Patents by Inventor Masashi Yokota

Masashi Yokota 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: 10788620
    Abstract: A light emitting device is installed in a display apparatus such as that used in a television set. The light emitting device includes a light source that emits light, a light guiding plate having a light receiving portion that receives light from the light source, and a substrate having a wiring pattern that is electrically connected to the light source. The substrate is bent and disposed so as to cover a space between the light source and the light receiving portion. The light guiding plate emits the received light toward, for example, a liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel displays images by causing each of pixels to transmit or block light irradiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Okawa, Masashi Yokota
  • Publication number: 20190243060
    Abstract: A light emitting device is installed in a display apparatus such as that used in a television set. The light emitting device includes a light source that emits light, a light guiding plate having a light receiving portion that receives light from the light source, and a substrate having a wiring pattern that is electrically connected to the light source. The substrate is bent and disposed so as to cover a space between the light source and the light receiving portion. The light guiding plate emits the received light toward, for example, a liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel displays images by causing each of pixels to transmit or block light irradiated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: YUKI OKAWA, MASASHI YOKOTA
  • Publication number: 20190160215
    Abstract: To provide a blood treatment filter device capable of efficiently utilizing a blood treatment filter. A blood treatment filter device 20 has a filter sheet 26 through which a specific component among components forming blood is harder to pass than other components and a spacer sheet 27 through which the specific component is easier to pass than through the filter sheet 26. The filter sheet 26 has filter through-holes 39 disposed at intervals. The filter sheet 26 and the spacer sheet 27 are spirally wound in an overlapped state. The filter device 20 has seals 31 sealing both end portions in the longitudinal direction of a wound body 25 formed by the filter sheet 26 and the spacer sheet 27 which are spirally wound in a fluid-tight manner. The outer peripheral surface of the wound body 25 is formed by the filter sheet 26.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Toshinari Takahashi, Masashi Yokota, Hiroshi Fukushima, Kimihiko Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10155079
    Abstract: To provide a blood treatment filter device capable of efficiently utilizing a blood treatment filter. A blood treatment filter device 20 has a filter sheet 26 through which a specific component among components forming blood is harder to pass than other components and a spacer sheet 27 through which the specific component is easier to pass than through the filter sheet 26. The filter sheet 26 has filter through-holes 39 disposed at intervals. The filter sheet 26 and the spacer sheet 27 are spirally wound in an overlapped state. The filter device 20 has seals 31 sealing both end portions in the longitudinal direction of a wound body 25 formed by the filter sheet 26 and the spacer sheet 27 which are spirally wound in a fluid-tight manner. The outer peripheral surface of the wound body 25 is formed by the filter sheet 26.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Nipro Corporation
    Inventors: Toshinari Takahashi, Masashi Yokota, Hiroshi Fukushima, Kimihiko Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9804436
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an LED that emits blue light having a light emission spectrum with a half value width less than 25 nm, green light having a light emission spectrum with a half value width less than 52 nm, and red light having a light emission spectrum with a half value width less than 40 nm, and a color filter including a blue coloring unit having a transmission spectrum with a peak wavelength from 440 nm to 461.5 nm and a half value width less than 100 nm, a green coloring unit having a transmission spectrum with a peak wavelength from 510 nm to 533.5 nm and a half value width less than 90 nm, and a red coloring unit having a transmission spectrum with a wavelength greater than or equal to 580 nm for the half value of a peak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yokota
  • Publication number: 20170146856
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an LED that emits blue light having a light emission spectrum with a half value width less than 25 nm, green light having a light emission spectrum with a half value width less than 52 nm, and red light having a light emission spectrum with a half value width less than 40 nm, and a color filter including a blue coloring unit having a transmission spectrum with a peak wavelength from 440 nm to 461.5 nm and a half value width less than 100 nm, a green coloring unit having a transmission spectrum with a peak wavelength from 510 nm to 533.5 nm and a half value width less than 90 nm, and a red coloring unit having a transmission spectrum with a wavelength greater than or equal to 580 nm for the half value of a peak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventor: Masashi YOKOTA
  • Patent number: 9507205
    Abstract: A display device includes a first cabinet to which a display panel is attached and a second cabinet to which a light source is attached. The first cabinet and the second cabinet are assembled with an optical member, which diffuses light from the light source, held between the cabinets. The optical member includes a first optical member having relatively large weight and a second optical member having relatively small weight. The first optical member is pressed by the top of a projection provided in at least one of the first cabinet and the second cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yokota
