Patents by Inventor Kozo Nakamura
Kozo Nakamura 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: 10302994Abstract: There is provided an optical member capable of causing, when used for a liquid crystal display apparatus, light output from a light source to enter a liquid crystal display panel with high efficiency. An optical member according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a polarizing plate; a reflective polarizer; a polarization converting layer; and a prism layer, the polarizing plate, the reflective polarizer, the polarization converting layer, and the prism layer being integrated in the stated order, wherein the polarization converting layer satisfies the following expression: L90/L0?0.2.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kozo Nakamura, Daisuke Hattori, Kazuhito Hosokawa
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Publication number: 20190155082Abstract: The liquid crystal display panel includes: a first polarizing plate; a first retardation provision portion including a first ?/4 plate; a first substrate; a second retardation provision portion including a second ?/4 plate; a liquid crystal layer containing nematic liquid crystal; a second substrate; and a second polarizing plate. One of the first substrate and the second substrate includes a pair of electrodes configured to generate a horizontal electric field at the liquid crystal layer upon voltage application. The nematic liquid crystal homogeneously aligns with no voltage application between the electrodes. One of the first retardation provision portion and the second retardation provision portion includes, on the first substrate side, a first retarder. The in-plane slow axis of the first ?/4 plate forms an angle of 45° with the absorption axis of the first polarizing plate and is orthogonal to the in-plane slow axis of the second ?/4 plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2017Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: AKIRA SAKAI, MASAHIRO HASEGAWA, TAKAKO KOIDE, KOZO NAKAMURA, KIYOSHI MINOURA, YUICHI KAWAHIRA, KOJI MURATA
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Publication number: 20190119828Abstract: A silicon wafer includes a denuded zone which is a surface layer and of which the density of vacancy-oxygen complexes which are complexes of vacancies and oxygen is less than 1.0×1012/cm3. An intermediate layer is disposed inwardly of the denuded zone so as to be adjacent to the denuded zone. The density of the vacancy-oxygen complexes in the intermediate layer increases gradually inwardly in the depth direction from the boundary with the denuded zone within a range of 1.0×1012/cm3 or over and less than 5.0×1012/cm3. The intermediate layer has a depth determined corresponding to the depth of the denuded zone. A bulk layer is disposed inwardly of the intermediate layer so as to be adjacent to the intermediate layer. The density of the vacancy-oxygen complexes in the bulk layer is 5.0×1012/cm3 or over.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2017Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Susumu MAEDA, Hironori BANBA, Haruo SUDO, Hideyuki OKAMURA, Koji ARAKI, Koji SUEOKA, Kozo NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20190113664Abstract: There is provided an optical member that can achieve a liquid crystal display apparatus having excellent durability and having a high color rendering property. An optical member according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a wavelength conversion layer; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The wavelength conversion layer and/or the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains a wavelength-selective absorbent material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: April 18, 2019Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Yoshikawa, Kozo Nakamura, Kazuhito Hosokawa
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Publication number: 20190092983Abstract: There is provided a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape having a predetermined wavelength conversion function and having excellent durability. A pressure-sensitive adhesive tape according to the present invention includes: a base material; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer having a wavelength conversion function. The base material has a water vapor transmission rate of 1 g/(m2·day) or less. In one embodiment, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains a rubber-based polymer selected from a styrene-based thermoplastic elastomer, an isobutylene-based polymer, and a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kozo Nakamura, Takahiro Yoshikawa, Kazuhito Hosokawa
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Patent number: 10235658Abstract: The maintenance management device 3 includes an error status diagnosis unit 11, a grace period estimation unit 14, a maintenance cost estimation unit 15, and a screen display unit 17. When the error status diagnosis unit 11 has diagnosed the occurrence of an anomaly, the grace period estimation unit 14 estimates a first grace period leading up to the occurrence of a failure. The maintenance cost estimation unit 15 estimates the cost of corrective maintenance incurred when the failure occurs after the elapse of the first grace period. The screen display unit 17 displays a combination of the first grace period and the cost of corrective maintenance. Alternatively, the grace period estimation unit 14 estimates a second grace period over which preventive maintenance may be postponed without a failure.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2013Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Suzuki, Kozo Nakamura, Shinya Yuda, Munetoshi Unuma, Junsuke Fujiwara, Takayuki Uchida, Katsuaki Tanaka, Mitsuo Aihara, Teruo Nakamura, Nobuyoshi Hirowatari, Hiroshi Ogura
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Publication number: 20190051484Abstract: There is provided an optical member that can achieve a liquid crystal display apparatus having high brightness, an excellent hue, and a high color rendering property. An optical member according to the present invention includes, in the stated order: a first barrier layer; a first wavelength conversion layer; a second wavelength conversion layer; and a second barrier layer. The first wavelength conversion layer includes a matrix and a first wavelength conversion material dispersed in the matrix and having a predetermined center emission wavelength. The second wavelength conversion layer includes a matrix and a second wavelength conversion material dispersed in the matrix and having a center emission wavelength different from that of the first wavelength conversion material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: February 14, 2019Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kozo Nakamura, Takahiro Yoshikawa, Kazuhito Hosokawa
