Patents Assigned to Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd.
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Publication number: 20200243733Abstract: It is made possible to use a lens array including common lenses as a lens array that collects beams of light from light-emitting units, regardless of the number of light-emitting elements included in each light-emitting unit, thereby reducing the manufacturing cost of a light-emitting device. The light-emitting device includes a substrate, light-emitting units arranged on the substrate, and a lens array including lenses provided corresponding to the light-emitting units, respectively, to collect beams of emission light from the respective light-emitting units, the lens array being arranged on the light-emitting units. Each of the light-emitting units has light-emitting elements that are mounted on the substrate in a lattice pattern and are series-parallel connected to one another in a mount region whose shape is common in the light-emitting units so as to include a predetermined number of series connections and a predetermined number of parallel connections which are set for the light-emitting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2016Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicants: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventors: Sadato Imai, Kohsuke Kashitani, Teruhiko Hodohara
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Patent number: 10714460Abstract: A light-emitting device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided, which device yields light exhibiting an actual hue with a deviation reduced as much as possible from a designed hue value, the light being a mixture of light emitted from a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted densely and excited light from a phosphor contained in a resin sealing the light-emitting elements. The light-emitting device includes a board, a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted densely on the board, a first resin free from any phosphor, placed among the plurality of light-emitting elements, and a second resin containing a phosphor and covering an exposed part of the plurality of light-emitting elements.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sadato Imai, Masahide Watanabe, Hirohiko Ishii, Koki Hirasawa
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Patent number: 10707189Abstract: A light-emitting device is provided whose color mixing property and light emission efficiency are improved, while white light with high color rendering performance is ensured by means of four kinds of LED elements emitting red, green, blue, and white light respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiko Hamada, Hirohiko Ishii
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Patent number: 10699855Abstract: An electronic switch includes a rubber sheet that includes a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a convex portion on the first surface. The convex portion of the rubber sheet includes a semispherical shape.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventor: Takahiro Arai
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Patent number: 10629786Abstract: A light-emitting device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided, which device yields light exhibiting an actual hue with a deviation reduced as much as possible from a designed hue value, wherein the light is a mixture of light emitted from densely-mounted light-emitting elements and excited light from a phosphor contained in a resin sealing the light-emitting elements. The light-emitting device includes a board, light-emitting elements mounted densely on the board so that light-emitting surfaces thereof face opposite to the board, and a seal resin containing a plurality of different phosphors and covering all of the light-emitting elements, wherein the phosphors are excited by light from the light-emitting elements and deposited on upper surfaces of the light-emitting elements. A space between adjacent light-emitting elements has a length of 5 ?m or more and 120% or less of a median diameter D50 of a phosphor which has the largest average particle size of the phosphors.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventors: Sadato Imai, Masahide Watanabe, Hirohiko Ishii, Koki Hirasawa
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Patent number: 10629785Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device including a mount board, an LED element mounted on the mount board, and a translucent or transparent sealing resin being filled onto the mount board to seal the LED element. The sealing resin contains first and second particulate phosphors excited by emitted light from the LED element, and a nanoscale filler having an average particle size in the range of 1 nm to 100 nm. The specific gravity of the first particulate phosphor is smaller than that of the second particulate phosphor. The sealing resin includes a dispersion layer of the first particulate phosphor covering areas obliquely above and beside the LED element, and a deposition layer of the second particulate phosphor on upper surfaces of the mount board and the LED element. The first particulate phosphor is dispersed in the dispersion layer among aggregates formed by particles of the nanoscale filler.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTDInventor: Nodoka Oyamada
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Patent number: 10591141Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting apparatus including a substrate, a plurality of light-emitting units each having a plurality of LED elements mounted on the substrate in a rectangular lattice pattern, wherein each of the light-emitting units has a rectangular light-emitting region, and a lens array including a plurality of lenses provided corresponding to the light-emitting units, respectively, the lens array being arranged on the plurality of light-emitting units, wherein the plurality of lenses is designed such that beams of emission light from the plurality of light-emitting units are collected and radiated so as to overlap with one another at a position distant from the substrate, and a part of the plurality of light-emitting units is arranged to be inclined with respect to a reference direction in a plane of the substrate by an angle different from that of other light-emitting units.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koichi Fukasawa
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Patent number: 10591662Abstract: To provide a planar light unit that optically and mechanically connects a light-emitting device and a light guide plate to each other in a stable manner so as to improve luminous efficiency and brightness uniformity on a light exit surface. A planar light unit 40 includes: a light guide plate 2, which includes a light incident portion 2f on a side edge of the light guide plate 2; a light-emitting device 3, which is configured to emit light into an inside of the light guide plate 2 through the light incident portion 2f; and a light source board 4, on which the light-emitting device 3 is mounted. The light incident portion 2f includes a recess 2a and a reflecting-shaped portion 2b. A flexible resin 6, which has a light-transmitting property and a flexibility, is disposed between a light incident surface 2c, which is formed on the recess 2a, and the light-emitting device 3.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventors: Junji Miyashita, Tomoo Udagawa
