Patents by Inventor Katsuaki Iwama

Katsuaki Iwama 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: 7772769
    Abstract: A chip-type light-emitting semiconductor device includes: a substrate 4; a blue LED 1 mounted on the substrate 4; and a luminescent layer 3 made of a mixture of yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 and a base material 13 (translucent resin). The yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 is a silicate phosphor which absorbs blue light emitted by the blue LED 1 to emit a fluorescence having a main emission peak in the wavelength range from 550 nm to 600 nm, inclusive, and which contains, as a main component, a compound expressed by the chemical formula: (Sr1-a1-b1-xBaa1Cab1Eux)2SiO4 (0?a1?0.3, 0?b1?0.8 and 0<x<1). The silicate phosphor particles disperse substantially evenly in the resin easily. As a result, excellent white light is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihide Maeda, Shozo Oshio, Katsuaki Iwama, Hiromi Kitahara, Tadaaki Ikeda, Hidenori Kamei, Yasuyuki Hanada, Kei Sakanoue
  • Patent number: 7629620
    Abstract: A chip-type light-emitting semiconductor device includes: a substrate 4; a blue LED 1 mounted on the substrate 4; and a luminescent layer 3 made of a mixture of yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 and a base material 13 (translucent resin). The yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 is a silicate phosphor which absorbs blue light emitted by the blue LED 1 to emit a fluorescence having a main emission peak in the wavelength range from 550 nm to 600 nm, inclusive, and which contains, as a main component, a compound expressed by the chemical formula: (Sr1-a1-b1-xBaa1Cab1Eux)2SiO4 (0?a1?0.3, 0?b1?0.8 and 0<x<1). The silicate phosphor particles disperse substantially evenly in the resin easily. As a result, excellent white light is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihide Maeda, Shozo Oshio, Katsuaki Iwama, Hiromi Kitahara, Tadaaki Ikeda, Hidenori Kamei, Yasuyuki Hanada, Kei Sakanoue
  • Patent number: 7592639
    Abstract: A chip-type light-emitting semiconductor device includes: a substrate 4; a blue LED 1 mounted on the substrate 4; and a luminescent layer 3 made of a mixture of yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 and a base material 13 (translucent resin). The yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 is a silicate phosphor which absorbs blue light emitted by the blue LED 1 to emit a fluorescence having a main emission peak in the wavelength range from 550 nm to 600 nm, inclusive, and which contains, as a main component, a compound expressed by the chemical formula: (Sr1-a1-b1-xBaa1Cab1Eux)2SiO4 (0?a1?0.3, 0?b1?0.8 and 0<x<1). The silicate phosphor particles disperse substantially evenly in the resin easily. As a result, excellent white light is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihide Maeda, Shozo Oshio, Katsuaki Iwama, Hiromi Kitahara, Tadaaki Ikeda, Hidenori Kamei, Yasuyuki Hanada, Kei Sakanoue
  • Patent number: 7422504
    Abstract: A chip-type light-emitting semiconductor device includes: a substrate 4; a blue LED 1 mounted on the substrate 4; and a luminescent layer 3 made of a mixture of yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 and a base material 13 (translucent resin). The yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 is a silicate phosphor which absorbs blue light emitted by the blue LED 1 to emit a fluorescence having a main emission peak in the wavelength range from 550 nm to 600 nm, inclusive, and which contains, as a main component, a compound expressed by the chemical formula: (Sr1-a1-b1-xBaa1Cab1Eux)2SiO4 (0?a1?0.3, 0?b1?0.8 and 0<x<1). The silicate phosphor particles disperse substantially evenly in the resin easily. As a result, excellent white light is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihide Maeda, Shozo Oshio, Katsuaki Iwama, Hiromi Kitahara, Tadaaki Ikeda, Hidenori Kamei, Yasuyuki Hanada, Kei Sakanoue
  • Publication number: 20080135862
    Abstract: A chip-type light-emitting semiconductor device includes: a substrate 4; a blue LED 1 mounted on the substrate 4; and a luminescent layer 3 made of a mixture of yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 and a base material 13 (translucent resin). The yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 is a silicate phosphor which absorbs blue light emitted by the blue LED 1 to emit a fluorescence having a main emission peak in the wavelength range from 550 nm to 600 nm, inclusive, and which contains, as a main component, a compound expressed by the chemical formula: (Sr1-a1-b1-xBaa1Cab1Eux)2SiO4 (0?a1?0.3, 0?b1?0.8 and 0<x<1). The silicate phosphor particles disperse substantially evenly in the resin easily. As a result, excellent white light is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihide Maeda, Shozo Oshio, Katsuaki Iwama, Hiromi Kitahara, Tadaaki Ikeda, Hidenori Kamei, Yasuyuki Hanada, Kei Sakanoue
