Patents by Inventor Masanori Higashi

Masanori Higashi 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: 6707252
    Abstract: A safety metal halide lamp with a high luminous efficiency and a long lamp life is provided. The metal halide lamp includes an arc tube made of light-transmissive ceramic, in which a pair of electrodes is provided and cerium iodide (CeI3) and sodium iodide (NaI) are enclosed as a light-emitting substance, wherein a molar composition rate NaI/CeI3 of the light-emitting substance is specified within a range of 3.8 to 10, inclusive, and a wall load on the arc tube ranges from 13 to 23 W/cm2, inclusive, and on a series of X, Y coordinates, where X denotes a value of a lamp watt (W) and Y denotes a value of Le/&phgr;i, where Le and &phgr;i denote a distance between the pair of electrodes and an internal diameter of the arc tube, respectively, values of the Le/&phgr;i and the lamp watt are specified to be within a range surrounded by lines passing through the points (200, 0.75), (300,0.80), (400, 0.85), (700, 1.00), (1,000, 1.15), (1,000, 2.10), (700, 2.00), (400, 1.90), (300, 1.80), and (200, 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Kakisaka, Shigefumi Oda, Yoshiharu Nishiura, Masanori Higashi, Hiroshi Enami
  • Patent number: 6650054
    Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp having an arc tube that includes a main tube part and a pair of capillary tube parts is provided. The main tube part includes a pair of electrodes and a metal halide enclosed, and the pair of capillary tube parts is arranged at the of the main tube part. The pair of capillary tube parts is sealed by means of a seal member to a different one of the feeders, and supplies electricity to each of the electrodes. At least one of the feeders includes a first conductive member that is resistant to halides and sealed to the capillary tube part, and a second conductive member that is connected to the first conductive member outside the capillary tube part and fixed at an outer end of the capillary tube part by means of the seal member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Higashi, Yoshiharu Nishiura, Takashi Maniwa
  • Publication number: 20030062832
    Abstract: To provide a high-efficiency and long-life high intensity discharge lamp that is obtained by a configuration in which a neon gas or a neon-based gaseous mixture is filled as a starting-assistance rare gas for an alumina ceramic arc tube, and a filling pressure is set to 13 kPa or more. The high intensity discharge lamp is provided with the alumina ceramic arc tube having a discharge arc tube, alumina ceramic narrow tubes formed at both end portions of the discharge arc tube, electrodes and power feeders, the electrodes and the power feeders being arranged to form spaces in the narrow tubes. The discharge arc tube is filled with the neon gas or the neon-based gaseous mixture as the starting-assistance rare gas at a filling pressure of 13 kPa or more. This prevents a discharge arc from jumping from tip portions of the electrodes to the spaces at starting of the lamp, and avoids occurrence of cracks and breakages in the narrow tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Nishiura, Shigefumi Oda, Masanori Higashi, Shunsuke Kakisaka, Hiroshi Enami
  • Publication number: 20030025453
    Abstract: A safety metal halide lamp with a high luminous efficiency and a long lamp life is provided. The metal halide lamp includes an arc tube made of light-transmissive ceramic, in which a pair of electrodes is provided and cerium iodide (CeI3) and sodium iodide (NaI) are enclosed as a light-emitting substance, wherein a molar composition rate NaI/CeI3 of the light-emitting substance is specified within a range of 3.8 to 10, inclusive, and a wall load on the arc tube ranges from 13 to 23 W/cm2, inclusive, and on a series of X, Y coordinates, where X denotes a value of a lamp watt (W) and Y denotes a value of Le/&phgr;i, where Le and &phgr;i denote a distance between the pair of electrodes and an internal diameter of the arc tube, respectively, values of the Le/&phgr;i and the lamp watt are specified to be within a range surrounded by lines passing through the points (200, 0.75), (300,0.80), (400, 0.85), (700, 1.00), (1,000, 1.15), (1,000, 2.10), (700, 2.00), (400, 1.90), (300, 1.80), and (200, 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Kakisaka, Shigefumi Oda, Yoshiharu Nishiura, Masanori Higashi, Hiroshi Enami
  • Publication number: 20030020408
