Patents by Inventor Nobuaki Nagao

Nobuaki Nagao 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: 7728793
    Abstract: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up, write and erase pulses improves contrast, and use for the sustain pulses reduces screen flicker and improves luminous efficiency. This is of particular use in driving high definition plasma display panels to achieve high image quality and high luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Hidetaka Higashino, Junichi Hibino
  • Patent number: 7728794
    Abstract: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up, write and erase pulses improves contrast, and use for the sustain pulses reduces screen flicker and improves luminous efficiency. This is of particular use in driving high definition plasma display panels to achieve high image quality and high luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Hidetaka Higashino, Junichi Hibino
  • Patent number: 7724214
    Abstract: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up, write and erase pulses improves contrast, and use for the sustain pulses reduces screen flicker and improves luminous efficiency. This is of particular use in driving high definition plasma display panels to achieve high image quality and high luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Hidetaka Higashino, Junichi Hibino
  • Patent number: 7705807
    Abstract: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up, write and erase pulses improves contrast, and use for the sustain pulses reduces screen flicker and improves luminous efficiency. This is of particular use in driving high definition plasma display panels to achieve high image quality and high luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Hidetaka Higashino, Junichi Hibino
  • Patent number: 7701417
    Abstract: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up, write and erase pulses improves contrast, and use for the sustain pulses reduces screen flicker and improves luminous efficiency. This is of particular use in driving high definition plasma display panels to achieve high image quality and high luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Hidetaka Higashino, Junichi Hibino
  • Patent number: 7701418
    Abstract: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up, write and erase pulses improves contrast, and use for the sustain pulses reduces screen flicker and improves luminous efficiency. This is of particular use in driving high definition plasma display panels to achieve high image quality and high luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Hidetaka Higashino, Junichi Hibino
  • Patent number: 7683859
    Abstract: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up, write and erase pulses improves contrast, and use for the sustain pulses reduces screen flicker and improves luminous efficiency. This is of particular use in driving high definition plasma display panels to achieve high image quality and high luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Hidetaka Higashino, Junichi Hibino
  • Patent number: 7652643
    Abstract: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized-by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up, write and erase pulses improves contrast, and use for the sustain pulses reduces screen flicker and improves luminous efficiency. This is of particular use in driving high definition plasma display panels to achieve high image quality and high luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Hidetaka Higashino, Junichi Hibino
  • Patent number: 7649511
    Abstract: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up, write and erase pulses improves contrast, and use for the sustain pulses reduces screen flicker and improves luminous efficiency. This is of particular use in driving high definition plasma display panels to achieve high image quality and high luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Hidetaka Higashino, Junichi Hibino
  • Patent number: 7572106
    Abstract: It is intended to prevent ink from leaking through the ink outlet of the ink rail while the printing press is at halt. To achieve this object, a motor control section 40 shown in FIG. 4 controls the rotation of a stepping motor 15 driving a plunger 13 and, every time the stepping motor 15 is stopped, the outer circumference 13c of the plunger 13 except a cut portion 13a blocks at least a discharge port 18, thereby enabling the pressure ink invading from an intake port 17 into the main hole 11 of a cylinder 12 to press the plunger 13 against the discharge port 18 opening into the inner circumferential face of the main hole 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Akira Ueda
  • Publication number: 20090104528
    Abstract: An electrode for a lithium secondary battery including a sheet-like current collector and an active material layer carried on the current collector. The active material layer is capable of absorbing and desorbing lithium, and the active material layer includes a plurality of columnar particles having at least one bend. An angle ?1 formed by a growth direction of the columnar particles from a bottom to a first bend of the columnar particles, and a direction normal to the current collector is preferably 10° or more and less than 90°. When ?n+1 is an angle formed by a growth direction of the columnar particles from an n-th bend counted from a bottom of the columnar particles to an (n+1)-th bend, and the direction normal to the current collector, and n is an integer of 1 or more, ?n+1 is preferably 0° or more and less than 90°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Keiichi Takahashi, Masaya Ugaji, Yusutaka Kogetsu, Shinji Mino, Nobuaki Nagao, Masaki Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 7518575
