Patents by Inventor Toshiharu Murai
Toshiharu Murai 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: 9400416Abstract: An illumination light source device includes a reflection-transmission wheel provided on a light-path from an excitation light source and having a transmission region that transmits an excitation light and a reflection region reflecting the excitation light, a fluorescent wheel provided on at least one of the reflection light-path and the transmission light-path and having a fluorescent body emitting fluorescence when excited by the excitation light, and a control section turning-on the excitation light source while the boundary of the transmission region and the reflection region traverses the light-path, in order to provide an illumination light source device capable of preventing a deterioration of the fluorescent body, whereby improving a color reproducibility by use of the color mixture occurred at the boundary region between the transmission light-path and the reflection light-path effectively and improving the brightness of image.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2013Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Takahashi, Kazuhiro Fujita, Toshiharu Murai, Ikuo Maeda, Takehiro Nishimori
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Patent number: 9348200Abstract: A light source unit emitting a light on an optical axis includes a first light emitter to emit a light in a certain wavelength band, a second light emitter to emit a light in a wavelength band different from that of the first light emitter, a third light emitter to emit a light in a wavelength band different from those of the first and second light emitters, a lighting path through which the lights from the first, second, and third light emitters are guided to propagate on the optical axis and into which the light from the third light emitter is joined at a hindmost position in a traveling direction on the optical axis, and an optical adjuster to exert an optical effect on the light from the third light emitter and not to exert an optical effect on the light rays from the first and second light emitters.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Takahashi, Kazuhiro Fujita, Toshiharu Murai, Takehiro Nishimori, Ikuo Maeda
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Publication number: 20160109221Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes: a light emitting unit that outputs light; a light condensing unit that condenses the light output from the light emitting unit; a diffusion unit that diffuses the light condensed by the light condensing unit; and a uniformizing optical system that receives the light diffused by the diffusion unit, uniformizes a brightness distribution thereof compared with that of the light being received, and outputs the resulting light.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Tatsuya TAKAHASHI, Kazuhiro Fujita, Toshiharu Murai, Takehiro Nishimori, Takahiro Kado, Jun Kishiwada
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Publication number: 20160103387Abstract: A light source device includes a light source section that emits laser light, a reflection and diffusion member that diffuses and reflects the laser light emitted from the light source section, and a cooler that cools the reflection and diffusion member. The cooler includes at least one of an axial fan, an electronic cooling element, and a heat pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2015Publication date: April 14, 2016Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Takehiro NISHIMORI, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Toshiharu MURAI, Tatsuya TAKAHASHI, Takahiro KADO
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Patent number: 9279566Abstract: Disclosed is a light deflector including a light-emitting element configured to emit a light beam with a substantially elliptical cross-sectional shape, and a lens configured to condense light emitted from the light-emitting element, wherein an optical axis of the light-emitting element and an optical axis of the lens are decentered and a longitudinal axis of the light beam with the substantially elliptical cross-sectional shape is arranged in a direction orthogonal to a direction of decentering on the lens.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2013Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Takehiro Nishimori, Kazuhiro Fujita, Toshiharu Murai, Ikuo Maeda, Tatsuya Takahashi
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Patent number: 9250504Abstract: A light source unit includes a light emitting element supporter to support a plurality of light emitting elements disposed with a dispersed pattern in a two-dimensional direction as a light emitting element assembly, and light emitted from the light emitting element assembly exits to a target. The light emitting element supporter includes a ventilating hole at an inner portion of two dimensional direction of the light emitting element assembly, and cooling air, supplied from a rear side of a light emitting side of the light emitting element assembly, passes through the ventilating hole to the light emitting side of the light emitting element assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2014Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Takehiro Nishimori, Kazuhiro Fujita, Toshiharu Murai, Ikuo Maeda, Tatsuya Takahashi
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Patent number: 9223194Abstract: An illumination light beam forming device, including a first light source unit projecting a ring shaped light beam group, a second light source unit projecting light beams including a case the light beams being group, a combining unit for combining the light beam group projected from the first light source unit and light beams projected from the second light source unit, in which the combing unit includes a reflecting part formed to reflect one of the light beam groups, a transmitting part disposed able to transmit the other one of the light beam groups, and light beams projected from the second light source unit are disposed at an internal side of the light beam groups projected from the first light source unit when the two light beam groups are viewed from a plane including the reflecting part.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Fujita, Ikuo Maeda, Toshiharu Murai, Tatsuya Takahashi, Takehiro Nishimori
