Patents by Inventor Katsuhiro Kanauchi
Katsuhiro Kanauchi 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).
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Publication number: 20240152004Abstract: A display device (1) includes a light-emitting device (10), a reflective liquid crystal element (20), and an optical member (30). The light-emitting device (10) includes a plurality of light-emitting units (142) and a light-transmitting unit (144) located between the light-emitting units (142) adjacent to each other. The light-emitting device (10) is located between the reflective liquid crystal element (20) and the optical member (30). The plurality of light-emitting units (142) emit light toward the reflective liquid crystal element (20). The light emitted from the plurality of light-emitting units (142) is reflected by the reflective liquid crystal element (20), transmitted through the light-emitting unit (142) of the light-emitting device (10), and formed into an image by the optical member (30).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Shinsuke TANAKA, Noriaki WAKI, Katsuhiro KANAUCHI, Hiroki TAN
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Patent number: 11914246Abstract: A display device (1) includes a light-emitting device (10), a reflective liquid crystal element (20), and an optical member (30). The light-emitting device (10) includes a plurality of light-emitting units (142) and a light-transmitting unit (144) located between the light-emitting units (142) adjacent to each other. The light-emitting device (10) is located between the reflective liquid crystal element (20) and the optical member (30). The plurality of light-emitting units (142) emit light toward the reflective liquid crystal element (20). The light emitted from the plurality of light-emitting units (142) is reflected by the reflective liquid crystal element (20), transmitted through the light-emitting unit (142) of the light-emitting device (10), and formed into an image by the optical member (30).Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer CorporationInventors: Shinsuke Tanaka, Noriaki Waki, Katsuhiro Kanauchi, Hiroki Tan
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Publication number: 20230146352Abstract: A display device (1) includes a light-emitting device (10), a reflective liquid crystal element (20), and an optical member (30). The light-emitting device (10) includes a plurality of light-emitting units (142) and a light-transmitting unit (144) located between the light-emitting units (142) adjacent to each other. The light-emitting device (10) is located between the reflective liquid crystal element (20) and the optical member (30). The plurality of light-emitting units (142) emit light toward the reflective liquid crystal element (20). The light emitted from the plurality of light-emitting units (142) is reflected by the reflective liquid crystal element (20), transmitted through the light-emitting unit (142) of the light-emitting device (10), and formed into an image by the optical member (30).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Shinsuke TANAKA, Noriaki WAKI, Katsuhiro KANAUCHI, Hiroki TAN
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Patent number: 10283568Abstract: A first luminous body is formed on a substrate and is linear. A second luminous body is also formed on the substrate and is linear. The second luminous body extends in parallel with the first luminous body. A first anode and a first cathode are formed on the substrate, and supply electric power to the first luminous body. A second anode and a second cathode are also formed on the substrate, and supply electric power to the second luminous body. The first anode and the first cathode extend in parallel with each other, and the second anode and the second cathode extend in parallel with each other. In a range overlapping with the first luminous body when seen in a plan view, the first anode is not connected to the second anode, and the first cathode is not connected to the second cathode.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Shuichi Seki, Masaki Murakata, Katsuhiro Kanauchi
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Patent number: 9936559Abstract: A light-emitting device (10) includes a first light-emitting region (100) and a second light-emitting region (200). The first light-emitting region (100) emits a light ray having a first color by making a first light-emitting layer group including at least two or more kinds of light-emitting layers emit light. In addition, the second light-emitting region (200) emits a light ray having the first color (for example, daylight color, natural white color, white color, warm white color, or incandescent color) by making a second light-emitting layer group including at least two or more kinds of light-emitting layers emit light. In addition, at least one kind of light-emitting layer included in the second light-emitting layer group emits a light ray having a different spectrum peak from all of the light-emitting layers included in the first light-emitting layer group. Therefore, the color-rendering properties of light emitted from the light-emitting device (10) are improved.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Shuichi Seki, Shigehiro Umetsu, Hiroki Tan, Katsuhiro Kanauchi
