Patents by Inventor Atsushi Motoya

Atsushi Motoya 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: 20180238506
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes: an excitation light source; a light conveying member which conveys excitation light emitted by the excitation light source; a reflecting mirror which has a surface on which a wavelength conversion layer which includes a wavelength conversion material which converts a wavelength of the excitation light conveyed by the light conveying member is formed, and reflects light obtained by the wavelength conversion material converting the wavelength; and a support which supports the light conveying member and the reflecting mirror. The reflecting mirror is thermally connected with the support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi MOTOYA
  • Patent number: 9927689
    Abstract: An illumination device includes an image element configured to convert light incident thereon to image light and to output the image light, a first light path extending to pass through the image element, and a second light path extending without passing through the image element. The first light path and the second light path are configured to project lights passing therethrough, respectively, on an object existing outside the illumination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Yamauchi, Atsushi Motoya, Ryo Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20170293060
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a balloon, a light source disposed outside the balloon; and an optical fiber that connects the balloon and the light source and propagates light emitted by the light source. At least one of the balloon and the optical fiber becomes luminous by the light emitted by the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Shintaro HAYASHI, Atsushi MOTOYA, Naoya IKENO, Motohide TOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9785039
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion member includes a substrate, a dichroic mirror layer, an SiO2 layer, a ZnO layer, and a phosphor layer, which are sequentially stacked from the substrate. The dichroic mirror layer reflects at least part of light incident from the above. The phosphor layer includes a plurality of phosphors and ZnO between the phosphors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Motoya, Kenta Watanabe, Ran Zheng, Sachiko Azuma, Yoshihisa Nagasaki, Takahiro Hamada, Mitsuru Nitta, Takashi Maniwa, Toshio Mori, Kazuhiro Matsuo
  • Patent number: 9753275
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes a first unit, a second unit, and a third unit. The first unit includes an excitation light source that produces excitation light. The second unit includes a light-for-illumination phosphor. The light-for-illumination phosphor produces and outputs light for illumination when the light-for-illumination phosphor receives excitation light. Furthermore, the second unit produces and outputs light for projection. The light for illumination and the light for projection are outputted in a time division manner. The third unit includes a light shaping member. The third unit shapes the light for illumination by the light shaping member and guides the shaped light for illumination to the outside as illumination light, and shapes the light for projection by the light shaping member and guides the shaped light for projection to the outside as projection light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Motoya, Kentaro Yamauchi, Ryo Kawamura
  • Patent number: 9679533
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes: an illumination light setter which sets illumination light for illuminating an illumination area which includes at least one of a space or an object; an image light setter which sets image light for projecting a projection image which includes at least one of a graphic or a character; and a light projector which emits the illumination light set by the illumination light setter, and projects the image light set by the image light setter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Kawamura, Kentaro Yamauchi, Atsushi Motoya
  • Patent number: 9664992
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus is provided capable of emitting light for image projection and light for illumination at the same time. The lighting apparatus includes: an imaging element that converts incident light into light corresponding to an image and outputs the light; a projection lens through which the light is projected onto an object; a first optical path taken by light that is emitted from the projection lens via the imaging element; and a second optical path taken by light that is emitted without passing through the imaging element and the projection lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Yamauchi, Atsushi Motoya, Ryo Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20170090088
    Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus includes: a flexible base body; and a light-emitting component which is attached to the base body, has a form which changes flexibly following a change in the firm of the base body, and includes: a light guide which guides laser light that enters one end of the light guide; a leaking means for causing part of the laser light guided by the light guide to leak out of the light guide in a direction which crosses a light-guiding direction; and a first light-emitter which extends along the light-guiding direction and emits light based on the part of the laser light that is leaked out of the light guide by the leaking means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Atsushi MOTOYA, Hiroshi KITANO, Kenichiro TANAKA
  • Patent number: 9518708
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a plurality of LEDs arranged in a row; an elongated wiring board on which the LEDs are mounted; and an optical lens covering all the LEDs and controlling distribution of light emitted from each LED. The light emitted from each LED has an optical axis orthogonal to the wiring board. The optical lens is a converging lens and includes a first light incident surface on which the light emitted from the LED is incident, a medium that guides the light incident from the light incident surface, a light emitting surface, and a diffusion section that contains diffusing particles for causing the light incident from the LED to diffuse. The concentration of the diffusing particles in the diffusion section is high in the vicinity of the optical axis of the light emitted from the LED and gradually decreases as a distance from the optical axis increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Ohta, Atsushi Motoya
  • Publication number: 20160077415
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion member includes a substrate, a dichroic mirror layer, an SiO2 layer, a ZnO layer, and a phosphor layer, which are sequentially stacked from the substrate. The dichroic mirror layer reflects at least part of light incident from the above. The phosphor layer includes a plurality of phosphors and ZnO between the phosphors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi MOTOYA, Kenta WATANABE, Ran ZHENG, Sachiko AZUMA, Yoshihisa NAGASAKI, Takahiro HAMADA, Mitsuru NITTA, Takashi MANIWA, Toshio MORI, Kazuhiro MATSUO
  • Patent number: 9255691
    Abstract: A light source device and a projection type display apparatus include: an excitation light source; and a fluorescence light-emitting plate including a fluorescence light-emitting section arranged opposite to the excitation light source and a reflection section containing titanium oxide located on the opposite side of the excitation light source as viewed from the side of the fluorescence light-emitting section and arranged such as to be joined to the fluorescence light-emitting section. Then, excitation light from the excitation light source is projected onto the fluorescence light-emitting section so that fluorescence emission light is emitted from the fluorescence light-emitting section and reflected fluorescence light is emitted from the reflection section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Motoya, Yohei Katsumata, Yoshimasa Fushimi
