Patents by Inventor Masaru Fujita

Masaru Fujita 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: 11940647
    Abstract: Light control body (6) has first incident surface (7) and first reflection surface (9). First incident surface (7) condenses part of light emitted from light source (1) and emits the light toward incident surface (3) of light guide plate (2). First reflection surface (9) reflects the light that is emitted from light source (1) and does not pass through first incident surface (7), and emits the light toward incident surface (3) of light guide plate (2). First focal position (11) of first incident surface (7) and second focal position (12) of first reflection surface (9) are set at positions that are different from each other and away from the light emission surface of light source (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Araki, Wahei Agemizu, Kazumasa Takata, Masaru Fujita
  • Publication number: 20240045206
    Abstract: An optical system includes a light guide member, a prism, and a plurality of light control bodies. The light guide member includes an incident surface on which light is incident, and a first surface and a second surface facing each other. In the light guide member, the second surface is an emission surface of light. The prism is provided on the first surface and reflects light passing through the light guide member toward the second surface. The plurality of light control bodies are positioned between light sources and the incident surface. The plurality of light control bodies control light rays output from the light sources and incident on the incident surface. Each of the plurality of light control bodies includes an incident lens. Each of the plurality of light control bodies causes the light incident on the incident lens from the light source to be incident on the incident surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: WAHEI AGEMIZU, KAZUMASA TAKATA, MASARU FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20240027759
    Abstract: An optical system includes a light guide member and a prism. The light guide member has: an incident surface on which light is incident; and a first surface and a second surface facing each other. The second surface is a light emergent surface. The prism is provided for the first surface and reflects, toward the second surface, the light passing inside the light guide member. The light guide member includes a direct optical path, along which the light that has entered the light guide member through the incident surface is directly reflected from the prism and allowed to emerge from the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Wahei AGEMIZU, Kazumasa TAKATA, Masaru FUJITA, Tomohisa SAKAGUCHI, Hiroki HARA, Masaki AMIE
  • Patent number: 11835719
    Abstract: An optical system includes a light guide member having a light incident surface, a first surface, and a light emergent surface facing the first surface; and a prism provided in the first surface for reflecting light passing inside the light guide member towards the light emergent surface. The light guide member includes a direct optical path, along which the light that has entered the light guide member through the incident surface is directly reflected from the prism and allowed to emerge from the light emergent surface. At least one of the first surface or the light emergent surface includes a luminous intensity distribution control member configured to control a luminous intensity distribution of light to be extracted from the light emergent surface. The luminous intensity distribution control member includes a Fresnel lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wahei Agemizu, Kazumasa Takata, Masaru Fujita, Tomohisa Sakaguchi, Hiroki Hara, Masaki Amie
  • Publication number: 20230375770
    Abstract: Light control body (6) has first incident surface (7) and first reflection surface (9). First incident surface (7) condenses part of light emitted from light source (1) and emits the light toward incident surface (3) of light guide plate (2). First reflection surface (9) reflects the light that is emitted from light source (1) and does not pass through first incident surface (7), and emits the light toward incident surface (3) of light guide plate (2). First focal position (11) of first incident surface (7) and second focal position (12) of first reflection surface (9) are set at positions that are different from each other and away from the light emission surface of light source (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: YOSUKE ARAKI, WAHEI AGEMIZU, KAZUMASA TAKATA, MASARU FUJITA
  • Patent number: 11656473
    Abstract: An optical system includes a light guide member having a light-incident surface, a first surface, a light-emitting surface facing the first surface, a first end surface, a second end surface, a plurality of collimating lenses disposed on the light-incident surface and being arranged along a first direction, and a plurality of prism pieces. The plurality of prism pieces include two or more prism pieces having different inclination angles with respect to the light-incident surface depending on positions of the prism pieces in at least the first direction, and each of the inclination angles of the two or more prism pieces is an angle formed between the first direction and the longitudinal axis of a corresponding prism piece. Each of the inclination angles of the two or more prism pieces increases as the corresponding prism piece is positioned closer to any of the first end surface or the second end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Takata, Masaru Fujita, Wahei Agemizu, Yosuke Araki, Tomohisa Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220230918
