Patents by Inventor Hirotsugu Sakamoto

Hirotsugu Sakamoto 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: 20050236970
    Abstract: An aperture LAR of a light-emitting portion is changed in diameter (size) from the center portion of a screen to the peripheral portion thereof. In this manner, any displacement observed between the aperture LAR and a vapor deposition region VAR of an organic EL material is controlled. The aperture LAR is preferably larger in size at the center portion of the screen, and smaller in the peripheral portion thereof. As such, a light-emitting layer is vapor-deposited on a substrate correctly for every pixel so that a high-quality self-emitting display including organic EL display can de derived.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2005
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Inventors: Noriharu Matsudate, Hirotsugu Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20050035709
    Abstract: In an organic electroluminescent display device having light emitting layers which are independently controlled and emit light formed in respective pixel regions on a principal surface of a substrate and emitting light from each of the light emitting layer through the substrate, the present invention arranges a light shielding member on an end wall face of the substrate and prevents the light from leaking from the end wall face thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2004
    Publication date: February 17, 2005
    Inventors: Masamitsu Furuie, Shinichi Kato, Masaaki Okunaka, Masato Ito, Hirotsugu Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 6661186
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has an electron gun including three in-line cathodes, first and second grid electrodes arranged in the order named, and plural electrodes for focusing three electron beams from the cathodes onto the phosphor screen. The following inequalities are satisfied: E≦1.4A−0.2B−2.7C−2D, and A≦0.35 mm, where A (mm) is a diameter of an electron-beam transmissive aperture in the first grid electrode, B (mm) is a diameter of an electron-beam transmissive aperture in the second grid electrode, C (mm) is a thickness of a portion of the first grid electrode immediately surrounding the electron-beam transmissive aperture in the first grid electrode, D (mm) is a spacing between the cathodes and the electron-beam transmissive aperture in the first grid electrode, and E (mm) is a spacing between the first grid electrode and the second grid electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoki Nakamura, Hirotsugu Sakamoto, Shinichi Kato, Syoji Shirai
  • Patent number: 6646371
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has an electron gun including a cathode structure for emitting three electron beams, a first electrode serving as a control electrode, a second electrode serving as an accelerating electrode and plural focus electrodes and an anode arranged in the order named, a phosphor screen composed of repeating patterns of three-color phosphor elements, a color selection electrode positioned the electron gun and the phosphor screen. The following inequalities are satisfied. {(L+1360×D−600)/280}2+{(P−0.16)/0.06}2≦1, L+1360×D≧600, and P≧0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Watanabe, Shinichi Kato, Hirotsugu Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 6522058
    Abstract: The present invention provides a color cathode ray tube which can improve the focusing characteristics in a wide range of a phosphor screen by setting the total length of a focus electrode divided in multi-stages within a given value and properly selecting the mounting position and the sensitivity of an electrostatic quadrupole lens. A focus electrode G5 which constitutes a final-stage main lens includes a plurality of electrode members G5-1, G5-2, G5-3, G5-4 which constitute an electrostatic quadrupole lens and a curvature-of-image-field correction lens, and assuming the distance from a surface of the focus electrode G5 which faces an anode G6 in an opposed manner to the final-stage main lens-side position of the electrostatic quadrupole lens as L2, a relationship of 7.55≦L2≦11.5 is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignees: Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co.
    Inventors: Tomoki Nakamura, Hirotsugu Sakamoto, Shinichi Kato
  • Patent number: 6515410
    Abstract: The present invention provides a flat-panel type color cathode ray tube which has the favorable focusing characteristics and can shorten the total length thereof. The color cathode ray tube includes an evacuated envelope which is constituted of a panel 1 which has a diagonal effective diameter of approximately 51 cm, a neck 3 which houses an electron gun 10 and a funnel 3 which connects the panel and the neck. The electron gun 10 includes a cathode, a first electrode, a second electrode, a focusing electrode and an anode electrode. Assuming the equivalent radius of curvature in the X direction of an inner surface of the panel 1 as Rix and the equivalent radius of curvature in the Y direction of an inner surface of the panel 1 as Riy, the distance Lm between the cathode and a screen-side end portion of the focusing electrode is set to 37 mm≦Lm≦45 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignees: Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co. Ltd
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Sakamoto, Tomoki Nakamura, Shinichi Kato
  • Patent number: 6492766
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has excellent focusing characteristics over the whole screen thereof, as well as a total length which is short, thus providing a compact monitoring device. The Cathode ray tube has an electron gun in which the ratio between the diagonal size De of a phosphor screen and the distance Lg from the center of the phosphor screen to an end portion of a focusing electrode which forms a main lens portion of the electron gun and faces an anode electrode in an opposed manner is set to De/Lg>1.5. The focusing electrode and the anode electrode have single opening portions whose opening size in the horizontal direction is not less than 68% of the outer diameter of a neck portion and end surfaces of the opening portions face each other in an opposed manner in the tube axis direction along which the electron beams pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Tsuzurahara, Kenichi Watanabe, Syouji Shirai, Shinichi Kato, Go Uchida, Hirotsugu Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20020140382
