light emitting device includes: an organic electroluminescence panel having a translucent substrate disposed to face the transparent member, a translucent anode disposed on the substrate, an organic material layer disposed on the anode, and a non-translucent cathode disposed on the organic material layer. The organic material layer and the cathode are formed in a form of stripes. The cathode is formed wider than the organic material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Tomoaki Harada, Masaya Shido, Yoshiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20170328960
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle lamp including: an organic EL element; and a lighting circuit that applies a voltage to the organic EL device with a rise time of the voltage of 5 milliseconds or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Tomoaki Harada, Masaya Shido, Osamu Kuboyama, Yoshiro Ito, Toru Ito
  • Publication number: 20170292672
    Abstract: Provided is a light source device including: a planar light source provided with a light emitting curved surface; and an optical member that directs light from the light emitting curved surface toward a light emitting elongated region forming an angle with the light emitting curved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Masaya Shido
  • Publication number: 20170292673
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicular lamp including an organic EL element that has only a non-light emitting point with a size of 120 ?m or less on a light emitting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Toru Ito, Masaya Shido, Yoshiro Ito, Yasutaka Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9776555
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp includes a planar light emitting member having an organic EL light emitting portion at part of a substrate, and a reflecting member and a half mirror that are disposed so as to face each other so that light emitted from the organic EL light emitting portion is reflected repeatedly while allowing part of the light to be transmitted to the front.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunio Fukai, Yukihiro Onoda, Masaya Shido, Haruhiko Iyoda, Asami Nakada
  • Patent number: 9752759
    Abstract: A lamp unit has an organic EL panel in which an organic EL light emission portion is formed on a substrate, the organic EL panel being flexible, and a frame that fixes the light emission device so as to cover a light emission area of the organic EL, panel. The frame has a window or a transparent portion at least in a part of a portion, overlapping the light emission area, of the frame. The frame is formed with recess portions at both ends thereof to house both end portions of the organic EL panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Ito, Haruhiko Iyoda, Hironori Tsukamoto, Masaya Shido, Yoshiro Ito, Yukihiro Onoda
  • Patent number: 9723686
    Abstract: A light emission device includes an organic EL panel and a molding resin. In the organic EL panel, an organic EL light emission portion is formed on a substrate. The organic EL panel is flexible. The molding resin shapes the organic EL panel so that the organic EL panel is in a curved state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Ito, Haruhiko Iyoda, Hironori Tsukamoto, Masaya Shido, Yoshiro Ito, Yukihiro Onoda
  • Patent number: 9688182
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a lamp housing having an opening and a cover attached to the lamp housing and closing the opening to form a lamp chamber, and a lamp unit disposed in an interior of the lamp chamber and including a light source having a plurality of planar light emitting bodies. An outer peripheral portion of each of the planar light emitting bodies is a non-light emitting region, and a portion inside the non-light emitting region of each of the planar light emitting bodies is a light emitting region. At least a portion of the non-light emitting region is formed to be transparent. The transparent portion of the non-light emitting region of the planar light emitting bodies and an outer end portion of the light emitting region of other planar light emitting bodies are superimposed to each other in a thickness direction of the planar light emitting bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruhiko Iyoda, Masaya Shido, Toru Ito, Yukihiro Onoda
  • Publication number: 20170159905
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicular marker lamp including a planar light emitter; and a lens including an incident portion formed on a surface facing the planar light emitter. A plurality of cross-sectionally triangular prisms are arranged in the incident portion in a state where the vertexes of triangular prisms face the planar light emitter side. Each of the prisms includes an incident surface formed on one surface in the arrangement direction to make a light from the planar light emitter is incident and a light-shielding portion formed on a surface opposite to the incident surface to shield incidence of the light from the planar light emitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Masaya Shido, Toru Ito
  • Patent number: 9649976
