Patents by Inventor Nobutaka Hokazono

Nobutaka Hokazono 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: 8174192
    Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a front panel having a front substrate having a plurality of arrays of display electrodes each including a scanning electrode and a sustain electrode opposed to each other with a discharge gap being defined therebetween and a rear panel having a rear substrate opposed to a front substrate and having partition walls for partitioning a discharge space between the rear panel and the front panel, data electrodes formed between partition walls in such a fashion that the data electrodes intersect with the display electrodes, and phosphor layers formed between partition walls, wherein the rear panel forms partition walls so as to divide the discharge space in a plurality of regions along a direction parallel to the data electrodes, and blue phosphor layers are formed on boundary parts of the plural regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Ueda, Nobutaka Hokazono, Masanori Suzuki, Toshifumi Nagino, Ryuichi Murai
  • Patent number: 8129907
    Abstract: The plasma display panel includes: a front panel having a front substrate and display electrodes; and a rear panel having a rear substrate, a barrier rib, a data electrode and a phosphor layer. The rear substrate faces the front substrate to form a discharge space therebetween. The barrier rib is disposed on the rear substrate to divide the discharge space. The data electrode intersects the display electrodes. The phosphor layer is disposed between the barrier ribs. Further, the display electrodes are formed at a plurality of divided areas separately. The plurality of divided areas is the areas that the front substrate is divided into by a boundary intersecting the display electrodes. The display electrodes formed in the plurality of divided areas have unevenesses in profiles thereof at the boundary between the plurality of divided areas. This configuration easily provides a plasma display panel having a large screen and high resolution as display quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Suzuki, Nobutaka Hokazono, Kentaro Ueda, Toshifumi Nagino
  • Patent number: 7830091
    Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a front panel and a rear panel. The front panel includes a front substrate and a display electrode. The rear panel includes a rear substrate, a barrier rib, a data electrode, and a phosphor layer. The rear substrate is arranged while facing the front substrate to form a discharge space between the front panel and the rear substrate. The barrier rib is formed at the rear substrate to partition the discharge space, the data electrode is formed while intersecting the display electrode, and the phosphor layer is formed between the barrier ribs. The barrier rib is formed at the divided areas separately in a direction parallel to the data electrode, and the barrier ribs formed at the divided areas separately have different properties among the plurality of areas. A large-screen plasma display panel having a high-resolution display quality is easily realized by the above configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Suzuki, Nobutaka Hokazono, Kentaro Ueda, Toshifumi Nagino
  • Patent number: 7796097
    Abstract: A plasma display panel which includes a front panel having a front substrates on which display electrodes each having a scan electrode and a sustain electrode disposed to each other with a discharge gap in between are provided in a plurality of columns; and a rear panel having a rear substrate disposed opposed to the front substrate, on which rear substrate barrier ribs for dividing a discharge space formed with respect to front panel are formed, an data electrode is disposed between the barrier ribs crosswise to the display electrodes, and a phosphor layer is disposed between the barrier ribs. Rear panel is split into a plurality of areas along the direction parallel to the data electrode and barrier ribs are formed for each of the split areas, an alignment mark is provided in a place out of the display region at the splitting border of rear panel, and an insulation layer covering data electrode is provided with a cut to have the alignment mark disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Suzuki, Nobutaka Hokazono, Kentaro Ueda, Toshifumi Nagino
  • Publication number: 20090212703
    Abstract: The plasma display panel includes: a front panel having a front substrate and display electrodes; and a rear panel having a rear substrate, a barrier rib, a data electrode and a phosphor layer. The rear substrate faces the front substrate to form a discharge space therebetween. The barrier rib is disposed on the rear substrate to divide the discharge space. The data electrode intersects the display electrodes. The phosphor layer is disposed between the barrier ribs. Further, the display electrodes are formed at a plurality of divided areas separately. The plurality of divided areas is the areas that the front substrate is divided into by a boundary intersecting the display electrodes. The display electrodes formed in the plurality of divided areas have unevenesses in profiles thereof at the boundary between the plurality of divided areas. This configuration easily provides a plasma display panel having a large screen and high resolution as display quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Suzuki, Nobutaka Hokazono, Kentaro Ueda, Toshifumi Nagino
