Patents by Inventor Tatsuya RYOHWA

Tatsuya RYOHWA 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: 20240150649
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes an anode electrode, a QD layer containing QDs, and a cathode electrode, in which the QDs are Cd-free quantum dots having a core-shell structure including a core containing at least Ag, Ga, and at least one of S and Se, and a shell containing at least Zn, and exhibit fluorescence characteristics with a fluorescence full-width at half-maximum of 40 nm or less and a fluorescence quantum yield percentage of 70% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuki GOTO, Yusuke SAKAKIBARA, Masaki YAMAMOTO, Tatsuya RYOHWA, Akio MISHIMA, Soichiro NIKATA, Vit KALOUSEK, Yuko OGURA, Yoko MICHIWAKI
  • Patent number: 11778843
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes an anode, a hole transport layer, a quantum dot light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode, in this order. The electron transport layer includes a particulate metal oxide and a conductive resin that disperses the metal oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisayuki Utsumi, Youhei Nakanishi, Masayuki Kanehiro, Shota Okamoto, Hiroki Imabayashi, Tatsuya Ryohwa, Kanako Nakata
  • Publication number: 20230247848
    Abstract: A light-emitting layer included in a light-emitting element according to the disclosure contains a plurality of red quantum dots that emit red light, a plurality of green quantum dots that emit green light, and a plurality of blue quantum dots that emit blue light. The surface-to-surface distance between the red quantum dots adjacent to each other is longer than the surface-to-surface distance between the green quantum dots adjacent to each other, and the surface-to-surface distance between the green quantum dots adjacent to each other is longer than the surface-to-surface distance between the blue quantum dots adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: TATSUYA RYOHWA, KANAKO NAKATA, YUSUKE SAKAKIBARA, MAKOTO IZUMI
  • Publication number: 20230136993
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes a light-emitting layer, and the light-emitting layer includes a plurality of quantum dots covered by shells containing a ferritin protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: HIROFUMI YOSHIKAWA, TATSUYA RYOHWA, Masaki YAMAMOTO, TAKAHIRO DOE
  • Publication number: 20230027405
    Abstract: A light-emitting element contains negative ions and positive ions, and includes a solid ionic layer, a layer containing quantum dots, and a cathode electrode and an anode electrode. The ionic layer includes a p-type doped region on the anode electrode side containing the negative ions in a higher quantity than the positive ions, an n-type doped region on the cathode electrode side containing the positive ions in a higher quantity than the negative ions, and a junction region between the p-type doped region and the n-type doped region. The layer containing the quantum dots is adjacent to the junction region. Alternatively, the quantum dots are contained in the junction region. Alternatively, the quantum dots are adjacent to the junction region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: YASUSHI ASAOKA, KANAKO NAKATA, TATSUYA RYOHWA, MAKOTO IZUMI
  • Publication number: 20220344548
    Abstract: A light-emitting element according to the disclosure includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and a first light-emitting layer that includes a plurality of first quantum dots and emits light of a first color. The first light-emitting layer is provided between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode, and each of the plurality of first quantum dots includes a compound containing each of three elements of Zn, Se, and Te. A combination of an average particle size of the plurality of first quantum dots and a composition ratio of the three elements is selected such that the peak wavelength of a light emission spectrum of the first light-emitting layer is greater than 394 nm and equal to or less than 474 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: KENICHI YOSHIMURA, TADASHI KOBASHI, TATSUYA RYOHWA, MAKOTO IZUMI
  • Publication number: 20220344606
    Abstract: A display device includes: ferritin encaging a first quantum dot and modified with a first peptide bound to a first pixel electrode; and ferritin encaging a second quantum dot and modified with a second peptide bound to a second pixel electrode. A first metal material and a second metal material are of different types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: HIROFUMI YOSHIKAWA, TATSUYA RYOHWA, Masumi KUBO, TAKAHIRO DOE, Masaki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220320191
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixel electrodes, a common electrode common to the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a light-emitting layer sandwiched between the plurality of pixel electrodes and the common electrode. The light-emitting layer includes quantum dots covered by ferritin. Each of the plurality of pixel electrodes and the quantum dots are bonded via a peptide modifying the ferritin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: HIROFUMI YOSHIKAWA, TATSUYA RYOHWA, Masumi KUBO, TAKAHIRO DOE, Masaki YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11398532
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: an anode electrode; a cathode electrode; a plurality of light-emitting layers sandwiched between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode; and a light absorption layer disposed between the plurality of light-emitting layers and a light extraction surface, wherein the plurality of light-emitting layers include InP based quantum dots and are configured to emit at least green color of light and red color of light, and the light absorption layer selectively absorbs light at 570 to 610 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Yoshimura, Tadashi Kobashi, Masashi Kago, Tatsuya Ryohwa, Makoto Izumi
  • Patent number: 11377591
    Abstract: A QD particle dispersion contains a surface modification compound that protects a surface of QD phosphor particles dispersed in a solvent. The surface modification compound includes a heteroatom-containing functional group and a chain-type saturated hydrocarbon group. The QD particle dispersion is configured such that the absolute value of a difference between the surface free energy of an underlayer that provides a foundation for forming a QD layer in the light-emitting element and the surface free energy of the QD layer is 5 mN/m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kanako Nakata, Tatsuya Ryohwa, Hiroshi Fukunaga, Makoto Izumi, Youhei Nakanishi, Hisayuki Utsumi, Masayuki Kanehiro
  • Publication number: 20220195300
