Patents Assigned to Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 10969533
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp fitting, comprising: a lamp case having an opening edge; a light guide that is disposed in the lamp case; and a light source that emits light which is guided inside the light guide, wherein the light guide includes a bar light-guiding unit and a plate light-guiding unit, the bar light-guiding unit includes a front face disposed on the front side and a rear face disposed on the rear side, the plate light-guiding unit includes a front face disposed on the front side and a rear face disposed on the rear side, and includes one edge connected to an outer peripheral surface of the bar light-guiding unit, and the other edge which is on the opposite side of the one edge, the other edge of the plate light-guiding unit extends along the opening edge in the front view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuteru Matsushita, Yuki Takamoto
  • Patent number: 10971663
    Abstract: To improve light emission efficiency and suppress color unevenness on a light emitting surface. Provided is a semiconductor light emitting device including a light emitting element, a wavelength conversion layer for converting light emitted from the light emitting element to light having a predetermined wavelength, a light reflection member covering at least the side surfaces of the wavelength conversion layer, and a thin film provided on the outermost surface from which the light wavelength-converted by the wavelength conversion layer exits, having a property for shedding the uncured light reflection member, and having a coarse surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kaori Tachibana
  • Patent number: 10960810
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an adaptive drive beam mode vehicle headlamp of a subject vehicle travelling a road includes a headlamp driver adapted to drive the vehicle headlamp, a preceding vehicle determining section adapted to determine whether or not a preceding vehicle is travelling ahead of the subject vehicle, a road state determining section adapted to determine whether a state of the road is straight or curved, and a curved-mode illumination intensity pattern outputting section adapted to output a curved-mode illumination intensity pattern to the headlamp driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Waragaya, Mitsuhiro Uchida
  • Patent number: 10955700
    Abstract: The present invention provides a panel capable of switching between a state transparent to external light, a point light emitting state, and a surface light emitting state. Provided is a transparent panel provided with light emitting function, including: an LED die; a light transmitting substrate for LED, on which the LED die is mounted; a wiring pattern provided on a surface of the light transmitting substrate for LED and bonded to the LED die; and a light diffusing panel laminated on the light transmitting substrate for LED. The light diffusing panel includes: a pair of light transmitting substrates for liquid crystal; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of light transmitting substrates for liquid crystal; and transparent conductive films disposed on the light transmitting substrates for liquid crystal, and is switchable between a transparent state and a light diffusion state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroto Fukushima, Akihiko Hanya, Kosaburo Ito, Tsukasa Imura, Reiki Tada
  • Publication number: 20210080075
    Abstract: An illumination optical system having a light source and a single convex lens with a diffractive structure, wherein the phase function of the diffractive structure is represented by ? ? ( r ) = ? i = 1 N ? ? ? 2 ? i ? r 2 ? i where r represents distance from the central axis of the lens, the relationship |?2|·(0.3R)2<|?4|·(0.3R)4 is satisfied where R represents effective radius of the lens, the second derivative of the phase function has at least one extreme value and at least one point of inflection where r is greater than 30% of R, and the area of a surface of the light source is equal to or greater than 3% of the area of the entrance pupil when the light source side of the lens is defined as the image side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicants: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD., NALUX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sadayuki KONISHI, Kayuri KINOSHITA, Kenta ISHII, Norihisa SAKAGAMI, Daisuke SEKI
  • Patent number: 10951868
    Abstract: In an MEMS projector (10), an image signal processing unit (110) outputs an inspection signal, and an inspection signal processing unit (114) outputs a light emission instruction signal. An inspection light source drive unit (112) outputs a light emission signal, and an inspection light source (13) radiates an inspection light. The inspection light radiated from the inspection light source (13) is reflected at the reflection position RP of a first support portion (22), and then received by a light receiver (14). Then, the light receiver (14) outputs a received light signal. Based on the received light signal, the inspection signal processing unit (114) detects the angle of the light deflecting mirror (20) around the X axial line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takao Saito
  • Patent number: 10941917
    Abstract: A lighting tool for a vehicle configured to radiate light toward a side in front of a vehicle includes: a light radiation unit having a light source main body; a first optical system configured to condense light radiated from the light radiation unit; and a cover member disposed in front of the first optical system and configured to overlap at least a part of the first optical system when seen from the front, wherein an opening disposed on an optical axis of the first optical system is provided in the cover member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinya Kogure
  • Patent number: 10937770
