Patents by Inventor Akeo Kasakura

Akeo Kasakura 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: 10361348
    Abstract: A spot lighting apparatus includes a first reflection unit, a semiconductor light emitting device, a second reflection unit being provided on an optical axis of the semiconductor light emitting device, and a fixing unit fixing the second reflection unit to be separated from the semiconductor light emitting device, wherein the second reflection unit receives a part of a light released from the semiconductor light emitting device and reflects it toward the first reflection unit, the first reflection unit receives a part of a light released from the semiconductor light emitting device and all or a part of a light reflected on the second reflection unit and reflects them toward the opening part, and the light reflected on the first reflection unit and emitted from the opening part is 80% or more of total lights emitted from the opening part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouta Yoshizawa, Akeo Kasakura
  • Publication number: 20170256693
    Abstract: A spot lighting apparatus includes a first reflection unit, a semiconductor light emitting device, a second reflection unit being provided on an optical axis of the semiconductor light emitting device, and a fixing unit fixing the second reflection unit to be separated from the semiconductor light emitting device, wherein the second reflection unit receives a part of a light released from the semiconductor light emitting device and reflects it toward the first reflection unit, the first reflection unit receives a part of a light released from the semiconductor light emitting device and all or a part of a light reflected on the second reflection unit and reflects them toward the opening part, and the light reflected on the first reflection unit and emitted from the opening part is 80% or more of total lights emitted from the opening part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouta YOSHIZAWA, Akeo KASAKURA
  • Patent number: 9332599
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology related to an improvement in the performance of releasing heat generated in a semiconductor light-emitting device. In a light-emitting module including a semiconductor light-emitting device provided with at least a semiconductor light-emitting element and a phosphor, and a circuit board, on the circuit board, at least a semiconductor light-emitting device including a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements each having a different path of a drive current to be supplied thereto, or a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting devices each having a different path of a drive current to be supplied to the semiconductor light-emitting elements is mounted. The circuit board is provided with a base material portion formed using a heat-conducting material, and a power supply conductor layer for supplying the drive currents of the semiconductor light-emitting elements to the semiconductor light-emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akeo Kasakura, Shuuji Onaka, Toru Takeda, Yoshihito Satou
  • Publication number: 20150138780
    Abstract: The illumination device includes: a case; a heat sink which has a bottom part in which an LED module is installed, a cylindrical wall part standing upright from the bottom part and disposed such that a clearance is created between the cylindrical wall part and an inner wall surface of the case, and an open end formed at the front end of the cylindrical wall part; a fan which is housed in the case; an air intake passage which guides to the fan, air introduced from the lateral side of the case into the case; and an air discharge passage which is formed along the outer surface of the bottom part and the outer wall surface of the cylindrical wall part in the heat sink and discharges the air sent from the fan from the front end side of the heat sink to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Kouta YOSHIZAWA, Toshihiko KURIYAMA, Akeo KASAKURA, Yuki KOHARA, Toru TAKEDA
  • Patent number: 8847507
    Abstract: An illuminating device comprising a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting devices differing in emission color and employing a semiconductor light-emitting element and a phosphor, wherein outputted light is stably combined, separation of light is inhibited, and color tone is variable, and which devices emit light outward on the basis of an emission from the semiconductor light-emitting element and from the phosphor which is excited by emission from the semiconductor light-emitting element to fluoresce or on the basis of emission from the phosphor which is so excited to fluoresce, the deviation duv of which from a blackbody radiation locus being within a range of ?0.02?duv?0.02, in the uv chromaticity diagram according to UCS (u,v) color system (CIE 1960), and outputted lights from the light-emitting part in which the plurality of kinds of the semiconductor light-emitting devices are integrated and arranged, are mixed together and emitted outward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Akeo Kasakura, Yoshihito Satou
  • Patent number: 8814385
    Abstract: The light-emitting apparatus includes: a first light-emitting source which emits light of a first chromaticity from a first light-emitting surface; a second light-emitting source which has a second light-emitting surface provided adjacently to the first light-emitting surface and which emits light of a second chromaticity different from the first chromaticity, from the second light-emitting surface; and a lens member having a light-entering surface which is arranged facing the first light-emitting surface and the second light-emitting surface and on which depressions and projections that mix light entering from the first light-emitting source and the second light-emitting source are formed, and a light-exiting surface which radiates light from the first light-emitting source and the second light-emitting source that has entered from the light-entering surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Shuuji Onaka, Akeo Kasakura, Toru Takeda