    Abstract: An aspect of the invention is a method for producing a substrate having through-silicon vias, the method including a preparation step of preparing a silicon substrate provided with through-holes, in which the through-holes communicate with both principal surfaces; a copper sintered body formation step of forming a copper sintered body having a porous structure such that the copper sintered body fills at least the through-holes; a resin impregnation step of impregnating the copper sintered body with a curable resin composition; and a resin curing step of curing the curable resin composition impregnated into the copper sintered body to form an electric conductor that includes the copper sintered body having pores filled with a resin cured product, and providing through-silicon vias in the through-holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshinori EJIRI, Hideo NAKAKO, Yuki KAWANA, Motoki YONEKURA, Shinichirou SUKATA, Manabu ISHII, Masaru FUJITA, Michiko NATORI, Masahiro KIMURA, Ryo HONNA
  • Publication number: 20220128829
    Abstract: A light refraction member includes an incident surface on which planar light is incident, a plurality of refractors that refract the planar light, and an emitting surface from which the planar light refracted by the plurality of refractors is emitted as emitted light. The plurality of refractors are provided side by side in a first direction on at least one of the incident surface and the emitting surface, and each of the plurality of refractors has an area in which a direction in which the planar light is refracted changes along a second direction intersecting the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: TOMOHISA SAKAGUCHI, WAHEI AGEMIZU, KAZUMASA TAKATA, MASARU FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20220043262
    Abstract: An optical system includes a light guide member and a prism. The light guide member has: an incident surface on which light is incident; and a first surface and a second surface facing each other. The second surface is a light emergent surface. The prism is provided for the first surface and reflects, toward the second surface, the light passing inside the light guide member. The light guide member includes a direct optical path, along which the light that has entered the light guide member through the incident surface is directly reflected from the prism and allowed to emerge from the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Wahei AGEMIZU, Kazumasa TAKATA, Masaru FUJITA, Tomohisa SAKAGUCHI, Hiroki HARA, Masaki AMIE
  • Publication number: 20210356752
    Abstract: An optical system includes a light guide member and a plurality of prism pieces. The light guide member has an incident surface on which light is incident, and first and second surfaces facing each other, and the second surface is a light-emitting surface. The plurality of prism pieces are provided on the first surface and reflect the light passing through an inside of the light guide member toward the second surface. The plurality of prism pieces include two or more prism pieces having different inclination angles with respect to an incident surface depending on a position in at least a first direction along both the incident surface and the first surface. The inclination angles of two or more prism pieces are determined so that the light emitted from the second surface is directed to the outside or the inside of the first direction with respect to a reference light beam as the prism piece is positioned closer to both ends of the first surface in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: KAZUMASA TAKATA, MASARU FUJITA, WAHEI AGEMIZU, YOSUKE ARAKI, TOMOHISA SAKAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10632898
    Abstract: An illumination device disposed on a moving body includes at least one main light source, and at least one auxiliary light source disposed in a periphery of the at least one main light source when seen along a traveling direction of the moving body. The illumination device further includes a first light guide disposed adjacent to the at least one main light source, that guides light transmitted from the at least one main light source, and a second light guide that is disposed adjacent to the at least one auxiliary light source, that guides light transmitted from the at least one auxiliary light source. The illumination device also includes an optical component that transmits the light from the first light guide and the light from the second light guide in the traveling direction of the moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Chingyo, Tomoyuki Nakano, Masaru Fujita, Kenichiro Mase
  • Publication number: 20190299846
    Abstract: An illumination device disposed on a moving body includes at least one main light source, and at least one auxiliary light source disposed in a periphery of the at least one main light source when seen along a traveling direction of the moving body. The illumination device further includes a first light guide disposed adjacent to the at least one main light source, that guides light transmitted from the at least one main light source, and a second light guide that is disposed adjacent to the at least one auxiliary light source, that guides light transmitted from the at least one auxiliary light source. The illumination device also includes an optical component that transmits the light from the first light guide and the light from the second light guide in the traveling direction of the moving body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LT D.
