Patents by Inventor Masato Kadotani
Masato Kadotani 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).
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Patent number: 11811974Abstract: A light source device includes a light source module, a plurality of heat receiving plates coupled to the light source module, and a cooling plate coupled to the plurality of heat receiving plates, cooling liquid flowing on the inside of the cooling plate. The cooling plate includes an upstream-side flowing section, a downstream-side flowing section, and a plurality of heat transfer sections provided in at least one of the upstream-side flowing section and the downstream-side flowing section and aligned in a second direction. The plurality of heat transfer sections include a plurality of fins extending in the second direction and a plurality of channels provided among the plurality of fins. The plurality of heat receiving plates are disposed along the second direction. The plurality of heat transfer sections are separated from one another in positions among the plurality of heat receiving plates in the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masato Kadotani, Shohei Shimoma
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Patent number: 11656542Abstract: A light source apparatus includes an enclosure, a phosphor wheel including a phosphor and disposed in the enclosure, a wheel-side heat dissipater that includes a plurality of fins provided at the phosphor wheel and generates an airflow flowing from the side facing the center of the phosphor wheel toward the periphery thereof with the aid of rotation of the phosphor wheel, a driver that rotates the phosphor wheel, a heat receiving member that includes a placement section where the driver is placed and faces the wheel-side heat dissipater, a heat sink coupled to a side of the heat receiving member, the side opposite to the phosphor wheel, and disposed outside the enclosure, and a plurality of columnar protrusions that are provided around the placement section and protrude into the enclosure toward the plurality of fins.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorportationInventor: Masato Kadotani
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Patent number: 11619869Abstract: A light source apparatus includes first and second optical elements, a support member to which the elements are fixed and supported, a first heat dissipation member to which the first optical element is connected, a second heat dissipation member to which heat of the second optical element is transferred, a heat transport member transporting the heat of the second optical element to the second heat dissipation member, and a cooling fan sending a cooling gas to the first and second heat dissipation members. The first heat dissipation member is on the opposite side from the direction toward which the light outputted from the first optical element travels. The second heat dissipation member is adjacent to the first heat dissipation member with a gap. The second heat dissipation member overlaps with the first heat when viewed along a flow direction of the cooling gas sent thereto.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takehiko Hagihara, Masato Kadotani, Yuki Takahi
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Publication number: 20230066896Abstract: A projector according to the present disclosure includes: a light source unit; an image forming portion including a light modulation panel; a panel fan configured to flow an air flow to the light modulation panel; an image forming unit including the image forming portion and the panel fan that are housed in a case; a projection optical unit configured to project the image light generated by the image forming portion; and a vapor chamber provided at the light modulation panel, the vapor chamber including a heat receiving portion that receives heat generated in the light modulation panel and a heat dissipating portion that dissipates the heat received by the heat receiving portion, the vapor chamber being configured to vaporize a liquid refrigerant by the heat from the heat receiving portion and condense the refrigerant by the heat dissipation from the heat dissipating portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Norikazu KADOTANI, Masato KADOTANI, Tomoaki MIYASHITA
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Publication number: 20230012956Abstract: A light source device includes a light source module, a plurality of heat receiving plates coupled to the light source module, and a cooling plate coupled to the plurality of heat receiving plates, cooling liquid flowing on the inside of the cooling plate. The cooling plate includes an upstream-side flowing section, a downstream-side flowing section, and a plurality of heat transfer sections provided in at least one of the upstream-side flowing section and the downstream-side flowing section and aligned in a second direction. The plurality of heat transfer sections include a plurality of fins extending in the second direction and a plurality of channels provided among the plurality of fins. The plurality of heat receiving plates are disposed along the second direction. The plurality of heat transfer sections are separated from one another in positions among the plurality of heat receiving plates in the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Masato KADOTANI, Shohei SHIMOMA
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Publication number: 20220413373Abstract: A light source apparatus includes an enclosure, a phosphor wheel including a phosphor and disposed in the enclosure, a wheel-side heat dissipater that includes a plurality of fins provided at the phosphor wheel and generates an airflow flowing from the side facing the center of the phosphor wheel toward the periphery thereof with the aid of rotation of the phosphor wheel, a driver that rotates the phosphor wheel, a heat receiving member that includes a placement section where the driver is placed and faces the wheel-side heat dissipater, a heat sink coupled to a side of the heat receiving member, the side opposite to the phosphor wheel, and disposed outside the enclosure, and a plurality of columnar protrusions that are provided around the placement section and protrude into the enclosure toward the plurality of fins.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventor: Masato KADOTANI