    Abstract: A light-emitting device having light-emitting elements with high operation stability and light extraction efficiency is provided. The light-emitting device includes: a substrate; light-emitting elements aligned and arranged on the substrate in an arrangement direction; wavelength conversion layers each disposed on each of the light-emitting elements with a light-transmitting adhesive interposed therebetween, each of the wavelength conversion layers having an upper surface smaller than a bottom surface, and a side surface shape in which a length in a lateral direction parallel to the bottom surface and perpendicular to the arrangement direction decreases from the bottom surface toward the upper surface; a light-transmitting plate disposed over the wavelength conversion layers; and a reflective resin covering side surfaces of the light-emitting elements, the wavelength conversion layers, and the light-transmitting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsunori Harada, Kaori Tachibana, Satoshi Ando
  • Patent number: 10936103
    Abstract: A touch panel-equipped display device includes a front-side case that accommodates a display panel and a touch panel overlap each other, a support plate fixed at a side opposite with respect to a display surface of the front-side case, a back-side case disposed at a side opposite of the display panel with respect to the support plate, a vibration element fixed between the back-side case and the support plate and that vibrates the front-side case and the support plate in an in-plane direction of the display panel according to an operation on the touch panel, and a damper mechanism that supports the front-side case or the support plate so that the front-side case or the support plate is capable of being freely vibrated in the in-plane direction of the touch panel, wherein the damper mechanism has an elastic displacement section elastically displaced in the in-plane direction of the back-side case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10937927
    Abstract: A group III nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes a single crystal substrate and an element layer. The element layer includes an n-type layer, an active layer, and a p-type layer formed on the upper surface of the single crystal substrate in this order, and has a composition represented by the composition formula AlXGaYIn1-X-YN (0?X?1.0, 0?Y?1.0, 0?X+Y?1.0). The thickness of the single crystal substrate is at least 80 ?m. The area of the upper surface of the substrate is larger than the area of the bottom surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Obata
  • Patent number: 10937937
    Abstract: Provided is an optical semiconductor element in which an unbonded portion between an optical semiconductor chip and a submount is made small, heat dissipation efficiency becomes high, and service life can be made long. The optical semiconductor element can include: a submount; a submount electrode provided on a mounting surface of the submount and having a rectangular shape as a whole; and a semiconductor chip including an element substrate, a semiconductor structure layer formed on the element substrate, and a chip electrode bonded to the submount electrode via a bonding layer. The chip electrode has a shape with chipped corners corresponding to four corners of the submount electrode, which has an exposed surface that is a portion exposed from the chip electrode at the four corners and bonded to the chip electrode to coincide with each other. The bonding layer extends to all the four corners of the exposed surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takayoshi Yamane
  • Patent number: 10932373
    Abstract: Provided is a circuit board for reducing a likelihood of so-called through-hole disconnection, and enhancing connection reliability on both sides of a substrate via a through-hole. The circuit board has a substrate with the through-hole, a first conductive part covering an opening of the through-hole on one surface of the substrate in a manner blocking the opening, having a portion inserted into the through-hole from the one surface, and a second conductive part covering a second opening of the through-hole on the other surface of the substrate in a manner blocking the second opening, having a portion inserted into the through-hole from the other surface. The portion of the first conductive part inserted in the through-hole has a columnar shape forming a columnar portion having a diameter smaller than the through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akihiko Hanya
  • Patent number: 10914444
    Abstract: To increase the light utilization efficiency when selective light irradiation is performed using a liquid crystal element (a liquid crystal device). A lamp unit including: a light source; a reflective polarizing plate disposed at a position where light from the light source is incident; a reflecting mirror configured to reflect a reflected light generated by the reflective polarizing plate and re-enters the reflected light to the reflective polarizing plate; a liquid crystal device disposed on the light emitting surface side of the reflective polarizing plate; a polarizing plate disposed on the light emitting surface side of the liquid crystal device; and a lens disposed on the light emitting surface side of the polarizing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Toko, Yoshifumi Takao, Masafumi Ohno, Yoshihisa Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 10912201
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device capable of supplying large current to a circuit pattern, without employing a thick film structure for the circuit pattern. The electronic device includes a substrate, a wiring layer placed on the upper surface of the substrate, an electronic component mounted above the wiring layer, and a bonding layer placed between the electronic component and the wiring layer. The wiring layer and the bonding layer are porous layers containing pores. The bonding layer has higher volume density than the wiring layer except underneath the electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiko Hanya, Tsukasa Imura
  • Patent number: 10907268
