Patents by Inventor Toshiki Sasaki

Toshiki Sasaki 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: 11387422
    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 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Takahiro Ishisone, Nobuharu Ohsawa, Yusuke Nonaka, Toshiki Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20220173327
    Abstract: A benzofuropyrimidine derivative or a benzothienopyrimidine derivative, which is a novel organic compound, is provided. The organic compound is represented by General Formula (G1) below. In General Formula (G1), Q represents oxygen or sulfur. A represents any one of a substituted or unsubstituted condensed aromatic hydrocarbon ring having 6 to 13 carbon atoms in the ring and a substituted or unsubstituted ?-electron rich condensed heteroaromatic ring having 6 to 13 carbon atoms in the ring; and R1 to R19 each independently represent any one of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group having 3 to 7 carbon atoms in the ring, and a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 13 carbon atoms in the ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoka HARA, Hideko YOSHIZUMI, Toshiki SASAKI, Satoshi SEO
  • Publication number: 20220077397
    Abstract: A novel light-emitting device, a light-emitting device with high emission efficiency, a light-emitting device with a long lifetime, or a light-emitting device with low driving voltage is provided. An EL layer includes a first layer, a second layer, a third layer, a light-emitting layer, and a fourth layer in this order from the anode side. The first layer contains a first organic compound and a second organic compound. The fourth layer contains a seventh organic compound. The first organic compound exhibits an electron-accepting property with respect to the second organic compound. A HOMO level of the second organic compound is higher than or equal to ?5.7 eV and lower than or equal to ?5.4 eV. The fourth layer includes a region where the amount of seventh organic compound is large and a region where the amount of seventh organic compound is small in the thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Naoaki HASHIMOTO, Satoshi SEO, Tsunenori SUZUKI, Yusuke TAKITA, Takumu OKUYAMA, Nobuharu OHSAWA, Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Toshiki SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20220029111
    Abstract: Provided is a composition for a light-emitting device, which enables manufacture of a highly productive light-emitting device while device characteristics and reliability of the light-emitting device are maintained. The composition for a light-emitting device is formed by mixing a plurality of organic compounds. A first organic compound having a diazine skeleton (preferably, a benzofurodiazine skeleton, a naphthofurodiazine skeleton, a phenanthrofurodiazine skeleton, a benzothienodiazine skeleton, a naphthothienodiazine skeleton, or a phenanthrothienodiazine skeleton) and a second organic compound that is an aromatic amine compound are mixed to form the composition for a light-emitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi SEO, Nobuharu OHSAWA, Toshiki SASAKI, Hiromitsu KIDO
  • Publication number: 20220029105
    Abstract: A novel organic compound, a benzofuropyrimidine derivative or a benzothienopyrimidine derivative is provided. The organic compound has a structure in which a benzothienocarbazolyl ring, a benzofurocarbazolyl ring, an indolocarbazolyl ring, or an indenocarbazolyl ring is bonded to the 8-position of a benzofuropyrimidine ring or a benzothienopyrimidine ring directly or through an aromatic hydrocarbon ring. That is, the organic compound is represented by General Formula (G1) below.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoka HARA, Keito TOSU, Hideko YOSHIZUMI, Toshiki SASAKI, Hiromitsu KIDO, Satoshi SEO
  • Publication number: 20220028937
    Abstract: One object of this invention is to provide a novel light-emitting device with low power consumption. The light-emitting device includes a first light-emitting element and a second light-emitting element. The first light-emitting element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer. The second light-emitting element includes the first electrode, a third electrode, and the light-emitting layer. The second electrode comprises only a first conductive film, and the third electrode comprises a second conductive film and a third conductive film. The first electrode has a function of reflecting light. The second conductive film has functions of reflecting light and transmitting light. The first conductive film and the third conductive film each have a function of transmitting light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Nobuharu OHSAWA, Satoshi SEO, Toshiki SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20210395271
    Abstract: An object is to provide a novel composition for an EL device. Another object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a composition for an EL device capable of easily manufacturing an EL device with stable characteristics. Another object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a composition for an EL device capable of manufacturing an EL device with stable characteristics at low cost. The present inventors have studied a composition for an EL device in which different substances are mixed in advance and which does not cause change in characteristics of the EL device even when evaporation is repeated with use of the composition. As a result, a composition for an EL device in which a difference in the 5% weight loss temperature under a pressure lower than or equal to 0.1 Pa between contained substances is less than or equal to 50° C. is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi SEO, Nobuharu OHSAWA, Toshiki SASAKI, Hiromitsu KIDO
  • Publication number: 20210363151
