Patents by Inventor Yasushi Tanijiri

Yasushi Tanijiri 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: 10381587
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus includes: a sealing member (20) forming a sealing region sealing a planar light emitting unit; and a wiring member (51) including a conductive unit (61) electrically connected to the planar light emitting unit and extending from the sealing region to an outside. The sealing member (20) has a drawing port opened at a periphery of the sealing member for drawing the wiring member (51) to the outside. The wiring member (51) includes: an internal wiring portion (71) in which the conductive unit (61) is disposed in the sealing region; an external wiring portion (72) in which the conductive unit (61) is disposed in the outside; and a boundary wiring portion (73) in which the conductive unit (61) is disposed in the drawing port and which has a smaller thickness than the internal wiring portion (71) and/or the external wiring portion (72).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yasushi Tanijiri, Masatoshi Yoneyama, Junya Wakahara, Mitsuyoshi Naito, Naoki Kimura, Kenji Hiraiwa
  • Publication number: 20190067613
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus includes: a sealing member (20) forming a sealing region sealing a planar light emitting unit; and a wiring member (51) including a conductive unit (61) electrically connected to the planar light emitting unit and extending from the sealing region to an outside. The sealing member (20) has a drawing port opened at a periphery of the sealing member for drawing the wiring member (51) to the outside. The wiring member (51) includes: an internal wiring portion (71) in which the conductive unit (61) is disposed in the sealing region; an external wiring portion (72) in which the conductive unit (61) is disposed in the outside; and a boundary wiring portion (73) in which the conductive unit (61) is disposed in the drawing port and which has a smaller thickness than the internal wiring portion (71) and/or the external wiring portion (72).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi TANIJIRI, Masatoshi YONEYAMA, Junya WAKAHARA, Mitsuyoshi NAITO, Naoki KIMURA, Kenji HIRAIWA
  • Patent number: 9529323
    Abstract: A video display device is provided with a light source, a display element, and an eyepiece optical system (14). The light source emits light which has at least one emission peak wavelength and has a wavelength width including one emission peak wavelength. The display element modulates the light emitted from the light source and displays video. The eye-piece optical system (14) comprises a volume phase reflective HOE (23) with diffracts and reflects video light from the display element and leads the light to a viewing pupil. An HOE surface (23a) is divided into a plurality of flat surfaces (31, 32, 33) disposed so as to be recessed on the viewing pupil side, and the plurality of flat surfaces (31, 32, 33) are continuous so as to have a common ridge line at a boundary between the flat surfaces adjoining to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA ADVANCED LAYERS, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshie Shimizu, Yasushi Tanijiri
  • Publication number: 20130141527
    Abstract: A video display device is provided with a light source, a display element, and an eyepiece optical system (14). The light source emits light which has at least one emission peak wavelength and has a wavelength width including one emission peak wavelength. The display element modulates the light emitted from the light source and displays video. The eye-piece optical system (14) comprises a volume phase reflective HOE (23) with diffracts and reflects video light from the display element and leads the light to a viewing pupil. An HOE surface (23a) is divided into a plurality of flat surfaces (31, 32, 33) disposed so as to be recessed on the viewing pupil side, and the plurality of flat surfaces (31, 32, 33) are continuous so as to have a common ridge line at a boundary between the flat surfaces adjoining to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA ADVANCES LAYERS, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshie Shimizu, Yasushi Tanijiri
  • Patent number: 8310764
    Abstract: Provided are an image display device and HMD, which can make an observer observe an image with reduced luminance nonuniformity and reduced color nonuniformity, while making the image bright by reducing the degree of diffusion with a constitution employing a means which diffuses incident light in one direction. In the image display device, light from a light source is diffused in one direction with the diffusing means and is guided to a display element, and image light emitted from the display element is guided to an optical pupil through a lens. The image display device with the constitution satisfies the expression Hw/f?tan 1?Kw/(f+?), wherein Hw is the aperture width of pixels of the display element in the diffusing direction of the diffusing means, Kw is the maximum pitch of recesses and protrusions in the diffusing direction of the diffusing means, f is the focal length of the lens, and ? is the distance between the display surface of the display element and the diffusing surface of the diffusing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Yasushi Tanijiri
  • Patent number: 8174569
    Abstract: An image display apparatus, which is mounted on a head or face of a wearer attachably and detachably and allows the wearer to view an image and hear sound, includes a long formed temple supported by a temporal region of head or an ear when the wearer is wearing the image display apparatus; a speaker that generates sound, a sound generating face thereof being insertable into the ear at a vicinity of an opening of the ear; and a position adjusting mechanism that holds the speaker, attachably to and detachably from the temple, and movably at least substantially along a surface of the temporal region of the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi Tanijiri, Sei Mitsui, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8116006
