Patents by Inventor Sadafumi Oota

Sadafumi Oota 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: 10073209
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a surface light source lighting device capable of realizing direction control and a stable operation with respect to vibration or a great temperature change, required for use in a backlight. This surface light source lighting device causes linear light incident from a light source (2a) to be incident to an edge surface (1L) of a light guide plate (1) via a light incidence portion (3a) including a light incidence lens and a louver, and can thus maintain high reliability with respect to vibration or a temperature change in a use environment. In the light guide plate (1), light reflected by a first light guide pattern (4A) provided on a rear surface thereof is reflected by a second light guide pattern (4B) provided on the same rear surface so that an emission direction is set, and thus light is emitted from a front surface of the light guide plate (1) with desired distribution characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Mase, Sadafumi Oota
  • Publication number: 20170205557
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a surface light source lighting device capable of realizing direction control and a stable operation with respect to vibration or a great temperature change, required for use in a backlight. This surface light source lighting device causes linear light incident from a light source (2a) to be incident to an edge surface (1L) of a light guide plate (1) via a light incidence portion (3a) including a light incidence lens and a louver, and can thus maintain high reliability with respect to vibration or a temperature change in a use environment. In the light guide plate (1), light reflected by a first light guide pattern (4A) provided on a rear surface thereof is reflected by a second light guide pattern (4B) provided on the same rear surface so that an emission direction is set, and thus light is emitted from a front surface of the light guide plate (1) with desired distribution characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: KENICHIRO MASE, SADAFUMI OOTA
  • Patent number: 9024224
    Abstract: The present invention provides a brominated flame retardant determining method that determines whether or not a brominated flame retardant is contained in a determination target object by emitting light to the determination target object composed of resin, receiving reflected light from the determination target object emitted with the light, calculating an absorption spectrum of the determination target object based on the reflected light, and determining whether or not a brominated flame retardant is contained in the determination target object in the absorption spectrum, based on an absorption spectrum in a wavelength band of 1.40 ?m or more and 2.50 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Mase, Sadafumi Oota, Masatoshi Miyasaka
  • Publication number: 20120305456
    Abstract: The present invention provides a brominated flame retardant determining method that determines whether or not a brominated flame retardant is contained in a determination target object by emitting light to the determination target object composed of resin, receiving reflected light from the determination target object emitted with the light, calculating an absorption spectrum of the determination target object based on the reflected light, and determining whether or not a brominated flame retardant is contained in the determination target object in the absorption spectrum, based on an absorption spectrum in a wavelength band of 1.40 ?m or more and 2.50 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Mase, Sadafumi Oota, Masatoshi Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 8279450
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an intra-oral measurement device and an intra-oral measurement system capable of measuring an inside of an oral cavity at high accuracy without increasing a size of the device, and includes a light projecting unit for irradiating a measuring object including at least a tooth within an oral cavity with light, a lens system unit for collecting light reflected by the measuring object, a focal position varying mechanism for changing a focal position of the light collected by the lens system unit, and an imaging unit for imaging light passed through the lens system unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Sadafumi Oota, Seiji Hamano, Fumio Sugata
  • Publication number: 20110043822
    Abstract: Light emitted from a light source is formed into parallel light beams, the parallel light beams are divided into two light beams, and one of the divided light beams is converted by a conical lens to light (beam) having an energy density on an optical axis maximized over a distance, and is applied to a surface of a measuring object, with another one of the divided light beams being applied to a reference mirror, so that, by detecting an interfered light beam between rearward scattered light of the light (beam) applied to the surface of the measuring object and reflected light from the reference mirror, a shape of the measuring object is measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Inventors: Seiji Hamano, Sadafumi Oota, Fumio Sugata, Yoshihiro Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20100253773
    Abstract: An intra-oral measurement device according to the present invention is provided with a light projecting unit for irradiating lights in at least two different wavelengths along an identical light axis toward an object to be measured that includes at least a tooth in an oral cavity, and an image pickup unit for receiving lights reflected on the object to be measured and picking up an image, so that an intra-oral shape can be accurately measured without spraying the metal powder within the oral cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventors: Sadafumi Oota, Seiji Hamano, Fumio Sugata
  • Publication number: 20100189341
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an intra-oral measurement device and an intra-oral measurement system capable of measuring an inside of an oral cavity at high accuracy without increasing a size of the device, and includes a light projecting unit for irradiating a measuring object including at least a tooth within an oral cavity with light, a lens system unit for collecting light reflected by the measuring object, a focal position varying mechanism for changing a focal position of the light collected by the lens system unit, and an imaging unit for imaging light passed through the lens system unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Sadafumi OOTA, Seiji Hamano, Fumio Sugata