Patents by Inventor Kazumasa Takata
Kazumasa Takata 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: 11940647Abstract: Light control body (6) has first incident surface (7) and first reflection surface (9). First incident surface (7) condenses part of light emitted from light source (1) and emits the light toward incident surface (3) of light guide plate (2). First reflection surface (9) reflects the light that is emitted from light source (1) and does not pass through first incident surface (7), and emits the light toward incident surface (3) of light guide plate (2). First focal position (11) of first incident surface (7) and second focal position (12) of first reflection surface (9) are set at positions that are different from each other and away from the light emission surface of light source (1).Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yosuke Araki, Wahei Agemizu, Kazumasa Takata, Masaru Fujita
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Publication number: 20240045206Abstract: An optical system includes a light guide member, a prism, and a plurality of light control bodies. The light guide member includes an incident surface on which light is incident, and a first surface and a second surface facing each other. In the light guide member, the second surface is an emission surface of light. The prism is provided on the first surface and reflects light passing through the light guide member toward the second surface. The plurality of light control bodies are positioned between light sources and the incident surface. The plurality of light control bodies control light rays output from the light sources and incident on the incident surface. Each of the plurality of light control bodies includes an incident lens. Each of the plurality of light control bodies causes the light incident on the incident lens from the light source to be incident on the incident surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: WAHEI AGEMIZU, KAZUMASA TAKATA, MASARU FUJITA
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Publication number: 20240027759Abstract: An optical system includes a light guide member and a prism. The light guide member has: an incident surface on which light is incident; and a first surface and a second surface facing each other. The second surface is a light emergent surface. The prism is provided for the first surface and reflects, toward the second surface, the light passing inside the light guide member. The light guide member includes a direct optical path, along which the light that has entered the light guide member through the incident surface is directly reflected from the prism and allowed to emerge from the second surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Wahei AGEMIZU, Kazumasa TAKATA, Masaru FUJITA, Tomohisa SAKAGUCHI, Hiroki HARA, Masaki AMIE
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Publication number: 20230400613Abstract: An optical multiplexer includes a plurality of light sources that emit a plurality of laser beams having different wavelengths, a collimator that collimates a plurality of laser beams emitted from a plurality of light sources, and a diffraction grating that diffracts a plurality of laser beams collimated by the collimator and emits a plurality of laser beams along a same optical path, the diffraction grating being of a transmission-type. A plurality of light sources are linearly arranged on an incident side focal plane of the collimator, a grating surface of the diffraction grating is disposed on an emission side focal plane of the collimator, and distance D between two adjacent light sources is set to satisfy D=f×(?1??2)/p, where ?1, ?2 (?1>?2) are respectively wavelengths of laser beams emitted from the two adjacent light sources.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: ATSUSHI FUKUI, KAZUMASA TAKATA, YOSUKE ARAKI
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Patent number: 11835719Abstract: An optical system includes a light guide member having a light incident surface, a first surface, and a light emergent surface facing the first surface; and a prism provided in the first surface for reflecting light passing inside the light guide member towards the light emergent surface. The light guide member includes a direct optical path, along which the light that has entered the light guide member through the incident surface is directly reflected from the prism and allowed to emerge from the light emergent surface. At least one of the first surface or the light emergent surface includes a luminous intensity distribution control member configured to control a luminous intensity distribution of light to be extracted from the light emergent surface. The luminous intensity distribution control member includes a Fresnel lens.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Wahei Agemizu, Kazumasa Takata, Masaru Fujita, Tomohisa Sakaguchi, Hiroki Hara, Masaki Amie
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Publication number: 20230375770Abstract: Light control body (6) has first incident surface (7) and first reflection surface (9). First incident surface (7) condenses part of light emitted from light source (1) and emits the light toward incident surface (3) of light guide plate (2). First reflection surface (9) reflects the light that is emitted from light source (1) and does not pass through first incident surface (7), and emits the light toward incident surface (3) of light guide plate (2). First focal position (11) of first incident surface (7) and second focal position (12) of first reflection surface (9) are set at positions that are different from each other and away from the light emission surface of light source (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: YOSUKE ARAKI, WAHEI AGEMIZU, KAZUMASA TAKATA, MASARU FUJITA
