Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Kamamori

Hitoshi Kamamori 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: 9029968
    Abstract: An optical sensor element is mounted in a package which includes a glass substrate having a cavity, and a glass lid substrate bonded to the other substrate to close the cavity. The glass substrate with the cavity has metalized wiring patterns on front and rear surfaces thereof, and a through hole filled with metal to form a through-electrode interconnecting the wiring patterns on the front and rear surfaces. A metalized wiring pattern on the rear surface of the glass lid substrate is electrically connected to the wiring pattern on the front surface of the other substrate with an adhesive containing conductive particles. The glass lid substrate is made either of glass having a filter function or glass having a light shielding property with an opening therethrough filled with glass having a filter function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Tsukagoshi, Hitoshi Kamamori, Sadao Oku, Hiroyuki Fujita, Keiichiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8946664
    Abstract: A low-cost, compact, high-reliability optical sensor device has an optical sensor element mounted in a package comprised of a light shielding glass lid substrate, a part of which has a light filter function, adhered to a light shielding glass substrate having a cavity. In a through hole in the light shielding glass lid substrate, glass having a function of absorbing infrared light and transmitting visible light by its own property is embedded. The light shielding glass substrate is made of glass having light shielding property as its own property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Tsukagoshi, Hitoshi Kamamori, Sadao Oku, Hiroyuki Fujita, Keiichiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8933386
    Abstract: Provided is a high-reliability, compact, and low-cost optical sensor device. The optical sensor device includes a glass lid substrate (2), a glass substrate (9) with a cavity having divided and exposed through-hole electrodes (5) on the periphery thereof, and an optical sensor element (3) mounted on the glass lid substrate, and has a structure in which the glass lid substrate and the glass substrate with a cavity are bonded together. By hermetically sealing with the glass substrates, high reliability is secured. By using the divided through-hole electrodes, the package size is reduced and the number of devices which can be produced in a batch in the manufacture increases, which enables cost reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kamamori, Sadao Oku, Hiroyuki Fujita, Koji Tsukagoshi, Keiichiro Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20130000355
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an optical filter for an illuminance sensor, which has spectral characteristics close to human luminosity characteristics, has high detection accuracy, and can be manufactured at low cost. The method includes the steps of: (a) punching a glass; (b) feeding a small piece of glass (7) having a filter effect; (c) softening the small piece of glass (7); and (d) abrading.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Sadao Oku, Hiroyuki Fujita, Koji Tsukagoshi, Keiichiro Hayashi, Hitoshi Kamamori, Hiroshi Highuchi
  • Publication number: 20130001409
    Abstract: Provided is a low-cost, compact, high-reliability optical sensor device serving to correspond to the visibility. In the optical sensor device, an optical sensor element is mounted in a package formed by a light shielding glass lid substrate (1) having a filter function in part and a light shielding glass substrate (2) including a cavity. In the light shielding glass lid substrate having the filter function, glass having a function of absorbing infrared light and transmitting visible light by its own property is embedded in part. The light shielding glass substrate is made of glass having light shielding property as its own property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Koji TSUKAGOSHI, Hitoshi Kamamori, Sadao Oku, Hiroyuki Fujita, Keiichiro Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20120171368
    Abstract: Bonding between a light-emitting element and electrodes of a substrate is ensured to enhance reliability of a lighting device. In the lighting device of the present invention, a material made of metal alkoxide or polymetalloxane generated from metal alkoxide is used as a coating material covering the light-emitting element. This may enhance reliability of the bonding between the substrate and the light-emitting element while keeping a high light-emission efficiency. Further, when a liquid material made of metal alkoxide is heat-cured by a sol-gel method, the liquid material changes from a liquid, a sol, a gel, to a solid successively to shrink, thereby generating glass being a solid material . With the use of a shrinking force obtained when the gel changes to the solid in the production method, the bonding between the light-emitting element and the electrodes of the substrate can be performed simultaneously with the curing of the coating material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kamamori, Sadao Oku
  • Patent number: 8134173
