Patents by Inventor Ralph H. Young

Ralph H. Young 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: 8242489
    Abstract: The invention provides an OLED device comprising an anode, a cathode and a light-emitting layer located therebetween, said light-emitting layer comprising an anthracene host and a styrylamine blue light-emitting compound; and, located between the said light-emitting layer and the cathode, a first electron-transporting layer that is greater than 0.5 nm and less than 5 nm thick; and a second electron-transporting layer consisting essentially of an anthracene located between the first electron-transporting layer and the cathode. The first electron-transporting layer includes a compound with a less negative LUMO level than the anthracene in the second electron-transporting layer. Devices of the invention provide improvement in features such as efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology, LLC.
    Inventors: Marina E. Kondakova, Ralph H. Young
  • Publication number: 20110147716
    Abstract: The invention provides an OLED device comprising an anode, a cathode and a light-emitting layer located therebetween, said light-emitting layer comprising an anthracene host and a styrylamine blue light-emitting compound; and, located between the said light-emitting layer and the cathode, a first electron-transporting layer that is greater than 0.5 nm and less than 5 nm thick; and a second electron-transporting layer consisting essentially of an anthracene located between the first electron-transporting layer and the cathode. The first electron-transporting layer includes a compound with a less negative LUMO level than the anthracene in the second electron-transporting layer. Devices of the invention provide improvement in features such as efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: MARINA E. KONDAKOVA, Ralph H. Young
  • Patent number: 7629741
    Abstract: An OLED includes an anode, a light-emitting layer disposed over the anode, and a first electron-injecting layer disposed over the light-emitting layer, wherein the first electron-injecting layer includes at least one organic host material having a reduction potential less than ?1.0 V vs. a Saturated Calomel Electrode and at least one dopant material capable of reducing the organic host material. The OLED also includes a second electron-injecting layer disposed in contact with the first electron-injecting layer, wherein the second electron-injecting layer includes at least one organic material having a reduction potential greater than ?1.0 V vs. a Saturated Calomel Electrode, and a cathode disposed over the second electron-injecting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Liang-Sheng Liao, Wojciech K. Slusarek, Michele L. Ricks, Ralph H. Young, Dustin L. Comfort
  • Patent number: 7517595
    Abstract: An OLED device comprises a cathode, an anode, a light emitting layer, and on the cathode side of said emitting layer, a further layer, wherein the further layer is an electron-transporting layer containing: a) a first compound that has the lowest LUMO value of the compounds in the layer, the amount being greater than 40% by volume and less than 100% by volume of the layer; and b) at least one second compound that is a low voltage electron transport material, exhibiting a higher LUMO value than the first compound, the total amount of said compound(s) being less than 60% by volume and more than 0% by volume of the layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: William J. Begley, Tukaram K. Hatwar, Ralph H. Young, Natasha Andrievsky
  • Patent number: 7374828
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electroluminescent device comprising a cathode and an anode and, located therebetween, a light-emitting layer (LEL) comprising a phosphorescent guest material, a hole- and electron-transporting host material, and an efficiency-enhancing material having an ionization potential lower than that of the host material and a triplet energy level that is lower than that of the phosphorescent guest material by no more than 0.2 eV. Such a device provides useful light emission features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Marina E. Kondakova, Ralph H. Young
  • Patent number: 7288330
    Abstract: A broadband-emitting OLED device having an anode and a cathode spaced from the anode includes a first light-emitting layer provided over the anode and containing a first host material and a first light-emitting material, wherein the first host material is a mixture of one or more mono-anthracene derivatives and one or more aromatic amine derivatives, wherein the mono-anthracene derivative(s) being provided in a volume fraction range of 5% to 50% relative to the total host volume, and the aromatic amine derivative(s) being provided in a volume fraction range of 50% to 95% relative to the total host volume, and a second light-emitting layer provided over or under the first light-emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Eaastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Tukaram K. Hatwar, Jeffrey P. Spindler, Ralph H. Young
  • Patent number: 7084425
