Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Kawamura

Hiroyuki Kawamura 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: 6960309
    Abstract: The present invention inhibits water adsorption onto the surface of a blue phosphor, decreases luminance degradation and chromaticity shift of a phosphor, or improves discharge characteristics thereof. The blue phosphor is a compound represented by Ba1-xMgAl10O17:Eux or Ba1-x-ySryMgAl10O17:Eux, wherein 0.03?x?0.25 and 0.1?y?0.5, and containing at least one of Ti, Zr, Hf, Si, Ge, Sn, and Ce substituting for part of one of elements Al and Mg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Aoki, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Kazuhiko Sugimoto, Mitsuhiro Otani, Junichi Hibino
  • Patent number: 6939480
    Abstract: Disclosed is a plasma display device that provides high luminance and minimal degradation in luminance under panel operations. A blue phosphor in a phosphor layer has a crystal structure of MeMgSi2O6:Eu or Me3MgSi2O8:Eu (where, Me contains at least one of Ca, Sr, and Ba) produced with a precursor that is obtained by any one of methods: an aqueous solution synthesis method, a spray synthesis method, a hydrothermal synthesis method, and a hydrolysis method. The phosphor has an average particle diameter ranging from 0.1 to 3.0 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Aoki, Mitsuhiro Otani, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Kazuhiko Sugimoto, Junichi Hibino
  • Publication number: 20050146271
    Abstract: Phosphor layers (110G, 110B, and 110R) are made of combination of: blue and green phosphors that are positively charged on their surfaces and baked in an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere to reduce oxygen vacancy, and have a ?-alumina crystal structure; and a red phosphor made of an yttrium oxide compound. Uniformly forming such phosphor layers on the wall surfaces of barrier ribs (109) provides equal charge characteristics of the phosphors of respective colors, reduces oxygen vacancy in the phosphors, and inhibits adsorption of various gases in the panel production process. This can stabilize the discharge characteristics and prevent luminance degradation at driving the panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Masaki Aoki, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Kazuhiko Sugimoto, Hiroshi Setoguchi, Junichi Hibino, Yoshinori Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20050140819
    Abstract: An imaging system according to the present invention is capable of outputting an image which is less unnatural while elongating a signal storage time of a CCD camera gradually. It includes an IR lamp for radiating an infrared ray, a CCD camera 5 for taking the place radiated by the IR lamp and converting it into an electric signal, and an image processing unit 7 capable of outputting an image with a different exposure value continuously and periodically, while varying a signal storage time of the CCD camera 5 at a predetermined period. The image processing unit 7 is characterized by outputting an image that is different in exposure depending upon a signal storage time according to the extent to which how strongly light strikes on the CCD camera 5, and elongating gradually the signal storage time when there is no strong light falling on CCD camera 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Applicant: Niles Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawamura, Tomoyuki Ohata, Hironori Hoshino
  • Patent number: 6893490
    Abstract: An ink for a display panel that at a time of application is a mixture of a powder material, a water-soluble resin included in a range of 1 wt % to 20 wt % inclusive of the ink, and a water-miscible solvent. The ink is water-soluble, and in comparison to conventional organic inks, the ink of the present invention exhibits a markedly reduced susceptibility to the occurrence of electrostatic action. Thus, even when the ink is discharged through a plurality of fine nozzle holes, for example, it is possible for the application process to be conducted with great efficiency, since the individual ink flows discharged from the nozzle holes flow in a vertically downward direction without reacting with each other and becoming warped as a result. The ink of the present invention may, for example, be a phosphor ink, an Ag electrode ink, a shading film (black matrix) ink, a sealant glass ink, or a white reflective layer ink, and the ink may be used in forming structural layers of a display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawamura, Keisuke Sumida, Shigeo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6857925
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a plasma display panel applies phosphorous ink from a nozzle to channels between partition walls as the nozzle moves relative to the channels. The phosphorous ink is redispersed with a dispenser before being expelled from the nozzle. Subsequently, a second plate is placed on the partition walls and the first and second plates are sealed together with a gas medium between the two.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawamura, Shigeo Suzuki, Masaki Aoki, Kanako Miyashita, Mitsuhiro Ohtani, Hiroyuki Kado, Keisuke Sumida, Nobuyuki Kirihara
  • Patent number: 6855196
