Patents by Inventor Takanori Okumura
Takanori Okumura 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).
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Publication number: 20240087978Abstract: A semiconductor device includes semiconductor elements arranged in a first direction, an arm connection portion disposed between the semiconductor elements in the first direction, first and second power supply terminals disposed on the same side in the first direction, first and second substrates interposing the semiconductor elements therebetween, and a sealing body. The second substrate includes an insulating base member, a front-face metal body and a back-face metal body. The front-face metal body includes a second power supply wiring and a second relay wiring. The second power supply wiring includes a base portion on which the second element is arranged, and a pair of extending portions extending from the base portion in the first direction. The second relay wiring is disposed between the extending portions in a second direction, so that the second relay wiring and the base portion satisfy a relationship of L1<L2<L3.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Takanori KAWASHIMA, Tomomi OKUMURA, Shunsuke ARAI, Naruhiro INOUE
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Publication number: 20240079383Abstract: In a semiconductor device, a plurality of semiconductor elements includes a first element and a second element arranged in a first direction perpendicular to a plate thickness direction. The first element and the second element each have a rectangular shape having four corner portions and four side portions. The first element and the second element have structures common to each other, in which pads are offset to a periphery of a first corner portion between a first side portion and a second side portion. The first element is disposed so that the first side portion faces signal terminals in a second direction, and the second side portion faces the second element in the first direction. The second element is disposed so that the second side portion faces the signal terminals in the second direction and the first side portion faces the first element in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: TAKANORI KAWASHIMA, TOMOMI OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20240079372Abstract: A semiconductor device is to be arranged adjacent to a cooler in a predetermined direction. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element having main electrodes on opposite faces thereof, first and second substrates interposing the semiconductor element therebetween, and a conductive spacer interposed between the second substrate and the semiconductor element. Each of the first and second substrates includes an insulating base member, a front-face metal body connected to a corresponding main electrode, and a back-face metal body. A thickness of a part of the semiconductor device on the first substrate side from the semiconductor element is referred to as T1, and a thickness of a part of the semiconductor device on the second substrate side from the semiconductor element is referred to as T2. A relationship of T1?T2 is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: SHOICHIRO OMAE, TOMOMI OKUMURA, TAKANORI KAWASHIMA
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Patent number: 11835824Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a configuration that allows the corners of a sealing material to be appropriately cut. The liquid crystal display device is provided with a liquid crystal panel that includes: an annular sealing material that has a corner in plan view and is for sealing a liquid crystal layer between a first transparent substrate and a second transparent substrate; and a first panel cutting aid material that is embedded in the corner of the sealing material. The first panel cutting aid material has a height that matches the gap between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate. The first panel cutting aid material has a surface that is exposed from the outer periphery of the sealing material.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Trivale TechnologiesInventors: Manabu Iwakawa, Takanori Okumura, Hiroshi Umeda, Eri Kurihara, Yuki Soma
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Patent number: 11719974Abstract: A time required to manufacture a self-luminous body for a display apparatus is shortened. A self-luminous body for a display apparatus includes a backplane and a plurality of stacks. The plurality of stacks are arranged on a backplane. Each stack includes a plurality of integrated self-luminous elements. The plurality of self-luminous elements in each stack include at least two self-luminous elements that are arranged at a first pitch and emit light of the same color. The plurality of stacks include a first stack and a second stack adjacent to each other. The self-luminous element of the first stack and the self-luminous element of the second stack that emits light of the same color as a color of light emitted by the self-luminous element of the first stack are arranged at a second pitch larger than the first pitch.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takanori Okumura, Kazumasa Katayama, Hidetada Tokioka, Masami Hayashi, Manabu Iwakawa, Shinsaku Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20230246005Abstract: The present disclosure has an object to hinder reduction of a yield due to a failure in an LED element or a mounting failure in a self light emitting apparatus. In a self light emitting apparatus, each pixel includes one basic cell and at least one redundant cell as a subpixel. The redundant cell includes an LED element that emits light of a color the same as at least one LED element out of LED elements included in the basic cell. A plurality of subpixels included in each pixel are configured as a subpixel group being an assembly that includes a plurality of LED elements being integrated. An array pitch of the subpixels in the subpixel group is smaller than an array pitch of the subpixels in adjacent ones of a plurality of subpixel groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2020Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Manabu IWAKAWA, Kazumasa KATAYAMA, Hidetada TOKIOKA, Takanori OKUMURA, Masami HAYASHI, Shinsaku YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230033925Abstract: A time required to manufacture a self-luminous body for a display apparatus is shortened. A self-luminous body for a display apparatus includes a backplane and a plurality of stacks. The plurality of stacks are arranged on a backplane. Each stack includes a plurality of integrated self-luminous elements. The plurality of selfluminous elements in each stack include at least two self-luminous elements that are arranged at a first pitch and emit light of the same color. The plurality of stacks include a first stack and a second stack adjacent to each other. The self-luminous element of the first stack and the self-luminous element of the second stack that emits light of the same color as a color of light emitted by the self-luminous element of the first stack are arranged at a second pitch larger than the first pitch.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takanori OKUMURA, Kazumasa KATAYAMA, Hidetada TOKIOKA, Masami HAYASHI, Manabu IWAKAWA, Shinsaku YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20220317487Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a configuration that allows the corners of a sealing material to be appropriately cut. The liquid crystal display device is provided with a liquid crystal panel that includes: an annular sealing material that has a corner in plan view and is for sealing a liquid crystal layer between a first transparent substrate and a second transparent substrate; and a first panel cutting aid material that is embedded in the corner of the sealing material. The first panel cutting aid material has a height that matches the gap between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate. The first panel cutting aid material has a surface that is exposed from the outer periphery of the sealing material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2019Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Manabu IWAKAWA, Takanori OKUMURA, Hiroshi UMEDA, Eri KURIHARA, Yuki SOMA
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Patent number: 11131876Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, the liquid crystal panel has a display surface of a planar shape on which a plurality of pixels are located. The front protective plate is located so as to face the display surface of the liquid crystal panel. The optical path changing portion is located between an emission surface of the front protective plate and an air layer located closer to the back side than the emission surface is and located closest to the emission surface. The optical path changing portion changes an optical path of light that enters the optical path changing portion so as to expand an emission angle when the incident light is emitted from the emission surface of the front protective plate.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2015Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuriko Takada, Akimasa Yuuki, Takanori Okumura, Tetsuya Satake, Taro Kumagai
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Patent number: 11073730Abstract: It is an object to provide technology enabling an increase in durability against cracking of a curved display panel having a non-rectangular outline shape. A non-rectangular curved display device includes a liquid crystal panel including an array substrate and liquid crystal driving ICs arranged on the array substrate. The liquid crystal panel is curved to have a valley extending in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction between opposite ends of an outline shape, and opposite ends being two ends of each of the liquid crystal driving ICs opposing in the first direction are located, in plan view, to be out of straight lines extending from corner portions in the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takanori Okumura, Naoki Nakagawa, Toshiaki Fujino
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Patent number: 11009742Abstract: A multi-display includes a display panel array with the display panels arranged, and a protective plate disposed over a surface of the display panel array where light is emitted, so as to cover the display panel array. The protective plate has an optical refractive device of groove shape disposed in a position corresponding to a joint between the adjacent display panels of the display panel array, so as to extend along the joint. The optical refractive device refracts the light from the display panels. Each display panel has a display surface having sub-pixels constituting individual pixels. The sub-pixels are arranged in such a manner that the sub-pixels of two or more different display colors are disposed between the sub-pixels of the same display color. The sub-pixels of the display panels adjacent to each other via the joint are arranged in such a manner that color arrangements are different from each other at panel ends facing each other via the joint.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takanori Okumura, Naoko Iwasaki, Toshiaki Fujino
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Patent number: 10810969Abstract: A texture display device includes a display unit in which each pixel includes a condensing type element having light distribution at a first spread angle and a diffusing type element having light distribution at a second spread angle larger than the first spread angle, a pixel signal generation unit that generates a pixel signal based on image data and texture data of an object to be displayed on the display unit, and a control unit that controls light emission intensity of the condensing type element and the diffusing type element based on the pixel signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Aki Takayanagi, Yoshitomo Nakamura, Toshiaki Kubo, Yoko Inoue, Toshiaki Fujino, Takanori Okumura, Naoko Iwasaki
