Patents Assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11997766
    Abstract: A novel functional panel that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. A novel display device is provided. The functional panel includes an optical element, a first insulating film, and a region. The optical element has a first refractive index; the optical element is a convex lens; the optical element has a first surface and a second surface; the optical element has a first cross section on a first plane; the first surface forms a first curve in the first cross section; the first curve has a first radius of curvature; the second surface faces the first surface; the second surface is irradiated with first light; the first insulating film is interposed between the optical element and the region; the first insulating film is in contact with the second surface; the region overlaps with the second surface; the region faces the second surface; the region emits the first light; and a distance L1 is a distance between the region and the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daiki Nakamura, Tomoya Aoyama
  • Patent number: 11997910
    Abstract: A flexible semiconductor device including a light-emitting element and a sensor element is provided. The semiconductor device includes a sensor device, a processor, and a communication device. The sensor device includes a first pixel and a second pixel formed over a flexible substrate. The first pixel includes a light-emitting element and a first transistor. The second pixel includes a sensor element having a photoelectric conversion function and a second transistor. Light emitted from the light-emitting element has a peak wavelength. A range of wavelength sensed by the sensor element includes the peak wavelength. A semiconductor layer of the first transistor and a semiconductor layer of the second transistor include the same element. A pixel electrode of the light-emitting element has a function of being electrically connected to the first transistor and a function of blocking diffusion light to the sensor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Nakagawa, Takayuki Ikeda, Takahiro Fukutome
  • Patent number: 11997861
    Abstract: A light-emitting element having high emission efficiency which includes a fluorescent material as a light-emitting substance is provided. A light-emitting element includes a pair of electrodes and an EL layer between the pair of electrodes. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer. The light-emitting layer includes a host material and a guest material. The host material has a difference of more than 0 eV and less than or equal to 0.2 eV between a singlet excitation energy level and a triplet excitation energy level. The guest material is capable of emitting fluorescence. The triplet excitation energy level of the host material is higher than a triplet excitation energy level of the guest material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Nobuharu Ohsawa, Shunsuke Hosoumi, Takahiro Ishisone
  • Patent number: 11997860
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting element with high external quantum efficiency and a low drive voltage. The light-emitting element includes a light-emitting layer which contains a phosphorescent compound and a material exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence between a pair of electrodes, wherein a peak of a fluorescence spectrum and/or a peak of a phosphorescence spectrum of the material exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence overlap(s) with a lowest-energy-side absorption band in an absorption spectrum of the phosphorescent compound, and wherein the phosphorescent compound exhibits phosphorescence in the light-emitting layer by voltage application between the pair of electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Seo
  • Patent number: 11997904
    Abstract: A display panel or a display device with high display quality is provided. The display panel includes a light-emitting element, an insulating layer, a protective layer, and a conductive layer. The light-emitting element includes a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode. The light-emitting element emits light to the protective layer side. The insulating layer includes a first opening overlapping with the first electrode. The insulating layer covers an end portion of the first electrode. The light-emitting layer overlaps with the first electrode through the first opening. The second electrode is positioned over the light-emitting layer. The protective layer is over and in contact with the second electrode. The protective layer functions as a protective layer of the light-emitting element. The protective layer includes a second opening overlapping with the insulating layer. The conductive layer is connected to the second electrode through the second opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nozomu Sugisawa, Daiki Nakamura, Tomoya Aoyama, Yusuke Nishido
  • Patent number: 11997859
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to improve the reliability of a light-emitting device. Another object of the invention is to provide flexibility to a light-emitting device having a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor film. A light-emitting device has, over one flexible substrate, a driving circuit portion including a thin film transistor for a driving circuit and a pixel portion including a thin film transistor for a pixel. The thin film transistor for a driving circuit and the thin film transistor for a pixel are inverted staggered thin film transistors including an oxide semiconductor layer which is in contact with a part of an oxide insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Eguchi, Yoshiaki Oikawa, Kenichi Okazaki, Hotaka Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11996423
