Patents by Inventor Katsuhiro Tomoda

Katsuhiro Tomoda 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: 9250456
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a plurality of light emitting sections. The first substrate includes a first surface and a second surface which faces the first surface. The second substrate is arranged to face the first substrate, and is configured with a first surface which faces the second surface of the first substrate, and a second surface which faces the first surface. The plurality of light emitting sections is provided on the second surface of the first substrate while being separated from the second substrate. A light transmission suppression layer on which a light transmission section to transmit light from light emitting sections is provided is formed on the second surface of the second substrate in correspondence to each light emitting section. An anti-reflection layer is formed in the light transmission section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Tomoda, Toshiya Takagishi, Izushi Kobayashi, Masaru Fujii, Hiroshi Terahara, Masato Doi, Hisashi Kadota
  • Publication number: 20150255039
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus including: one or a plurality of light emitting devices each having a plurality of electrodes and each emitting light from the upper surface of the light emitting device; a plurality of terminal electrodes provided on the lower side of the light emitting devices in a positional relation with the light emitting devices and electrically connected to the electrodes of the light emitting devices; a first metal line brought into contact with the upper surfaces of the light emitting devices and one of the terminal electrodes, provided at a location separated away from side surfaces of the light emitting devices and created in a film creation process; and an insulator in which the light emitting devices and the first metal line are embedded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Naoki Hirao, Katsuhiro Tomoda
  • Patent number: 9119332
    Abstract: An assembly including a substrate, a metal wiring layer on the substrate, the metal wiring layer having an opening therein, a thermosetting resin layer on at least a portion of the substrate overlapping the opening of the metal wiring layer, and a device on the resin layer, the device positioned over the opening of the metal wiring layer and bonded to the substrate via the resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Tomoda
  • Patent number: 9065029
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a light emitting apparatus including: one or a plurality of light emitting devices each having a plurality of electrodes and each emitting light from the upper surface of the light emitting device; a plurality of terminal electrodes provided on the lower side of the light emitting devices in a positional relation with the light emitting devices and electrically connected to the electrodes of the light emitting devices; a first metal line brought into contact with the upper surfaces of the light emitting devices and one of the terminal electrodes, provided at a location separated away from side surfaces of the light emitting devices and created in a film creation process; and an insulator in which the light emitting devices and the first metal line are embedded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Hirao, Katsuhiro Tomoda
  • Patent number: 8928009
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: one or plural light emitting elements having plural electrodes; a chip-like insulator surrounding the one or plural light emitting elements from a side surface side of the one or plural light emitting elements; and plural terminal electrodes electrically connected one-to-one with the plural electrodes, and having protrusions each protruding from a peripheral edge of the chip-like insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Okuyama, Katsuhiro Tomoda, Naoki Hirao
  • Publication number: 20140291709
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a plurality of light emitting sections. The first substrate includes a first surface and a second surface which faces the first surface. The second substrate is arranged to face the first substrate, and is configured with a first surface which faces the second surface of the first substrate, and a second surface which faces the first surface. The plurality of light emitting sections is provided on the second surface of the first substrate while being separated from the second substrate. A light transmission suppression layer on which a light transmission section to transmit light from light emitting sections is provided is formed on the second surface of the second substrate in correspondence to each light emitting section. An anti-reflection layer is formed in the light transmission section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Tomoda, Toshiya Takagishi, Izushi Kobayashi, Masaru Fujii, Hiroshi Terahara, Masato Doi, Hisashi Kadota
  • Patent number: 8686447
    Abstract: A light emitting unit including plural kinds of light emitting elements with different light emitting wavelengths, wherein, among the light emitting elements, at least one kind of light emitting element includes a semiconductor layer configured by laminating a first conductive layer, an active layer and a second conductive layer and having a side surface exposed by the first conductive layer, the active layer and the second conductive layer; a first electrode electrically connected to the first conductive layer; a second electrode electrically connected to the second conductive layer; a first insulation layer contacting at least an exposed surface of the active layer in the surface of the semiconductor layer; and a metal layer contacting at least a surface, which is opposite to the exposed surface of the active layer, in the surface of the first insulation layer, and electrically separated from the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Tomoda, Naoki Hirao, Goshi Biwa
