Patents by Inventor Daisuke Kasai

Daisuke Kasai 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: 20260033065
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device includes: preparing a light-emitting element; disposing a bonding member on an upper surface of the light-emitting element, the bonding member being uncured; disposing a light-transmissive member on an upper surface of the light-emitting element via the bonding member, and pressing the bonding member with the light-transmissive member to cause the bonding member to creep up along a lateral surface of the light-transmissive member; curing the bonding member; and removing a portion of the bonding member and a portion of the light-transmissive member, which comprises scraping the bonding member covering the lateral surface of the light-transmissive member, and the lateral surface of the light-transmissive member covered with the bonding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2025
    Publication date: January 29, 2026
    Applicant: Nichia Corporation
    Inventor: Daisuke KASAI
  • Publication number: 20250361573
    Abstract: A quenching method of cooling an object to be treated placed on a support base, including a lowering control step controlling the support base to be lowered into a coolant accumulated in a state of the coolant not flowing in a cooling tank and having a maximum value of a surface heat transfer coefficient in a boiling stage of 6000 W/m2·K or more, and immersion of the object is completed and the support base is stopped while a vapor film of the coolant is formed around the object by heat of the object, and a state maintaining step in which the coolant is not flowed and the support base does not move so that no relative flow is applied between the object and the coolant until a surface of the object undergoes martensite transformation after the support base is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2025
    Publication date: November 27, 2025
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji OBAYASHI, Kazuaki OKADA, Daisuke KASAI, Keisuke MATSUZAKA, Tadashi MIZUTANI, Takeshi RYUJIN, Toshiaki MATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20250361574
    Abstract: A quenching method of cooling an object to be treated placed on a support base, the quenching method includes a lowering control step controlling the support base so that the support base is lowered into a coolant accumulated in a state of the coolant not flowing in a cooling tank, and immersion of the object is completed and the support base is stopped while a vapor film of the coolant is formed around the object by heat of the object, and a state maintaining step of maintaining a state in which the coolant does not flow and a state in which the support base does not move so that a relative flow velocity is not applied between the object and the coolant at least until a surface of the object to be treated undergoes martensite transformation after the lowering of the support base is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2025
    Publication date: November 27, 2025
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji OBAYASHI, Kazuaki OKADA, Daisuke KASAI, Keisuke MATSUZAKA, Tadashi MIZUTANI, Takeshi RYUJIN, Toshiaki MATSUMURA
  • Patent number: 12378620
    Abstract: Provided is a method for executing a quenching method in which an object to be treated that is a quenching target is cooled with a quenching coolant that is a coolant for quenching, in which the object to be treated is moved inside the quenching coolant accumulated in a cooling tank, by a moving device for moving the object to be treated, and at least from when the object to be treated comes into contact with the quenching coolant until a surface of the object to be treated undergoes martensitic transformation, a state in which a relative speed of the object to be treated and the quenching coolant is slower than a moving speed of the object to be treated is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Obayashi, Daisuke Kasai, Keisuke Matsuzaka, Takeshi Naito, Takeshi Ryujin, Toshiaki Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20240405506
    Abstract: A light-emitting module includes a mounting substrate and a light-emitting device. The mounting substrate includes first and second mounting portions and an insulating portion. The first mounting portion has a first upper surface. The second mounting portion has a second upper surface at a position higher than a position of the first upper surface. The insulating portion covers only a part of a region of the first upper surface, only a part of a region of the second upper surface, and a region between the first upper surface and the second upper surface. The light-emitting device has a lower surface mounted on the mounting substrate so as to overlap with at least a part of the first mounting portion, at least a part of the second mounting portion, and at least a part of the insulating portion in a top view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventor: Daisuke KASAI
  • Patent number: 11808969
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a planar light source includes: providing a wiring substrate; locating a light guide plate on a first principal face of the wiring substrate, wherein the light guide plate includes a plurality of unit regions arranged in one dimension or two dimensions, and a plurality of through holes that are open at the a principal face and a second principal face of the light guide plate, wherein at least one of the through holes is located in the unit regions; locating light sources in the through holes in the unit regions on the first principal face of the wiring substrate; locating a first light transmissive member in a first of the through holes; and locating a second light transmissive member in the first through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Kasai
  • Patent number: 11808966
