Patents by Inventor Makoto Hasegawa

Makoto Hasegawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20230375775
    Abstract: A lighting device capable of changing light direction includes: a light guide plate having a first side surface extending in a first direction; and LEDs at the first side surface, in which the light guide plate has a first area extending in a second direction which is a direction perpendicular to the first direction and a second area extending in the second direction and adjacent to the first area, corresponding to the first area, at least one LED is arranged at the first side surface, corresponding to the second area, at least one LED is arranged at the first side surface, a first prism array is formed under a bottom surface of the first area, and a second prism array is formed under a bottom surface of the second area, and a prism height of the second prism array is taller than a prism height of the first prism array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Masafumi OKADA
  • Patent number: 11803137
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a first roller that is arranged in a region where an image formed on a recording medium is fixed to the recording medium and that heats the recording medium, a second roller that is arranged to face the first roller in the region and pressurizes the recording medium toward the first roller, a fan that sends air to the second roller, and a processor configured to control the fan, in which the second roller has a shape in which a diameter of an end portion in a longitudinal axis direction is larger than a diameter of a central portion in the longitudinal axis direction, the first roller and the second roller fix the image to the recording medium in the region, and the processor is configured to change a rotation speed of the fan between the central portion and the end portion of the second roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Yasutaka Naito
  • Patent number: 11789193
    Abstract: A lighting device including: a light guide having a first side surface extending in a first direction and a second side surface opposing to the first side surface and extending in the first direction, a first LED being disposed at the first side surface, a second LED being disposed at the second side surface; in which a first area extends in the first direction and a second area extends in the second direction in the light guide; a prism sheet is disposed on the light guide; a prism extending in the first direction and arranged in the second direction is formed on the prism sheet; a first surface of the prism has a first angle with normal direction of the second prism sheet; a second surface of the prism has a second angle with normal direction of the second prism sheet; the first angle is larger than the second angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Masafumi Okada
  • Publication number: 20230314869
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device of thin, low power consumption and high emitting efficiency. A concrete structure of the inventions is as follows. A lighting device including a first light guide and a second light guide stacked on the first light guide, a reflecting sheet disposed under the first light guide, and a prism sheet disposed on the first light guide, in which a concentric first prism array is formed on the prism sheet, a plurality of first LEDs are disposed along a circumferential direction of a side wall of a first hole of the first light guide, a plurality of second LEDs are disposed along a circumferential direction of a side wall of a second hole of the second light guide, and the plurality of the first LEDs and the plurality of the second LEDs are displaced in azimuth direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Masafumi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20230303142
    Abstract: An operation device 5 includes: a base 40; an operation part 45, extending in a left-right direction; and a pair of left and right first connection parts 50, provided between the base and the operation part, and disposed apart from each other in the left-right direction. Each first connection part includes: a first end 56, connected to the base; a second end 55, connected to the operation part; a first elastic member 63, connecting the second end with respect to the first end to be displaceable in a front-rear direction; and a first distance sensor 65A, 65B, measuring a relative distance of the second end with respect to the first end in the front-rear direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Inada, Ritsuya Oshima, Hiroshi Iwakami, Hiroshi Gomi, Shinichiro Kobashi, Makoto Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20230305452
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing member that has an outer peripheral surface and an inner peripheral surface, is rotatably provided, comes into contact with, of a recording material on which an image is formed, a surface on which the image is formed, and fixes the image to the recording material, a rotating member that is rotatably provided and includes, at an outer peripheral portion, a contact surface coming into contact with the inner peripheral surface of the fixing member, and a removing member that is disposed to be in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the fixing member, is rotatably provided, and removes an attached object attached to the outer peripheral surface using a rotation speed difference with respect to the fixing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takashi OHASHI, Takashi MATSUBARA, Takuma ISHIHARA, Yasutaka NAITO, Makoto HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230280013
