Patents by Inventor Eiji Ohta
Eiji Ohta 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).
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Publication number: 20090310060Abstract: An optical package includes one or two or more film-like or sheet-like optical elements, a plate-like support which supports the one or two or more optical elements, and a film-like or sheet-like packaging member which covers the one or two or more optical elements and the support. The one or two or more optical elements and the support form a stack, the stack and the packaging member are in close contact with each other, and the packaging member has a shrinkage property or a stretching property and contains voids and a filler disposed in the voids.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2009Publication date: December 17, 2009Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Miki Sudo, Eiji Ohta, Tatsuya Harima, Shogo Shinkai, Taro Omura, Kazuhiro Okamoto, Akiko Kakibe, Masayasu Kakinuma
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Patent number: 7633682Abstract: An optical packaged body capable of preventing generation of a wrinkle, deflection, and warpage, capable of being thinned is provided. The optical package body includes a support medium and a packaging film that covers the support medium in a state of being applied with shrinkage force. The packaging film has an optical function section that acts on light from a light source in at least one of a first region into which the light from the light source enters and a second region from which the light from the light source is emitted after passing through the optical packaged body when the light source is arranged on one face side of the optical packaged body.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2008Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Yasuyuki Kudo, Hirokazu Odagiri, Satoshi Sato, Andrew Chakchung Yu, Shogo Shinkai, Taro Omura, Hiroshi Mizuno, Akihiro Horii, Tatsuya Harima
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Publication number: 20090303413Abstract: An optical sheet packaged body in which a wrinkle is not generated is provided. The optical sheet packaged body includes a laminated body in which a plurality of optical sheets such as a light source image segmentation sheet, a diffusion plate, a diffusion sheet, and a luminance enhancement film are layered, and a flexible film that wraps around the laminated body and has one or a plurality of openings to expose at least part of an outer edge of the diffusion plate. An exposed portion exposed from at least one of the openings of the diffusion plate is provided with a shape (supported portion) for positioning to a chassis (bottom chassis and middle chassis) supporting the optical sheet packaged body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2008Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Yasuyuki Kudo, Hirokazu Odagiri, Satoshi Sato, Andrew Chakchung Yu, Hiroshi Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Maekawa, Masayasu Kakinuma, Taro Omura, Taku Ishimori, Shigehiro Yamakita, Yoshihiro Fujimaki, Mitsunari Hoshi
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Publication number: 20090153775Abstract: An optical sheet has a large number of cylindrical lens elements provided successively on one of principal faces thereof. The cylindrical lens elements have a hyperboloidal face or a paraboloidal face and have a finite focal distance on the emission side of illumination light. Where a Z axis is taken in parallel to a normal line direction to the optical sheet and an X axis is taken in a direction of the row of the cylindrical lens elements, a cross sectional shape of the cylindrical lens elements satisfies Z=X2/(R+?{square root over ( )}(R2?(1+K)X2)) (where R is the radius of curvature of a distal end vertex, and K is a conic constant).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2008Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsuo Arima, Jun Shimizu, Hirokazu Odagiri, Eiji Ohta, Kei Obata
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Publication number: 20090079900Abstract: An optical element covering member includes: at least one optical element; a support medium supporting the at least one optical element; and a shrinkable covering member covering the at least one optical element and the support medium. In the optical element covering member, among sides forming primary surfaces of the support medium, at least one set of sides facing each other is covered with the covering member, and the following equation (1) is satisfied under conditions at a temperature of 70° C., 0?F?1.65×104×t/L ??(1) where t indicates the thickness of the support medium, L indicates the length of the side of the support medium covered with the covering member, F indicates a tensile force of the covering member, which acts in a direction parallel to the side having the length L.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2008Publication date: March 26, 2009Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Eiji Ohta, Ken Hosoya, Yasuyuki Kudo, Shigehiro Yamakita, Masayasu Kakinuma, Taku Ishimori, Shogo Shinkai
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Publication number: 20090079899Abstract: An optical element package includes at least one optical element; a supporting member that supports the at least one optical element; and a packaging component having shrinkability that packages the at least one optical element and the supporting member. The supporting member has two main surfaces having a rectangular shape, and in angle formed between an orientation axis of a main surface portion of the packaging component and a side surface of the supporting member is 8° or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2008Publication date: March 26, 2009Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Eiji Ohta, Ken Hosoya, Shigehiro Yamakita, Shogo Shinkai, Masayasu Kakinuma, Taku Ishimori