    Abstract: The light directed from a light source to a concave mirror and the light directed from a display device to an eyepiece optical system are intersected by each other in a layout. This allows the light source, the concave mirror, and the display device to be arranged in compactness adjacent to the eyepiece optical system without increasing the optical power of an illumination optical system. As the result, the apparatus can easily be minimized in the thickness or the overall size. A hologram optical element is provided where the relationship between the wavelength range ??1 at half of the diffraction efficiency of each of the three primary colors of the light in the hologram optical element and the wavelength range ??2 at half of the intensity of each of the three primary colors of the light emitted from the light source is defined by ??1 <??2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshie Shimizu, Yasushi Tanijiri, Takeshi Endo, Tetsuya Noda
  • Publication number: 20110194163
    Abstract: A total reflection surface and a holographic optical element (HOE) surface are formed on the same surface (S3) in an eyepiece prism (15). In this structure, a smaller reflection angle can be set at an HOE (16) compared to a structure with the surface formed separately, and the HOE surface of the surface (S3) can be set in the direction parallel to a surface (S2). Thus, even in a structure in which at least a portion of the light flux of the image light fully reflected by the surface (S3) is incident on an affixing region (R1) of a hologram photosensitive material (16a), that portion of the light can be prevented from falling incident on the optical pupil (E) as ghost light. Consequently, in order to prevent the generation of ghost light, an optical path margin no longer needs to be provided between the diffraction and reflection region of the HOE (16) and the total reflection region of the image light; and the eyepiece prism (15) can be thinned by that amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshie Shimizu, Yasushi Tanijiri
  • Publication number: 20110181960
    Abstract: Provided are an image display device and HMD, which can make an observer observe an image with reduced luminance nonuniformity and reduced color nonuniformity, while making the image bright by reducing the degree of diffusion with a constitution employing a means which diffuses incident light in one direction. In the image display device, light from a light source is diffused in one direction with the diffusing means and is guided to a display element, and image light emitted from the display element is guided to an optical pupil through a lens. The image display device with the constitution satisfies the expression Hw/f?tan 1?Kw/(f+?), wherein Hw is the aperture width of pixels of the display element in the diffusing direction of the diffusing means, Kw is the maximum pitch of recesses and protrusions in the diffusing direction of the diffusing means, f is the focal length of the lens, and ? is the distance between the display surface of the display element and the diffusing surface of the diffusing means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventor: Yasushi Tanijiri
  • Patent number: 7898502
    Abstract: Variation of the wavelength of the light emitted from a light source is reduced by a wavelength variation reduction mechanism. Hence, wavelength deviation of the intensity peak of the light emitted from the light source from the diffraction-efficiency peak of a hologram optical element is reduced. Thus, even when a high-brightness light source is used, the light emitted therefrom can be diffracted with the hologram optical element efficiently. Moreover, the heat generated by the light source is efficiently rejected through the surface of a land portion of a flexible printed circuit, is then, via an insulating layer of the flexible printed circuit, efficiently absorbed through the surface of a heat absorbing member, and is then, via a shield conductor, led out of a casing, so as to be thereby expelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi Tanijiri, Ichiro Kasai, Tetsuya Noda, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Yoshie Shimizu
  • Patent number: 7869128
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a head mounted display capable of an accurate display of a surrounding situation always without affecting the display section even if a frame is deflected, and giving a comfortable mounting feeling as well as easy mounting. For this purpose, the head mounted display comprises: a support member including a pair of lateral frames contacting both of a user's head and a front frame in front of a user's face to contact a user's nose; an image display device for displaying an image; an eyepiece optical system provided in front of an eye of the user to lead the image displayed on the image display device to the user's eye; and a connection section which connects the eyepiece optical system with the front frame at a position corresponding to a center position in a lateral direction of the user's face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Yasushi Tanijiri
  • Patent number: 7835050
    Abstract: A hologram optical element is formed on a substrate so as to make an optical device. The hologram optical element is formed in an area smaller than an irradiation area of a beam for reproduction such as image light or object light on the substrate. Supposing that the beam for reproduction is made of a center beam having intensity higher than 50% of center intensity and other peripheral beam, the hologram optical element is formed on the substrate in a size for diffracting only the center beam so that a flare or a ghost can be relieved without using additional optical elements such as a shading plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi Tanijiri, Yoshie Shimizu, Tetsuya Noda, Ichiro Kasai
  • Publication number: 20100284070
