Patents by Inventor Yoshio Toriyama

Yoshio Toriyama 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: 8537300
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel unit and a backlight unit which radiates light toward the display panel. The display panel unit includes a display panel on an upper surface of a box-shaped panel housing which has first projecting portions on side walls of the housing. The backlight unit incorporates a light source in a bottom portion of a box-shaped light source housing which has second projecting portions on side walls of the light source housing. By bringing the first projecting portions and second projecting portions into contact with each other, a distance between the light source of the backlight unit and the display panel can be held. Further, by forming third projecting portions which project further than the first projecting portions on the panel housing, handling of the display panel unit is facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Toriyama, Shinji Shimizu, Akio Tezuka, Masafumi Nagaoka
  • Publication number: 20120105760
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided, where dust can be prevented from entering into the display device and the quality of the display can be prevented from lowering even in the case where a fan in the main body of the equipment blows air against the rear surface of the display device. The display device having a liquid crystal panel and a backlight illuminating the liquid crystal panel that are integrated with an upper frame that covers a periphery of the front surface of the liquid crystal panel and sides of the backlight is characterized in that a cable for supplying power to a light source provided inside the backlight is led out between a side of the backlight (side mold) and the upper frame, and a portion through which the cable is led out is covered by a sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshio TORIYAMA, Tetsuya Enomoto
  • Patent number: 8009244
    Abstract: Plural light-emitting diodes are disposed in an on-line arrangement on a surface a circuit board facing an optical guide and spacers having a projecting dimension larger than the projecting dimension of this light-emitting diode from the surface are disposed adjacent to the light-emitting diode on the surface of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Toriyama, Norihisa Fukayama, Saburo Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20100201907
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel unit and a backlight unit which radiates light toward the display panel. The display panel unit includes a display panel on an upper surface of a box-shaped panel housing which has first projecting portions on side walls of the housing. The backlight unit incorporates a light source in a bottom portion of a box-shaped light source housing which has second projecting portions on side walls of the light source housing. By bringing the first projecting portions and second projecting portions into contact with each other, a distance between the light source of the backlight unit and the display panel can be held. Further, by forming third projecting portions which project further than the first projecting portions on the panel housing, handling of the display panel unit is facilitated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventors: Yoshio TORIYAMA, Shinji Shimizu, Akio Tezuka, Masafumi Nagaoka
  • Publication number: 20080088763
    Abstract: Plural light-emitting diodes are disposed in an on-line arrangement on a surface a circuit board facing an optical guide and spacers having a projecting dimension larger than the projecting dimension of this light-emitting diode from the surface are disposed adjacent to the light-emitting diode on the surface of the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Yoshio Toriyama, Norihisa Fukayama, Saburo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6411359
    Abstract: A frame area of a liquid crystal display device is reduced by improving the layouts of extraction lines DTM of drain wiring of a TFT liquid crystal display device, a driving IC of the TFT liquid crystal display device and a flexible board FPC2 for a drain driving circuit of the TFT liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kengo Kobayashi, Kaoru Hasegawa, Katsuhiko Yarita, Yoshio Toriyama
  • Patent number: 6411353
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display element having a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a pair of upper and lower substrates, a flexible circuit board disposed around a periphery of the liquid crystal display element, an illuminating light source having a line light source, a light guide and a reflector and disposed behind the liquid crystal display element, a metal upper case having a sidewall bent back and a display window, a resin lower case for housing the illuminating light source. The upper and lower cases are clamped by crimping plural nails formed in the sidewall of the upper case at an outer surface of the lower case after stacking the liquid crystal display element, the flexible circuit board and the illuminating light source between the upper and lower cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Yarita, Kaoru Hasegawa, Kengo Kobayashi, Yoshio Toriyama
  • Patent number: 5946062
    Abstract: Herein disclosed are a liquid crystal display device and a data processing device, which can have their frame portions reduced in area to reduce the size and weight by extracting the terminals of video signals to only one side of a liquid crystal display panel and by arranging a video signal line driving circuit substrate to be connected with the terminals, only at one side of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hasegawa, Yoshio Toriyama, Naoto Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Yarita, Hironori Kondo, Masahiko Suzuki, Yoshihiro Imajo
  • Patent number: 5815224
    Abstract: Herein disclosed are a liquid crystal display device and a data processing device, which can have their frame portions reduced in area to reduce the size and weight by extracting the terminals of video signals to only one side of a liquid crystal display panel and by arranging a video signal line driving circuit substrate to be connected with the terminals, only at one side of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hasegawa, Yoshio Toriyama, Naoto Kobayashi, katsuhiko Yarita, Hironori Kondo, Masahiko Suzuki, Yoshihiro Imajo
  • Patent number: 5805249