    Abstract: The purpose is to realize a lighting device of thin, small light distribution angle, and less leak light. Further, the purpose is to realize a lighting device which can control light beam accurately with liquid crystal lenses. The structure of the invention is as follows. A lighting device including: a reflector cylinder including a mirror thereinside; and a liquid crystal lens assembly that is disposed at a light emitting surface of the reflector cylinder and includes a plurality of liquid crystal lenses being stacked, in which the liquid crystal lens assembly includes a light shading film which defines a light emitting area of the liquid crystal lens assembly and which is formed in parallel with the light emitting surface of the reflector cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi OKADA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Makoto HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 11747670
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device of thin, low power consumption and small light distribution angle. The present invention takes the following structure to realize the above task: A lighting device comprising: a disc shaped light guide, having a main surface and a rear surface, including a first hole at a center, a disc shaped reflection sheet, disposed at the rear surface side of the light guide, including a second hole at a center, a prism sheet, disposed at the main surface side of the light guide, including a concentric first prism array, wherein a reflection mirror is set in the first hole of the light guide at the side near to the prism sheet, an LED is set opposing to the reflection mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Masafumi Okada
  • Patent number: 11739909
    Abstract: The purpose is to realize a lighting device which can project a light spot of rectangle with a simple structure. The invention is: A lighting device having a light source unit 1, the light source unit 1 including a funnel shaped reflector 10 and an LED 20, in which the funnel shaped reflector 10 includes a neck and an opening, the LED 20 is disposed at the neck of the funnel shaped reflector 10, a plan view of the opening is a rectangle, and provided a distance from the neck to the opening along axis is d, and one side of the rectangle is x, either one of the first light source unit and the second light source unit satisfies, d/x is 2 or larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Okada, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Makoto Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20230266619
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light emitting device includes a light guide plate with a plurality of first protrusion parts arranged along a first direction and extending along a second direction which crosses the first direction, and a prism sheet, wherein a cross-sectional shape of each of the first protrusion parts along the first direction has an apex angle between 55 degrees and 65 degrees, inclusive, the light guide plate includes a plurality of second protrusion parts which extend along the first direction and are arranged along the second direction, and a cross-sectional shape of each of the second protrusion parts along the second direction has a base angle between 1 degree and 3 degrees, inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Masafumi OKADA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Makoto HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230258304
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device of small light distribution angle and less leakage light and further to realize a lighting device in which the light beam is easy to control. The following is an example of the structure to meet the above purpose. A lighting device including: a light guide; LEDs set at a side surface of the light guide; a prism sheet set on a major surface of the light guide, in which a first louver which extends in a first direction and, a second louver which extends in an orthogonal direction to the first direction are superposed on the prism sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Takeo KOITO, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Masafumi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20230239066
    Abstract: An optical transmission system includes a transmitting node that transmits wavelength light of an operational path to an optical waveguide, and a receiving node that receives the wavelength light from the optical waveguide. The transmitting node includes a light source that generates spontaneously emitted light and a wavelength selector that generates and outputs dummy wavelength light from the spontaneously emitted light generated by the light source. The receiving node includes an extractor that extracts spectral data of the dummy wavelength light passed in the optical waveguide. The optical transmission system further includes an obtainer that obtains a band state of the operational path from the spectral data of the dummy wavelength light extracted by the extractor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoaki WATANABE, Atsushi Kiyama, Makoto HASEGAWA, Yoshito Kachita
  • Publication number: 20230235863
    Abstract: A lighting device including a first unit and a second unit, the first unit including: a first funnel shaped reflector having a first neck, a first opening, a first reflecting surface and a first light axis, a first LED emitting a first color disposed on the first neck, a first liquid crystal lens disposed at the first opening, a second unit including: a second funnel shaped reflector having a second neck, a second opening, a second reflecting surface and a second light axis, a second LED emitting a second color disposed on the second neck, a second liquid crystal lens disposed at the second opening; a length h1 of the first funnel shaped reflector is same as a length of the second funnel shaped reflector, and a diameter d1 of the first opening is same as a diameter of the second opening, and h1/d1 is two or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi OTA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Makoto HASEGAWA, Masafumi OKADA
  • Patent number: 11703710