    Abstract: A lighting device has a glass substrate and a lead frame embedded in the glass substrate. The glass substrate has a front surface, a side surface and a rear surface, the front surface having a recess portion with a bottom surface. The lead frame has a portion exposed on the side surface of the glass substrate and a portion exposed on the bottom surface of the recess portion. A line width of a region of the portion of the lead frame exposed on the bottom surface of the recess portion is narrower than a line width of a region of the portion of the lead frame exposed on the side surface of the glass substrate. A light emitting element is mounted in the recess portion of the glass substrate and is electrically connected with the portion of the lead frame exposed on the bottom surface of the recess portion. A sealing material covers the light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kamamori, Sadao Oku, Hiroyuki Fujita, Keiichiro Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20110215366
    Abstract: A light emitting device (1) includes a glass substrate (4) having a recess (2) in a front surface, and a lead frame (5a). A copper material (7) is embedded so that the copper material (7) passes through the lead frame (5a). A light emitting element (6) is mounted on the copper material (7). The glass substrate (4) and the lead frame (5a) are bonded to each other so that the light emitting element (6) is exposed from the recess of the glass substrate (4). Thus, the copper material is embedded in a pass-through manner directly under a region of the lead frame where the light emitting element is disposed. Therefore, adhesion between the glass substrate and the lead frame is ensured, and heat generated by the light emitting element may be efficiently radiated from the rear surface of the glass substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Inventors: Koji Tsukagoshi, Hitoshi Kamamori, Sadao Oku, Hiroyuki Fujita, Keiichiro Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20110210370
    Abstract: On a through-electrode (7) formed by filling a conductive material into a though hole of a substrate, nano-metal particles are adhered to form a connection electrode (9). An LED element (3) is electrically connected to the through-electrode (7) via the connection electrode (9). The nano-metal particles can be applied into a desired shape by an inkjet method or a dispenser method, and hence a light emitting device (1) having high electrical connection reliability is realized at low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kamamori, Keiichiro Hayashi, Sadao Oku, Hiroyuki Fujita, Koji Tsukagoshi
  • Publication number: 20100163919
    Abstract: Provided is a lighting device which includes a lead frame embedded in a glass material and has high reliability. The lighting device has a structure in which a light emitting element is mounted in a recess portion formed on a surface of a glass substrate and a sealing material is provided to cover the light emitting element. The lead frame is embedded in the glass substrate so as to be exposed on a side surface of the glass substrate and a bottom surface of the recess portion. A portion of the lead frame which is exposed in the recess portion is electrically connected with the light emitting element. With the structure as described above, the durability of the lighting device is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kamamori, Sadao Oku, Hiroyuki Fujita, Keiichiro Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20100079050
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a glass package (2) having a recess (5) in its center; a through-hole electrode (4) formed by filling a through hole (3), which is formed at a bottom of the recess (5), with a conductive material; a light emitting diode element (6) received in the recess (5) and mounted on the through-hole electrode (4); an insulating multilayer interference film (7) formed on an inner wall surface and a bottom surface of the recess (5); and a sealing material for sealing the light emitting diode element. With this structure, the light emitting device is improved in reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kamamori, Sadao Oku, Keiichiro Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20090200572
    Abstract: Bonding between a light-emitting element and electrodes of a substrate is ensured to enhance reliability of a lighting device. In the lighting device of the present invention, a material made of metal alkoxide or polymetalloxane generated from metal alkoxide is used as a coating material covering the light-emitting element. This may enhance reliability of the bonding between the substrate and the light-emitting element while keeping a high light-emission efficiency. Further, when a liquid material made of metal alkoxide is heat-cured by a sol-gel method, the liquid material changes from a liquid, a sol, a gel, to a solid successively to shrink, thereby generating glass being a solid material. With the use of a shrinking force obtained when the gel changes to the solid in the production method, the bonding between the light-emitting element and the electrodes of the substrate can be performed simultaneously with the curing of the coating material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kamamori, Sadao Oku
  • Patent number: 6203950
    Abstract: The present invention discloses color pattern manufacturing method comprising the steps of forming a conductive film having an arbitrary pattern on a substrate, forming a colored layer on the conductive film by electrodeposition, and forming a method film having an arbitrary pattern on the colored layer to shield undesirable light transmittance through between the arbitrary patterns of the colored layer, so that the color filter having high quality is made by remarkably simple process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignees: Shinto Chemitron Co. Ltd., Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kamamori, Koji Iwasa, Takakazu Fukuchi, Mitsuru Suginoya, Tsutomu Watanabe, Toshiaki Ota, Junichi Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 5770349
