Patents by Inventor Yoshihito Satou

Yoshihito Satou 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: 9332599
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology related to an improvement in the performance of releasing heat generated in a semiconductor light-emitting device. In a light-emitting module including a semiconductor light-emitting device provided with at least a semiconductor light-emitting element and a phosphor, and a circuit board, on the circuit board, at least a semiconductor light-emitting device including a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements each having a different path of a drive current to be supplied thereto, or a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting devices each having a different path of a drive current to be supplied to the semiconductor light-emitting elements is mounted. The circuit board is provided with a base material portion formed using a heat-conducting material, and a power supply conductor layer for supplying the drive currents of the semiconductor light-emitting elements to the semiconductor light-emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akeo Kasakura, Shuuji Onaka, Toru Takeda, Yoshihito Satou
  • Patent number: 9070843
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor light-emitting device which emits light with high chroma, and an exhibit-irradiating illumination device, a meat-irradiating illumination device, a vegetable-irradiating illumination device, a fresh fish-irradiating illumination device, a general-purpose illumination device, and a semiconductor light-emitting system which include the semiconductor light-emitting device. A semiconductor light-emitting device 1 comprises an LED chip 10 as a semiconductor light-emitting element and a phosphor 20 which uses the LED chip 10 as an excitation source to emit light. The phosphor contains at least a green phosphor and a red phosphor, and a value of intensity of light with a wavelength of 660 nm in a spectrum of beam-normalized light emitted from the semiconductor light-emitting device 1 is 170% or more and 300% or less of a value of intensity of light with a wavelength of 660 nm in a spectrum of beam-normalized reference light for color rendering evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sakuta, Yoshihito Satou
  • Patent number: 8890403
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology that allows reducing the used amount of a Mn4+-activated fluoride complex phosphor without loss of luminous efficiency, in a white light-emitting device that is provided with the Mn4+-activated fluoride complex phosphor and an LED element that is an excitation source of the phosphor. The present invention provides a white light-emitting device comprises a blue LED element, as well as a yellow phosphor and/or a green phosphor and a red phosphor as phosphors that are excited by the blue LED element. The red phosphor contains a Mn4+-activated fluoride complex phosphor and a Eu2+-activated alkaline earth silicon nitride phosphor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sakuta, Yoshihito Satou, Naoto Kijima, Byungchul Hong
  • Patent number: 8847507
    Abstract: An illuminating device comprising a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting devices differing in emission color and employing a semiconductor light-emitting element and a phosphor, wherein outputted light is stably combined, separation of light is inhibited, and color tone is variable, and which devices emit light outward on the basis of an emission from the semiconductor light-emitting element and from the phosphor which is excited by emission from the semiconductor light-emitting element to fluoresce or on the basis of emission from the phosphor which is so excited to fluoresce, the deviation duv of which from a blackbody radiation locus being within a range of ?0.02?duv?0.02, in the uv chromaticity diagram according to UCS (u,v) color system (CIE 1960), and outputted lights from the light-emitting part in which the plurality of kinds of the semiconductor light-emitting devices are integrated and arranged, are mixed together and emitted outward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Akeo Kasakura, Yoshihito Satou
  • Patent number: 8829780
    Abstract: The invention aims at providing controllable parameters that are correlated with special color rendering index R9, and at providing a white-light emitting semiconductor device having a high R9 value obtained through optimization of such parameters. The white-light emitting semiconductor device is provided with a phosphor as a light-emitting material and with a light-emitting semiconductor element as an excitation source of the phosphor. The phosphor includes at least a green phosphor and a wide-band red phosphor. In the white light-emitting semiconductor device, an intensity at wavelength 640 nm of an emission spectrum which has been normalized with respect to luminous flux is 100-110% of the intensity at wavelength 640 nm of a spectrum of standard light for color rendering evaluation which has been normalized with respect to luminous flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sakuta, Kazuhiko Kagawa, Yoshihito Satou, Shin Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 8829778
    Abstract: A white light-emitting semiconductor device having improved reproducibility of bright red. The device outputs light having a blue component, a green component, and a red component. Each of the light components (blue, green, and red) is based on a light-emitting semiconductor element and/or a phosphor that absorbs light emitted by a light-emitting semiconductor element and emits light through wavelength conversion. The outputted light has a spectrum which has a maximum wavelength in the range of 615-645 nm, and the intensity at a wavelength of 580 nm of the outputted light, which has been normalized with respect to luminous flux, is 80-100% of the intensity at a wavelength of 580 nm of standard light for color rendering evaluation, which has been normalized with respect to luminous flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sakuta, Kazuhiko Kagawa, Yoshihito Satou, Hiroaki Okagawa, Shin Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 8779455