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Patent number: 11656473Abstract: An optical system includes a light guide member having a light-incident surface, a first surface, a light-emitting surface facing the first surface, a first end surface, a second end surface, a plurality of collimating lenses disposed on the light-incident surface and being arranged along a first direction, and a plurality of prism pieces. The plurality of prism pieces include two or more prism pieces having different inclination angles with respect to the light-incident surface depending on positions of the prism pieces in at least the first direction, and each of the inclination angles of the two or more prism pieces is an angle formed between the first direction and the longitudinal axis of a corresponding prism piece. Each of the inclination angles of the two or more prism pieces increases as the corresponding prism piece is positioned closer to any of the first end surface or the second end surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazumasa Takata, Masaru Fujita, Wahei Agemizu, Yosuke Araki, Tomohisa Sakaguchi
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Patent number: 11422452Abstract: An optical multiplexer includes: an incident surface on which incident light beams having different wavelengths are to be incident; a reflection portion configured to reflect the incident light beams; and an emission surface configured to emit reflected light beams reflected by the reflection portion. The incident surface has adjacent condenser lenses corresponding to the respective incident light beams. The reflection portion has adjacent reflection surfaces configured to reflect the respective incident light beams which have been condensed. The adjacent reflection surfaces are respectively disposed so that angle ? formed by the respective reflected light beams reflected by the adjacent reflection surfaces is smaller than angle ? formed by the respective incident light beams which have been condensed. The emission surface has diffraction grating in which the respective reflected light beams reflected by the adjacent reflection surfaces are to be incident at a same position and diffracted in a same direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazumasa Takata, Takashi Matsuda, Atsushi Fukui
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Publication number: 20220128829Abstract: A light refraction member includes an incident surface on which planar light is incident, a plurality of refractors that refract the planar light, and an emitting surface from which the planar light refracted by the plurality of refractors is emitted as emitted light. The plurality of refractors are provided side by side in a first direction on at least one of the incident surface and the emitting surface, and each of the plurality of refractors has an area in which a direction in which the planar light is refracted changes along a second direction intersecting the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: TOMOHISA SAKAGUCHI, WAHEI AGEMIZU, KAZUMASA TAKATA, MASARU FUJITA
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Patent number: 11274949Abstract: Light emitted from laser light source is divided by prism into two light flux and light flux corresponding to light emitted from slope and slope. Light flux and light flux are diffused by diffusion plate and diffusion plate to become light flux and light flux. By overlapping light flux and light flux, a radiation distribution with a wide angle and high light intensity can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Fukui, Kazumasa Takata
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Publication number: 20220043262Abstract: An optical system includes a light guide member and a prism. The light guide member has: an incident surface on which light is incident; and a first surface and a second surface facing each other. The second surface is a light emergent surface. The prism is provided for the first surface and reflects, toward the second surface, the light passing inside the light guide member. The light guide member includes a direct optical path, along which the light that has entered the light guide member through the incident surface is directly reflected from the prism and allowed to emerge from the second surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Wahei AGEMIZU, Kazumasa TAKATA, Masaru FUJITA, Tomohisa SAKAGUCHI, Hiroki HARA, Masaki AMIE
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Publication number: 20210356752Abstract: An optical system includes a light guide member and a plurality of prism pieces. The light guide member has an incident surface on which light is incident, and first and second surfaces facing each other, and the second surface is a light-emitting surface. The plurality of prism pieces are provided on the first surface and reflect the light passing through an inside of the light guide member toward the second surface. The plurality of prism pieces include two or more prism pieces having different inclination angles with respect to an incident surface depending on a position in at least a first direction along both the incident surface and the first surface. The inclination angles of two or more prism pieces are determined so that the light emitted from the second surface is directed to the outside or the inside of the first direction with respect to a reference light beam as the prism piece is positioned closer to both ends of the first surface in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: KAZUMASA TAKATA, MASARU FUJITA, WAHEI AGEMIZU, YOSUKE ARAKI, TOMOHISA SAKAGUCHI
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Patent number: 11155910Abstract: Provided is a high-strength, heat-resistant, Ni-base alloy comprising Co: from 5 to 12%, Cr: from 5 to 12%, Mo: from 0.5 to 3.0%, W: from 3.0 to 6.0%, Al: from 5.5 to 7.2%, Ti: from 1.0 to 3.0%, Ta: from 1.5 to 6.0%, Re: from 0 to 2.0%, and C: from 0.01 to 0.20%. The high-strength, heat-resistant, Ni-base alloy is constituted of a Ni-based alloy, the balance of the Ni-based alloy comprising Ni and inevitable impurities. The density of the high-strength, heat-resistant Ni-base alloy is less than 8.5 g/cm3.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.Inventors: Masaki Taneike, Ikuo Okada, Kazumasa Takata, Junichiro Masada, Keizo Tsukagoshi, Hiroyuki Yamazaki, Yoshiaki Nishimura, Shinya Ishikawa
