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).
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Patent number: 8350980Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 17, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeo Ohashi, Noriyo Nishijima, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Katsunari Sato
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Patent number: 8188967Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 24, 2009Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Katsunari Sato, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Takeshi Miitsu, Hiroyoshi Ogura, Hiroki Hosono, Koichi Sato
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Patent number: 8159629Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 28, 2009Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiharu Yamashita, Akitoshi Morishima, Katsunari Sato, Noriyo Nishijima, Shigeo Ohashi, Takeshi Miitsu, Hiroyoshi Ogura, Hiroki Hosono, Koichi Sato
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Publication number: 20110063543Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2010Publication date: March 17, 2011Inventors: Shigeo OHASHI, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Katsunari Sato
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Publication number: 20110051036Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiharu Yamashita, Katsunari Sato
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Publication number: 20110051042Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Inventors: Katsunari SATO, Yoshiharu Yamashita
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Publication number: 20100079942Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2009Publication date: April 1, 2010Inventors: Taku Yamamoto, Katsunari Sato, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Takeshi Miitsu, Hiroyoshi Ogura, Hiroki Hosono, Koichi Sato
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Publication number: 20100073582Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2009Publication date: March 25, 2010Inventors: Akitoyo KONNO, Hiroshi Sasaki, Katsunari Sato
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Publication number: 20100066937Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiharu Yamashita, Akitoshi Morishima, Katsunari Sato, Noriyo Nishijima, Shigeo Ohashi, Takeshi Miitsu, Hiroyoshi Ogura, Hiroki Hosono, Koichi Sato
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Publication number: 20100066939Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Inventors: Shigeo OHASHI, Noriyo Nishijima, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Katsunari Sato
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Publication number: 20100053049Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Inventors: Katsunari Sato, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Takeshi Miitsu, Hiroyoshi Ogura, Hiroki Hosono, Koichi Sato
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Patent number: 5023550Abstract: 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 roType: GrantFiled: February 1, 1990Date of Patent: June 11, 1991Assignee: Eddio CorporationInventors: Makoto Yamazaki, Kazumi Ueda, Shinichi Isobe, Katsunari Sato