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor light-emitting device that emits light with a specific low correlated color temperature and with a high Ra, and a semiconductor light-emitting system provided with the semiconductor light-emitting device. This object is attained by the semiconductor light-emitting device having the below-described configuration. A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a LED chip as a semiconductor light-emitting element, and a phosphor emitting light using the LED chip as an excitation source, and emits light with a correlated color temperature equal to or higher than 1600 K and lower than 2400 K. The phosphor includes at least a green phosphor and a red phosphor. In the spectrum of light emitted from the semiconductor light-emitting device, the value of the peak intensity of the light emitted by the LED chip is less than 60% of the maximum peak intensity of the light emitted by the phosphor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sakuta, Yuki Kohara, Yoshihito Satou
  • Publication number: 20140191655
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology related to an improvement in the performance of releasing heat generated in a semiconductor light-emitting device. In a light-emitting module including a semiconductor light-emitting device provided with at least a semiconductor light-emitting element and a phosphor, and a circuit board, on the circuit board, at least a semiconductor light-emitting device including a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements each having a different path of a drive current to be supplied thereto, or a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting devices each having a different path of a drive current to be supplied to the semiconductor light-emitting elements is mounted. The circuit board is provided with a base material portion formed using a heat-conducting material, and a power supply conductor layer for supplying the drive currents of the semiconductor light-emitting elements to the semiconductor light-emitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akeo KASAKURA, Shuuji Onaka, Toru Takeda, Yoshihito Satou
  • Publication number: 20140042896
    Abstract: A white light-emitting semiconductor device having improved reproducibility of bright red. The device outputs light having a blue component, a green component, and a red component. Each of the light components (blue, green, and red) is based on a light-emitting semiconductor element and/or a phosphor that absorbs light emitted by a light-emitting semiconductor element and emits light through wavelength conversion. The outputted light has a spectrum which has a maximum wavelength in the range of 615-645 nm, and the intensity at a wavelength of 580 nm of the outputted light, which has been normalized with respect to luminous flux, is 80-100% of the intensity at a wavelength of 580 nm of standard light for color rendering evaluation, which has been normalized with respect to luminous flux.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki SAKUTA, Kazuhiko Kagawa, Yoshihito Satou, Hiroaki Okagawa, Shin Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 8581488
    Abstract: A white light-emitting semiconductor device having improved reproducibility of bright red. The device outputs light having a blue component, a green component, and a red component. Each of the light components (blue, green, and red) consists of a light-emitting semiconductor element and/or a phosphor that absorbs light emitted by a light-emitting semiconductor element and emits light through wavelength conversion. The outputted light has a spectrum which has a maximum wavelength in the range of 615-645 nm, and the intensity at a wavelength of 580 nm of the outputted light, which has been normalized with respect to luminous flux, is 80-100% of the intensity at a wavelength of 580 nm of standard light for color rendering evaluation, which has been normalized with respect to luminous flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sakuta, Kazuhiko Kagawa, Yoshihito Satou, Hiroaki Okagawa, Shin Hiraoka
  • Publication number: 20130277694
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor light-emitting device which emits light with high chroma, and an exhibit-irradiating illumination device, a meat-irradiating illumination device, a vegetable-irradiating illumination device, a fresh fish-irradiating illumination device, a general-purpose illumination device, and a semiconductor light-emitting system which include the semiconductor light-emitting device. A semiconductor light-emitting device 1 comprises an LED chip 10 as a semiconductor light-emitting element and a phosphor 20 which uses the LED chip 10 as an excitation source to emit light. The phosphor contains at least a green phosphor and a red phosphor, and a value of intensity of light with a wavelength of 660 nm in a spectrum of beam-normalized light emitted from the semiconductor light-emitting device 1 is 170% or more and 300% or less of a value of intensity of light with a wavelength of 660 nm in a spectrum of beam-normalized reference light for color rendering evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Hiroaki SAKUTA, Yoshihito SATOU
  • Publication number: 20130264937
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology that allows reducing the used amount of a Mn4+-activated fluoride complex phosphor without loss of luminous efficiency, in a white light-emitting device that is provided with the Mn4+-activated fluoride complex phosphor and an LED element that is an excitation source of the phosphor. The present invention provides a white light-emitting device comprises a blue LED element, as well as a yellow phosphor and/or a green phosphor and a red phosphor as phosphors that are excited by the blue LED element. The red phosphor contains a Mn4+-activated fluoride complex phosphor and a Eu2+-activated alkaline earth silicon nitride phosphor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Hiroaki SAKUTA, Yoshihito SATOU, Naoto KIJIMA, Byungchul HONG
