Patents by Inventor Koichi Miyachi

Koichi Miyachi 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: 8767156
    Abstract: To provide a production method of a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display device, in which generation of a joint line on a display screen is suppressed and yield can be improved even if a substrate is subjected to an alignment treatment by completing exposure for the substrate through several exposures in a liquid crystal display device including pixels each having two or more domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Iichiro Inoue, Hiroyuki Hakoi, Shinichi Terashita, Koichi Miyachi
  • Publication number: 20140176888
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which enables to reduce the occurrence of image sticking without deteriorating the electric properties, and a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device which enables to reduce the occurrence of image sticking. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pair of substrates, an alignment film formed on at least one of the pair of substrates, and a polymer layer formed on the alignment film and controlling the alignment of liquid crystal molecules which are adjacent to the polymer layer, wherein the polymer layer is formed by polymerization of one or more kinds of monomers added in the liquid crystal layer, and at least one of the one or more kinds of monomers is a monomer polymerizable upon exposure to visible light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hakoi, Masanobu Mizusaki, Koichi Miyachi
  • Publication number: 20140168589
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device having excellent display quality, with reduced string-like defects that occur in display pixels. The liquid crystal display panel of the present invention includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pair of substrates, wherein at least one of the pair of substrates includes a photo-alignment film, the photo-alignment film aligns liquid crystal molecules horizontally to a main surface of the at least one of the pair of substrates, and the photo-alignment film has a film thickness of 50 nm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isamu Miyake, Koichi Miyachi
  • Publication number: 20140146274
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an illuminator and a liquid crystal panel for performing displaying by using light which is emitted from the illuminator. The liquid crystal panel includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer provided between the pair of substrates, and a pair of alignment films provided on sides of the pair of substrates facing the liquid crystal layer. At least one of the alignment films is a photo-alignment film which is imparted with an orientation regulating force through a photo-alignment treatment, and the illuminator includes a light source causing primary generation of at least blue light, among other light which is used for displaying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi MIYACHI
  • Patent number: 8730439
    Abstract: To provide a production method of a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display device, in which generation of a joint line on a display screen is suppressed and yield can be improved even if a substrate is subjected to an alignment treatment by completing exposure for the substrate through several exposures in a liquid crystal display device including pixels each having two or more domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Iichiro Inoue, Hiroyuki Hakoi, Shinichi Terashita, Koichi Miyachi
  • Patent number: 8687164
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an illuminator and a liquid crystal panel for performing displaying by using light which is emitted from the illuminator. The liquid crystal panel includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer provided between the pair of substrates, and a pair of alignment films provided on sides of the pair of substrates facing the liquid crystal layer. At least one of the alignment films is a photo-alignment film which is imparted with an orientation regulating force through a photo-alignment treatment, and the illuminator includes a light source causing primary generation of at least blue light, among other light which is used for displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Miyachi
  • Publication number: 20140078431
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an illuminator and a liquid crystal panel for performing displaying by using light which is emitted from the illuminator. The liquid crystal panel includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer provided therebetween. The liquid crystal layer is formed of a liquid crystal material which contains molecules having at least one of a carbon-carbon triple bond and a polycyclic group. The illuminator includes a light source causing primary generation of at least blue light, among other light which is used for displaying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventor: Koichi MIYACHI
  • Publication number: 20130342798
    Abstract: There are provided a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display apparatus which have high display quality and in which thready defects generated in a display pixel are suppressed. In the liquid crystal display panel, at least one of a pair of substrates includes a photo-alignment film and an electrode, and a liquid crystal layer contains liquid crystal molecules whose elastic constant K1 concerning splay deformation and/or elastic constant K3 concerning bend deformation is 13 pN or more at 20° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Isamu Miyake, Koichi Miyachi
  • Patent number: 8603596
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an illuminator and a liquid crystal panel for performing displaying by using light which is emitted from the illuminator. The liquid crystal panel includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer provided therebetween. The liquid crystal layer is formed of a liquid crystal material which contains molecules having at least one of a carbon-carbon triple bond and a polycyclic group. The illuminator includes a light source causing primary generation of at least blue light, among other light which is used for displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Miyachi
  • Patent number: 8599345
    Abstract: VA-mode liquid crystal display device having a high display quality is provided. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a vertical alignment type liquid crystal layer; a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other with the liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween; a first electrode provided in the first substrate on the liquid crystal layer side and a second electrode provided in the second substrate on the liquid crystal layer side; and a first alignment film provided between the first electrode and the liquid crystal layer and a second alignment film provided between the second electrode and the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixel areas located in a matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Iichiro Inoue, Shinichi Terashita, Koichi Miyachi
  • Patent number: 8593602
