Patents by Inventor Shinichi Kumashiro
Shinichi Kumashiro 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).
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Patent number: 9706608Abstract: A straight tube LED lamp includes: a straight tube in which a plurality of light emitting diodes is housed; a first cap for forming a power feeding connection to the plurality of light emitting diodes, provided on one axial direction end side of the straight tube; and a second cap for grounding, provided on another axial direction end side of the straight tube. A first terminal for forming an electrical connection to a power feeding terminal of a first lamp socket is provided in the first cap. A second terminal for forming an electrical connection to a grounding terminal of a second lamp socket is provided in the second cap.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2011Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignees: PANASONIC CORPORATION, TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Fukano, Nobumichi Nishihama, Tadashi Yamanaka, Fumihiko Masuko, Takeshi Saito, Hiroki Nakagawa, Masanao Hieda, Kenichi Ito, Naoki Sugishita, Keisuke Ono, Keiichi Shimizu, Shinichi Kumashiro, Takeshi Osada
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Patent number: 9410685Abstract: A lighting apparatus including a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted on a first surface of a substrate, a heat conducting layer disposed on a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface, and one or more holes extending from the first surface to the second surface of the substrate. A heat conductive and electrically non-conducting material covers an inner surface of the one or more holes, and is thermally connected to the heat conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Patent number: 9303855Abstract: A lighting apparatus including at least one light-emitting element mounted on a first surface of a substrate, a heat conducting layer disposed on a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface, and one or more holes extending from the first surface to the second surface of the substrate. A heat conductive and electrically non-conducting material covers an inner surface of the one or more holes, and is thermally connected to the heat conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Patent number: 9279575Abstract: A substrate having a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted thereon is described. The substrate may be mounted in a lighting apparatus and may include a surface on which the plurality of light-emitting elements are mounted and one or more holes through which heat may be conducted from the first surface to another surface of the substrate. For example, a heat conductive and electrically non-conductive material may cover a surface of the one or more holes. According to some arrangements, the surface of the substrate may include an electrically non-conductive layer and an electrically conductive layer such that the electrically non-conductive layer is electrically isolated or separated from the electrically conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Lighting & Technology CorporationInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Patent number: 8901848Abstract: The present invention comprises a lighting apparatus main body having a reflecting surface, a main light source arranged in the reflecting surface of the lighting apparatus main body, a sub-light source which is arranged at the lighting apparatus main body and illuminates the neighborhood of the main light source directly, and a control circuit which controls the main light source and the sub-light source. Since the lighting apparatus illuminates downward with a direct illumination of the main light source and an indirect illumination of the sub-light source, the glare of the main light source is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2009Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hiroaki Watanabe, Keiichi Shimizu, Kozo Ogawa, Erika Takenaka, Akimichi Takahashi, Shinji Nogi, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Publication number: 20140167645Abstract: A lighting apparatus (L) includes: a light source section that includes two or more kinds of plural LEDs having different emission colors as light sources; a storage section that stores light color characteristic information that indicates the relation between a light color of an illumination light that is generable by the light source section and an output of each LED; a transmission section through which a light color control command for designating the light color of the illumination light is input; and a control section that converts the light color control command into output information of each LED on the basis of the light color characteristic information, and controls an output level of each LED on the basis of the output information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Junko Takahashi, Kenji Takahashi, Hitoshi Kawano, Shinichi Kumashiro, Hisashi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20140169004Abstract: A lamp device includes a semiconductor light-emitting element. The lamp device includes a housing including a heat conductive part, and the heat conductive part is thermally connected to an external thermal radiator. Heat generated by the semiconductor light-emitting element is conducted to the thermal radiator through the heat conductive part. A thermosensor is thermally connected to the heat conductive part. The lamp device includes a lighting circuit to light the semiconductor light-emitting element, and the lighting circuit controls an output of the semiconductor light-emitting element according to detection of the thermosensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2011Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromichi Nakajima, Shinichiro Matsumoto, Masahiko Kamata, Yuichiro Takahara, Hiroshi Matsushita, Shinichi Kumashiro, Shigeru Osawa
