Patents Assigned to CCS, Inc.
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Patent number: 11761900Abstract: A light projecting device comprises a flat light guide plate and a light source that introduces light into the light guide plate from a side peripheral surface thereof. A plurality of concave parts are formed on one plate surface of the light guide plate, and the light entering the light guide plate reflects off the concave parts while spreading out, and the light is emitted outside from the other plate surface of the light guide plate. Each concave part is formed by a smooth concave curved surface. A tangential angle that is an angle between a tangential line at an opening edge of the concave part and the plate surface is set to be ?50° and ?85° in a cross-sectional shape of the concave part cut by a plane that is both perpendicular to the plate surface and passing through the center of the concave part.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: CCS INC.Inventor: Norihisa Yoshimura
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Patent number: 11719418Abstract: A back panel for a lighting device includes a front panel holding portion, the front panel holding portion has a configuration capable of setting a size of a gap between a front panel held by the front panel holding portion and a panel main body to an arbitrary size.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: CCS INC.Inventors: Takuzo Togawa, Takahiko Koyama
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Patent number: 11337285Abstract: An OLED driving system and an OLED driving method according to the present invention include: storing usage information representing an accumulated actual usage time of an OLED lighting device with respect to each of a plurality of electric current ranges different from one another in a usage information storage part; updating the accumulated actual usage time by adding an actual usage time of the OLED lighting device to the accumulated actual usage time stored in the usage information storage part and represented as the usage information with respect to a specific electric current range corresponding to an electric current value of an electric power output to the OLED lighting device; and storing the updated accumulated actual usage time.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: CCS INC.Inventor: Toshiyuki Toyofuku
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Patent number: 11337307Abstract: To provide a highly reliable lighting-emitting device that hardly causes defects in case a wiring board is bent, while realizing high brightness by increasing a mounting density of surface-mounted LEDs on a wiring board that is rounded into a truncated cone shape or a cylinder shape, the light-emitting device comprises: the wiring board, a plurality of sets of pads arranged in a line along a circumferential direction of the wiring board, and a plurality of surface-mounted LEDs respectively fixed to the pads. The device satisfies y??1.04x+1.80, where (L) is a length of the circumference of the wiring board with the pads, (y) (y=s/L) is a ratio of a total sum (s) of the lengths in the circumferential direction of the pads relative to the circumferential length (L), and (x) is a curvature of the wiring board where the pads are arranged.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: CCS INC.Inventors: Takahiko Koyama, Takashi Osawa
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Patent number: 11252804Abstract: An OLED driving device includes an overdrive controller (ODC) which executes an overdrive of applying to an OLED an electric current larger than a rated electric current for the OLED for a predetermined period (period for the overdrive) to cause the OLED to emit brighter light for the predetermined period than at the rated electric current for the OLED for light emitting. The controller (ODC) executes a PWM control to the electric current flowing to the OLED for the predetermined period, and sets a PWM signal in the predetermined period so that at least one pulse of a pulse before the OLED starts the light emitting and a pulse at a just time when the OLED starts the light emitting has a width larger than a width of a pulse after the OLED starts the light emitting.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: CCS INC.Inventor: Hidekazu Takagi
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Patent number: 10605437Abstract: In order to make it possible to image the surface of a workpiece from a plurality of directions without reducing the amount of light to be projected to the workpiece, a light projection device having light emitting surfaces opposite to the workpiece and formed with a slit allowing light reflected by the workpiece to pass from the light emitting surface side toward an opposite side thereof is adapted such that the slit is formed in a tapered shape whose width gradually increases from the light emitting surface side toward the opposite side.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: CCS INC.Inventors: Motonao Yagi, Atsushi Miyatake
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Patent number: 10390403Abstract: In order that a power supply device capable of identifying the type of a connected LED light output device and outputting voltage or current suitable therefor completely eliminates the need to provide an additional circuit for the type identification on the LED light output device side and requires only a power supply cable for the connection, in an unconnected state with the LED light output device, electrical continuity between a second terminal to be connected to the cathode of an LED and a ground is cut, and when a transition from the unconnected state to a connected state is made, the voltage of the second terminal is measured to, on the basis of the measured voltage, identify the type of the connected LED light output device with the electrical continuity between the second terminal and the ground kept cut.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: CCS INC.Inventor: Yuichiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 10165651Abstract: In an LED illumination system including a power supply device having a function of adjusting an amount of a supply current and an LED illumination device connected to the power supply device, the LED illumination device includes: an LED circuit; a bypass circuit; and a distribution circuit that distributes a current supplied from the power supply device at a predetermined fixed ratio regardless of a current value and supplies one part thereof to the LED circuit and the other part thereof to the bypass circuit.