  • Patent number: 7294956
    Abstract: The semiconductor light emitting device is composed of a combination of a near ultraviolet LED and a phosphor layer including a plurality of phosphors for absorbing near ultraviolet emitted by the near ultraviolet LED and for emitting fluorescence having an emission peak in a visible wavelength region, and the phosphor layer includes four kinds of phosphors, that is, a blue-based phosphor, a green-based phosphor, a red-based phosphor and a yellow-based phosphor. Thus, lowering of luminous flux derived from red-based light with low luminosity is compensated by yellow-based light with comparatively high luminosity, and the resultant white-based light can be well color balanced, and hence, a semiconductor light emitting device emitting white-based light with high luminous flux and a large Ra can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihide Maeda, Shozo Oshio, Katsuaki Iwama, Hiromi Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20070046169
    Abstract: A chip-type light-emitting semiconductor device includes: a substrate 4; a blue LED 1 mounted on the substrate 4; and a luminescent layer 3 made of a mixture of yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 and a base material 13 (translucent resin). The yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 is a silicate phosphor which absorbs blue light emitted by the blue LED 1 to emit a fluorescence having a main emission peak in the wavelength range from 550 nm to 600 nm, inclusive, and which contains, as a main component, a compound expressed by the chemical formula: (Sr1-a1-b1-xBaa1Cab1Eux)2SiO4 (0?a1?0.3, 0?b1?0.8 and 0<x<1). The silicate phosphor particles disperse substantially evenly in the resin easily. As a result, excellent white light is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihide Maeda, Shozo Oshio, Katsuaki Iwama, Hiromi Kitahara, Tadaaki Ikeda, Hidenori Kamei, Yasuyuki Hanada, Kei Sakanoue
  • Patent number: 7170221
    Abstract: The semiconductor light emitting device is composed of a combination of a near ultraviolet LED and a phosphor layer including a plurality of phosphors for absorbing near ultraviolet emitted by the near ultraviolet LED and for emitting fluorescence having an emission peak in a visible wavelength region, and the phosphor layer includes four kinds of phosphors, that is, a blue-based phosphor, a green-based phosphor, a red-based phosphor and a yellow-based phosphor. Thus, lowering of luminous flux derived from red-based light with low luminosity is compensated by yellow-based light with comparatively high luminosity, and the resultant white-based light can be well color balanced, and hence, a semiconductor light emitting device emitting white-based light with high luminous flux and a large Ra can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihide Maeda, Shozo Oshio, Katsuaki Iwama, Hiromi Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20060124942
    Abstract: A chip-type light-emitting semiconductor device includes: a substrate 4; a blue LED 1 mounted on the substrate 4; and a luminescent layer 3 made of a mixture of yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 and a base material 13 (translucent resin). The yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 is a silicate phosphor which absorbs blue light emitted by the blue LED 1 to emit a fluorescence having a main emission peak in the wavelength range from 550 nm to 600 nm, inclusive, and which contains, as a main component, a compound expressed by the chemical formula: (Sr1-a1-b1-xBaa1Cab1Eux)2SiO4 (0?a1?0.3, 0?b1?0.8 and 0<x<1). The silicate phosphor particles disperse substantially evenly in the resin easily. As a result, excellent white light is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihide Maeda, Shozo Oshio, Katsuaki Iwama, Hiromi Kitahara, Tadaaki Ikeda, Hidenori Kamei, Yasuyuki Hanada, Kei Sakanoue
  • Patent number: 7023019