    Abstract: An ink for a display panel effective in reducing the uneven adhesion of the ink is applied by an ink application apparatus using an inkjet method to form a structural layer (e.g. reflective layer, phosphor layer) of a display panel such as a plasma display panel. The ink is delivered through a nozzle of the ink application apparatus and includes a powder material used in forming the structural layer, water or a water-miscible solvent, a binder formed from a water-soluble resin, and a plasticizer. The flexibility retained by the ink, even after the ink is applied, allows for leveling of the applied ink to occur and uneven adhesion to be reduced as a result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawamura, Keisuke Sumida, Shigeo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6833672
    Abstract: The plasma display panel of the present invention has, for achieving high luminance and high reliability, a plurality of discharge spaces formed between a front panel and a back panel that are disposed to oppose each other, and phosphor layers, formed in the discharge spaces, each including phosphor particles of one of blue, red and green colors, wherein the phosphor particles of at least one of blue, red and green colors included in the phosphor layer are flake-like particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Aoki, Hiroyuki Kado, Shigeo Suzuki, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Mitsuhiro Ohtani
  • Publication number: 20040239247
    Abstract: A plasma display device includes a blue phosphor composed of a compound represented by Me3MgSi2O8:Eu (where, Me is at least calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr), or barium (Ba)). Concentration of bivalent Eu ions is 45 to 95% and concentration of trivalent Eu ions is 5 to 55%, of the europium (Eu) atoms contained in the blue phosphor layer. The plasma display device has less luminance degradation in a panel manufacturing process, high luminance, and long lifetime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawamura, Kazuhiko Sugimoto, Masaki Aoki, Mitsuhiro Otani, Hiroshi Setoguchi, Junichi Hibino
  • Publication number: 20040239245
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a plasma display device which prevents the brightness of a phosphor layer from lowering is disclosed, and the method can form the phosphor layer in a stable manner because a nozzle is free from clogging. At least one of the phosphor layers has a green phosphor layer containing green phosphor having zero or positive charges and a crystal structure of Zn2SiO4:Mn. Green phosphor ink, of which major ingredient is the green phosphor, is applied through the nozzle to discharging cells, thereby forming the green phosphor layer. The green phosphor ink is formed of green phosphor powder coated with oxide having positive charges, or the ink is formed by crushing the green phosphor powder originally having negative charges and a crystal structure of Zn2SiO4:Mn such that the powder changes to have positive charges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2003
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawamura, Mitsuhiro Otani, Masaki Aoki, Kazuhiko Sugimoto, Junichi Hibino
  • Publication number: 20040217706
    Abstract: A plasma display device comprises blue phosphor which restricts adsorption of water and hydrocarbon gases to a surface thereof, reduces degradation of luminance and chromaticity change, and improves discharge characteristic. Among phosphor layers used for a plasma display, a blue phosphor layer comprises one of compounds symbolized by Ba1-xMgAl10O17:Eux and Ba1-x-ySryMgAl10O17:Eux, of which phosphor contains 0.2 to 0.8 in number x of Eu atoms, and the Eu atoms comprises 25% to 85% concentration of bivalent Eu ions, and 15% to 75% concentration of trivalent Eu ions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventors: Masaki Aoki, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Kazuhiko Sugimoto, Mitsuhiro Otani, Hiroshi Setoguchi, Junichi Hibino
  • Publication number: 20040183438
    Abstract: A blue phosphor composing a blue phosphor player in a plasma display device has a crystal structure of Ba(1-x)EuxMgAl10O17 or Ba(1-x-y)EuxSryMgAl10O17. In this blue phosphor, La substitutes for a proportion of Ba or Sr so as to achieve a high-luminance plasma display device with less luminance deterioration in panel manufacturing processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Masaki Aoki, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Kazuhiko Sugimoto, Mitsuhiro Otani, Hiroshi Setoguchi, Junichi Hibino
  • Publication number: 20040183439
    Abstract: A plasma display device having suppressed luminance degradation of a phosphor, a suppressed change in chromaticity and improved discharge characteristics as a result of suppression of adsorption of water or hydrocarbon-containing gas on the surface of the blue phosphor. A blue phosphor layer used in the plasma display device is formed of a compound expressed by Ba1-XMgAl10O17:EuX or Ba1-x-ySryMgAl10O17:EuX and includes at least one element that is selected from Nb, Ta, Pr, P, As, Sb, Bi and Tm and substitutes for a part of its Al or Mg element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Masaki Aoki, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Kazuhiko Sugimoto, Mitsuhiro Otani, Junichi Hibino
  • Publication number: 20040183495
