Patents by Inventor Kazuo Kuroda

Kazuo Kuroda 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: 10109819
    Abstract: A mirror device has a plurality of organic EL elements and a plurality of metal mirror surface portions that are divided by banks made of a light-transmissive dielectric material and aligned on a substrate. Each of the organic EL elements has an organic layer that is formed between a light-transmissive electrode and a reflection electrode and contains a light-emitting layer. Each of the metal mirror surface portions and each of the organic EL elements or each group of the metal mirror surface portions and each group of the organic EL elements are alternately disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayako Yoshida, Kazuo Kuroda
  • Patent number: 10090488
    Abstract: A mirror device has a light-transmissive substrate and at least one organic EL element supported on the back surface of the light-transmissive substrate, and emits light from the front surface of the light-transmissive substrate. The organic EL element has an organic layer containing a light-emitting layer layered between a light-transmissive electrode and a reflection electrode that are opposite to each other. The light-transmissive electrode is formed on the light-transmissive substrate. The mirror device has a plurality of metal mirror surface portions that each have an area smaller than the area of the light-transmissive electrode and are distributed and disposed on the front surface of the light-transmissive substrate so as to be opposite to the light-emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayako Yoshida, Kazuo Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20180013984
    Abstract: A mark irradiation unit (130) irradiates an object with a mark. An image capture unit (140) captures an image of the object, and generates image data. Then, an image capture area data generation unit recognizes a position of the mark in the object, and cuts out image capture area data which is a part of the image data on the basis of the mark. For this reason, the mark irradiation unit (130) irradiates the object with the mark, and thus even when a positioning symbol is not printed on the object to be stored as the image data, only a necessary portion in the image data is cut out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuo Kuroda, Ayako Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9810961
    Abstract: A light emitting system 10 includes a light source (100), a light transmission quantity adjustment unit (200), and a control unit (300). The light source (100) may be a fluorescent lamp or an electric bulb, and may be an Organic Electroluminescence (EL) element or a Light Emitting Diode (LED) element. The light transmission quantity adjustment unit (200) is arranged with a space (S) from the light source (100), and adjusts a light transmission quantity. The control unit (300) controls the light transmission quantity adjustment unit (200) based on a timing at which the light source (100) emits light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuo Kuroda
  • Patent number: 9794520
    Abstract: A mark irradiation unit (130) irradiates an object with a mark. An image capture unit (140) captures an image of the object, and generates image data. Then, an image capture area data generation unit recognizes a position of the mark in the object, and cuts out image capture area data which is apart of the image data on the basis of the mark. For this reason, the mark irradiation unit (130) irradiates the object with the mark, and thus even when a positioning symbol is not printed on the object to be stored as the image data, only a necessary portion in the image data is cut out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Kuroda, Ayako Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9664374
    Abstract: Provided is an illuminated mirror device including: a mirror; a light-emitting part for illumination disposed near the mirror; and driving means for driving the light-emitting part, and detection means for detecting a direction of a face of a person in front of the mirror with respect to the mirror, wherein the driving means controls an emission luminance distribution on a light-emitting surface of the light-emitting part on the basis of the face direction detected by the detection means. Also provided is a method for controlling illumination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuo Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20170133636
    Abstract: A mirror device has a plurality of organic EL elements and a plurality of metal mirror surface portions that are divided by banks made of a light-transmissive dielectric material and aligned on a substrate. Each of the organic EL elements has an organic layer that is formed between a light-transmissive electrode and a reflection electrode and contains a light-emitting layer. Each of the metal mirror surface portions and each of the organic EL elements or each group of the metal mirror surface portions and each group of the organic EL elements are alternately disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Ayako YOSHIDA, Kazuo KURODA
  • Patent number: 9590209
    Abstract: A mirror device has a plurality of organic EL elements and a plurality of metal mirror surface portions that are divided by banks made of a light-transmissive dielectric material and aligned on a substrate. Each of the organic EL elements has an organic layer that is formed between a light-transmissive electrode and a reflection electrode and contains a light-emitting layer. Each of the metal mirror surface portions and each of the organic EL elements or each group of the metal mirror surface portions and each group of the organic EL elements are alternately disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayako Yoshida, Kazuo Kuroda
  • Patent number: 9574761
    Abstract: Provided is an illuminated mirror device including: a mirror; a light-emitting part for illumination disposed near the mirror; and driving means for driving the light-emitting part, and detection means for detecting a direction of a face of a person in front of the mirror with respect to the mirror, wherein the driving means controls an emission luminance distribution on a light-emitting surface of the light-emitting part on the basis of the face direction detected by the detection means. Also provided is a method for controlling illumination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuo Kuroda
  • Patent number: 9511386
    Abstract: A coating system comprises: a coating apparatus connected to a syringe filled with a coating agent and having a nozzle for discharging the coating agent of the connected syringe; a robot which moves an object to be coated, held by a robot hand, to a coating position; and a control unit, wherein the coating apparatus comprises a plurality of syringes respectively filled with different coating agents, the nozzles connected to the respective syringes, and a rotary table for rotationally moving together the syringes and the connected nozzles, and the control unit controls to select the syringe filled with the coating agent to be applied to the object, move the nozzle connected to the selected syringe to a position facing the coating position by the rotation of the rotary table, move the object held by the robot hand to the coating position, and discharge the coating agent from the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Kuroda, Hiroaki Iwai
  • Publication number: 20160315289