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electroluminescent device comprising a cathode and an anode; and, located therebetween, a light-emitting layer (LEL) comprising a phosphorescent green-light-emitting material and a host material for the light-emitting material, and in a layer adjacent to the LEL on the anode side, an exciton-blocking layer containing a compound having a hole mobility of at least 1×10?3 cm2V?1s?1 and a triplet energy exceeding that of the green-light-emitting material of the LEL. Such a device provides useful light emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Marina E. Kondakova, Ralph H. Young
  • Patent number: 7079091
    Abstract: A method of adjusting the voltage applied across the pixels of an OLED display to compensate for aging including measuring the accumulation of trapped positive charge to produce a signal representative of such accumulation, and responding to such signal to adjust the voltages applied across the pixels of the OLED to compensate for aging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Denis Y. Kondakov, James R. Milch, Ralph H. Young, James R. Sandifer
  • Patent number: 6875524
    Abstract: Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) that produce white light include an anode, a hole-transporting layer disposed over the anode, a blue light-emitting layer disposed over the hole-transporting layer, an electron-transporting layer disposed over the blue light-emitting layer, and a cathode disposed over the electron-transporting layer. The hole-transporting layer is doped with both a yellow-emitting and a red-emitting dopant. When used together with red, green, and blue color filters, the OLEDs produce red, green, and blue light with good color quality and high efficiency. Also disclosed are multicolor display devices utilizing the OLEDs together with color filters or together with both color filters and liquid-crystal light valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Tukaram K. Hatwar, Ralph H. Young, Christopher T. Brown
  • Publication number: 20040135749
    Abstract: A method of adjusting the voltage applied across the pixels of an OLED display to compensate for aging including measuring the accumulation of trapped positive charge to produce a signal representative of such accumulation, and responding to such signal to adjust the voltages applied across the pixels of the OLED to compensate for aging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Denis Y. Kondakov, James R. Milch, Ralph H. Young, James R. Sandifer
  • Patent number: 6727644
    Abstract: Disclosed are organic electroluminescent devices comprising a substrate, an anode and a cathode disposed over the substrate, an emission layer (EML) disposed between the anode and the cathode, a hole-transport layer (HTL) disposed between the anode and the emission layer, and an electron-transport layer (ETL) disposed between the cathode and the emission layer. The EML and either the HTL, the ETL, or both the HTL and the ETL include a derivative of anthracene as a color-neutral dopant. A color-neutral dopant is a dopant whose presence does not alter the electroluminescent color of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Tukaram K. Hatwar, Ralph H. Young
  • Patent number: 6720090
    Abstract: An organic light emitting device includes a substrate, an anode and a cathode disposed over the substrate; a luminescent layer disposed between the anode and the cathode wherein the luminescent layer includes a host and at least one dopant; the host of the luminescent layer being selected to include a solid organic material comprising a mixture of at least two components wherein the first component of the mixture is an organic compound that is capable of transporting both electrons and holes and that is substantially non-polar; and the second component of the mixture is an organic compound that is more polar than the first component; and the dopant of the luminescent layer being selected to produce light from the light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Ralph H. Young, Jianmin Shi, Ching W. Tang
  • Patent number: 6692846
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device includes a substrate; an anode and a cathode positioned relative to the substrate; an emission layer disposed between the anode and the cathode; a hole-transport layer disposed between the anode and the emission layer; and an electron-transport layer disposed between the cathode and the emission layer. The hole-transport layer includes two or more sublayers, one sublayer containing a stabilizing dopant, and the sublayer adjacent to the emission layer containing no stabilizing dopant. Alternatively or in addition, the electron-transport layer includes two or more sublayers, one sublayer containing a stabilizing dopant, and the sublayer adjacent to the emission layer containing no stabilizing dopant. The stabilizing dopant includes rubrene or derivatives thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Tukaram K. Hatwar, Ralph H. Young
  • Publication number: 20040001968
