Patents by Inventor Masanori Shimo

Masanori Shimo 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: 8243577
    Abstract: In an optical information recording medium (1), a light-transmitting layer (10) or a transparent substrate, an information recording layer (20), and a substrate (30) are stacked in this order from a side from which reproducing light (2) enters. The information recording layer (20) includes at least a reproducing film (21) whose complex refractive index at a light source wavelength (?) of the reproducing light (2) is changed by heat. The relationship of 0.67×(?/NA)>TP>0.04×(?/NA) is satisfied, where TP is a track pitch of prepits (31) formed on the substrate (30), and NA is a numerical aperture of an objective lens (55) for converging the reproducing light (2) on the optical information recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Yamamoto, Hirohisa Yamada, Toshihiko Sakai, Yasuhiro Harada, Go Mori, Hideharu Tajima, Masanori Shimo, Nobuyuki Takamori
  • Patent number: 8164706
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device 100 provided by the present invention, at least a part of a circuit board 16 can be held on an outer side surface 30B of a frame 30 by a board clip 50 mounted on the outer side surface 30B of the frame 30. The board clip 50 includes a plate-like main body portion 52 located so as to face the outer side surface 30B of the frame 30, front-side engaging portions 54 and 55, and a pair of rear-side engaging portions 56 and 57. A bezel receiving portion 60 contactable with a part of a peripheral portion of a bezel 20 is formed in the vicinity of the front-side engaging portions 54 and 55.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Saori Nambo, Eriko Wakabayashi, Masanori Shimo, Takafumi Hara
  • Publication number: 20110273641
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device provided by the present invention, in a coupling part in which a plurality of frame components 32 and 42 forming a frame are coupled to each other, a part 53 of an end 50A of one of the frame components, i.e., the frame component 32, and a part 55 of an end 50B of the other frame component 42 overlap each other in a front-rear direction of the liquid crystal panel. Among the overlapping two ends 50A and 50B, the end facing an optical member 78 (member receiving portion 55) is close to the optical member 78, and is formed to be contactable with the optical member 78 in a surface-to-surface manner when the coupling part is bent toward the optical member 78.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eriko Wakabayashi, Takafumi Hara, Masanori Shimo, Saori Nambo
  • Publication number: 20110267556
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device 100 provided by the present invention, at least a part of a circuit board 16 can be held on an outer side surface 30B of a frame 30 by a board clip 50 mounted on the outer side surface 30B of the frame 30. The board clip 50 includes a plate-like main body portion 52 located so as to face the outer side surface 30B of the frame 30, front-side engaging portions 54 and 55, and a pair of rear-side engaging portions 56 and 57. A bezel receiving portion 60 contactable with a part of a peripheral portion of a bezel 20 is formed in the vicinity of the front-side engaging portions 54 and 55.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Saori Nambo, Eriko Wakabayashi, Masanori Shimo, Takafumi Hara
  • Publication number: 20110267751
    Abstract: In a display device provided by the present invention, among a plurality of sides forming a frame 30, one pair of sides facing each other respectively have protrusions 52 and 62 and clearance adjusting members 54 and 64, for adjusting a clearance between the protrusions 52 and 62 and a display panel 10 located on an inner-side panel receiving portion, provided as at least partially extending toward the inner-side panel receiving portion. An extending portion, extending toward the inner-side panel receiving portion, of one of the clearance adjusting members, i.e., the clearance adjusting member 54, and an extending portion, extending toward the inner-side panel receiving portion, of the other clearance adjusting member 64, have different thicknesses from each other in respective extending directions thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanori Shimo, Takafumi Hara, Eriko Wakabayashi, Saori Nambo
  • Patent number: 7907497
    Abstract: There is provided a storage layer (13) between storage layers (11), (15). The storage layer (13) produces a relatively large spherical aberration for a protection layer thickness error. Information is written to or read from the storage layer (13) with a beam of light having a second wavelength. Information is written to or read from the storage layers (11), (15) with a beam of light having a first wavelength (longer than the second wavelength). Accordingly, a multi-format optical storage medium is realized on which information can be recorded or reproduced with a single objective lens. Also, an optical pickup is realized which is capable of recording or reproducing information on the multi-format optical storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ikuo Nakano, Hideharu Tajima, Go Mori, Masaki Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Takamori, Michinobu Mieda, Masanori Shimo, Toshihiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 7859983