  • Publication number: 20160339161
    Abstract: To provide a blood treatment filter device capable of efficiently utilizing a blood treatment filter. A blood treatment filter device 20 has a filter sheet 26 through which a specific component among components forming blood is harder to pass than other components and a spacer sheet 27 through which the specific component is easier to pass than through the filter sheet 26. The filter sheet 26 has filter through-holes 39 disposed at intervals. The filter sheet 26 and the spacer sheet 27 are spirally wound in an overlapped state. The filter device 20 has seals 31 sealing both end portions in the longitudinal direction of a wound body 25 formed by the filter sheet 26 and the spacer sheet 27 which are spirally wound in a fluid-tight manner. The outer peripheral surface of the wound body 25 is formed by the filter sheet 26.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Toshinari Takahashi, Masashi Yokota, Hiroshi Fukushima, Kimihiko Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8941796
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a light source unit enabling cost reduction. A light source unit of the present invention includes a plurality of LEDs 16, and an elongated LED board 17 having a plurality of arranging portions 18 on which each LED 16 is arranged, and a plurality of connecting portions 19 connecting the adjacent arranging portions 18. Each connecting portion 19 has a width smaller than a width of each arranging portion 18 in a short direction of the LED board 17.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yokota
  • Patent number: 8908122
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a light source unit enabling cost reduction. A light source unit of the present invention includes a plurality of LEDs 16, an LED board 17 having a surface on which the plurality of LEDs 16 is arranged, and an elongated reflection sheet 30 provided on the surface of the LED board 17 on which the LEDs are arranged. The reflection sheet 30 has a plurality of light-source-surrounding reflecting portions 31 surrounding the LEDs 16 in a plan view, and a plurality of connecting portions 32 connecting the adjacent light-source-surrounding reflecting portions 31. Each of the connecting portions 32 has a width Y2 narrower than a width Y1 of each of the light-source-surrounding reflecting portions in a short direction of the reflection sheet 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yokota
  • Patent number: 8845120
    Abstract: An LED unit U of the present invention includes an LED 17 that is alight source, a diffuser lens 19, a board reflection sheet 23 and a restriction member 27. The diffuser lens 19 is provided to face a light emitting surface 17a of the LED 17. The board reflection sheet 23 is provided to face a surface of the diffuser lens 19 that is closer to the LED 17 and is configured to reflect light. The restriction member 27 projects from the diffuser lens 19 toward the board reflection sheet 23 and restricts positional relationship between the diffuser lens 19 and the board reflection sheet 23.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yokota
  • Patent number: 8848131
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to stably fix a light source board without using any screw. A backlight unit 12 according to the present invention includes an LED board 18 including an LED 17 as a light source, a chassis 14 that stores the LED board 18 and has an opening 14b through which light from the LED 17 exits, and a holding member 20 that extends in at least one direction along a plate surface of the LED board 18 and is fixed to the chassis 14 so as to hold the LED board 18 together with the chassis between the holding member 20 and the chassis 14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yokota
  • Publication number: 20140240612
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (a display device) 10 includes a liquid crystal panel (a display panel) 11 displaying an image, a backlight unit (a lighting unit) 12 irradiating light to the liquid crystal panel 11, a plurality of LEDs (light sources) 17 that are a light emission source of the backlight unit 12, and a LED board 18 included in the backlight unit 12 and on which the LEDs 17 are mounted. The LEDs 17 are classified into at least three color regions 50 that are arranged in adjacent to each other in a CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram based on chromaticity of emission light. The LEDs are arranged on the LED board 18 such that at least two LEDs 17 in at least two color regions 50 that are positioned symmetrically with respect to a center of at least three color regions 50 in the CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram are arranged in adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Gotou, Masashi Yokota
  • Patent number: 8789960
    Abstract: A backlight unit (49) of a display device (69) having a liquid crystal display panel (59) is provided with a chassis (41), a diffusion plate (43) supported by the chassis, and a light source which irradiates the diffusion plate with light. The light source is constructed by combining a plurality of mounting substrates (21) provided with an LED (22) which serves as the light-emitting element and a diffusion lens (24) for covering the LED. Connectors (25A) are mounted on matching edges of the plurality of mounting substrates to electrically connect the substrates. The connectors are placed so as not to interfere with the illumination light region in which the LED imparts brightness to the diffusion plate. In order to achieve this state of non-interference, a beveled part (26) is formed on the side of the connectors facing the LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yokota
  • Patent number: 8684583
