Patents by Inventor Yoshihiko Kanayama
Yoshihiko Kanayama 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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Publication number: 20240422410Abstract: A light source unit includes a light-emitting device to be attached to a vehicle together with an image capturing device, and the light-emitting device emits near infrared light to a road in a lateral area of vehicle and a road in at least one of the front area or the rear area of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2022Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuhiro UCHIDA, Yoshihiko KANAYAMA, Toshinao AKIE, Takeshi WATANABE, Ryohei KIMOTO, Toshiaki MURAI
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Publication number: 20240183510Abstract: A light emitting apparatus is supported by a second support supported by a first support laterally relative to the first support alongside an imaging apparatus, and emits light to be detected by the imaging apparatus. The light emitting apparatus includes a light source that emits the light and a lens on which the light emitted from the light source is incident and that transmits the light incident on the lens. The lens includes a part provided with a dimmer that at least partially reduces light to be emitted to the first support out of the light incident on the lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiko KANAYAMA, Toshinao AKIE, Ryohei KIMOTO, Mitsuhiro UCHIDA, Takao YOSHIDA, Toshiaki MURAI, Tomoyuki OGATA
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Patent number: 11567241Abstract: A light projection lens includes: an inner surface which light emitted from a light source enters, and includes a first concave portion; and an outer surface from which the light exits. In a cross section parallel to an optical axis of the light emitted from the light source, the outer surface and the first concave portion have a difference in radius of curvature in at least a portion of the outer surface and the first concave portion. In a cross section perpendicular to the optical axis of the light emitted from the light source, the first concave portion has an elliptical shape. The light which exits from the outer surface is lesser in amount in an optical axis direction of the light emitted from the light source than in a direction different from the optical axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiko Kanayama, Atsushi Fukui
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Patent number: 10868967Abstract: A light source unit includes a substrate and a light source. The light source is mounted on the substrate. At least one sensor is configured to detect the infrared light. The at least one sensor detects a wavelength component of the infrared light in a range of wavelengths from 920 nm to 960 nm better than a wavelength component of the infrared light out of the range. The light source device emits the infrared light having a peak wavelength smaller than 920 nm when the light source has a temperature of 25° C. or lower. The peak wavelength of the infrared light emitted from the light source device increases as the temperature of the light source increases from the temperature of 25° C.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiko Kanayama, Yohei Chingyo, Makoto Kai
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Publication number: 20200241176Abstract: A light projection lens includes: an inner surface which light emitted from a light source enters, and includes a first concave portion; and an outer surface from which the light exits. In a cross section parallel to an optical axis of the light emitted from the light source, the outer surface and the first concave portion have a difference in radius of curvature in at least a portion of the outer surface and the first concave portion. In a cross section perpendicular to the optical axis of the light emitted from the light source, the first concave portion has an elliptical shape. The light which exits from the outer surface is lesser in amount in an optical axis direction of the light emitted from the light source than in a direction different from the optical axis direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiko KANAYAMA, Atsushi FUKUI
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Patent number: 10618454Abstract: A light source module is provided that includes a primary wiring substrate and a light source array having a plurality of light sources mounted on a surface of the primary wiring substrate in a matrix. The light source module includes a heat radiation pad, provided at a peripheral region of the primary wiring substrate, and one or a plurality of heat transfer paths having a higher heat conductivity than a base substrate that is a parent material of the primary wiring substrate and connecting the plurality of light sources constituting the light source array and the heat radiation pad. At least one of the plurality of light sources, which are arranged at a row-directional central portion of the light source array, is connected with the heat radiation pad by the heat transfer path including a first linear portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuharu Ueno, Yoshihiko Kanayama, Hiroya Tsuji, Tomoyuki Ogata
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Publication number: 20200099843Abstract: A light source unit includes a substrate and a light source. The light source is mounted on the substrate. At least one sensor is configured to detect the infrared light. The at least one sensor detects a wavelength component of the infrared light in a range of wavelengths from 920 nm to 960 nm better than a wavelength component of the infrared light out of the range. The light source device emits the infrared light having a peak wavelength smaller than 920 nm when the light source has a temperature of 25° C. or lower. The peak wavelength of the infrared light emitted from the light source device increases as the temperature of the light source increases from the temperature of 25° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiko KANAYAMA, Yohei CHINGYO, Makoto KAI