  • Publication number: 20090051288
    Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a front panel and a rear panel. The front panel includes a front substrate and a display electrode. The rear panel includes a rear substrate, a barrier rib, a data electrode, and a phosphor layer. The rear substrate is arranged while facing the front substrate to form a discharge space between the front panel and the rear substrate. The barrier rib is formed at the rear substrate to partition the discharge space, the data electrode is formed while intersecting the display electrode, and the phosphor layer is formed between the barrier ribs. The barrier rib is formed at the divided areas separately in a direction parallel to the data electrode, and the barrier ribs formed at the divided areas separately have different properties among the plurality of areas. A large-screen plasma display panel having a high-resolution display quality is easily realized by the above configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Suzuki, Nobutaka Hokazono, Kentaro Ueda, Toshifumi Nagino
  • Publication number: 20080158106
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a plasma display panel including: front panel (1) having front substrate (3) having a plurality of arrays of display electrodes each including scanning electrode (4) and sustain electrode (5) opposed to each other with a discharge gap being defined therebetween and rear panel (2) having a rear substrate (8) opposed to front substrate (3) and having partition walls (11) for partitioning a discharge space between rear panel (2) and front panel (1), data electrodes (10) formed between partition walls (11) in such a fashion that data electrodes (10) intersect with the display electrodes, and phosphor layers (12) formed between partition walls (11), wherein rear panel (2) forms partition walls (11) so as to divide the discharge space in a plurality of regions along a direction parallel to data electrodes (10), and blue phosphor layers (12) are formed on boundary parts of the plural regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: Kentaro Ueda, Nobutaka Hokazono, Masanori Suzuki, Toshifumi Nagino, Ryuichi Murai
  • Publication number: 20080129655
    Abstract: A plasma display panel which includes a front panel having a front substrates on which display electrodes each having a scan electrode and a sustain electrode disposed to each other with a discharge gap in between are provided in a plurality of columns; and a rear panel having a rear substrate disposed opposed to the front substrate, on which rear substrate barrier ribs for dividing a discharge space formed with respect to front panel are formed, an data electrode is disposed between the barrier ribs crosswise to the display electrodes, and a phosphor layer is disposed between the barrier ribs. Rear panel is split into a plurality of areas along the direction parallel to the data electrode and barrier ribs are formed for each of the split areas, an alignment mark is provided in a place out of the display region at the splitting border of rear panel, and an insulation layer covering data electrode is provided with a cut to have the alignment mark disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Masanori Suzuki, Nobutaka Hokazono, Kentaro Ueda, Toshifumi Nagino
  • Publication number: 20070116861
    Abstract: In manufacturing a display panel of a PDP, a CRT, or the like, for example, a screen stripe is formed on a panel surface in a production cycle time equivalent to or faster than that of a screen printing system. By using a dispenser of a variable flow rate type for a display panel that has an effective display area in which a paste layer is to be formed and a non-effective display area in which no paste layer is to be formed, outside this effective display area, paste discharge is promptly interrupted when a discharge nozzle runs through the non-effective display area of the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Nobutaka Hokazono, Takayuki Furukawa, Koji Matsuo, Takashi Kanehisa, Takafumi Okubo, Takahiro Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20040081759