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Publication number: 20140133167Abstract: A substrate having a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted thereon is described. The substrate may be mounted in a lighting apparatus and may include a surface on which the plurality of light-emitting elements are mounted and one or more holes through which heat may be conducted from the first surface to another surface of the substrate. For example, a heat conductive and electrically non-conducting material may cover a surface of the one or more holes. According to some arrangements, the surface of the substrate may include an electrically non-conducting layer and an electrically conductive layer such that the electrically non-conducting layer is electrically isolated or separated from the electrically conductive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2014Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicants: TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Publication number: 20140133165Abstract: A substrate having a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted thereon is described. The substrate may be mounted in a lighting apparatus and may include a surface on which the plurality of light-emitting elements are mounted and one or more holes through which heat may be conducted from the first surface to another surface of the substrate. For example, a heat conductive and electrically non-conductive material may cover a surface of the one or more holes. According to some arrangements, the surface of the substrate may include an electrically non-conductive layer and an electrically conductive layer such that the electrically non-conductive layer is electrically isolated or separated from the electrically conductive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2014Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicants: TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Publication number: 20140133166Abstract: A substrate having a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted thereon is described. The substrate may be mounted in a lighting apparatus and may include a surface on which the plurality of light-emitting elements are mounted and one or more holes through which heat may be conducted from the first surface to another surface of the substrate. For example, a heat conductive and electrically non-conductive material may cover a surface of the one or more holes. According to some arrangements, the surface of the substrate may include an electrically non-conductive layer and an electrically conductive layer such that the electrically non-conductive layer is electrically isolated or separated from the electrically conductive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2014Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicants: Toshiba Lighting & Technology CorporationInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Patent number: 8710746Abstract: In the lighting control device according to the exemplary embodiment, the detection section detects the presence or absence of a person in a lighting area and a movement speed of a person, based on an image data of the lighting area that is lighted by a light source of a plurality of lighting apparatuses and is acquired from an imaging device. A decision section decides whether each of division areas is a stay area or a non-stay area based on the movement speed of a person detected by the detection section. A lighting control section performs different lighting controls on the lighting apparatus of the division area decided as the stay area by the decision section and the lighting apparatus of the division area decided as the non-stay area.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Toshiba Lighting & Technology CorporationInventors: Toshiaki Takahashi, Yasushi Morimoto, Kenji Takahashi, Yukio Ishida, Hitoshi Kawano, Shinichi Kumashiro, Sayaka Kikuta
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Patent number: 8668355Abstract: A substrate having a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted thereon is described. The substrate may be mounted in a lighting apparatus and may include a surface on which the plurality of light-emitting elements are mounted and one or more holes through which heat may be conducted from the first surface to another surface of the substrate. For example, a heat conductive and electrically non-conductive material may cover a surface of the one or more holes. According to some arrangements, the surface of the substrate may include an electrically non-conductive layer and an electrically conductive layer such that the electrically non-conductive layer is electrically isolated or separated from the electrically conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2012Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignees: Toshiba Lightning & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Publication number: 20140055040Abstract: A lighting control system according to the embodiment includes a plurality of lighting fixtures, a lighting control unit, and an access point. The plurality of lighting fixtures are arranged in a lighting area. The lighting control unit is configured so as to control the lighting fixture. The access point transmits a layout chart of a different lighting area depending on an installation position of the access point.