Patents by Inventor Yuichiro Kawamura

Yuichiro Kawamura 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: 9812661
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device including at least an anode, an emitting layer, an electron-transporting region and a cathode in sequential order, wherein the emitting layer contains a host and a dopant which gives fluorescent emission of which the main peak wavelength is 550 nm or less; the affinity Ad of the dopant is equal to or larger than the affinity Ah of the host; the triplet energy ETd of the dopant is larger than the triplet energy ETh of the host; and a blocking layer is provided within the electron-transporting region such that it is adjacent to the emitting layer, and the triplet energy ETb of the blocking layer is larger than ETh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kuma, Yuichiro Kawamura, Yukitoshi Jinde, Toshinari Ogiwara, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 9640769
    Abstract: A composition for an organic electroluminescent device is a composition for forming an organic light emitting layer of an organic electroluminescent device by wet coating process. The composition contains a phosphorescent material, a charge transport material, and a solvent, in which the phosphorescent material and the charge transport material are each an unpolymerized organic compound, and the first oxidation potential of the phosphorescent material ED+, the first reduction potential of the phosphorescent material ED?, the first oxidation potential of the charge transporting material ET+, and the first reduction potential of the charge transporting material ET? satisfy the following condition: ET?+0.1?ED?<ET+?ED+?0.1 or ED?+0.1?ET?<ED+?ET+?0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi Yabe, Tomoyuki Ogata, Hideki Sato, Koichiro Iida, Asato Tanaka, Mitsuru Tanamura, Yuichiro Kawamura, Hironori Ishikawa, Kazuki Okabe
  • Patent number: 9512137
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device sequentially includes an anode, an emitting layer, an electron-transporting region, and a cathode, the electron-transporting region including an electron-transporting material that includes a cyano group and an aromatic ring group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokatsu Ito, Hiroyuki Saito, Yumiko Mizuki, Masahiro Kawamura, Yuichiro Kawamura
  • Patent number: 9484540
    Abstract: An oxygen-containing fused ring derivative represented by the following formula (1) wherein Ar1 is an m-valent fused ring group in which four or more rings including one or more rings selected from a furan ring and a pyran ring are fused and HAr is any of the nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group represented by the following formulas (2) to (5):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokatsu Ito, Masahiro Kawamura, Yuichiro Kawamura, Yumiko Mizuki, Hiroyuki Saito
  • Publication number: 20160301014
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes an anode, an emitting layer and a cathode, in which the emitting layer includes a first compound, a second compound and a third compound. The first compound is a delayed fluorescent compound. The first compound has an energy gap T77K at 77 [K] larger than an energy gap T77K at 77 [K] of the second compound. The third compound has an energy gap T77K at 77 [K] larger than the energy gap T77K at 77 [K] of the second compound. The second compound has a fused ring structure represented by a formula (2) below and has eight or less rings in total.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro KAWAMURA, Toshinari OGIWARA, Ryohei HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160254459
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device that includes an anode, an emitting layer that includes a host and a fluorescent dopant, an electron transporting zone, a cathode, a blocking layer adjacent to the emitting layer in the electron transporting zone where the blocking layer includes an aromatic heterocyclic derivative with an azine ring and where the triplet energy ETb (eV) of the aromatic heterocyclic derivative is larger than a triplet energy ETh (eV) of the host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro KAWAMURA, Hiroyuki SAITO, Hitoshi KUMA, Masahiro KAWAMURA, Yukitoshi JINDE, Hirokatsu ITO, Takayasu SADO, Sayaka MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20160233445
    Abstract: A composition for an organic electroluminescent device is a composition for forming an organic light emitting layer of an organic electroluminescent device by wet coating process. The composition contains a phosphorescent material, a charge transport material, and a solvent, in which the phosphorescent material and the charge transport material are each an unpolymerized organic compound, and the first oxidation potential of the phosphorescent material ED+, the first reduction potential of the phosphorescent material ED?, the first oxidation potential of the charge transporting material ET+, and the first reduction potential of the charge transporting material ET? satisfy the following condition: ET?+0.1?ED?<ET+?ED+?0.1 or ED?+0.1?ET?<ED+?ET+?0.1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayoshi YABE, Tomoyuki OGATA, Hideki SATO, Koichiro llDA, Asato TANAKA, Mitsuru TANAMURA, Yuichiro KAWAMURA, Hironori ISHIKAWA, Kazuki OKABE