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Publication number: 20150316840Abstract: A light source device including: a light source section which generates any one of blue light, red light, and green light; a phosphor which generates a fluorescence including the two colors other than the color of the light emitted from the light source section; a color-changing section which changes one of the two colors of the fluorescence emitted from the phosphor to another color regularly and irradiates it to the image-forming element; and a light path-switching section which switches a light path in which a fluorescence excited by the color light emitted from the light source section passes towards the color-changing section and a light path in which the color light emitted from the light source section passes towards the image-forming element regularly.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2013Publication date: November 5, 2015Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Ikuo MAEDA, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Toshiharu MURAI, Tatsuya TAKAHASHI, Takehiro NISHIMORI
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Patent number: 9155161Abstract: A light source device includes an LD module having a plurality of small light sources such as LDs, a control device selectively controlling On/Off of a plurality of the LDs, a first optical system collecting light emitted from the LDs into one collected light, and a second optical system emitting the collected light directly or through an optical process as source light. The control device maintains a constant amount of luminescence of the light source by controlling a number of the LDs selectively turned on in order to achieve a simple configuration of the light source device and a proper gradation expression of images.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2013Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Toshiharu Murai
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Publication number: 20150253653Abstract: An illumination device includes an excitation light source which emits excitation light, a wavelength converter which generates fluorescent light having a wavelength different from that of the excitation light through the excitation of the excitation light and a light path-splitting member including a first filter and a second filter arranged to alternately come across a light path of the excitation light, wherein the first filter reflects one of the excitation light and the fluorescent light and transmits the other of the excitation light and the fluorescent light, the second filter transmits light reflected by the first filter and reflects light transmitted through the first filter, and the wavelength converter is disposed in a reflection light path or a transmission light path of the excitation light.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2013Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventors: Kazuhiro Fujita, Tatsuya Takahashi, Toshiharu Murai, Ikuo Maeda, Takehiro Nishimori
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Patent number: 9131165Abstract: An illumination light source system includes an excitation light source; a reflection/transmission member having a transmission area which transmits excitation light from the excitation light source and a reflection area which reflects the excitation light, the transmission area and the reflection area sequentially crossing an emission light path of the excitation light source; a fluorescent member provided in at least one of a reflection light path of the excitation light reflected by the reflection area and a transmission light path of the excitation light transmitted through the transmission area, the fluorescent member being provided with a phosphor which generates a color different from that of the excitation light by excitation with the excitation light; and a controller which reduces a light volume of the excitation light source while a boundary area between the transmission area and the reflection area of the reflection/transmission member is located on the emission light path.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2013Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Takahashi, Kazuhiro Fujita, Toshiharu Murai, Ikuo Maeda, Takehiro Nishimori
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Patent number: 9121570Abstract: An illumination light generation apparatus includes a light source unit and an emission unit. The light source unit includes first and second light source groups that radiate a plurality of light beams, respectively. The first and second light source groups face each other. The emission unit emits a composite light beam in a predetermined direction and includes a first reflection part that reflects the plurality of light beams radiated from the first light source group, and an emission part that reflects the plurality of light beams reflected from the first reflection part and the plurality of light beams radiated from the second light source group. The emission part generates the composite light beam by reflecting the plurality of light beams radiated from the first light source group and the plurality of light beams radiated from the second light source group in the predetermined direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2013Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Takehiro Nishimori, Kazuhiro Fujita, Toshiharu Murai, Ikuo Maeda, Tatsuya Takahashi
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Publication number: 20150131062Abstract: A light source apparatus includes a light source to emit excitation light; a phosphor as a rotatable wavelength convertor; a motor to drive the phosphor; an excitation light condensing optical system to condense the excitation light emitted from the light source onto the phosphor; and a casing having a closed space to encase the light source, the phosphor, and the excitation light condensing optical system, and at least a part of the motor while a remaining part of the motor being protruded to an external space of the casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2014Publication date: May 14, 2015Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Takehiro NISHIMORI, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Toshiharu MURAI, Tatsuya TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 9022577Abstract: A light source device includes an excitation light source configured to emit and stop an excitation light with a predetermined timing, a fluorescent wheel configured to rotate, the fluorescent wheel including a fluorescent material applied thereon for emitting a fluorescent light in a predetermined wavelength range when irradiated with the excitation light, and an irradiation spot changing unit configured to change a spot on the fluorescent material irradiated with the excitation light.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventor: Toshiharu Murai