    Abstract: In manufacturing a display panel of a PDP, a CRT, or the like, for example, a screen stripe is formed on a panel surface in a production cycle time equivalent to or faster than that of the screen printing system. By using a dispenser of a variable flow rate type for a display panel that has an effective display area in which a paste layer is formed and a non-effective display area in which no paste layer is formed outside this effective display area, paste discharge is promptly interrupted when a discharge nozzle runs through the non-effective display area of the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Nobutaka Hokazono, Takayuki Furukawa, Koji Matsuo, Takashi Kanehisa, Takafumi Okubo, Takahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 6304311
    Abstract: A lower substrate 3 on which an adhesive 1 has been applied and a liquid crystal material 2 has been deposited is held fixedly by vacuum suction with a suction-holding mechanism 5 within a vacuum chamber C. An upper substrate 6 held fixedly by vacuum suction with a suction-holding mechanism 7 is brought opposite to the lower substrate 3 with a predetermined spacing therebetween, and either or both of the substrates is/are brought in proximity with each other for bringing the upper substrate into contact with the adhesive 1 or the liquid crystal material 2. Both substrates 3, 6 are then moved relative to each other in a direction parallel to the substrate surface for position alignment, and thereafter, the substrates are moved closer to and pressed to each other so that they are affixed together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norihiko Egami, Nobutaka Hokazono, Susumu Inoue, Shiro Sumita, Naoto Sakai, Hideki Matsukawa
  • Patent number: 6214409
    Abstract: A liquid coating nozzle is provided with a first block which has an inner liquid reserving section that extends in the longitudinal direction and an inner discharge section which includes a plurality of small holes formed in the longitudinal direction at a bottom portion of the liquid reserving section. The nozzle is also provided with a second block which has an inner space defining a gas reserving section that extends in the longitudinal direction outside the first block and an outer discharge section formed in the longitudinal direction at a bottom portion of the inner space. The outer discharge section includes a plurality of small holes and produces a gas flow that externally surrounds a linear or curtain-shaped liquid flow that flows downward from the small holes. This results in the formation of a thin coating film in a short time and reduces the consumption of liquid and coating nonuniformities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Matsushita Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Mitani, Kazuto Nakajima, Hiroyuki Kotani, Nobutaka Hokazono, Hiroyuki Naka, Akira Yamaguchi, Junji Ikeda, Nobuyuki Aoki
  • Patent number: 6139634
    Abstract: The present invention aims to form a thin coating film of even thickness within a short processing time under a curtailed consumption of coating liquid; where, a gas is spouted from nozzle 4 disposed facing to protection glass 2 of cathode ray tube, and a liquid containing fluorescent material is made to spout accompanied by the spouting gas, to be applied on protection glass 2 by shifting the positioning of protection glass 2 relative to nozzle 4 while spouting the liquid containing fluorescent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Naka, Masato Mitani, Kazuto Nakajima, Nobutaka Hokazono
  • Patent number: 6040016
    Abstract: A liquid coating nozzle is provided with a first block which has an inner liquid reserving section that extends in the longitudinal direction and an inner discharge section which includes a plurality of small holes formed in the longitudinal direction at a bottom portion of the liquid reserving section. The nozzle is also provided with a second block which has an inner space defining a gas reserving section that extends in the longitudinal direction outside the first block and an outer discharge section formed in the longitudinal direction at a bottom portion of the inner space. The outer discharge section includes a plurality of small holes and produces a gas flow that externally surrounds a linear or curtain-shaped liquid flow that flows downward from the small holes. This results in the formation of a thin coating film in a short time and reduces the consumption of liquid and coating nonuniformities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Matsushita Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Mitani, Kazuto Nakajima, Hiroyuki Kotani, Nobutaka Hokazono, Hiroyuki Naka, Akira Yamaguchi, Junji Ikeda, Nobuyuki Aoki
  • Patent number: 5902648
    Abstract: The present invention aims to form a thin coating film of even thickness within a short processing time under a curtailed consumption of coating liquid; where, a gas is spouted from nozzle 4 disposed facing to protection glass 2 of cathode ray tube, and a liquid containing fluorescent material is made to spout accompanied by the spouting gas, to be applied on protection glass 2 by shifting the positioning of protection glass 2 relative to nozzle 4 while spouting the liquid containing fluorescent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Naka, Masato Mitani, Kazuto Nakajima, Nobutaka Hokazono