  • Publication number: 20160190469
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes an anode, an emitting layer and a cathode, in which the emitting layer includes a first compound and a second compound. The first compound is a delayed-fluorescent compound. The second compound is represented by a formula (2) below, in which X is a nitrogen atom or a carbon atom bonded to Y; R21 to R26 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a substituent; Z21 and Z22 are each independently selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group, and a substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshinari Ogiwara, Kei Yoshida, Yuichiro Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20160172601
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a high-performance organic electroluminescence device and an electronic device including the organic electroluminescence device. An organic electroluminescence device includes an anode, a cathode and an emitting layer, in which the emitting layer includes a first compound and a second compound, the first compound is a delayed fluorescent compound, and the second compound is represented by a formula (2) below.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro KAWAMURA, Toshinari OGIWARA
  • Patent number: 9365767
    Abstract: A composition for an organic electroluminescent device is a composition for forming an organic light emitting layer of an organic electroluminescent device by wet coating process. The composition contains a phosphorescent material, a charge transport material, and a solvent, in which the phosphorescent material and the charge transport material are each an unpolymerized organic compound, and the first oxidation potential of the phosphorescent material ED+, the first reduction potential of the phosphorescent material ED?, the first oxidation potential of the charge transporting material ET+, and the first reduction potential of the charge transporting material ET? satisfy the following condition: ET?+0.1?ED?<ET+?ED+?0.1 or ED?+0.1?ET?<ED+?ET+?0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi Yabe, Tomoyuki Ogata, Hideki Sato, Koichiro Iida, Asato Tanaka, Mitsuru Tanamura, Yuichiro Kawamura, Hironori Ishikawa, Kazuki Okabe
  • Patent number: 9353027
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes a pair of electrodes and an organic compound layer therebetween. The organic compound layer includes an emitting layer. The emitting layer includes a pyrene derivative represented by formula (1), such that a content of the pyrene derivative in the emitting layer is 50 to 100 wt %. Ar1 and Ar2 are independently a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms. X1 and X3 to X8 are a hydrogen atom. X2 is a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms, provided that Ar1 or Ar2 is different from X2. In a case where any of Ar1, Ar2, and X2 is the aryl group having a substituent, the substituent is independently an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group, a silyl group, or a cyano group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kawamura, Yuichiro Kawamura, Yumiko Mizuki, Hiroyuki Saito, Hirokatsu Ito
  • Patent number: 9324950
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device that includes an anode, an emitting layer that includes a host and a fluorescent dopant, an electron transporting zone, a cathode, a blocking layer adjacent to the emitting layer in the electron transporting zone where the blocking layer includes an aromatic heterocyclic derivative with an azine ring and where the triplet energy ETb (eV) of the aromatic heterocyclic derivative is larger than a triplet energy ETh (eV) of the host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Kawamura, Hiroyuki Saito, Hitoshi Kuma, Masahiro Kawamura, Yukitoshi Jinde, Hirokatsu Ito, Takayasu Sado, Sayaka Mizutani
  • Patent number: 9273002
    Abstract: A benzo[k]fluoranthene derivative represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 to R12 are as defined in the specification. The benzo[k]fluoranthene derivative represented by the formula (1) reduces a driving voltage of an organic electroluminescence device and makes it possible to realize light emission with high efficiency and long lifetime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokatsu Ito, Masahiro Kawamura, Yuichiro Kawamura, Yumiko Mizuki, Hiroyuki Saito
  • Patent number: 9269907
    Abstract: A compound is shown by the following formula (1). wherein l, m, and n are independently an integer from 1 to 3, Ar1 to Ar4 are independently a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group having 5 to 30 ring atoms, Ar5, Ar6, and Ar7 are independently a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroarylene group having 5 to 30 ring atoms, and p is an integer from 0 to 2, and Ar6 and N are bonded via a single bond when p is 0, provided that at least one of Ar1 to Ar4 is substituted with a substituted silyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group having 3 to 10 carbon atoms, and at least one of Ar1 to Ar4 is substituted with a cyano group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yumiko Mizuki, Hiroyuki Saito, Yuichiro Kawamura, Hirokatsu Ito, Masahiro Kawamura
