Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Asanoi
Yoshiaki Asanoi 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: 11966050Abstract: The head-up display apparatus includes: a display unit configured to output projection light; at least one reflector configured to reflect the projection light; a housing, which has an opening portion, and is configured to store the display unit and the reflector therein; a cover member configured to cover the opening portion; and a polarizing plate with a retardation layer, which is arranged on a housing inner side of the cover member, and includes a retardation layer and a polarizer in the stated order from a cover member side. The retardation layer has an in-plane retardation Re(550) of 3,000 nm or more. The head-up display apparatus is configured so that an angle of reflection of the projection light output from the housing through the opening portion with respect to a windshield is 30° or less, or is 40° or more.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takehito Fuchida, Yoshiaki Asanoi, Katsunori Takada
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Patent number: 11933979Abstract: A head-up display apparatus that is excellent in viewability. A head-up display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a display unit configured to emit projection light, the display unit including a display cell, and a first polarizing plate with a retardation layer, which is arranged on an emission side of the display cell, and which includes a polarizer and a first retardation layer in the stated order from a display cell side; at least one reflector configured to reflect the projection light; and a second polarizing plate with a retardation layer, which is arranged on a reflection surface of the reflector, and which includes a polarizer and a second retardation layer in the stated order from a reflector side. The first retardation layer and the second retardation layer each have an in-plane retardation Re(550) of from 100 nm to 200 nm.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki Asanoi, Takehito Fuchida, Katsunori Takada
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Patent number: 11650419Abstract: Provided is a head-up display apparatus that is excellent in viewability when a display screen is viewed through a pair of polarized sunglasses, and is excellent in heat resistance. The head-up display apparatus includes: a display unit configured to output projection light; at least one reflector configured to reflect the projection light; a housing, which has an opening portion, and is configured to store the display unit and the reflector therein; a cover member configured to cover the opening portion; and a polarizing plate arranged on a housing inner side of the cover member. The cover member has an in-plane retardation Re(550) of 3,000 nm or more. The head-up display apparatus is configured so that an angle of reflection of the projection light output from the housing through the opening portion with respect to a windshield is 30° or less, or is 40° or more.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takehito Fuchida, Yoshiaki Asanoi, Katsunori Takada
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Patent number: 11567315Abstract: A head-up display apparatus includes: a display unit, which includes a display cell and a first polarizing plate with a retardation layer arranged on an output side of the display cell, the first polarizing plate with a retardation layer including a polarizer and a first retardation layer in the stated order from the display cell side, and which is configured to output projection light; at least one reflector configured to reflect the projection light; a housing, which has an opening portion, and which is configured to store the display unit and the reflector therein; a cover member configured to cover the opening portion; and a second polarizing plate with a retardation layer, which is arranged on a housing inner side of the cover member, and which includes a polarizer and a second retardation layer in the stated order from the cover member side.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki Asanoi, Takehito Fuchida, Katsunori Takada
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Publication number: 20220286588Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an optical film set for an image generation system. The set includes a first polarizing plate; a second polarizing plate; and a retardation plate. The image generation system includes an image taking apparatus, the first polarizing plate, an object, and the second polarizing plate arranged in the stated order, and includes the retardation plate arranged between the first polarizing plate and the second polarizing plate. The retardation plate is configured so that a color of the second polarizing plate recognized by the image taking apparatus satisfies a*??10.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki Asanoi, Akinori Izaki
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Publication number: 20220247901Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an optical film set for an image generation system. The set includes a first polarizing plate; a second polarizing plate; a first retardation plate; and a second retardation plate. The image generation system includes an image taking apparatus, the first polarizing plate, the first retardation plate, an object, the second retardation plate, and the second polarizing plate arranged in the stated order.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2020Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki Asanoi, Akinori Izaki
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Publication number: 20220082746Abstract: There is provided a head-up display apparatus, which is excellent in heat resistance and is suppressed in occurrence of air bubbles under a high-temperature environment. A head-up display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a display unit configured to emit projection light; at least one reflector configured to reflect the projection light; a housing, which has an opening portion, and is configured to store the display unit and the reflector therein; a cover member configured to cover the opening portion; and a polarizing plate, which is arranged on a housing inner side of the cover member, and includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and a polarizer in the stated order from a cover member side. An interlayer adhesive strength between the cover member and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is 30 N/25 mm or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2019Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takehito Fuchida, Yoshiaki Asanoi, Akinori Izaki
