Patents by Inventor Kazushige FUJIO
Kazushige FUJIO 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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Publication number: 20230207747Abstract: A light emission device including a light emitting element having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 400 nm or more and 490 nm or less; and a fluorescent member including a first fluorescent material having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 510 nm or more and less than 580 nm, a second fluorescent material having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 580 nm or more and 680 nm or less and a full width at half maximum of 15 nm or more and 100 nm or less, and a third fluorescent material having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 600 nm or more and 650 nm or less and a full width at half maximum of 14 nm or less, and having a melanopic ratio (MR) value in a specified range at a certain correlated color temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Mika MATSUMOTO, Kazushige FUJIO, Atsushi BANDO
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Patent number: 11667836Abstract: A light emitting device includes a first light source containing a first light emitting element, and a second light source containing a second light emitting element and a second fluorescent material, the first light source emits light in a region that is demarcated in a chromaticity diagram of the CIE 1931 color coordinate system by a first straight line connecting a first point having x,y of 0.280, 0.070 in the chromaticity coordinate and a second point having x,y of 0.280, 0.500 in the chromaticity coordinate, a second straight line connecting the second point and a third point having x,y of 0.013, 0.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Asai, Kazushige Fujio
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Patent number: 11655963Abstract: A light emitting device comprises a light emitting element having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 400 nm or more and 490 nm or less and a first fluorescent material having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 570 nm or more and 680 nm or less, and emits light having a correlated color temperature being 1,950 K or less, an average color rendering index Ra being 51 or more, a full width at half maximum of a light emission peak having a maximum light emission intensity in a light emission spectrum of the light emitting device being 110 nm or less, and a first glare index Ls1/L that is a ratio of a first effective radiance Ls1 to a luminance L being 0.493 or less, wherein Ls1 and L are as defined in the disclosure.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Mika Matsumoto, Kazushige Fujio
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Patent number: 11605761Abstract: A light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element having a peak light-emitting wavelength in the range of 440 nm to 470 nm, and a fluorescent member. The fluorescent member includes a first fluorescent material having a peak light-emitting wavelength in the range of 480 nm to less than 520 nm, a second fluorescent material having a peak light-emitting wavelength in the range of 520 nm to less than 600 nm, and a third fluorescent material having a peak light-emitting wavelength in the range of 600 nm to 670 nm. The light-emitting device has a ratio of an effective radiant intensity for melatonin secretion suppression to an effective radiant intensity for blue-light retinal damage of 1.53 to 1.70 when the light-emitting device emits light with a correlated color temperature of 2700 K to less than 3500 K; 1.40 to 1.70 when the light-emitting device emits light with a correlated color temperature of 3500 K to less than 4500 K; 1.40 to 1.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushige Fujio, Masaki Kondo
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Publication number: 20230019657Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light emitting element having an emission peak wavelength in a range of 380 nm to 420 nm and a fluorescent member including at least one fluorescent material that is excited by light from the light emitting element for light emission, wherein a mixture of light from the light emitting element and light from the fluorescent material has a correlated color temperature in a range of 2000 K to 7500 K as measured according to JIS Z8725, and the light emitting device has a spectral distribution in which, when the integral value over a wavelength range of 380 nm to 780 nm is normalized to 100%, the proportion of an integral value over a wavelength range of 380 nm to 420 nm is 15% or more, and the ratio a as defined by the expression (1) is 0.9 or more and 1.6 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Makiko IWASA, Kazushige FUJIO
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Patent number: 11502226Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light emitting element having an emission peak wavelength in a range of 380 nm to 420 nm and a fluorescent member including at least one fluorescent material that is excited by light from the light emitting element for light emission, wherein a mixture of light from the light emitting element and light from the fluorescent material has a correlated color temperature in a range of 2000 K to 7500 K as measured according to JIS Z8725, and the light emitting device has a spectral distribution in which, when the integral value over a wavelength range of 380 nm to 780 nm is normalized to 100%, the proportion of an integral value over a wavelength range of 380 nm to 420 nm is 15% or more, and the ratio a as defined by the expression (1) is 0.9 or more and 1.6 or less.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Makiko Iwasa, Kazushige Fujio