    Abstract: A method for producing a multi-layer bus bar unit includes preparing a plurality of metal flat plate-shaped bus bars, each with electrode terminal parts at two or more locations, depositing a coating film over an entire surface of each bus bar by electrodeposition coating, subjecting a coating film of a predetermined bus bar to a heating treatment so that the coating film is completely cured, subjecting another bus bar to a heat treatment so that the bus bar is semi-cured, and obtaining a multi-layer structure by alternately overlapping, and then subjecting to a pressure and heating treatment, the bus bar with the completely-cured coating film and the bus bar with the semi-cured coating film, so that the semi-cured coating film is completely cured and the plurality of bus bars adhere to each other by the completely-cured coating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignees: SUNCALL CORPORATION, STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Nakagawa, Shojiro Wakabayashi, Mamoru Yuasa, Toshifumi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10907773
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion device includes: a wavelength conversion element having a phosphor plate that converts the wavelength of incident light upon a light incident surface to generate wavelength-converted light, and emits the wavelength-converted light from a light emission surface; an antenna array constituted of a plurality of optical antennas that are periodically arranged on the light emission surface of the phosphor plate; and a recessed structure including at least one recessed portion provided in the light emission surface of the phosphor plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignees: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD., KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shunsuke Murai, Yusuke Yokobayashi, Yasuyuki Kawakami, Keijiro Takashima, Syousaku Kubo, Yosuke Maemura
  • Patent number: 10900629
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp includes a laser light source configured to radiate a laser beam, a wavelength conversion member configured to receive the laser beam and radiate white light, and a lens body disposed between the laser light source and the wavelength conversion member and configured to emit the white light, wherein the lens body has a laser beam incident surface configured to allow incidence of the laser beam, a white light incident surface configured to emit the laser beam from inside of the lens body and to allow incidence of the white light radiated from the wavelength conversion member, and an emission surface configured to emit the white light, and the wavelength conversion member is disposed to be separated from the white light incident surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Kogure, Ryotaro Owada
  • Publication number: 20210013700
    Abstract: A surface emission laser formed of a group III nitride semiconductor includes a first conductivity type first clad layer; a first conductivity type first guide layer on the first clad layer; a light-emitting layer on the first guide layer; a second guide layer on the light-emitting layer; and a second conductivity type second clad layer on the second guide layer. The first or second guide layer internally includes voids periodically arranged at square lattice positions with two axes perpendicular to one another as arrangement directions in a surface parallel to the guide layer. The voids have a polygonal prism structure or an oval columnar structure with a long axis and a short axis perpendicular to the long axis in the parallel surface, and the long axis is inclined with respect to one axis among the arrangement directions of the voids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicants: Kyoto University, Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu NODA, Yoshinori TANAKA, Menaka DE ZOYSA, Tomoaki KOIZUMI, Kei EMOTO
  • Patent number: 10889233
    Abstract: There are provided a lighting control device, a vehicular lamp, and a lighting control method which can prevent visibility in front of a driver of a vehicle from decreasing. The lighting control device controls a light distribution state by a vehicular headlamp, and includes: an obstacle detection part that detects an obstacle from an image in front of a subject vehicle taken by a camera; a light-shielding area deriving part that derives a first light-shielding area of a left headlamp attached to a front left side of the vehicle, and a second light-shielding area of a right headlamp attached to a front right side of the vehicle according to a position of the obstacle when the obstacle detection part detects the obstacle; and a light distribution control part that controls a light distribution state of the right headlamp and a light distribution state of the left headlamp according to the first light-shielding area and the second light-shielding area derived by the light-shielding area deriving part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuki Hosoyama
  • Patent number: 10892601
    Abstract: A vertical cavity light-emitting element comprises a substrate, a first multilayer reflector formed on the substrate, a semiconductor structure layer formed on the first multilayer reflector and including a light emitting layer, a second multilayer reflector formed on the semiconductor structure layer and constituting a resonator together with the first multilayer reflector, and a light guide layer configured to form a light guide structure including a center region extending in a direction perpendicular to the upper surface of said substrate between the first and second multilayer reflectors and including a light emission center of the light-emitting layer and a peripheral region provided around the center region and having a smaller optical distance between the first and second multilayer reflectors than that in the center region. The second multilayer reflector has a flatness property over the center region and the peripheral region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignees: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD., MEIJO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Masaru Kuramoto, Seiichiro Kobayashi, Tetsuya Takeuchi