Patents by Inventor Shingo Ohkawa

Shingo Ohkawa 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: 9372300
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting unit that includes: a light-guide section having a light entering surface; and a plurality of light sources opposed to the light entering surface of the light-guide section and arrayed in a first direction, and each having an anisotropy in emission intensity. A pattern shape of light applied from any of the light sources to the light entering surface has a shape anisotropy, and the light sources are each disposed to allow a longitudinal direction of the pattern shape to be inclined relative to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shingo Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 9239418
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light source; an optical component including a light incident surface, the light incident surface facing the light source; and a wavelength conversion member provided between the light source and the light incident surface, the wavelength conversion member crossing a first region and extending to a second region outside the first region, the first region being surrounded by the light incident surface and light paths of light that is emitted from the light source and enters edges of the light incident surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoharu Nakamura, Kazue Shimizu, Gen Yonezawa, Shingo Ohkawa
  • Publication number: 20150323726
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light source; an optical component including a light incident surface, the light incident surface facing the light source; and a wavelength conversion member provided between the light source and the light incident surface, the wavelength conversion member crossing a first region and extending to a second region outside the first region, the first region being surrounded by the light incident surface and light paths of light that is emitted from the light source and enters edges of the light incident surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoharu Nakamura, Kazue Shimizu, Gen Yonezawa, Shingo Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 9170363
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a light guiding member; a plurality of light-emitting elements; and a reflection member. A light reflection/exit surface of the light guiding member has a concave-convex pattern including a plurality of convex portions reflecting light emitted from the light-emitting elements inward. On the assumption that L is a distance between the light-emitting elements, t is a thickness of the light guiding member, an incident angle ? of the light on the light reflection/exit surface is an angle between a line segment obtained by projecting a light path from the light-emitting element to the light reflection/exit surface and a line segment extending from a central point of the light-emitting element to the light reflection/exit surface, and ? is a maximum angle range of reflected light, a value of the angle range ? decreases as a value of the incident angle ? increases in a range of 0<?<tan?1 (L/t).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shingo Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 9140846
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a light guiding member; a plurality of light-emitting elements; and a reflection member. A light reflection/exit surface of the light guiding member has a concave-convex pattern including a plurality of convex portions reflecting light emitted from the light-emitting elements inward. On the assumption that L is a distance between the light-emitting elements, t is a thickness of the light guiding member, an incident angle ? of the light on the light reflection/exit surface is an angle between a line segment obtained by projecting a light path from the light-emitting element to the light reflection/exit surface and a line segment extending from a central point of the light-emitting element to the light reflection/exit surface, and ? is a maximum angle range of reflected light, a value of the angle range ? decreases as a value of the incident angle ? increases in a range of 0<?<tan?1 (L/t).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shingo Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 9110204
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light source; an optical component including a light incident surface, the light incident surface facing the light source; and a wavelength conversion member provided between the light source and the light incident surface, the wavelength conversion member crossing a first region and extending to a second region outside the first region, the first region being surrounded by the light incident surface and light paths of light that is emitted from the light source and enters edges of the light incident surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoharu Nakamura, Kazue Shimizu, Gen Yonezawa, Shingo Ohkawa
  • Publication number: 20150198304
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a plurality of light sources configured to be disposed on a substrate; a light diffusion member configured to commonly cover the plurality of light sources; and a plurality of wavelength conversion members configured to be disposed between the light sources and the light diffusion member in a thickness direction and disposed in regions corresponding to the plurality of light sources in a plane, respectively, and configured to convert light with a first wavelength from the light sources into light with a second wavelength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventor: Shingo Ohkawa
  • Publication number: 20150124478
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting unit that includes: a light-guide section having a light entering surface; and a plurality of light sources opposed to the light entering surface of the light-guide section and arrayed in a first direction, and each having an anisotropy in emission intensity. A pattern shape of light applied from any of the light sources to the light entering surface has a shape anisotropy, and the light sources are each disposed to allow a longitudinal direction of the pattern shape to be inclined relative to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventor: Shingo Ohkawa
  • Publication number: 20140063842
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a light guiding member; a plurality of light-emitting elements; and a reflection member. A light reflection/exit surface of the light guiding member has a concave-convex pattern including a plurality of convex portions reflecting light emitted from the light-emitting elements inward. On the assumption that L is a distance between the light-emitting elements, t is a thickness of the light guiding member, an incident angle ? of the light on the light reflection/exit surface is an angle between a line segment obtained by projecting a light path from the light-emitting element to the light reflection/exit surface and a line segment extending from a central point of the light-emitting element to the light reflection/exit surface, and ? is a maximum angle range of reflected light, a value of the angle range ? decreases as a value of the incident angle ? increases in a range of 0<?<tan?1 (L/t).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 8602630
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a light guiding member; a plurality of light-emitting elements; and a reflection member. A light reflection/exit surface of the light guiding member has a concave-convex pattern including a plurality of convex portions reflecting light emitted from the light-emitting elements inward. On the assumption that L is a distance between the light-emitting elements, t is a thickness of the light guiding member, an incident angle ? of the light on the light reflection/exit surface is an angle between a line segment obtained by projecting a light path from the light-emitting element to the light reflection/exit surface and a line segment extending from a central point of the light-emitting element to the light reflection/exit surface, and ? is a maximum angle range of reflected light, a value of the angle range ? decreases as a value of the incident angle ? increases in a range of 0<?<tan-1 (L/t).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shingo Ohkawa