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Publication number: 20220349553Abstract: A light emitting device comprises a light emitting element having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 400 nm or more and 490 nm or less and a first fluorescent material having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 570 nm or more and 680 nm or less, and emits light having a correlated color temperature being 1,950 K or less, an average color rendering index Ra being 51 or more, a full width at half maximum of a light emission peak having a maximum light emission intensity in a light emission spectrum of the light emitting device being 110 nm or less, and a first glare index Ls1/L that is a ratio of a first effective radiance Ls1 to a luminance L being 0.493 or less, wherein Ls1 and L are as defined in the disclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Mika MATSUMOTO, Kazushige FUJIO
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Publication number: 20220349533Abstract: A light emitting device comprises a light emitting element having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 400 nm or more and 490 nm or less and a first fluorescent material having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 570 nm or more and 680 nm or less, and emits light having a correlated color temperature being 1,950 K or less, an average color rendering index Ra being 70 or more, a full width at half maximum of a light emission peak having the maximum light emission intensity being 110 nm or less, and a ratio B/L of an effective radiance B to a luminance L being 0.151 or less, wherein the luminance of light emitted by the light emitting device in a range of 300 nm or more and 800 nm or less when B and L is as defined in the disclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Mika MATSUMOTO, Kazushige FUJIO
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Patent number: 11437549Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light emitting element having an emission peak wavelength in a range of 430 nm to 470 nm; and a fluorescent member including a fluorescent material that is excited by light from the light emitting element for light emission, wherein a mixture of light from the light emitting element and light from the fluorescent material has a correlated color temperature in a range of 1500 K to 11000 K, as measured according to JIS Z8725, the color deviation duv that is a deviation from the black body radiation track on the CIE1931 chromaticity diagram of the mixture of light and is measured according to JIS Z8725 falls within a range of more than 0 to 0.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Asai, Kazushige Fujio
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Publication number: 20220223764Abstract: A light emitting device includes a first light source containing a first light emitting element, and a second light source containing a second light emitting element and a second fluorescent material, the first light source emits light in a region that is demarcated in a chromaticity diagram of the CIE 1931 color coordinate system by a first straight line connecting a first point having x,y of 0.280, 0.070 in the chromaticity coordinate and a second point having x,y of 0.280, 0.500 in the chromaticity coordinate, a second straight line connecting the second point and a third point having x,y of 0.013, 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2022Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji ASAI, Kazushige FUJIO
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Patent number: 11329197Abstract: A light emitting device includes a first light source containing a first light emitting element, and a second light source containing a second light emitting element and a second fluorescent material, the first light source emits light in a region that is demarcated in a chromaticity diagram of the CIE 1931 color coordinate system by a first straight line connecting a first point having x,y of 0.280,0.070 in the chromaticity coordinate and a second point having x,y of 0.280,0.500 in the chromaticity coordinate, a second straight line connecting the second point and a third point having x,y of 0.013,0.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Asai, Kazushige Fujio
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Patent number: 11133441Abstract: Provided is a light emitting device, comprising: a light emitting element including a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 440 nm or more and 470 nm or less; a first fluorescent material having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 480 nm or more and 518 nm or less; a second fluorescent material having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 510 nm or more and less than 590 nm and having an x value of the chromaticity coordinate in CIE1931 in a range of 0.27 or more and 0.40 or less; and a third fluorescent material having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 590 nm or more and 670 nm or less. The light emitting device is capable of reducing the human eye fatigue and having a light emission spectrum with excellent visual work.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushige Fujio, Sadakazu Wakui
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Publication number: 20210289711Abstract: An output of light suitable for growing plants is controlled using a white light source. A growing system including a greenhouse and a plurality of lighting devices disposed above a plant to be grown in the greenhouse and utilizing natural light includes a plurality of white light sources, a plurality of auxiliary light sources each of which is configured to emit red light and far-red light, and an illumination controller configured to control a degree of emission of light from the white light sources or the auxiliary light sources of the plurality of lighting devices, the illumination controller configured to start or stop controlling emission of light from the white light sources or the auxiliary light sources according to sunrise or sunset.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2019Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Mika MATSUMOTO, Kazushige FUJIO, Sadakazu WAKUI, Tomokazu SUZUKI, Masato FUJIWARA, Munetake FUKUNAGA
