Patents by Inventor Masato Nakamura

Masato Nakamura 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: 20150131265
    Abstract: Light flux controlling member (300) includes: first main surface (310) having first incidence surface (313) and second incidence surface (314); second main surface (320) having total reflection surface (321); and side surface (330) that outputs light reflected by total reflection surface (321). First incidence surface (313) is a recessed surface disposed at a center portion of first main surface (310). Second incidence surface (314) is a surface laterally extending from an opening edge of first incidence surface (313). Total reflection surface (321) is a substantially cone-shaped recessed surface having a vertex at a position that faces a vertex of first incidence surface (313).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventor: Masato NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 9025101
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display includes a first substrate including a gate wire, a source wire intersecting with the gate wire, a pixel electrode with a contact portion and a main pixel electrode extending from the contact portion, and a semiconductor layer arranged under the source wire and intersecting with the gate wire and bending under the source wire so as to extend to below the contact portion, a second substrate opposed to the array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrate. The semiconductor layer is electrically connected to the source wire on one side of a position of the gate wire and to the contact portion on another side of the gate wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Hoshina, Tetsuya Iizuka, Masato Nakamura, Kazuya Daishi
  • Patent number: 9009284
    Abstract: A communication managing apparatus (CMA) that manages transmission of data employing a token passing system in a network in which a plurality of communication apparatuses (CAs) are connected via a transmission line. The CMA includes a network-presence checking unit performing network presence checking processing for transmitting, by broadcast, a network presence check frame for recognizing the CAs, receiving, from the CAs, frames including thereof, and generating connection information indicating a connection state via the ports. The CMA further comprises a unit determining token circulation order using the connection information, a setup processing unit performing, based on the token circulation order, setup processing for notifying the communication apparatuses of a communication apparatus to which a transmission right is giving next, and a data-fame-communication processing unit performing transmission and reception of a data frame using a token frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8979317
    Abstract: An illumination device (1) has a light-emitting element (6b), and a luminous flux control member (6c) that includes a first lens (10) and a second lens (20). The first lens (10) and the second lens (20) are assembled such that a first surface (10c) and a second rear surface (20a) are in contact, or such that a minute gap exists between the first surface (10c) and the second rear surface (20a). A first conical concave surface (10d) having its apex on the central axis (C) is formed by indenting a first rear surface (10a). A second concave surface (20d), having its apex on the central axis (C) and having a curved shape the curvature of which decreases as the distance from the central axis increases, is formed by indenting a second surface (20c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20150069351
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device including: an anode; one or more organic thin film layers including an emitting layer; a donor-containing layer; an acceptor-containing layer; and a light-transmissive cathode in this order, wherein the donor-containing layer comprises a compound represented by the following formula (I) or (II):
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Emiko Kambe, Masato Nakamura, Masakazu Funahashi, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Sayaka Mizutani
  • Patent number: 8971179
    Abstract: A communication management apparatus that manages transmission of data in a network in which plural communication nodes are connected via a transmission line in a ring shape, the apparatus including: a network-presence checking unit that transmits a network-presence-check frame in broadcast and generates network connection information indicating a connection state among the connection nodes from a received network-presence-check acknowledge frame, a token-circulation-order determining unit that determines token circulation order; a setup processing unit that performs setup processing for notifying each of the communication nodes of a token circulation destination; a data-frame-communication processing unit that performs transmission and reception of a data frame using a token frame; and a line-connection managing unit that disables, when the network has a ring configuration, any one of ports of any one of the communication nodes to prevent a connection state of the network from becoming a ring shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Nakamura, Tatsumi Yabusaki, Tomitsugu Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20150048345
    Abstract: There is provided a display device including a light-emitting element corresponding to a pixel for a color, and a white color filter corresponding to a white pixel. Transmittance of the white color filter is based on neutral density (ND) transmittance that is uniform throughout an entire wavelength band of visible light, and transmittance in a particular wavelength band in the entire wavelength band of the visible light is decreased to be lower than the ND transmittance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Suzuki, Seonghee Noh, Masato Nakamura, Seiichiro Jinta, Gaku Izumi, Shinichi Teraguchi