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: CCS Inc.Inventor: Yuichiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 9967934Abstract: In order to provide a lighting control power supply that makes it possible to reduce the number of inputs required for a user when setting each of control parameters, and achieves an intuitive transition between setting input screens of each of control setting items in a plurality of lighting devices, it is configured to, when an input in a first direction is given to an input device, cause a display device to display a setting input screen related to a controller being different than before the input, and it is configured to, when an input in a second direction is given to the input device, cause the display device to display a setting input screen related to the control setting item being different than before the input.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: CCS Inc.Inventors: Kento Kubo, Eiji Itou, Yuichiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 9961733Abstract: Provided is a power supply device capable of preventing a drop in the voltage supplied to another machine that is connected aside from LED lighting devices, and continues driving the other machine. This power supply device is equipped with a plurality of LED drive circuits provided in parallel, corresponding respectively to a plurality of LED lighting instruments to drive each of the LED lighting instruments in a predetermined light-emission mode. The plurality of LED drive circuits and the other machine are connected to a DC supply unit having such constitution that a direct current power supply voltage is converted into a predetermined direct current voltage and supplied thereby. The power supply device is further provided with a constant current circuit whereof the input side is connected to the DC supply unit and the other machine, and the output side is connected to the plurality of LED drive circuits.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: CCS Inc.Inventors: Sho Nakano, Yuichiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 9638641Abstract: In order to provide an inspection illumination device that makes it possible to greatly change a light amount within an observation solid angle of an imaging device even in a case where a change in reflection or scattering taking place at a feature point is subtle, and thus detect such a minute feature point, the inspection illumination device includes: a surface light source that emits inspection light; a lens that is arranged between the surface light source and an inspection object, and provides an image of the surface light source near the inspection object; and a first light shielding mask that is arranged between the surface light source and the inspection object, and forms a dark domain within an illumination solid angle of the inspection light applied to each point on the inspection object.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: CCS Inc.Inventor: Shigeki Masumura
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Patent number: 9587807Abstract: A lighting apparatus which provides an heat dissipation effect, high output and large light emitting area including: housing having rectangular cylindrical shape obtained by forming belt-like body including plurality of holding bodies in rectangular cylindrical shape and connecting end portions of belt-like body formed in rectangular cylindrical shape; and circuit board mounted on inner surface of the housing and including a light source. The circuit board includes: mounting portion mounted on inner surface of the housing and having a surface provided with the light source; and connecting portion which connects mounting portions adjacent to each other in peripheral direction of the housing and is bendable at a corner of adjacent inner surfaces of the housing, and rear surface of mounting portion contacts inner surface of the holding body. Therefore, it is possible to provide lighting apparatus which provides an excellent heat dissipation effect, high output and large light emitting area.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: CCS INC.Inventor: Takuzo Togawa
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Patent number: 9562657Abstract: A line light irradiation device includes a plurality of light source units on which a plurality of light source mounting substrates are juxtaposed on a base in a row, and the plurality of light source units are juxtaposed in a row. The plurality of light source mounting substrates are positioned and fixed to the base at predetermined intervals. Thus, if a light source in a certain light source unit becomes defective, this light source unit can be removed so as to exchange only the light source mounting substrate on which the defective light source is mounted. Therefore, the normal light sources can be left as they are as much as possible, and waste of the light sources can be reduced. Further, the light source mounting substrates are positioned and fixed at predetermined intervals, and thus dimensional errors do not accumulate in the light source mounting substrates at the juxtaposition ends.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2013Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: CCS INC.Inventor: Daisuke Okamoto
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Patent number: 9494422Abstract: In order to make it possible for a difference between a defect and a normal part, such as contrast, to appear, a lighting device for inspection is provided with: a surface light source that emits inspection light; a lens that is provided on a light axis of the inspection light emitted from the surface light source, and between an inspection object and the surface light source; and a first diaphragm that is provided between the lens and the surface light source or the inspection object, wherein: the surface light source and the lens are set such that an image plane on which the surface light source is imaged is present near the inspection object; and the first diaphragm is set such that the central axis of an irradiation solid angle determined by a part of the inspection light is parallel to the light axis.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2012Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: CCS Inc.Inventor: Shigeki Masumura
