Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Nakazato

Yoshiaki Nakazato 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: 8702286
    Abstract: A vehicle light can prevent color variations in a projected image. The vehicle light can include a light source, a wavelength conversion member including a phosphor configured to receive blue light having been emitted from the light source and then emitting white light, and a reflector having a reflection surface that reflects the white light having been emitted from the wavelength conversion member. The reflection surface of the reflector can have an optical structure that can diffuse the blue light incident on the reflection surface from the phosphor, reflect the blue light back to the phosphor, or allow the blue light to pass through the reflection surface to the area rearward thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Nakazato, Yoshiaki Nakaya
  • Publication number: 20140085923
    Abstract: A light emitting device can project high density laser light by collecting laser light to irradiate in a spotlight manner while remedying local brightness saturation and temperature quenching, and can suppress the lowering of efficiency due to such local brightness saturation and temperature quenching. The light emitting device can include an excitation light source for emitting excitation light; a wavelength conversion member including a diffusion layer and a wavelength conversion layer. The Device can include an optical system configured to collect the excitation light from the excitation light source to irradiate the first face with the collected excitation light in a spotlight manner. In the light emitting device, the diffusion layer can have a thickness that is set in such a manner that brightness distribution of the diffused light exiting through the second face does not include a local peak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Nakazato
  • Patent number: 8439537
    Abstract: A vehicular lighting fixture unit can include a projector lens placed on an optical axis extending in a vehicle front-rear direction. A light-emitting element can be placed between the projector lens and a rear-side focal point of the projector lens at a position lower than the optical axis so as to emit light substantially vertically upward. A phosphor can be placed so as to be closer to a vehicle rear side than the rear-side focal point. A first reflecting surface can reflect the light from the phosphor so as to condense the light toward the optical axis. A second reflecting surface can be placed substantially vertically above the light-emitting element at a position at which the second reflecting surface does not block the reflected light from the first reflecting surface. The second reflecting surface can reflect the light from the light-emitting element toward the phosphor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Nakazato, Yoshiaki Nakaya
  • Publication number: 20120294023
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting unit that utilizes a semiconductor laser light source can suppress color unevenness of a light distribution pattern while ensuring the usefulness of the semiconductor laser light source. The vehicle lighting unit can include a semiconductor laser light source, a phosphor configured to receive blue light emitted from the semiconductor laser light source and emit white light by excitation, and a reflector configured to reflect the light emitted from the phosphor so that the light can be diffused wider in a right-to-left direction than in a vertical direction on the basis of a posture when the lighting unit is mounted on a vehicle body. Part of the blue light that is emitted from the semiconductor laser light source and reflected off a surface of the phosphor can be incident on the reflector with an elongated area in the right-to-left direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Nakazato
  • Publication number: 20120206931
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting device can include an LED light source having a light emitting surface, a laser light source, and a fluorescent body for emitting visible light in response to excitation light from the LED light source and the laser light source. The fluorescent body can have a rear surface formed to have substantially the same size as the light emitting surface, and a front surface located opposite the rear surface. The fluorescent body can be disposed on the light emitting surface such that the rear surface covers the whole light emitting surface. The fluorescent body can emit the visible light from the whole of the front surface, in response to the excitation light from the LED light source. The laser light source irradiates the excitation light to a portion on the front surface. The portion is to emit the visible light to a high illuminance area within a light distribution pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshiaki NAKAZATO, Yoshiaki NAKAYA
  • Publication number: 20120163009
    Abstract: A vehicle light can prevent color variations of the projected image. The vehicle light can include a laser diode, a wavelength conversion member including a phosphor configured to receive blue light emitted from the laser diode and then emitting white light, a projection lens configured to project the white light emitted from the wavelength conversion member to provide forward illumination for a vehicle, and a diffusing portion provided to the projection lens, configured to diffuse the excitation light which is incident on the projection lens from the wavelength conversion member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshiaki NAKAZATO, Yoshiaki NAKAYA
  • Publication number: 20120140501
    Abstract: A vehicle light can prevent color variations in a projected image. The vehicle light can include a light source, a wavelength conversion member including a phosphor configured to receive blue light having been emitted from the light source and then emitting white light, and a reflector having a reflection surface that reflects the white light having been emitted from the wavelength conversion member. The reflection surface of the reflector can have an optical structure that can diffuse the blue light incident on the reflection surface from the phosphor, reflect the blue light back to the phosphor, or allow the blue light to pass through the reflection surface to the area rearward thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Nakazato, Yoshiaki Nakaya
  • Publication number: 20120063157
    Abstract: A vehicular lighting fixture unit according to one aspect of the subject matter can include a projector lens placed on an optical axis extending in a vehicle front-rear direction. A light-emitting element can be placed between the projector lens and a rear-side focal point of the projector lens at a position lower than the optical axis so as to emit light substantially vertically upward. A phosphor can be placed so as to be closer to a vehicle rear side than the rear-side focal point. A first reflecting surface can be configured to reflect the light from the phosphor so as to condense the light toward the optical axis. A second reflecting surface can be placed substantially vertically above the light-emitting element at a position at which the second reflecting surface does not block the reflected light from the first reflecting surface. The second reflecting surface can be configured to reflect the light from the light-emitting element toward the phosphor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Nakazato, Yoshiaki Nakaya
  • Patent number: 6806859
    Abstract: A signal line drive circuit for an LCD display having a reduced chip size and circuit scale. The drive part for two neighboring channels has a pair of registers 10L and 10R, a pair of first data latch circuits 12L and 12R, a pair of first switching circuits 14L and 14R, a pair of second data latch circuits 16L and 16R, a pair of level shifters 18L and 18R, a pair of D/A converters 20L and 20R, a pair of output amplifiers 22L and 22R, a pair of second switching circuits 24L and 24R, and a pair of output pads 26L and 26R. All K positive gray-scale voltages V1-VK are supplied to the left-side D/A converter 20L from gray-scale voltage generating circuit 28. On the other hand, all K negative gray-scale voltages V′K-V′1 are supplied to the right-side D/A converter 20R from gray-scale voltage generating circuit 28.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Hideki Kanoh, Michio Takuma, Yoshiaki Nakazato