  • Patent number: 9227727
    Abstract: A lighting system includes a lighting apparatus provided along one side of an aisle and a specular reflection plate provided along the other side of the aisle to reflect the light emitted from the lighting apparatus toward a region where the lighting apparatus is provided. According to the above configuration, the lighting apparatus can illuminate the region where the lighting apparatus is provided. Therefore, it is possible to effectively illuminate a cabin of an aircraft with less lighting apparatuses as compared to conventional lighting apparatuses which are provided along both sides of the aisle. Moreover, since the number of the lighting apparatuses can be reduced, it is possible to improve fuel efficiency of the aircraft by reducing the total weight of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadasi Nisimura, Youji Tachino, Atsushi Motoya, Takashi Ohta, Hiroshi Kido, Junichi Hasegawa, Shigeo Gotoh, Nobuyuki Matsui, Tadashi Murakami
  • Patent number: 9194574
    Abstract: An illumination light source includes a light emitting module having a light emitting part, a circuit unit, a base, a tube-like first housing member to accommodate the circuit unit, and a second housing member having a plurality of radiation fins. The light emitting module is disposed on one opening-side of the first housing member, while the base is disposed on the other opening-side. The second housing member includes a rotary ring body with a rotation axis agreeing with the center axis of the first housing member, and the plurality of the plate-lake radiation fins. The plurality of the radiation fins is parallel to one virtual plane containing the rotation axis, and disposed at intervals between each other in the direction orthogonal to the virtual plane. The inner wall of the rotary ring body surrounds the outer walls of the first and second housing members to combine the members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Watanabe, Atsushi Motoya
  • Patent number: 9127815
    Abstract: This lighting apparatus includes three or more LEDs arranged in a row. Each of the LEDs emits light of a color different from that of an LED adjacent to itself, and the LEDs include an LED having a relatively wide light distribution angle and others of the three or more LEDs each having a relatively narrow light distribution angle. The one LED is arranged in an inner portion in the row of the other LEDs. In this configuration, light emitted from the one LED is mixed well with lights emitted from the respective other LEDs adjacent to the one LED, and thus, color unevenness of illuminating light can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youji Tachino, Atsushi Motoya, Takashi Ohta, Hiroshi Kido, Junichi Hasegawa, Shigeo Gotoh, Nobuyuki Matsui, Tadashi Murakami, Tadasi Nisimura
  • Patent number: 9062851
    Abstract: An LED lamp provides a strong red color with a natural appearance. The LED lamp is provided with an LED module and a filter. The LED module includes a blue LED with a main emission peak in the 440 nm to 460 nm wavelength band, a green/yellow phosphor that is excited by light emitted by the blue LED, and a red phosphor that is excited by light emitted by at least one of the blue LED and the green/yellow phosphor. The filter reduces the spectral radiation intensity of at least a portion of the 570 nm to 590 nm wavelength band among light emitted by the LED module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoko Matsubayashi, Hiroshi Yagi, Masanori Shimizu, Yoshio Manabe, Atsushi Motoya, Kazuhiro Matsuo, Toshio Mori
  • Publication number: 20150124431
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes a first unit, a second unit, and a third unit. The first unit includes an excitation light source that produces excitation light. The second unit includes a light-for-illumination phosphor. The light-for-illumination phosphor produces and outputs light for illumination when the light-for-illumination phosphor receives excitation light. Furthermore, the second unit produces and outputs light for projection. The light for illumination and the light for projection are outputted in a time division manner. The third unit includes a light shaping member. The third unit shapes the light for illumination by the light shaping member and guides the shaped light for illumination to the outside as illumination light, and shapes the light for projection by the light shaping member and guides the shaped light for projection to the outside as projection light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi MOTOYA, Kentaro YAMAUCHI, Ryo KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20150124224
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus is provided capable of emitting light for image projection and light for illumination at the same time. The lighting apparatus includes: an imaging element that converts incident light into light corresponding to an image and outputs the light; a projection lens through which the light is projected onto an object; a first optical path taken by light that is emitted from the projection lens via the imaging element; and a second optical path taken by light that is emitted without passing through the imaging element and the projection lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro YAMAUCHI, Atsushi MOTOYA, Ryo KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20150124223
    Abstract: An illumination device includes an image element configured to convert light incident thereon to image light and to output the image light, a first light path extending to pass through the image element, and a second light path extending without passing through the image element. The first light path and the second light path are configured to project lights passing therethrough, respectively, on an object existing outside the illumination device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro YAMAUCHI, Atsushi MOTOYA, Ryo KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20150123946
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes: an illumination light setter which sets illumination light for illuminating an illumination area which includes at least one of a space or an object; an image light setter which sets image light for projecting a projection image which includes at least one of a graphic or a character; and a light projector which emits the illumination light set by the illumination light setter, and projects the image light set by the image light setter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo KAWAMURA, Kentaro YAMAUCHI, Atsushi MOTOYA
  • Patent number: RE47591
    Abstract: An LED lamp provides a strong red color with a natural appearance. The LED lamp is provided with an LED module and a filter. The LED module includes a blue LED with a main emission peak in the 440 nm to 460 nm wavelength band, a green/yellow phosphor that is excited by light emitted by the blue LED, and a red phosphor that is excited by light emitted by at least one of the blue LED and the green/yellow phosphor. The filter reduces the spectral radiation intensity of at least a portion of the 570 nm to 590 nm wavelength band among light emitted by the LED module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoko Matsubayashi, Hiroshi Yagi, Masanori Shimizu, Yoshio Manabe, Atsushi Motoya, Kazuhiro Matsuo, Toshio Mori