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Publication number: 20210318599Abstract: A light source apparatus includes first and second optical elements, a support member to which the elements are fixed and supported, a first heat dissipation member to which the first optical element is connected, a second heat dissipation member to which heat of the second optical element is transferred, a heat transport member transporting the heat of the second optical element to the second heat dissipation member, and a cooling fan sending a cooling gas to the first and second heat dissipation members. The first heat dissipation member is on the opposite side from the direction toward which the light outputted from the first optical element travels. The second heat dissipation member is adjacent to the first heat dissipation member with a gap. The second heat dissipation member overlaps with the first heat when viewed along a flow direction of the cooling gas sent thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takehiko HAGIHARA, Masato KADOTANI, Yuki TAKAHI
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Patent number: 10845685Abstract: A light source device has a light source unit including a base member and a plurality of light emitting devices held in the base member, a heat receiving plate including an opening portion, to which the base member is fixed to cover the opening portion, and a heat diffusion member in contact with the base member via the opening portion. Heat from the light source unit is transmitted to the heat receiving plate and the heat diffusion member.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shin Aruga, Masato Kadotani, Kazuya Usuda
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Patent number: 10539863Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a cable connected to an electronic component, a storage casing that stores the electronic component and an optical component and has an insertion hole through which the cable is inserted, a fixing portion that is fixed to the storage casing, and an elastic portion that is fixed to the fixing portion. The fixing portion has a first opposing portion and a second opposing portion that are disposed opposite to each other with the cable that protrudes from the insertion hole, interposed therebetween, and the elastic portion includes a first protruding portion and a second protruding portion, and the first protruding portion and the second protruding portion are pressed against each other with the cable interposed therebetween and are disposed so as to surround a vicinity of the cable.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2017Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Takizawa, Masato Kadotani
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Publication number: 20190227415Abstract: A light source device has a light source unit including a base member and a plurality of light emitting devices held in the base member, a heat receiving plate including an opening portion, to which the base member is fixed to cover the opening portion, and a heat diffusion member in contact with the base member via the opening portion. Heat from the light source unit is transmitted to the heat receiving plate and the heat diffusion member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shin ARUGA, Masato KADOTANI, Kazuya USUDA
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Publication number: 20190025682Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a cable connected to an electronic component, a storage casing that stores the electronic component and an optical component and has an insertion hole through which the cable is inserted, a fixing portion that is fixed to the storage casing, and an elastic portion that is fixed to the fixing portion. The fixing portion has a first opposing portion and a second opposing portion that are disposed opposite to each other with the cable that protrudes from the insertion hole, interposed therebetween, and the elastic portion includes a first protruding portion and a second protruding portion, and the first protruding portion and the second protruding portion are pressed against each other with the cable interposed therebetween and are disposed so as to surround a vicinity of the cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2017Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro TAKIZAWA, Masato KADOTANI
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Patent number: 9835938Abstract: A projector includes an adjustment mechanism adjusting a light axis of the optical member. The adjustment mechanism includes a first member, a second member attached to be movable in a first direction orthogonal to the light axis of the optical member with respect to the first member, a third member holding the optical member and attached to be rotatable around a rotation center axis parallel to the light axis with respect to the second member, a first adjustment portion moving the second member in the first direction with respect to the first member, and a second adjustment portion rotating the third member around the rotation center axis with respect to the second member, and an operation portion of the first adjustment portion and an operation portion of the second adjustment portion are placed at the same side.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Saegusa, Masato Kadotani, Toshizo Nishi
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Publication number: 20170227838Abstract: A projector includes an adjustment mechanism adjusting a light axis of the optical member. The adjustment mechanism includes a first member, a second member attached to be movable in a first direction orthogonal to the light axis of the optical member with respect to the first member, a third member holding the optical member and attached to be rotatable around a rotation center axis parallel to the light axis with respect to the second member, a first adjustment portion moving the second member in the first direction with respect to the first member, and a second adjustment portion rotating the third member around the rotation center axis with respect to the second member, and an operation portion of the first adjustment portion and an operation portion of the second adjustment portion are placed at the same side.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi SAEGUSA, Masato KADOTANI, Toshizo NISHI
