Patents by Inventor Nobutaka Mizuno
Nobutaka Mizuno 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).
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Publication number: 20150372238Abstract: Provided is an organic light-emitting device capable of outputting light with high efficiency and high luminance. The organic light-emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, an emission layer placed between the anode and the cathode, and an organic compound layer placed between the anode and the emission layer, in which the organic compound layer contains the following compound A and compound B: [Compound A] an organic compound free of a nitrogen atom and a metal atom, the compound having SP2 carbon atoms and SP3 carbon atoms, and having a ratio of the number of the SP3 carbon atoms to the number of the SP2 carbon atoms of 40% or more; and [Compound B] a compound having a tertiary amine structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Naoki Yamada, Jun Kamatani, Akihito Saitoh, Yosuke Nishide, Masanori Muratsubaki, Ryuji Ishii, Koichi Ishige, Takayuki Ito, Norifumi Kajimoto, Nobutaka Mizuno
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Publication number: 20150372258Abstract: Provided is an organic electroluminescence element improved in emission efficiency. The organic electroluminescence element includes: a reflective electrode; a light exiting side electrode; an emission layer provided between the reflective electrode and the light exiting side electrode; and at least one low-refractive index layer provided between the reflective electrode and the emission layer, the low-refractive index layer having a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the emission layer. An optical path L1 between the maximum emission surface of the emission layer and the reflection surface of the reflective electrode, and an optical path L2 between the reflection interface on an emission layer side of the low-refractive index layer and the maximum emission surface of the emission layer satisfy specific expressions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventor: Nobutaka Mizuno
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Publication number: 20150364716Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting device, including: a substrate; and a lower electrode, an organic compound layer including an emission layer, and an upper electrode sequentially provided on the substrate, in which: the organic compound layer covers the lower electrode; the upper electrode covers the organic compound layer; the upper electrode is electrically connected to a wiring connecting portion provided in the substrate; and when an angle formed between a tilt of a section of an end in at least a partial region of the organic compound layer and a surface of the substrate is represented by ?1, the following formulas (1) and (2) are satisfied: tan(?1)=d1/d2??(1) tan(?1)?0.2??(2) in the formula (1), d1 represents a thickness of the organic compound layer and d2 represents a taper width of the section of the end of the organic compound layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: Satoru Shiobara, Kiyofumi Sakaguchi, Yojiro Matsuda, Nobutaka Mizuno
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Publication number: 20150362855Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting device, including: a lower electrode; an upper electrode and a substrate having an electrode pad portion, in which when an angle formed by a slant in section of a film end in a region between the lower electrode and the electrode pad portion and a surface of the substrate is given as ?1, Formula (1) and Formula (2) are satisfied; and when an angle formed by a slant in section of a film end in at least a part of other regions than the region between the lower electrode and the electrode pad portion and the surface of the substrate is given as ?3, Formula (3) and Formula (4) are satisfied. tan(?1)=d1/d2??(1) tan(?1)<0.2??(2) tan(?3)=d3/d4??(3) tan(?3)?0.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: Nobutaka Mizuno, Kiyofumi Sakaguchi, Satoru Shiobara, Yojiro Matsuda
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Patent number: 9209425Abstract: Provided is an organic electroluminescence element, including: a light reflective electrode; a light transmissive electrode; an emission layer formed between the light reflective electrode and the light transmissive electrode; a low-refractive index layer having a refractive index at a maximum peak wavelength of an emission spectrum of light emitted from the emission layer lower than that of the emission layer, the low-refractive index layer being formed between the light reflective electrode and the emission layer; and a light extraction member for changing an exiting direction of the light emitted from the emission layer, the light extraction member being formed on the light transmissive electrode, in which an optical path L between a maximum emission surface of the emission layer and the light reflective electrode satisfies a specific expression.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2014Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobutaka Mizuno
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Publication number: 20150261119Abstract: An exposure device includes an element array that includes a plurality of organic electroluminescent elements and a lens array optical system that uses a lens array that includes a plurality of lenses, which forms images of light from the element array on a photosensitive body. In the exposure device, each electroluminescent element has a first electrode disposed on a light emitting side, a second electrode disposed on a light reflecting side, and a light emitting layer. In the exposure device, in each organic electroluminescent element, an optical path length L1 between a light emitting position of the light emitting layer and the second electrode is an optical path length within ±10% of an optical path length at which variation in light amount during light exposure is minimized.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: September 17, 2015Inventors: Noa Sumida, Takeyoshi Saiga, Yu Miyajima, Nobutaka Mizuno, Yojiro Matsuda
