Patents by Inventor Naoyoshi Yamada

Naoyoshi Yamada 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: 10203554
    Abstract: The invention provides a wavelength conversion member including a wavelength conversion layer which includes a second cured product and a first cured product dispersed as spheres in the second cured product, the first cured product being obtained by curing a first polymerizable composition including a quantum dot and a first polymerizable compound, and the second cured product being obtained by curing a second polymerizable composition including a second polymerizable compound. The invention further provides a backlight unit and a liquid crystal display device including the wavelength conversion member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyoshi Yamada, Hideaki Ito, Toshio Hara
  • Patent number: 10145998
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a light source unit and a liquid crystal cell sandwiched by two polarizing plates. The light emitted by the light source unit has separated peaks in each of blue, green and red wavelength ranges. The green and red peaks have a full width at half maximum intensity of 20 nm or more. At least one of the polarizing plates has a polarizer and a protective film with a Re of 5,000 nm or more and low moisture permeability. The device exhibits excellent color reproducibility and prevents display nonuniformity under a high temperature and high humidity environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyoshi Yamada, Shinichi Nakai, Maki Mifune
  • Patent number: 10132974
    Abstract: The present invention provides a circularly polarizing plate that improves the visibility of black color in an oblique direction when being applied to a display device and having a small thickness, the display device including a circularly polarizing plate. The circularly polarizing plate is a circularly polarizing plate including, in this order, a polarizer, a ?/2 plate, and a ?/4 plate, in which the ?/2 plate is a laminate of a first A-plate and a first C-plate, the ?/4 plate is a laminate of a second A-plate and a second C-plate, one of the first C-plate and the second C-plate is a cellulose acylate film having a predetermined Rth, and the other of the first C-plate and the second C-plate is an optically anisotropic layer including a liquid crystal compound having a predetermined Rth or a cellulose acylate film having a predetermined Rth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Furuki, Naoyoshi Yamada, Masakane Muto
  • Patent number: 10067387
    Abstract: An image display device including a polarizer and a first optical film, in which the first optical film is arranged on a visible side from the polarizer, the first optical film has Re(589) of 3,000 nm to 30,000 nm and Rth(589) of ?30,000 nm to ?3,000 nm, an angle ?1 between a slow axis of the first optical film and an absorption axis of the polarizer is 45°±30°, and the image display device is a liquid crystal display device including a blue or ultraviolet LED, a fluorescent body, and a liquid crystal cell, or an organic EL display device, is able to suppress the occurrence of rainbow unevenness without darkening brightness at the time of being observed by mounting polarized sunglasses, and is able to suppress the occurrence of the rainbow unevenness without darkening the brightness at the time of being observed by mounting the polarized sunglasses even in a case where a film which has great optical anisotropy and is stretched in at least a monoaxial direction is further provided on the visible side of the im
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyoshi Yamada, Ryuta Takegami
  • Publication number: 20180081236
    Abstract: A polymerizable composition includes a quantum dot, a monomer having an epoxy group or an oxetanyl group, and a polymer dispersant, in which the polymer dispersant is a compound represented by Formula I. In Formula I, A is an organic group having a coordinating group coordinated with a quantum dot, Z is an (n+m+l)-valent organic linking group, X1 and X2 are a single bond or a divalent organic linking group, R1 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, or an alkynyl group each of which may have a substituent, P is a polymer chain which has a polymerization degree of 3 or greater and which includes a polymer skeleton and of which the solubility parameter is 17 MPa1/2 to 22 MPa1/2. n and m are each independently the number of 1 or greater, l is the number of 0 or greater, n+m+l is an integer of 2 to 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Natsuru CHIKUSHI, Naoyoshi YAMADA, Kyohei ARAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180079868
    Abstract: A quantum dot-containing composition including a quantum dot; and a ligand having a coordinating group coordinated with a surface of the quantum dot, in which the ligand is represented by Formula I. In Formula I, A is an organic group including one or more coordinating groups selected from an amino group, a carboxy group, a mercapto group, a phosphine group, and a phosphine oxide group, Z is an (n+m+l)-valent organic linking group, R is a group including an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, or an alkynyl group each of which may have a substituent, Y is a group having a polymer chain which has a degree of polymerization of 3 or greater and which includes a polyacrylate skeleton or the like. n and m are each independently the number of 1 or greater, l is the number of 0 or greater, and n+m+l is an integer of 3 or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyoshi YAMADA, Natsuru CHIKUSHI, Kyohei ARAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180072942
    Abstract: A composition and a wavelength converter are provided. The composition includes at least: quantum dots having an emission peak wavelength in a visible light region; and quantum dots having an emission peak wavelength in an ultraviolet region or in a near-ultraviolet region. The wavelength converter includes, in a polymer: quantum dots having an emission peak wavelength in a visible light region; quantum dots having an emission peak wavelength in an ultraviolet region or in a near-ultraviolet region; and an oxide formed by oxidizing at least a part of the quantum dots having an emission peak wavelength in an ultraviolet region or in a near-ultraviolet region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Naoyoshi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20170328541