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Publication number: 20090059122Abstract: A surface emitting device includes a plurality of light sources disposed on an identical plane, an optical element having translucent properties and having formed thereon a luminance distribution-forming layer for suppressing luminance variations of light emitted from the plurality of light sources. A reflective surface is provided. for reflecting a light emitted from the plurality of light sources, the reflective surface being disposed opposite to the optical element by sandwiching the plurality of light sources with an air layer in between the reflective surface and the optical element. A diffuser for diffusing the light emitted from the plurality of light sources is disposed opposite to the plurality of light sources by sandwiching the optical element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo Shinkai, Shigehiro Yamakita, Taro Omura, Taku Ishimori, Eiji Ohta
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Publication number: 20090059119Abstract: An optical element covering member capable of improving insufficiency in rigidity of the optical element while an increase in thickness of a liquid crystal display device or deterioration of display characteristics of the liquid crystal display device is reduced, a backlight provided with the optical element covering member, and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The optical element covering member includes at least one optical element, a support medium for supporting the at least one optical element, and a covering member for covering the at least one optical element and the support medium. The at least one optical element and the support medium constitute a stack.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Yasuyuki Kudo, Hirokazu Odagiri, Satoshi Sato, Andrew Chakchung Yu, Masayasu Kakinuma, Fumiko Sasaki
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Patent number: 7483094Abstract: An optical sheet has a large number of cylindrical lens elements provided successively on one of principal faces thereof. The cylindrical lens elements have a hyperboloidal face or a paraboloidal face and have a finite focal distance on the emission side of illumination light. Where a Z axis is taken in parallel to a normal line direction to the optical sheet and an X axis is taken in a direction of the row of the cylindrical lens elements, a cross sectional shape of the cylindrical lens elements satisfies Z=X2/(R+?{square root over ( )}(R2?(1+K)X2)) (where R is the radius of curvature of a distal end vertex, and K is a conic constant).Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsuo Arima, Jun Shimizu, Hirokazu Odagiri, Eiji Ohta, Kei Obata
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Publication number: 20080259243Abstract: There is provided an optical sheet stack which includes a first optical sheet having a large number of irregularities consecutively arranged on one surface thereof, and a second optical sheet stacked thereon. In the optical sheet stack, the second optical sheet has, on a bonding surface thereof, an adhesive layer bonded with apexes of the irregularities, and while assuming pitch of arrangement of the irregularities as P, and width of bonding of each apex of the irregularities bonded to the adhesive layer as Pw, the relation of 0<Pw/P?0.2 is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2007Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Yasuyuki Kudo, Shogo Shinkai, Shigehiro Yamakita, Makoto Aoki
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Publication number: 20080252812Abstract: An optical element covering member is provided which can suppress degradation in display performance caused by warping and undulation. The optical element covering member includes at least one optical element, a support medium supporting the optical element; and a covering member covering the optical element and the support medium. In the above optical element covering member, the covering member has a Vicat softening point of more than 85° C., and at least one surface of the covering member, which covers the support medium, has a coefficient of thermal expansion in the range of 85% to 160% of the coefficient of thermal expansion of the support medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2008Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Masayasu Kakinuma, Ken Hosoya, Taku Ishimori, Shigehiro Yamakita, Shogo Shinkai
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Publication number: 20080252814Abstract: A optical element covering member includes one or more optical elements, a support medium for supporting the one or more optical elements, and a cover material for covering the one or more optical elements and the support medium. The cover material includes a layer of block copolymer of vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon and conjugate diene, and a mass ratio of the vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon to the conjugate diene stands at 95:5 to 5:95.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2008Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Taro Omura, Eiji Ohta, Shogo Shinkai
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Publication number: 20080252826Abstract: An optical element covering member includes one or more optical elements, a support medium for supporting the one or more optical elements, and a covering member for covering the one or more optical elements and the support medium. At least one out of the one or more optical elements is a reflective polarizer, and the covering member has at least a region, through which the light inputted from a light source is emitted to a liquid crystal panel, the region having a phase difference lag of not more than 1/50? of a measured wavelength, with respect to an optical axis of the reflective polarizer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2008Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigehiro Yamakita, Eiji Ohta, Shogo Shinkai, Taku Ishimori
