Patents by Inventor Masaki Nishinaka

Masaki Nishinaka 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: 8262429
    Abstract: A method for producing a plasma display panel includes the steps of: evacuating air from a discharge space formed between a front plate and a rear plate which are substrates facing each other through piping; introducing a discharge gas into the discharge space through gas piping that branches from the piping; and recovering the discharge gas remaining in the piping system through the piping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Okawa, Yoshiki Sasaki, Takeo Funaoka, Toshiyuki Watanabe, Masaki Nishinaka, Mamoru Watanabe, Jun-ichi Taira, Yugo Takeda
  • Publication number: 20110250817
    Abstract: A method for producing a plasma display panel includes the steps of: evacuating air from a discharge space formed between a front plate and a rear plate which are substrates facing each other through piping; introducing a discharge gas into the discharge space through gas piping that branches from the piping; and recovering the discharge gas remaining in the piping system through the piping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventors: Masafumi Okawa, Yoshiki Sasaki, Takeo Funaoka, Toshiyuki Watanabe, Masaki Nishinaka, Mamoru Watanabe, Jun-ichi Taira, Yugo Takeda
  • Patent number: 7999476
    Abstract: There is provided a plasma display panel in which a front plate and a rear plate are disposed opposite to each other, a side of a tubular exhaust pipe is disposed in the vicinity of a fine hole provided in the rear plate using a tablet serving as sealant formed of frit glass, peripheries of the front plate and the rear plate and the exhaust pipe are sealed with the sealant in order to form a discharge space, and the discharge space is ventilated and discharge gas is filled into the discharge space through the exhaust pipe. The rear plate and the exhaust pipe are sealed by a sealed part obtained by melting a tablet made of amorphous frit glass not containing lead, and a stress working on the sealed part is a tension in the direction of the rear plate and the direction of the exhaust pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Nishinaka, Akinobu Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 7931948
    Abstract: A plasma display panel has front plate (2) and back plate (10) that are faced to each other. The front plate has a display electrode, a dielectric layer, and a protective layer on a front glass substrate, and the back plate has an address electrode, a barrier rib, and a phosphor layer on a back glass substrate. The periphery of the front and back plates is sealed with sealing material (50) to form discharge space. Sealing material (50) contains, as a glass component, bismuth oxide and at least one of molybdenum oxide and tungsten oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Nishinaka, Akinobu Miyazaki, Seiji Nishitani
  • Patent number: 7922555
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a PDP equipped with an exhaust tube (21) for evacuating a discharge space formed by arranging a front plate (22) and a back plate (23) oppositely and sealing the circumferential edge portions of the front plate and the back plate by sealant (31) and then filling the discharge space with discharge gas, the method comprising steps for arranging the sealing side of the exhaust tube around a thin exhaust hole (30) provided in the back plate through a tablet (32) formed of frit glass not containing sealing lead but containing bismuth oxide, assembling the front plate and the back plate while arranging them oppositely, mounting the exhaust pipe on an exhauster while directing the side connected with the exhauster downward, and performing the sealing at a predetermined sealing temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Nishinaka, Akinobu Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 7914356
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a plasma display panel including a sealing step of arranging a front plate formed with a display electrode, a dielectric layer, and a protective layer on a transparent substrate and a rear plate formed with an address electrode, a barrier rib, and a phosphor layer so as to face each other and sealing a periphery of the front plate and the rear plate with a sealing material, where the sealing step includes a sealing material application step of applying the sealing material to the rear plate, a tentative firing step of tentatively firing applied sealing material, and a sealing step of arranging the front plate and the rear plate so as to face each other and sealing the plates by softening and melting the sealing material, and the sealing material is configured by a glass frit having bismuth oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Nishinaka, Akinobu Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20110070800
