Patents by Inventor Shinji Sekiguchi

Shinji Sekiguchi 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: 9213452
    Abstract: A display device with a touch screen includes a display device that has a display area and a touch screen that has a detection area including a transparent electrode and a peripheral area located around the detection area. The touch screen being disposed in the display area. The peripheral area includes a connection electrode that is connected to the transparent electrode and an insulating film that includes a protrusion extending to the detection area. The protrusion is disposed to be superimposed on the connection electrode. The transparent electrode is disposed to cover a part in which the protrusion and the connection electrode are superimposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Shinji Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Oooka
  • Publication number: 20150116243
    Abstract: A technique capable of reducing the number of leading lines and making the area of a frame region smaller is provided. A display device includes an in-cell touch panel in which a pair of transparent substrates is arranged so as to oppose each other, a plurality of scanning electrodes are disposed on an opposing surface of one of the transparent substrates, and detection electrodes that intersect with the scanning electrodes are arranged on an opposing surface of the other transparent substrate. The display device further includes at least one first leading lines electrically connected the scanning electrodes and configured to supply a scanning signal to the scanning electrodes, and at least one second leading lines electrically connected to the detection electrodes and configured to output a signal detected by the detection electrodes. In the display device, each of the first leading lines is connected to at least two of the scanning electrodes having different widths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Masanari SAITOU, Takahiro MIYAZAKI, Koji NAGATA, Shinji SEKIGUCHI, Tomohiko OOTANI
  • Publication number: 20150042909
    Abstract: A touch panel includes plural scanning electrodes, plural detection electrodes that are formed to intersect with the plural scanning electrodes, one or a plurality of layers being disposed between the plural detection electrodes and the plural scanning electrodes, plural holes that are arrayed apart from each other on each of the plural detection electrodes, and shaped into polygons each shaped to have five or more corners in a plan view, and plural dummy electrodes that are formed between the respective adjacent detection electrodes, made of the same material as that of the detection electrode, and electrically isolated from each other, in which the plural dummy electrodes are shaped into the polygons in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventor: Shinji SEKIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 8866779
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a touch panel built in the display panel. The touch panel includes a sensitivity correcting unit configured to correct the sensitivity of the touch panel. The sensitivity correcting unit includes a difference acquiring unit configured to acquire a signal difference (S1?S2) between a detection signal S1 acquired by detection electrodes when a driving signal V1 is input to scanning electrodes from a driving-signal supplying unit and a detection signal S2 (S1>S2) acquired by the detection electrodes when a driving signal V2 (V1>V2) different from the driving signal V1 is input to the scanning electrodes from the driving-signal supplying unit and a parameter changing unit configured to change parameters of at least one of the driving-signal supplying unit and a detecting unit when the signal difference (S1?S2) is equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Nagata, Tsutomu Furuhashi, Koji Doi, Shinji Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20140267159
    Abstract: A display device with a built-in touch panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, plural pixel electrodes provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, plural common electrodes provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, and plural detection electrodes provided on the first substrate. An image is displayed by light control using an electric field generated between the plural pixel electrodes and the plural common electrodes. The presence or absence of touch is detected by a difference in capacitance due to the presence or absence of a material interrupting the electric field generated between one of the detection electrodes and one of the common electrodes. Each of the detection electrodes includes a through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro MIYAZAKI, Masanari SAITOU, Koji NAGATA, Shinji SEKIGUCHI, Tomohiko OOTANI
  • Publication number: 20140132557
    Abstract: Disclosed is a touch panel-equipped display device capable of suppressing an increase in the number of wires and improving detection resolution. A touch panel-equipped display device includes scanning lines and detection lines. The detection lines include first main detection lines, second main detection lines, first one-side sub-detection lines, and first other-side sub-detection lines. Each of the second main detection lines is arranged between adjacent first main detection lines. The first one-side sub-detection lines are connected together, and each first one-side sub-detection lines is arranged between the corresponding first main detection line and the second main detection line adjacent to one side of the corresponding first main detection line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masanari SAITOU, Takahiro MIYAZAKI, Shinji SEKIGUCHI, Tomohiko OOTANI
  • Patent number: 8605045