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle lamp that includes a first light emission unit and a second light emission unit including an organic EL element as a light source. The second light emission unit is turned on at a tail lamp on time. Both the first light emission unit and the second light emission unit are turned on at a stop lamp on time. The vehicle lamp further includes a light reduction unit configured to make light intensity of the second light emission unit at the stop lamp on time become lower than that at the tail lamp on time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruhiko Iyoda, Masaya Shido, Yoshiro Ito, Toru Ito
  • Publication number: 20170133348
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a light emitting device using an organic EL. The light emitting device includes an organic EL panel where a plurality of light emitting parts is arranged toward a predetermined direction. The plurality of light emitting parts is configured such that brightness is decreased gradually toward the predetermined direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Shido, Toru Ito, Koji Magori, Yoshiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20160320027
    Abstract: A lamp unit has an organic EL panel in which an organic EL light emission portion is formed on a substrate, the organic EL panel being flexible, and a frame that fixes the light emission device so as to cover a light emission area of the organic EL, panel. The frame has a window or a transparent portion at least in a part of a portion, overlapping the light emission area, of the frame. The frame is formed with recess portions at both ends thereof to house both end portions of the organic EL panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Ito, Haruhiko Iyoda, Hironori Tsukamoto, Masaya Shido, Yoshiro Ito, Yukihiro Onoda
  • Patent number: 9472775
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent panel is provided. The organic electroluminescent panel includes a substrate made of glass or transparent resin, a light emitting portion provided along a peripheral edge of the substrate, and a metal electrode. The light emitting portion comprises a cathode layer, a transparent conductive film having an extension portion, the extension portion extending toward an outer peripheral portion of the substrate and contacting the metal electrode, and an organic light emitting layer provided between the cathode layer and the transparent conductive film. The metal electrode is provided on the outer peripheral portion of the substrate to serve as an anode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Shido, Toru Ito
  • Publication number: 20160290586
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a planar light-emitting structure having a substrate on which an organic EL emission element is provided, a framing member that fixes the planar light-emitting structure inside a vehicle-lamp light cabinet, and an elastic member that is interposed between the planar light-emitting structure and the framing member and that fixes the planar light-emitting structure by its biasing force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Masaya SHIDO, Yukihiro ONODA, Toru ITO, Yoshiro ITO, Haruhiko IYODA, Hironori TSUKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160288702
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle lamp that includes a first light emission unit and a second light emission unit including an organic EL element as a light source. The second light emission unit is turned on at a tail lamp on time. Both the first light emission unit and the second light emission unit are turned on at a stop lamp on time. The vehicle lamp further includes a light reduction unit configured to make light intensity of the second light emission unit at the stop lamp on time become lower than that at the tail lamp on time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Haruhiko Iyoda, Masaya Shido, Yoshiro Ito, Toru Ito
  • Publication number: 20160102833
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a planar light emitting body configured to emit light in a planar shape, and a transparent member configured to control the light from the planar light emitting body. The transparent member has a light incidence surface arranged so as to face a light emitting surface of the planar light emitting body and configured to cause the light from the planar light emitting body to be incident on the transparent member and a light emission surface configured to emit, to the outside, the light which is propagated in the transparent member. The transparent member is formed so as to extend in a predetermined direction and formed such that a distance between the light incidence surface and the light emission surface changes in accordance with a position in the predetermined direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru ITO, Masaya SHIDO, Takayuki OTSUBO
  • Publication number: 20160061397
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp includes a lamp body, a translucent outer cover, and a planar light source including a substrate and an organic EL light emitting layer formed on one side surface of the substrate. The planar light source has a bent portion in which the substrate having flexibility is bent at a predetermined position in a portion formed with the organic EL light emitting layer such that one end portion of the substrate is directed to one of a side of the outer cover and a side opposite to the outer cover, or the planar light source is provided such that at least part of an outer peripheral end of the organic EL light emitting layer emits light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru ITO, Yoshiro ITO, Masaya SHIDO