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Patent number: 9319424Abstract: The present invention provides for methods and systems for complying with network security requirements, particularly those defined by NERC CIP. In particular, the invention provides for methods and systems for identifying a set of network security risks on a computing device, refining the set of network security risks requiring documentation as defined by the requirements, creating documentation on the necessity of the network security risks, and creating a report comprising a listing of the refined set of network security risks and documentation for auditing and compliance purposes.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2014Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: CCS-Inc.Inventors: Scott Hudson, Paul Monta Elkins, Steven Wirt, Benjamin Sandbrook, Christopher Bateson, Michael K. Trautman, Jonathan Couch
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Patent number: 9022597Abstract: The present invention includes: a casing having a bottom wall part and a pair of side wall parts extending upward from this bottom wall part; a rod-shaped lens provided above an LED substrate and along a longitudinal direction inside the casing; and a fixing mechanism for fixing the lens to the pair of side wall parts. The fixing mechanism includes: upwardly facing surfaces longitudinally extending along an inner surface of the side wall parts; downwardly facing surfaces longitudinally extending along side peripheral surfaces of the lens; a concave groove longitudinally extending above the upwardly facing surface on the inner surface of each of the side wall parts; and elastic bodies fitting into the concave grooves to be in contact with the side peripheral surfaces of the lens in a state that the downwardly facing surfaces are in contact with the upwardly facing surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: CCS Inc.Inventors: Ryoko Suzuki, Kenji Miura
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Patent number: 8936163Abstract: The present invention is directed to the field of mounting systems used to secure, organize and protect electronic equipment in commercial and industrial settings. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods, systems, and devices for mounting non-uniform components in an organized and easily modifiable structure. Of particular interest are mounting systems for electronics components comprising: a) one or more flexible and elastic plastic mesh securing members; and b) one or more elongated support bars comprising: (i) a planar upper support member; (ii) opposing anterior and posterior flanges disposed at right angles to the upper support member; and (iii) a plurality of protrusions integral to or fixedly connected to the flanges which are operably configured for releasable engagement with the mesh.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2012Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: CCS-Inc.Inventor: Donald M. Fleischer
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Patent number: 8777450Abstract: The present invention uniforms a size of an LED substrate 2 to realize reduction of the number of parts and reduction of a manufacturing cost, and is a light irradiation device comprising: a long LED substrate 2 on which a plurality of same LEDs 21 are mounted; a chassis 3 having a substrate housing space for housing the LED substrate 2, wherein the number of LEDs 21 in which a difference between a power source voltage VE and a sum of a forward voltage Vf in the series connection of the LEDs 21 is within an allowable range is employed as the number of LED units, and the number of LEDs 21 mounted on the LED substrate 2 is a common multiple of the number of LED units determined in each of LEDs 21 of different wavelengths.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2009Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: CCS, Inc.Inventor: Kenji Miura
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Patent number: 8704244Abstract: In order to provide an LED light emitting device that can easily control a color temperature of white light, the LED light emitting device is provided with a plurality of types of light emitting parts that: respectively have LED elements that emit ultraviolet radiation or violet color visible light, and phosphors that absorb the ultraviolet radiation or violet color visible light to emit colored light; and emit the colored light, wherein: the colored light emitted by the plurality of types of light emitting parts become white light when all mixed with each other; the LED elements of the plurality of types of light emitting parts are all the same ones, and mounted on a single base material; and two or more light emitting parts overlap with each other in their parts.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2010Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: CCS, Inc.Inventors: Hirokazu Suzuki, Jun Konishi, Yuichiro Tanaka, Kenji Yoneda
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Publication number: 20130335957Abstract: The present invention is intended to allow to make a width of an LED wiring substrate compact and reduce the number of assembly parts and assembly man-hours, wherein each LED wiring substrate includes: a plurality of LEDs provided in a line shape along a longitudinal direction; and power-feeding line members provided in parallel with the plurality of LEDs, wherein the power-feeding line members are provided above an LED mounting surface of the LED wiring substrate, and in the adjacent LED wiring substrates, the power-feeding line members provided in one of the LED wiring substrates include contact terminals provided to extend outward in a longitudinal direction and contact with the power-feeding line members of the other LED wiring substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2012Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: CCS INC.Inventors: Ryoko Suzuki, Kenji Miura