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Patent number: 11056620Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light emitting element having an emission peak wavelength in a range of 380 nm or more and 490 nm or less, and a red fluorescent material which is excited by the light from the light emitting element to emit light having at least one light emission peak wavelength in a range of 580 nm or more and 680 nm or less, wherein a ratio of the photon flux R of red light in a range of 620 nm or more and 700 nm or less to the photon flux B of blue light in a range of 400 nm or more and 490 nm or less, R/B, is in a range of more than 20 and 200 or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Mika Amiya, Kazushige Fujio, Sadakazu Wakui
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Patent number: 10978620Abstract: Provided are a light emitting device and an illumination device.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Mika Amiya, Kazushige Fujio, Tomokazu Suzuki
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Patent number: 10952382Abstract: Provided is a light emitting device that includes a light emitting element having a light emission peak wavelength ranging from 380 nm to 490 nm, and a fluorescent material excited by light from the light emitting element and emitting light having at a light emission peak wavelength ranging from 580 nm or more to less than 680 nm. The light emitting device emits light having a ratio R/B of a photon flux density R to a photon flux density B ranging from 2.0 to 4.0 and a ratio R/FR of the photon flux density R to a photon flux density FR ranging from 0.7 to 13.0, the photon flux density R being in a wavelength range of 620 nm or more and less than 700 nm, the photon flux density B being in a wavelength range of 380 nm or more and 490 nm or less, and the photon flux density FR being in a wavelength range of 700 nm or more and 780 nm or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Mika Amiya, Kazushige Fujio, Tomokazu Suzuki
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Publication number: 20210074891Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light emitting element having an emission peak wavelength in a range of 430 nm to 470 nm; and a fluorescent member including a fluorescent material that is excited by light from the light emitting element for light emission, wherein a mixture of light from the light emitting element and light from the fluorescent material has a correlated color temperature in a range of 1500 K to 11000 K, as measured according to JIS Z8725, the color deviation duv that is a deviation from the black body radiation track on the CIE1931 chromaticity diagram of the mixture of light and is measured according to JIS Z8725 falls within a range of more than 0 to 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji ASAI, Kazushige FUJIO
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Publication number: 20210013383Abstract: A light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element having a peak light-emitting wavelength in the range of 440 nm to 470 nm, and a fluorescent member. The fluorescent member includes a first fluorescent material having a peak light-emitting wavelength in the range of 480 nm to less than 520 nm, a second fluorescent material having a peak light-emitting wavelength in the range of 520 nm to less than 600 nm, and a third fluorescent material having a peak light-emitting wavelength in the range of 600 nm to 670 nm. The light-emitting device has a ratio of an effective radiant intensity for melatonin secretion suppression to an effective radiant intensity for blue-light retinal damage of 1.53 to 1.70 when the light-emitting device emits light with a correlated color temperature of 2700 K to less than 3500 K; 1.40 to 1.70 when the light-emitting device emits light with a correlated color temperature of 3500 K to less than 4500 K; 1.40 to 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushige FUJIO, Masaki KONDO
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Patent number: 10879429Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light emitting element having an emission peak wavelength in a range of 430 nm to 470 nm; and a fluorescent member including a fluorescent material that is excited by light from the light emitting element for light emission, wherein a mixture of light from the light emitting element and light from the fluorescent material has a correlated color temperature in a range of 1500 K to 11000 K, as measured according to JIS Z8725, the color deviation duv that is a deviation from the black body radiation track on the CIE1931 chromaticity diagram of the mixture of light and is measured according to JIS Z8725 falls within a range of more than 0 to 0.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Asai, Kazushige Fujio
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Publication number: 20200365772Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light emitting element having an emission peak wavelength in a range of 380 nm to 420 nm and a fluorescent member including at least one fluorescent material that is excited by light from the light emitting element for light emission, wherein a mixture of light from the light emitting element and light from the fluorescent material has a correlated color temperature in a range of 2000 K to 7500 K as measured according to JIS Z8725, and the light emitting device has a spectral distribution in which, when the integral value over a wavelength range of 380 nm to 780 nm is normalized to 100%, the proportion of an integral value over a wavelength range of 380 nm to 420 nm is 15% or more, and the ratio a as defined by the expression (1) is 0.9 or more and 1.6 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Makiko IWASA, Kazushige FUJIO