    Abstract: An optical disk includes a plurality of disk sheets which are laminated, and each of which has a recording face on one of the surfaces and a flat back surface, wherein the plurality of disk sheets are laminated by adhesive layers in such a manner that between adjacent two disk sheets, a back surface of one of the disk sheets, on the opposite side of the surface where the recording face is formed, faces the disk surface of the other disk sheet. The foregoing structure realizes an optical disk of desirable recording/reproducing characteristics, which is flat and has a fixed interval between recording faces, and which permits the problems of coma aberration, spherical aberration, etc., to be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junji Hirokane, Michinobu Mieda, Masanori Shimo
  • Publication number: 20100014407
    Abstract: In an optical information recording medium (1), a light-transmitting layer (10) or a transparent substrate, an information recording layer (20), and a substrate (30) are stacked in this order from a side from which reproducing light (2) enters. The information recording layer (20) includes at least a reproducing film (21) whose complex refractive index at a light source wavelength (?) of the reproducing light (2) is changed by heat. The relationship of 0.67×(?/NA)>TP>0.04×(?/NA) is satisfied, where TP is a track pitch of prepits (31) formed on the substrate (30), and NA is a numerical aperture of an objective lens (55) for converging the reproducing light (2) on the optical information recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: Masaki Yamamoto, Hirohisa Yamada, Toshihiko Sakai, Yasuhiro Harada, Go Mori, Hideharu Tajima, Masanori Shimo, Nobuyuki Takamori
  • Publication number: 20090034388
    Abstract: There is provided a storage layer (13) between storage layers (11), (15). The storage layer (13) produces a relatively large spherical aberration for a protection layer thickness error. Information is written to or read from the storage layer (13) with a beam of light having a second wavelength. Information is written to or read from the storage layers (11), (15) with a beam of light having a first wavelength (longer than the second wavelength). Accordingly, a multi-format optical storage medium is realized on which information can be recorded or reproduced with a single objective lens. Also, an optical pickup is realized which is capable of recording or reproducing information on the multi-format optical storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ikuo Nakano, Hideharu Tajima, Go Mori, Masaki Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Takamori, Michinobu Mieda, Masanori Shimo, Toshihiko Sakai
  • Publication number: 20050281187
    Abstract: An optical disk includes a plurality of information units, each of which has a pit array made up of a phase pit on an information track and phase pits surrounding the phase pit. With this structure, information can be recorded at high density, and recorded information can be reproduced from the optical disk under stable conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junji Hirokane, Michinobu Mieda, Masanori Shimo, Ikuo Nakano, Toshihiko Sakai
  • Publication number: 20050013236
    Abstract: An optical disk includes a plurality of disk sheets which are laminated, and each of which has a recording face on one of the surfaces and a flat back surface, wherein the plurality of disk sheets are laminated by adhesive layers in such a manner that between adjacent two disk sheets, a back surface of one of the disk sheets, on the opposite side of the surface where the recording face is formed, faces the disk surface of the other disk sheet. The foregoing structure realizes an optical disk of desirable recording/reproducing characteristics, which is flat and has a fixed interval between recording faces, and which permits the problems of coma aberration, spherical aberration, etc., to be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Inventors: Junji Hirokane, Michinobu Mieda, Masanori Shimo
  • Patent number: 5953301
    Abstract: A lens-cleaning disc capable of efficiently removing dirt or dust on pickup lenses, equipped with a brush body comprising bristles fastened into the brush base, at a position facing the pickup lens when the disc is used, wherein the surface of the brush base may be constructed as an adhesive surface or the brush body may be placed at an angle with respect to a radial direction of the disc so that its inner end is located further forward than its outer end in the direction of rotation at all times during rotation of the disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanori Shimo, Yoshinori Matsui