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Publication number: 20200285095Abstract: It is an object to provide technology enabling an increase in durability against cracking of a curved display panel having a non-rectangular outline shape. A non-rectangular curved display device includes a liquid crystal panel including an array substrate and liquid crystal driving ICs arranged on the array substrate. The liquid crystal panel is curved to have a valley extending in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction between opposite ends of an outline shape, and opposite ends being two ends of each of the liquid crystal driving ICs opposing in the first direction are located, in plan view, to be out of straight lines extending from corner portions in the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2018Publication date: September 10, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takanori OKUMURA, Naoki NAKAGAWA, Toshiaki FUJINO
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Publication number: 20200058267Abstract: A texture display device includes a display unit in which each pixel includes a condensing type element having light distribution at a first spread angle and a diffusing type element having light distribution at a second spread angle larger than the first spread angle, a pixel signal generation unit that generates a pixel signal based on image data and texture data of an object to be displayed on the display unit, and a control unit that controls light emission intensity of the condensing type element and the diffusing type element based on the pixel signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2017Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Aki TAKAYANAGI, Yoshitomo NAKAMURA, Toshiaki KUBO, Yoko INOUE, Toshiaki FUJINO, Takanori OKUMURA, Naoko IWASAKI
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Publication number: 20190302522Abstract: A multi-display includes a display panel array with the display panels arranged, and a protective plate disposed over a surface of the display panel array where light is emitted, so as to cover the display panel array. The protective plate has an optical refractive device of groove shape disposed in a position corresponding to a joint between the adjacent display panels of the display panel array, so as to extend along the joint. The optical refractive device refracts the light from the display panels. Each display panel has a display surface having sub-pixels constituting individual pixels. The sub-pixels are arranged in such a manner that the sub-pixels of two or more different display colors are disposed between the sub-pixels of the same display color. The sub-pixels of the display panels adjacent to each other via the joint are arranged in such a manner that color arrangements are different from each other at panel ends facing each other via the joint.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2017Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takanori OKUMURA, Naoko IWASAKI, Toshiaki FUJINO
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Publication number: 20190285919Abstract: There is provided a display device that is provided with a display panel having a non-rectangular outline that is incorporated in a curved state, the display panel including a glass substrate that is provided in its side along a curving direction of the display panel with an inflection point of an outline formed by at least one of the combination of curved lines or straight lines, and the combination of the curved line and straight line, the glass substrate including a curved portion in an arc-like shape with a first curvature radius in a portion including the inflection point of the outline, serving as an inflection-suppressing region for suppressing a variation in the side along the curved direction, the curved portion being formed to have the first curvature radius more than 5 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kazushi KIYOTA, Takanori OKUMURA
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Patent number: 9684201Abstract: A first polarizing plate is disposed on a first main surface of a liquid crystal display panel. A second polarizing plate is disposed on a second main surface of the liquid crystal panel. The first polarizing plate includes a first polarizer and a first phase difference film laminated on a main surface on the liquid crystal display panel side in the first polarizer. The second polarizing plate includes a second polarizer and a transparent film laminated on a main surface on the side opposite to the liquid crystal display panel in the second polarizer.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2014Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshiaki Fujino, Yasunori Niwano, Tetsuya Satake, Takanori Okumura, Yuji Ogawa
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Publication number: 20170052408Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, the liquid crystal panel has a display surface of a planar shape on which a plurality of pixels are located. The front protective plate is located so as to face the display surface of the liquid crystal panel. The optical path changing portion is located between an emission surface of the front protective plate and an air layer located closer to the back side than the emission surface is and located closest to the emission surface. The optical path changing portion changes an optical path of light that enters the optical path changing portion so as to expand an emission angle when the incident light is emitted from the emission surface of the front protective plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2015Publication date: February 23, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuriko TAKADA, Akimasa YUUKI, Takanori OKUMURA, Tetsuya SATAKE, Taro KUMAGAI
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Patent number: D797022Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2015Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Taro Kumagai, Tetsuya Satake, Takashi Hirano, Takanori Okumura
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Patent number: D834477Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Taro Kumagai, Tetsuya Satake, Takashi Hirano, Takanori Okumura