Patents by Inventor Shozo Aono

Shozo Aono 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: 6509938
    Abstract: A light source, a color separator, a plurality of liquid crystal panels, a polarizing plate, a color synthesizing optical unit, and a projecting lens are disposed. The color synthesizing optical unit includes an X prism, a bonding base, a panel retaining member, and a panel installing member. The panel retaining member is fixed on the bonding base. The liquid crystal panels and the polarizing plate are installed on the panel installing member. The panel installing member can be separated from the panel retaining member. By this configuration, deviation of the convergence can be prevented with respect to the liquid crystal panels. Further, in practical use, it is easy to replace or repair the liquid crystal panel or the polarizing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiro Okada, Shozo Aono, Masanari Hashimukai
  • Publication number: 20020015115
    Abstract: A light source, a color separator, a plurality of liquid crystal panels, a polarizing plate, a color synthesizing optical unit, and a projecting lens are disposed. The color synthesizing optical unit includes an x prism, a bonding base, a panel retaining member, and a panel installing member. The panel retaining member is fixed on the bonding base. The liquid crystal panels and the polarizing plate are installed on the panel installing member. The panel installing member can be separated from the panel retaining member. By this configuration, deviation of the convergence can be prevented with respect to the liquid crystal panels. Further, in practical use, it is easy to replace or repair the liquid crystal panel or the polarizing plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventors: Takehiro Okada, Shozo Aono, Masanari Hashimukai
  • Patent number: 5993008
    Abstract: A front liquid crystal display projector includes a housing having an exhaust port and a projection opening, an optical block, installed in the housing, having a light source, a reflection mirror, a light separator, an image display unit using liquid crystal, an image combining unit, a projection lens, and an exhaust fan installed between the light source and the exhaust port. The reflection mirror changes the direction of the light from the light source, and the projection lens and the light source are disposed parallel to each other. The exhaust port and the projection opening are provided at a first side of the housing. An image formed by the optical block is projected from the first side and from the projection opening, and air in the housing is discharged from the exhaust port and also from the first side. In addition, the exhaust port prevents stray light from the light source, which exits the exhaust port, from overlapping the image projected from the projection opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanari Hashimukai, Takehiro Okada, Shozo Aono, Makoto Hoshino
  • Patent number: 5895110
    Abstract: A nut 13 is provided on a holding board 9 of a barrel 8 housing a projection lens. At both sides of a holding base 11 are supporting plates 12 having a stepping shape for presenting a sliding gap, and the holding board 9 is inserted in the sliding gap. At an upper corner of the holding base 11 is a pivot pedestal 14, and a shift rod 15 is attached revolvable to the pivot pedestal 14, the shift rod 15 having a screw portion 16 that engage with the nut 13. The projection lens moves up and down driven via nut 13 by revolution of the shift rod 15, for the height adjustment of projection lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiro Okada, Shozo Aono, Masanari Hashimukai, Makoto Hoshino, Takanobu Taniyama
  • Patent number: 5868483
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display projector comprising a light source, a group of mirrors, liquid crystal display devices, a projection lens, a main body containing the light source, group of mirrors, liquid crystal display devices and projection lens, and a mechanism whereby the projection lens is allowed to retract into and protrude from the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiro Okada, Shozo Aono, Masanari Hashimukai, Makoto Hoshino
  • Patent number: 5280253
    Abstract: A microwave circuit includes a concentric-circle-like prominence (7) formed on a contact surface which is on the side of a metal body (3) serving as an external conductor of a coaxial line and which connects a conductor strip (1) of an MSL formed on a dielectric substrate (2) to an internal conductor of the coaxial line through a through-hole (9) extending from a ground plane (11) of the MSL through the dielectric substrate (2). The construction involves no mismatched portion and can prevent a loss and deterioration in VSWR in the coaxial-line/MSL conversion section, thereby making it possible to obtain satisfactory characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito Deki, Yukiro Kashima, Kazuyoshi Nishioka, Shozo Aono, Akira Kinoshita, Yasufumi Siomi