    Abstract: A light-emitting module includes: a plurality of light sources; and a lightguide plate including a plurality of light source placement sections, in each of which at least one light source is arranged, arrayed in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The lightguide plate defines at least one first-A light control groove and at least one first-B light control groove that extend parallel to the second direction between a first light source placement section and a second light source placement section adjacent to the first light source placement section in the first direction, and at least one second-A light control groove and at least one second-B light control groove that extend parallel to the first direction between the first light source placement section and a third light source placement section adjacent to the first light source placement section in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Nakabayashi, Daisuke Kasai, Takao Nakauchi
  • Publication number: 20230353024
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotor or a rotary electric machine having magnet holes. The method includes a step of preparing a plurality of steel sheets punched out of a material by pressing, a step of stacking the plurality of steel sheets to form a rotor core, a step of causing plastic strain by applying mechanical energy or high-density energy to at least one steel sheet out of the plurality of steel sheets, and a step of applying heat to the steel sheet in which the plastic strain has been caused.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke MATSUZAKA, Daisuke KASAI, Kazuaki OKADA
  • Publication number: 20230194766
    Abstract: A light-emitting module includes: a plurality of light sources; and a lightguide plate including a plurality of light source placement sections, in each of which at least one light source is arranged, arrayed in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The lightguide plate defines at least one first-A light control groove and at least one first-B light control groove that extend parallel to the second direction between a first light source placement section and a second light source placement section adjacent to the first light source placement section in the first direction, and at least one second-A light control groove and at least one second-B light control groove that extend parallel to the first direction between the first light source placement section and a third light source placement section adjacent to the first light source placement section in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya NAKABAYASHI, Daisuke KASAI, Takao NAKAUCHI
  • Patent number: 11616169
    Abstract: In order to obtain a light emitting module with a less unevenness of luminance, provided is a method for manufacturing a light emitting module comprising: preparing a light emitter and a light-transmissive light guide plate, the light emitter comprising a light emitting element, the light guide plate having a first main surface serving as a light emitting surface from which light is emitted outside and a second main surface located opposite to the first main surface and having a concave portion, the concave portion comprising a side surface and a bottom surface that is smaller than an opening of the concave portion in a cross-sectional view; fixing the light emitter to the bottom surface of the concave portion via a bonding member; and forming a wiring at an electrode of the light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Kasai, Akira Miki, Toru Hashimoto, Shinichi Daikoku
  • Patent number: 11612921
    Abstract: There is provided a rolling mill that includes a plurality of rolls, in which any one roll among respective rolls is adopted as a reference roll, including a load detection apparatus, detects a vertical roll load at a rolling support point position; a pressing apparatus pressing the roll chocks in the rolling direction; a driving apparatus moving the roll chocks in the rolling direction; and a position control unit which fixes a rolling direction position of roll chocks of the reference roll, and drives the driving apparatus to control positions in the rolling direction of the roll chocks of the rolls other than the reference roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishii, Daisuke Kasai, Daisuke Nikkuni
  • Patent number: 11598913
    Abstract: A light-emitting module includes: a plurality of light sources; and a lightguide plate including a plurality of light source placement sections, in each of which at least one light source is arranged, arrayed in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The lightguide plate defines at least one first-A light control groove and at least one first-B light control groove that extend parallel to the second direction between a first light source placement section and a second light source placement section adjacent to the first light source placement section in the first direction, and at least one second-A light control groove and at least one second-B light control groove that extend parallel to the first direction between the first light source placement section and a third light source placement section adjacent to the first light source placement section in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Nakabayashi, Daisuke Kasai, Takao Nakauchi
  • Publication number: 20230003933
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a planar light source includes: providing a wiring substrate; locating a light guide plate on a first principal face of the wiring substrate, wherein the light guide plate includes a plurality of unit regions arranged in one dimension or two dimensions, and a plurality of through holes that are open at the a principal face and a second principal face of the light guide plate, wherein at least one of the through holes is located in the unit regions; locating light sources in the through holes in the unit regions on the first principal face of the wiring substrate; locating a first light transmissive member in a first of the through holes; and locating a second light transmissive member in the first through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Nichia Corporation
