Patents by Inventor Kenichiro Mase

Kenichiro Mase 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: 10753564
    Abstract: A vehicle headlamp includes a projection lens, a first lens, a second lens, a first light source, and a second light source. The first lens and the second lens are behind the projection lens. The first light source is behind the first lens. The second light source is behind the second lens. The first lens and the second lens deviate from an optical axis of the projection lens and are opposite to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Sakamoto, Kenichiro Mase, Takashi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 10632898
    Abstract: An illumination device disposed on a moving body includes at least one main light source, and at least one auxiliary light source disposed in a periphery of the at least one main light source when seen along a traveling direction of the moving body. The illumination device further includes a first light guide disposed adjacent to the at least one main light source, that guides light transmitted from the at least one main light source, and a second light guide that is disposed adjacent to the at least one auxiliary light source, that guides light transmitted from the at least one auxiliary light source. The illumination device also includes an optical component that transmits the light from the first light guide and the light from the second light guide in the traveling direction of the moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Chingyo, Tomoyuki Nakano, Masaru Fujita, Kenichiro Mase
  • Publication number: 20190299846
    Abstract: An illumination device disposed on a moving body includes at least one main light source, and at least one auxiliary light source disposed in a periphery of the at least one main light source when seen along a traveling direction of the moving body. The illumination device further includes a first light guide disposed adjacent to the at least one main light source, that guides light transmitted from the at least one main light source, and a second light guide that is disposed adjacent to the at least one auxiliary light source, that guides light transmitted from the at least one auxiliary light source. The illumination device also includes an optical component that transmits the light from the first light guide and the light from the second light guide in the traveling direction of the moving body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LT D.
    Inventors: Yohei CHINGYO, Tomoyuki NAKANO, Masaru FUJITA, Kenichiro MASE
  • Publication number: 20190195453
    Abstract: A vehicle headlamp includes a projection lens, a first lens, a second lens, a first light source, and a second light source. The first lens and the second lens are disposed behind the projection lens. The first light source is disposed behind the first lens. The second light source is disposed behind the second lens. The first lens and the second lens are disposed so as to deviate from an optical axis of the projection lens and to be opposite to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: YOSHINORI SAKAMOTO, KENICHIRO MASE, TAKASHI MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 10324246
    Abstract: There is provided a light guide body, containing: a first end region; a second end region located on an opposite side of the first end region; first dots; and second dots having a dot in the first end region being smaller than a dot in the second end region, wherein a size difference between the first dots and the second dots in the first end region is smaller than a size difference between the first dots and the second dots in the second end region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fukui, Tomohisa Sakaguchi, Kenichiro Mase
  • Publication number: 20180313998
    Abstract: There is provided a light guide body, containing: a first end region; a second end region located on an opposite side of the first end region; first dots; and second dots having a dot in the first end region being smaller than a dot in the second end region, wherein a size difference between the first dots and the second dots in the first end region is smaller than a size difference between the first dots and the second dots in the second end region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: ATSUSHI FUKUI, TOMOHISA SAKAGUCHI, KENICHIRO MASE
  • Patent number: 10073209
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a surface light source lighting device capable of realizing direction control and a stable operation with respect to vibration or a great temperature change, required for use in a backlight. This surface light source lighting device causes linear light incident from a light source (2a) to be incident to an edge surface (1L) of a light guide plate (1) via a light incidence portion (3a) including a light incidence lens and a louver, and can thus maintain high reliability with respect to vibration or a temperature change in a use environment. In the light guide plate (1), light reflected by a first light guide pattern (4A) provided on a rear surface thereof is reflected by a second light guide pattern (4B) provided on the same rear surface so that an emission direction is set, and thus light is emitted from a front surface of the light guide plate (1) with desired distribution characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Mase, Sadafumi Oota
  • Patent number: 10025019
    Abstract: To easily increase display quality of light even in a case of a long light guide body. Depth h1 of a first dot (106) is larger than depth h2 of a second dot (108) in the vicinity of a light source, and, as a location comes closer to an end on an opposite side to the light source, depth h1 of the first dot (106) is reduced, and depth h2 of the second dot (108) is increased. Therefore, it is possible to easily increase display quality of light even in a case of a long light guide body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fukui, Tomohisa Sakaguchi, Kenichiro Mase
  • Publication number: 20170219761
    Abstract: To easily increase display quality of light even in a case of a long light guide body. Depth h1 of a first dot (106) is larger than depth h2 of a second dot (108) in the vicinity of a light source, and, as a location comes closer to an end on an opposite side to the light source, depth h1 of the first dot (106) is reduced, and depth h2 of the second dot (108) is increased. Therefore, it is possible to easily increase display quality of light even in a case of a long light guide body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: ATSUSHI FUKUI, TOMOHISA SAKAGUCHI, KENICHIRO MASE
  • Publication number: 20170205557
