Patents by Inventor Mikio Shiraishi
Mikio Shiraishi 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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Publication number: 20060077629Abstract: The present invention allows a display apparatus employing a flat panel display device to have a simple, low-cost construction. The display in the display apparatus of the present invention comprises: a flat panel display device; and a frame member including a frame-shaped first portion and a second portion that are formed integrally within the frame member, the first portion surrounding the circumference of the flat panel display device, the second portion being disposed inside the first portion and supporting the rear side of the flat panel display device thereon. The frame member may further include a third portion connectable to a support base, and the first to third portions may be integrally formed within the frame member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2005Publication date: April 13, 2006Inventor: Mikio Shiraishi
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Publication number: 20060075162Abstract: An output of a first ring counter is held in a first storage circuit. Outputs of a second ring counter and the first storage circuit are input to a first AND circuit group. An output of a third ring counter and an output of the first storage circuit are input to a second AND circuit group. Outputs of the first AND circuit group are input to a first OR circuit. Outputs of the second AND circuit group are input to a second OR circuit. An output of the first OR circuit is stored in a second storage circuit. An output of the second OR circuit is stored in a third storage circuit. Outputs of the first and second OR circuits and outputs of the second and third storage circuits are supplied to a decode circuit, and are decoded to output an overflow signal and an underflow signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2005Publication date: April 6, 2006Inventor: Mikio Shiraishi
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Patent number: 7021768Abstract: A projection type display apparatus including a discharge lamp for supplying light, a light valve device and first and second air intake openings arranged on different sides of the apparatus. A centrifugal fan is associated with the first air intake opening so as to draw in outside air and form a first ventilation air flow from the first air intake opening through a lower side of the light valve device so as to cool the light valve device. A fan is associated with the second air intake opening so as to draw in outside air and form a second ventilation air flow so as to cool optical elements including lenses. An exhaust opening is arranged on a further side of the apparatus, and an exhaust is fan arranged proximate to a discharge lamp so as to draw out air including the first and second ventilation air flow therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2005Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Fuse, Mikio Shiraishi, Yasuo Otsuka, Nobuyuki Kaku, Hidehiro Ikeda
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Patent number: 7014320Abstract: There is a need for allowing an exhaust direction of a cooling air to be appropriately changed according to an installation environment of a projection type display device. There is another need to achieve a system for preventing an intake air and an exhaust air from being circulated therebetween by changing the direction of an intake port as well as an exhaust direction. A cooling system for an area around a lamp that accounts for a good part of an amount of heat generated by the projection type display device is isolated from a cooling system for other parts including a liquid crystal panel. Means is further provided of allowing the directions of intake and exhaust to be inverted in an entire device by changing the direction of rotation of an exhaust fan provided for the cooling system for the area around the lamp between forward and backward.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2004Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventor: Mikio Shiraishi
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Patent number: 6993545Abstract: A digital filter having the capability to completely prevent the digital filter from generating the overflow oscillation by detecting positive and negative overflow propagating one or a plurality of bits by means of an overflow detecting circuit. When overflow is detected, a clipping circuit serves to fix the output signal to a positive maximum value or a negative maximum value.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2001Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Mikio Shiraishi
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Publication number: 20050248728Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light source, and a partition wall which divides an inside of the display apparatus into an enclosing space which includes a plurality of optical elements and an outer space with respect to the enclosing space. The optical elements includes a color separator which receives a light from the light source and emits a plurality of separate color beams, at least one reflecting type light valve which forms an image by reflecting the plurality of color beams, and a projection lens which projects the image of an external screen. A first cooling fan is provided which causes an air flow in the outer space. A least one of the optical elements forms a part of the partition wall, and the air flow cools the at least one reflecting type light valve from the outer space.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2005Publication date: November 10, 2005Inventors: Mikio Shiraishi, Yasuo Ohtsuka, Kenji Fuse, Toru Numata
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Patent number: 6935750Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light source, plural reflecting type light valves having a light incidence/reflection surface which reflects incident light from the light source, and a partition wall which partitions a space in the display apparatus into a cooling air side and a light incidence/reflection surface side. Plural cooling fans which cause air flow to respective ones of the light valves, and a discharge fan which discharges a cooling air inside of the display apparatus through an outlet port are provided. A respective one of the cooling fans flows air to a side which is opposite to the incidence/reflection surface of a respective one of the light valves and a path of the air flow is formed from at least one of the cooling fans to the outlet port in an order of the opposite side of the light valve, the light source and the discharge fan.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2004Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mikio Shiraishi, Yasuo Ohtsuka, Kenji Fuse, Toru Numata