  • Patent number: 8628994
    Abstract: A method of making a semiconductor light-emitting device including (A) a light-emitting portion by laminating in sequence a first compound semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second compound semiconductor layer; (B) a first electrode electrically connected to the first compound semiconductor layer; (C) a transparent conductive material layer on the second compound semiconductor layer; (D) an insulating layer on a transparent conductive material layer; and (E) a second reflective electrode that on the transparent conductive material layer and on the insulating layer in a continuous manner, wherein, that the areas of the active layer, the transparent conductive material layer, the insulating layer, and the second electrode S1, S2, S3, and S4, respectively are related as S1?S2<S3 and S2<S4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Tomoda
  • Publication number: 20140008691
    Abstract: A device includes: a substrate; and a functional element mounted, the functional element including electrodes. The substrate includes a support substrate, and includes a first seed metal, a second seed metal, and a resin component on the support substrate, the first seed metal being disposed in a section opposed to part or all of a first electrode among the electrodes, and being connected to the first electrode by plating, the second seed metal being disposed in a section opposed to part or all of a second electrode among the electrodes, and being connected to the second electrode by plating, and the resin component being disposed in a layer between the functional element and the support substrate, and fixing the functional element to the support substrate, and being provided avoiding a neighborhood of an end of the functional element among opposed side sections of the first and second seed metals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Tomoda, Naoki Hirao, Izuho Hatada
  • Patent number: 8476826
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a display device, includes: a first step of collectively transferring light-emitting elements arranged at every specified number of light-emitting elements formed and arranged on a first substrate to a transfer area set on a second substrate; and a second step of transferring light-emitting elements remaining on the first substrate to between the plural light-emitting elements mounted on the second substrate in at least one of a state where the first substrate is moved with respect to the transfer area on the second substrate and a state where the first substrate is rotated in a plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toyoharu Oohata, Katsuhiro Tomoda, Naoki Hirao, Masato Doi
  • Patent number: 8384116
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a substrate with chip mounted thereon, including: a solder pattern having a plan-view shape in which projected parts are projected radially from a central part; and a chip fixed in the state of being aligned to the central part of the solder pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiizu Ohtorii, Akiyoshi Aoyagi, Katsuhiro Tomoda
  • Patent number: 8361268
    Abstract: A method of transferring a device includes the steps of: arranging a first substrate, on which a device is provided with a release layer having a planar shape equal to or smaller than the device interposed therebetween, and a second substrate, on which an adhesive layer is provided, so as to be spaced from and opposite each other in a state where the device and the adhesive layer face each other; and irradiating a laser beam having an irradiation area larger than the base area of the release layer onto the entire surface of the release layer from the first substrate side so as to ablate the release layer, to separate the device from the first substrate, and to transfer the device on the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Mizuno, Katsuhiro Tomoda, Toyoharu Oohata
  • Publication number: 20120295378
    Abstract: A method of making a semiconductor light-emitting device including (A) a light-emitting portion by laminating in sequence a first compound semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second compound semiconductor layer; (B) a first electrode electrically connected to the first compound semiconductor layer; (C) a transparent conductive material layer on the second compound semiconductor layer; (D) an insulating layer on a transparent conductive material layer; and (E) a second reflective electrode that on the transparent conductive material layer and on the insulating layer in a continuous manner, wherein, that the areas of the active layer, the transparent conductive material layer, the insulating layer, and the second electrode S1, S2, S3, and S4, respectively are related as S1?S2<S3 and S2<S4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Tomoda
  • Publication number: 20120223345
    Abstract: A light emitting unit including plural kinds of light emitting elements with different light emitting wavelengths, wherein, among the light emitting elements, at least one kind of light emitting element includes a semiconductor layer configured by laminating a first conductive layer, an active layer and a second conductive layer and having a side surface exposed by the first conductive layer, the active layer and the second conductive layer; a first electrode electrically connected to the first conductive layer; a second electrode electrically connected to the second conductive layer; a first insulation layer contacting at least an exposed surface of the active layer in the surface of the semiconductor layer; and a metal layer contacting at least a surface, which is opposite to the exposed surface of the active layer, in the surface of the first insulation layer, and electrically separated from the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Tomoda, Naoki Hirao, Goshi Biwa
