Patents Assigned to Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd.
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Patent number: 11817530Abstract: A light emitting device includes a substrate, a plurality of first light emitting elements mounted on the substrate, including first LED dies, and emitting light having a first wavelength, and a light guide layer arranged so as to cover the plurality of first light emitting elements, and guiding the light from the plurality of first light emitting elements, wherein when LG1 is a distance between the first LED dies, and ?c is a critical angle of the light emitted from the light guide layer to the air, and a thickness T between the upper surfaces of the first light emitting elements and the upper surface of the light guide layer is equal to or longer than T1 indicated by T1=LG1/(2tan ?c).Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.Inventor: Keisuke Sakai
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Patent number: 11756939Abstract: A light emitting device includes a first light emitting element, a second light emitting element, a first phosphor sheet containing a first phosphor and a third phosphor, and covering a top face of the first light emitting element, and a second phosphor sheet containing a second phosphor and a fourth phosphor, and covering a top face of the second light emitting element, wherein a peak wavelength of light which is wavelength-converted by the first phosphor or the third phosphor is equal to or less than a peak wavelength of light which is wavelength-converted by the second phosphor or the fourth phosphor.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuki Suto, Jo Kinosita
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Patent number: 11697765Abstract: Phosphors include a CaAlSiN3 family crystal phase, wherein the CaAlSiN3 family crystal phase comprises at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mn, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, and Yb.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignees: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE, NICHIA CORPORATION, CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoto Hirosaki, Kyota Ueda, Hajime Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20230193126Abstract: To provide a semiconductor light emitting device which is capable of accomplishing a broad color reproducibility for an entire image without losing brightness of the entire image. A light source provided on a backlight for a color image display device has a semiconductor light emitting device comprising a solid light emitting device to emit light in a blue or deep blue region or in an ultraviolet region and phosphors, in combination. The phosphors comprise a green emitting phosphor and a red emitting phosphor. The green emitting phosphor and the red emitting phosphor are ones, of which the rate of change of the emission peak intensity at 100° C. to the emission intensity at 25° C., when the wavelength of the excitation light is 400 nm or 455 nm, is at most 40%.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicants: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Byungchul HONG, Naoki SAKO, Naoto KIJIMA, Masahiko YOSHINO, Takashi HASE, Fumiko YOYASU, Kentarou HORIBE
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Patent number: 11626546Abstract: Provided is an LED package and a method for manufacturing the same wherein, if its sealing resin containing phosphor particles each having a coating layer is cut or ground, age deterioration of the phosphor particles in the cut or ground surface is prevented. The method includes: mounting LED elements on a substrate; filling a first resin on the substrate to seal the LED elements, the first resin being transparent or translucent and containing wavelength conversion particles configured by forming a coating layer on at least part of the surface of each phosphor particle which converts the wavelength of light emitted from the LED elements; cutting or grinding the first resin; and forming a protective layer with a second resin on a cut surface of the first resin exposed as a result of the cutting or on a ground surface of the first resin, the second resin not containing the wavelength conversion particles.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiyuki Mizuno, Yoshihito Kitta
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Patent number: 11613698Abstract: To provide a semiconductor light emitting device which is capable of accomplishing a broad color reproducibility for an entire image without losing brightness of the entire image. A light source provided on a backlight for a color image display device has a semiconductor light emitting device comprising a solid light emitting device to emit light in a blue or deep blue region or in an ultraviolet region and phosphors, in combination. The phosphors comprise a green emitting phosphor and a red emitting phosphor. The green emitting phosphor and the red emitting phosphor are ones, of which the rate of change of the emission peak intensity at 100° C. to the emission intensity at 25° C., when the wavelength of the excitation light is 400 nm or 455 nm, is at most 40%.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Byungchul Hong, Naoki Sako, Naoto Kijima, Masahiko Yoshino, Takashi Hase, Fumiko Yoyasu, Kentarou Horibe
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Publication number: 20220393081Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to improve light source efficiency of “a light-emitting device capable of realizing a natural, vivid, highly visible and comfortable appearance of colors or an appearance of objects” already arrived at by adopting a spectral power distribution having a shape completely different from the shape of conventionally known spectral power distributions while maintaining favorable color appearance characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Hideyoshi HORIE
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Patent number: 11450789Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to improve light source efficiency of “a light-emitting device capable of realizing a natural, vivid, highly visible and comfortable appearance of colors or an appearance of objects” already arrived at by adopting a spectral power distribution having a shape completely different from the shape of conventionally known spectral power distributions while maintaining favorable color appearance characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2016Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Hideyoshi Horie