  • Patent number: 8810141
    Abstract: An LED illumination system comprises a light control apparatus, and an LED illumination instrument including first and second LEDs. The light control apparatus includes: a first control unit determining a total amount of average currents to be supplied to the first and the second LEDs at every predetermined cycle depending on an operation amount of a first operation unit; a second control unit determining a ratio between the average currents to be supplied to the first and second LEDs respectively at the every predetermined cycle depending on an operation amount of a second operation unit; and a supply unit generating currents having the total amount of the average currents and the ratio between the average currents determined by the first and second control units at the every predetermined cycle by using a DC power source and supplying the currents to the LED illumination instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Takeda, Akeo Kasakura
  • Publication number: 20140191655
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology related to an improvement in the performance of releasing heat generated in a semiconductor light-emitting device. In a light-emitting module including a semiconductor light-emitting device provided with at least a semiconductor light-emitting element and a phosphor, and a circuit board, on the circuit board, at least a semiconductor light-emitting device including a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements each having a different path of a drive current to be supplied thereto, or a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting devices each having a different path of a drive current to be supplied to the semiconductor light-emitting elements is mounted. The circuit board is provided with a base material portion formed using a heat-conducting material, and a power supply conductor layer for supplying the drive currents of the semiconductor light-emitting elements to the semiconductor light-emitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akeo KASAKURA, Shuuji Onaka, Toru Takeda, Yoshihito Satou
  • Patent number: 8710741
    Abstract: An illuminating device comprises one or more luminescent devices (1). The luminescent device comprises a semiconductor light emitting element (10) emitting a excitation light having an peak within a wavelength range from 350 nm to 430 nm, and a luminescent part (20) comprising a sealing member (22) and a phosphor (21) absorbing the light from the semiconductor light emitting element (10) and emitting a light with different emission spectrum. For the luminescent device (1), an excitation light contribution degree ?E, an index quantitatively representing what extent of a visible component of the excitation light is involved in color mixing of a combined light of the luminescent device (1), is 0.005 or less, and a mean color rendering index Ra is 70 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Akeo Kasakura, Kazuhiko Kagawa, Naoto Kijima
  • Publication number: 20130221866
    Abstract: An illuminating device comprising a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting devices differing in emission color and employing a semiconductor light-emitting element and a phosphor, wherein outputted light is stably combined, separation of light is inhibited, and color tone is variable, and which devices emit light outward on the basis of an emission from the semiconductor light-emitting element and from the phosphor which is excited by emission from the semiconductor light-emitting element to fluoresce or on the basis of emission from the phosphor which is so excited to fluoresce, the deviation duv of which from a blackbody radiation locus being within a range of ?0.02?duv?0.02, in the uv chromaticity diagram according to UCS (u,v) color system (CIE 1960), and outputted lights from the light-emitting part in which the plurality of kinds of the semiconductor light-emitting devices are integrated and arranged, are mixed together and emitted outward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventors: Akeo Kasakura, Yoshihito Satou
  • Patent number: 8508141
    Abstract: A light control apparatus for a LED light-emitting device comprises a driving current supply unit supplying an AC current as a driving current via a pair of terminals to the LED light-emitting device including a set of LED elements having mutually different light emission wavelength regions connected in parallel while providing opposite polarities and the pair of terminals provided to supply the driving current to the set of LED elements; an individual amount defining unit defining a positive driving current amount and a negative driving current amount respectively to be supplied to the LED light-emitting device in a positive half cycle and a negative half cycle included in one cycle of the AC current respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Takeda, Akeo Kasakura, Shinji Takai, Yoshihito Sato, Hiroaki Sakuta
  • Patent number: 8410714
    Abstract: An illuminating device comprising semiconductor light-emitting devices employing a semiconductor light-emitting element, wherein outputted light is stably combined, separation of light is inhibited, and color tone is variable. Control for operating the light-emitting devices is as simple as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Akeo Kasakura, Yoshihito Satou