    Inventors: Yohei CHINGYO, Tomoyuki NAKANO, Masaru FUJITA, Kenichiro MASE
  • Patent number: 10338302
    Abstract: A light source device including a light guide plate and a light source, in which the light guide plate includes an incident surface on which light emitted from the light source is incident, an emission surface emitting light incident from the incident surface, and a propagating reflection surface which is a surface opposite to the emission surface and which propagates and reflects the light incident from the incident surface toward the emission surface, the propagating reflection surface has approximately V-shaped grooves and the V-shaped grooves have two kinds of grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Kikuchi, Yusuke Kusaka, Masaru Fujita, Yoshihiko Kanayama, Shohroh Mochida, Masami Ito
  • Publication number: 20190121154
    Abstract: A laser projection device includes a laser light source, a diffusion plate, and a housing. The diffusion plate has an incidence surface and an emission surface and emitted light from the laser light source is incident thereon. A plurality of linear grooves are arranged in at least one of the incidence surface and the emission surface. The housing has an opening through which light diffused by the grooves is emitted in an emitting direction of the laser light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Atsushi Fukui, Masaru Fujita
  • Patent number: 10185211
    Abstract: A projection light source device according to the present disclosure includes a light source, and a collimating lens that substantially collimates light emitted from the light source, an intermediate diffusion plate that diffuses the emitted light of the collimating lens, and an emission surface diffusion plate that has a weaker diffusibility than the intermediate diffusion plate and diffuses the emitted light of the intermediate diffusion plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fukui, Masaru Fujita
  • Patent number: 10088740
    Abstract: A projection light source device according to the present disclosure includes a light source, and a collimating lens that substantially collimates light emitted from the light source, an intermediate diffusion plate that diffuses the emitted light of the collimating lens, and an emission surface diffusion plate that has a weaker diffusibility than the intermediate diffusion plate and diffuses the emitted light of the intermediate diffusion plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fukui, Masaru Fujita
  • Publication number: 20180259836
    Abstract: A projection light source device according to the present disclosure includes a light source, and a collimating lens that substantially collimates light emitted from the light source, an intermediate diffusion plate that diffuses the emitted light of the collimating lens, and an emission surface diffusion plate that has a weaker diffusibility than the intermediate diffusion plate and diffuses the emitted light of the intermediate diffusion plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: ATSUSHI FUKUI, MASARU FUJITA
  • Patent number: 9946008
    Abstract: An indication lighting device provided is capable of reducing the number of electric wiring from a fixed, part to a moving part when an indication part is provided in the moving part's side. The indication lighting device makes indication by emitting light from a light source arranged in a fixed part to an optical waveguide arranged in a moving part, reflecting the light incident on the optical waveguide by reflection surfaces of prisms of the optical waveguide to an indication part provided in a tip side of the optical waveguide to be propagated, and emitting the light propagated inside the optical waveguide through the indication part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fukui, Masaru Fujita, Tomohisa Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 9752758
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes a light-emitting element, a first lens, and a second lens. A first incident surface of the first lens faces the light-emitting element, and guides a light beam from the light-emitting element to a radiation port. A second incident surface of the first lens guides a light beam not passing through the first incident surface to a direction toward the outer periphery of the first lens. A first reflection surface of the first lens reflects a light beam from the second incident surface to guide the light beam to the radiation port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Kadoriku, Ryoma Murase, Takashi Matsuda, Masaru Fujita
  • Patent number: 9702526
    Abstract: An illumination device has plural LED light sources, a reflection plate that has plural openings facing the respective LED light sources, and plural lenses that faces the respective openings and that guides light emitted from the plural openings in a direction vertical to the openings. The reflection plate is placed between the plural LED light sources and the plural lenses, and converges the light emitted from the plural LED light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Kadoriku, Ryoma Murase, Masaru Fujita