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Patent number: 10175403Abstract: There is provided an optical member that can realize a liquid crystal display apparatus that is excellent in mechanical strength and has high illuminance. An optical member according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a polarizing plate, a reflective polarizer, and a prism sheet in the stated order. The optical member has a reflectance of 70% or more for linearly polarized light having a wavelength of 650 nm entering the reflective polarizer at 45°.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2014Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kozo Nakamura, Shouhei Maezawa, Takehito Fuchida, Hiroyuki Takemoto, Nao Murakami
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Publication number: 20180348553Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a transmissive region and a reflective region, and includes a backlight unit and a liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, a first alignment film, a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules having positive anisotropy of dielectric constant, a second alignment film, and a second substrate in the given order from closest to farthest from the backlight unit, the first substrate including a first electrode disposed in the transmissive region and the reflective region and a second electrode disposed in the transmissive region, the first substrate or the second substrate including a third electrode disposed in the reflective region, the first electrode including one or more first linear electrode portions in the transmissive region, with no voltage applied to the liquid crystal layer, the liquid crystal molecules in the transmissive region forming a given twist angle ?1, the liquid crystal molecules in the reflective region forming a given tType: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: TAKAKO KOIDE, KIYOSHI MINOURA, KOZO NAKAMURA, AKIRA SAKAI, MASAHIRO HASEGAWA
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Publication number: 20180309073Abstract: The present invention provides a flexible light-emitting device which is a flexible device with which the light leakage is less liable to occur even if it is deformed. In order to achieve the above object, the flexible light-emitting device of the present invention includes a light-emitting layer, a low refractive index layer, and a high refractive index layer, wherein the light-emitting layer, the low refractive index layer, and the high refractive index layer are stacked in this order, the low refractive index layer has a refractive index lower than that of the light-emitting layer and has a haze of less than 5%, and the high refractive index layer has a refractive index higher than that of the low refractive index layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2016Publication date: October 25, 2018Applicant: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Kozo Nakamura, Daisuke Hattori, Jin Yoshikawa, Junichi Nagase, Kazuhito Hosokawa
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Publication number: 20180252968Abstract: Provided is an optical member that can achieve a liquid crystal display apparatus that is excellent in mechanical strength, has an excellent hue, and shows little change in hue dependent on a viewing angle. The optical member includes a prism sheet and an optically functional element that are integrated with each other. The prism sheet has: a first main surface, which is flat; and a second main surface, on which a plurality of unit prisms each having a columnar shape convex toward an opposite side to the first main surface are arrayed. Convex portions formed by the plurality of unit prisms on the second main surface of the prism sheet are bonded to one main surface of the optically functional element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2016Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kozo Nakamura, Kazuhito Hosokawa
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Publication number: 20180246373Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal cell; a viewer side polarizing plate; a back-surface side polarizing plate, a reflective polarizer, a first prism sheet, a second prism sheet, and a wavelength conversion layer. The first prism sheet and the second prism sheet each has: a first main surface, which is flat; and a second main surface, on which a plurality of unit prisms are arrayed. In the liquid crystal display apparatus, convex portions formed by the plurality of unit prisms on the second main surface of the first prism sheet are bonded to a main surface of the reflective polarizer on an opposite side to the back-surface side polarizing plate, and/or convex portions formed by the plurality of unit prisms on the second main surface of the second prism sheet are bonded to the first main surface of the first prism sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2016Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kozo NAKAMURA, Kazuhito HOSOKAWA
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Publication number: 20180239062Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a laminated optical film achieving both a high proportion of void space (porosity) and superior abrasion resistance. The laminated optical film of the present invention includes: a void-provided layer; a resin film; and a cover layer, wherein the void-provided layer is formed on the resin film, the cover layer is formed directly on the void-provided layer, and the void-provided layer has a contact angle with water of 90° or more and a proportion of void space of 30 vol % or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2016Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Daisuke Hattori, Kozo Nakamura, Kazuhito Hosokawa
