Patents by Inventor Satoshi Seo

Satoshi Seo 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).

  • Publication number: 20230422598
    Abstract: To provide a light-emitting element with high emission efficiency and low driving voltage. The light-emitting element includes a guest material and a host material. A LUMO level of the host material is higher than a LUMO level of the host material, and a HOMO level of the guest material is lower than a HOMO level of the host material. The guest material has a function of converting triplet excitation energy into light emission. The difference between a singlet excitation energy level and a triplet excitation energy level of the host material is greater than 0 eV and less than or equal to 0.2 eV. The energy difference between the LUMO level and the HOMO level of the host material is larger than or equal to light emission energy of the guest material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeyoshi WATABE, Satoshi SEO, Satomi MITSUMORI
  • Publication number: 20230422577
    Abstract: A display device in which a voltage drop is inhibited is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi SEO, Rihito WADA
  • Publication number: 20230422539
    Abstract: An object is to provide a light-emitting element with high emission efficiency. The light-emitting element contains first to third organic compounds. The first organic compound has a function of converting triplet excitation energy into light. The second organic compound has a benzofuropyrimidine skeleton or a benzothienopyrimidine skeleton. The third organic compound is a fluorescent compound. Light emitted from the light-emitting element is light emitted from the third organic compound that receives excitation energy from the first organic compound or from an exciplex formed by the first and second organic compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuharu Ohsawa, Satoshi Seo
  • Publication number: 20230422548
    Abstract: A novel light-emitting device that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. The light-emitting device includes a first reflective film, first to fourth layers, and a first electrode. The first electrode overlaps with the first reflective film. The fourth layer is positioned between the first electrode and the first reflective film, and contains a first light-emitting material, which has an emission spectrum having a peak at a first wavelength. The third layer is positioned between the fourth layer and the first reflective film, and contains an organic compound having an ordinary refractive index of 1.45 to 1.75. The second layer is positioned between the third layer and the first reflective film, has a property of transmitting light with the first wavelength, includes a second electrode, and contains an element with an atomic number of 21 to 83 at 5 atomic % or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeyoshi WATABE, Takuya ISHIMOTO, Nobuharu OHSAWA, Satoshi SEO
  • Patent number: 11851594
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting element with high emission efficiency including a fluorescent material as a light-emitting substance. In a light-emitting element including a pair of electrodes and an EL layer between the pair of electrodes, a delayed fluorescence component due to triplet-triplet annihilation accounts for 20% or more of light emitted from the EL layer, and the light has at least one emission spectrum peak in the blue wavelength range. The EL layer includes an organic compound in which an energy difference between the lowest singlet excited energy level and the lowest triplet excited energy level is 0.5 eV or more. The EL layer includes a benzo[a]anthracene compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kadoma, Kaori Ogita, Tsunenori Suzuki, Satoshi Seo
  • Publication number: 20230413595
    Abstract: A light-emitting element which uses a plurality of kinds of light-emitting dopants emitting light in a balanced manner and has high emission efficiency is provided. Further, a light-emitting device, a display device, an electronic device, and a lighting device each having reduced power consumption by using the above light-emitting element are provided. A light-emitting element which includes a plurality of light-emitting layers including different phosphorescent materials is provided. In the light-emitting element, the light-emitting layer which includes a light-emitting material emitting light with a long wavelength includes two kinds of carrier-transport compounds having properties of transporting carriers with different polarities. Further, in the light-emitting element, the triplet excitation energy of a host material included in the light-emitting layer emitting light with a short wavelength is higher than the triplet excitation energy of at least one of the carrier-transport compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Takahiro ISHISONE
  • Publication number: 20230403876
    Abstract: A display device having a high display quality is provided. A display device that can perform desired display without image data conversion is provided. The display device includes a first pixel. The first pixel includes a first light-emitting element, a color conversion layer, and a first memory circuit. The first light-emitting element exhibits blue light. The color conversion layer has a function of converting light emitted by the first light-emitting element into light having a longer wavelength. A first image signal and a first correction signal are supplied to the first pixel. The first memory circuit has a function of retaining the first correction signal and a function of adding the first correction signal to the first image signal. The first pixel has a function of displaying an image using the first image signal and the first correction signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Satoshi SEO, Koji KUSUNOKI, Kei TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230403881