    Abstract: A mirror device has a light-transmissive substrate and at least one organic EL element supported on the back surface of the light-transmissive substrate, and emits light from the front surface of the light-transmissive substrate. The organic EL element has an organic layer containing a light-emitting layer layered between a light-transmissive electrode and a reflection electrode that are opposite to each other. The light-transmissive electrode is formed on the light-transmissive substrate. The mirror device has a plurality of metal mirror surface portions that each have an area smaller than the area of the light-transmissive electrode and are distributed and disposed on the front surface of the light-transmissive substrate so as to be opposite to the light-emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Ayako YOSHIDA, Kazuo KURODA
  • Patent number: 9399428
    Abstract: A mirror device has a light-transmissive substrate and at least one organic EL element supported on the back surface of the light-transmissive substrate, and emits light from the front surface of the light-transmissive substrate. The organic EL element has an organic layer containing a light-emitting layer layered between a light-transmissive electrode and a reflection electrode that are opposite to each other. The light-transmissive electrode is formed on the light-transmissive substrate. The mirror device has a plurality of metal mirror surface portions that each have an area smaller than the area of the light-transmissive electrode and are distributed and disposed on the front surface of the light-transmissive substrate so as to be opposite to the light-emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayako Yoshida, Kazuo Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20150370100
    Abstract: A light emitting system 10 includes a light source (100), a light transmission quantity adjustment unit (200), and a control unit (300). The light source (100) may be a fluorescent lamp or an electric bulb, and may be an Organic Electroluminescence (EL) element or a Light Emitting Diode (LED) element. The light transmission quantity adjustment unit (200) is arranged with a space (S) from the light source (100), and adjusts a light transmission quantity. The control unit (300) controls the light transmission quantity adjustment unit (200) based on a timing at which the light source (100) emits light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventor: Kazuo KURODA
  • Publication number: 20150364723
    Abstract: A light emitting element (100) includes a light transmissive substrate (110), a light emitting layer arranged on a side opposite to a light extraction side based on the light transmissive substrate (110), and a diffraction grating layer (120) arranged on a side opposite to the light extraction side based on the light transmissive substrate (110). The diffraction grating layer (120) includes a light transmissive base portion (121), and a plurality of structures (122) which are periodically arranged in a direction intersecting with the light transmissive substrate (110) to thereby form a diffraction grating (123) in the base portion (121).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventor: Kazuo KURODA
  • Publication number: 20150323158
    Abstract: A light emitting device (10) includes a light transmissive substrate (110: a light transmissive layer), a light emission unit (130), a light extraction layer (150), and a light transmission quantity adjustment unit (200). The light emission unit (130) is formed on a first surface side of the light transmissive substrate (110). The light transmission quantity adjustment unit (200) is disposed on a side opposite to the light transmissive substrate (110) based on the light emission unit (130), and adjusts a light transmission quantity according to a signal input from the outside. The light extraction layer (150) is disposed on a second surface side of the light transmissive substrate (110). The light emitting device (10), for example, is used as a light source of an illuminating device or a light source of an optical communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuo KURODA
  • Publication number: 20150298602
    Abstract: A mirror device has a light-transmissive substrate and at least one organic EL element supported on the back surface of the light-transmissive substrate, and emits light from the front surface of the light-transmissive substrate. The organic EL element has an organic layer containing a light-emitting layer layered between a light-transmissive electrode and a reflection electrode that are opposite to each other. The light-transmissive electrode is formed on the light-transmissive substrate. The mirror device has a plurality of metal mirror surface portions that each have an area smaller than the area of the light-transmissive electrode and are distributed and disposed on the front surface of the light-transmissive substrate so as to be opposite to the light-emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Ayako YOSHIDA, Kazuo KURODA
  • Publication number: 20150287957
    Abstract: A mirror device has a plurality of organic EL elements and a plurality of metal mirror surface portions that are divided by banks made of a light-transmissive dielectric material and aligned on a substrate. Each of the organic EL elements has an organic layer that is formed between a light-transmissive electrode and a reflection electrode and contains a light-emitting layer. Each of the metal mirror surface portions and each of the organic EL elements or each group of the metal mirror surface portions and each group of the organic EL elements are alternately disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Ayako Yoshida, Kazuo Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20150280173
    Abstract: A dielectric layer (170) faces a surface of alight transmissive electrode (120) opposite to a surface facing an organic functional layer (110). Then, a light transmissive substrate (140) faces a surface of the dielectric layer (170) opposite to a surface facing the light transmissive electrode (120). At least apart of an optical angle change unit (150) is positioned in the dielectric layer (170) in a thickness direction of the light transmissive substrate (140). Light incident on the dielectric layer (170), for example, is reflected by a side surface of the optical angle change unit (150), and thus an incident angle with respect to a first surface (141) of the light transmissive substrate (140) decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuo Kuroda, Hiroshi Ohata, Toshiharu Uchida
  • Publication number: 20150222857
    Abstract: A mark irradiation unit (130) irradiates an object with a mark. An image capture unit (140) captures an image of the object, and generates image data. Then, an image capture area data generation unit recognizes a position of the mark in the object, and cuts out image capture area data which is apart of the image data on the basis of the mark. For this reason, the mark irradiation unit (130) irradiates the object with the mark, and thus even when a positioning symbol is not printed on the object to be stored as the image data, only a necessary portion in the image data is cut out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Kuroda, Ayako Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20150206927
    Abstract: An organic EL device includes at least one insulating bank disposed on a translucent substrate, a translucent electrode in contact with the bank, an organic layer containing a light-emitting layer and formed on the translucent electrode, and a reflection electrode formed on the organic layer. The bank is made from a translucent dielectric material having a low refractive index that is equal to or less than that of the organic layer. The bank has a side face that is a slope inclined with respect to the translucent substrate. The side face has a concave surface shape that faces the light-emitting layer from a slope in contact with the light-emitting layer to a slope in contact with a portion of the organic layer in the vicinity of the reflection electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Kuroda, Hideo Kudo, Hiroshi Ohata, Toshiharu Uchida, Yohei Tanaka