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Publication number: 20180224580Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide an optical laminate that achieves a superior film strength and a property that a void-provided layer and a pressure-sensitive adhesive/adhesive layer are not easily peeled from each other. The optical laminate of the present invention includes: a void-provided layer; an intermediate layer; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive/adhesive layer, wherein the void-provided layer, the intermediate layer, and the pressure-sensitive adhesive/adhesive layer are stacked in this order, and the intermediate layer is formed by forming the pressure-sensitive adhesive/adhesive layer on the void-provided layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2016Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Hattori, Hiromoto Haruta, Kozo Nakamura, Hiroyuki Takemoto
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Publication number: 20180223061Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a laminated film including a void-provided layer achieving both a high proportion of void space and a high film strength. The laminated film of the present invention includes a void-provided layer 21 and a resin film 10, the void-provided layer 21 being stacked on the resin film 10. The laminated film is produced by a production method, including steps of forming a void-provided structure 20?, which is a precursor of the void-provided layer 21 on the resin film; and causing a crosslinking reaction in the precursor 20? after the precursor forming step. The precursor 20? contains a substance that generates a basic substance by light irradiation or heating, the basic substance is not generated in the precursor forming step, the basic substance is generated by light irradiation or heating in the crosslinking reaction step, and the crosslinking reaction step has multiple stages.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2016Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Daisuke Hattori, Hiromoto Haruta, Kozo Nakamura, Hiroyuki Takemoto
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Patent number: 10042201Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device having a high transmittance and excellent visibility in a bright place. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes, in the given order, a backlight, a first circular polarizer, a liquid crystal panel, and a second circular polarizer. The first circular polarizer is a reflective circular polarizer including a reflective linear polarizer and a ?/4 plate disposed adjacent to the reflective linear polarizer. The liquid crystal display device satisfies (1) the liquid crystal panel is provided with color filters of two or more colors and has an aperture ratio lower than 43%, or (2) the liquid crystal panel is provided with no color filter and has an aperture ratio of 39% or lower.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira Sakai, Hiroyuki Hakoi, Kozo Nakamura, Kiyoshi Minoura
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Patent number: 10001669Abstract: There is provided an optical member that suppresses the occurrence of moire, and can realize a liquid crystal display apparatus that is excellent in mechanical strength and has high brightness. An optical member according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a polarizing plate, a light diffusion layer, a reflective polarizer, and a prism sheet in the stated order.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2013Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takehito Fuchida, Shouhei Maezawa, Hiroyuki Takemoto, Nao Murakami, Kozo Nakamura
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Patent number: 9939127Abstract: A lighting device (100) includes: a surface light source (1); a first lens (L1) having a first focal point (F1), the first lens being provided on the light exit surface side of the surface light source; and a second lens (L2) having a second focal point (F2), the second lens being provided on a light exit surface side of the first lens, the surface light source, the first lens, and the second lens being configured such that a first virtual image (I1) is formed by the first lens and a second virtual image (I2) is formed by the second lens, wherein the first virtual image (I1) is formed between the second focal point (F2) and the first lens, and the second focal point (F2) is on a side opposite to the light source side relative to a predetermined focal position f?.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2013Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, TOHOKU UNIVERSITYInventors: Tatsuo Uchida, Yoshito Suzuki, Tohru Kawakami, Takahiro Ishinabe, Katsunori Ehara, Yoshihiro Hashimoto, Toshiki Matsuoka, Kozo Nakamura, Yasuhisa Itoh, Yoshitaka Yamamoto, Yutaka Ishii, David Montgomery
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Patent number: 9928786Abstract: A display device includes a multi-primary-color display panel with subpixels arranged in a matrix pattern of columns and rows; and a signal converter arranged to convert a video signal, having values that represent the colors of pixels with a matrix pattern, into a multi-primary-color signal for use in the multi-primary-color display panel. The signal converter associates a value of the video signal representing the color of at least one of pixels on a pth row with values of the multi-primary-color signal corresponding to the luminances of subpixels on (s?1)th and sth rows, and also associates a value of the video signal representing the color of at least one of the pixels on a (p+1)th row with values of the multi-primary-color signal corresponding to the luminances of subpixels on sth and (s+1)th rows.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2007Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akiko Miyazaki, Kazunari Tomizawa, Kozo Nakamura, Shun Ueki
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Publication number: 20180067250Abstract: There is provided an optical member capable of causing, when used for a liquid crystal display apparatus, light output from a light source to enter a liquid crystal display panel with high efficiency. An optical member according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a polarizing plate; a reflective polarizer; a ?/4 plate; and a prism layer, the polarizing plate, the reflective polarizer, the ?/4 plate, and the prism layer being integrated in the stated order.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kozo Nakamura, Daisuke Hattori, Kazuhito Hosokawa