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Patent number: 10593725Abstract: A light source module is provided. According to an exemplary embodiment, the light source module includes a base material. A plurality of light sources is on a surface of the substrate in a matrix. The plurality of light sources is individually controlled to be lit. A first electric supply wire supplies electricity to each of the plurality of light sources. A plurality of second electric supply wires supplies electricity to the plurality of light sources respectively. A plurality of protection diodes is electrically connected with the first electric supply wire and the plurality of second electric supply wires. The plurality of protection diodes is in the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuharu Ueno, Hiroya Tsuji, Yoshihiko Kanayama, Tomoyuki Ogata
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Patent number: 10520153Abstract: A light source module includes: a substrate; and multiple light sources mounted on a first surface of the substrate in a thickness direction of the substrate in a matrix. The light sources include a set of light sources arranged in a row direction and a set of light sources arranged in a column direction. Each of the light sources includes a first electric supply pad and a second electric supply pad. A first electric supply wire extends along the column direction and supplies electricity to each of the first electric supply pads. Second electric supply wires extend in the column direction and supply electricity to each of the second electric supply pads. Portions of light sources arranged in the column direction overlap at least one of the second electric supply wires and first electric supply pads.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuharu Ueno, Yoshihiko Kanayama, Hiroya Tsuji, Tomoyuki Ogata
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Patent number: 10400974Abstract: An illumination device, a headlight, and a movable body are provided which can increase luminosity and resolution at a central region or a peripheral region in an illuminable region. A primary lens is placed at a light emission side of a plurality of light sources, and the primary lens includes a plurality of light guides corresponding in a one-to-one relationship to the plurality of light sources. A size of a light exit surface of a light guide corresponding to a light source which illuminates a central region in the illuminable region of the headlight is set to differ from a size of a light exit surface of a light guide corresponding to a light source which illuminates a peripheral region surrounding the central region.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiko Kanayama, Yasuharu Ueno, Hiroya Tsuji, Tomoyuki Ogata
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Patent number: 10338302Abstract: A light source device including a light guide plate and a light source, in which the light guide plate includes an incident surface on which light emitted from the light source is incident, an emission surface emitting light incident from the incident surface, and a propagating reflection surface which is a surface opposite to the emission surface and which propagates and reflects the light incident from the incident surface toward the emission surface, the propagating reflection surface has approximately V-shaped grooves and the V-shaped grooves have two kinds of grooves.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2013Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takanori Kikuchi, Yusuke Kusaka, Masaru Fujita, Yoshihiko Kanayama, Shohroh Mochida, Masami Ito
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Patent number: 10239443Abstract: A headlamp that projects light forward includes: a low beam light source module; a reflector disposed in a path of light from the low beam light source module; and a first lens body and second lens body disposed farther forward than the low beam light source module and the reflector. The reflector reflects first light and second light, which are portions of the light from the low beam light source module, toward the first lens body and the second lens body, respectively. The first lens body transmits and projects, to a first region, the first light reflected by the reflector. The second lens body transmits and projects, to a second region larger than the first region and including a region closer to the headlamp than the first region, the second light reflected by the reflector. The first light is higher in luminous intensity than the second light.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiko Kanayama, Naoki Tomoda
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Patent number: 10210796Abstract: In a lighting device provided with a light source module including a plurality of light sources, insufficiency of luminous intensity, illuminance unevenness, and the like due to a low-light light source are compensated for. The lighting device includes the light source module which is composed of the plurality of light sources in a matrix and mounted on a board. A drive circuit individually supplies power to the light sources. A processor controls a lighting status of each of the light sources via the drive circuit. The processor determines a low-light light source that is lower in luminous intensity than at least one light source among the plurality of light sources, and causes at least one light source adjacent to the low-light light source to emit light with a higher luminous intensity than the at least one other light source.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiko Kanayama, Yasuharu Ueno, Tomoyuki Ogata, Hiroya Tsuji
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Patent number: 10179533Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a low beam lens, a low beam light-emitting device disposed behind the low beam lens, a plurality of high beam lenses disposed along a periphery of the low beam lens, and a plurality of high beam light-emitting devices disposed behind the plurality of high beam lenses in one-to-one correspondence. At least one of the plurality of high beam lenses includes, on a circumferential edge, a textured surface having light diffusing characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiko Kanayama, Hiro Aoki, Tomoyuki Ogata