    Abstract: Provided is a capacitive touch panel, including: a plurality of coordinate detection electrodes (XP1, XP2, YP2) for detecting X-Y position coordinates; a first substrate (1) including the plurality of coordinate detection electrodes; and a second substrate (6) disposed to be opposed to the first substrate, in which: one of the first substrate and the second substrate includes an elastic layer lower (5) in rigidity than the second substrate and a conductive layer (ZP) having conductivity; the elastic layer and the conductive layer are disposed between the plurality of coordinate detection electrodes and the second substrate; a space between the first substrate and the second substrate defined by a plurality of nonconductive spacers (4); and an antireflective layer is formed on at least one of an interface between the space and the first substrate and an interface between the space and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Mamba, Koji Nagata, Shinji Sekiguchi, Koji Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20130278564
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a touch panel built in the display panel. The touch panel includes a sensitivity correcting unit configured to correct the sensitivity of the touch panel. The sensitivity correcting unit includes a difference acquiring unit configured to acquire a signal difference (S1?S2) between a detection signal S1 acquired by detection electrodes when a driving signal V1 is input to scanning electrodes from a driving-signal supplying unit and a detection signal S2 (S1>S2) acquired by the detection electrodes when a driving signal V2 (V1>V2) different from the driving signal V1 is input to the scanning electrodes from the driving-signal supplying unit and a parameter changing unit configured to change parameters of at least one of the driving-signal supplying unit and a detecting unit when the signal difference (S1?S2) is equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Japan Display East Inc.
    Inventors: Koji NAGATA, Tsutomu FURUHASHI, Koji DOI, Shinji SEKIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 8537136
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic capacity type touch panel, which responds to not only an input by a finger but also a touch by a nonconductive input member. Disposed are X electrodes XP and Y electrodes YP that cross each other via a first insulating layer 2, and a Z electrode formed of a transparent elastic conductive resin layer 4 via a second insulating layer 3. The transparent elastic conductive resin layer 4 is a high polymer elastic resin layer in which conductive fine particles are dispersed, and is made of a material in which density of the conductive fine particles is increased by pressure of a touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Sekiguchi, Koji Nagata, Kouji Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 8537304
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel in which liquid crystal is held in a cell between a first substrate and second substrate opposed to each other, an illumination device which is placed on a side of the first substrate of the liquid crystal panel; a polarization layer containing a dichroic dye that has lyotropic liquid crystal properties which is formed by application on a surface of the first substrate of the liquid crystal panel that is opposite from the liquid crystal; and a condenser lens which condenses light from the illumination device to an interior of the cell, and/or a resin layer which protects the polarization layer, which are disposed on a top surface of the polarization layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kishioka, Shinji Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 8487901
    Abstract: The display device is provided with X electrodes XP and Y electrodes YP which cross with a first insulating layer in between and a number of Z electrodes which are electrically floating from each other with a second insulating layer in between. The Z electrodes are arranged so that each Z electrode overlaps both an adjacent X electrode and Y electrode. The pad portion of a first X electrode has such a form that the area is maximum in the vicinity of the fine wire portion of the first X electrode and the area is minimum in the vicinity of the fine wire portion of an adjacent second X electrode, and the area of the pad portion is smaller towards the direction in which the distance increases away from the vicinity of the fine wire portion of the first X electrode. A pulse signal is sequentially applied to one set of X electrodes or Y electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouji Hayakawa, Koji Nagata, Norio Mamba, Toshiyuki Kumagai, Shinji Sekiguchi, Kouichi Anno, Tsutomu Furuhashi
  • Patent number: 8379168
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device where there are fewer moiré effects between lenticular lenses and the backlight. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device where the arrangement or form of lenticular lenses 1 varies in waveform so that the center line of the lenses, the width of the lenses, and the height of the lenses vary in the case where light emitted from a backlight 59 is collected into openings 15 for transmitting light by means of lenticular lenses 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sugita, Shinji Sekiguchi, Atsushi Kishioka, Shinichi Komura
  • Patent number: 8284171
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device having a built-in capacitive coupling touch sensor, a pair of facing transparent substrates sandwich a liquid crystal layer 113 and a liquid crystal display circuit for driving liquid crystal using a lateral electrical field having a color filter layer 107 is formed on one of the transparent substrates 101 in order to make the touch sensor highly sensitive to change in the capacitance, and a capacitive coupling touch sensor circuit layer 117 is formed on the other substrate 116, on the side opposite to the liquid crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Displays Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Tanaka, Shinji Sekiguchi, Norio Mamba
