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).
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Patent number: 10109819Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Ayako Yoshida, Kazuo Kuroda
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Patent number: 10090488Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Ayako Yoshida, Kazuo Kuroda
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Publication number: 20180013984Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventors: Kazuo Kuroda, Ayako Yoshida
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Patent number: 9810961Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuo Kuroda
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Patent number: 9794520Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 5, 2012Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuo Kuroda, Ayako Yoshida
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Patent number: 9664374Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 1, 2012Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuo Kuroda
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Publication number: 20170133636Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2017Publication date: May 11, 2017Inventors: Ayako YOSHIDA, Kazuo KURODA
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Patent number: 9590209Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 8, 2012Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Ayako Yoshida, Kazuo Kuroda
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Patent number: 9574761Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 1, 2012Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuo Kuroda
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Patent number: 9511386Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 16, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuo Kuroda, Hiroaki Iwai
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Publication number: 20160315289Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2016Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: Ayako YOSHIDA, Kazuo KURODA
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Patent number: 9399428Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 8, 2012Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Ayako Yoshida, Kazuo Kuroda
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Publication number: 20150370100Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2013Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventor: Kazuo KURODA
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Publication number: 20150364723Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2013Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventor: Kazuo KURODA
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Publication number: 20150323158Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2013Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuo KURODA
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Publication number: 20150298602Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2012Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventors: Ayako YOSHIDA, Kazuo KURODA
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Publication number: 20150287957Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2012Publication date: October 8, 2015Inventors: Ayako Yoshida, Kazuo Kuroda
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Publication number: 20150280173Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2012Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Kazuo Kuroda, Hiroshi Ohata, Toshiharu Uchida
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Publication number: 20150222857Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2012Publication date: August 6, 2015Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuo Kuroda, Ayako Yoshida
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Publication number: 20150206927Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2012Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuo Kuroda, Hideo Kudo, Hiroshi Ohata, Toshiharu Uchida, Yohei Tanaka