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Patent number: 10161617Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes: a projection lens; a light source behind the projection lens; a reflector that reflects light from the light source toward the projection lens; and a shield that blocks a portion of the light reflected by the reflector to form a cutoff line in a distribution pattern of the light. A textured section demarcated by unit regions is formed on a surface of the projection lens, and when a region in a center of the projection lens is defined as a central region, and regions left and right of the central region are defined as left and right regions, respectively, in a front view, a proportion of the unit regions in the central region is greater than a proportion of the unit regions in each of the left region and the right region.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiko Kanayama, Naoki Tomoda, Hideaki Hyuga
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Publication number: 20180245760Abstract: An illumination device, a headlight, and a movable body are provided which can increase luminosity and resolution at a central region or a peripheral region in an illuminable region. A primary lens is placed at a light emission side of a plurality of light sources, and the primary lens includes a plurality of light guides corresponding in a one-to-one relationship to the plurality of light sources. A size of a light exit surface of a light guide corresponding to a light source which illuminates a central region in the illuminable region of the headlight is set to differ from a size of a light exit surface of a light guide corresponding to a light source which illuminates a peripheral region surrounding the central region.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiko KANAYAMA, Yasuharu UENO, Hiroya TSUJI, Tomoyuki OGATA
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Publication number: 20180247585Abstract: In a lighting device provided with a light source module including a plurality of light sources, insufficiency of luminous intensity, illuminance unevenness, and the like due to a low-light light source are compensated for. The lighting device includes the light source module which is composed of the plurality of light sources in a matrix and mounted on a board. A drive circuit individually supplies power to the light sources. A processor controls a lighting status of each of the light sources via the drive circuit. The processor determines a low-light light source that is lower in luminous intensity than at least one light source among the plurality of light sources, and causes at least one light source adjacent to the low-light light source to emit light with a higher luminous intensity than the at least one other light source.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiko KANAYAMA, Yasuharu UENO, Tomoyuki OGATA, Hiroya TSUJI
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Publication number: 20180247972Abstract: A light source module is provided. According to an exemplary embodiment, the light source module includes a base material. A plurality of light sources is on a surface of the substrate in a matrix. The plurality of light sources is individually controlled to be lit. A first electric supply wire supplies electricity to each of the plurality of light sources. A plurality of second electric supply wires supplies electricity to the plurality of light sources respectively. A plurality of protection diodes is electrically connected with the first electric supply wire and the plurality of second electric supply wires. The plurality of protection diodes is in the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuharu UENO, Hiroya TSUJI, Yoshihiko KANAYAMA, Tomoyuki OGATA
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Publication number: 20180244190Abstract: A light source module is provided that includes a primary wiring substrate and a light source array having a plurality of light sources mounted on a surface of the primary wiring substrate in a matrix. The light source module includes a heat radiation pad, provided at a peripheral region of the primary wiring substrate, and one or a plurality of heat transfer paths having a higher heat conductivity than a base substrate that is a parent material of the primary wiring substrate and connecting the plurality of light sources constituting the light source array and the heat radiation pad. At least one of the plurality of light sources, which are arranged at a row-directional central portion of the light source array, is connected with the heat radiation pad by the heat transfer path including a first linear portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LT D.Inventors: Yasuharu UENO, Yoshihiko KANAYAMA, Hiroya TSUJI, Tomoyuki OGATA
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Publication number: 20180245758Abstract: A light source module includes: a substrate; and multiple light sources mounted on a first surface of the substrate in a thickness direction of the substrate in a matrix. The light sources include a set of light sources arranged in a row direction and a set of light sources arranged in a column direction. Each of the light sources includes a first electric supply pad and a second electric supply pad. A first electric supply wire extends along the column direction and supplies electricity to each of the first electric supply pads. Second electric supply wires extend in the column direction and supply electricity to each of the second electric supply pads. Portions of light sources arranged in the column direction overlap at least one of the second electric supply wires and first electric supply pads.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuharu UENO, Yoshihiko KANAYAMA, Hiroya TSUJI, Tomoyuki OGATA