    Abstract: A benzofuropyrimidine derivative or benzothienopyrimidine derivative that is a novel organic compound is provided. An organic compound represented by General Formula (G1) below. Q represents oxygen or sulfur. Ar1, Ar2, Ar3, and Ar4 each independently represent an aromatic hydrocarbon ring, and the number of carbon atoms included in the aromatic hydrocarbon ring is 6 to 25. m and n are each 0 or 1. A is a group having 12 to 100 carbon atoms in total and includes one or more of a benzene ring, a naphthalene ring, a fluorene ring, a phenanthrene ring, a triphenylene ring, a heteroaromatic ring including a dibenzothiophene ring, a heteroaromatic ring including a dibenzofuran ring, a heteroaromatic ring including a carbazole ring, a benzimidazole ring, and a triphenylamine structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi SEO, Satomi WATABE, Hideko YOSHIZUMI, Hiromitsu KIDO, Toshiki SASAKI, Akira NAGASAKA, Yuta KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20210313520
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device that can have sufficient device characteristics even with a smaller number of stacked layers in an EL layer and a thicker light-emitting layer than a conventional one by using, as an organic compound used for the EL layer of the light-emitting device, a material that can increase not only a property of carrier transport to the light-emitting layer but also a property of carrier injection from an electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Toshiki SASAKI, Shogo UESAKA, Shiho NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20210296617
    Abstract: A technique of manufacturing a display device with high productivity is provided. In addition, a high-definition display device with high color purity is provided. By adjusting the optical path length between an electrode having a reflective property and a light-emitting layer by the central wavelength of a wavelength range of light passing through a color filter layer, the high-definition display device with high color purity is provided without performing selective deposition of light-emitting layers. In a light-emitting element, a plurality of light-emitting layers emitting light of different colors are stacked. The closer the light-emitting layer is positioned to the electrode having a reflective property, the shorter the wavelength of light emitted from the light-emitting layer is.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Toshiki Sasaki, Nobuharu Ohsawa, Takahiro Ushikubo, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20210249619
    Abstract: A novel light-emitting device is provided. Alternatively, a light-emitting device with high emission efficiency is provided. Alternatively, a light-emitting device having along lifetime is provided. Alternatively, a light-emitting device having low driving voltage is provided. A light-emitting device including an EL layer including a first layer, a second layer, a third layer, a light-emitting layer, and a fourth layer in this order from the anode side is provided. The first layer includes a first organic compound and a second organic compound. The fourth layer includes a seventh organic compound. The first organic compound exhibits an electron-accepting property with respect to the second organic compound. The HOMO level of the second organic compound is from ?5.7 eV to ?5.4 eV. The HOMO level of the seventh organic compound is ?6.0 eV or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi SEO, Tsunenori SUZUKI, Takumu OKUYAMA, Yusuke TAKITA, Naoaki HASHIMOTO, Hiromi SEO, Nobuharu OHSAWA, Toshiki SASAKI, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20210234115
    Abstract: A novel light-emitting device with high emission efficiency is provided. A light-emitting device with a high blue index (BI) is provided. A light-emitting device with low power consumption is provided. A light-emitting device including a first electrode and a second electrode which are a reflective electrode and a semi-transmissive and semi-reflective electrode, and an EL layer sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode, where the EL layer contains an emission center substance, where when the emission center substance in the EL layer includes only one kind of substance, photon energy of a peak wavelength of light emitted from the light-emitting device is designed from an average value of photon energy of light emitted by the emission center substance in a solution state and emission edge energy on a short wavelength side of an emission spectrum of the emission center substance in the solution state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi SEO, Toshiki SASAKI, Ryohei YAMAOKA, Shiho NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20210206775
    Abstract: Provided is a novel organic compound, a benzofuropyrimidine derivative or a benzothienopyrimidine derivative, which is an organic compound represented by General Formula (G1) below. In General Formula (G1), Q represents oxygen or sulfur. Furthermore, A is a group having 12 to 100 carbon atoms in total and includes one or more of a benzene ring, a naphthalene ring, a fluorene ring, a phenanthrene ring, a triphenylene ring, a heteroaromatic ring including a dibenzothiophene ring, a heteroaromatic ring including a dibenzofuran ring, a heteroaromatic ring including a carbazole ring, a benzimidazole ring, and a triphenylamine structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satomi WATABE, Hideko YOSHIZUMI, Satoshi SEO, Hiromitsu KIDO, Toshiki SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11031439