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Publication number: 20160329382Abstract: A first luminous body is formed on a substrate and is linear. A second luminous body is also formed on the substrate and is linear. The second luminous body extends in parallel with the first luminous body. A first anode and a first cathode are formed on the substrate, and supply electric power to the first luminous body. A second anode and a second cathode are also formed on the substrate, and supply electric power to the second luminous body. The first anode and the first cathode extend in parallel with each other, and the second anode and the second cathode extend in parallel with each other. In a range overlapping with the first luminous body when seen in a plan view, the first anode is not connected to the second anode, and the first cathode is not connected to the second cathode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventors: Shuichi Seki, Masaki Murakata, Katsuhiro Kanauchi
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Publication number: 20160323965Abstract: A light-emitting device (10) includes a first light-emitting region (100) and a second light-emitting region (200). The first light-emitting region (100) emits a light ray having a first color by making a first light-emitting layer group including at least two or more kinds of light-emitting layers emit light. In addition, the second light-emitting region (200) emits a light ray having the first color (for example, daylight color, natural white color, white color, warm white color, or incandescent color) by making a second light-emitting layer group including at least two or more kinds of light-emitting layers emit light. In addition, at least one kind of light-emitting layer included in the second light-emitting layer group emits a light ray having a different spectrum peak from all of the light-emitting layers included in the first light-emitting layer group. Therefore, the color-rendering properties of light emitted from the light-emitting device (10) are improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2016Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Shuichi SEKI, Shigehiro UMETSU, Hiroki TAN, Katsuhiro KANAUCHI
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Patent number: 9420662Abstract: A light-emitting device (10) includes a first light-emitting region (100) and a second light-emitting region (200). The first light-emitting region (100) emits a light ray having a first color by making a first light-emitting layer group including at least two or more kinds of light-emitting layers emit light. In addition, the second light-emitting region (200) emits alight ray having the first color (for example, daylight color, natural white color, white color, warm white color, or incandescent color) by making a second light-emitting layer group including at least two or more kinds of light-emitting layers emit light. In addition, at least one kind of light-emitting layer included in the second light-emitting layer group emits a light ray having a different spectrum peak from all of the light-emitting layers included in the first light-emitting layer group. Therefore, the color-rendering properties of light emitted from the light-emitting device (10) are improved.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2012Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Shuichi Seki, Shigehiro Umetsu, Hiroki Tan, Katsuhiro Kanauchi
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Patent number: 9419059Abstract: A first luminous body is formed on a substrate and is linear. A second luminous body is also formed on the substrate and is linear. The second luminous body extends in parallel with the first luminous body. A first anode and a first cathode are formed on the substrate, and supply electric power to the first luminous body. A second anode and a second cathode are also formed on the substrate, and supply electric power to the second luminous body. The first anode and the first cathode extend in parallel with each other, and the second anode and the second cathode extend in parallel with each other. In a range overlapping with the first luminous body when seen in a plan view, the first anode is not connected to the second anode, and the first cathode is not connected to the second cathode.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Shuichi Seki, Masaki Murakata, Katsuhiro Kanauchi
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Patent number: 9215766Abstract: A drive device for a light-emitting element that improves accuracy while driving the light-emitting element at small currents for which a comparatively simple configuration is provided. The drive device includes detecting means, comparing means, a driving voltage source, and offset means. The detecting means detects a voltage corresponding to a current flowing through a first resistor for current detection. The first resistor is coupled to a light-emitting element in series. The comparing means compares a magnitude of the detection voltage of the detecting unit with a comparison voltage. The driving voltage source applies a voltage corresponding to a comparison result by the comparing means to a series circuit of the light-emitting element and the first resistor. The offset means corrects the voltage corresponding to a current flowing through the first resistor by a correction voltage.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2011Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer CorporationInventors: Hideo Ochi, Nobuhiko Saegusa, Katsuhiro Kanauchi
