Patents by Inventor Eishiro Otani

Eishiro Otani 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: 8508129
    Abstract: A plasma display panel equipped with a front substrate and a back substrate facing each other to form a discharge space. On the discharge space side of the front substrate there are disposed a metal oxide layer and magnesium oxide crystal particles. The magnesium oxide crystal particles are arranged to be protruding closer to the discharge space than the surface of the metal oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Naoi, Hai Lin, Eishiro Otani, Hiroshi Ito
  • Patent number: 8427054
    Abstract: A plasma display panel equipped with a front substrate and a back substrate facing each other to form a discharge space. On the discharge space side of the front substrate there are disposed a metal oxide layer and magnesium oxide crystal particles. The magnesium oxide crystal particles are arranged to be protruding closer to the discharge space than the surface of the metal oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Naoi, Hai Lin, Eishiro Otani, Hiroshi Ito
  • Patent number: 8410693
    Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a rear plate and a front plate arranged as opposed to the rear plate. The rear plate has a vertical barrier rib and a horizontal barrier rib orthogonal to the vertical barrier rib. The front plate has a first transparent electrode in parallel with the horizontal barrier rib and a plurality of second transparent electrodes in parallel with the vertical barrier rib. The front plate further has a plurality of bus electrodes having the same width and arranged with the same interval. The plurality of bus electrodes includes a first bus electrode electrically connected with the first transparent electrode, and a second bus electrode electrically connected with the plurality of second transparent electrodes. The second bus electrode is formed in a position opposed to the horizontal barrier rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Mizuno, Shinichiro Hori, Eishiro Otani
  • Publication number: 20120306364
    Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a front substrate, a plurality of row electrode pairs arranged on the front substrate, a dielectric layer formed on the front substrate so as to cover the plurality of row electrodes, a metal oxide layer formed on the dielectric layer, a plurality of metal oxide crystal particles formed on the dielectric layer or on the metal oxide layer, a back substrate facing the front substrate to form a discharge space, a plurality of column electrodes arranged on the back substrate, and partition wall units formed on the plurality of column electrodes to partition the discharge space to form a plurality of discharge cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Naoi, Hai Lin, Eishiro Otani, Hiroshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20120293065
    Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a rear plate and a front plate arranged as opposed to the rear plate. The rear plate has a vertical barrier rib and a horizontal barrier rib orthogonal to the vertical barrier rib. The front plate has a first transparent electrode in parallel with the horizontal barrier rib and a plurality of second transparent electrodes in parallel with the vertical barrier rib. The front plate further has a plurality of bus electrodes having the same width and arranged with the same interval. The plurality of bus electrodes includes a first bus electrode electrically connected with the first transparent electrode, and a second bus electrode electrically connected with the plurality of second transparent electrodes. The second bus electrode is formed in a position opposed to the horizontal barrier rib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Mizuno, Shinichiro Hori, Eishiro Otani
  • Patent number: 8269419
    Abstract: A plasma display panel equipped with a front substrate and a back substrate facing each other to form a discharge space. On the discharge space side of the front substrate there are disposed a metal oxide layer and magnesium oxide crystal particles. An area ratio of the magnesium oxide crystal particles to the metal oxide layer is 0.1% to 85%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Naoi, Hai Lin, Eishiro Otani, Hiroshi Ito
  • Patent number: 8258701
    Abstract: A plasma display panel equipped with a front substrate and a back substrate facing each other to form a discharge space. On the discharge space side of the front substrate there are disposed a metal oxide layer and magnesium oxide crystal particles. Among the magnesium oxide crystal particles there are magnesium oxide crystal particles having a particle diameter of at least 3500 angstroms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Naoi, Hai Lin, Eishiro Otani, Hiroshi Ito
  • Patent number: 8253333
    Abstract: A plasma display panel equipped with a front substrate and a back substrate facing each other to form a discharge space. On the discharge space side of the front substrate there are disposed a metal oxide layer and magnesium oxide crystal particles. The magnesium oxide crystal particles are arranged on the discharge space side of the metal oxide layer, or alternatively, part of the magnesium oxide crystal particles are disposed within the metal oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Naoi, Hai Lin, Eishiro Otani, Hiroshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20120070616
    Abstract: A plasma display panel equipped with a front substrate and a back substrate facing each other to form a discharge space. On the discharge space side of the front substrate there are disposed a metal oxide layer and magnesium oxide crystal particles. The magnesium oxide crystal particles are arranged to be protruding closer to the discharge space than the surface of the metal oxide layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Taro NAOI, Hai LIN, Eishiro OTANI, Hiroshi ITO
  • Publication number: 20110309742
    Abstract: A plasma display panel equipped with a front substrate and a back substrate facing each other to form a discharge space. On the discharge space side of the front substrate there are disposed a metal oxide layer and magnesium oxide crystal particles. The magnesium oxide crystal particles are arranged to be protruding closer to the discharge space than the surface of the metal oxide layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Naoi, Hai Lin, Eishiro Otani, Hiroshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20110309743
    Abstract: A plasma display panel equipped with a front substrate and a back substrate facing each other to form a discharge space. On the discharge space side of the front substrate there are disposed a metal oxide layer and magnesium oxide crystal particles. The magnesium oxide crystal particles are arranged on the discharge space side of the metal oxide layer, or alternatively, part of the magnesium oxide crystal particles are disposed within the metal oxide layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Naoi, Hai Lin, Eishiro Otani, Hiroshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20110309740