    Abstract: This invention allows the high image quality multicolor liquid crystal display to be manufactured by a simple method in which color filters are applied by patterning an insulating resist on a plurality of electrodes formed on a substrate, by forming color filters one after another by way of electro- deposition and by patterning a light shielding substance at gaps of the color filters by utilizing the color filter as masks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignees: Seiko Instruments Inc., Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Suginoya, Shunichi Motte, Takakazu Fukuchi, Hitoshi Kamamori, Yoshikatsu Okada, Akiko Sakurai
  • Patent number: 5610740
    Abstract: A color electrooptical device is disclosed wherein an active matrix substrate and a color filter substrate face each other and are disposed spaced apart a predetermined distance. A plurality of color filters are formed on the color filter substrate. A protection film is formed on the color filter substrate and on the color filters. The protection film is capable of adhering to the color filters and to a transparent conductive film. The transparent conductive film is formed on the protection film. A metal film is formed on the transparent conductive film which is effective for decreasing the resistivity of the transparent conductive film. A liquid crystal is sealed between the active matrix substrate and the color filter substrate and a plurality of switching elements are formed on the active matrix substrate. The metal film comprises a light blocking chromium film etched into a grid shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kamamori, Takakazu Fukuchi, Mitsuru Suginoya, Koji Iwasa
  • Patent number: 5580436
    Abstract: A liquid crystal optical device is comprised of a liquid crystal layer and a pair of substrates for sandwiching the liquid crystal layer to effect orientation of molecules of the liquid crystal layer. A plurality of base electrodes are disposed on an inner surface of one of the substrates. A plurality of color filter films are electrodeposited on the respective ones of the base electrodes and have different color tones. A plurality of driving electrodes are disposed on the color filter films for applying a driving voltage to the liquid crystal layer. A protective layer is interposed between the color filter films and the driving electrodes to effect buffering of thermal stress caused therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Suginoya, Hitoshi Kamamori
  • Patent number: 5151379
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a color filter substrate and a color filter electrooptical device, for example, such as color liquid crystal display device having a transparent electrode over a color filter formed on an inner surface of the liquid crystal display device.For providing the transparent electrode on the color filter, high-frequency ion plating method is used so as to improve the contacting property with an organic polymer of the color filter layer and the transparent electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1992
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Suginoya, Hitoshi Kamamori, Takakazu Fukuchi
  • Patent number: 4999094
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a color member, e.g., a color filter for a display device. A conductive thin film layer having given plural patterns is formed on an electrically insulative substrate. On the conductive thin film layer, a colored layer is formed by electrodepositing a coloring material and polymer on the conductive layer. The substrate having the colored layer thereon is cut to produce plural color members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1991
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments & Electronics Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kamamori, Koji Iwasa, Mitsuru Suginoya, Yutaka Sano, Yumiko Terada, Naoki Kato
  • Patent number: 4787716
    Abstract: A colored article, e.g., a multicolored filter for a display device, comprises a first electroconductive layer with a low resistance formed on a substrate. A second electroconductive layer resistant to electrolytic corrosion and comprised, e.g., of SnO.sub.2, Sb.sub.2 O.sub.3, ZnO, CdO, Ga.sub.2 O.sub.3, Au, Ag, Ni, Al and Si, is formed directly on the first layer. A color layer is formed on the second layer by electrodeposition to impart a desired color tone to the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1988
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments & Electronics Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Kato, Koji Iwasa, Hitoshi Kamamori, Mitsuru Suginoya, Yutaka Sano, Yumiko Terada
  • Patent number: 4781444
    Abstract: A color member, for example, a multicolor filter for a display device, and a method for manufacturing the same. An electroconductive layer having a desired pattern is formed on a substrate. A colored layer containing a polymer and a coloring matter is formed on the electroconductive layer by electrodeposition. The polymer and the coloring matter contained in the colored layer are chemically bonded to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1988
    Assignees: Seiko Instruments & Electronics Ltd., Shinto Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Suginoya, Koji Iwasa, Hitoshi Kamamori, Yutaka Sano, Yumiko Terada, Naoki Kato, Tameyuki Suzuki, Junichi Yasukawa, Toyokazu Nomura, Kazuo Tohda, Shinji Itoh