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Publication number: 20150270316Abstract: A first luminous body is formed on a substrate and is linear. A second luminous body is also formed on the substrate and is linear. The second luminous body extends in parallel with the first luminous body. A first anode and a first cathode are formed on the substrate, and supply electric power to the first luminous body. A second anode and a second cathode are also formed on the substrate, and supply electric power to the second luminous body. The first anode and the first cathode extend in parallel with each other, and the second anode and the second cathode extend in parallel with each other. In a range overlapping with the first luminous body when seen in a plan view, the first anode is not connected to the second anode, and the first cathode is not connected to the second cathode.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2012Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicants: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer CorporationInventors: Shuichi Seki, Masaki Murakata, Katsuhiro Kanauchi
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Publication number: 20150230314Abstract: A light-emitting device (10) includes a first light-emitting region (100) and a second light-emitting region (200). The first light-emitting region (100) emits a light ray having a first color by making a first light-emitting layer group including at least two or more kinds of light-emitting layers emit light. In addition, the second light-emitting region (200) emits alight ray having the first color (for example, daylight color, natural white color, white color, warm white color, or incandescent color) by making a second light-emitting layer group including at least two or more kinds of light-emitting layers emit light. In addition, at least one kind of light-emitting layer included in the second light-emitting layer group emits a light ray having a different spectrum peak from all of the light-emitting layers included in the first light-emitting layer group. Therefore, the color-rendering properties of light emitted from the light-emitting device (10) are improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2012Publication date: August 13, 2015Applicants: TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION, PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Shuichi Seki, Shigehiro Umetsu, Hiroki Tan, Katsuhiro Kanauchi
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Publication number: 20130320884Abstract: A drive device for a light-emitting element that improves accuracy while driving the light-emitting element at small currents for which a comparatively simple configuration is provided. The drive device includes detecting means, comparing means, a driving voltage source, and offset means. The detecting means detects a voltage corresponding to a current flowing through a first resistor for current detection. The first resistor is coupled to a light-emitting element in series. The comparing means compares a magnitude of the detection voltage of the detecting unit with a comparison voltage. The driving voltage source applies a voltage corresponding to a comparison result by the comparing means to a series circuit of the light-emitting element and the first resistor. The offset means corrects the voltage corresponding to a current flowing through the first resistor by a correction voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2011Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicants: TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION, Pioneer CorporationInventors: Hideo Ochi, Nobuhiko Saegusa, Katsuhiro Kanauchi
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Patent number: 8125479Abstract: Treating light emitting elements 2 in all the display pixels in a light emitting display panel as objects, a maximum value of the forward voltages is drawn by a multi-input comparator 3a and a peak hold circuit 3b. Based on the maximum value of the forward voltages, a voltage boost circuit 6 switching operates a power FET to supply a boosted output by this operation to a constant current circuit 1 as the operational voltage VH. In the case where the maximum value of the forward voltages increases due to trouble or the like and based on this increment the operational voltage VH excessively increases, the operation of the voltage boost circuit 6 is stopped by a control output from an analog comparator 7a which functions as voltage limiter.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2009Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Tohoku Pioneer CorporationInventors: Akinori Hayafuji, Katsuhiro Kanauchi
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Publication number: 20100220120Abstract: A drive apparatus is provided which can calculate a suitable APL value when driving a color display panel using PLE control. Further, a drive apparatus is provided which can inhibit output capacity of a power supply circuit by controlling display brightness according to a lighting rate of a pixel. An APL calculation means 20 is provided with a weighting means 22A for performing weighting according to a light emitting current rate of each color at the time of displaying a gray scale with respect to a picture signal of each of the colors R, G, and B. Being averaged by an averaging means 23, each signal weighted by this weighting means 22A acquires an APL value. The peak brightness control means 29 is controlled using this APL value so that PLE operation of controlling a peak brightness of the picture signal is realized.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2010Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Mayumi Ozaki, Katsuhiro Kanauchi, Akinori Hayafuji
