Patents by Inventor Hironori Tsukamoto

Hironori Tsukamoto 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: 20160040847
    Abstract: A planar light emitting body 6 configured to emit a first illumination light, and a semiconductor light emitting element 7 configured to emit light toward the planar light emitting body 6 are disposed in a lamp chamber 5 defined by a lamp housing 2 having an opening and a cover 3 that covers the opening. The planar light emitting body 6 includes a transmitting layer through which light is caused to pass, and a control layer configured to irradiate light as a second illumination light by controlling a travelling direction of the light that is emitted from the semiconductor light emitting element 7 and passes through the transmitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryujiro IKUTA, Yukihiro ONODA, Kunio FUKAI, Masaya SHIDO, Hironori TSUKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150257235
    Abstract: A light emission device includes an organic EL panel and a molding resin. In the organic EL panel, an organic EL light emission portion is formed on a substrate. The organic EL panel is flexible. The molding resin shapes the organic EL panel so that the organic EL panel is in a curved state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Ito, Haruhiko Iyoda, Hironori Tsukamoto, Masaya Shido, Yoshiro Ito, Yukihiro Onoda
  • Patent number: 9074744
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp includes a transparent planar light emitting body including a first light emitting surface and a second light emitting surface which face each other, a first reflector and a second reflector. The transparent planar light emitting body emits light from the first light emitting surface and the second light emitting surface. The first reflector reflects light from the first light emitting surface to the front. The second reflector reflects light from the second light emitting surface to the front.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hironori Tsukamoto
  • Publication number: 20150176245
    Abstract: Provided is a construction machine having a central foothold and a maintenance access passage with high safety. The construction machine includes an upper slewing body including: an upper frame, an engine compartment, a cabin on a right or left region of the upper frame, a central foothold immediately forward of the engine compartment and on a central region of the upper frame widthwise of the upper frame, and a maintenance access passage extending rearward while elevated to guide a worker from the ground forward of the upper frame to the central foothold on a side opposite to the cabin. Widthwise of the upper frame, an inward edge of an upper end portion of the maintenance access passage is located inward of one edge of the central foothold, to thereby form a transit zone between the maintenance access passage and the central foothold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki MURAKAMI, Hironori TSUKAMOTO, Tsuyoshi NODA
  • Patent number: 9035346
    Abstract: The light source module includes a circuit board adapted to be placed on a mounting base of a light source holding member, and a power feeding attachment to supply power to a semiconductor light emitting device, the circuit board including a board part on which the semiconductor light emitting device is mounted, and a conductive circuit formed on a surface of the board part and having a pair of terminal parts and a light source connection part to connect the pair of terminal parts and the semiconductor light emitting device, the power feeding attachment including an electrically-insulating portion and an conductive portion partially embedded in the electrically-insulating portion, the power feeding attachment being adapted to be attached to the light source holding member such that the electrically-insulating portion presses at least a portion of the circuit board against the mounting base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Matsunaga, Shigeyuki Watanabe, Hironori Tsukamoto, Ryuho Sato
  • Patent number: 8851729
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp includes: a light source that emits light; a lamp body, inside of which the light source is arranged; a circuit board that has a conductive pattern that functions as an electrically-conducting path of drive current to be supplied to the light source, and on one end portion of which an electrode portion connected to the conductive pattern is formed; a socket connected to the lamp body; and a contact member that is arranged in the socket and has an elastically deformable connecting terminal portion connected to the electrode portion of the circuit board, and a plug connecting portion, to which a power supply plug is connected, wherein the circuit board is pressed by restoring force of the connecting terminal portion, elastically deformed, so as to be held by the contact member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hironori Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 8829794
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp include san LED package as a light source. The LED package includes a first series element section having a plurality of LED elements connected in series with each other, a second series element section having at least one LED element, the number of which is smaller than the number of LED elements of the firs series element section, a first anode electrode provided on an anode side of the first series element section, a first cathode electrode provided on a cathode side of the first series element section, a second anode electrode provided on an anode side of the second series element section, and a second cathode electrode provided on a cathode side of the second series element section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hironori Tsukamoto
  • Publication number: 20140153273
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp includes a transparent planar light emitting body including a first light emitting surface and a second light emitting surface which face each other, a first reflector and a second reflector. The transparent planar light emitting body emits light from the first light emitting surface and the second light emitting surface. The first reflector reflects light from the first light emitting surface to the front. The second reflector reflects light from the second light emitting surface to the front.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hironori Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 8634516