    Abstract: A chip-type light-emitting semiconductor device includes: a substrate 4; a blue LED 1 mounted on the substrate 4; and a luminescent layer 3 made of a mixture of yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 and a base material 13 (translucent resin). The yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 is a silicate phosphor which absorbs blue light emitted by the blue LED 1 to emit a fluorescence having a main emission peak in the wavelength range from 550 nm to 600 nm, inclusive, and which contains, as a main component, a compound expressed by the chemical formula: (Sr1?a1?b1?xBaa1Cab1Eux)2SiO4 (0?a1?0.3, 0?b1?0.8 and 0<x<1). The silicate phosphor particles disperse substantially evenly in the resin easily. As a result, excellent white light is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihide Maeda, Shozo Oshio, Katsuaki Iwama, Hiromi Kitahara, Tadaaki Ikeda, Hidenori Kamei, Yasuyuki Hanada, Kei Sakanoue
  • Publication number: 20050227569
    Abstract: A chip-type light-emitting semiconductor device includes: a substrate 4; a blue LED 1 mounted on the substrate 4; and a luminescent layer 3 made of a mixture of yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 and a base material 13 (translucent resin). The yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 is a silicate phosphor which absorbs blue light emitted by the blue LED 1 to emit a fluorescence having a main emission peak in the wavelength range from 550 nm to 600 nm, inclusive, and which contains, as a main component, a compound expressed by the chemical formula: (Sr1-a1-b1-xBaa1Cab1Eux)2SiO4 (0?a1?0.3, 0?b1?0.8 and 0<x<1). The silicate phosphor particles disperse substantially evenly in the resin easily. As a result, excellent white light is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihide Maeda, Shozo Oshio, Katsuaki Iwama, Hiromi Kitahara, Tadaaki Ikeda, Hidenori Kamei, Yasuyuki Hanada, Kei Sakanoue
  • Publication number: 20040245532
    Abstract: The semiconductor light emitting device is composed of a combination of a near ultraviolet LED and a phosphor layer including a plurality of phosphors for absorbing near ultraviolet emitted by the near ultraviolet LED and for emitting fluorescence having an emission peak in a visible wavelength region, and the phosphor layer includes four kinds of phosphors, that is, a blue-based phosphor, a green-based phosphor, a red-based phosphor and a yellow-based phosphor. Thus, lowering of luminous flux derived from red-based light with low luminosity is compensated by yellow-based light with comparatively high luminosity, and the resultant white-based light can be well color balanced, and hence, a semiconductor light emitting device emitting white-based light with high luminous flux and a large Ra can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Toshihide Maeda, Shozo Oshio, Katsuaki Iwama, Hiromi Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20040104391
    Abstract: A chip-type light-emitting semiconductor device includes: a substrate 4; a blue LED 1 mounted on the substrate 4; and a luminescent layer 3 made of a mixture of yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 and a base material 13 (translucent resin). The yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 is a silicate phosphor which absorbs blue light emitted by the blue LED 1 to emit a fluorescence having a main emission peak in the wavelength range from 550 nm to 600 nm, inclusive, and which contains, as a main component, a compound expressed by the chemical formula: (Sr1−a1−b1−xBaa1Cab1Eux)2SiO4 (0≦a1≦0.3, 0≦b1≦0.8 and 0<x<1). The silicate phosphor particles disperse substantially evenly in the resin easily. As a result, excellent white light is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Inventors: Toshihide Maeda, Shozo Oshio, Katsuaki Iwama, Hiromi Kitahara, Tadaaki Ikeda, Hidenori Kamei, Yasuyuki Hanada, Kei Sakanoue
  • Patent number: 6528444
    Abstract: For environmental protection, a glass composition for lamps that can suppress the consumption of mercury by the glass is provided. An embodiment of the glass composition consists essentially of, expressed in percentages by weight: SiO2: 65-75, Al2O3: 0.5-4, Na2O: 1-8, K2O: 1-8, Li2O: 0-2, MgO: 0.5-5, CaO: 1-8, SrO: 1-7, BaO: 3.5-7, B2O3: 0-3, Sb2O3: 0-1, Fe2O3: 0-0.2, TiO2: 0-1, CeO2: 0-1; and the total amount of Na2O, K2O and Li2O is not more than 13 weight %. The glass composition is substantially free of lead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Kondoh, Yutaka Koyamada, Katsuaki Iwama
  • Patent number: 6445119