  • Publication number: 20130009560
    Abstract: An LED illumination system comprises a light control apparatus, and an LED illumination instrument including first and second LEDs. The light control apparatus includes: a first control unit determining a total amount of average currents to be supplied to the first and the second LEDs at every predetermined cycle depending on an operation amount of a first operation unit; a second control unit determining a ratio between the average currents to be supplied to the first and second LEDs respectively at the every predetermined cycle depending on an operation amount of a second operation unit; and a supply unit generating currents having the total amount of the average currents and the ratio between the average currents determined by the first and second control units at the every predetermined cycle by using a DC power source and supplying the currents to the LED illumination instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru TAKEDA, Akeo Kasakura
  • Patent number: 8348456
    Abstract: An illuminating device has a solid light-emitting element module and a phosphor module joined to the solid light-emitting element module. The solid light-emitting element module has a plurality of the solid light-emitting elements. The phosphor module has a plurality of phosphor-containing parts corresponding to the individual solid light-emitting elements. Thus, a light-emitting part is provided, which has more than one kind of luminescence sources having the solid light-emitting element and the phosphor-containing part. An illumination intensity of a composite light is 150 lux or more at a distance of 30 cm perpendicularly from the light-emitting surface of the light-emitting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Satou, Yasunori Matsushita, Akeo Kasakura
  • Publication number: 20120275135
    Abstract: An illuminating device comprises one or more luminescent devices (1). The luminescent device comprises a semiconductor light emitting element (10) emitting a excitation light having an peak within a wavelength range from 350 nm to 430 nm, and a luminescent part (20) comprising a sealing member (22) and a phosphor (21) absorbing the light from the semiconductor light emitting element (10) and emitting a light with different emission spectrum. For the luminescent device (1), an excitation light contribution degree ?E, an index quantitatively representing what extent of a visible component of the excitation light is involved in color mixing of a combined light of the luminescent device (1), is 0.005 or less, and a mean color rendering index Ra is 70 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akeo KASAKURA, Kazuhiko Kagawa, Naoto Kijima
  • Patent number: 8258699
    Abstract: An illuminating device comprises one or more luminescent devices (1). The luminescent device comprises a semiconductor light emitting element (10) emitting a excitation light having an peak within a wavelength range from 350 nm to 430 nm, and a luminescent part (20) comprising a sealing member (22) and a phosphor (21) absorbing the light from the semiconductor light emitting element (10) and emitting a light with different emission spectrum. For the luminescent device (1), an excitation light contribution degree ?E, an index quantitatively representing what extent of a visible component of the excitation light is involved in color mixing of a combined light of the luminescent device (1), is 0.005 or less, and a mean color rendering index Ra is 70 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Akeo Kasakura, Kazuhiko Kagawa, Naoto Kijima
  • Publication number: 20110260633
    Abstract: A light control apparatus for a LED light-emitting device comprises a driving current supply unit supplying an AC current as a driving current via a pair of terminals to the LED light-emitting device including a set of LED elements having mutually different light emission wavelength regions connected in parallel while providing opposite polarities and the pair of terminals provided to supply the driving current to the set of LED elements; an individual amount defining unit defining a positive driving current amount and a negative driving current amount respectively to be supplied to the LED light-emitting device in a positive half cycle and a negative half cycle included in one cycle of the AC current respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Takeda, Akeo Kasakura, Shinji Takai, Yoshihito Sato, Hiroaki Sakuta
  • Publication number: 20110204389
    Abstract: An illuminating device comprises one or more luminescent devices (1). The luminescent device comprises a semiconductor light emitting element (10) emitting a excitation light having an peak within a wavelength range from 350 nm to 430 nm, and a luminescent part (20) comprising a sealing member (22) and a phosphor (21) absorbing the light from the semiconductor light emitting element (10) and emitting a light with different emission spectrum. For the luminescent device (1), an excitation light contribution degree ?E, an index quantitatively representing what extent of a visible component of the excitation light is involved in color mixing of a combined light of the luminescent device (1), is 0.005 or less, and a mean color rendering index Ra is 70 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akeo KASAKURA, Kazuhiko Kagawa, Naoto Kijima
  • Patent number: D742557
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouta Yoshizawa, Hiroyuki Ooshima, Akeo Kasakura
  • Patent number: D854200
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Akeo Kasakura, Yutaka Saito, Yoshimasa Sakai