    Abstract: Herein disclosed are a liquid crystal display device and a data processing device, which can have their frame portions reduced in area to reduce the size and weight by extracting the terminals of video signals to only one side of a liquid crystal display panel and by arranging a video signal line driving circuit substrate to be connected with the terminals, only at one side of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hasegawa, Yoshio Toriyama, Naoto Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Yarita, Hironori Kondo, Masahiko Suzuki, Yoshihiro Imajo
  • Patent number: 5684550
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device in which a back light is arranged below a liquid crystal display panel having a plurality of pixels arrayed on a transparent substrate surface and in which a prism plate having a plurality of stripe grooves arrayed in parallel is arranged between the liquid crystal display panel and the back light. If the stripe grooves has a pitch .lambda..sub.1 (mm) and if the pixels in parallel with the stripe grooves has a pitch .lambda..sub.2 (mm), the liquid crystal display device is constructed to satisfy a relation of .lambda..sub.1 .ltoreq.0.075.lambda..sub.2 /(.lambda..sub.2 +0.075). This construction can increase the brightness of the back light and prevent the interference fringes from being formed on the display frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Shibata, Yoshio Toriyama, Naoto Kobayashi, Shiro Ueda
  • Patent number: 5648858
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device in which a back light is arranged below a liquid crystal display panel having a plurality of pixels arrayed on a transparent substrate surface and in which a prism plate having a plurality of stripe grooves arrayed in parallel is arranged between the liquid crystal display panel and the back light. If the stripe grooves has a pitch .lambda..sub.1 (mm) and if the pixels in parallel with the stripe grooves has a pitch .lambda..sub.2 (mm), the liquid crystal display device is constructed to satisfy a relation of .lambda..sub.1 .ltoreq.0.075.lambda..sub.2 /(.lambda..sub.2 +0.075). This construction can increase the brightness of the back light and prevent the interference fringes from being formed on the display frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Shibata, Yoshio Toriyama, Naoto Kobayashi, Shiro Ueda
  • Patent number: 5640216
    Abstract: Herein disclosed are a liquid crystal display device and a data processing device, which can have their frame portions reduced in area to reduce the size and weight by extracting the terminals of video signals to only one side of a liquid crystal display panel and by arranging a video signal line driving circuit substrate to be connected with the terminals, only at one side of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hasegawa, Yoshio Toriyama, Naoto Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Yarita, Hironori Kondo, Masahiko Suzuki, Yoshihiro Imajo
  • Patent number: RE40130
    Abstract: Herein disclosed are a liquid crystal display device and a data processing device, which can have their frame portions reduced in area to reduce the size and weight by extracting the terminals of video signals to only one side of a liquid crystal display panel and by arranging a video signal line driving circuit substrate to be connected with the terminals, only at one side of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hasegawa, Yoshio Toriyama, Naoto Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Yarita, Hironori Kondo, Masahiko Suzuki, Yoshihiro Imajo
  • Patent number: RE38516
    Abstract: Herein disclosed are a liquid crystal display device and a data processing device, which can have their frame portions reduced in area to reduce the size and weight by extracting the terminals of video signals to only one side of a liquid crystal display panel and by arranging a video signal line driving circuit substrate to be connected with the terminals, only at one side of the display panel. A liquid crystal display includes upper and lower casings for holding a liquid crystal display panel and substrates. The casings are provided with at least one of fixing pawls and recesses for receiving the fixing pawls so as to enable the connection of the casings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hasegawa, Yoshio Toriyama, Naoto Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Yarita, Hironori Kondo, Masahiko Suzuki, Yoshihiro Imajo
  • Patent number: RE41305
    Abstract: Herein disclosed are a liquid crystal display device and a data processing device, which can have their frame portions reduced in area to reduce the size and weight by extracting the terminals of video signals to only one side of a liquid crystal display panel and by arranging a video signal line driving circuit substrate to be connected with the terminals, only at one side of the display panel. A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a light guide plate, a fluorescent tube, and a lamp reflector. First and second lamp cables of different length are connected to the fluorescent tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hasegawa, Yoshio Toriyama, Naoto Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Yarita, Hironori Kondo, Masahiko Suzuki, Yoshihiro Imajo
  • Patent number: RE41306
    Abstract: Herein disclosed are a liquid crystal display device and a data processing device, which can have their frame portions reduced in area to reduce the size and weight by extracting the terminals of video signals to only one side of a liquid crystal display panel and by arranging a video signal line driving circuit substrate to be connected with the terminals, only at one side of the display panel. A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a light guide plate, a fluorescent tube, and a lamp reflector. First and second lamp cables of different length are connected to the fluorescent tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hasegawa, Yoshio Toriyama, Naoto Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Yarita, Hironori Kondo, Masahiko Suzuki, Yoshihiro Imajo
  • Patent number: RE41732
    Abstract: Herein disclosed are a liquid crystal display device and a data processing device, which can have their frame portions reduced in area to reduce the size and weight by extracting the terminals of video signals to only one side of a liquid crystal display panel and by arranging a video signal line driving circuit substrate to be connected with the terminals, only at one side of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koaru Hasegawa, Yoshio Toriyama, Naoto Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Yarita, Hironori Kondo, Masahiko Suzuki, Yoshihiro Imajo