  • Patent number: 9266851
    Abstract: A fluorene-containing aromatic compound represented by a formula (1) below. In the formula (1): Nr1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted monocyclic nitrogen-containing aromatic ring having 2 to 5 ring carbon atoms, or a bicyclic nitrogen-containing aromatic ring having 2 to 9 ring carbon atoms; Ar represents an aromatic ring and the like; Fl1 and Fl2 represent a fluorenyl group; and Cz1 and Cz2 represent a carbazolyl group. A compound represented by a formula (2) below is omitted from the fluorene-containing aromatic compound represented by the formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Yoshida, Kazuki Nishimura, Mitsunori Ito, Yuichiro Kawamura, Toshinari Ogiwara, Toshihiro Iwakuma
  • Patent number: 9174938
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device including: an anode (10), a cathode (70), an emitting layer (40) including an organic compound, which is between the anode (10) and the cathode (70), two or more layers arranged in a hole injection and transport region which is between the anode (10) and the emitting layer (40), and one or more layers arranged in an electron injection and transport region which is between the emitting layer (40) and the cathode (70), wherein a layer in the hole injection and transport region, which is in contact with the emitting layer (40), includes an aromatic amine derivative having a carbazole skeleton, one of the layers other than the layer in contact with the emitting layer (40) in the hole injection and transport region includes one or more materials selected from the group consisting of thiophene derivatives, tricyclic or more cyclic fused aromatic derivatives, amine derivatives excluding the compound represented by the following formula (A), conductive polymers, CFx, CuPc, transi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukitoshi Jinde, Hiroyuki Saito, Kenichi Fukuoka, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Yuichiro Kawamura, Masahiro Kawamura, Takashi Arakane
  • Patent number: 9169274
    Abstract: A pyrene derivative represented by the following formula (1); wherein R1 to R10 are independently a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group or a group represented by the following formula (2), at least one of R1 to R10 is a group represented by the following formula (2) and at least two of R1 to R10 are substituted or unsubstituted aryl group. Provided that in the case where only one of R1 to R10 is a group represented by the following formula (2), at least one of the substituted or unsubstituted aryl groups is an aryl group having 10 to 50 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yumiko Mizuki, Masahiro Kawamura, Yuichiro Kawamura, Hiroyuki Saito
  • Patent number: 9153790
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device including an anode, an emitting layer, a blocking layer, an electron-injecting layer and a cathode in sequential order; wherein the emitting layer contains a host and a dopant which gives fluorescent emission of which the main peak wavelength is 550 nm or less; the affinity Ad of the dopant is smaller than the affinity Ah of the host; the triplet energy ETd of the dopant is larger than the triplet energy ETh of the host; the triplet energy ETb of the blocking layer is larger than ETh; and the blocking layer includes an aromatic hydrocarbon compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kuma, Yuichiro Kawamura, Yukitoshi Jinde, Toshinari Ogiwara, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 9126943
    Abstract: A nitrogen-containing heterocyclic derivative represented by the following formula (1): wherein any “12-a” groups of R1 to R12 are independently a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group having 5 to 30 ring atoms; any “a” groups of R1 to R12 are independently a single bond which is bonded to L1; L1 is a single bond, a “b+1” valent substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon ring group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms or a “b+1” valent substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group having 5 to 30 ring atoms; HAr is a substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group; and “a” and “b” are independently an integer of 1 to 4, and at least one of “a” and “b” is 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kawamura, Yuichiro Kawamura, Sayaka Mizutani, Hirokatsu Ito
  • Patent number: 8883323
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device that includes an anode, an emitting layer that includes a host and a dopant, a blocking layer, an electron injecting layer, and a cathode where the blocking layer includes an aromatic heterocyclic derivative, the triplet energy ETb (eV) of the blocking layer is larger than a triplet energy ETh (eV) of the host, and the affinity Ab (eV) of the blocking layer and an affinity Ae (eV) of the electron injecting layer satisfy a relationship of Ae?Ab<0.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Kawamura, Hiroyuki Saito, Hitoshi Kuma, Masahiro Kawamura, Yukitoshi Jinde, Hirokatsu Ito, Takayasu Sado, Sayaka Mizutani