Patents by Inventor Katsunari Sato

Katsunari Sato 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: 8350980
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display apparatus capable of avoiding heat radiation hindrance caused from blocking of a heat radiation path by electric wiring and from interference of the electric wiring with a radiating portion for heat generated from circuit boards, in which a heat diffusion member and the circuit boards including an LED driver substrate are arranged in a plane at the rear of a frame in a housing while being isolated from one another, and LED light sources mounted on metal blocks are connected to the LED substrate through a flexible cable which is led from the outsides of the metal blocks and the heat diffusion member and is then led between the heat diffusion member and a rear case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeo Ohashi, Noriyo Nishijima, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Katsunari Sato
  • Patent number: 8188967
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display has a liquid crystal panel, a gate chip on film (COF) disposed at a side of a side surface of the liquid crystal panel, side-edge-type backlights having a light emitting diode disposed on left and right side surfaces of the liquid crystal panel, and a cover and a frame that hold the liquid crystal panel and the backlights, the frame has an opening disposed at a position corresponding to the position of the gate COF into which the gate COF is inserted, and a lid for covering the gate COF inserted in the opening is connected to the frame in such a manner that the lid is capable of being opened and closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsunari Sato, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Takeshi Miitsu, Hiroyoshi Ogura, Hiroki Hosono, Koichi Sato
  • Patent number: 8159629
    Abstract: There is provided a slim liquid crystal display unit having a large screen by providing a slim structure capable of sufficiently radiating the heat from a light source. The liquid crystal display unit according to the present invention includes: a liquid crystal panel; an optical guiding board installed on a rear face thereof; a pair of light source-mounted substrate disposed, opposing right and left side faces thereof; a light source mounted on the light source-mounted substrate; a metal frame connected on the opposite side to the optical guiding board of the light source-mounted substrate; a chassis member for supporting the optical guiding board and a reflection sheet group; and a thermal diffusion member fixed onto the metal frame along with the chassis member. The chassis member has a stepped portion in the vicinity of the light source. Between the stepped portion and the reflection sheet group, a thermal insulation member is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Yamashita, Akitoshi Morishima, Katsunari Sato, Noriyo Nishijima, Shigeo Ohashi, Takeshi Miitsu, Hiroyoshi Ogura, Hiroki Hosono, Koichi Sato
  • Publication number: 20110063543
    Abstract: Each of plural light source units is formed by combining a light source formed of plural light emitting elements mounted on a wiring substrate with a light guide plate having a side surface serving as a light incident surface. The wiring substrate is attached to the chassis such that the light output surface of the light emitting element is perpendicular to the light emitting element mount surface of the wiring substrate. The wiring patterns each with the larger width than that of the electrode are formed on both upper and back surfaces of the substrate at the portion to which the power feeding electrode of the light emitting element is soldered. They are connected via the through holes which are arranged in plural rows around the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventors: Shigeo OHASHI, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Katsunari Sato
  • Publication number: 20110051036
    Abstract: The invention makes patterns which may show, according to the positioning of light guide plates, along the vertical direction of a display screen of a side-edge type liquid crystal display device inconspicuous. This is achieved by disposing light guide plates so as to guide the illumination light from light sources, for example, LEDs along the vertical direction of the display screen. The vertically guided illumination light is reflected, with reflection sheets also facilitating the reflection, at rear sides of the light guide plates and is, after traveling through a diffusion sheet to be made more uniform, further guided to liquid crystals. Even though boundaries between light guide plates are generally more conspicuous along the vertical direction of a display screen than along the horizontal direction, first guiding the illumination light into a vertical direction removes the problem of such boundaries conspicuously showing along the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Yamashita, Katsunari Sato
  • Publication number: 20110051042
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided in which, even when divided light guide plate blocks are thermally expanded or contracted as a result of a temperature change, the generation of clearances and mechanical deformations between such divided light guide plate blocks is prevented, making it possible to reduce the brightness unevenness of the liquid crystal display device. To realize the above feature, light guide plate blocks are arranged such that one or two of them are arranged in each horizontal row with only an upper side of each light guide plate block fixed to a chassis and, furthermore, such that the upper side fixed to the chassis of each light guide plate block is based on a center in the horizontal direction of the liquid crystal display panel so as to reduce the effects of thermal expansion and contraction of each light guide plate block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Katsunari SATO, Yoshiharu Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20100079942