    Abstract: A novel display panel that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. The display panel includes a first light-emitting device, a second light-emitting device, and a partition, the first light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first layer, and the first layer includes a region interposed between the second electrode and the first electrode. The first layer contains a first material having a hole-transport property and a first substance having an acceptor property, and has a predetermined electrical resistivity. The second light-emitting device includes a third electrode, a fourth electrode, and a second layer, and the second layer includes a region interposed between the fourth electrode and the third electrode. The second layer contains the first material having the hole-transport property and the first substance having the acceptor property, and the second layer includes a first gap between the second layer and the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Shingo EGUCHI, Satoshi SEO, Kenichi OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230397494
    Abstract: A novel organic compound suitable for a host material of a light-emitting device, particularly a host material of a phosphorescent device is provided. An organic compound in which any of a carbazolyl group, a dibenzothiophenyl group, a dibenzofuranyl group, and a diphenylamino group is bonded to the 3-position of imidazophenanthridine through an arylene group, or an organic compound in which a diphenylamino group is bonded to the 3-position of triazolophenanthridine through an arylene group is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi KADOMA, Nobuharu OHSAWA, Satoshi SEO, Harue OSAKA
  • Patent number: 11834457
    Abstract: A novel organic compound is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound that exhibits light emission with favorable chromaticity is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound that exhibits blue light emission with favorable chromaticity is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound with favorable emission efficiency is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound having a high carrier-transport property is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound with favorable reliability is provided. An organic compound including at least one amino group in which any one of a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzofuranyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzothiophenyl group, and a substituted or unsubstituted carbazolyl group is bonded to any one of a substituted or unsubstituted naphthobisbenzofuran skeleton, a substituted or unsubstituted naphthobisbenzothiophene skeleton, and a substituted or unsubstituted naphthobenzofuranobenzothiophene skeleton is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventors: Kyoko Takeda, Harue Osaka, Satoshi Seo, Tsunenori Suzuki, Naoaki Hashimoto, Yusuke Takita
  • Patent number: 11832465
    Abstract: Emission efficiency of a light-emitting element is improved. The light-emitting element has a pair of electrodes and an EL layer between the pair of electrodes. The EL layer includes a first light-emitting layer and a second light-emitting layer. The first light-emitting layer includes a fluorescent material and a host material. The second light-emitting layer includes a phosphorescent material, a first organic compound, and a second organic compound. An emission spectrum of the second light-emitting layer has a peak in a yellow wavelength region. The first organic compound and the second organic compound form an exciplex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Takahiro Ishisone, Nobuharu Ohsawa, Yusuke Nonaka, Toshiki Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11825718
    Abstract: A multicolor light-emitting element that utilizes fluorescence and phosphorescence and is advantageous for practical application is provided. The light-emitting element has a stacked-layer structure of a first light-emitting layer containing a host material and a fluorescent substance and a second light-emitting layer containing two kinds of organic compounds and a substance that can convert triplet excitation energy into luminescence. Note that light emitted from the first light-emitting layer has an emission peak on the shorter wavelength side than light emitted from the second light-emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Ishisone, Satoshi Seo, Yusuke Nonaka, Nobuharu Ohsawa
  • Publication number: 20230371298
    Abstract: An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a multicolor light-emitting element that utilizes fluorescence and phosphorescence and is advantageous for practical application. The light-emitting element has a stacked-layer structure of a first light-emitting layer containing a host material and a fluorescent substance, a separation layer containing a substance having a hole-transport property and a substance having an electron-transport property, and a second light-emitting layer containing two kinds of organic compounds that form an exciplex and a substance that can convert triplet excitation energy into luminescence. Note that a light-emitting element in which light emitted from the first light-emitting layer has an emission spectrum peak on the shorter wavelength side than an emission spectrum peak of the second light-emitting layer is more effective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Nobuharu OHSAWA, Yusuke NONAKA, Takahiro ISHISONE, Satoshi SEO, Takuya KAWATA
  • Patent number: 11818925
    Abstract: The invention relates to: a light-emitting device which includes a first flexible substrate having a first electrode, a light-emitting layer over the first electrode, and a second electrode with a projecting portion over the light-emitting layer and a second flexible substrate having a semiconductor circuit and a third electrode electrically connected to the semiconductor circuit, in which the projecting portion of the second electrode and the third electrode are electrically connected to each other; a method for manufacturing the light-emitting device; and a cellular phone which includes a housing incorporating the light-emitting device and having a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction, in which the light-emitting device is disposed on a horn side and in an upper portion in the longitudinal direction of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hatano, Satoshi Seo, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11812626