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Publication number: 20050162618Abstract: A projector having an image display element for modulating light on the basis of an image signal and a projection lens for projecting light emitted from the image display element on a screen, includes: a lamp which has a light emitting source for emitting light; a reflector which reflects light emitted from the light emitting source; a cover glass which covers an emission surface of light from the reflector; a cooling fan disposed outside the reflector; and an air direction changing unit which changes a direction of cooling air caused by the cooling fan. The air direction changing unit is disposed within a space surrounded by the reflector and the cover glass, and outside an emitted light path of light reflected by the reflector. Cooling air within the space is exhausted outside the projector through the cooling fan.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2004Publication date: July 28, 2005Inventors: Tatsuo Morita, Mikio Shiraishi, Tetsuki Nishimura, Hideki Okuyama
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Publication number: 20050141215Abstract: A projection type display apparatus including a discharge lamp for supplying light, a light valve device and first and second air intake openings arranged on different sides of the apparatus. A centrifugal fan is associated with the first air intake opening so as to draw in outside air and form a first ventilation air flow from the first air intake opening through a lower side of the light valve device so as to cool the light valve device. A cooling fan is associated with the second air intake opening so as to draw in outside air and form a second ventilation air flow so as to cool optical elements including lenses. An exhaust opening is arranged on a further side of the apparatus, and an exhaust is fan arranged proximate to a discharge lamp so as to draw out air including the first and second ventilation air flow therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2005Publication date: June 30, 2005Inventors: Kenji Fuse, Mikio shiraishi, Yasuo Otsuka, Nobuyuki Kaku, Hidehiro Ikeda
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Patent number: 6908198Abstract: In order to prevent dust from sticking to the LCD panel, to prevent the LCD panel from being heated and to suitably adjust the position of the LCD panel, a duct is provided between cooling means for a light source and cooling means for a LCD panel to send cooling air from the LCD panel side to the light source side. Therefore, a light incidence/reflection plane of the LCD panel is disposed in an almost hermetically closed space and an optical path from an integrator lens to the LCD panel is formed in the almost hermetically closed space.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2004Date of Patent: June 21, 2005Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mikio Shiraishi, Yasuo Otsuka, Toru Numata
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Publication number: 20050046808Abstract: In order to prevent dust from sticking to the LCD panel, to prevent the LCD panel from being heated and to suitably adjust the position of the LCD panel, a duct is provided between cooling means for a light source and cooling means for a LCD panel to send cooling air from the LCD panel side to the light source side. Therefore, a light incidence/reflection plane of the LCD panel is disposed in an almost hermetically closed space and an optical path from an integrator lens to the LCD panel is formed in the almost hermetically closed space.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2004Publication date: March 3, 2005Inventors: Mikio Shiraishi, Yasuo Otsuka, Toru Numata
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Patent number: 6857749Abstract: An optical equipment having a discharge lamp for supplying light and a light valve device for projecting the light from the equipment having an air intake opening arranged on one side of the equipment. A ventilation device is associated with the air intake opening so as to draw in air from outside of the equipment through the air intake opening and a ventilation path arranged so as to extend from an outlet of the ventilation device continuously. The ventilation path includes a partition member proximate to an outlet of the ventilation device and air flow through the ventilation path is divided into a plurality of air flows by the partition member so as to cool different parts of the light valve device respectively.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2002Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Fuse, Mikio Shiraishi, Yasuo Otsuka, Nobuyuki Kaku, Hidehiro Ikeda
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Publication number: 20050036579Abstract: There is provided a clock-recovering filter circuit for use in a clock recovery circuit that generates a recovery clock signal from input data from an external device and a reference clock signal. The filter circuit includes: a pulse-inserting circuit which inserts pulses in a first phase-advancing signal or a first phase-delaying signal, thereby generating a second phase-advancing signal or a second phase-delaying signal; and a frequency-offset detecting circuit which detects frequency-offset data from the second phase-advancing signal and the second phase-delaying signal, the frequency-offset data representing a frequency difference between the recovery clock signal and the reference clock signal. The pulse-inserting circuit inserts pulses in accordance with the frequency-offset data when the first phase-advancing signal or the first phase-delaying signal is not input.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2004Publication date: February 17, 2005Inventor: Mikio Shiraishi
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Publication number: 20050018143Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light source, plural reflecting type light valves having a light incidence/reflection surface which reflects incident light from the light source, and a partition wall which partitions a space in the display apparatus into a cooling air side and a light incidence/reflection surface side. Plural cooling fans which cause air flow to respective ones of the light valves, and a discharge fan which discharges a cooling air inside of the display apparatus through an outlet port are provided. A respective one of the cooling fans flows air to a side which is opposite to the incidence/reflection surface of a respective one of the light valves and a path of the air flow is formed from at least one of the cooling fans to the outlet port in an order of the opposite side of the light valve, the light source and the discharge fan.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2004Publication date: January 27, 2005Inventors: Mikio Shiraishi, Yasuo Ohtsuka, Kenji Fuse, Toru Numata