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion member, is provided with a wavelength conversion layer that includes quantum dots and is interposed between two barrier layers. The wavelength conversion member includes a light scattering layer that is provided between the barrier layers and the wavelength conversion layer, in which one of the barrier layers closest to the light scattering layer is formed of an inorganic component, the light scattering layer includes a binder, which is formed of either a compound having a hydrogen bonding functional group and a polymerizable group in a molecule or an organic metal coupling agent, and scattering particles having a diameter R of 0.2 to 5 ?m, a thickness d of the light scattering layer is 0.2 to 4 ?m, a thickness D of the wavelength conversion layer is 10 to 100 ?m, and a ratio of d to D is 0.2% to 10%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YONEYAMA, Naoyoshi YAMADA, Tatsuya OBA
  • Publication number: 20170322436
    Abstract: A polymerizable composition provides a high brightness and suppressed decrease in brightness in an outer peripheral region when used in a wavelength conversion member, a wavelength conversion member, a backlight unit, and a liquid crystal display device. The polymerizable composition includes quantum dots having surfaces coordinated with a ligand, a polymerizable compound, and a dispersant, in which the ligand is a molecule that includes a saturated hydrocarbon chain having 6 or more carbon atoms and a coordinating group, a Log P value of the polymerizable compound is 3.0 or lower, the dispersant has a nonpolar and a polar portion in a molecule, and the nonpolar portion is at least one selected from the group consisting of a saturated hydrocarbon chain having 6 or more carbon atoms, an aromatic ring, and a saturated aliphatic ring. The wavelength conversion member, the backlight unit, and the liquid crystal display device include the polymerizable composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyoshi YAMADA, Natsuru CHIKUSHI
  • Publication number: 20170321115
    Abstract: Provided is a wavelength conversion member including: a wavelength conversion layer including at least one kind of quantum dots that are excited by excitation light to emit fluorescence and are dispersed in an organic matrix; an intermediate layer that is provided adjacent to at least one main surface of the wavelength conversion layer; and a barrier layer that is provided adjacent to a main surface of the intermediate layer opposite to the wavelength conversion layer and includes silicon nitride and/or silicon oxynitride as a major component, in which the organic matrix is obtained by curing a curable composition including at least an alicyclic epoxy compound, and the intermediate layer includes a chemical structure A which is bonded to silicon nitride and/or silicon oxynitride as a major component of the barrier layer and a chemical structure B which is bonded to the organic matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo SATAKE, Makoto KAMO, Naoyoshi YAMADA, Tatsuya OBA
  • Publication number: 20170321116
    Abstract: Provided is a wavelength conversion member including: a wavelength conversion layer including at least one kind of quantum dots that are excited by excitation light to emit fluorescence and are dispersed in an organic matrix; and a barrier layer that is provided adjacent to at least one main surface of the wavelength conversion layer and includes silicon nitride and/or silicon oxynitride as a major component, in which the organic matrix is obtained by curing a curable composition including at least an alicyclic epoxy compound and includes a chemical structure A which is bonded to silicon nitride and/or silicon oxynitride as a major component of the barrier layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo SATAKE, Makoto KAMO, Naoyoshi YAMADA, Tatsuya OBA
  • Publication number: 20170277002
    Abstract: The invention provides a wavelength conversion member including a wavelength conversion layer which includes a second cured product and a first cured product dispersed as spheres in the second cured product, the first cured product being obtained by curing a first polymerizable composition including a quantum dot and a first polymerizable compound, and the second cured product being obtained by curing a second polymerizable composition including a second polymerizable compound. The invention further provides a backlight unit and a liquid crystal display device including the wavelength conversion member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyoshi YAMADA, Hideaki ITO, Toshio HARA
  • Publication number: 20170198149
    Abstract: The wavelength conversion member includes a wavelength conversion layer containing a quantum dot, in which the wavelength conversion layer is a cured layer formed by curing a polymerizable composition containing the quantum dot and a polymerizable compound, the polymerizable composition contains at least one type of first polymerizable compound, the first polymerizable compound is a monofunctional (meth)acrylate compound in which a value of Mw/F obtained by dividing a molecular weight Mw by the number F of polymerizable functional groups in one molecule is greater than or equal to 130, the number of (meth)acryloyl groups in one molecule is 1, and a Log P value is less than or equal to 3.0, and the polymerizable composition contains greater than or equal to 50 parts by mass of the first polymerizable compound with respect to 100 parts by mass of the total amount of the polymerizable compound contained in the polymerizable composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyoshi YAMADA, Tatsuya OBA, Hirofumi TOYAMA, Natsuru CHIKUSHI