  • Publication number: 20120188199
    Abstract: A display device with a touch screen includes a display device that has a display area and a touch screen that has a detection area including a transparent electrode and a peripheral area located around the detection area. The touch screen being disposed in the display area. The peripheral area includes a connection electrode that is connected to the transparent electrode and an insulating film that includes a protrusion extending to the detection area. The protrusion is disposed to be superimposed on the connection electrode. The transparent electrode is disposed to cover a part in which the protrusion and the connection electrode are superimposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventors: Shinji Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Oooka
  • Publication number: 20120098788
    Abstract: The touch panel according to the present invention is a touch panel of a capacitive coupling type, having: a first substrate (XYES) on which a coordinate detecting electrode for detecting XY coordinates of a point is formed; and a second substrate (UP) provided so as to face the above described first substrate, wherein the above described second substrate (UP) is provided with an elastic layer (EL) having a rigidity lower than the above described second substrate and a conductive layer (CL), the above described elastic layer (EL) and the above described conductive layer (CL) are layered in this order towards the above described first substrate (XYES), a non-conductive spacer (SP) is provided between the coordinated detecting electrode and the conductive layer, and a space created by the spacer is filled in with a liquid (LQ).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Inventor: Shinji Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20120090976
    Abstract: Disclosed is a manufacturing method of a touch panel, comprising the steps of: preparing a solution containing a silane coupling agent; applying the solution to a surface of a first substrate having a hydroxy group on the surface thereof: chemically bonding the silane coupling agent to the surface of the first substrate to form convex portions each having a silicon oxide backbone and an organic functional group in the structure thereof; and disposing a second substrate spaced apart from the first substrate to face the surface having the convex portions formed thereon of the first substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventors: Setsuo KOBAYASHI, Shinji Sekiguchi, Yasuyuki Mishima
  • Patent number: 8094269
    Abstract: In a transflective liquid crystal panel having an in-cell retarder, for improving a layer structure of poor adhesion, an alignment film for the retardation layer is not applied to a portion of disposing a sealing material at the main surface of a substrate of the liquid crystal panel in the step of applying the alignment film to the main surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kishioka, Shinji Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20110181548
    Abstract: Provided is a capacitive coupling type touch panel, including: a plurality of coordinate detection electrodes (XP1, XP2, YP) for detecting X-Y position coordinates; a first substrate including the plurality of coordinate detection electrodes; and a second substrate (6) disposed to be opposed to the first substrate, in which: the capacitive coupling type touch panel further includes, between the first substrate (1) and the second substrate (6): a conductive layer (ZP) having conductivity; a nonconductive layer (8) supporting the conductive layer; a plurality of nonconductive spacers (4) that are formed at intervals in a plane direction of the first substrate and the second substrate; and an elastic layer (5) that is lower in rigidity than the first substrate, the second substrate, and the plurality of nonconductive spacers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventor: Shinji SEKIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20110090175
    Abstract: Provided is a capacitive touch panel, including: a plurality of coordinate detection electrodes (XP1, XP2, YP2) for detecting X-Y position coordinates; a first substrate (1) including the plurality of coordinate detection electrodes; and a second substrate (6) disposed to be opposed to the first substrate, in which: one of the first substrate and the second substrate includes an elastic layer lower (5) in rigidity than the second substrate and a conductive layer (ZP) having conductivity; the elastic layer and the conductive layer are disposed between the plurality of coordinate detection electrodes and the second substrate; a space between the first substrate and the second substrate defined by a plurality of nonconductive spacers (4); and an antireflective layer is formed on at least one of an interface between the space and the first substrate and an interface between the space and the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Norio Mamba, Koji Nagata, Shinji Sekiguchi, Koji Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20100289984
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel in which liquid crystal is held in a cell between a first substrate and second substrate opposed to each other, an illumination device which is placed on a side of the first substrate of the liquid crystal panel; a polarization layer containing a dichroic dye that has lyotropic liquid crystal properties which is formed by application on a surface of the first substrate of the liquid crystal panel that is opposite from the liquid crystal; and a condenser lens which condenses light from the illumination device to an interior of the cell, and/or a resin layer which protects the polarization layer, which are disposed on a top surface of the polarization layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: ATSUSHI KISHIOKA, SHINJI SEKIGUCHI