Patents by Inventor Yuzo Tamura

Yuzo Tamura 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: 5085495
    Abstract: A support member for supporting a plurality of vertically-arranged Fresnel sheets is fixedly mounted on a lower end portion of a reinforcing sheet. A hanging mechanism hangs the reinforcement sheet and the Fresnel sheets vertically adjustably. An elongated screen is constituted by a plurality of vertically-arranged unit screens, and the overall screen is constituted by a plurality of elongated screens arranged horizontally. A mechanism for preventing the relative displacement of the opposed edges of the elongated screens from each other in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the elongated screen is provided at an effective projection light-absent region where the light projected from projectors onto the screen is not hindered. A mechanism for limiting the absolute displacement of the elongated screens in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the elongated screen is provided at the right and left edges of the elongated screens and is disposed at the effective projection light-absent region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1992
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Iwahara, Masanori Ogino, Masutomi Ohta, Shoji Kuroda, Yuzo Tamura, Yukihiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5011277
    Abstract: Unit projectors whose number is n.times.m are arranged in n rows and m columns like a matrix. Unit screens whose number is n.times.m are arranged so that they as a whole form an enormous transmissive screen. Each unit screen is composed of the three layers of a front sheet on a Fresnel sheet on a re-inforcing sheet facing an observer. A front sheet is provided with the shape having a one-dimensional curvature which causes the peripheries of the front sheet and a re-inforcing sheet to be apart from each other when the center of the front sheet is brought in touch with that of the re-inforcing sheet in the unloaded state. Wires smaller in diameter than the pixel size are connected to the left and right sides of the front sheet, springs provide the wires with tension with support members as their support, and the force of the springs is thus provided by way of the wires for the front sheet so that the left and right sides of the front sheet are pressed on the re-inforcing sheet by way of the Fresnel sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Ogino, Yoshiaki Iwahara, Yuzo Tamura, Shoji Kuroda
  • Patent number: 4969731
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel type projection display wherein exit light rays from at least one liquid crystal panel are projected onto a screen for display. Lenses are configured with respect to the liquid crystal panel and the screen so as to enable a large projection field angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1990
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Ogino, Yoshiaki Iwahara, Yuzo Tamura
  • Patent number: 4919518
    Abstract: A multi-screen projector composed of a plurality of unit module projectors piled up one upon another in the vertical direction. Each unit module projector includes a Fresnel lens sheet, lenticular sheet, and prism sheet interposed therebetween such that a light is incident to the Fresnel lens sheet and outputted from the lenticular sheet. The prism angle of the prism sheet of the unit module projector disposed at a higher position is set larger than that disposed at a lower position, and the main output light from the prism sheet is made at least parallel with the incident light direction or deflected downward relative to the incident light direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Ogino, Hiroshi Kaiwa, Yoshiaki Iwahara, Yuzo Tamura, Akio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 4895429
    Abstract: A rear projection apparatus is disclosed which is provided with at least two optical projection lens units. Two or more projected images are joined to form a single projected image on a screen. A light reflection preventing member is provided on a blocking plate for preventing the adjacent images from overlapping with each other. The reflection preventing member is used for preventing the light, projected onto the blocking plate, from being introduced into the screen, thereby preventing a degradation of contrast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1990
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Iwahara, Masanori Oguino, Yuzo Tamura