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Patent number: 10585308Abstract: A light-emitting device comprises a first optical element covering an LED and covered by a second optical element. The first optical element has: a first incident surface on which light emitted from the LED is incident; a recessed first reflecting surface, above the first incident surface, and reflecting to the side the light is incident via the first incident surface from the LED; and a first emitting surface across the periphery of the first reflecting surface, which emits the light from the first reflecting surface. The second optical element has: an incident-reflecting surface formed by, concentric second incident surfaces on which light emitted from the first emitting surface is incident, and second reflecting surfaces alternately with the second incident surfaces, that reflect upward the light incident on the second incident surfaces; and a second emitting surface above the incident-reflecting surface, that emit light reflected by the second light reflecting surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignees: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshinobu Katsumata, Takuma Horiuchi
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Patent number: 10559722Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device of which a resin frame serving as a dam of a sealing resin is not readily deformed. The light-emitting device includes: a planar lead frame configured from first and second metal portions which are spaced apart from each other with an insulating resin interposed therebetween; light-emitting elements mounted on the first metal portion and electrically connected by wires to the first and second metal portions; a first resin frame disposed on the lead frame so as to enclose the light-emitting elements; a sealing resin containing a phosphor for converting the wavelength of light emitted from the light-emitting elements, the sealing resin being filled into a region on the lead frame enclosed by the first resin frame to seal the light-emitting elements; and a second resin frame being harder than the first resin frame and covering an outer surface of the first resin frame at an outer edge of the lead frame.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Omori, Sadato Imai, Koki Hirasawa
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Patent number: 10551669Abstract: A light-emitting device comprises a first optical element covering an LED and covered by a second optical element. The first optical element has: a first incident surface on which light emitted from the LED is incident; a recessed first reflecting surface, above the first incident surface, and reflecting to the side the light is incident via the first incident surface from the LED; and a first emitting surface across the periphery of the first reflecting surface, which emits the light from the first reflecting surface. The second optical element has: an incident-reflecting surface formed by, concentric second incident surfaces on which light emitted from the first emitting surface is incident, and second reflecting surfaces alternately with the second incident surfaces, that reflect upward the light incident on the second incident surfaces; and a second emitting surface above the incident-reflecting surface, that emit light reflected by the second light reflecting surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignees: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshinobu Katsumata, Takuma Horiuchi
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Patent number: 10508778Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device in which a light-emitting region is increased in size without decreasing the yield. This light-emitting device includes a central light-emitting unit, and a plurality of peripheral light-emitting units arranged to fill a periphery of the central light-emitting unit, wherein each of the central light-emitting unit and the peripheral light-emitting units includes a substrate and light-emitting elements mounted on the substrate, and an area of the light-emitting region of each of the peripheral light-emitting units is equal to or smaller than an area of the light-emitting region of the central light-emitting unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shingo Kuriki, Arata Shimozawa
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Publication number: 20190378824Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicants: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuki Suto, Jo Kinosita
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Patent number: 10483056Abstract: In a first aspect of the present disclosure, a push switch includes a resilient member that is made of metal, and the resilient member including a concave shape and an opening that is positioned at a center of the concave shape and at least two protrusions each protruding outward and downward with an oblique angle around the concave shape.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventor: Ryo Wakuda
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Patent number: 10468453Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus including a mother board, and LED packages mounted on the mother board is provided. Each of the LED packages includes: a package substrate; light-emitting regions on the package substrate, the light-emitting regions being rotationally symmetric and each including LED devices, wherein at least some of the light-emitting regions and the other light-emitting regions emit light of different colors; and sets of package electrodes on the package substrate around the light-emitting regions, the sets of package electrodes being rotationally symmetric, wherein the package electrodes of each set correspond to cathodes and anodes of the light-emitting regions capable of emitting light independently of each other. The mother board includes, for each LED package, a set of mother-board electrodes connected to one of the sets of package electrodes of the LED package.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventor: Shingo Kuriki
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Patent number: 10461232Abstract: A condensation reaction-type die bonding agent has little liability of poor electrical connection at the electrodes. A condensation reaction-type die bonding agent for bonding an LED device provided on its surface with device electrodes having connection surfaces covered by gold, where the die bonding agent includes (A) a polysilsesquioxane solid in state at room temperature having trisiloxy units (TA) expressed by R1SiO3/2 where, R1 indicates one group selected from the group comprised of C1 to C15 alkyl groups, a phenyl group, and a benzyl group, and having hydroxyl groups, (B) a polysilsesquioxane liquid in state at room temperature having trisiloxy units (TB) expressed by R2SiO3/2 where, R2 indicates one group selected from the group comprised of C1 to C15 alkyl groups, a phenyl group, and a benzyl group, and having —OR2 where, R2 indicates one group selected from the group comprised of C1 to C15 alkyl groups, a phenyl group, and a benzyl group, and (C) a condensation reaction catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignees: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroo Kajiwara, Yuji Ogawa, Kenichiro Sato, Yuta Yaguchi
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Patent number: D865227Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventors: Shingo Kuriki, Yutaro Misawa
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Patent number: D868299Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventors: Teruhiko Hodohara, Sadato Imai
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Patent number: D885354Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinsuke Watanabe
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Patent number: D878311Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinsuke Watanabe