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Patent number: 9136309Abstract: An organic electroluminescent (EL) display includes a plurality of organic EL devices for red, green, and blue subpixels, each including a first electrode on a light output side, a second electrode opposite the first electrode, and an organic compound layer including a light-emitting layer therebetween. The organic EL devices have a resonator structure between a first reflective surface closer to the first electrode than the organic compound layer and a second reflective surface closer to the second electrode than the organic compound layer. A predetermined white color is displayed by mixing the three colors such that an optical distance of the organic EL devices of each color between an emission position in the light-emitting layer and the second reflective surface is set within ±10% from an optical distance corresponding to an nth-order minimum of a curve of required current density against at least the optical distance.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2013Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Hamaguchi, Nobutaka Mizuno
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Publication number: 20140299854Abstract: Provided is an organic electroluminescence element, including: a light reflective electrode; a light transmissive electrode; an emission layer formed between the light reflective electrode and the light transmissive electrode; a low-refractive index layer having a refractive index at a maximum peak wavelength of an emission spectrum of light emitted from the emission layer lower than that of the emission layer, the low-refractive index layer being formed between the light reflective electrode and the emission layer; and a light extraction member for changing an exiting direction of the light emitted from the emission layer, the light extraction member being formed on the light transmissive electrode, in which an optical path L between a maximum emission surface of the emission layer and the light reflective electrode satisfies a specific expression.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2014Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nobutaka Mizuno
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Publication number: 20140054576Abstract: An organic electroluminescent (EL) display includes a plurality of organic EL devices for red, green, and blue subpixels, each including a first electrode on a light output side, a second electrode opposite the first electrode, and an organic compound layer including a light-emitting layer therebetween. The organic EL devices have a resonator structure between a first reflective surface closer to the first electrode than the organic compound layer and a second reflective surface closer to the second electrode than the organic compound layer. A predetermined white color is displayed by mixing the three colors such that an optical distance of the organic EL devices of each color between an emission position in the light-emitting layer and the second reflective surface is set within ±10% from an optical distance corresponding to an nth-order minimum of a curve of required current density against at least the optical distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Hamaguchi, Nobutaka Mizuno
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Patent number: 8643267Abstract: In an organic electroluminescence display device which includes: a display region DR in which a plurality of pixels are arranged; and a power source part CC which is arranged outside the display region, each of the plurality of pixels includes: a lower electrode An; a light emitting layer stacked above the lower electrode; and an upper electrode which includes a thin silver film AG and is formed by a layer shared in common by other pixels above the light emitting layer, the upper electrode extends to the power source part for electrically connection, the thin silver film has a portion arranged between the display region and the power source part, and a background layer containing an electron pair donor is arranged as a background of at least a portion of the thin silver film between the display region and the power source part.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2010Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiyuki Matsuura, Hirohito Yamaguchi, Masanori Yoshida, Nobutaka Mizuno, Katsunori Oya
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Patent number: 8618559Abstract: An organic electroluminescent (EL) display includes a plurality of organic EL devices for red, green, and blue subpixels, each including a first electrode on a light output side, a second electrode opposite the first electrode, and an organic compound layer including a light-emitting layer therebetween. The organic EL devices have a resonator structure between a first reflective surface closer to the first electrode than the organic compound layer and a second reflective surface closer to the second electrode than the organic compound layer. A predetermined white color is displayed by mixing the three colors such that an optical distance of the organic EL devices of each color between an emission position in the light-emitting layer and the second reflective surface is set within ±10% from an optical distance corresponding to an nth-order minimum of a curve of required current density against at least the optical distance.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2011Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Hamaguchi, Nobutaka Mizuno
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Patent number: 8575827Abstract: A display apparatus has an organic EL element which emits red color, an organic EL element which emits green color, and an organic EL element which emits blue color, in which a structure for improving light emission efficiency is provided only at the light emission side of the organic EL element which emits blue color.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2012Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobutaka Mizuno