  • Patent number: 8953130
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes an insulation film disposed over a gate line, a storage capacitance line, a source line, and first main common electrodes disposed on the insulation film. The first main common electrodes include a discontinuous part in at least one of a first intersection part at an intersection between the storage capacitance line and the first source line and a second intersection part at an intersection between the storage capacitance line and the second source line. The liquid crystal display device also includes a main pixel electrode and a sub-pixel electrode which are disposed on the insulation film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Masato Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20150009467
    Abstract: An auxiliary capacitance line with a branch portion extends in a row direction. A switching element is arranged in a circumference in which a source line crosses a gate line. Pixel electrodes adjoining each other in a column direction are electrically connected with adjoining different source lines through a switching element. The switching element includes a drain line arranged under the source line and extending to a region under the auxiliary capacitance line. The branch portion of the auxiliary capacitance line extends along the source line between the source line and the drain line. The pixel electrode electrically connected to one of the adjacent source lines in the row direction is arranged closer to the other source line than one of the source line. Source signals with opposite polarity each other are supplied to the first and second source lines, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuya DAISHI, Masato Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8926156
    Abstract: A light-emitting device combining a first luminous flux control member having a total reflection surface and emitting light from an emission surface in a narrow angle range centered mainly on an optical axis, and a second luminous flux control member arranged to surround the total reflection surface of the first luminous flux control member. The second luminous flux control member (102) of the light-emitting device is provided with a second incidence surface (126a) and a second emitting surface (126b). Of the light emitted from the light-emitting element (200), the light incident to the second incidence surface (126a) is within a range of angles ? larger than a largest angle to the optical axis of the light incident to the first luminous flux control member (101).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventors: Akinobu Seki, Hiroshi Takatori, Kyouhei Yamada, Masato Nakamura, Masayo Takizawa, Noriyuki Kawahara
  • Patent number: 8908566
    Abstract: The communication management device includes a logical-ring configuring unit that determines a transmission order of a token frame in a network and configures a logical ring; a multicast-address generating unit that generates a multicast address from a MAC address of the communication management device; a multicast-address notifying unit that notifies a slave station configuring the logical ring of the multicast address; and a token-frame processing unit and a data-frame-communication processing unit that transmit a frame having a destination address to which the multicast address is set, and not performing a receiving process of a frame when a destination address of the received frame does not coincide with the multicast address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Nakamura, Tatsumi Yabusaki, Tomitsugu Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20140334313
    Abstract: A network performance estimating apparatus includes a network-configuration depicting unit configured to generate, from a designed network, network configuration information indicating a connection relation of ports among communication apparatuses and store, as attribute information, apparatus identification information including input peculiar information for each communication apparatus name and apparatus type of the communication apparatuses, a communication-apparatus-attribute-information acquiring unit configured to acquire, communication performance of the communication apparatuses specified by the apparatus identification information from peculiar information in which apparatus model names and communication performance are stored in association with each other, a token-circulation-order determining unit configured to determine, from the network configuration information, token circulation order indicating order in a designed network, and a performance estimating unit configured to calculate communicati
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masato NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20140321118
    Abstract: A lighting device (100) has a light-emitting element (120) positioned on a substrate (110), and a light beam control member (130) that reflects some of the light emitted by the light-emitting element (120), and allows some of the light to pass through. The light beam control member (130) has a reflective surface (132) that faces the light-emitting element (120), and reflects some of the light emitted by the light-emitting element (120). The reflective surface (132) has an aspherical curved surface, the height of which increases from the light-emitting element (120) toward the outer periphery from the center. The reflective surface (132) reflects light in a lateral direction in a region at the center, and reflects light in a backward direction in a region at the outer periphery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8842521
