Patents by Inventor Ryusuke Kotera

Ryusuke Kotera 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: 20130051033
    Abstract: An illumination device includes a mounting unit and a light source unit removably mounted to the mounting unit and provided with a flat light emitting panel. The mounting unit includes an engaged portion provided in one end portion of a mounting surface to which the light source unit is mounted and a held portion provided in the other end portion of the mounting surface opposing to one end portion. The light source unit includes a package configured to cover the light emitting panel and an engaging portion and a holding portion arranged on the surface of the package facing the mounting unit. The engaging portion is arranged to engage with the engaged portion. The holding portion is arranged to engage with the held portion. The engaging portion and the holding portion has mutually-opposing slant surfaces. The slant surfaces are inclined toward a center of the light source unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryusuke KOTERA, Hideharu KAWACHI
  • Publication number: 20130051078
    Abstract: An illumination device includes a light source unit having a light emitting panel, and a mounting unit attached to a non-light-emission surface of the light source unit and provided with a circuit board for controlling energization of the light emitting panel. The mounting unit includes a connection terminal to which an external conductor for electrically interconnecting the circuit board and an external device is connected. The connection terminal is arranged inward of an outer peripheral end of a surface of the mounting unit to which the light source unit is attached. A clearance for passing the external conductor therethrough is formed between the light source unit and the mounting unit in a state that the external conductor is connected to the connection terminal and the mounting unit is attached to the light source unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryusuke KOTERA, Hideharu KAWACHI
  • Publication number: 20120327671
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes an apparatus body for supporting an LED lamp having an earth cap, an earth socket to which the earth cap of the LED lamp is mounted, and an attachment base provided in the apparatus body, the earth socket being attached to the attachment base. The earth socket includes a conductor plate for mechanically holding a lamp pin of the earth cap, the conductor plate being electrically connected to the lamp pin. The attachment base and the earth socket include a connecting unit for earth-connecting the conductor plate of the earth socket and the apparatus body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryusuke KOTERA, Yoshihide IMAOKA, Noboru MIYAKAWA, Satoshi FUKANO, Masashi TAKEDA, Akihiro HIRANO
  • Patent number: 8105101
    Abstract: A lamp socket has a mover and a supporter. At an open position, the supporter supports the mover so that the mover does not prevent a lamp from being moved to or from a mounting position along a specified direction. When the lamp can be moved from the mounting position along the specified direction, the supporter supports the mover so that the contacts do not make contact with lamp pins, respectively. At the close position, the supporter supports the mover so that the mover prevents the lamp from being moved from or to the mounting position along the specified direction. If the mover is at the close position, and the lamp is in a posture by which it can be moved from the mounting position along the specified direction in case of the open position, the supporter supports the mover so that the contacts make contact with the pins, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryusuke Kotera, Satoru Uehara
  • Publication number: 20100027279
    Abstract: A lamp socket has a mover and a supporter. At an open position, the supporter supports the mover so that the mover does not prevent a lamp from being moved to or from a mounting position along a specified direction. When the lamp can be moved from the mounting position along the specified direction, the supporter supports the mover so that the contacts do not make contact with lamp pins, respectively. At the close position, the supporter supports the mover so that the mover prevents the lamp from being moved from or to the mounting position along the specified direction. If the mover is at the close position, and the lamp is in a posture by which it can be moved from the mounting position along the specified direction in case of the open position, the supporter supports the mover so that the contacts make contact with the pins, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Ryusuke Kotera, Satoru Uehara