    Abstract: The present invention provides a simply usable shield cover capable of enhancing the mechanical strength of a set even if a display device is decreased in thickness. In a video display apparatus including a base chassis on a front surface of which a displaying member is arranged and on a back surface of which a unit for driving and controlling the display device is arranged, and a plurality of frames arranged on the back surface of the base chassis in parallel with each other, a shield cover is attached to the plurality of frames to extend over those to form a crosslink structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Inventors: Taku Yamamoto, Katsunari Sato, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Takeshi Miitsu, Hiroyoshi Ogura, Hiroki Hosono, Koichi Sato
  • Publication number: 20100073582
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device and a video display device using the same, for suppressing light unevenness at the end of a display region, the video display device is provided with a liquid crystal display device and a housing configured to support the liquid crystal display device, wherein the liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a first frame and a liquid crystal support member which interpose the liquid crystal panel therebetween, a light guide plate which is disposed at the liquid crystal support member on a side opposite to a side where the liquid crystal panel is disposed, and a light source which is disposed at a side surface of the light guide plate, and wherein a cushion member is disposed between the liquid crystal support member and the light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Akitoyo KONNO, Hiroshi Sasaki, Katsunari Sato
  • Publication number: 20100066937
    Abstract: There is provided a slim liquid crystal display unit having a large screen by providing a slim structure capable of sufficiently radiating the heat from a light source. The liquid crystal display unit according to the present invention includes: a liquid crystal panel; an optical guiding board installed on a rear face thereof; a pair of light source-mounted substrate disposed, opposing right and left side faces thereof; a light source mounted on the light source-mounted substrate; a metal frame connected on the opposite side to the optical guiding board of the light source-mounted substrate; a chassis member for supporting the optical guiding board and a reflection sheet group; and a thermal diffusion member fixed onto the metal frame along with the chassis member. The chassis member has a stepped portion in the vicinity of the light source. Between the stepped portion and the reflection sheet group, a thermal insulation member is attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Yamashita, Akitoshi Morishima, Katsunari Sato, Noriyo Nishijima, Shigeo Ohashi, Takeshi Miitsu, Hiroyoshi Ogura, Hiroki Hosono, Koichi Sato
  • Publication number: 20100066939
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display apparatus capable of avoiding heat radiation hindrance caused from blocking of a heat radiation path by electric wiring and from interference of the electric wiring with a radiating portion for heat generated from circuit boards, in which a heat diffusion member and the circuit boards including an LED driver substrate are arranged in a plane at the rear of a frame in a housing while being isolated from one another, and LED light sources mounted on metal blocks are connected to the LED substrate through a flexible cable which is led from the outsides of the metal blocks and the heat diffusion member and is then led between the heat diffusion member and a rear case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventors: Shigeo OHASHI, Noriyo Nishijima, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Katsunari Sato
  • Publication number: 20100053049
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display has a liquid crystal panel, a gate chip on film (COF) disposed at a side of a side surface of the liquid crystal panel, side-edge-type backlights having a light emitting diode disposed on left and right side surfaces of the liquid crystal panel, and a cover and a frame that hold the liquid crystal panel and the backlights, the frame has an opening disposed at a position corresponding to the position of the gate COF into which the gate COF is inserted, and a lid for covering the gate COF inserted in the opening is connected to the frame in such a manner that the lid is capable of being opened and closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Katsunari Sato, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Takeshi Miitsu, Hiroyoshi Ogura, Hiroki Hosono, Koichi Sato
  • Patent number: 5023550
    Abstract: A rotating head mechanism of a rotary type AC magnetic flux leakage flaw detector comprises a rotating disc which has an opening for passing a test piece for flaw detection, mounting frames which are disposed in the rotating disc so as to oppose to each other with the opening located therebetween, shafts which are rotatably disposed across the mounting frames and each of which has external threads of senses opposite to each other at a position on one side of the opening and a position on the other side thereof, a first nut which engages the external thread of one sense in the external threads of each shaft, a second nut which engages the external thread of the other sense in the external threads of each shaft, a first cradle which is coupled to the first nuts, a second cradle which is coupled to the second nuts, a first exciting magnetic poles/detecting probes-assembly which is mounted on the first cradle, a second exciting magnetic poles/detecting probes-assembly which is mounted on the second cradle, and ro
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1991
    Assignee: Eddio Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Yamazaki, Kazumi Ueda, Shinichi Isobe, Katsunari Sato