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: Toshiba Lighting & Technology CorporationInventors: Hidenori Nishigaki, Kenji Takahashi, Junko Takahashi, Hitoshi Kawano, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Publication number: 20140015417Abstract: In an embodiment, a lighting control system includes a plurality of lighting apparatuses and a central control device. In an embodiment, the central control device controls lighting states of the plurality of lighting apparatuses, based on a first illumination which is an illumination of an irradiated surface irradiated by the plurality of lighting apparatuses, and a second illumination which is an illumination at a certain measurement point in a lighting space irradiated by light sources of the plurality of lighting apparatuses and is formed by a reflected light of light emitted by the lighting apparatuses.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: Toshiba Lighting & Technology CorporationInventors: Naoko Iwai, Keiichi Shimizu, Makoto Kawagoe, Toshihiko Sasai, Hiroyuki Kudo, Tomoko Ishiwata, Toshitake Kitagawa, Hitoshi Kawano, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Publication number: 20130271030Abstract: According to one embodiment, a road lamp system includes a light-emitting section configured to irradiate light and an image pickup section. A power supply section operates as a driving power supply for the light-emitting section and performs power line communication with an external management apparatus. A road-lamp control section receives a control signal from the management apparatus via the power supply section and controls the light-emitting section on the basis of the control signal. A camera control section receives the control signal and determines, on the basis of image information transmitted from the image pickup section, whether a control operation instructed by the received control signal is executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2013Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenori Nishigaki, Kenji Takahashi, Hitoshi Kawano, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Patent number: 8556460Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a substrate having a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted thereto. The substrate includes a surface on which a plurality of light-emitting elements are mounted and stress absorbing elements arranged on imaginary straight lines connecting portions for mounting the substrate with each other. The lighting apparatus includes a main body in contact with and fixed to a back surface of the substrate. The lighting apparatus also includes a light directing member in contact with a front surface of the substrate, a plurality of openings into which the plurality of light-emitting elements of the substrate are inserted, and a plurality of reflective surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2009Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Patent number: 8556458Abstract: According to one embodiment, a power source unit includes a substrate and a reflective body. The substrate includes a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted thereon. The reflective body includes a plurality of incident openings each corresponding to one of the plurality of light-emitting elements, an output opening to which light that has passed through the incident opening is output, and a plurality of reflective surfaces that expand from the incident opening toward the output opening. Reflective surfaces included in the plurality of reflective surfaces and positioned on an outermost side are provided to be adjacent to one another, and an angle is set so as to prevent reflective light of light emitted from the light-emitting elements from traveling toward an outer side in a reflective surface formed on the outer side.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2010Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazunari Higuchi, Takayoshi Moriyama, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Patent number: 8545051Abstract: A substrate for a lighting apparatus includes one or more light-emitting elements mounted thereon. The substrate includes a surface on which the plurality of light-emitting elements are mounted. Additionally, the substrate includes heat conductive elements for conducting heat from the one or more light-emitting elements, the heat conductive elements including heat conductive holes extending through a non-electrically conducting layer formed on a first surface of the substrate and an entirety of the substrate and a heat conductive layer formed on a surface of the substrate opposite the first surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2012Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Publication number: 20130241439Abstract: A lighting control system includes a plurality of lighting fixtures for ambient lighting, a plurality of lighting fixtures for task lighting, and a smart phone of a worker. The smart phone can execute an application program which controls a corresponding lighting fixture for ambient lighting, and starts up the application program when an ON state of a lighting fixture for task lighting is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: Toshiba Lighting & Technology CorporationInventors: Hidenori Nishigaki, Junko Takahashi, Hitoshi Kawano, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Patent number: 8500298Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lighting fixture includes a fixture body and a plurality of light-emitting modules. A plurality of light-emitting module arrangement portions are formed on the surface of the fixture body. The light-emitting modules are arranged on the light-emitting module arrangement portions of the fixture body and annularly arranged so that a space is formed at the center area of the fixture body. Semiconductor light-emitting elements are disposed on the surface of the light-emitting module, and a wiring connector is arranged at the space side of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kozo Ogawa, Kazunari Higuchi, Shigetoshi Komiyama, Takayoshi Moriyama, Shinichi Kumashiro