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Publication number: 20050007558Abstract: A simple cooling construction capable of achieving two functions at a time is to be provided, one function being cooling a lamp as a lighting means and the other function being preventing the scatter of broken pieces of the lamp upon burst of the lamp. An image display device such as an LCD projector has been configured such that cooling air is introduced into the interior of a reflector to cool an lamp means. In this connection, the present invention adopts a net of an expanded metal structure which serves as both means for preventing the scatter of broken pieces of a lamp upon burst of the lamp and an air deflecting plate facing a portion to be cooled. The above two functions can be attained simultaneously by such a simple construction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2004Publication date: January 13, 2005Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mikio Shiraishi, Takeshi Katayama, Keiichiro Tokushige, Hideki Okuyama
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Publication number: 20050001970Abstract: For obtaining both high brightness under condition of small-sized and simplified structure and suppression of increase in temperature of liquid crystal display elements and polarizing elements, in a liquid crystal display apparatus, comprising: a liquid crystal display element 2 for converting light from a light source into display picture depending on a driving signal; an optical projection system 1b containing a first optical element 1a and for projecting said light signal toward an object of projection; exit side polarizing elements 3b; a holding member 6 for holding them with the liquid crystal display element 2; and cooling medium 5; incident side polarizing elements 3a, wherein, a space is defined by either one of the incident side polarizing elements 3a and the liquid crystal display element 2, the first optical element 1a, between the liquid crystal display element 2 and the first optical element 1a, and the holding member 6, and said space is filled up with the cooling medium 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2004Publication date: January 6, 2005Inventors: Toru Numata, Yasuo Otsuka, Mikio Shiraishi, Koji Hirata, Naoyuki Ogura, Shigeru Inaoka, Kazunari Nakagawa, Shigeru Mori, Masahiko Yatsu
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Publication number: 20050001998Abstract: Adjustment of the illumination range to a liquid crystal panel of a liquid crystal projector requires time in fixing upon adjustment and accordingly it is an object to make the adjustment effectively. In an adjustment mechanism of the illumination range of illumination means to the liquid crystal panel in an optical engine unit of the liquid projector, the spring property is provided in a lens holder for holding a lens and the lens is temporarily held by friction of the spring portion to the optical engine case after adjustment. Then, the adhesion processing is made to complete the adjustment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2004Publication date: January 6, 2005Inventors: Fusamitsu Tsubata, Kazumasa Ueoka, Mikio Shiraishi, Hiroto Miura, Nobuyuki Honda
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Publication number: 20040263792Abstract: A projection type image display device superior in reliability and also superior in both repairability and maintainability is to be provided at a low cost. Support members disposed between liquid crystal panels and a prism are made of a thermoplastic polymer material, and the liquid crystal panels and the support members are fixed to each other by heat-fusion of the support members. When it is necessary to remove a liquid crystal panel which is at fault for example from the corresponding support member, the fused portion on the support member side which less expensive is cut off, thereby permitting the liquid crystal panel which is expensive to be taken out re-utilizably without any damage thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2004Publication date: December 30, 2004Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mikio Shiraishi, Fusamitsu Tsubata, Hiroshi Oshima, Michiyuki Yoshino, Yoshimasa Takeuchi, Tatsumi Hasebe
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Publication number: 20040246447Abstract: There is a need for allowing an exhaust direction of a cooling air to be appropriately changed according to an installation environment of a projection type display device. There is another need to achieve a system for preventing an intake air and an exhaust air from being circulated therebetween by changing the direction of an intake port as well as an exhaust direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2004Publication date: December 9, 2004Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventor: Mikio Shiraishi
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Patent number: 6829031Abstract: For obtaining both high brightness under condition of small-sized and simplified structure and suppression of increase in temperature of liquid crystal display elements and polarizing elements, in a liquid crystal display apparatus, comprising: a liquid crystal display element 2 for converting light from a light source into display picture depending on a driving signal; an optical projection system 1b containing a first optical element 1a and for projecting said light signal toward an object of projection; exit side polarizing elements 3b; a holding member 6 for holding them with the liquid crystal display element 2; and cooling medium 5; incident side polarizing elements 3a, wherein, a space is defined by either one of the incident side polarizing elements 3a and the liquid crystal display element 2, the first optical element 1a, between the liquid crystal display element 2 and the first optical element 1a, and the holding member 6, and said space is filled up with the cooling medium 5.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2003Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toru Numata, Yasuo Otsuka, Mikio Shiraishi, Koji Hirata, Naoyuki Ogura, Shigeru Inaoka, Kazunari Nakagawa, Shigeru Mori, Masahiko Yatsu