    Abstract: A plasma display panel equipped with a front substrate and a back substrate facing each other to form a discharge space. On the discharge space side of the front substrate there are disposed a metal oxide layer and magnesium oxide crystal particles. An area ratio of the magnesium oxide crystal particles to the metal oxide layer is 0.1% to 85%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Naoi, Hai Lin, Eishiro Otani, Hiroshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20110309741
    Abstract: A plasma display panel equipped with a front substrate and a back substrate facing each other to form a discharge space. On the discharge space side of the front substrate there are disposed a metal oxide layer and magnesium oxide crystal particles. Among the magnesium oxide crystal particles there are magnesium oxide crystal particles having a particle diameter of at least 3500 angstroms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Naoi, Hai Lin, Eishiro Otani, Hiroshi Ito
  • Patent number: 8076851
    Abstract: A plasma display panel including a front substrate and a back substrate facing each other across a discharge space, and a plurality of row electrode pairs and a plurality of column electrodes extending in a direction orthogonal to the row electrodes. The row electrodes and said column electrodes being provided between the front substrate and the back substrate and forming unit light emission areas at intersections with each other within the discharge space. A crystal having a volumetric particle-size distribution in which a ratio of a crystal having a particle size of 0.7 ?m or less is 25% or less, is provided in an area facing the discharge space between the front substrate and the back substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Naoi, Hai Lin, Eishiro Otani, Hiroshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20100213818
    Abstract: A plasma display panel including a front substrate and a back substrate facing each other across a discharge space, and a plurality of row electrode pairs and a plurality of column electrodes extending in a direction orthogonal to the row electrodes. The row electrodes and said column electrodes being provided between the front substrate and the back substrate and forming unit light emission areas at intersections with each other within the discharge space. A crystal having a volumetric particle-size distribution in which a ratio of a crystal having a particle size of 0.7 ?m or less is 25% or less, is provided in an area facing the discharge space between the front substrate and the back substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Naoi, Hai Lin, Eishiro Otani, Hiroshi Ito
  • Patent number: 7759868
    Abstract: A crystalline magnesium oxide layer is placed facing the discharge space between a front glass substrate and a back glass substrate. The crystalline magnesium oxide layer contains crystal powder having particle-size distribution in which a crystal of a predetermined particle diameter or larger is included at a predetermined ratio or higher, of powder of a magnesium oxide crystal causing a cathode-luminescence emission having a peak within a wavelength range of 200 nm to 300 nm upon excitation by an electron beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Naoi, Hai Lin, Eishiro Otani, Hiroshi Ito
  • Patent number: 7474055
    Abstract: A plasma display panel has a front glass substrate and a back glass substrate facing each other on either side of a discharge space, row electrode pairs formed on the rear-facing face of the front glass substrate, and a dielectric layer covering the row electrode pairs. Discharge cells are formed in the discharge space. The PDP further has crystalline MgO layers each provided on a part of portion of the face of the front glass substrate having the row electrode pairs formed thereon and facing toward the discharge space. The crystalline MgO layers include magnesium oxide crystals causing a cathode-luminescence emission having a peak within a wavelength range of 200 nm to 300 nm upon excitation by an electron beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Hirota, Eishiro Otani, Hai Lin, Kunimoto Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20060284559
    Abstract: A crystalline magnesium oxide layer is placed facing the discharge space between a front glass substrate and a back glass substrate. The crystalline magnesium oxide layer contains crystal powder having particle-size distribution in which a crystal of a predetermined particle diameter or larger is included at a predetermined ratio or higher, of powder of a magnesium oxide crystal causing a cathode-luminescence emission having a peak within a wavelength range of 200 nm to 300 nm upon excitation by an electron beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taro Naoi, Hai Lin, Eishiro Otani, Hiroshi Ito
  • Patent number: 7129912
    Abstract: A display panel device includes a plurality of row electrode pairs and a plurality of column electrodes. Each row electrode pair includes a first and second electrodes. Unit light emission areas are formed at intersections of the row electrode pairs and the column electrodes. Each unit light emission area includes a first discharge cell and a second discharge cell. The second discharge cell includes a light-absorbing layer and secondary electron emission material layer. When driving the display panel device, sustain discharge responsible for light emission governing the display image is induced in the first discharge cells, whereas reset discharge and address discharge accompanied by light emission not contributing to the display image is induced in the second discharge cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Pioneer Display Products Corporation
    Inventors: Eishiro Otani, Kimio Amemiya, Yoichi Sato, Tsutomu Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 7075504
    Abstract: A plasma display panel capable of improving dark contrast. A unit light emission region is comprised of a display discharge cell in which a discharge is produced between portions of row electrodes X, Y of each row electrode pair (X, Y) opposing each other, and a reset and address discharge cell arranged in parallel with the display discharge cell, in which a discharge is produced between portions of the row electrode Y and a row electrode X of another adjacent row electrode pair (X, Y). The display discharge cell and reset and address discharge cell are communicated with each other. A light absorbing layer is formed in a portion of the reset and address discharge cell opposing the display surface. According to another aspect, the unit light emission region in the display panel comprises a first discharge cell and a second discharge cell comprising a light absorbing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Pioneer Display Products Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Tokunaga, Nobuhiko Saegusa, Kazuo Yahagi, Mitsushi Kitagawa, Ryo Suzue, Eishiro Otani, Yoichi Sato