    Abstract: The electroluminescent element includes a QD layer and an electron transport layers. QD phosphor particles contained in the QD layer are nanocrystals containing zinc and selenium, or zinc, selenium, and sulfur. A fluorescent half width of the QD phosphor particles is 25 nm or less, and a fluorescent peak wavelength of the QD phosphor particles is 410 nm or more and 470 nm or less. The QD layer contains a surface modifier that protects surfaces of the quantum dots, and a weight ratio of the surface modifier to the QD phosphor particles is 0.115 and more and 0.207 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Kanako NAKATA, Kazuki GOTO, Tatsuya RYOHWA, Masaki YAMAMOTO, Yuko OGURA, Yuka TAKAMIZUMA, Masanori TANAKA, Soichiro NIKATA, Tetsuji ITO, Mayuko WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220165973
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes: an anode electrode configured to supply holes; a cathode electrode configured to supply electrons; and a light-emitting layer disposed between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. The light-emitting layer includes a plurality of quantum dot phosphors configured to emit light in conjunction with combining of holes supplied from the anode electrode and electrons supplied from the cathode electrode and a p-type dopant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: HIROFUMI YOSHIKAWA, TATSUYA RYOHWA, Masaki YAMAMOTO, TAKAHIRO DOE
  • Patent number: 11342527
    Abstract: For a purpose of simplifying a structure of a light-emitting element while maintaining luminous efficiency of the light-emitting element, the present invention provides a light-emitting element including: a cathode electrode; an anode electrode; a light-emitting layer between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode; an electron transport layer between the light-emitting layer and the cathode electrode; and a hole transport layer between the light-emitting layer and the anode electrode. The light-emitting element further includes a plurality of subpixels for each light emission wavelength of the light-emitting layer, the light-emitting layer and the electron transport layer for each of the plurality of subpixels, and the hole transport layer common to at least the plurality of subpixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakakibara, Kenji Kimoto, Tatsuya Ryohwa
  • Publication number: 20220158108
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes: an anode; a cathode; and a light-emitting layer between the anode and the cathode, wherein the light-emitting layer contains quantum dots, and the quantum dots have a number average particle diameter greater than or equal to DLO2 and less than or equal to 100 nm, where DLO2 is a particle diameter of the quantum dots when the quantum dots exhibit an energy gap, between a ground state and a first excited state of a conduction band thereof, that is equivalent to twice an LO phonon energy of a material for the quantum dots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: HIROFUMI YOSHIKAWA, TATSUYA RYOHWA, Masaki YAMAMOTO, TAKAHIRO DOE
  • Publication number: 20220059766
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes: an anode; a cathode; and a light-emitting layer between the anode and the cathode, wherein the light-emitting layer contains quantum dots and ligands, the ligands are a polymer including at least two repeating units, and each repeating unit includes, at an end of at least one side chain thereof, a modified functional group coordinated to any one of the quantum dots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: KANAKO NAKATA, TATSUYA RYOHWA, MAKOTO IZUMI
  • Publication number: 20220037604
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes an anode, a hole transport layer, a quantum dot light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode, in this order. The electron transport layer includes a particulate metal oxide and a conductive resin that disperses the metal oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: HISAYUKI UTSUMI, YOUHEI NAKANISHI, MASAYUKI KANEHIRO, SHOTA OKAMOTO, HIROKI IMABAYASHI, TATSUYA RYOHWA, KANAKO NAKATA
  • Publication number: 20220013744
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting element to highly efficiently emit light in different colors. The light-emitting element includes: a cathode; an anode; a light-emitting layer formed between the cathode and the anode, and including a plurality of light-emitting regions respectively emitting light of different wavelengths; and an electron-transport layer formed between the cathode and the light-emitting layer, and including a plurality of regions each corresponding to one of the light-emitting regions. The electron-transport layer includes a Zn1-XMgXO film (where X is 0?X<1). Of the plurality of regions included in the electron-transport layer, a region, corresponding to one of the light-emitting regions that emits light of a shorter wavelength, is higher in composition ratio X of Mg and/or less in thickness of the Zn1-XMgXO film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: YUSUKE SAKAKIBARA, TATSUYA RYOHWA
  • Publication number: 20210273189
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device including a light-emitting element including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a quantum dot layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein, in the quantum dot layer, quantum dots each including a core, a shell covering the core, and a ligand coordinated with a surface of the shell and having defect compensation properties are layered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: HIROKI IMABAYASHI, MASAYUKI KANEHIRO, HISAYUKI UTSUMI, SHOTA OKAMOTO, YOUHEI NAKANISHI, TATSUYA RYOHWA, KANAKO NAKATA
  • Publication number: 20210036254
    Abstract: A light-emitting element is a light-emitting element provided with a cathode electrode, an anode electrode, and a light-emitting layer formed between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode. The light-emitting layer is formed by a layer including blue quantum dot phosphor particles that emit blue light, green quantum dot phosphor particles that emit green light, and red quantum dot phosphor particles that emit red light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: TATSUYA RYOHWA, MAKOTO IZUMI
  • Publication number: 20210028385
    Abstract: For a purpose of simplifying a structure of a light-emitting element while maintaining luminous efficiency of the light-emitting element, the present invention provides a light-emitting element including: a cathode electrode; an anode electrode; a light-emitting layer between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode; an electron transport layer between the light-emitting layer and the cathode electrode; and a hole transport layer between the light-emitting layer and the anode electrode. The light-emitting element further includes a plurality of subpixels for each light emission wavelength of the light-emitting layer, the light-emitting layer and the electron transport layer for each of the plurality of subpixels, and the hole transport layer common to at least the plurality of subpixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: YUSUKE SAKAKIBARA, KENJI KIMOTO, TATSUYA RYOHWA