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Patent number: 11098868Abstract: A lighting device includes light emitting element; first lens that receives light emitted from light emitting element and emits first emission light; and second lens that receives the first emission light and emits second emission light. Second lens includes second convex incident surface receiving the first emission light, second convex emission surface that is provided on a right side of a drawing and emits the second emission light, and second top surface portion and second bottom surface portion each located between second incident surface and second emission surface. Second bottom surface portion includes first inclined surface and second inclined surface formed to be inclined with respect to an optical axis of light emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomohisa Sakaguchi, Yosuke Araki, Kazumasa Takata
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Patent number: 11054101Abstract: A lighting device includes a light emitting element; a first lens that receives light emitted from the light emitting element and emits first emission light; and a second lens that receives the first emission light and emits second emission light. The first lens has a first emission surface emitting the first emission light, the first emission surface having a convex shape protruding in a Z direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yosuke Araki, Ryoma Murase, Kazumasa Takata, Jun Hirai, Hiroshi Umiji, Hiroshi Hamano
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Publication number: 20210103208Abstract: An optical multiplexer includes: incident surface on which a plurality of incident light beams having different wavelengths are incident; first reflection portion that reflects the plurality of incident light beams; and emission surface that emits a plurality of reflected light beams reflected by the first reflection surface. The incident surface is provided with a plurality of adjacent condenser lenses corresponding to respective incident light beams. The first reflection surface has a plurality of adjacent reflection surfaces that reflect the light beams condensed by the condenser lenses. The plurality of reflection surfaces are respectively disposed so that angle ? formed by the respective reflected light beams reflected by the adjacent reflection surfaces is smaller than angle ? formed by the respective incident light beams condensed by the adjacent condenser lenses.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: KAZUMASA TAKATA, TAKASHI MATSUDA, ATSUSHI FUKUI
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Publication number: 20210088194Abstract: A lighting device includes a light emitting element; a first lens that receives light emitted from the light emitting element and emits first emission light; and a second lens that receives the first emission light and emits second emission light. The first lens has a first emission surface emitting the first emission light, the first emission surface having a convex shape protruding in a Z direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: YOSUKE ARAKI, RYOMA MURASE, KAZUMASA TAKATA, JUN HIRAI, HIROSHI UMIJI, HIROSHI HAMANO
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Publication number: 20210088195Abstract: A lighting device includes light emitting element; first lens that receives light emitted from light emitting element and emits first emission light; and second lens that receives the first emission light and emits second emission light. Second lens includes second convex incident surface receiving the first emission light, second convex emission surface that is provided on a right side of a drawing and emits the second emission light, and second top surface portion and second bottom surface portion each located between second incident surface and second emission surface. Second bottom surface portion includes first inclined surface and second inclined surface formed to be inclined with respect to an optical axis of light emitting element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: TOMOHISA SAKAGUCHI, YOSUKE ARAKI, KAZUMASA TAKATA
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Publication number: 20200379331Abstract: Light emitted from laser light source is divided by prism into two light flux and light flux corresponding to light emitted from slope and slope. Light flux and light flux are diffused by diffusion plate and diffusion plate to become light flux and light flux. By overlapping light flux and light flux, a radiation distribution with a wide angle and high light intensity can be obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: ATSUSHI FUKUI, KAZUMASA TAKATA
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Patent number: 10768354Abstract: A display device includes light guide plate, a light source, and a concealing plate. The light guide plate propagates light incident from an incident end surface, reflects the light with a prism provided on a reflection surface, and causes the light to emit from an emission surface facing the reflection surface. The light guide plate has a plurality of inclined surfaces on a side end surface excluding an incident end surface of the light guide plate and a facing end surface facing the incident end surface, and a line segment connecting a center of sides of the plurality of inclined surfaces and a center of the light source, and the sides of the inclined surfaces are substantially perpendicular.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazumasa Takata, Wahei Agemizu