Patents by Inventor Takayoshi Moriyama
Takayoshi Moriyama 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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Patent number: 9410685Abstract: A lighting apparatus including a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted on a first surface of a substrate, a heat conducting layer disposed on a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface, and one or more holes extending from the first surface to the second surface of the substrate. A heat conductive and electrically non-conducting material covers an inner surface of the one or more holes, and is thermally connected to the heat conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Patent number: 9303855Abstract: A lighting apparatus including at least one light-emitting element mounted on a first surface of a substrate, a heat conducting layer disposed on a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface, and one or more holes extending from the first surface to the second surface of the substrate. A heat conductive and electrically non-conducting material covers an inner surface of the one or more holes, and is thermally connected to the heat conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Patent number: 9279575Abstract: A substrate having a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted thereon is described. The substrate may be mounted in a lighting apparatus and may include a surface on which the plurality of light-emitting elements are mounted and one or more holes through which heat may be conducted from the first surface to another surface of the substrate. For example, a heat conductive and electrically non-conductive material may cover a surface of the one or more holes. According to some arrangements, the surface of the substrate may include an electrically non-conductive layer and an electrically conductive layer such that the electrically non-conductive layer is electrically isolated or separated from the electrically conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Lighting & Technology CorporationInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Patent number: 9194568Abstract: A lighting unit according to one embodiment includes a board, a support member, and a plurality of heat radiation fins. A light emitting element is disposed on a first surface of the board. The support member has an interior surface on which a second surface of the board that is opposite to the first surface is disposed to be in contact therewith to enable heat conduction from the board to the support member. The heat radiation fins are disposed on an exterior surface of the support member substantially parallel with each other and with a clearance between each other, and each having a flat shape that extends outwardly from the exterior surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2012Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Junya Murata, Makoto Yamazaki, Yumi Hanyuda, Katsumi Hisano, Mitsuaki Kato, Masataka Shiratsuchi, Yuichiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8956008Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light-emitting unit includes a light-emitting section, a diffusion cover, and a reflector. The light-emitting section includes an LED element. The diffusion cover diffuses light emitted from the light-emitting section. The reflector controls the light diffused by the diffusion cover.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2013Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Toshiba Lighting & Technology CorporationInventors: Jun Sasaki, Ryotaro Matsuda, Yumi Hanyuda, Naoto Mori, Naoto Tokuhara, Takayoshi Moriyama
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Patent number: 8770798Abstract: According to one embodiment, a floodlight includes at least one light-emitting part, a thermal radiator, a reflector, and an adapter part attachable to and detachable from the thermal radiator. The light-emitting part includes an LED element. The thermal radiator is thermally connected to the light-emitting part. The reflector is provided on the thermal radiator, and controls luminous intensity distribution from the light-emitting part. The adapter part includes an extension reflector. The extension reflector is continuous with the reflector in a state where the adapter part is attached to the thermal radiator and, together with the reflector, controls the luminous intensity distribution from the light-emitting part to provide a luminous intensity distribution angle narrower than the reflector.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2013Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Toshiba Lighting & Technology CorporationInventors: Ryotaro Matsuda, Yumi Hanyuda, Takayoshi Moriyama, Yoshiro Oka
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Publication number: 20140133166Abstract: A substrate having a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted thereon is described. The substrate may be mounted in a lighting apparatus and may include a surface on which the plurality of light-emitting elements are mounted and one or more holes through which heat may be conducted from the first surface to another surface of the substrate. For example, a heat conductive and electrically non-conductive material may cover a surface of the one or more holes. According to some arrangements, the surface of the substrate may include an electrically non-conductive layer and an electrically conductive layer such that the electrically non-conductive layer is electrically isolated or separated from the electrically conductive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2014Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicants: Toshiba Lighting & Technology CorporationInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Publication number: 20140133165Abstract: A substrate having a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted thereon is described. The substrate may be mounted in a lighting apparatus and may include a surface on which the plurality of light-emitting elements are mounted and one or more holes through which heat may be conducted from the first surface to another surface of the substrate. For example, a heat conductive and electrically non-conductive material may cover a surface of the one or more holes. According to some arrangements, the surface of the substrate may include an electrically non-conductive layer and an electrically conductive layer such that the electrically non-conductive layer is electrically isolated or separated from the electrically conductive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2014Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicants: TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Publication number: 20140133167Abstract: A substrate having a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted thereon is described. The substrate may be mounted in a lighting apparatus and may include a surface on which the plurality of light-emitting elements are mounted and one or more holes through which heat may be conducted from the first surface to another surface of the substrate. For example, a heat conductive and electrically non-conducting material may cover a surface of the one or more holes. According to some arrangements, the surface of the substrate may include an electrically non-conducting layer and an electrically conductive layer such that the electrically non-conducting layer is electrically isolated or separated from the electrically conductive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2014Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicants: TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Publication number: 20140119002Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light-emitting unit includes a light-emitting section, a diffusion cover, and a reflector. The light-emitting section includes an LED element. The diffusion cover diffuses light emitted from the light-emitting section. The reflector controls the light diffused by the diffusion cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: Toshiba Lighting & Technology CorporationInventors: Jun SASAKI, Ryotaro Matsuda, Yumi Hanyuda, Naoto Mori, Naoto Tokuhara, Takayoshi Moriyama