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device of thin, low power consumption and high emitting efficiency. A concrete structure of the inventions is as follows. A lighting device including a first light guide and a second light guide stacked on the first light guide, a reflecting sheet disposed under the first light guide, and a prism sheet disposed on the first light guide, in which a concentric first prism array is formed on the prism sheet, a plurality of first LEDs are disposed along a circumferential direction of a side wall of a first hole of the first light guide, a plurality of second LEDs are disposed along a circumferential direction of a side wall of a second hole of the second light guide, and the plurality of the first LEDs and the plurality of the second LEDs are displaced in azimuth direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Masafumi Okada
  • Publication number: 20230174331
    Abstract: A paper transport device includes a transport mechanism that transports paper to which an image is transferred to a fixing device while sucking the paper and a switching mechanism that switches between suction regions in a width direction of the transport mechanism, which corresponds to a width direction of the paper, according to a size of the paper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasutaka NAITO, Koichi IMAZU, Noriyuki MIYOSHI, Kouichi KIMURA, Makoto HASEGAWA, Satoshi NAKAMURA, Masakatsu EDA
  • Publication number: 20230176507
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a first roller that is arranged in a region where an image formed on a recording medium is fixed to the recording medium and that heats the recording medium, a second roller that is arranged to face the first roller in the region and pressurizes the recording medium toward the first roller, a fan that sends air to the second roller, and a processor configured to control the fan, in which the second roller has a shape in which a diameter of an end portion in a longitudinal axis direction is larger than a diameter of a central portion in the longitudinal axis direction, the first roller and the second roller fix the image to the recording medium in the region, and the processor is configured to change a rotation speed of the fan between the central portion and the end portion of the second roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Yasutaka NAITO
  • Patent number: 11668976
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light emitting device includes a light guide plate with a plurality of first protrusion parts arranged along a first direction and extending along a second direction which crosses the first direction, and a prism sheet, wherein a cross-sectional shape of each of the first protrusion parts along the first direction has an apex angle between 55 degrees and 65 degrees, inclusive, the light guide plate includes a plurality of second protrusion parts which extend along the first direction and are arranged along the second direction, and a cross-sectional shape of each of the second protrusion parts along the second direction has a base angle between 1 degree and 3 degrees, inclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Okada, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Makoto Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20230168690
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a moving body control device, a moving body control method, and a non-transient computer-readable recording medium recording a program capable of moving multiple vehicles as a group with a higher degree of freedom. A moving body control device includes: a positional relationship grasping part that grasps a positional relationship of multiple vehicles; and a vehicle control part that controls a movement mode of the multiple vehicles based on the positional relationship. The vehicle control part controls the multiple vehicles to move as a group and, according to a movement result of a part of vehicles among the multiple vehicles, changes a movement mode of another vehicle different from the part of vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sachiko YAMAMOTO, Shota YAMAGUCHI, Naoto SHIKANO, Marika Mochizuki, Makoto HASEGAWA, Shinichiro KOBASHI
  • Publication number: 20230169469
    Abstract: A tutorial management device manages, for a user of a moving body, attendance of a pre-use tutorial on an operation method of the moving body conducted before use of the moving body. The tutorial management device includes: an exemption range determination part that determines an exemption range for the user who is exempted from attending a part or all of the pre-use tutorial based on a predetermined exemption condition; and a tutorial management part that manages the attendance of the pre-use tutorial by the user based on the exemption range determined by the exemption range determination part. The tutorial management part requires all of the pre-use tutorial to be attended when the user uses the moving body for a first time, and exempts the user from attending the exemption range among the pre-use tutorial when the user has used the moving body in the past.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto HASEGAWA, Sachiko YAMAMOTO, Naoto SHIKANO, Shinichiro KOBASHI, Kanako IKEDA
  • Patent number: 11655944
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device of small light distribution angle and less leakage light and further to realize a lighting device in which the light beam is easy to control. The following is an example of the structure to meet the above purpose. A lighting device including: a light guide; LEDs set at a side surface of the light guide; a prism sheet set on a major surface of the light guide, in which a first louver which extends in a first direction and, a second louver which extends in an orthogonal direction to the first direction are superposed on the prism sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Takeo Koito, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Masafumi Okada