Patents by Inventor Shinji Shimomura

Shinji Shimomura 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: 20240148931
    Abstract: Provided is a lighting device with an inactivation function, the lighting device allowing the addition of an inactivation function while being equal to conventional lighting devices in device size. The lighting device with the inactivation function includes: a UVC light source to emit ultraviolet light having a peak wavelength in a wavelength range from 200 nm to 230 nm; an LED light source to emit visible light; a single unit of an AC/DC converter to convert an AC voltage derived from an external power source into a DC voltage and output the DC voltage; a UVC light source-specific circuit part to convert the DC voltage output from the AC/DC converter into a voltage for lighting the UVC light source; and an LED light source-specific circuit part to convert the DC voltage output from the AC/DC converter into a current for lighting the LED light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji SHIMOMURA, Akira ISHIKURA
  • Patent number: 10724692
    Abstract: A light source unit includes a light distribution lens configured to guide light emitted from an LED disposed behind the light distribution lens, and a reflector arranged to surround the light distribution lens. Illuminance unevenness can be more suitably reduced, and effective light is not blocked even if a pinhole device is used for glare prevention, thereby avoiding illuminance unevenness and illuminance reductions. The light distribution lens has a columnar part that extends in the optical axis direction, and a conical recess is formed in the distal end of the columnar part. The conical recess is constituted by a reflective surface that fully reflects, in the circumferential direction, light incident on the light distribution lens. The reflector reflects light emitted from a cylindrical side surface of the columnar part such that the reflected light becomes converging light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukitaka Dodo, Koji Ono, Shinji Shimomura, Ichiro Shibagaki
  • Publication number: 20190072240
    Abstract: A light source unit includes a light distribution lens configured to guide light emitted from an LED disposed behind the light distribution lens, and a reflector arranged to surround the light distribution lens. Illuminance unevenness can be more suitably reduced, and effective light is not blocked even if a pinhole device is used for glare prevention, thereby avoiding illuminance unevenness and illuminance reductions. The light distribution lens has a columnar part that extends in the optical axis direction, and a conical recess is formed in the distal end of the columnar part. The conical recess is constituted by a reflective surface that fully reflects, in the circumferential direction, light incident on the light distribution lens. The reflector reflects light emitted from a cylindrical side surface of the columnar part such that the reflected light becomes converging light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukitaka DODO, Koji ONO, Shinji SHIMOMURA, Ichiro SHIBAGAKI
  • Patent number: D595444
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinji Shimomura