    Abstract: A metal halide lamp has an arc tube including an arc tube container as an envelope made of an oxide-based translucent ceramic material such as alumina, and the arc tube is filled with cerium halide as a luminescent material and a halide of a rare earth element that is more reactive with the ceramic material than is the cerium halide. Accordingly, a reaction between the oxide-based translucent ceramic material and the halide of a rare earth element is accelerated while a reaction between the oxide-based translucent ceramic material and the cerium halide is suppressed. This suppresses a decrease of the cerium halide that serves for light emission, and also reduces changes in the lamp color temperature. Thereby, lowering of flux maintenance factor and color temperature in aging of the lamp are suppressed, and the thus provided metal halide lamp with an alumina ceramic tube for indoor and outdoor use has a white light source color and it has a high-wattage, high luminous efficiency, and a long service life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Higashi, Yoshiharu Nishiura, Shigefumi Oda, Hiroshi Enami, Shunsuke Kakisaka
  • Publication number: 20030015949
    Abstract: A metal halide lamp has an arc tube including an envelope as an arc tube container made of an oxide-based translucent ceramic material, and the arc tube is filled with luminescent materials comprising at least a cerium halide, a sodium halide, a thallium halide and an indium halide. An amount of the cerium halide is in a range from 20 wt % to 69.0 wt %, an amount of the sodium halide is in a range from 30 wt % to 79.0 wt %, and a total amount of the thallium halide and the indium halide is in a range from 1.0 wt % to 20 wt % with respect to the entire metal halides. Accordingly, the arc discharge is spread, bending of the arc discharge toward the arc tube wall is suppressed, and thus, the metal halide lamp has improved luminescent efficiency, where lowering of the flux maintenance factor is suppressed even after a long-time use, and hues of the luminescent colors are corrected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Higashi, Yoshiharu Nishiura, Shigefumi Oda, Shunsuke Kakisaka, Hiroshi Enami
  • Patent number: 6483230
    Abstract: A discharge tube (1) made of transparent ceramics includes a main tube (17) and slender tubes provided on both sides thereof. In one of the slender tubes, a main electrode lead-in member that is connected to a main electrode (6b) is inserted and sealed. In the other two-hole slender tube, a main electrode lead-in member that is connected to a main electrode (6a) and an auxiliary electrode lead-in member that is connected to an auxiliary electrode (9) are inserted and sealed so as to be isolated electrically from each other. With such a structure, it is possible to achieve highly efficient and stable lifetime characteristics and suppress changes in characteristics during lifetime caused by leaks during an operation and reaction between a sealing material and an enclosed material inside the discharge tube. In addition, it is possible to obtain a high-pressure metal vapor discharge lamp that has stable lamp starting characteristics and allows a free design of the discharge tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigefumi Oda, Hiroshi Nohara, Yoshiharu Nishiura, Shiki Nakayama, Takashi Yamamoto, Masanori Higashi
  • Publication number: 20020079841
    Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp having an arc tube that includes a main tube part and a pair of capillary tube parts is provided. The main tube part includes a pair of electrodes and a metal halide enclosed, and the pair of capillary tube parts is arranged at the of the main tube part. The pair of capillary tube parts is sealed by means of a seal member to a different one of the feeders, and supplies electricity to each of the electrodes. At least one of the feeders includes a first conductive member that is resistant to halides and sealed to the capillary tube part, and a second conductive member that is connected to the first conductive member outside the capillary tube part and fixed at an outer end of the capillary tube part by means of the seal member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Masanori Higashi, Yoshiharu Nishiura, Takashi Maniwa
  • Patent number: 4314862
    Abstract: A dual phase high strength cold-rolled steel plate, comprising 0.02-0.15 weight % carbon, 1.5-2.5 weight % Mn, less than 0.2 weight % Si, 0.2-1.5 weight % Cr, 0.03-0.15 weight % P, less than 0.06 weight % Al, less than 0.02 weight % S, and the balance iron and unavoidable impurities. The steel according to the present invention permits the low-temperature transformation products to be formed in a greater proportion within a short annealing time to lower the yield ratio and zeroizes the yield point elongation without skin pass rolling. Moreover, the composition is completely free from adverse effects on tensile strength, ductility and galvanizing properties and can provide cold-rolled steel plate suitable for a wide use including motor vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1982
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Sudo, Masanori Higashi, Tsuguaki Ohki, Shoji Kanbe