    Inventor: Daisuke KASAI
  • Patent number: 11508706
    Abstract: A light-emitting module includes: a lightguide plate having a main surface and including a plurality of unit regions including at least one first unit region and a plurality of second unit regions, the lightguide plate including a plurality of first recesses in the main surface; a plurality of light sources provided at the main surface, each of the light sources being located in the first recess so as to correspond to one of the unit regions; and a light-transmitting member provided in the first recess of each of the unit regions. In the second unit regions, an optical axis of the light sources is coincident with a center of the first recess. In the first unit region, the optical axis of the light source is offset from the center of the first recess, and an upper surface of the light-transmitting member has a first receding part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Kasai
  • Patent number: 11480725
    Abstract: A planar light source includes: a light guide plate including: a first principal face, a second principal face located opposite the first principal face, and a plurality of through holes that are open at the first principal face and the second principal face; a plurality of light sources, wherein at least one of the light sources is located in the through holes of the light guide plate; a wiring substrate on which the plurality of light sources are located; a first light transmissive member located in a first of the through holes so as to cover at least a portion of a lateral face of the at least one light source located in the first through hole; and a second light transmissive member located in the first through hole so as to cover at least an upper face of the first light transmissive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Kasai
  • Patent number: 11342314
    Abstract: A light-emitting module includes a light-emitting element unit including a light-emitting element, a light-transmissive member covering a main light-emitting surface of the light-emitting element, and a first light-reflective member covering lateral surfaces of the light-emitting element; a light-transmissive light-guiding plate having a first main surface and a second main surface having a recess accommodating the light-emitting element unit; a second light-reflective member covering the second main surface and the light-emitting element unit; and a light-transmissive bonding member disposed in contact with inner lateral surfaces of the recess and outer lateral surfaces of the light-emitting element unit. At least a portion of the first light-reflective member is located outside the recess in a cross-sectional view, and is in contact with the light-transmissive bonding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Kasai, Tadao Hayashi, Toru Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11326244
    Abstract: Steel materials for continuously variable transmissions sheaves, and methods for manufacturing a continuously variable transmission sheaves, are provided. In the disclosed steel materials for continuously variable transmission sheaves, the steel materials satisfy the following expressions: 13.9?Fn1?15.5, and 1.20?Fn2?4.35 (in which Fn1=7×Cr?6×Si+4×Mn; and Fn2=Al×N×104).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Hattori, Kazumichi Tsukuda, Hiroyuki Nozaki, Daisuke Kasai, Takuya Watanabe, Tetsuya Ohashi, Shouji Toudou, Akira Shiga
  • Patent number: 11307455
    Abstract: A light-emitting module includes a light-transmitting plate member having a first main surface and an opposite second main surface light-transmitting plate member including a plurality of light sources provided on the first surface; and a plurality of lens structures provided in the second surface and corresponding to each of the light sources, such that an optical axis of some of the lens structures coincident with the optical axis of a corresponding one of the light sources, and, an optical axis of some of the lens structures is offset from an optical axis of a corresponding one of the light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Kasai
  • Publication number: 20220106653
    Abstract: Provided is a method for executing a quenching method in which an object to be treated that is a quenching target is cooled with a quenching coolant that is a coolant for quenching, in which the object to be treated is moved inside the quenching coolant accumulated in a cooling tank, by a moving device for moving the object to be treated, and at least from when the object to be treated comes into contact with the quenching coolant until a surface of the object to be treated undergoes martensitic transformation, a state in which a relative speed of the object to be treated and the quenching coolant is slower than a moving speed of the object to be treated is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji OBAYASHI, Daisuke KASAI, Keisuke MATSUZAKA, Takeshi NAITO, Takeshi RYUJIN, Toshiaki MATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20220003915
    Abstract: A light-emitting module includes: a plurality of light sources; and a lightguide plate including a plurality of light source placement sections, in each of which at least one light source is arranged, arrayed in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The lightguide plate defines at least one first-A light control groove and at least one first-B light control groove that extend parallel to the second direction between a first light source placement section and a second light source placement section adjacent to the first light source placement section in the first direction, and at least one second-A light control groove and at least one second-B light control groove that extend parallel to the first direction between the first light source placement section and a third light source placement section adjacent to the first light source placement section in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya NAKABAYASHI, Daisuke KASAI, Takao NAKAUCHI