    Abstract: The present invention provides a production method of a liquid crystal display device, and an exposure device, which can inhibit the deterioration of display quality even when the aligning treatment of an alignment layer is performed using an optical alignment method. The present invention pertains to a production method of a liquid crystal display device in which an alignment layer is provided on a substrate and two or more domains are formed in each pixel of a display region by exposing the alignment layer, wherein the production method includes the exposure step of exposing the alignment layer through a photo mask in which a plurality of light-transmitting areas are located in a stripe pattern, and wherein the exposure step is a step of exposing the alignment layer continuously while the relative position of the photo mask with respect to the substrate is moved at the time of viewing a substrate surface from the front in substantially parallel with the light-transmitting area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hakoi, Koichi Miyachi
  • Patent number: 8576362
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device suppresses generation of image sticking in AC mode. A liquid crystal display device comprises an alignment film arranged on at least one of a pair of substrates. The alignment film comprises a polymer containing a first constitutional unit and a second constitutional unit. The first constitutional unit controls alignment of the liquid crystal molecules by photoirradiation. The second constitutional unit controls alignment of the liquid crystal molecules regardless of photoirradiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Terashita, Isamu Miyake, Koichi Miyachi, Yuko Teraoka
  • Publication number: 20130271713
    Abstract: According to the present invention, provided is a liquid crystal display device in which a polymer layer having a stable alignment regulating force is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Isamu Miyake, Koichi Miyachi, Tatsuro Kato, Masakazu Shibasaki, Masahiro Shimizu, Kazuhito Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20130222740
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that includes a horizontal alignment film, stabilizes liquid crystal alignment by the PSA technique, can suppress the increase in power consumption, reduction in contrast, and image sticking in display, and has long-term reliability. The present invention is a liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pair of substrates, a horizontal alignment film formed on at least one of the pair of substrates, and a polymer layer which is formed on the horizontal alignment film and controls the alignment of adjacent liquid crystal molecules, wherein the polymer layer is formed by the polymerization of at least one or more kinds of monomers added into the liquid crystal layer, and at least one of the one or more kinds of monomers is polymerized by itself functioning as a polymerization initiator by being irradiated with light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Miyachi, Isamu Miyake
  • Patent number: 8502917
    Abstract: The present invention is arranged such that interlace image data, which has been supplied, is converted to progressive image data in an I/P conversion section, and the image data converted to progressive style in the I/P conversion section is subjected to image processing including data comparison in spatial or time series manner, in an image processing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Makoto Shiomi, Hidekazu Miyata, Koichi Miyachi, Akihito Jinda
  • Publication number: 20130196565
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a liquid crystal display device which enables suppression of the occurrence of an electric double layer on a horizontal photo-alignment film before a polymer is formed, and exhibits reduced deterioration of display quality such as image sticking, or reduced display unevenness. The present invention is a method of producing a liquid crystal display device including the steps of (1) forming a liquid crystal layer containing a polymerizable monomer between a first substrate and a second substrate; (2) thermally annealing the liquid crystal layer at a temperature higher by 10° C. or more than the liquid crystalline phase-isotropic phase transition temperature of the liquid crystal layer; (3) forming horizontal alignment films to which the alignment treatment is performed by light irradiation on the first substrate and the second substrate by the time of the step (2); and (4) polymerizing the polymerizable monomer after the step (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isamu Miyake, Koichi Miyachi
  • Patent number: 8497962
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates, a liquid crystal layer provided between the substrates, a first alignment film provided on the liquid crystal layer side surface of the first substrate, and a second alignment film provided on the liquid crystal layer side surface of the second substrate, wherein the liquid crystal layer includes liquid crystal molecules with negative dielectric anisotropy. Alignment directions of the liquid crystal molecules near the first and second alignment films are perpendicular to each other, and the first alignment film and the second alignment film are photo-alignment films made of a material having a photosensitive group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Miyachi
  • Publication number: 20130107149
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device suppresses generation of image sticking in AC mode. A liquid crystal display device comprises an alignment film arranged on at least one of a pair of substrates. The alignment film comprises a polymer containing a first constitutional unit and a second constitutional unit. The first constitutional unit controls alignment of the liquid crystal molecules by photoirradiation. The second constitutional unit controls alignment of the liquid crystal molecules regardless of photoirradiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi TERASHITA, Isamu MIYAKE, Koichi MIYACHI, Yuko TERAOKA
  • Patent number: 8427611
    Abstract: A production method for making a liquid crystal display device includes subjecting a first alignment film and/or a second alignment film to scanning exposure continuously over a plurality of pixel regions; the scanning exposure including, in an inside of each of a plurality of pixel regions, a first scanning exposure for aligning liquid crystal molecules in a first alignment direction and a second scanning exposure for aligning liquid crystal molecules in a second alignment direction. The second alignment direction may be parallel and opposed to the first alignment direction. In the exposures, a light beam may be made incident from a oblique direction to a normal line on the substrate surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hakoi, Iichiro Inoue, Koichi Miyachi
  • Publication number: 20130083278
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device in which a good alignment state can be obtained, and the occurrence of AC image sticking can be suppressed. The present invention is a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules and being interposed between a pair of substrates, and an alignment layer provided on a side of the liquid crystal layer in at least one of the substrates, wherein the alignment layer includes a liquid crystal alignment polymer having a property of controlling and aligning the liquid crystal molecules, and the surface side chain density in the alignment layer is not less than 2.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuko Teraoka, Shinichi Terashita, Isamu Miyake, Kouichi Matsuhashi, Koichi Miyachi, Yoshinobu Nakamura, Takafumi Hayama, Yuhji Yashiro