Patents by Inventor Kazuo Tamaki

Kazuo Tamaki 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: 11467185
    Abstract: A first base plate includes a plurality of first positioning hole portions, an accommodation portion that accommodates an optical module, a first opening portion, a first pressing portion, and a first engagement portion. A second base plate has a second positioning hole portion that is disposed at a position corresponding to the first positioning hole portion, a second opening portion that is disposed at a predetermined positional relationship with respect to the second positioning hole portion, a second holding portion, a conduction portion, a second pressing portion, a substrate portion, a cover portion, a second hinge portion, and a second engagement portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo Tamaki, Yasuki Fukui, Naruki Hara, Masataka Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20210063442
    Abstract: A first base plate includes a plurality of first positioning hole portions, an accommodation portion that accommodates an optical module, a first opening portion, a first pressing portion, and a first engagement portion. A second base plate has a second positioning hole portion that is disposed at a position corresponding to the first positioning hole portion, a second opening portion that is disposed at a predetermined positional relationship with respect to the second positioning hole portion, a second holding portion, a conduction portion, a second pressing portion, a substrate portion, a cover portion, a second hinge portion, and a second engagement portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: KAZUO TAMAKI, YASUKI FUKUI, NARUKI HARA, MASATAKA YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 10576972
    Abstract: A host vehicle has an automatic brake control that is executed for avoiding contact between the host vehicle and a pedestrian upon detecting a pedestrian is present in a forward position of the host vehicle using a front camera and a radar. In a driving assist control method, upon detecting an object in front of the host vehicle to be a pedestrian candidate based on an image signal from the front camera, execution of an automatic brake control is permitted with the detected pedestrian candidate as the control target. Thereafter, whether or not the pedestrian candidate detected by the front camera matches an object detected by the reflected waves from the millimeter wave radar is determined by comparison. Execution of the automatic brake control is continued or stopped based on the result of the comparison determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshimichi Gokan, Takuya Inoue, Tatsuya Suzuki, Kazuo Tamaki
  • Patent number: 10503985
    Abstract: A host vehicle is provided with external environment recognition sensors that acquire forward information to determine that a pedestrian is present in a forward position of the host vehicle using the external environment recognition sensors. In this pedestrian determination method, a front camera and a millimeter wave radar are provided as the external environment recognition sensors. When a pedestrian candidate is detected in a forward position of the host vehicle based on an image signal from the front camera, a matching area is set with the position of the detected pedestrian candidate as the center point. When the position of the object that is closest to the pedestrian candidate from among the plurality of objects detected by reflected waves from the millimeter wave radar is within the matching area thereby establishing a match, the pedestrian candidate is determined to be a pedestrian.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshimichi Gokan, Takuya Inoue, Tatsuya Suzuki, Kazuo Tamaki
  • Publication number: 20190071074
    Abstract: A host vehicle has an automatic brake control that is executed for avoiding contact between the host vehicle and a pedestrian upon detecting a pedestrian is present in a forward position of the host vehicle using a front camera and a radar. In a driving assist control method, upon detecting an object in front of the host vehicle to be a pedestrian candidate based on an image signal from the front camera), execution of an automatic brake control is permitted with the detected pedestrian candidate as the control target. Thereafter, determining by comparison whether or not the pedestrian candidate detected by the front camera matches an object detected by the reflected waves from the millimeter wave radar. Execution of the automatic brake control is continued or stopped based on the result of the comparison determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Toshimichi GOKAN, Takuya INOUE, Tatsuya SUZUKI, Kazuo TAMAKI
  • Publication number: 20190034742
    Abstract: A host vehicle is provided with external environment recognition sensors that acquire forward information to determine that a pedestrian is present in a forward position of the host vehicle using the external environment recognition sensors. In this pedestrian determination method, a front camera and a millimeter wave radar are provided as the external environment recognition sensors. When a pedestrian candidate is detected in a forward position of the host vehicle based on an image signal from the front camera, a matching area is set with the position of the detected pedestrian candidate as the center point. When the position of the object that is closest to the pedestrian candidate from among the plurality of objects detected by reflected waves from the millimeter wave radar is within the matching area thereby establishing a match, the pedestrian candidate is determined to be a pedestrian.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Toshimichi GOKAN, Takuya INOUE, Tatsuya SUZUKI, Kazuo TAMAKI
  • Patent number: 10018776