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Patent number: 8519383Abstract: Provided is an organic electroluminescence display apparatus capable of reducing a chromaticity difference caused by light emission from an organic layer including an emission layer having the same color, which is continuously formed over two sub-pixels included in a pixel. The organic electroluminescence display apparatus includes: a substrate; and multiple organic electroluminescence devices which are stacked on the substrate, each of which includes electrodes and an organic layer sandwiched by the electrodes in which first organic layer and a second organic layer are arranged side by side in an emission region corresponding to a pixel formed on the substrate and a third organic layer is stacked over the first organic layer and the second organic layer through an intermediate electrode. The third organic layer has an emission spectrum peak wavelength which is longer than an emission spectrum peak wavelength of at least one of the first organic layer and the second organic layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2009Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobutaka Mizuno, Nobuhiko Sato, Kohei Nagayama
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Patent number: 8482195Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus that uses a sealing configuration with a protective layer and in which the luminous efficiency of an organic electroluminescent element that emits blue light is improved. A display apparatus includes a plurality of organic electroluminescent elements (11, 12, 13), a protective layer 6, and an optical adjustment layer 5 including a first optical adjustment layer and a second optical adjustment layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2010Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobutaka Mizuno
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Patent number: 8471943Abstract: Provided is a stacked organic light-emitting device in which organic compound layers for respective emission colors are capable of separately emitting light. The stacked organic light-emitting device includes a first organic compound layer, a second organic compound layer, and a third organic compound layer, which have emission colors different from each other. The first organic compound layer is provided on one side of a common transparent electrode, and the second organic compound layer and the third organic compound layer are provided on another side thereof. The first organic compound layer has a polarity direction opposite to polarity directions of the second organic compound layer and the third organic compound layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2009Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoyuki Ito, Nobutaka Mizuno, Naoto Nakamura, Masami Iseki
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Patent number: 8471463Abstract: Provided is an organic EL element in which emission efficiency is improved by suppressing a loss of excitation energy by a surface plasmon generated on an electrode surface. A hole transport layer is formed of a material having a refractive index of 1.20 or more and 1.65 or less at a maximum peak wavelength of a spectrum of light emitted by a light-emitting layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takayuki Sumida, Norifumi Kajimoto, Nobutaka Mizuno, Takayuki Ito
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Publication number: 20130038204Abstract: Provided is an organic EL element in which emission efficiency is improved by suppressing a loss of excitation energy by a surface plasmon generated on an electrode surface. A hole transport layer is formed of a material having a refractive index of 1.20 or more and 1.65 or less at a maximum peak wavelength of a spectrum of light emitted by a light-emitting layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2012Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takayuki Sumida, Norifumi Kajimoto, Nobutaka Mizuno, Takayuki Ito
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Publication number: 20120313501Abstract: A display apparatus has an organic EL element which emits red color, an organic EL element which emits green color, and an organic EL element which emits blue color, in which a structure for improving light emission efficiency is provided only at the light emission side of the organic EL element which emits blue color.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nobutaka Mizuno
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Patent number: 8253325Abstract: The organic light-emitting device of the present invention includes a plurality of organic light-emitting elements including an organic light-emitting element showing a first emission color and at least one organic light-emitting element showing a different emission color from the first emission color, each of the organic light-emitting elements including: a first electrode having a reflective surface; a second electrode placed on a light extraction side and including a semi-transparent layer; an organic compound layer including a light-emitting layer and formed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a micro cavity structure for resonating light emitted from the light-emitting layer between the reflective surface and the semi-transparent layer, wherein the semi-transparent layer in the organic light-emitting element showing the first emission color is different in thickness and/or material from the semi-transparent layer in the at least one organic light-emitting element showing the differeType: GrantFiled: October 21, 2010Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobutaka Mizuno, Koichi Fukuda
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Publication number: 20120211782Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element includes a first electrode, an organic compound film including a plurality of layers that include an emissive layer, a second electrode, a protective layer, and a buffer layer formed by an evaporation method between the second electrode and the protective layer, light emitted from the emissive layer emerging from the second electrode side, in which the second electrode is formed of a metal film having a thickness of 5 nm to 20 nm, a distance between a surface of the emissive layer adjacent to the first electrode and a surface of the second electrode adjacent to the organic compound film is in the range of 55 nm to 90 nm, and the protective layer is formed by a sputtering method or a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition method.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2010Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yojiro Matsuda, Nobutaka Mizuno, Norifumi Kajimoto