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Publication number: 20100020061Abstract: A display panel 1, in which light-emitting elements E11 to EMN are connected in a matrix state to the respective intersecting positions of a plurality of signal lines A1 to AM and a plurality of scan lines K1 to KN, is used. A scan line Kn is set to a scan selection potential (ground potential), and a pulse voltage from a pulse power supply 4 is applied to the other scan lines. When switches Sa1 to SaM as data selection means in a data driver 2 are placed in a state shown in a drawing, respective currents are applied to light-emitting elements to be emitted in a forward direction as rush currents through the parasitic capacitances of light-emitting elements in a non-scan state when the pulse voltage rises.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2006Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuhiro Kanauchi, Akinori Hayafuji, Shuichi Seki
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Publication number: 20090244051Abstract: The present invention is to provide a display device which efficiently drives light emitting display pixels and which can restrain an excessive increment of an operational voltage outputted from a power supply circuit due to trouble of the circuit or the like. Treating light emitting elements 2 in all the display pixels in a light emitting display panel as objects, a maximum value of the forward voltages is drawn by a multi-input comparator 3a and a peak hold circuit 3b. Based on the maximum value of the forward voltages, a voltage boost circuit 6 switching operates a power FET to supply a boosted output by this operation to a constant current circuit 1 as the operational voltage VH. In the case where the maximum value of the forward voltages increases due to trouble or the like and based on this increment the operational voltage VH excessively increases, the operation of the voltage boost circuit 6 is stopped by a control output from an analog comparator 7a which functions as a voltage limiter.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Akinori Hayafuji, Katsuhiro Kanauchi
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Patent number: 7557802Abstract: Treating light emitting elements 2 in all the display pixels in a light emitting display panel as objects, a maximum value of the forward voltages is drawn by a multi-input comparator 3a and a peak hold circuit 3b. Based on the maximum value of the forward voltages, a voltage boost circuit 6 switching operates a power FET to supply a boosted output by this operation to a constant current circuit 1 as the operational voltage VH. In the case where the maximum value of the forward voltages increases due to trouble or the like and based on this increment the operational voltage VH excessively increases, the operation of the voltage boost circuit 6 is stopped by a control output from an analog comparator 7a which functions as a voltage limiter.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2004Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignee: Tohoku Pioneer CorporationInventors: Akinori Hayafuji, Katsuhiro Kanauchi
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Patent number: 7471288Abstract: A clock signal in synchronization with a data writing signal, every scanning line, which is supplied from a light-emitting control circuit 4 to a scanning driver 6, is supplied to an oscillator 12 which generates a reference switching signal, according to a PWM method, in a DC-DC converter 8. Thereby, the timing at data writing every scanning line is in synchronization with the phase of a ripple component superimposed on a driving voltage Va from the DC-DC converter 8. Accordingly, a problem that there is caused a state in which light-emitting intensity is different every scanning line can be solved because the same voltage Vgs between a gate and a source is supplied every scanning line to a light-emitting driving transistor Tr2 at any time even if the ripple component by switching of the DC-DC converter is superimposed on the driving voltage Va.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2005Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Tohoku Pioneer CorporationInventors: Akinori Hayafuji, Katsuhiro Kanauchi
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Publication number: 20070085785Abstract: A drive apparatus is provided which can calculate a suitable APL value when driving a color display panel using PLE control. Further, a drive apparatus is provided which can inhibit output capacity of a power supply circuit by controlling display brightness according to a lighting rate of a pixel. An APL calculation means 20 is provided with a weighting means 22A for performing weighting according to a light emitting current rate of each color at the time of displaying a gray scale with respect to a picture signal of each of the colors R, G, and B. Being averaged by an averaging means 23, each signal weighted by this weighting means 22A acquires an APL value. The peak brightness control means 29 is controlled using this APL value so that PLE operation of controlling a peak brightness of the picture signal is realized.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2006Publication date: April 19, 2007Applicant: TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Mayumi Ozaki, Katsuhiro Kanauchi, Akinori Hayafuji