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Publication number: 20150109584Abstract: A light source device includes a first light source to emit first light having a first wavelength range; a wavelength convertor, disposed on an optical path of the first light, to receive the first light to emit light having other wavelength range different from the first wavelength range; a cyclical movement unit to cyclically move the wavelength convertor while crossing the optical path of the first light; optical parts to define an optical path of the first light, and an optical path of the light emitted from the wavelength convertor; a detector to detect a cyclic movement condition of the cyclical movement unit; and a received light quantity reducing unit to reduce light quantity of the first light received by the wavelength convertor when a cyclic movement condition detected by the detector satisfies an abnormal condition while outputting the first light or the light having other wavelength range to outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Toshiharu MURAI
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Publication number: 20150042963Abstract: A light source device includes: a first light emitting unit including a light emitting element that emits light having a predetermined wavelength range; a second light emitting unit including a wavelength conversion member that receives the light from the light emitting element and emits light having a different wavelength range different than the predetermined wavelength range; an optical unit configured to define a path of the light emitted from the light emitting element and a path of the light emitted from the wavelength conversion member; an air blowing unit configured to generate a cooling air; and a passage forming member configured to form a passage through which the cooling air flows, the passage being in contact with both of the first light emitting unit and the second light emitting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Takehiro NISHIMORI, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Toshiharu MURAI, Tatsuya TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20140268069Abstract: A light source unit emitting a light on an optical axis includes a first light emitter to emit a light in a certain wavelength band, a second light emitter to emit a light in a wavelength band different from that of the first light emitter, a third light emitter to emit a light in a wavelength band different from those of the first and second light emitters, a lighting path through which the lights from the first, second, and third light emitters are guided to propagate on the optical axis and into which the light from the third light emitter is joined at a hindmost position in a traveling direction on the optical axis, and an optical adjuster to exert an optical effect on the light from the third light emitter and not to exert an optical effect on the light rays from the first and second light emitters.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: Tatsuya TAKAHASHI, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Toshiharu MURAI, Takehiro NISHIMORI, Ikuo MAEDA
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Publication number: 20140240680Abstract: A light source unit includes a light emitting element supporter to support a plurality of light emitting elements disposed with a dispersed pattern in a two-dimensional direction as a light emitting element assembly, and light emitted from the light emitting element assembly exits to a target; a light return member disposed at a position facing a light emitting side of the light emitting element assembly while setting a space with the light emitting element supporter, the light return member returning light emitted from the light emitting element assembly toward at an inner side of two dimensional direction of the light emitting element assembly, and a flow path of the cooling air to pass through cooling air supplied from an air supply unit into the space.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Takehiro NISHIMORI, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Toshiharu MURAI, Ikuo MAEDA, Tatsuya TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20140240679Abstract: A light source unit includes a light emitting element supporter to support a plurality of light emitting elements disposed with a dispersed pattern in a two-dimensional direction as a light emitting element assembly, and light emitted from the light emitting element assembly exits to a target. The light emitting element supporter includes a ventilating hole at an inner portion of two dimensional direction of the light emitting element assembly, and cooling air, supplied from a rear side of a light emitting side of the light emitting element assembly, passes through the ventilating hole to the light emitting side of the light emitting element assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Takehiro NISHIMORI, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Toshiharu MURAI, Ikuo MAEDA, Tatsuya TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20140071408Abstract: An illumination light source system includes an excitation light source; a reflection/transmission member having a transmission area which transmits excitation light from the excitation light source and a reflection area which reflects the excitation light, the transmission area and the reflection area sequentially crossing an emission light path of the excitation light source; a fluorescent member provided in at least one of a reflection light path of the excitation light reflected by the reflection area and a transmission light path of the excitation light transmitted through the transmission area, the fluorescent member being provided with a phosphor which generates a color different from that of the excitation light by excitation with the excitation light; and a controller which reduces a light volume of the excitation light source while a boundary area between the transmission area and the reflection area of the reflection/transmission member is located on the emission light path.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Inventors: Tatsuya TAKAHASHI, Kazuhiro Fujita, Toshiharu Murai, Ikuo Maeda, Takehiro Nishimori