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has an electron gun including three in-line cathodes, first and second grid electrodes arranged in the order named, and plural electrodes for focusing three electron beams from the cathodes onto the phosphor screen. The following inequalities are satisfied: E≦1.4A−0.2B−2.7C−2D, and A≦0.35 mm, where A (mm) is a diameter of an electron-beam transmissive aperture in the first grid electrode, B (mm) is a diameter of an electron-beam transmissive aperture in the second grid electrode, C (mm) is a thickness of a portion of the first grid electrode immediately surrounding the electron-beam transmissive aperture in the first grid electrode, D (mm) is a spacing between the cathodes and the electron-beam transmissive aperture in the first grid electrode, and E (mm) is a spacing between the first grid electrode and the second grid electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventors: Tomoki Nakamura, Hirotsugu Sakamoto, Shinichi Kato, Syoji Shirai
  • Patent number: 6407518
    Abstract: A color display device includes a color cathode ray tube having a phosphor screen, a color selection electrode and an electron gun for projecting plural in-line electron beams toward the phosphor screen, a deflection device for deflecting the electron beams horizontally and vertically, an electron beam correction apparatus including a correction coil wound around the tube axis, a deflection circuit for driving the deflection device, and an electron beam correction circuit for supplying to the electron beam correction apparatus a generally rectangular-wave signal having a period equal to two times a period of the vertical deflection of the electron beams and in synchronism with the vertical deflection of the electron beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Sakamoto, Hiroshi Sasaki, Kenichi Watanabe, Shinichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20020017852
    Abstract: It is intended to improve the focus characteristic while not requiring an increased focus voltage and hence enabling use of a general-purpose flyback transformer. A focus electrode for formation of a final-stage main lens that focuses electron beams generated by a beam generating section of an electron gun onto a phosphor screen is divided into a plurality of electrode members. The divisional electrode members form plural stages of electron lenses whose focusing power varies in synchronism with the deflection amount of the electron beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Inventors: Tomoki Nakamura, Hirotsugu Sakamoto, Shinichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20020014823
    Abstract: The present invention provides a color cathode ray tube which can improve the focusing characteristics in a wide range of a phosphor screen by setting the total length of a focus electrode divided in multi-stages within a given value and properly selecting the mounting position and the sensitivity of an electrostatic quadrupole lens. A focus electrode G5 which constitutes a final stage main lens includes a plurality of electrode members G5-1, G5-2, G5-3, G5-4 which constitute an electrostatic quadrupole lens and a curvature-of image-field correction lens, and assuming the distance from a surface of the focus electrode G5 which faces an anode G6 in an opposed manner to the final-stage main lens-side position of the electrostatic quadrupole lens as L2, a relationship of 7.55≦L2≦11.5 is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventors: Tomoki Nakamura, Hirotsugu Sakamoto, Shinichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20010043039
    Abstract: The present invention provides a flat-panel type color cathode ray tube which has the favorable focusing characteristics and can shorten the total length thereof. The color cathode ray tube includes an evacuated envelope which is constituted of a panel 1 which has a diagonal effective diameter of approximately 51 cm, a neck 3 which houses an electron gun 10 and a funnel 3 which connects the panel and the neck. The electron gun 10 includes a cathode, a first electrode, a second electrode, a focusing electrode and an anode electrode. Assuming the equivalent radius of curvature in the X direction of an inner surface of the panel 1 as Rix and the equivalent radius of curvature in the Y direction of an inner surface of the panel 1 as Riy, the distance Lm between the cathode and a screen-side end portion of the focusing electrode is set to 37 mm≦Lm≦45 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2001
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Sakamoto, Tomoki Nakamura, Shinichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20010019248
    Abstract: A color display device includes a color cathode ray tube having a phosphor screen, a color selection electrode and an electron gun for projecting plural in-line electron beams toward the phosphor screen, a deflection device for deflecting the electron beams horizontally and vertically, an electron beam correction apparatus including a correction coil wound around the tube axis, a deflection circuit for driving the deflection device, and an electron beam correction circuit for supplying to the electron beam correction apparatus a generally rectangular-wave signal having a period equal to two times a period of the vertical deflection of the electron beams and in synchronism with the vertical deflection of the electron beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2001
    Publication date: September 6, 2001
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Sakamoto, Hiroshi Sasaki, Kenichi Watanabe, Shinichi Kato
  • Patent number: 5073797
    Abstract: The developing device provided in accordance with the invention includes a developer layer thickness controlling member for controlling the thickness of the developer through the developer carrier. The layer thickness controlling member is brought into press contact with the developer carrier downstream in the moving direction of the developer carrier. A first sealing member (48,49) is provided for cutting off the developer moving to both ends of the developer carrier. A second sealing member (50,51) is provided for shielding the junction of the developer carrier, the first sealing member, and the layer thickness controlling member. Finally, a sheet-shaped elastic body is provided for cutting off the developer which moves to the ends of the developer carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1991
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taizo Ono, Hirotsugu Sakamoto, Yoshihiro Katayama, Toshi Saitoh