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting element with high external quantum efficiency, or a light-emitting element with a long lifetime. The light-emitting element includes, between a pair of electrodes, a light-emitting layer including a guest material and a host material, in which an emission spectrum of the host material overlaps with an absorption spectrum of the guest material, and phosphorescence is emitted by conversion of an excitation energy of the host material into an excitation energy of the guest material. By using the overlap between the emission spectrum of the host material and the absorption spectrum of the guest material, the energy smoothly transfers from the host material to the guest material, so that the energy transfer efficiency of the light-emitting element is high. Accordingly, a light-emitting element with high external quantum efficiency can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoko Shitagaki, Satoshi Seo, Nobuharu Ohsawa, Hideko Inoue, Masahiro Takahashi, Kunihiko Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11800734
    Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus with low power consumption is provided. A light-emitting apparatus including a first light-emitting device and a first color conversion layer. The first light-emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and an EL layer positioned between the anode and the cathode. The EL layer includes a layer including a material with a refractive index lower than or equal to 1.75 at 467 nm. The first color conversion layer includes a first substance capable of emission by absorbing light. Light emitted from the first light-emitting device enters the first color conversion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Takeyoshi Watabe, Tomohiro Kubota, Airi Ueda, Satoshi Seo, Nobuharu Ohsawa, Yuko Kubota
  • Patent number: 11795182
    Abstract: Provided are a heterocyclic compound which emits blue light and is represented by General Formula (G1) below, and a light-emitting element, a light-emitting device, an electronic device and a lighting device which are formed using the heterocyclic compound represented by General Formula (G1) below. The use of the heterocyclic compound represented by General Formula (G1) makes it possible to provide a light-emitting element which has high emission efficiency, and also a light-emitting device, an electronic device and a lighting device which have reduced power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki Suzuki, Tsunenori Suzuki, Satoshi Seo
  • Patent number: 11800799
    Abstract: To provide a light-emitting element with an improved reliability, a light-emitting element with a high current efficiency (or a high quantum efficiency), and a novel dibenzo[f,h]quinoxaline derivative that is favorably used in a light-emitting element which is one embodiment of the present invention. A light-emitting element includes an EL layer between an anode and a cathode. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer; the light-emitting layer contains a first organic compound having an electron-transport property and a hole-transport property, a second organic compound having a hole-transport property, and a light-emitting substance; the combination of the first organic compound and the second organic compound forms an exciplex; the HOMO level of the first organic compound is lower than the HOMO level of the second organic compound; and a difference between the HOMO level of the first organic compound and the HOMO level of the second organic compound is less than or equal to 0.4 eV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Takao Hamada, Tatsuyoshi Takahashi, Yasushi Kitano, Hiroki Suzuki, Hideko Inoue
  • Publication number: 20230337462
    Abstract: A novel light-emitting device that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. The light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a unit, and a first layer. The unit is positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode and includes a second layer, a third layer, and a fourth layer. The second layer is positioned between the third layer and the fourth layer and contains a light-emitting material. The third layer is positioned between the second layer and the second electrode, is in contact with the second layer, and contains a first material, and an organometallic complex of an alkali metal or an organometallic complex of an alkaline earth metal. The fourth layer is positioned between the first electrode and the second layer and contains a second material. The first layer is positioned between the first electrode and the unit and contains a second material and a material having an electron acceptor property. The second material has a first refractive index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Airi UEDA, Takeyoshi WATABE, Yuta KAWANO, Nobuharu OHSAWA, Satoshi SEO
  • Publication number: 20230337453
    Abstract: A novel optical functional device that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. A light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an EL layer. The first electrode has a first transmittance; the second electrode overlaps with the first electrode. The second electrode has a second transmittance higher than the first transmittance. The EL layer is interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and includes a first region, a second region, and a third region. The first region is interposed between the second region and the third region. The second region is interposed between the first electrode and the first region and has a first refractive index. The third region is interposed between the first region and the second electrode and has a second refractive index. The second refractive index is lower than the first refractive index. The EL layer includes a first unit, a second unit, and an intermediate layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeyoshi WATABE, Airi UEDA, Yuta KAWANO, Nobuharu OHSAWA, Satoshi SEO