    Abstract: A technique of manufacturing a display device with high productivity is provided. In addition, a high-definition display device with high color purity is provided. By adjusting the optical path length between an electrode having a reflective property and a light-emitting layer by the central wavelength of a wavelength range of light passing through a color filter layer, the high-definition display device with high color purity is provided without performing selective deposition of light-emitting layers. In a light-emitting element, a plurality of light-emitting layers emitting light of different colors are stacked. The closer the light-emitting layer is positioned to the electrode having a reflective property, the shorter the wavelength of light emitted from the light-emitting layer is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Toshiki Sasaki, Nobuharu Ohsawa, Takahiro Ushikubo, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20210125962
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of light-emitting elements. Light emitted from a first light-emitting element has a CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinate x of greater than 0.680 and less than or equal to 0.720 and a CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinate y of greater than or equal to 0.260 and less than or equal to 0.320. Light emitted from a second light-emitting element has a CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinate x of greater than or equal to 0.130 and less than or equal to 0.250 and a CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinate y of greater than 0.710 and less than or equal to 0.810. Light emitted from a third light-emitting element has a CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinate x of greater than or equal to 0.120 and less than or equal to 0.170 and a CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinate y of greater than or equal to 0.020 and less than 0.060.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Daiki NAKAMURA, Yusuke NISHIDO, Satoshi SEO, Toshiki SASAKI, Ryohei YAMAOKA, Akihiro KAITA
  • Publication number: 20210104580
    Abstract: A light-emitting device, an electronic device, or a lighting device with low power consumption and high reliability is provided. The light-emitting device includes a first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element, a third light-emitting element, and a fourth light-emitting element. The first to fourth light-emitting elements include the same EL layer between an anode and a cathode. The EL layer includes a first light-emitting layer and a second light-emitting layer. The first light-emitting layer contains a fluorescent substance. The peak wavelength of an emission spectrum of the fluorescent substance in a toluene solution of the fluorescent substance is 440 nm to 460 nm, preferably 440 nm to 455 nm. The second light-emitting layer contains a phosphorescent substance. The first light-emitting element exhibits blue emission. The second light-emitting element exhibits green emission. The third light-emitting element exhibits red emission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Toshiki Sasaki, Tsunenori Suzuki, Sachiko Kawakami, Naoaki Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10950815
    Abstract: A light-emitting element with a high current efficiency is provided. A low-power consumption light-emitting device is also provided. In addition, low-power consumption electronic device and lighting device are provided. The light-emitting element includes an EL layer between a pair of electrodes. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer. The light-emitting layer includes a first light-emitting layer and a second light-emitting layer. The emission peak of the second light-emitting layer is at a shorter wavelength than that of the first light-emitting layer. The first light-emitting layer includes a host material and a guest material. The LUMO level of the guest material is in the range of ±0.1 eV of the LUMO level of the host material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Inventors: Toshiki Sasaki, Shogo Uesaka, Satoshi Seo
  • Publication number: 20200411788
    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: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Satoshi SEO, Takahiro ISHISONE, Nobuharu OHSAWA, Yusuke NONAKA, Toshiki SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20200395555
    Abstract: To provide a light-emitting device not only including a light-emitting layer in which energy is efficiently transferred from a host material to a guest material but also having high reliability. In the light-emitting device, the light-emitting layer includes an organic compound having a specific naphthofuropyrazine skeleton as a host material and a light-emitting substance (e.g., an organometallic complex) whose T1 level (TG) is within a certain range as a guest material, thereby increasing not only the efficiency of energy transfer from the host material to the guest material but also the reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta Kawano, Hiromitsu Kido, Toshiki SASAKI, Tomoya YAMAGUCHI, Hideko YOSHIZUMI, Satoshi SEO
  • Patent number: 10854682
    Abstract: A light-emitting device, an electronic device, or a lighting device with low power consumption and high reliability is provided. The light-emitting device includes a first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element, a third light-emitting element, and a fourth light-emitting element. The first to fourth light-emitting elements include the same EL layer between an anode and a cathode. The EL layer includes a first light-emitting layer and a second light-emitting layer. The first light-emitting layer contains a fluorescent substance. The peak wavelength of an emission spectrum of the fluorescent substance in a toluene solution of the fluorescent substance is 440 nm to 460 nm, preferably 440 nm to 455 nm. The second light-emitting layer contains a phosphorescent substance. The first light-emitting element exhibits blue emission. The second light-emitting element exhibits green emission. The third light-emitting element exhibits red emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Toshiki Sasaki, Tsunenori Suzuki, Sachiko Kawakami, Naoaki Hashimoto