    Abstract: A plasma display device that enables a stable address operation even in a high-speed drive so as to display an image of high definition and high quality. A PDP having discharge cells each provided with a scanning electrode and a sustaining electrode is driven by a method for displaying a frame of an image by repeating an address period, a discharge sustaining period, and a discharge suspend period. At least one initialization period that succeeds a discharge suspend period and in which the state of the wall charge in each discharge cell is initialized is provided. In the discharge suspend period, a voltage is applied between the scanning electrode and the sustaining electrode so that a wall voltage may be generated at which the polarity at the scanning electrode with respect to the sustaining electrode is the same as that of the initializing pulse applied to the scanning electrode in the initialization period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Toru Ando, Masaki Nishimura, Yuusuke Takada
  • Patent number: 7468714
    Abstract: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up, write and erase pulses improves contrast, and use for the sustain pulses reduces screen flicker and improves luminous efficiency. This is of particular use in driving high definition plasma display panels to achieve high image quality and high luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Hidetaka Higashino, Junichi Hibino
  • Patent number: 7429967
    Abstract: A plasma display device that enables a stable address operation even in a high-speed drive so as to display an image of high definition and high quality. A PDP having discharge cells each provided with a scanning electrode and a sustaining electrode is driven by a method for displaying a frame of an image by repeating an address period, a discharge sustaining period, and a discharge suspend period. At least one initialization period that succeeds a discharge suspend period and in which the state of the wall charge in each discharge cell is initialized is provided. In the discharge suspend period, a voltage is applied between the scanning electrode and the sustaining electrode so that a wall voltage may be generated at which the polarity at the scanning electrode with respect to the sustaining electrode is the same as that of the initializing pulse applied to the scanning electrode in the initialization period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Toru Ando, Masaki Nishimura, Yuusuke Takada
  • Publication number: 20080165170
    Abstract: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up, write and erase pulses improves contrast, and use for the sustain pulses reduces screen flicker and improves luminous efficiency. This is of particular use in driving high definition plasma display panels to achieve high image quality and high luminance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Hidetaka Higashino, Junichi Hibino
  • Publication number: 20080150838
    Abstract: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up, write and erase pulses improves contrast, and use for the sustain pulses reduces screen flicker and improves luminous efficiency. This is of particular use in driving high definition plasma display panels to achieve high image quality and high luminance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Hidetaka Higashino, Junichi Hibino
  • Patent number: 7365708
    Abstract: A plasma display device that enables a stable address operation even in a high-speed drive so as to display an image of high definition and high quality. A PDP having discharge cells each provided with a scanning electrode and a sustaining electrode is driven by a method for displaying a frame of an image by repeating an address period, a discharge sustaining period, and a discharge suspend period. At least one initialization period that succeeds a discharge suspend period and in which the state of the wall charge in each discharge cell is initialized is provided. In the discharge suspend period, a voltage is applied between the scanning electrode and the sustaining electrode so that a wall voltage may be generated at which the polarity at the scanning electrode with respect to the sustaining electrode is the same as that of the initializing pulse applied to the scanning electrode in the initialization period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Toru Ando, Masaki Nishimura, Yuusuke Takada
  • Publication number: 20080079667
    Abstract: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up, write and erase pulses improves contrast, and use for the sustain pulses reduces screen flicker and improves luminous efficiency. This is of particular use in driving high definition plasma display panels to achieve high image quality and high luminance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Hidetaka Higashino, Junichi Hibino
  • Patent number: 7352342
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a plasma display apparatus in which reliable erase discharge is performed and an erroneous discharge is suppressed, even when a discharge sustain period is shortened so as to realize a PDP having high definition. The above object is achieved in the following manner. In the discharge sustain period, a pulse applied in the later part of the discharge sustain period has a larger pulse width than a pulse applied in the earlier part of the discharge period, except for an initial pulse in the discharge sustain period. In addition, a called narrow pulse is applied in an erase period to perform an erase discharge. According to this method, wall voltages in discharge cells at the end of the discharge sustain period are raised to a higher level than in the related art. As a result, reliable erase discharge is performed, and an erroneous discharge is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Yusuke Takada, Toru Ando, Masaki Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20080068302
    Abstract: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized-by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up, write and erase pulses improves contrast, and use for the sustain pulses reduces screen flicker and improves luminous efficiency. This is of particular use in driving high definition plasma display panels to achieve high image quality and high luminance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Hidetaka Higashino, Junichi Hibino