    Abstract: The light directed from a light source to a concave mirror and the light directed from a display device to an eyepiece optical system are intersected by each other in a layout. This allows the light source, the concave mirror, and the display device to be arranged in compactness adjacent to the eyepiece optical system without increasing the optical power of an illumination optical system. As the result, the apparatus can easily be minimized in the thickness or the overall size. A hologram optical element is provided where the relationship between the wavelength range ??1 at half of the diffraction efficiency of each of the three primary colors of the light in the hologram optical element and the wavelength range ??2 at half of the intensity of each of the three primary colors of the light emitted from the light source is defined by ??1<??2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Inventors: Yoshie Shimizu, Yasushi Tanijiri, Takeshi Endo, Tetsuya Noda
  • Publication number: 20100066926
    Abstract: In a reflective LCD, a liquid crystal element has a back surface reflection light reducer. The back surface reflection light reducer may be a back surface reflection prevention coating provided on the air-side surface of a liquid crystal sealing base member as a second base member, or may be an inclined surface which is the air-side surface of the second base member inclined relative to the reflective surface of the LCD. When the back surface reflection light reducer is a back surface reflection prevention coating, the image light emerging from white-displaying pixels is hardly reflected on a back surface in the liquid crystal sealing base member, is extracted through the liquid crystal sealing base member to the air side, and is directed through an observation optical system to the optical pupil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventor: Yasushi Tanijiri
  • Publication number: 20090180194
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a head mounted display capable of an accurate display of a surrounding situation always without affecting the display section even if a frame is deflected, and giving a comfortable mounting feeling as well as easy mounting. For this purpose the head mounted display comprises: a support member including a pair of lateral frames contacting both of a user's head and a front frame in front of a user's face to contact a user's nose; an image display device for displaying an image; an eyepiece optical system provided in front of an eye of the user to lead the image displayed on the image display device to the user's eye; and a connection section which connects the eyepiece optical system with the front frame at a position corresponding to a center position in a lateral direction of the user's face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Yasushi Tanijiri
  • Publication number: 20090168131
    Abstract: Provided is an image display apparatus that has resistance to dust and water, that is compact and lightweight, and that has see-through characteristics. The image display apparatus is provided with a display device displaying an image, a prism guiding light of the image displayed by the display device to an optical pupil, and transmitting outside light such that an outside world can be viewed therethrough, and an enclosure housing and holding the display device and part of the prism. Here, a first sealing member is provided so as to make contact with a part around the prism where image light is not reflected and with the enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Yasushi Tanijiri
  • Patent number: 7468843
    Abstract: A display apparatus which has a mirror with a free curved reflective surface of which curvature fluctuates with inflection points, a liquid crystal display (LCD), a back light and a polarizer. Light of an image which was modulated by the LCD is reflected by the free curved reflective surface and passes through the polarizer. Then, the light is directed to an optical pupil. Since the curvature of the free curved reflective surface fluctuates with inflection points, curvature of field and distortion can be corrected properly, and an image of high quality can be formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Tanijiri, Hiroaki Ueda, Ichiro Kasai, Takao Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7460286
    Abstract: The exposure amounts of R, G, and B laser light emitted from a fabrication light source are so adjusted that the diffraction efficiency at R, G, and B wavelengths in an optical element is commensurate with the light intensity at the R, G, and B wavelengths in the light emitted from a reproduction light source. For example, when the light intensity of the light emitted from the reproduction light source is increasingly low at the B, G, and R wavelengths in this order, the exposure amounts of the R, G, B, laser light emitted from the fabrication light source are so adjusted that the diffraction efficiency in the optical element is increasingly high at the B, G, and R wavelengths in this order. In this way, the hue of the light (reproduction light) obtained from the reproduction light source via the optical element can be adjusted to the hue desired with every reproduction light source used, while the most use is made of the light emitted from the reproduction light source actually used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Noda, Ichiro Kasai, Takeshi Endo, Yasushi Tanijiri
  • Patent number: 7405881
    Abstract: The light directed from a light source to a concave mirror and the light directed from a display device to an eyepiece optical system are intersected by each other in a layout. This allows the light source, the concave mirror, and the display device to be arranged in compactness adjacent to the eyepiece optical system without increasing the optical power of an illumination optical system. As the result, the apparatus can easily be minimized in the thickness or the overall size. A hologram optical element is provided where the relationship between the wavelength range ??1 at half of the diffraction efficiency of each of the three primary colors of the light in the hologram optical element and the wavelength range ??2 at half of the intensity of each of the three primary colors of the light emitted from the light source is defined by ??1<??2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshie Shimizu, Yasushi Tanijiri, Tetsuya Noda
  • Patent number: D602064
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Sei Mitsui, Yasushi Tanijiri, Hiroshi Yamaguchi