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Publication number: 20140111986Abstract: According to one embodiment, a floodlight includes at least one light-emitting part, a thermal radiator, a reflector, and an adapter part attachable to and detachable from the thermal radiator. The light-emitting part includes an LED element. The thermal radiator is thermally connected to the light-emitting part. The reflector is provided on the thermal radiator, and controls luminous intensity distribution from the light-emitting part. The adapter part includes an extension reflector. The extension reflector is continuous with the reflector in a state where the adapter part is attached to the thermal radiator and, together with the reflector, controls the luminous intensity distribution from the light-emitting part to provide a luminous intensity distribution angle narrower than the reflector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: Toshiba Lighting & Technology CorporationInventors: Ryotaro Matsuda, Yumi Hanyuda, Takayoshi Moriyama, Yoshiro Oka
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Patent number: 8668355Abstract: A substrate having a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted thereon is described. The substrate may be mounted in a lighting apparatus and may include a surface on which the plurality of light-emitting elements are mounted and one or more holes through which heat may be conducted from the first surface to another surface of the substrate. For example, a heat conductive and electrically non-conductive material may cover a surface of the one or more holes. According to some arrangements, the surface of the substrate may include an electrically non-conductive layer and an electrically conductive layer such that the electrically non-conductive layer is electrically isolated or separated from the electrically conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2012Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignees: Toshiba Lightning & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Patent number: 8556458Abstract: According to one embodiment, a power source unit includes a substrate and a reflective body. The substrate includes a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted thereon. The reflective body includes a plurality of incident openings each corresponding to one of the plurality of light-emitting elements, an output opening to which light that has passed through the incident opening is output, and a plurality of reflective surfaces that expand from the incident opening toward the output opening. Reflective surfaces included in the plurality of reflective surfaces and positioned on an outermost side are provided to be adjacent to one another, and an angle is set so as to prevent reflective light of light emitted from the light-emitting elements from traveling toward an outer side in a reflective surface formed on the outer side.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2010Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazunari Higuchi, Takayoshi Moriyama, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Patent number: 8556460Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a substrate having a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted thereto. The substrate includes a surface on which a plurality of light-emitting elements are mounted and stress absorbing elements arranged on imaginary straight lines connecting portions for mounting the substrate with each other. The lighting apparatus includes a main body in contact with and fixed to a back surface of the substrate. The lighting apparatus also includes a light directing member in contact with a front surface of the substrate, a plurality of openings into which the plurality of light-emitting elements of the substrate are inserted, and a plurality of reflective surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2009Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Patent number: 8545051Abstract: A substrate for a lighting apparatus includes one or more light-emitting elements mounted thereon. The substrate includes a surface on which the plurality of light-emitting elements are mounted. Additionally, the substrate includes heat conductive elements for conducting heat from the one or more light-emitting elements, the heat conductive elements including heat conductive holes extending through a non-electrically conducting layer formed on a first surface of the substrate and an entirety of the substrate and a heat conductive layer formed on a surface of the substrate opposite the first surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2012Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Publication number: 20130250577Abstract: A lighting unit according to one embodiment includes a board, a support member, and a plurality of heat radiation fins. A light emitting element is disposed on a first surface of the board. The support member has an interior surface on which a second surface of the board that is opposite to the first surface is disposed to be in contact therewith to enable heat conduction from the board to the support member. The heat radiation fins are disposed on an exterior surface of the support member substantially parallel with each other and with a clearance between each other, and each having a flat shape that extends outwardly from the exterior surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Lighting & Technology CorporationInventors: Takayoshi MORIYAMA, Junya Murata, Makoto Yamazaki, Yumi Hanyuda, Katsumi Hisano, Mitsuaki Kato, Masataka Shiratsuchi, Yuichiro Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20130250574Abstract: A lighting unit according to one embodiment includes a board, an insulating plate, an optical lens, and a positioning member. The board has a mounting surface on which a light emitting element is mounted. The insulating plate is disposed on the mounting surface of the board to control the reflection direction of light emitted from the light emitting element. The optical lens diverges or converges the light reflected by the insulating plate. The positioning member positions the insulating plate and the optical lens such that the insulating plate and the optical lens are located away from each other by a predetermined distance. A lighting device according to one embodiment includes a plurality of the lighting units fixed to the lighting device via a fixing frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Lighting & Technology CorporationInventors: Takayoshi MORIYAMA, Junya MURATA, Makoto YAMAZAKI, Yumi HANYUDA, Katsumi HISANO, Mitsuaki KATO, Masataka SHIRATSUCHI, Yuichiro YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 8500298Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lighting fixture includes a fixture body and a plurality of light-emitting modules. A plurality of light-emitting module arrangement portions are formed on the surface of the fixture body. The light-emitting modules are arranged on the light-emitting module arrangement portions of the fixture body and annularly arranged so that a space is formed at the center area of the fixture body. Semiconductor light-emitting elements are disposed on the surface of the light-emitting module, and a wiring connector is arranged at the space side of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kozo Ogawa, Kazunari Higuchi, Shigetoshi Komiyama, Takayoshi Moriyama, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Patent number: 8491163Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lighting apparatus includes a main body including a flat thermal conduction surface. The thermal conduction surface contacts a back surface of a board. Light-emitting devices are mounted on a front surface of the board. An optical member is opposed to a peripheral part of the board on the front surface side of the board. The optical member is fastened to the main body by fastening members, to push the peripheral part of the board against the heat conduction surface of the main body.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazunari Higuchi, Takayoshi Moriyama, Yutaka Honda, Kenji Nezu, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Patent number: 8482014Abstract: A lighting apparatus is provided with a plurality of light-emitting devices, a substrate, a blind member, and a reflector. The reflector is formed with a plurality of reflective surfaces corresponding to the light-emitting devices, individually. The shielding angle at which light emitted from that one of the light-emitting devices which is located on the outermost periphery is intercepted by the reflective surface corresponding to the outermost light-emitting device is greater than shielding angles at which light emitted from the light-emitting devices located inside the outermost light-emitting device is intercepted by the reflective surfaces corresponding to the inside light-emitting devices.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2009Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazunari Higuchi, Takayoshi Moriyama, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro, Yutaka Honda, Kenji Nezu