    Abstract: A servomotor driving controller capable of highly accurate machining, which prevents a quadrant projection upon change in the quadrant where machining is made. After the position deviation converges to zero by means of learning control, the velocity command or a difference between the velocity command and the commanded velocity which is the derivative of the position command is stored as velocity correction data. Until a predetermined time period elapses from when the sign of the position command is reversed, an amount of correction for each period of position loop processing is determined based on the correction data, and used to correct the velocity command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: Fanuc Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasusuke Iwashita, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Tang Zhiwei
  • Publication number: 20040180606
    Abstract: There is provided a synchronous control device for driving the same control object with two servomotors. The synchronous control device detects the physical quantity that represents the difference between the forces on the two servomotors, and, on the basis of the detected value, reduces the force that acts between the two servomotors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Applicant: FANUC LTD
    Inventors: Yasusuke Iwashita, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Zhiwei Tang
  • Publication number: 20040168630
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a phosphor ink applying device that can apply phosphor ink in a plurality of lines to an intricately-shaped surface of a back panel of a PDP while preventing phosphor colors mixing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventors: Shigeo Suzuki, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Keisuke Sumida, Nobuyuki Kirihara
  • Publication number: 20040150338
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a plasma display device apt to increase luminance of a phosphor layer and prevent degradation of a discharge characteristic, and to a phosphor used for the device. This plasma display device has a green phosphor having a crystal structure of Zn2SiO4:Mn, and monovalent oxide is substituted for part of the green phosphor. The monovalent oxide is one or more of lithium oxide (Li2O), sodium oxide (Na2O), potassium oxide (K2O), cesium oxide (Cs2O), rubidium oxide (Rb2O), copper oxide (Cu2O), and silver oxide (Ag2O). This structure allows reduction of oxygen defects occurring in the green phosphor, suppression of the luminance decrease of the green phosphor, and improvement of a discharge characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Sugimoto, Mitsuhiro Otani, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Masaki Aoki, Junichi Hibino
  • Publication number: 20040135536
    Abstract: A controller capable of preventing response delay and generation of vibrations attributable thereto during position control of a movable part of a machine having low rigidity. A motor for driving a machine having low rigidity is subjected to position and velocity loop control. Compensation amount Q1 proportional to command velocity obtained by differentiating a position command and compensation amount Q2 proportional to second-order differentiated command acceleration are obtained. Compensation amounts Q1 and Q2 are added together, thus obtaining a velocity offset amount Vof corresponding to a estimated torsion amount. A differentiated value of the velocity offset amount is multiplied by coefficient &bgr; to obtain a torque offset amount Tof. The velocity offset amount Vof is added to a velocity command Vcs obtained by position loop control 1. The torque offset amount Tof is added to a torque command Tc outputted in velocity loop control 2, and the result is used as a drive command to the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2004
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Applicant: Fanuc Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasusuke Iwashita, Hiroyuki Kawamura
  • Patent number: 6760066
    Abstract: In a TV control apparatus, a focus controller and a zoom controller are used to adjust a flange back focal length of a master lens. If a select switch switches the function of a focus controller from a focus lens control function to a master lens control function, a control signal is transmitted as a master lens control signal to a CPU from the focus controller. The master lens is controlled in accordance with the control signals. The focus lens is at a standstill during this period. The focus controller is also used as a master lens controller. If the zoom is at a wide-angle side, the focus controller is switched to the master lens controller, and if the zoom is at a telephoto side, the master lens controller is switched to the focus controller. If a flange back focal length adjustment switch is turned on and the zoom controller sets the zoom at the wide-angle side, the focus controller functions as a controller for adjusting the position of the master lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawamura, Hiroshi Mizumura, Kunio Tsuzuki, Shinya Yajima
  • Publication number: 20040105027
    Abstract: An imaging system according to the invention can switch the automatic exposure control and the double exposure control depending on the state of the intensity of the image and supply a sharp image by restraining the blooming even in the case of having a strong illuminant such as an oncoming headlamp at night as well as by preventing from flicker even in the case of having no strong illuminant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2003
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawamura, Hironori Hosino, Takeshi Fukuda