  • Publication number: 20170192145
    Abstract: The present invention provides a circularly polarizing plate that improves the visibility of black color in an oblique direction when being applied to a display device and having a small thickness, the display device including a circularly polarizing plate. The circularly polarizing plate is a circularly polarizing plate including, in this order, a polarizer, a ?/2 plate, and a ?/4 plate, in which the ?/2 plate is a laminate of a first A-plate and a first C-plate, the ?/4 plate is a laminate of a second A-plate and a second C-plate, one of the first C-plate and the second C-plate is a cellulose acylate film having a predetermined Rth, and the other of the first C-plate and the second C-plate is an optically anisotropic layer including a liquid crystal compound having a predetermined Rth or a cellulose acylate film having a predetermined Rth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke FURUKI, Naoyoshi YAMADA, Masakane MUTO
  • Publication number: 20170192146
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion member including a wavelength conversion layer containing quantum dots which are excited by exciting light and emit fluorescent light rays, in which the wavelength conversion layer includes base material films on at least one surface, and in the base material films, an absorbance of light at a wavelength of 450 nm measured by using an integrating sphere is less than 0.9%, and a total light ray transmittance is less than 92%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyoshi YAMADA, Koichi SATO
  • Patent number: 9645438
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal cell having a liquid crystal layer between two glass substrates, a front-side polarizing plate provided on a front side of the liquid crystal cell, a rear polarizer provided on a rear side of the liquid crystal cell, and a backlight provided on a rear side of the rear polarizer, in which the front-side polarizing plate has a first protective film, a polarizer, and a second protective film in this order from a surface side opposite to the liquid crystal cell, the first protective film in the front-side polarizing plate is a film including a polyester resin or a polycarbonate resin as a main component, an Re of the first protective film is 3000 nm or higher, an equilibrium moisture content of the second protective film at 25° C. and a relative humidity of 60% is in a range of 1% to 3%, and in the second protective film, a contractile force in a direction orthogonal to an absorption axis of the polarizer is 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Megumi Sekiguchi, Hiromichi Furukawa, Naoyoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 9632229
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having high transmittance and a high color reproduction region, which includes a backlight unit including a light conversion member; and a liquid crystal cell and in which the light conversion member includes a light conversion layer containing a fluorescent material and an optical film arranged on both surfaces of the light conversion layer, the optical film includes an optical thin film forming an air interface, and a layer directly adjacent to the optical thin film, the liquid crystal display device satisfies n(535)<nu(535), n(535)×d is in a specific range, transmittance of a laminated body of the optical thin film and the layer directly adjacent to the optical thin film is in a specific range, and the backlight unit emits blue light, green light, and red light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyoshi Yamada, Tatsuya Oba, Yukito Saitoh, Katsufumi Ohmuro, Akiko Watano
  • Publication number: 20170075052
    Abstract: Provided is a wavelength conversion member, including: a wavelength conversion layer containing a quantum dot which is excited by excitation light and emits fluorescent light; and an adjacent layer directly laminated on the wavelength conversion layer, in which the shape of an interface between the wavelength conversion layer and the adjacent layer includes an irregular shape formed of a concave portion and a convex portion. Provided are a backlight unit, a polarizing plate, a liquid crystal panel, and a liquid crystal display device: including the wavelength conversion member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yukito SAITOH, Yujiro YANAI, Naoyoshi YAMADA, Takashi YONEMOTO
  • Patent number: 9588271
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes at least a polarizer layer, a ?/2 plate, a ?/4 plate and an organic EL panel in this order, and an in-plane retardation Re2(550) of the ?/4 plate at 550 nm satisfies 115?Re2(550)?155, and an in-plane retardation Re1(550) of the ?/2 plate at 550 nm satisfies Re1(550)=2×Re2(550)±50 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyoshi Yamada, Yuusuke Furuki, Jun Watanabe, Makoto Ishiguro, Shinpei Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20160306230
    Abstract: An image display device including a polarizer and a first optical film, in which the first optical film is arranged on a visible side from the polarizer, the first optical film has Re(589) of 3,000 nm to 30,000 nm and Rth(589) of ?30,000 nm to ?3,000 nm, an angle ?1 between a slow axis of the first optical film and an absorption axis of the polarizer is 45°±30°, and the image display device is a liquid crystal display device including a blue or ultraviolet LED, a fluorescent body, and a liquid crystal cell, or an organic EL display device, is able to suppress the occurrence of rainbow unevenness without darkening brightness at the time of being observed by mounting polarized sunglasses, and is able to suppress the occurrence of the rainbow unevenness without darkening the brightness at the time of being observed by mounting the polarized sunglasses even in a case where a film which has great optical anisotropy and is stretched in at least a monoaxial direction is further provided on the visible side of the im
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyoshi YAMADA, Ryuta TAKEGAMI