    Abstract: An energy subtraction radiographic imaging system for providing energy subtraction images of an object includes an X-ray radiation source configured to generate X-rays having various energy levels transmitting through the object, a radiation imaging apparatus configured to operate in association with operation of the X-ray radiation source for receiving X-rays transmitted through the object, the radiation imaging apparatus including a first imaging device, a second imaging device and an attenuating element disposed between said first imaging device and the second imaging device, the attenuating element configured to substantially absorb the X-rays at lower energy levels and substantially allowing transmission of the X-rays at higher energy levels so that said second imaging device substantially receives the X-rays at higher energy levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Inventor: Hironori Tsukamoto
  • Publication number: 20130341670
    Abstract: The light source module includes a circuit board adapted to be placed on a mounting base of a light source holding member, and a power feeding attachment to supply power to a semiconductor light emitting device, the circuit board including a board part on which the semiconductor light emitting device is mounted, and a conductive circuit formed on a surface of the board part and having a pair of terminal parts and a light source connection part to connect the pair of terminal parts and the semiconductor light emitting device, the power feeding attachment including an electrically-insulating portion and an conductive portion partially embedded in the electrically-insulating portion, the power feeding attachment being adapted to be attached to the light source holding member such that the electrically-insulating portion presses at least a portion of the circuit board against the mounting base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Matsunaga, Shigeyuki Watanabe, Hironori Tsukamoto, Ryuho Sato
  • Patent number: 8550534
    Abstract: A working machine has a machine room cover and a bonnet on an upper rotating body. The bonnet has a frame-like raising member and a dome-like hood member that covers an opening in the upper part of the raising member. The lower part of the raising member is attached so as to surround an opening portion formed in the upper surface of the machine room cover, and the hood member is attached to the raising member so as to be able to be rotationally opened and closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Tsukamoto, Shintaro Sakitani
  • Publication number: 20130250602
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp includes: a light source that emits light; a lamp body, inside of which the light source is arranged; a circuit board that has a conductive pattern that functions as an electrically-conducting path of drive current to be supplied to the light source, and on one end portion of which an electrode portion connected to the conductive pattern is formed; a socket connected to the lamp body; and a contact member that is arranged in the socket and has an elastically deformable connecting terminal portion connected to the electrode portion of the circuit board, and a plug connecting portion, to which a power supply plug is connected, wherein the circuit board is pressed by restoring force of the connecting terminal portion, elastically deformed, so as to be held by the contact member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventor: Hironori TSUKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8529110
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp has a plurality of bulb sockets, each of the plurality of bulb sockets holding a bulb serving as a light source, a lamp body that accommodates the bulb sockets, a front cover that forwardly covers the lamp body, a plurality of bulb socket fixing portions formed in the lamp body, and inserted with the plurality of bulb sockets, a temporary holding member that includes a plurality of temporary holding portions of the bulb sockets, and temporarily holds each of the plurality of bulb sockets to each of the plurality of temporary holding portions, and a bulb socket mounting unit that sandwiches the lamp body and the temporary holding member via an elastic portion formed on each of the bulb sockets. The elastic portion elastically deforms when the temporarily held bulb sockets are inserted into the fixing portions and returning at predetermined fixing positions of the fixing portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hironori Tsukamoto
  • Publication number: 20130140986
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp include san LED package as a light source. The LED package includes a first series element section having a plurality of LED elements connected in series with each other, a second series element section having at least one LED element, the number of which is smaller than the number of LED elements of the firs series element section, a first anode electrode provided on an anode side of the first series element section, a first cathode electrode provided on a cathode side of the first series element section, a second anode electrode provided on an anode side of the second series element section, and a second cathode electrode provided on a cathode side of the second series element section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hironori TSUKAMOTO
  • Patent number: D680136
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Tsukamoto, Kenji Kawamoto, Shintaro Sakitani, Kaoru Adachi, Hiroshi Kanamaru
  • Patent number: D680137
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Tsukamoto, Kenji Kawamoto, Shintaro Sakitani, Kaoru Adachi, Hiroshi Kanamaru
  • Patent number: D681070
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Tsukamoto, Kenji Kawamoto, Shintaro Sakitani, Kaoru Adachi, Hiroshi Kanamaru
  • Patent number: D725157
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumikazu Higuchi, Masaaki Murakami, Jumpei Yokota, Daisuke Mochizuki, Hironori Tsukamoto, Tsuyoshi Noda, Hiroshi Kanamaru, Kaoru Adachi
  • Patent number: D726779
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumikazu Higuchi, Masaaki Murakami, Jumpei Yokota, Daisuke Mochizuki, Hironori Tsukamoto, Tsuyoshi Noda, Hiroshi Kanamaru, Kaoru Adachi
  • Patent number: D727977
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumikazu Higuchi, Masaaki Murakami, Jumpei Yokota, Daisuke Mochizuki, Hironori Tsukamoto, Tsuyoshi Noda, Hiroshi Kanamaru, Kaoru Adachi