Patents by Inventor Atsushi Katou

Atsushi Katou 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).

  • Publication number: 20110116050
    Abstract: The present invention is applied to a projector that comprises a plurality of projection devices which generate images by modulating laser beams in the colors of R, G, B with optical modulators and which project the images onto projection surfaces through projection lenses, wherein the images projected respectively from said projection devices onto said projection surfaces are tiled into a single image as a whole. In the projector of the present invention, the number of G-color laser beam sources is smaller than the number of images projected respectively from said projection devices onto said projection surfaces; and said projection devices share said G-color laser beam sources and apply G-color laser beams emitted from said G-color laser beam sources to said optical modulators thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Katou
  • Patent number: 7895703
    Abstract: A backdoor apparatus includes a backdoor panel, a rear spoiler and a wiper mechanism. The wiper mechanism includes a motor assembly, a wiper arm and a wiper blade. A motor installation recess is formed in a top portion of the backdoor panel to receive the motor assembly. The motor assembly includes a cover, which covers a portion of a motor, which is exposed from the rear spoiler. The cover has a flange, which covers a top end part of the glass. The cover, which includes the flange, does not contact the glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: ASMO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Ina, Masaki Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Kikuta, Atsushi Katou
  • Publication number: 20080301898
    Abstract: A rear spoiler includes a depth end wall, which bounds an accommodation space, which accommodates a wiper blade upon positioning of the wiper blade in a stop position. A distance between the depth end wall and the wiper blade in the stop position measured in a direction generally parallel to a surface of a window glass, which is wiped by the wiper blade, is set such that the distance between the depth end wall and a first longitudinal side of the wiper blade, which is opposite from the pivot axis, is larger than the distance between the depth end wall and a second longitudinal side of the wiper blade, which is opposite from the first longitudinal side of the wiper blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Katou, Eiji Ina
  • Publication number: 20070200389
    Abstract: A backdoor apparatus includes a backdoor panel, a rear spoiler and a wiper mechanism. The wiper mechanism includes a motor assembly, a wiper arm and a wiper blade. A motor installation recess is formed in a top portion of the backdoor panel to receive the motor assembly. The motor assembly includes a cover, which covers a portion of a motor, which is exposed from the rear spoiler. The cover has a flange, which covers a top end part of the glass. The cover, which includes the flange, does not contact the glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Ina, Masaki Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Kikuta, Atsushi Katou
  • Publication number: 20040195058
    Abstract: A braking apparatus for a motor vehicle comprises a main braking device for applying braking force to wheels of the motor vehicle in response to a press stroke of a brake pedal, and a parking brake device operatively connected to the main braking device for applying parking brake force from an electric motor to the wheels at parking the motor vehicle, wherein a through-hole is provided in a housing of the parking brake device, through which a machine tool will be inserted to manually rotate the electric motor when the electric motor becomes out of order after the parking brake force is applied to the wheels, and a breathing pipe is detachably connected at its one end to the through-hole and terminated at its other end at a place, for example, a passenger room, where there are little extraneous material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Ina, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Atsushi Katou
  • Patent number: 6644814
    Abstract: A DMD projector of small size, lightweight and long life, which employs LED arrays as a light source for brighter screen. According to the projector, projection light from sets of a LED array, a first fly-eye lens appressed thereto, and a second fly-eye lens disposed at a distance therefrom, which are prepared for red, green and blue, enters into three entrance planes of a XDP, and a synthesized light of red, green and blue is projected from the exit plane of the XDP to illuminate a DMD panel. At this point, rays reflected from on-pixels of the DMD panel makes images on a screen via a projection lens using an optical system in which extended images of the same number as the elements of the LED arrays, the images being obtained through exit pupils of respective element lenses of the first fly-eye lenses, the corresponding element lenses of the second fly-eye lenses, and the subsequent illumination lenses, are focused and superposed on the DMD panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: NEC Viewtechnology Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Ogawa, Atsushi Katou
  • Publication number: 20030133080
    Abstract: A DMD projector of small size, lightweight and long life, which employs LED arrays as a light source for brighter screen. According to the projector, projection light from sets of a LED array, a first fly-eye lens appressed thereto, and a second fly-eye lens disposed at a distance therefrom, which are prepared for red, green and blue, enters into three entrance planes of a XDP, and a synthesized light of red, green and blue is projected from the exit plane of the XDP to illuminate a DMD panel. At this point, rays reflected from on-pixels of the DMD panel makes images on a screen via a projection lens using an optical system in which extended images of the same number as the elements of the LED arrays, the images being obtained through exit pupils of respective element lenses of the first fly-eye lenses, the corresponding element lenses of the second fly-eye lenses, and the subsequent illumination lenses, are focused and superposed on the DMD panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: NEC VIEWTECHNOLOGY. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Ogawa, Atsushi Katou