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Patent number: 9664985Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes a cooling fan that has a rotating blade and a fan case accommodating the blade and delivers cooling air and a holder that holds the cooling fan. The holder has a first member and a second member that sandwich and support the cooling fan, and the first member and the second member are made of materials having physical properties different from each other and hence have natural frequencies different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masato Kadotani, Norikazu Kadotani
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Projector having holding unit for light modulating device and supporting member for the holding unit
Patent number: 9618755Abstract: A projector has plural liquid crystal light valves each of which modulates color light, a cross dichroic prism which combines the color lights modulated by the plural liquid crystal light valves, and a projection lens which projects the light combined by the cross dichroic prism. The projector includes: a holding unit which holds the liquid crystal light valve; and a supporting member having a body unit supported to the cross dichroic prism and first plate-like portions which protrude from the body unit and support the holding unit. The first plate-like portions are inclined from a vertical plane including an optical axis of the liquid crystal light valve.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2012Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masato Kadotani, Takanori Fukuyama, Kosuke Yoshinaga -
Patent number: 9411217Abstract: A projector includes a light source, a light control apparatus having a light shield portion that shields light emitted from the light source, the light control apparatus adjusting the amount of light that passes therethrough, an optical element that is disposed on the light exiting side of the light shield portion and optically converts light incident on the optical element, a cooling fan that sends cooling air, and a duct that guides the cooling air sent from the cooling fan to the light shield portion and the optical element which are the targets to be cooled, wherein the duct has a blowoff port off which the guided cooling air is blown toward each target to be cooled, and the light shield portion changes the amount of covered blowoff port in accordance with the amount of light that the light shield portion shields.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Norikazu Kadotani, Masato Kadotani
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Patent number: 9348199Abstract: An optical device includes a plurality of light modulators modulating a plurality of incident color lights with respect to each color light, a light combining optical unit having a plurality of light incident surfaces that the plurality of modulated color lights respectively enter, and combining the plurality of entering color lights, a holding part holding the light modulator, and a supporting part loosely fitting and supporting the holding part, and disposed in a location facing the light incident surface of the light combining optical unit, wherein the supporting part has an extending part extending in a direction away from the light incident surface, and a locking part having a first slope is provided in an end part in an extension direction of the extending part.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masato Kadotani, Fumihide Sasaki, Yoshiyuki Kakisaka
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Publication number: 20150338726Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes a cooling fan that has a rotating blade and a fan case accommodating the blade and delivers cooling air and a holder that holds the cooling fan. The holder has a first member and a second member that sandwich and support the cooling fan, and the first member and the second member are made of materials having physical properties different from each other and hence have natural frequencies different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Inventors: Masato Kadotani, Norikazu Kadotani
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Publication number: 20150070660Abstract: A projector includes a light source, a light control apparatus having a light shield portion that shields light emitted from the light source, the light control apparatus adjusting the amount of light that passes therethrough, an optical element that is disposed on the light exiting side of the light shield portion and optically converts light incident on the optical element, a cooling fan that sends cooling air, and a duct that guides the cooling air sent from the cooling fan to the light shield portion and the optical element which are the targets to be cooled, wherein the duct has a blowoff port off which the guided cooling air is blown toward each target to be cooled, and the light shield portion changes the amount of covered blowoff port in accordance with the amount of light that the light shield portion shields.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Norikazu Kadotani, Masato Kadotani
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Publication number: 20140036237Abstract: An optical device includes a plurality of light modulators modulating a plurality of incident color lights with respect to each color light, a light combining optical unit having a plurality of light incident surfaces that the plurality of modulated color lights respectively enter, and combining the plurality of entering color lights, a holding part holding the light modulator, and a supporting part loosely fitting and supporting the holding part, and disposed in a location facing the light incident surface of the light combining optical unit, wherein the supporting part has an extending part extending in a direction away from the light incident surface, and a locking part having a first slope is provided in an end part in an extension direction of the extending part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masato Kadotani, Fumihide Sasaki, Yoshiyuki Kakisaka