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device includes a substrate; an anode and a cathode positioned relative to the substrate; an emission layer disposed between the anode and the cathode; a hole-transport layer disposed between the anode and the emission layer; and an electron-transport layer disposed between the cathode and the emission layer. The hole-transport layer includes two or more sublayers, one sublayer containing a stabilizing dopant, and the sublayer adjacent to the emission layer containing no stabilizing dopant. Alternatively or in addition, the electron-transport layer includes two or more sublayers, one sublayer containing a stabilizing dopant, and the sublayer adjacent to the emission layer containing no stabilizing dopant. The stabilizing dopant includes rubrene or derivatives thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Tukaram K. Hatwar, Ralph H. Young
  • Patent number: 6565996
    Abstract: Disclosed are organic electroluminescent devices comprising a substrate, an anode and a cathode disposed over the substrate, an emission layer (EML) disposed between the anode and the cathode, a hole-transport layer (HTL) disposed between the anode and the emission layer, and an electron-transport layer (ETL) disposed between the cathode and the emission layer. A sublayer of the HTL, the ETL, or both the HTL and the ETL comprises a derivative of anthracene as a color-neutral dopant, the sublayer being adjacent to the EML. A color-neutral dopant is a dopant whose presence does not alter the electroluminescent color of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Tukaram K. Hatwar, Ralph H. Young
  • Publication number: 20030071565
    Abstract: Disclosed are organic electroluminescent devices comprising a substrate, an anode and a cathode disposed over the substrate, an emission layer (EML) disposed between the anode and the cathode, a hole-transport layer (HTL) disposed between the anode and the emission layer, and an electron-transport layer (ETL) disposed between the cathode and the emission layer. The EML and either the HTL, the ETL, or both the HTL and the ETL include a derivative of anthracene as a color-neutral dopant. A color-neutral dopant is a dopant whose presence does not alter the electroluminescent color of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2001
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Tukaram K. Hatwar, Ralph H. Young
  • Publication number: 20030049489
    Abstract: Disclosed are organic electroluminescent devices comprising a substrate, an anode and a cathode disposed over the substrate, an emission layer (EML) disposed between the anode and the cathode, a hole-transport layer (HTL) disposed between the anode and the emission layer, and an electron-transport layer (ETL) disposed between the cathode and the emission layer. A sublayer of the HTL, the ETL, or both the HTL and the ETL comprises a derivative of anthracene as a color-neutral dopant, the sublayer being adjacent to the EML. A color-neutral dopant is a dopant whose presence does not alter the electroluminescent color of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2001
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Tukaram K. Hatwar, Ralph H. Young
  • Publication number: 20020127427
    Abstract: An organic light emitting device includes a substrate, an anode and a cathode disposed over the substrate; a luminescent layer disposed between the anode and the cathode wherein the luminescent layer includes a host and at least one dopant; the host of the luminescent layer being selected to include a solid organic material comprising a mixture of at least two components wherein the first component of the mixture is an organic compound that is capable of transporting both electrons and holes and that is substantially non-polar; and the second component of the mixture is an organic compound that is more polar than the first component; and the dopant of the luminescent layer being selected to produce light from the light emitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Ralph H. Young, Jianmin Shi, Ching W. Tang
  • Patent number: 6168911
    Abstract: The present invention is an imaging element which includes a support, an image-forming layer superposed on the support and an electrically-conductive layer superposed on the support. The electrically-conductive layer includes an electrically-conductive particle having an average particle size less than 0.1 micrometer and a binder, said binder comprising at least 25 weight percent of a polyesterionomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Mark Lelental, John M. Noonan, Ralph H. Young
  • Patent number: 5618950
    Abstract: A sulfone charge transport agent and a multilayered electrophotographic element in which at least one of said layers includes polymeric binder and the sulfone charge transport agent. The general structure of the charge transport agent is: ##STR1## R is alkyl or cycloalkyl having from 1 to about 10 carbons, or aryl or heteroaryl having a total of carbons and heteroatoms of from 6 to about 12. T is alkyl having from 1 to 4 carbons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Michael R. Detty, John A. Sinicropi, J. Robin Cowdery-Corvan, Ralph H. Young