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a surface light source lighting device capable of realizing direction control and a stable operation with respect to vibration or a great temperature change, required for use in a backlight. This surface light source lighting device causes linear light incident from a light source (2a) to be incident to an edge surface (1L) of a light guide plate (1) via a light incidence portion (3a) including a light incidence lens and a louver, and can thus maintain high reliability with respect to vibration or a temperature change in a use environment. In the light guide plate (1), light reflected by a first light guide pattern (4A) provided on a rear surface thereof is reflected by a second light guide pattern (4B) provided on the same rear surface so that an emission direction is set, and thus light is emitted from a front surface of the light guide plate (1) with desired distribution characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: KENICHIRO MASE, SADAFUMI OOTA
  • Patent number: 9024224
    Abstract: The present invention provides a brominated flame retardant determining method that determines whether or not a brominated flame retardant is contained in a determination target object by emitting light to the determination target object composed of resin, receiving reflected light from the determination target object emitted with the light, calculating an absorption spectrum of the determination target object based on the reflected light, and determining whether or not a brominated flame retardant is contained in the determination target object in the absorption spectrum, based on an absorption spectrum in a wavelength band of 1.40 ?m or more and 2.50 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Mase, Sadafumi Oota, Masatoshi Miyasaka
  • Publication number: 20150059819
    Abstract: In a solar power generation device concentrating solar light to solar cells by a reflecting mirror and converting solar energy into electric energy, a cooling pipe is arranged above the reflecting mirror, a thermoelectric conversion element is mounted on at least one side surface of the cooling pipe and a solar cell is mounted on an upper surface of the thermoelectric conversion element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: TSUYOSHI NOMURA, MASANORI MINAMIO, KOUJI ARAI, KENICHIRO MASE
  • Patent number: 8847062
    Abstract: A solar cell module is provided with a plurality of solar cells each having a rectangular shape with chamfered corners, a protection member arranged in a light receiving surface side of the solar cells, and a reflection member having a rectangular shape in a plan view. The reflection member is arranged in an area surrounded by the solar cells. The reflection member includes a reflection surface. The reflection surface includes a plurality of areas. The areas are provided so that reflection directions of light perpendicular to the light receiving surfaces are different from each other in adjacent ones of the areas, the adjacent ones being adjacent to each other in a row direction or a column direction of the solar cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Fukumochi, Toshiyuki Sakuma, Shingo Okamoto, Kenichiro Mase
  • Publication number: 20140209150
    Abstract: A solar cell module includes solar cells, a wiring member electrically connecting the solar cells, a first protection member provided on a light-receiving-surface side of the solar cells, a second protection member provided on a back-surface side of the solar cells, and a sealing material provided between the first protection member and the second protection member to seal the solar cells therein. The first protection member has a first texture on one of principal surfaces thereof that faces the opposite side of the solar cells. The wiring member has a second texture on one of principal surfaces thereof that faces the first protection member. The first texture and the second texture are provided such that, in a plan view, a normal to a surface of the first texture is not parallel to a normal to a surface of the second texture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicants: Panasonic Corporation, SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuji FUKUMOCHI, Toshiyuki SAKUMA, Takahiro HAGA, Shingo OKAMOTO, Keiichi KURAMOTO, Kenichiro MASE, Yohei TAKECHI
  • Publication number: 20140130848
    Abstract: A flexible solar cell sheet includes plural through incisions provided between solar cell strings in a direction along the solar cell strings. The solar cell sheet is bonded to a transparent curved surface substrate having three-dimensional curvature. Stress generated inside a surface of the solar cell sheet when the sheet is bonded along the curved surface of the transparent curved surface substrate can be alleviated by the through incisions, and bonding can be performed while suppressing twists and wrinkles occurring in the solar cell sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: YOHEI TAKECHI, KENICHIRO MASE
  • Publication number: 20130298966
    Abstract: A solar cell module is provided with a plurality of solar cells each having a rectangular shape with chamfered corners, a protection member arranged in a light receiving surface side of the solar cells, and a reflection member having a rectangular shape in a plan view. The reflection member is arranged in an area surrounded by the solar cells. The reflection member includes a reflection surface. The reflection surface includes a plurality of areas. The areas are provided so that reflection directions of light perpendicular to the light receiving surfaces are different from each other in adjacent ones of the areas, the adjacent ones being adjacent to each other in a row direction or a column direction of the solar cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicants: Panasonic Corporation, SANYO Electric Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuji FUKUMOCHI, Toshiyuki SAKUMA, Shingo OKAMOTO, Kenichiro MASE
  • Publication number: 20120305456
    Abstract: The present invention provides a brominated flame retardant determining method that determines whether or not a brominated flame retardant is contained in a determination target object by emitting light to the determination target object composed of resin, receiving reflected light from the determination target object emitted with the light, calculating an absorption spectrum of the determination target object based on the reflected light, and determining whether or not a brominated flame retardant is contained in the determination target object in the absorption spectrum, based on an absorption spectrum in a wavelength band of 1.40 ?m or more and 2.50 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Mase, Sadafumi Oota, Masatoshi Miyasaka