    Abstract: A plasma display panel includes front glass substrate and rear glass substrate disposed opposite to each other so as to form an image display area and an image non-display area. The image non-display area includes a sealing portion in which glass substrates are sealed at a periphery thereof by a seal layer. At least one of front glass substrate and rear glass substrate has a thickness of 0.5 mm or more and 2.0 mm or less. The seal layer is made of a glass material having a softening point temperature 30° C. through 70° C. lower than the sealing temperature at which the periphery of front glass substrate and rear glass substrate are sealed by the seal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: Akinobu MIYAZAKI, Masaki NISHIMURA, Masaki NISHINAKA
  • Publication number: 20100187992
    Abstract: The invention is plasma display panel (1) with a plurality of pairs of display electrodes (6) and dielectric layers (8) disposed on front glass substrate (3), and it is intended to realize plasma display panel (1), wherein the stress at a surface where dielectric layer (8) of front glass substrate (3) is not disposed is a compressive stress ranging from 0.8 MPa to 2.4 MPa, the glass substrate is sufficient in strength, and the panel is almost free from breakage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Koji Akiyama, Masaki Nishinaka, Koji Aoto
  • Publication number: 20100181908
    Abstract: Disclosed here is a flat display having a pair of glass substrates and a sealing member applied on the periphery of the glass substrates. The glass substrates are oppositely disposed to each other at intervals therebetween. The glass substrates contain silicon as a component, while the sealing member contains bismuth. A protection layer and an insulating layer as an intermediate layer, which has a silicon-content lower than the glass substrates, are formed on the interface between the glass substrates and the sealing member. The structure above reinforces bonding strength of the sealing section, providing a highly reliable flat display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Akiyama, Masaki Nishinaka, Akinobu Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 7758396
    Abstract: A plasma display panel including a gas adsorption member is disclosed. An effort of gas adsorption is obtained sufficiently, and the presence of the gas adsorption member avoids problems at an exhausting operation in exhaust-baking step. The plasma display panel includes a pair of plates opposed to each other with an enclosed discharge space in between. The pair of plates refer to a front plate and a back plate, and at least one of the plates has a communication hole, around which the gas adsorption member having a hole is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Okawa, Hiroyuki Kado, Yoshiki Sasaki, Masaki Nishinaka, Kazuya Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20100171420
    Abstract: A plasma display panel has a plurality of pairs of display electrodes, dielectric layer, and protective layer disposed on front glass substrate. Protective layer is formed of nano crystal particles, and the average particle diameter of the nano crystal particles is in the range of 10 nm to 100 nm. With this structure, in the plasma display panel, front glass substrate has a sufficient strength and occurrence of panel cracks is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventors: Koji Akiyama, Koji Aoto, Masaki Nishimura, Masaki Nishinaka
  • Publication number: 20100130090
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a PDP equipped with an exhaust tube (21) for evacuating a discharge space formed by arranging a front plate (22) and a hack plate (23) oppositely and sealing the circumferential edge portions of the front plate and the back plate by sealant (31) and then filling the discharge space with discharge gas, the method comprising steps for arranging the sealing side of the exhaust tube around a thin exhaust hole (30) provided in the back plate through a tablet (32) formed of frit glass not containing sealing lead but containing bismuth oxide, assembling the front plate and the back plate while arranging them oppositely, mounting the exhaust pipe on an exhauster while directing the side connected with the exhauster downward, and performing the sealing at a predetermined sealing temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Nishinaka, Akinobu Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20100127620
    Abstract: A plasma display panel is provided with a front substrate (22); a rear substrate (23) arranged to face the front substrate; and an exhaust tube (21). A discharge space is formed by sealing the circumference of the front substrate with the circumference of the rear substrate. The exhaust tube is connected to the rear substrate for exhausting the discharge space and filling the discharge space with a discharge gas. The exhaust tube is formed of a lead-free glass, and the ratio of its thickness to its outer diameter is 0.2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasumasa Wada, Seiji Nishitani, Masaki Nishinaka, Hiroyuki Yonehara
  • Patent number: 7718281
    Abstract: A plasma display panel (PDP) is made of front panel (2) and rear panel (10). The front panel includes display electrodes (6), dielectric layer (8), and protective layer (8) that are formed on glass substrate (3). The rear panel includes address electrodes (12), barrier ribs (14), and phosphor layers (15) that are formed on rear glass substrate (11). The front panel and the rear panel are faced with each other, and the peripheries thereof are sealed to form discharge space (16) therebetween. Primary dielectric layer (13) is provided to cover address electrodes (12), and barrier ribs (14) are formed on primary dielectric layer (13). Primary dielectric layer (13) is made of dielectric glass containing at least bismuth oxide and having a softening point exceeding 550° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akinobu Miyazaki, Masaki Nishinaka, Seiji Nishitani