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Publication number: 20080248332Abstract: A synthetic resin card having a substantially planar core section and a first outer layer and a second outer layer laminated on front and back surfaces of the core section, respectively, the first outer layer and the second outer layer having molecular orientations, the difference ? in the angle of orientation between the molecular orientations of the first and second outer layers is 20° or less, and at least one of the first and second outer layers is provided with a recording layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2008Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Miki Sudo, Eiji Ohta, Shinichi Matsumura
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Publication number: 20080205066Abstract: An optical packaged body capable of preventing generation of a wrinkle, deflection, and warpage, capable of being thinned is provided. The optical package body includes a support medium and a packaging film that covers the support medium in a state of being applied with shrinkage force. The packaging film has an optical function section that acts on light from a light source in at least one of a first region into which the light from the light source enters and a second region from which the light from the light source is emitted after passing through the optical packaged body when the light source is arranged on one face side of the optical packaged body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Yasuyuki Kudo, Hirokazu Odagiri, Satoshi Sato, Andrew Chakchung Yu, Shogo Shinkai, Taro Omura, Hiroshi Mizuno, Akihiro Horii, Tatsuya Harima
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Patent number: 7404998Abstract: A synthetic resin card in which card warpage can be reduced and a method for producing the same are provided. By setting the difference ? in the angle of orientation between outer layers symmetrically laminated on a card core section, it is possible to reduce imbalance of stress resulting from the difference in the shrinkage factor between the outer layers, and card warpage can be suppressed. Furthermore, by setting the thickness of the outer layers at 25 ?m to 125 ?m, rising of the surface of the synthetic resin card can be reduced. By reducing the card warpage and the rising of the surface of the synthetic resin card, it is possible to improve moving characteristics when the synthetic resin card is allowed to move in a device.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2004Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Miki Sudo, Eiji Ohta, Shinichi Matsumura
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Publication number: 20080137346Abstract: An optical sheet and a display device including the optical sheet are disclosed. The optical sheet includes a first lens sheet having a plurality of first three-dimensional structures arrayed to extend to one surface thereof, and a reflective polarizer sheet for transmitting either one of p-polarization component and s-polarization component of incident light and reflecting the other of p-polarization component and s-polarization component of the incident light. Head portions of the first three-dimensional structures are bonded to the reflective polarizer sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2007Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Eiji Ohta, Shigehiro Yamakita, Makoto Aoki, Toru Abiko
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Publication number: 20080136758Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes: a panel driven according to a video signal; a light source configured to emit light for illuminating the panel; a lens sheet disposed between the panel and the light source; and driving means for driving the panel. The lens sheet is formed by arranging a plurality of three-dimensional structures extending on one plane along an extending direction of the structures. A width of the three-dimensional structures in an arrangement direction is 110 ?m or more. The panel has a pixel arrangement such that subpixels of a plurality of colors are arranged within one pixel and such that a plurality of subpixels of a same color are arranged within one pixel. The driving means drives the panel such that light and shade occur in a plurality of subpixels of a same color included in one pixel of pixels having at least a low gradation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2007Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Masato Ishigaki, Satoshi Sato, Shigehiro Yamakita
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Patent number: 7377446Abstract: To provide an IC card, which secures satisfied flatness of the card surface to achieve good printing properties on the card surface. An IC card has a core layer which includes a plurality of sheet materials wherein inner core sheets adjacent to an IC module have through holes formed in a region corresponding to the IC mounted portion, wherein a relationship A=(B1+C1)±30 ?m is satisfied, where A (?m) represents the sum of heights of the through holes, B1 represents a projection height on an IC mounted surface of the IC module, and C1 represents a projection height on an IC non-mounted surface. By virtue of having this structure, the IC card can secure card flatness sufficient to obtain satisfied printing properties with respect to the rewrite sheet.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2003Date of Patent: May 27, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Eiji Ohta, Shinichi Matsumura
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Publication number: 20070242184Abstract: An optical sheet is provided. The optical sheet includes: a light-transmissive base; and an optical functional layer provided to at least one surface of the base, in which the base is composed of a stack of transmissive sheets bonded while placing an adhesive material layer in between.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2007Publication date: October 18, 2007Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Hirokazu Odagiri, Katsuhiro Doi, Makoto Aoki, Satoko Asaoka, Miki Sudo, Yu Chakchung