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Publication number: 20220082825Abstract: There is provided a head-up display apparatus, which is excellent in heat resistance and is suppressed in occurrence of air bubbles under a high-temperature environment. A head-up display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a display unit configured to emit projection light; at least one reflector configured to reflect the projection light; a housing, which has an opening portion, and is configured to store the display unit and the reflector therein; a cover member configured to cover the opening portion; and a polarizing plate, which is arranged on a housing inner side of the cover member, and includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and a polarizer in the stated order from a cover member side. An interlayer adhesive strength between the cover member and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is 39 N/25 mm or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2019Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takehito Fuchida, Yoshiaki Asanoi, Akinori Izaki
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Publication number: 20220003996Abstract: A head-up display apparatus that is excellent in viewability. A head-up display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a display unit configured to emit projection light, the display unit including a display cell, and a first polarizing plate with a retardation layer, which is arranged on an emission side of the display cell, and which includes a polarizer and a first retardation layer in the stated order from a display cell side; at least one reflector configured to reflect the projection light; and a second polarizing plate with a retardation layer, which is arranged on a reflection surface of the reflector, and which includes a polarizer and a second retardation layer in the stated order from a reflector side. The first retardation layer and the second retardation layer each have an in-plane retardation Re(550) of from 100 nm to 200 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki Asanoi, Takehito Fuchida, Katsunori Takada
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Patent number: 11215821Abstract: A head-up display apparatus includes: a display unit configured to output projection light; at least one reflector configured to reflect the projection light; a housing, which has an opening portion, and is configured to store the display unit and the reflector therein; a cover member configured to cover the opening portion; and a polarizing plate with a retardation layer, which is arranged on a housing inner side of the cover member, and includes a retardation layer and a polarizer in the stated order from a cover member side. The retardation layer has an in-plane retardation Re(550) of from 100 nm to 200 nm. The head-up display apparatus is configured so that an angle of reflection of the projection light output from the housing through the opening portion with respect to a windshield is 30° or less, or is 40° or more.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takehito Fuchida, Yoshiaki Asanoi, Katsunori Takada
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Publication number: 20210191117Abstract: A head-up display apparatus includes: a display unit configured to output projection light; at least one reflector configured to reflect the projection light; a housing, which has an opening portion, and is configured to store the display unit and the reflector therein; a cover member configured to cover the opening portion; and a polarizing plate with a retardation layer, which is arranged on a housing inner side of the cover member, and includes a retardation layer and a polarizer in the stated order from a cover member side. The retardation layer has an in-plane retardation Re(550) of from 100 nm to 200 nm. The head-up display apparatus is configured so that an angle of reflection of the projection light output from the housing through the opening portion with respect to a windshield is 30° or less, or is 40° or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2018Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takehito Fuchida, Yoshiaki Asanoi, Katsunori Takada
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Publication number: 20210191118Abstract: The head-up display apparatus includes: a display unit configured to output projection light; at least one reflector configured to reflect the projection light; a housing, which has an opening portion, and is configured to store the display unit and the reflector therein; a cover member configured to cover the opening portion; and a polarizing plate with a retardation layer, which is arranged on a housing inner side of the cover member, and includes a retardation layer and a polarizer in the stated order from a cover member side. The retardation layer has an in-plane retardation Re(550) of 3,000 nm or more. The head-up display apparatus is configured so that an angle of reflection of the projection light output from the housing through the opening portion with respect to a windshield is 30° or less, or is 40° or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2018Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takehito Fuchida, Yoshiaki Asanoi, Katsunori Takada
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Publication number: 20210191119Abstract: A head-up display apparatus includes: a display unit, which includes a display cell and a first polarizing plate with a retardation layer arranged on an output side of the display cell, the first polarizing plate with a retardation layer including a polarizer and a first retardation layer in the stated order from the display cell side, and which is configured to output projection light; at least one reflector configured to reflect the projection light; a housing, which has an opening portion, and which is configured to store the display unit and the reflector therein; a cover member configured to cover the opening portion; and a second polarizing plate with a retardation layer, which is arranged on a housing inner side of the cover member, and which includes a polarizer and a second retardation layer in the stated order from the cover member side.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2018Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki Asanoi, Takehito Fuchida, Katsunori Takada