  • Publication number: 20130294107
    Abstract: There are provided a light emitting unit that enhances the uniformity of in-plane colors, as well as a display and a lighting apparatus that include such a light emitting unit thereon. The light emitting unit includes: a plurality of light emitting sections each having a light source and a wavelength conversion member, the wavelength conversion member converting a wavelength of light emitted from the light source; an optical component having a light incident surface in opposition to the plurality of light emitting sections; and a color unevenness prevention structure suppressing direct entering of light from the light source into the optical component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Shingo Ohkawa, Tomoharu Nakamura, Gen Yonezawa
  • Publication number: 20130271700
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light source; an optical component including a light incident surface, the light incident surface facing the light source; and a wavelength conversion member provided between the light source and the light incident surface, the wavelength conversion member crossing a first region and extending to a second region outside the first region, the first region being surrounded by the light incident surface and light paths of light that is emitted from the light source and enters edges of the light incident surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoharu Nakamura, Kazue Shimizu, Gen Yonezawa, Shingo Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 8550668
    Abstract: A light control member includes a plate-like member including a first flat surface and a second surface facing the first surface. The second surface has at least three prism line groups, each group including a plurality of substantially parallel linear prisms. Each one of the linear prisms of one prism line group intersects the linear prisms of other prism line groups at one intersection point, and each linear prism is formed into a convex shape having a substantially curved outer edge when viewed along its longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Ohkawa, Atsushi Seki, Kotaro Shima
  • Patent number: 8491144
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light guide unit; a light source; a light control member having a light incidence face on a back face, a light outgoing face on a surface and a light dispersion structure, and disposed so as to cover the gap on the neighboring two light guide plates; and a diffusion member disposed above the light guide unit and the light control member. The light dispersion structure includes a plurality of grooves extending in a direction along the side end face of the light guide plate and having curved wall faces, and emits leakage light from the gap in outgoing light of the light emitting element to a region wider than a region opposed to the gap, in the diffusion member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoharu Nakamura, Shingo Ohkawa, Satoru Murata
  • Patent number: 8405795
    Abstract: A light emitting device assembly includes: a light emitting device; and a light output member provided on the light emitting element and having an upper surface on which a curved part that outputs light from the light emitting device is provided, wherein a value of a x coordinate of a curved part center axis is a positive value, a locus of an edge of a curved part forms a circle or oval around the curved part center axis, light on a Z-axis output from an origin is output from the curved part at an angle ?0 (?0>0) formed with the Z-axis within a XZ-plane, and function F(?,??) expressed by F(?,??)=(??+??????(1) monotonously increases, takes the maximum value at ?=?0 (<0), and then, monotonously decreases as a value of ? increases from the minimum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shingo Ohkawa
  • Publication number: 20120314424
    Abstract: A light emitting device assembly includes: a light emitting device; and a light output member provided on the light emitting element and having an upper surface on which a curved part that outputs light from the light emitting device is provided, wherein a value of a x coordinate of a curved part center axis is a positive value, a locus of an edge of a curved part forms a circle or oval around the curved part center axis, light on a Z-axis output from an origin is output from the curved part at an angle ?0 (?0>0) formed with the Z-axis within a XZ-plane, and function F(?,??) expressed by F(?,??)=(??+??????(1) monotonously increases, takes the maximum value at ?=?0 (<0), and then, monotonously decreases as a value of ? increases from the minimum value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventor: Shingo Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 8269916
    Abstract: A light emitting device assembly includes: a light emitting device; and a light output member provided on the light emitting element and having an upper surface on which a curved part that outputs light from the light emitting device is provided, wherein a value of a x coordinate of a curved part center axis is a positive value, a locus of an edge of a curved part forms a circle or oval around the curved part center axis, light on a Z-axis output from an origin is output from the curved part at an angle ?0 (?0>0) formed with the Z-axis within a XZ-plane, and function F(?,??) expressed by F(?,??)=(??+????)/????(1) monotonously increases, takes the maximum value at ?=?0 (<0), and then, monotonously decreases as a value of ? increases from the minimum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shingo Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 8177378
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus is provided which includes a plurality of light sources for emitting a light, and a light guide plate having a substantially plate shape orthogonal to the optical axis direction of the light source, which includes a light incident face into which a light exited from the light source is incident and a light exit face from which the light incident from the light incident face is exited. Irregularities each made of a first slope forming an angle ?a with the plane of the light incident face and a second slope forming an angle ?b with the plane of the light incident face are continuously formed on the light incident face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shingo Ohkawa
  • Publication number: 20120087146
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a light guiding member; a plurality of light-emitting elements; and a reflection member. A light reflection/exit surface of the light guiding member has a concave-convex pattern including a plurality of convex portions reflecting light emitted from the light-emitting elements inward. On the assumption that L is a distance between the light-emitting elements, t is a thickness of the light guiding member, an incident angle ? of the light on the light reflection/exit surface is an angle between a line segment obtained by projecting a light path from the light-emitting element to the light reflection/exit surface and a line segment extending from a central point of the light-emitting element to the light reflection/exit surface, and ? is a maximum angle range of reflected light, a value of the angle range ? decreases as a value of the incident angle ? increases in a range of 0<?<tan-1 (L/t).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 8123385
    Abstract: A planar light source device of the present invention includes a light guide plate and a plurality of light-emitting diodes. The light guide plate includes a plurality of plate-form light guide members whose side surfaces are formed in a serrated shape. The serrated-shaped side surfaces of adjacent light guide members are connected in a planar direction so as to be engaged with each other. The plurality of light-emitting diodes emit light toward each of the light guide members. With this configuration, it is possible to securely prevent irregularity of brightness, when changing the luminance in the display screen in unit of blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shingo Ohkawa