Patents by Inventor Masashi Baba

Masashi Baba 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: 20080192180
    Abstract: The present inventions enhances the brightness at a center portion of a display screen in a liquid crystal display device used in a TV set having a direct backlight. Odd-number pieces of fluorescent lamps are used in the inside of the backlight. Using external electrode fluorescent lamps as the fluorescent lamps, electrodes of the respective fluorescent lamps can be connected in common. Further, one fluorescent lamp can be arranged at the center of the display screen. Due to such a constitution, the liquid crystal display device can effectively ensure the brightness at the center of the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventor: Masashi BABA
  • Publication number: 20080043415
    Abstract: A display device having a display element is configured such that the extending directions of electrodes are made different from each other among upper, lower, left and right pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Inventors: Ryutaro Oke, Kazunori Ojima, Masaki Tsubokura, Masashi Baba, Yasuhiko Yamagishi, Masahiro Tanaka, Yuuichi Takenaka, Shinji Yasukawa, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20080042158
    Abstract: A display device having a display element is configured such that the extending directions of electrodes are made different from each other among upper, lower, left and right pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Inventors: Ryutaro Oke, Kazunori Ojima, Masaki Tsubokura, Masashi Baba, Yasuhiko Yamagishi, Masahiro Tanaka, Yuuichi Takenaka, Shinji Yasukawa, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20080043193
    Abstract: A display device having a display element is configured such that the extending directions of electrodes are made different from each other among upper, lower, left and right pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Inventors: Ryutaro Oke, Kazunori Ojima, Masaki Tsubokura, Masashi Baba, Yasuhiko Yamagishi, Masahiro Tanaka, Yuuichi Takenaka, Shinji Yasukawa, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20060028154
    Abstract: The present invention can prolong a lifetime of a liquid crystal display device by suppressing the increase of a leak current attributed to the deflection of a cold cathode fluorescent lamp toward a lower frame side. An insulating member is arranged right below a cold cathode fluorescent lamp and above a lower frame. A reflecting sheet is arranged above the insulating member. The insulating member is formed in a block shape having a rectangular cross section. A fixed or more amount of distance is ensured between the cold cathode fluorescent lamp and the reflecting sheet thus suppressing the increase of the leak current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shimokawa, Yoshikazu Nakada, Masashi Baba, Takashi Oota, Shunsuke Morishita
  • Publication number: 20050225708
    Abstract: A display device having a display element is configured such that the extending directions of electrodes are made different from each other among upper, lower, left and right pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2005
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Inventors: Ryutaro Oke, Kazunori Ojima, Masaki Tsubokura, Masashi Baba, Yasuhiko Yamagishi, Masahiro Tanaka, Yuuichi Takenaka, Shinji Yasukawa, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20050146653
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display comprising the feature that a backlight comprises a cold cathode ray tube disposed on a surface facing a liquid crystal display panel and a chassis for supporting the cold cathode ray tube, and the cold cathode ray tube is set so that a distance from the chassis at an end to which a high voltage is applied becomes larger than a distance from the chassis at an end to which a low voltage is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2005
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Masashi Baba, Yoshikazu Nakada