    Abstract: An imaging device that generates a pulse signal by utilizing photoelectric conversion operation is provided. A data potential generated by the photoelectric conversion operation is input to a pulse generation circuit to output a pulse signal having a spike waveform. In addition, a structure in which product-sum operation of pulse signals is performed is provided, and digital data is generated from a new pulse signal. The digital data is taken into a neural network or the like, whereby processing such as image recognition can be performed. Processing up to taking an enormous amount of image data into a neural network or the like can be performed in the imaging device; thus, processing can be efficiently performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takayuki Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11996436
    Abstract: To improve color reproduction areas in a display device having light-emitting elements. A display region has a plurality of picture elements. Each picture element includes: first and second pixels each including a light-emitting element which has a chromaticity whose x-coordinate in a CIE-XY chromaticity diagram is 0.50 or more; third and fourth pixels each including a light-emitting element which has a chromaticity whose y-coordinate in the diagram is 0.55 or more; and fifth and sixth pixels each including a light-emitting element which has a chromaticity whose x-coordinate and y-coordinate in the diagram are 0.20 or less and 0.25 or less, respectively. The light-emitting elements in the first and second pixels have different emission spectrums from each other; the light-emitting elements in the third and fourth pixels have different emission spectrums from each other, and the light-emitting elements in the fifth and sixth pixels have different emission spectrums from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Atsushi Miyaguchi
  • Patent number: 11997846
    Abstract: A semiconductor device that can be miniaturized or highly integrated is provided. The semiconductor device includes an oxide; a first conductor and a second conductor provided apart from each other over the oxide; a third conductor including a region that is over the oxide and overlaps with a region between the first conductor and the second conductor; a first insulator over the third conductor; a fourth conductor that is electrically connected to the first conductor through a first opening provided in the first insulator; a second insulator that is provided over the first insulator and that is provided over the fourth conductor in the first opening; a fifth conductor overlapping with the fourth conductor with the second insulator positioned therebetween in the first opening; and a sixth conductor electrically connected to the second conductor in a second opening provided in the first insulator and the second insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Okamoto, Ryo Tokumaru, Ryota Hodo
  • Patent number: 11996133
    Abstract: Since power source voltages are different depending on circuits used for devices, a circuit for outputting at least two or more power sources is additionally prepared. An object is to unify outputs of the power source voltages. A transistor using an oxide semiconductor is provided in such a manner that electrical charge is retained in a node where the transistor and a capacitor are electrically connected to each other, a reset signal is applied to a gate of the transistor to switch the states of the transistor from off to on, and the node is reset when the transistor is on. A circuit configuration that generates and utilizes a potential higher than or equal to a potential of a single power source can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumika Akasawa, Munehiro Kozuma
  • Patent number: 11996132
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first transistor one of a source and a drain of which is electrically connected to a first wiring for reading data; a second transistor one of a source and a drain of which is electrically connected to a gate of the first transistor and the other of the source and the drain of which is electrically connected to a second wiring for writing the data; and a third transistor one of a source and a drain of which is electrically connected to the gate of the first transistor and the other of the source and the drain of which is electrically connected to a capacitor for retaining electric charge corresponding to the data, and the third transistor includes a metal oxide in a channel formation region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Onuki, Kiyoshi Kato, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11996416
    Abstract: An object is to reduce a capacitance value of parasitic capacitance without decreasing driving capability of a transistor in a semiconductor device such as an active matrix display device. Further, another object is to provide a semiconductor device in which the capacitance value of the parasitic capacitance was reduced, at low cost. An insulating layer other than a gate insulating layer is provided between a wiring which is formed of the same material layer as a gate electrode of the transistor and a wiring which is formed of the same material layer as a source electrode or a drain electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20240172521
    Abstract: A novel semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes an imaging unit and a display unit and includes a first layer, a second layer over the first layer, and a third layer over the second layer. The first layer includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, the second layer includes a plurality of display pixel circuits, and the third layer includes a plurality of display elements. The imaging unit includes the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. The display unit includes the plurality of display pixel circuits and the plurality of display elements and one of the plurality of display pixel circuits is electrically connected to one of the plurality of display elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Yshiaki OIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11988720