    Abstract: A backlight unit 12 includes a chassis 14, a plurality of cold cathode tubes 18, an optical member 16 and a plurality of support members 20. The chassis 14 has an opening on a light exit side. The cold cathode tubes 18 are light sources arranged in a parallel layout and housed in the chassis 14. The optical member 16 is arranged on the light exit side outer than the cold cathode tubes 18 so as to cover the opening of the chassis 14. The support members 20 are arranged in a parallel layout along a parallel arrangement direction of the cold cathode tubes 18. The support members 20 are formed such that support positions of the optical member 16 are relatively closer to the cold cathode tubes 18 around the center and relatively farther from the cold cathode tubes 18 near the edges. The cold cathode tubes 18 are arranged at relatively smaller intervals around the center and at relatively larger intervals near the edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yokota
  • Patent number: 8558957
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a lighting device realizing improvement in brightness of an intended area such as a center area of an irradiation surface. A lighting device 12 of the present invention includes a light source 17, a chassis 14 housing the light source 17, and an optical member 15a facing the light source 17. The optical member 15a has a light source overlapping portion DA overlapping with a light source arrangement area LA where the light source 17 is arranged, on the chassis 14, and a light source non-overlapping portion DN overlapping with a light source non-arrangement area LN where the light source 17 is not arranged. The light source overlapping portion DA has a surface facing the light source 17, the surface having a light reflectance greater than that of the light source non-overlapping portion DN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yokota
  • Patent number: 8520150
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a lighting device realizing reduction in cost and suppression of power consumption and suppressing generation of a lamp image. A lighting device 12 of the present invention includes a plurality of point light sources 80; a chassis 14 housing the point light sources 80 and having an opening 14b through which light from the point light sources 80 exits; and an optical member 15 (15a) facing the point light sources 80 and provided to cover the opening 14b. The point light sources 80 are arranged such that a light source high-density area LH where an arrangement interval thereof is relatively small and a light source low-density area LL where an arrangement interval thereof is relatively large are provided. Light reflection portions 50 reflecting lights from the point light sources 80 are formed in at least a region overlapping with the light source low-density area LL in the optical member 15 (15a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yokota
  • Patent number: 8480288
    Abstract: A lamp clip 18 includes a main body 27, a lamp gripping portion 28, a first mounting portion 30 and a second mounting portion 31. The main body 27 is mounted to a chassis 14 that houses a plurality of tubular cold cathode tubes 17. The lamp gripping portion 28 is provided on a surface of the main body 27 opposing the cold cathode tube 17 so as to grip the cold cathode tube 17. The first mounting portion 30 protrudes from the main body 27 so as to extend toward the chassis 14 and to be in a first mounting hole 32 formed in the chassis 14 so that a rim of the first mounting hole 32 is sandwiched between the first mounting portion 30 and the main body 27. The second mounting portion 31 protrudes from the main body 27 so as to extend toward the chassis 14 and to be inserted in a second mounting hole 33 formed in the chassis 14 so that a rim of the second mounting hole 33 is sandwiches between the second mounting portion 31 and the main body 27.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasumori Kuromizu, Masashi Yokota, Syuki Yamamoto, Kaori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8432499
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device that can be provided as a final product such as a television receiver simply by assembling a display panel and a backlight and is excellent in workability in assembling the display panel to the backlight while securing a wide effective display region. The display device according to the present invention includes an LED 52, an LED board 51 on which the LED 52 is mounted, a liquid crystal panel 11, a first cabinet Ca, a second cabinet Cb, and a reflection sheet 60. The liquid crystal panel 11 is configured to provide display using light from the LED 52. The liquid crystal panel 11 is attached to the first cabinet Ca. The LED board 51 is attached to the second cabinet Cb. The reflection sheet 60 is configured to reflect the light from the LED 52. The first cabinet Ca and the second cabinet Cb are engaged with each other and configured as an outer case that forms an exterior of a liquid crystal display device 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yokota
  • Publication number: 20130070168
    Abstract: In order to provide an LED light source and an LED backlight in which color variations in the chromaticity of light emitted from a light emitting surface are not produced and in which the brightness on a display screen is made uniform, an LED light source provided with an LED chip that emits light of a predetermined color and a sealing resin that contains a fluorescent material are included. The fluorescent material includes a plurality of fluorescent materials that emit excitation light of a plurality of different wavelengths within the excitation light wavelength range of the predetermined color, and the light emitting surface is formed in the shape of a diffusion lens portion that adjusts the light emitted and distributed. Also, the application regions of the adjacent LED light sources overlap each other, and thus it is possible to obtain an LED backlight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masashi Yokota