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Patent number: 11342312Abstract: A light emitting device includes a first light emitting element, a second light emitting element, a first phosphor sheet containing a first phosphor and a third phosphor, and covering a top face of the first light emitting element, and a second phosphor sheet containing a second phosphor and a fourth phosphor, and covering a top face of the second light emitting element, wherein a peak wavelength of light which is wavelength-converted by the first phosphor or the third phosphor is equal to or less than a peak wavelength of light which is wavelength-converted by the second phosphor or the fourth phosphor.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuki Suto, Jo Kinosita
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Patent number: 11306884Abstract: A planar light-emitting device having a linear light-emitter having a substrate extending in a predetermined direction, a first line and a second line including a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged along the predetermined direction on the substrate, the first line and the second line being arranged side by site along the predetermined direction with an interval, a first frame arranged on the substrate so as to surround the first line, a second frame arranged on the substrate so as to surround the second line, a first seal arranged inside the first frame for sealing the plurality of light-emitting elements, a second seal arranged inside the second frame for sealing the plurality of light-emitting elements, and a plurality of electrodes arranged on the substrate and electrically connected with the plurality of light-emitting elements, and a light guide plate having an incidence surface having a first flat portion facing to the first line, a second flat portion facing to the second line, a projectingType: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Watanabe, Kazuya Ishihara
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Patent number: 11270855Abstract: The movable contact body for a switch includes at least one movable contact having an upwardly convex leaf-spring shape, a cover member disposed so as to cover an upper surface of the movable contact, and a holding member disposed so as to face a lower surface of the movable contact, the holding member having a contact through-hole through which a top portion of the movable contact can pass.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroto Isoda, Satoshi Okuma, Soichiro Amano, Ken Ito
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Publication number: 20220056339Abstract: Phosphors include a CaAlSiN3 family crystal phase, wherein the CaAlSiN3 family crystal phase comprises at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mn, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, and Yb.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicants: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE, NICHIA CORPORATION, CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoto HIROSAKI, Kyota UEDA, Hajime YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 11177423Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device wherein short-wavelength light included in emitted white light is attenuated with a small increase in manufacturing cost and a small decrease in luminous flux. The light-emitting device includes a mount board, LED elements mounted on the mount board and emitting first light which is blue light or has a shorter wavelength than blue light, and a sealing resin containing phosphor particles and titanium-dioxide particles and filled on the mount board to integrally seal the LED elements, the phosphor particles being excited by the first light to emit second light. The first light and the second light are mixed and emitted as white light, and transmitting through the sealing resin causes the first light to be attenuated more than the second light by the titanium-dioxide particles.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Watanabe, Masahide Watanabe
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Patent number: 11145795Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus and a method for manufacturing the same are provided in which heat dissipation from an LED package to a heat sinking substrate is improved while electrical insulation therebetween is ensured. The light-emitting apparatus includes a circuit board having an opening, an LED package inserted into the opening from the back side of the circuit board and having an edge connected to the back side of the circuit board, and a heat sinking substrate disposed on the back side of the circuit board so as to be in contact with the LED package.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventors: Koki Hirasawa, Nodoka Oyamada, Yuji Omori
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Patent number: 11127544Abstract: A spring has a dome portion having a dome shape bulging convexly, an outer peripheral portion disposed along the entire periphery of the dome portion, first and second support portions disposed at both ends of the outer peripheral portion, a valley bending portion disposed between the dome portion and the outer peripheral portion, and bent concavely upward, a first crest bending portion disposed between the outer peripheral portion and the first support portion, and bent convexly upward, and a second crest bending portion disposed between the outer peripheral portion and the second support portion, and bent convexly upward, wherein the outer peripheral portion includes a first and second side end portions which are not connected with the first and second support portions, and the valley bending portion disposed between the dome portion and the first and second side end portions extends linearly or curved inwardly in a longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshihiro Yaginuma
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Patent number: 11084980Abstract: Phosphors include a CaAlSiN3 family crystal phase, wherein the CaAlSiN3 family crystal phase comprises at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mn, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, and Yb.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignees: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE, NICHIA CORPORATION, CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoto Hirosaki, Kyota Ueda, Hajime Yamamoto
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Patent number: D956704Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ryo Wakuda
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Patent number: D966208Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuji Omori
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Patent number: D989011Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Iino
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Patent number: D995455Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Hori, Tatsuro Yamada, Kenichi Kikuchi, Yasuaki Kayanuma, Yu Kayanuma