    Abstract: A semiconductor device that detects deterioration of a secondary battery is provided. The semiconductor device includes a power gauge, an anomalous current detection circuit, and a control circuit. The power gauge includes a current divider circuit and an integrator circuit. The anomalous current detection circuit includes a first memory, a second memory, and a first comparator. The integrator circuit can convert a detection current detected at the current divider circuit into a detection voltage by integrating the detection current. The anomalous current detection circuit is supplied with the detection voltage, a first signal at a first time, and a second signal at a second time. The first signal can make the detection voltage at the first time be stored in the first memory and the second signal can make the detection voltage at the second time be stored in the second memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Takahashi, Takayuki Ikeda, Ryota Tajima, Mayumi Mikami, Yohei Momma, Munehiro Kozuma, Takanori Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 11990502
    Abstract: To provide a display device capable of performing image processing. Each pixel is provided with a memory circuit in which desired correction data is retained. The correction data is generated by calculation in an external device and written to each pixel. The correction data is added to image data by capacitive coupling and supplied to a display element. Thus, the display element can display a corrected image. Through the correction, image upconversion can be performed, or image quality decreased because of variations in pixel transistor characteristics can be corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe, Kouhei Toyotaka, Naoto Kusumoto, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11990621
    Abstract: The formation method of graphene includes the steps of forming a layer including graphene oxide over a first conductive layer; and supplying a potential at which the reduction reaction of the graphene oxide occurs to the first conductive layer in an electrolyte where the first conductive layer as a working electrode and a second conductive layer with a as a counter electrode are immersed. A manufacturing method of a power storage device including at least a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an electrolyte, and a separator includes a step of forming graphene for an active material layer of one of or both the positive electrode and the negative electrode by the formation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroatsu Todoriki, Yumiko Saito, Takahiro Kawakami, Kuniharu Nomoto, Mikio Yukawa
  • Patent number: 11991890
    Abstract: A light-emitting element having low driving voltage and high emission efficiency is provided. In the light-emitting element, a combination of a guest material and a host material forms an exciplex. The guest material is capable of converting triplet excitation energy into light emission. Light emission from the light-emitting layer includes light emission from the guest material and light emission from the exciplex. The percentage of the light emission from the exciplex to the light emission from the light-emitting layer is greater than 0 percent and less than or equal to 60 percent. The energy after subtracting the energy of light emission from the exciplex from the energy of light emission from the guest material is greater than 0 eV and less than or equal to 0.23 eV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satomi Mitsumori, Takeyoshi Watabe, Satoshi Seo, Yuko Kubota
  • Patent number: 11988926
    Abstract: A display apparatus having an excellent boosting function is provided. The display apparatus is provided with a pixel having a function of adding data (a boosting function). A capacitor for boosting voltage is provided in the pixel, and data is added by capacitive coupling to be supplied to a display device. The capacitor for boosting voltage and a capacitor for retaining data are placed on top of each other, whereby the capacitance value of the capacitor for boosting voltage can be increased. Thus, the pixel can have an excellent boosting function, without significantly losing the aperture ratio or definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Naoto Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 11991438
    Abstract: An imaging device capable of executing image processing is provided. An imaging device with low power consumption is provided. A highly reliable imaging device is provided. An imaging device with higher integration degree of pixels is provided. An imaging device manufactured at low cost is provided. The imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion device, a first transistor that is formed in a first layer and includes silicon in a channel formation layer, and a capacitor that is formed in a second layer bonded to the first layer. One of a source and a drain of the first transistor is electrically connected to one of electrodes of the photoelectric conversion device, and the other of the source and the drain of the first transistor is electrically connected to one of electrodes of the capacitor. A pixel having a function of generating first data and a function of multiplying the first data to have a given magnification to generate second data is included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiichi Yoneda, Yusuke Negoro
  • Patent number: 11990551
    Abstract: The stability of steps of processing a wiring formed using copper or the like is increased. The concentration of impurities in a semiconductor film is reduced. Electrical characteristics of a semiconductor device are improved. A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor film, a pair of first protective films in contact with the semiconductor film, a pair of conductive films containing copper or the like in contact with the pair of first protective films, a pair of second protective films in contact with the pair of conductive films on the side opposite the pair of first protective films, a gate insulating film in contact with the semiconductor film, and a gate electrode overlapping with the semiconductor film with the gate insulating film therebetween. In a cross section, side surfaces of the pair of second protective films are located on the outer side of side surfaces of the pair of conductive films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Masami Jintyou, Yasutaka Nakazawa, Yukinori Shima