  • Patent number: 8257538
    Abstract: A device transfer method and a display apparatus are provided. A device transfer method and a display apparatus are provided by or in which, in transferring devices arranged on a substrate onto another substrate, it is possible to easily strip the substrate after the transfer of the devices, to lower the possibility of damaging of the substrate, and to additionally transfer devices onto the same substrate after the transfer of the devices. A plurality of devices arranged on a temporary holding substrate are embedded into and held in a pressure sensitive adhesive layer formed on a transfer substrate, and the devices are stripped from the temporary holding substrate. Other devices are further additionally embedded into the pressure sensitive adhesive layer before hardening the pressure sensitive adhesive layer, whereby the devices can be arranged on a transfer substrate having a large area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Doi, Katsuhiro Tomoda, Toshihiko Watanabe, Toyoharu Oohata
  • Publication number: 20120218318
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a light emitting apparatus including: one or a plurality of light emitting devices each having a plurality of electrodes and each emitting light from the upper surface of the light emitting device; a plurality of terminal electrodes provided on the lower side of the light emitting devices in a positional relation with the light emitting devices and electrically connected to the electrodes of the light emitting devices; a first metal line brought into contact with the upper surfaces of the light emitting devices and one of the terminal electrodes, provided at a location separated away from side surfaces of the light emitting devices and created in a film creation process; and an insulator in which the light emitting devices and the first metal line are embedded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Hirao, Katsuhiro Tomoda
  • Patent number: 8232640
    Abstract: A mounting structure and a mounting method which are capable of securely electrically connecting wiring on a board and a device to each other in the case where the device is mounted on the board, and are capable of forming a finer bump, and increasing the number of pins are provided. A device includes at least one projection having a structure in which a surface of at least a tip part of a projecting section made of an elastic body is coated with a conductive film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Chemical & Information Device Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Tomoda, Shiyuki Kanisawa, Hidetsugu Namiki
  • Patent number: 8222659
    Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device includes (A) a light-emitting portion obtained by laminating in sequence a first compound semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second compound semiconductor layer; (B) a first electrode electrically connected to the first compound semiconductor layer; (C) a transparent conductive material layer formed on the second compound semiconductor layer; (D) an insulating layer composed of a transparent insulating material and having an opening, the insulating layer being formed on the transparent conductive material layer; and (E) a second electrode that reflects light from the light-emitting portion, the second electrode being formed on the transparent conductive material layer and on the insulating layer in a continuous manner, wherein, assuming that areas of the active layer, the transparent conductive material layer, the insulating layer, and the second electrode are respectively S1, S2, S3, and S4, S1?S2<S3 and S2<S4 are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Tomoda
  • Publication number: 20120169786
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: one or plural light emitting elements having plural electrodes; a chip-like insulator surrounding the one or plural light emitting elements from a side surface side of the one or plural light emitting elements; and plural terminal electrodes electrically connected one-to-one with the plural electrodes, and having protrusions each protruding from a peripheral edge of the chip-like insulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Okuyama, Katsuhiro Tomoda, Naoki Hirao
  • Patent number: 8101457
    Abstract: Provided is a mounting method making it possible to, when an object such as an element, or more particularly, a microscopic object is mounted on a substrate, achieve mounting readily and reliably with high positional precision by: forming an element holding layer 12, which is made of a material whose viscosity can be controlled, on a substrate 11; controlling the viscosity of a first part 12a of the element holding layer 12, which includes a mounting region for an element, into a viscosity making the element naturally movable, and controlling the viscosity of a second part 12b of the element holding layer 12 outside the first part 12a into a viscosity making the element naturally immovable; and after mounting one element 13 in the first part 12a, controlling the viscosity of the first part 12a into the viscosity making the element 13 naturally immovable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Tomoda, Masato Doi, Toshiya Takagishi, Toshiaki Kanemitsu