  • Patent number: 7719191
    Abstract: A plasma display panel has an image display region(17)and a non-image display region formed by facing front glass substrate (3) to back glass substrate (10), and has a sealed part (18) formed by sealing peripheries of the glass substrates in the non-image display region with a seal layer(19). A thickness of at least one of the front glass substrate (3) and the back glass substrate (10) is 2.0 mm or less, and an interval between the glass substrates in the sealed part longer than an interval between the glass substrates in the image display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Nishimura, Masaki Nishinaka, Akinobu Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20100060166
    Abstract: There is provided a plasma display panel in which a front plate and a rear plate are disposed opposite to each other, a side of a tubular exhaust pipe is disposed in the vicinity of a fine hole provided in the rear plate using a tablet serving as sealant formed of frit glass, peripheries of the front plate and the rear plate and the exhaust pipe are sealed with the sealant in order to form a discharge space, and the discharge space is ventilated and discharge gas is filled into the discharge space through the exhaust pipe. The rear plate and the exhaust pipe are sealed by a sealed part obtained by melting a tablet made of amorphous frit glass not containing lead, and a stress working on the sealed part is a tension in the direction of the rear plate and the direction of the exhaust pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Nishinaka, Akinobu Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20100056010
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a plasma display panel including a sealing step of arranging a front plate formed with a display electrode, a dielectric layer, and a protective layer on a transparent substrate and a rear plate formed with an address electrode, a barrier rib, and a phosphor layer so as to face each other and sealing a periphery of the front plate and the rear plate with a sealing material, where the sealing step includes a sealing material application step of applying the sealing material to the rear plate, a tentative firing step of tentatively firing applied sealing material, and a sealing step of arranging the front plate and the rear plate so as to face each other and sealing the plates by softening and melting the sealing material, and the sealing material is configured by a glass frit having bismuth oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Nishinaka, Akinobu Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20090230861
    Abstract: A plasma display panel includes front glass substrate and rear glass substrate disposed opposite to each other so as to form an image display area and an image non-display area. The image non-display area includes a sealing portion in which glass substrates are sealed at a periphery thereof by a seal layer. At least one of front glass substrate and rear glass substrate has a thickness of 0.5 mm or more and 2.0 mm or less. The seal layer is made of a glass material having a softening point temperature 30° C. through 70° C. lower than the sealing temperature at which the periphery of front glass substrate and rear glass substrate are sealed by the seal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: Akinobu Miyazaki, Masaki Nishimura, Masaki Nishinaka
  • Patent number: 7504773
    Abstract: A plasma display panel including a gas adsorption member is disclosed. An effort of gas adsorption is obtained sufficiently, and the presence of the gas adsorption member avoids problems at an exhausting operation in exhaust-baking step. The plasma display panel includes a pair of plates opposed to each other with an enclosed discharge space in between. The pair of plates refer to a front plate and a back plate, and at least one of the plates has a communication hole, around which the gas adsorption member having a hole is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Okawa, Hiroyuki Kado, Yoshiki Sasaki, Masaki Nishinaka, Kazuya Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20090009429
    Abstract: A plasma display panel has front plate (2) and back plate (10) that are faced to each other. The front plate has a display electrode, a dielectric layer, and a protective layer on a front glass substrate, and the back plate has an address electrode, a barrier rib, and a phosphor layer on a back glass substrate. The periphery of the front and back plates is sealed with sealing material (50) to form discharge space. Sealing material (50) contains, as a glass component, bismuth oxide and at least one of molybdenum oxide and tungsten oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventors: Masaki Nishinaka, Akinobu Miyazaki, Seiji Nishitani