    Abstract: A communication management apparatus that manages transmission of data in a network in which plural communication nodes are connected via a transmission line in a ring shape, the apparatus including: a network-presence checking unit that transmits a network-presence-check frame in broadcast and generates network connection information indicating a connection state among the connection nodes from a received network-presence-check acknowledge frame, a token-circulation-order determining unit that determines token circulation order; a setup processing unit that performs setup processing for notifying each of the communication nodes of a token circulation destination; a data-frame-communication processing unit that performs transmission and reception of a data frame using a token frame; and a line-connection managing unit that disables, when the network has a ring configuration, any one of ports of any one of the communication nodes to prevent a connection state of the network from becoming a ring shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Nakamura, Tatsumi Yabusaki, Tomitsugu Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20140246663
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device including: an anode; a cathode; two or more emitting units that are disposed between the anode and the cathode, each unit having an emitting layer; and a charge-generating layer that is disposed between the emitting units, wherein the charge-generating layer comprises an N layer nearer to the anode and a P layer nearer to the cathode, and the P layer comprises a compound represented by the following formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Inventors: Emiko Kambe, Masato Nakamura, Jun Endo, Masakazu Funahashi, Hironobu Morishita
  • Patent number: 8796563
    Abstract: In ultrasonic bonding of a metal terminal to a substrate pad, a thin buffer metal layer which is formed of a soft metal or a highly slidable metal is interposed between a terminal edge and a pad so as to prevent direct contact between an end of the terminal and the pad upon bonding. This makes it possible to prevent abrasion and a crack in the pad at the end of the terminal caused by pressure and an ultrasonic wave upon the ultrasonic bonding. This makes it possible to realize a compact bonded structure with high reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ukyo Ikeda, Masato Nakamura, Shiro Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20140177231
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lighting device. Light flux controlling member 120 of lighting device 100 according to the present invention distributes light emitted from light emitting element 110 at least sideward and rearward. The light emitted from light flux controlling member 120 is diffused and transmitted to a cover. Housing 170 is formed in a shape that does not block a main component of the light emitted rearward from light flux controlling member 120. Lighting device 100 can distribute the emitted light from light emitting element 110 forward, sideward and rearward in all directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Masato NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20140168996
    Abstract: A lens holder (6) has: a lens holding section (21), which elastically holds a flange (17) of a lens (5); a section to be pressed (22), which is positioned to surround the lens holding section (21), and is fixed to a substrate (3) by being pressed to the substrate by means of a holder fixing means (2); and connecting sections (23, 24), which partially connect to each other the lens holding section (21) and the section to be pressed (22). The height of the section to be pressed (22) from the substrate (3) is more than the height of the lens holding section (21) from the substrate (3), and the lens holding section (21) is not in contact with the holder fixing means (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: ENPLAS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Kajiwara, Masato Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8732536
    Abstract: A slave station 30 includes a cyclic-memory managing unit 36 that generates data expansion state information indicating whether received cyclic data is expanded into a cyclic memory 33 and data processing state information indicating whether the slave station 30 is in a state in which the slave station 30 can receive data frame at the time of receiving the data frame, and a frame transmitting unit 38 that transmits a state notification frame including the data expansion state information and the data processing state information to a master station. The master station includes a system-abnormal-state determining unit that determines, when a token frame is received, an error state of the slave station 30 using the data expansion state information and the data processing state information of the state notification frame received by a frame receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8725827
    Abstract: In a data communication system that performs data communication between a master station and slave stations in a token passing system employing an Ethernet (registered trademark), when a communication processing unit of a master station subjects processing for circulating a token frame between the master station and slave stations and receiving data from the slave stations to retry processing, the communication processing unit subjects the processing to the retry processing without transferring data received from the slave stations to a data processing unit that performs transmission and reception of data between the data processing unit and an arithmetic processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Nakamura