    Abstract: A discharge lamp which radiates visible light having the following lights combined: light having an emission peak in 400 to 490 nm wavelength range in a blue spectral region; light having an emission peak in a 500 to 550 nm wavelength range in a green spectral region; and light having an emission peak in 600 to 670 nm wavelength range in a red spectral region. The color point of the radiated light lies within a region common to the following regions: a region bounded by an ellipse with a color point (u, v)=(0.224, 0.330) as a center thereof, a major axis of 0.056, a minor axis of 0.024, and an angle from the u axis of 20 degrees in the CIE 1960 UCS diagram; a region bounded by an ellipse with a color point (u, v)=(0.224, 0.330) as a center thereof, a major axis of 0.078, a minor axis of 0.014, and an angle from the u axis of 30 degrees in the CIE 1960 UCS diagram; a region bounded by an ellipse with a color point (u, v)=(0.235, 0.335) as a center thereof, a major axis of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Mori, Hiromi Tanaka, Kenji Mukai, Toru Higashi, Tetsuji Takeuchi, Haruo Shibata, Sueko Kanaya, Katsuaki Iwama
  • Patent number: 4705986
    Abstract: A high color rendering fluorescent lamp having two-layered phosphor coating, wherein a first layer is formed immediately on the inner face of glass tube containing phosphors of alkaline earth halophosphate activated by antimony manganese or of alkaline earth holophosphate activated by antimony or both, and a second layer (an overriding layer) is formed on the first layer containing a phosphor having peak wavelength of emission at 470 nm-500 nm and absorbing line spectrum of mercury in visible short wavelength range, at least one of a phosphor of (Sr, Mg).sub.3 (PO.sub.4).sub.2 :Sn and a phosphor of (Sr, Ba).sub.3 (PO.sub.4).sub.2 :Sn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1987
    Assignee: Matsushita Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuaki Iwama, Mutsuo Takahashi, Haruo Shibata
  • Patent number: 4047069
    Abstract: A high pressure mercury vapor lamp having an outer bulb with a plural-phosphor coating on the inside surface thereof. A first phosphor provides for emission peaks within the range of wavelengths between 440 and 540 nm and contains strontium chloroapatite, barium magnesium aluminate, strontium chlorosilicate, barium magnesium aluminate, or barium strontium silicate, each activated with di-valent europium. A second phosphor includes yttruim vanaphosphate activated with tri-valent europium which has emission peaks between 600 and 720 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1977
    Assignee: Matsushita Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hidezo Akutsu, Katsuaki Iwama, Naoki Saito, Masanori Takagawa, Yoshichika Kobayashi, Tamisuke Atsumi
  • Patent number: 4032812
    Abstract: The present invention disclosed the phosphor coating for fluorescent high-pressure mercury-vapor lamps, consisting of a red light emitting phosphor with the following compositionYVO.sub.4 : Eu, or (PV)O.sub.4 :Euand a blue-green light emitting phosphor with the following compositionBa.sub.1.sub.-x Mg.sub.2.sub.-y Al.sub.z O.sub.3 .sub.+ 3/2 z : Eu.sub.x, Mn.sub.ywhere 0.03 .ltoreq. x .ltoreq. 0.4, 0.01 .ltoreq. y .ltoreq. 0.6, and 12 .ltoreq. z .ltoreq. 20,A highly satisfactory color rendition may be attained, and the color temperature may be arbitrarily changed so that the mercury-vapor lamps in accordance with the present invention are best adapted for use in interior lighting in offices, lobbies, shops and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1977
    Assignee: Matsushita Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshichika Kobayashi, Hidezoh Akutsu, Katsuaki Iwama
  • Patent number: RE47453
    Abstract: A chip-type light-emitting semiconductor device includes: a substrate 4; a blue LED 1 mounted on the substrate 4; and a luminescent layer 3 made of a mixture of yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 and a base material 13 (translucent resin). The yellow/yellowish phosphor particles 2 is a silicate phosphor which absorbs blue light emitted by the blue LED 1 to emit a fluorescence having a main emission peak in the wavelength range from 550 nm to 600 nm, inclusive, and which contains, as a main component, a compound expressed by the chemical formula: (Sr1-a1-b1-xBaa1Cab1Eux)2SiO4 (0?a1?0.3, 0?b1?0.8 and 0<x<1). The silicate phosphor particles disperse substantially evenly in the resin easily. As a result, excellent white light is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihide Maeda, Shozo Oshio, Katsuaki Iwama, Hiromi Kitahara, Tadaaki Ikeda, Kei Sakanoue, Hidenori Kamei, Yasuyuki Hanada