    Abstract: An illumination device (11) includes a light guide plate (15) and a light source unit (10) which includes a substrate (12) and a plurality of LED chips (16) disposed on the substrate (12), and which is disposed in a position at which emitted light of the LED chips (16) enters a light entrance portion (15a) of the light guide plate (15). The LED chips (16) are disposed to form a plurality of rows on the substrate (12), and are disposed to line up in a direction which orthogonally intersects the rows between each of the rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Itoh, Hiroshi Umeda, Kazuo Tamaki, Masanobu Okano, Yusuke Shibata, Manabu Onozaki, Atsushi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9704834
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a light-emitting device of the present invention includes a step in which solid-state sealing resin (17) containing a phosphor (18) and the solid-state sealing resin (17) containing a phosphor (19) are arranged in recesses in package resin (14) having LED chips placed thereon, are thereafter melted by heating, and, in addition, are cured by heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Konishi, Masayuki Itoh, Hiroshi Umeda, Kazuo Tamaki, Masanobu Okano
  • Patent number: 9537072
    Abstract: Pkg resin crack is suppressed after dicing. A light emitting device 1 where a light emitting device 2 that emits light is mounted on a lead frame 3 and that uses a resin cavity molding package 5 having an integrally molded lead frames 3, 4 constituting electrodes that correspond to the light emitting element 2 and resin, wherein roundness is given to a part or all of a cutting plane corner part of a retention section (hanger lead 3a, 4a) that become a cause of crack generation due to the retention sections (hanger leads 3a, 4a) of the lead frames giving stress concentration to resin at the time of cutting by a blade 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiki Sota, Kazuo Tamaki
  • Patent number: 9537065
    Abstract: Improves light extraction efficiency. A light emitting device 1 using a white resin molding package 5 integrally molded with lead frames 3, 4 constituting an electrode corresponding to one or a plurality of light emitting element 2 and white resin, wherein an area in a plane view of a white resin surface on a reflective surface that is level with amounting surface of the light emitting element 2 is configured to be larger than total area in a plane view occupied by surfaces of the lead frames 3, 4 and the light emitting element. Further, a step section is formed on the surfaces of lead frames 3, 4, white resin is filled in the step section, and the area of white resin surface on a reflective surface where the light emitting element 2 is mounted is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiki Sota, Masayuki Ohta, Kazuo Tamaki, Shinji Yamaguchi, Shin Itoh, Tomoshi Kimura, Masaki Tatsumi
  • Publication number: 20160254430
    Abstract: Pkg resin crack is suppressed after dicing. A light emitting device 1 where a light emitting device 2 that emits light is mounted on a lead frame 3 and that uses a resin cavity molding package 5 having an integrally molded lead frames 3, 4 constituting electrodes that correspond to the light emitting element 2 and resin, wherein roundness is given to a part or all of a cutting plane corner part of a retention section (hanger lead 3a, 4a) that become a cause of crack generation due to the retention sections (hanger leads 3a, 4a) of the lead frames giving stress concentration to resin at the time of cutting by a blade 7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiki SOTA, Kazuo TAMAKI
  • Patent number: 9331254
    Abstract: Pkg resin crack is suppressed after dicing. A light emitting device 1 where a light emitting device 2 that emits light is mounted on a lead frame 3 and that uses a resin cavity molding package 5 having an integrally molded lead frames 3, 4 constituting electrodes that correspond to the light emitting element 2 and resin, wherein roundness is given to a part or all of a cutting plane corner part of a retention section (hanger lead 3a, 4a) that become a cause of crack generation due to the retention sections (hanger leads 3a, 4a) of the lead frames giving stress concentration to resin at the time of cutting by a blade 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiki Sota, Kazuo Tamaki
  • Publication number: 20160079211
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a light-emitting device of the present invention includes a step in which solid-state sealing resin (17) containing a phosphor (18) and the solid-state sealing resin (17) containing a phosphor (19) are arranged in recesses in package resin (14) having LED chips placed thereon, are thereafter melted by heating, and, in addition, are cured by heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Masahiro KONISHI, Masayuki ITOH, Hiroshi UMEDA, Kazuo TAMAKI, Masanobu OKANO
  • Publication number: 20160062023
    Abstract: An illumination device (11) includes a light guide plate (15) and a light source unit (10) which includes a substrate (12) and a plurality of LED chips (16) disposed on the substrate (12), and which is disposed in a position at which emitted light of the LED chips (16) enters a light entrance portion (15a) of the light guide plate (15). The LED chips (16) are disposed to form a plurality of rows on the substrate (12), and are disposed to line up in a direction which orthogonally intersects the rows between each of the rows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Masayuki ITOH, Hiroshi UMEDA, Kazuo TAMAKI, Masanobu OKANO, Yusuke SHIBATA, Manabu ONOZAKI, Atsushi YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20150357527