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Publication number: 20200341271Abstract: Provided is a head-up display apparatus that is excellent in viewability when a display screen is viewed through a pair of polarized sunglasses, and is excellent in heat resistance. The head-up display apparatus includes: a display unit configured to output projection light; at least one reflector configured to reflect the projection light; a housing, which has an opening portion, and is configured to store the display unit and the reflector therein; a cover member configured to cover the opening portion; and a polarizing plate arranged on a housing inner side of the cover member. The cover member has an in-plane retardation Re(550) of 3,000 nm or more. The head-up display apparatus is configured so that an angle of reflection of the projection light output from the housing through the opening portion with respect to a windshield is 30° or less, or is 40° or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takehito Fuchida, Yoshiaki Asanoi, Katsunori Takada
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Patent number: 10421239Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide an optical laminate-producing method in which a polarizing film having the desired optical properties can be conveniently formed on a resin film as a substrate without performing any surface alignment treatment such as rubbing on the resin film. The invention relates to a method for producing an optical laminate comprising a stretched resin film and a polarizing film, the method comprising the steps of: preparing a stretched resin film; applying a solution of a liquid crystal compound in an isotropic phase state to the stretched resin film; and forming a polarizing film in which the liquid crystal compound is aligned by solidifying the applied liquid crystal compound solution, wherein a slow axis of the stretched resin film is substantially parallel to an absorption axis of the polarizing film, and the stretched resin film undergoes no surface alignment treatment.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2013Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Shoichi Matsuda, Yoshiaki Asanoi
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Patent number: 10228572Abstract: A light control device of the present invention includes a first patterning polarizing plate 21 containing a plurality of polarization regions having different absorption axis directions, a second patterning polarizing plate 22 containing the same polarization regions as those of the first patterning polarizing plate 21, and a retardation plate 3, wherein at least any one of the first and the second patterning polarizing plates 21, 22 is disposed slidably in a plane direction. Such a light control device hardly causes color irregularities and hardly causes a pattern.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki Asanoi, Shoichi Matsuda, Hiroyuki Takemoto, Tadayuki Kameyama
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Patent number: 10078163Abstract: The present invention is to provide a polarizing plate including an alignment layer applicable to various types of substrates, and having excellent light polarization properties. A polarizing plate 1 of the present invention includes an alignment layer 3, and a polarizing layer 4 disposed on the alignment layer 3, and containing an organic dye having lyotropic liquid crystallinity, wherein the organic dye in the polarizing, layer 4 is in a form of supramolecular aggregates, and the alignment layer 3 contains a cycloolefin based resin.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2015Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki Asanoi, Kazumasa Okada, Shoichi Matsuda, Hiroyuki Takemoto
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Patent number: 9904052Abstract: The present invention provides a projection apparatus capable of clearly displaying a projected image, and allowing the sight behind the projected image to be viewed to a sufficient degree. A projection apparatus (1) of the present invention includes a light irradiation device (3) configured to emit an output light (2) having one polarized light component, and a polarizing plate (4) including a polarizer (41) irradiated with the output light (2), wherein in the polarizing plate (4), an absorption axis is arranged to absorb and reflect the output light (2) by the polarizing plate, reflectance of the polarizing plate (4) for the output light (2) is 10% or more, and single transmittance of the polarizing plate (4) is in the range of 30% to 90%.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Shoichi Matsuda, Yoshiaki Asanoi
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Publication number: 20170146713Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a method for manufacturing a long laminated polarizing plate having a long polarizing coating formed by coating directly on a long retardation film and to provide such a long laminated polarizing plate. The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a long laminated polarizing plate comprising a long retardation film having a slow axis in its longitudinal direction and a long polarizing coating placed on the retardation film and having an absorption axis or a transmission axis in an in-plane direction at an angle of 25 to 65° to the slow axis direction of the long retardation film, the method comprising the steps: (A) preparing a long retardation film having a slow axis in its longitudinal direction and having an Nz coefficient of 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2016Publication date: May 25, 2017Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Shoichi Matsuda, Yoshiaki Asanoi, Tadayuki Kameyama
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Patent number: 9623441Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a method for manufacturing a long laminated polarizing plate having a long polarizing coating formed by coating directly on a long retardation film and to provide such a long laminated polarizing plate. The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a long laminated polarizing plate comprising a long retardation film having a slow axis in its longitudinal direction and a long polarizing coating placed on the retardation film and having an absorption axis or a transmission axis in an in-plane direction at an angle of 25 to 65° to the slow axis direction of the long retardation film.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Shoichi Matsuda, Yoshiaki Asanoi, Tadayuki Kameyama