  • Publication number: 20130221866
    Abstract: An illuminating device comprising a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting devices differing in emission color and employing a semiconductor light-emitting element and a phosphor, wherein outputted light is stably combined, separation of light is inhibited, and color tone is variable, and which devices emit light outward on the basis of an emission from the semiconductor light-emitting element and from the phosphor which is excited by emission from the semiconductor light-emitting element to fluoresce or on the basis of emission from the phosphor which is so excited to fluoresce, the deviation duv of which from a blackbody radiation locus being within a range of ?0.02?duv?0.02, in the uv chromaticity diagram according to UCS (u,v) color system (CIE 1960), and outputted lights from the light-emitting part in which the plurality of kinds of the semiconductor light-emitting devices are integrated and arranged, are mixed together and emitted outward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventors: Akeo Kasakura, Yoshihito Satou
  • Patent number: 8410714
    Abstract: An illuminating device comprising semiconductor light-emitting devices employing a semiconductor light-emitting element, wherein outputted light is stably combined, separation of light is inhibited, and color tone is variable. Control for operating the light-emitting devices is as simple as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Akeo Kasakura, Yoshihito Satou
  • Patent number: 8348456
    Abstract: An illuminating device has a solid light-emitting element module and a phosphor module joined to the solid light-emitting element module. The solid light-emitting element module has a plurality of the solid light-emitting elements. The phosphor module has a plurality of phosphor-containing parts corresponding to the individual solid light-emitting elements. Thus, a light-emitting part is provided, which has more than one kind of luminescence sources having the solid light-emitting element and the phosphor-containing part. An illumination intensity of a composite light is 150 lux or more at a distance of 30 cm perpendicularly from the light-emitting surface of the light-emitting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Satou, Yasunori Matsushita, Akeo Kasakura
  • Publication number: 20120319565
    Abstract: The invention aims at providing controllable parameters that are correlated with special color rendering index R9, and at providing a white light-emitting semiconductor device having a high R9 value obtained through optimization of such parameters. The white light-emitting semiconductor device is provided with a phosphor as a light-emitting material and with a light-emitting semiconductor element as an excitation source of the phosphor. The phosphor includes at least a green phosphor and a wide-band red phosphor. In the white light-emitting semiconductor device, an intensity at wavelength 640 nm of an emission spectrum which has been normalized with respect to luminous flux is 100-110% of the intensity at wavelength 640 nm of a spectrum of standard light for color rendering evaluation which has been normalized with respect to luminous flux.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki SAKUTA, Kazuhiko Kagawa, Yoshihito Satou, Shin Hiraoka
  • Publication number: 20120112626
    Abstract: A white light-emitting semiconductor device having improved reproducibility of bright red. The device outputs light having a blue component, a green component, and a red component. Each of the light components (blue, green, and red) consists of a light-emitting semiconductor element and/or a phosphor that absorbs light emitted by a light-emitting semiconductor element and emits light through wavelength conversion. The outputted light has a spectrum which has a maximum wavelength in the range of 615-645 nm, and the intensity at a wavelength of 580 nm of the outputted light, which has been normalized with respect to luminous flux, is 80-100% of the intensity at a wavelength of 580 nm of standard light for color rendering evaluation, which has been normalized with respect to luminous flux.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki SAKUTA, Kazuhiko KAGAWA, Yoshihito Satou, Hiroaki Okagawa, Shin Hiraoka
  • Publication number: 20100295464
    Abstract: An illuminating device comprising semiconductor light-emitting devices employing a semiconductor light-emitting element, wherein outputted light is stably combined, separation of light is inhibited, and color tone is variable. Control for operating the light-emitting devices is as simple as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akeo Kasakura, Yoshihito Satou
  • Publication number: 20100171440
    Abstract: An illuminating device has a solid light-emitting element module (10) and a phosphor module (20) joined to the solid light-emitting element module (10). The solid light-emitting element module (10) has a plurality of the solid light-emitting elements. The phosphor module (20) has a plurality of phosphor-containing parts (22) corresponding to the individual solid light-emitting elements (12). Thus, a light-emitting part is provided, which has more than one kind of luminescence sources having the solid light-emitting element (12) and the phosphor-containing part (22). An illumination intensity of a composite light is 150 lux or more at a distance of 30 cm perpendicularly from the light-emitting surface of the light-emitting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihito Satou, Yasunori Matsushita, Akeo Kasakura