Patents by Inventor Tatsuo Funatou

Tatsuo Funatou 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: 7923122
    Abstract: A large number of small reflection portions are continuously formed over a back face of a base member opposite the light impinging side, in an arbitrary arrangement. The small reflection portions are each formed to have a boundary surface for reflection, interference, and diffraction of incident light impinging onto the base member, to thereby produce random changes in the brightness of reflection light over the entirety of the decoration panel. A reflection layer is formed on the boundary surfaces of the small reflection portions such that the boundary surfaces function as mirror surfaces and reflect light propagating through the base member toward the front face of the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Sanko Gosei KK
    Inventors: Koji Korechika, Tatsuo Funatou, Kunio Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 7923123
    Abstract: A large number of small reflection portions are continuously formed over a back face of a base member opposite the light impinging side, in an arbitrary arrangement. The small reflection portions are each formed to have a boundary surface for reflection, interference, and diffraction of incident light impinging onto the base member, to thereby produce random changes in the brightness of reflection light over the entirety of the decoration panel. The small reflection portions have concave boundary surfaces having three-dimensional shape determined though imparting a 1/f fluctuation to a triangular-roof-like basic shape. When at least one of the direction of the incident light in relation to the base member, a viewing point in relation to the base member, and the position of the base member is changed, the small reflection portions generate an irregularly changing light-dark pattern in the brightness of reflection right from the small reflection portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Sanko Gosei, K.K.
    Inventors: Koji Korechika, Tatsuo Funatou, Kunio Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20080206495
    Abstract: A large number of small reflection portions are continuously formed over a back face of a base member opposite the light impinging side, in an arbitrary arrangement. The small reflection portions are each formed to have a boundary surface for reflection, interference, and diffraction of incident light impinging onto the base member, to thereby produce random changes in the brightness of reflection light over the entirety of the decoration panel. A reflection layer is formed on the boundary surfaces of the small reflection portions such that the boundary surfaces function as mirror surfaces and reflect light propagating through the base member toward the front face of the base member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: SANKO GOSEI Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Korechika, Tatsuo Funatou, Kunio Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20080204911
    Abstract: A large number of small reflection portions are continuously formed over a back face of a base member opposite the light impinging side, in an arbitrary arrangement. The small reflection portions are each formed to have a boundary surface for reflection, interference, and diffraction of incident light impinging onto the base member, to thereby produce random changes in the brightness of reflection light over the entirety of the decoration panel. The small reflection portions have concave boundary surfaces having three-dimensional shape determined though imparting a 1/f fluctuation to a triangular-roof-like basic shape. When at least one of the direction of the incident light in relation to the base member, a viewing point in relation to the base member, and the position of the base member is changed, the small reflection portions generate an irregularly changing light-dark pattern in the brightness of reflection right from the small reflection portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: SANKO GOSEI Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Korechika, Tatsuo Funatou, Kunio Yamazaki