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a light-emitting device, the method comprising: a frame formation step of forming a frame such that a height from a surface of a terminal to which a wire is connected to an upper rim of the frame is smaller than a height from a top surface of a light-emitting element to the upper rim of the frame; a bump formation step of forming a bump on an electrode of the light-emitting element to which the wire is connected; a first bonding step of bonding, first, one end of the wire to the terminal; a second bonding step of bonding, subsequently, the other end of the wire to the bump; and a sealing step of sealing the light-emitting element by filling a sealing material inside the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo TAMAKI, Masayuki OHTA, Shinji YAMAGUCHI, Kenichi KURITA, Masaki TATSUMI
  • Patent number: 9175818
    Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus including: a substrate; an LED chip mounted on a first surface of the substrate; a fluorescent material-containing layer containing a first fluorescent material, which fluorescent material-containing layer is provided above the first surface of the substrate so as to cover the LED chip; and a color-adjusting fluorescent layer that contains a second fluorescent material, which color-adjusting fluorescent material layer is formed in a layer provided on an outer side of the fluorescent material-containing layer in an emission direction, the color-adjusting fluorescent layer being formed in dots. Thus, the present invention provides a light-emitting apparatus and a method for manufacturing the same, each making it possible to carry out fine color adjustment so as to prevent a subtle color shift that occurs due to a factor such as a difference in concentration of a fluorescent material or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo Tamaki, Tohru Ohnishi, Toshio Hata
  • Publication number: 20150268408
    Abstract: An LED classification device (21) classifies LEDs, the LEDs each including a combination of an LED element that emits a primary light and a phosphor that, upon excitation by the primary light, emits a secondary light having a longer wavelength than the primary light, the LEDs each emitting a combined light of the primary light and the secondary light, those ones of the LEDs whose primary lights having their chromaticities falling within a predetermined chromaticity range being classified as LEDs for use in a backlight of a liquid crystal display apparatus. A coefficient calculating section (26) and a corrected chromaticity calculating section (27) calculate, for all of the LEDs to be classified, correction values for the chromaticities as obtained on the assumption that the primary lights have traveled through a color filter of the liquid crystal display apparatus, and correct chromaticities by subtracting the correction values from chromaticities obtained for all of the LEDs to be classified, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Ohta, Masataka Miyata, Kazuo Tamaki, Takashi Nakanishi, Kenichi Kurita, Kiyoshi Nagata, Masaki Tatsumi
  • Publication number: 20150019168
    Abstract: An LED classification device classifies LEDs, the LEDs each including a combination of an LED element that emits a primary light and a phosphor that, upon excitation by the primary light, emits a secondary light having a longer wavelength than the primary light, the LEDs each emitting a combined light of the primary light and the secondary light, those ones of the LEDs whose primary lights having their chromaticities falling within a predetermined chromaticity range being classified as LEDs for use in a backlight of a liquid crystal display apparatus. The LED classification device calculates, for all of the LEDs to be classified, correction values for the chromaticities as obtained on the assumption that the primary lights have traveled through a color filter of the liquid crystal display apparatus, and correct chromaticities by subtracting the correction values from chromaticities obtained for all of the LEDs to be classified, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Ohta, Masataka Miyata, Kazuo Tamaki, Takashi Nakanishi, Kenichi Kurita, Kiyoshi Nagata, Masaki Tatsumi
  • Publication number: 20140225500
    Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus including: a substrate; an LED chip mounted on a first surface of the substrate; a fluorescent material-containing layer containing a first fluorescent material, which fluorescent material-containing layer is provided above the first surface of the substrate so as to cover the LED chip; and a color-adjusting fluorescent layer that contains a second fluorescent material, which color-adjusting fluorescent material layer is formed in a layer provided on an outer side of the fluorescent material-containing layer in an emission direction, the color-adjusting fluorescent layer being formed in dots. Thus, the present invention provides a light-emitting apparatus and a method for manufacturing the same, each making it possible to carry out fine color adjustment so as to prevent a subtle color shift that occurs due to a factor such as a difference in concentration of a fluorescent material or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo TAMAKI, Tohru OHNISHI, Toshio HATA
  • Publication number: 20140175501
    Abstract: Pkg resin crack is suppressed after dicing. A light emitting device 1 where a light emitting device 2 that emits light is mounted on a lead frame 3 and that uses a resin cavity molding package 5 having an integrally molded lead frames 3, 4 constituting electrodes that correspond to the light emitting element 2 and resin, wherein roundness is given to a part or all of a cutting plane corner part of a retention section (hanger lead 3a, 4a) that become a cause of crack generation due to the retention sections (hanger leads 3a, 4a) of the lead frames giving stress concentration to resin at the time of cutting by a blade 7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiki Sota, Kazuo Tamaki